Some Artzy layouts

In March I attended Retha van der Walt's Artzy Girl event.... it was a great day out with some fun artzy pages.... I learnt a few fun techniques, did stuff that I had never done before (and some I might never do again!), plus we had gorgeous food, lots of laughs and time with friends.  In general I really really enjoyed the day.

This page is based on one of the bonus kits we got but then I changed the photo placements and added the chipboard  frame which I painted silver

I'm sure the next Artzy Girl day in August will be just as much fun!

Jowilna pages

This year I have made it a point of learning something when I scrap... so I've been doing a few classes with Jowilna.... am loving all the techniques that I am learning... so here are pages that I've done since January:

A long overdue update

It's been way too long since I last did a blog post.... with no design team commitments since February, I have taken a bit of a break and trying to catch up on myself... except that isn't really working as I've been doing a lot more overtime work than anything else!!!

The upside of it all is that I have managed to do a few pages here and there so I get to show off some of them for you now... these stretch as far back as January!

These first ones are from Scrapkits that I changed up a bit

This page is a design by Sharon Coetzer

These next ones are all Michelle van Wyk designed layouts with twists from me.

This next page I did years and years ago but never had photos for...this one was from an all-day event I did with Retha when she still had her shop(!)

and finally... a page that I design all by myself... no sketch or kit!

Think that's enough for this post... have some more pages to show off but will do them in another post or two.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 306

Boo hoo...this is my last reveal for this design team term at Nuts About Sketches.... I have loved creating a layout each week and as much as I will miss the commitment and deadline, I think I need this break to regroup and find time to scrap for me.

When I saw the sketch I just knew that these photos would be perfect... I picked up all the colours from the photos and played with the accent of red from my jersey.  Just a fun relaxed page.

Remember to check out the blog to see more layouts.

I will miss posting a NAS layout every week, but at some stage I will be back designing for Shawn.  For now, it's with love that I say goodbye.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 305

This week's sketch is up at Nuts about Sketches.... another one with a big photo space that I changed to suit what I needed to do with the photos on hand.

I used three photos in place of the one big one, and then did a play on the shape of the jacuzzi for my "circle" and added a hexagonal space for my journalling.

For the splotches I did some splats with distress ink and also painted some puff paint circles... sort of trying to create drops of water.

There are some great ideas by the DT on the blog this week, so don't forget to check them out too.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 304

I am amazed each Monday that the week has passed so fast... it's busy busy at work and home and then the week disappears and it's Monday again and time for another reveal.

I enjoyed creating this page... focused on the turquoise colour.  I also added in an extra circle photo and then changed the journal circle into a photo as well.

There are some lovely layouts by the rest of the team to see on the blog, go check them out.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 303

Can you believe it we're already one month done in the new year?  Feb is here along with all the excitement and busyness that goes along with it, which of course means tons of scrapping for me.

LOVED this sketch... one with room for tons of photos...and then I made each of the jumbos into half size so got even more photos on my page.

Head over to the blog to see some other ideas with this sketch, as well as the announcement of the new DT.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 302

Another week goes by and so another sketch is revealed.

A quick and easy layout for me... think this one took about 15 minutes to put together.... love it when that happens!

Check out the blog for even more great pages. Remember to get your DT application in... it closes on Friday.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 301

Halfway through January already.... time flies when you're busy!  On Saturday I managed to file all my layouts that I created last year.... over 200 of them! I filled 10 albums plus a few extras in some other albums.  At least now I can start this year with layouts ready to be filed as I make them. (that's the idea anyway!)

Here is this week's layout...

hehehe... yes this layout is very "handy"... hehehe.  Jokes aside I had fun making this page... thankfully I have a diecut for the hand and didn't have to cut them out by hand!... no pun intended.

In place of the one 10x8 pic I just used two jumbos  mounted together as one.

Remember to get your design team application in quickly. Check out more details and layouts on the blog.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 300

This past week Shawn posted the 300th sketch for NAS... wow... that is definitely a milestone!  I don't know how many sketches I've done for this team, but it is a huge chunk of those 300, and I've loved every one of them.  This week's one is no exception.

I used Christmas paper for this page as it's the only snow paper that I had.  I added in snowflake brads.  For my title i painted chipboard letters and then added some puff paint "snow".  Such a calming layout.

Why not do this sketch as part of your design team application... which closes soon.  More details are on the blog along with other layouts from the design team.