Phew I posted so much in August that I couldn't end the month without posting another layout or three.

I took a class with Jow early in August and got to play with the new Delicata inks... wow they work like a dream.

It is such a treat to learn how to use the new products without having to first invest in them... but yip I did buy a few so that I can now play at home too.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sizzlin Summer 2016 - SS16

With this sketch we come to the end of Scrapbook Challenges Sizzlin Summer for 2016... I am sooooooooo chuffed that I made a layout for each and every sketch this month... count them... there are 20! I sure made a huge dent in my 2014 album.

So have you taken part this month... you have till the 30th to get your layouts in to stand a chance to win the lucky draw. Check out the blog for more inspiration.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sizzlin Summer 2016 - SS15

You know the week has been busy when you don't get to blog each day and end up playing catchup... hehe. Yip that's been my week. But I can also say that it's been a good one... got tons done and even managed to do a bit of scrapping.

For this page I tried something a little different... I tried to make a "snowy" feel by inking, embossing and using embossing paste through my stensil... all in various shades of white.... It does look a little messy but actually the effect came out pretty good.I then added a few blue lines to some of the bubbles to try and give a bit more definition.

Check out the blog for some more ideas with this fabulous sketch.

Couture Creations - extra page

Whilst making pages for my Guest Designer spot for Couture Creations, I couldn't simply stop at the two projects that were requested.... so here is another one. For this one I wanted to use the Sea Breeze collection but on a non-beach page all together.

I started with two beige cardstocks for my background and then added three strips of blues and greens damask papers across the middle. All my photos are matted with brown cardstock.

The fun embellishement on this page are the "flowers". These I made using the chipboard flags that are in the embellishement pack. As I was three short I simply cut these out of some paper that matched. I arranged the flags in groups of five and then punched a circle out of the collection pack's cover sheet. I inked up the Quilted embossing folder and embossed each circle for some texture. The circles were then glued over the middle of each flower with a few foam dots.

I also added some buttons, bling,stitching and splatters for added effect, as well as a sticker off the sticker sheet for my title.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sizzlin Summer 2016 - SS14

Another post for today... we're on a roll here... and this one is pretty apt seeing as we had elections at the beginning of the month! In fact these pics were from our last election in 2014.

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Scrapbook Challenges - Sizzlin Summer 2016 - SS13

My second post for today....

This page was fun to make... I found some old chipboard puzzle pieces and traced around them to make a photo matt and the "tags" at the bottom. The little pieces are actual puzzle pieces that I had in my stash. This is a really simple way to enhance the photo theme.

Remember you can enter on the blog and stand a chance to be this month's lucky winner.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 495

Another week is flying by and we seemed to have missed a few posts... so today will be another one one of multi posts... not that I am complaining!

 This page was such fun to make... used up some stash, and I got to stitch in variagated thread.

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Couture Creations - Guest designing again

I am again guest designing for Couture Creations with another fun layout using their great Sea Breeze collection.

This layout is again from our holiday last year on the Natal South Coast. I really wanted to include the memories of the view and also use the beautiful paper to it's fullest.

My starting point for this whole page was the pretty picture on the "A Day Fishing" paper. As there are two of these in the collection pack I didn't feel too bad using the back side of one of them as my background for the page. From the second sheet I cut out the picture to use as an element on my page.and also the words for my title. The rest of the page I used as the foundation for my left side page.  (Here you can see what the back of my page looks like to give you a clue!)

So after cutting out the picture I then made the strips for the left page. Working from the centre out, I cut a strip slightly wider than my jumbo photos (11.5cm wide) from "Navigating at Sea" and stuck this down. I added a two bar code strips next to this, first the strip from "A Day Fishing", then the green compass strip of "Navigating at Sea", which I scalloped the one edge of. Next to this I used a +/- 15cm piece of the striped paper (Pinstrip Mariner). And lastly the cutoff piece of "A Day Fishing" to make up a 12x12 page.

On the right hand side page I have my three 10cm square photos mounted on a strip of brown cardstock and the fussy-cut piece just slightly tucked under the photos so that the sailboat is sticking out.

All the shells are from the chipboard embellishment page and also cut out of two sheets of "Navigating at Sea"paper. I cut them with a slight white border to match the chipboard ones. Then I just laid them across the page till I was happy with the arrangement and glued them down. I also added two clustered near the photos.

The last fun element on the page is the title. For this I fussy-cut the words "sea breeze" from the "A day fishing" page. After I stuck it to my page, I applied some dimensional glaze to it and then sprinkled real beach sand all over. I left it to dry for a bit before shaking the excess sand off. I then added in the extra small stickers for the rest of my title and hand wrote my journalling on the right hand page.

Finally, I finished off my page with some stitching and a few ink splatters.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sizzlin Summer 2016 - SS12

As soon as I saw this sketch I knew exactly which photo I wanted to scrap... this page came together so quickly then... I think the hardest thing for me was not to get the orientation of my title right. I eventually flipped the page and then it all worked.

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Scrapbook Challenges - Sizzlin Summer 2016 - SS11

Ok so my week sort of caught up with me and I never got to post my layout yesterday.... so here it is:

Yes the sketch is all about circles, and normally I would have done circles, but when it came time to do the layouts I decided I didn't want to cut my big photo. So instead, I made squares and corner rounded them all. Same sketch just a different take on it.

Remember to check out the blog for a few more ideas.