Disney page

Phew it's been a quiet week here on my blog so thought I'd best let you know that I am still alive and kicking. I had a weekend away last weekend.... roadtrip to Kloof and scrapping with the girls. Was a ton of fun. This week has been right back into the madness of work, so no scrapping done at all... eish! It's a truly quiet month on the scrapping front for me after the hordes that I did in August. I hope to get a few pages done this weekend though.

So anyway, here is a page that I made last month that I thought I'd share.

In the USA doing Disney pages is a huge thing... well the closest we have ever (or will ever!) get to Disney was when we saw Disney on Ice back in 2014.

I've been wanting to scrap these photos for a while... keep planning to use them on a sketch and then the plan falls apart.Well this time I got it all together and made the page using a Scrapbook Generations' sketch.

I used lots of leftover red and blue papers for my background strips and then just combined it with a cut file and some circles to which I added inks. I also cut some stars to scatter around.

So now I can tick that one off my to do list eventually.

Remembering our heritage

It's sort of Heritage Month this month I guess... with that being the public holiday at the end of September. I created this layout using a kit from Jowilna and photos of Theresa and my trip to Howick last year where we visited the Nelson Mandela Capture site.... just a tiny bit of heritage for this month.

This page used the Celebr8 and Kaisercraft new ranges... they work so well together. It is nice to see local manufacturers producing such beautiful papers for us to use here... let's hope that they are around for years to come.

The best things...

I've just spent the whole weekend working... haven't done that since last year. Boy oh boy am I exhausted from too many number crunches. I sure do miss my scrapping when I don't get to do it on the weekend. Am itching to get my fingers all inky. At least I do have this coming weekend to look forward too... am taking a roadtrip to Dbn to do some serious scrapping!

So seeing as I didn't manage to scrap, thankfully I still have a backlog of layouts to blog about anyway.

This is another layout inspired by Jow... yes I seem to say that a lot lately... but she is the most amazing scrapping teacher I know.

Though my layout is based on her class notes, I must admit it looks nothing like the original... I'm still not sure if I am 100% happy with how it turned out, but you know what? It's done, photographed, blogged and filed.

I did have fun making the technique circles... embossing paste and then embossing powder heated before adding inks and punching into circles. The title and gears are painted with H20s... so there is a shine and shimmer to everything.

27 day challenge

I found a new challenge group on Facebook last month... as if I didn't already have enough on my plate!.... they offered a free cut file and sketch by Kristine Davidson of Creative Scrappers, for the challenge... guess that was my incentive... anyway I used the sketch for my layout...

I might just try my hand at their monthly challenges too... they are announced on the 1st and you have 27 days to do it... sure sounds easy enough. Why not join me... just look up mercytiaras27daychallenge and join.

Another creative Jowilna class

In the middle of August I had a whole Saturday free as Aaron was at an all-weekend birthday party, so I decided to treat myself to an all-day class with Jowilna...

First up we did two single pages... I used lots of my old stash and had fun making these two quick pages.

And then during the afternoon class... everyone else did art journalling and I did my own thing and created this page.... loved playing with the products and creating something beautiful.

Another relaxed class packed full of techniques, fun and laughter.

Stuck?! September challenge

I have been following the Stuck?! blog for ages and have finally taken the plunge to get one of the challenges done... holding thumbs that this will also get me on the DT.

I decided to do a circle of stitching around my photo in place of a circle piece of paper. As I had at first done all my stitching in white I found it didn't show up that well (See if you can spot the which stitching at the top!)... so I went over the stitches with some all purpose ink and turned them teal and pink... much better.

I also created the splashes and stenciling on the background before placing everything.. this is to mimic the splatters on the wall.... remember this moment Theresa?.... hehehe... such a fun scrapping moment!

Progressive Scrapping

During August Scrapbook Generations held a week long progressive scrapping challenge... each day there was a task listed and by the end of the week we got to put our layout together... it was a great way to scrap and the page them came together with ease as all the hard work had been done. Here is my page that I made:

So the progress went as follows...

1. Choose papers

2. Choose photos

3. Write journalling

4. Choose embellishments

5. Choose messy elements... inks, paints, dies, etc

We then had two days to put the page together and upload it... well that all happened in a morning for me... it came together so quickly. Luckily for me I do tend to scrap in this way generally, it's just that I might not actually have everything out all at once before I start. I guess that is why I can scrap so many pages on one day.

This layout was once again inspired by Jowilna... just with my own unique twists on it.

Lady Pattern Paper Love

I really really love the new paper by Lady Pattern Paper.... the blue is just such a lovely shade... goes with everything and is right up there as my favourite colour. As soon as I got my hands on some of this paper I just had to scrap a page... but I didn't stop at one, I did two!

First up was a pure scraplift of a layout I saw on pinterest... it was a 8x12 layout but I made it on 12x12.... simple but soooo lovely.

Second up was a page I also did for the SG Stars and Stripes crop... Love the combination of blue and gold on this page... and it worked so well with my photos too.

Definitely going to scrap some more layouts with this great paper.

Scrapbook Generations - Stars and Stripes Crop

The last weekend in July there was an online crop hosted by Scrapbook Generations called Stars and Stripes. I signed up and decided to do a few of the challenges. Thankfully we had till the 24th of August to get our layouts done, so I got a few pages created and posted in time.

First up was a challenge to use a banner on a page... well this one was in my to do list for a while,.. a scraplift of a page I saw on pinterest.

Then we had to make a layout using a sketch provided... this one came together so quickly and I got to use my new bunny paper I had bought that same weekend. I even made my little bunny stamp that I used on my page.

This was for a challenge where we just needed to create a double page... well what was more appropriate than using one of the SG Sketches and making a lovely "sweet" page.

Yet another page on which we were challenged to use one or more pinwheels... I chose another SG sketch and used 3.

At the end of the crop there were lucky draws for each of the challenges... and once again I was lucky enough to have my layout, Set Sail pulled... so I get some $$$ to go shopping in at Scrapbook Generation... yippee. See it pays off to scrap.

It's Spring

Today is officially the first of spring.... yippee. I love spring and autumn... it's not tooooo hot and not toooooo cold... My favourite time of the year.


Today I am posting a few more of my pages that I finished in August... it was a truly successful scrapping month... I did 23 pages from scratch... all done, photographed and filed!

I managed to finish this page (which I had actually started in July!)...it is from a layout designed by Michelle van Wyk... has tons of photos on it.

Next up is another one that has been sitting on my desk for a while.... I was waiting to get my large cutting mat for my curio so that I could cut the circles for this page... finally got it last week. This is one of Jowilna's layouts from a while back.