Looking for a new creative outlet

I am busy looking for a new Creative Design Team to be a part of. It's not easy putting yourself out there and hoping to get picked just on the strength of a few layouts being submitted, but what the heck, if you don't try you won't succeed. So here goes....

These are a few of the teams that I am vying for:

1. Let's Get Sketchy - Guest Designer

2. Colourful Creations

3. Cocoa Vanilla

So let's see what happens in the New Year.... holding thumbs!

Scraplift of a friend

A few weeks back I saw a layout by Lee-Anne Thornton and absolutely loved it... so decided it had to be scraplifted...this is my page.

I also used a diecut file from JustNick on my page. I had planned to cut it out of pattern paper but it didn't work... grrr. So after a few trials I cut it out of white cardstock and then ran a rainbow inkpad over it and outlined the letters in black.

Thanks for the inspiration Lee-Anne and JustNick.

My Mentor

Over the last few years I've taken a few classes from Jowilna Nolte and have learnt a whole host of techniques and wonderful stuff. I count Jow as a very good (and dear) friend as well as my scrapping mentor. When I grow up I would love to be a scrapper like her. Yes I do realise that I have my own style and I am happy with it... it's just something to aspire too.

In September a group of us took a roadtrip together to Kloof to spend the weekend scrapping at ShortCuts Kloof. As a momento of the weekend we got Jow to sign the wall... these are the pics I took and my layout to remember this special lady and moment.

For my page I scraplifted a layout I saw in Pinterest. I used a whole bunch of strips which I glued to a strip of cardstock and then diecut a whole bunch of starts... a super easy and effective technique.

Thanks Jow for all your teaching and friendship.

Destash scrapping

I decide that it's time to do some major de-stashing... I've sorted through my vast scrapping supplies and whittled out some stash to sell.

Part of this de-stashing was some mini albums that I did at various classes or events over the years. These have been sitting in a box for years just gathering dust so it was definitely time to de-stash.

I emptied the albums and recycled the papers and embellishment into a useful pile and a rubbish pile. I then decided to actually USE the papers, and so made the following three layouts.

I sure hope that I have motivated you to do some de-stashing and scrapping too.

Winners - Creative Scrappers Sketch Book

Thanks to everyone who left a comment on my previous post about the sketch book.... all 11 of you. Wow I don't think I have EVER had that many comments on a blog post... hehehe.

Anyway, I printed them all out, cut them up. Folded and then shook them up. I then picked one.... and the winner is....

TILLA

Congratulations. I will contact you with instructions to claim your prize.

Creative Scrappers - Sketch Book V4

I was super duper excited when Kristine Davidson asked me to design a layout for her latest book for Creative Scrappers.  I have one copy of the book to give away.

Unfortunately, I can't show you my page here (which is on page 38!) but just to whet your appetite here are some closeup details of a few of the bits:

You can of course buy a copy of the book... Kristine also has a discount voucher available on her blog.

So leave me a comment and I will draw a name at the end of November.

Scrapping with Scraps

In October I decided that I needed to stop stockpiling my leftover papers and actually use them... so I made it a mission to create a few pages just using my scraps. I turned to Pinterest for inspiration and over the course of a weekend managed to turn out 10 layouts. Some of these still need a few finishing touches, so for now, here are the ones that I finished.

I extend a big thank you to the original creators of these pages for the inspiration... I might not know who made them originally but having found them on pinterest I was inspired. I now need to make a whole bunch more layouts using this ideas I never even made a dent into my stash of scraps!!

Scrapbook Generation: Lights Camera Action Online Crop

The weekend we were away in October was the same one that Scrapbook Generation held their latest online crop. Well I didn't stop that from participating... I did as manage of the games over the weekend as I could and once I got home I started planning pages to scrap for all the challenges.

These are the ones that I've finished:

Plus I used a few others that I've already posted as they were appropriate for the challenges.

Scrapbook Challenges - Flashback Friday

You might have noticed that I haven't been posting anything for Scrapbook Challenges in a while.... well this is due to Brynn needing some time out and the site is in a hiatus till the new year. But I still have two layouts that I did back in March for Flashback Friday's that were never published, so thought I'd share them now for a little inspiration.

 First up is my layout for Sketch 151

And here is the one for Sketch 165

These are still the original sketches, we never did get around to updating them... but old is still new when you haven't used them before.

Scrap Affairs - sketch challenge

The latest Scrap Affairs magazine (issue 50) has a sketch challenge by Kim Watson... I took the plunge and created a page for it.