Let's Get Sketchy - 1st January reveal

Happy 2018 to you all... I pray that this year will be full of awesome adventure with lots of fun things to learn. I don't make resolutions or goals for the year but rather just rehash the same old ideas into new ones.

This year I hope to get a ton of scrapping done and make a decent dent in my albums from the last four years. I also hope to tackle my 2017 album digitally (project life app style) and get it printed... here's holding thumbs. I've decided to do a "photo a day" sort of challenge for my 2018 album... guess we will see how that pans out.

But to start today off, here's my first reveal for Let's Get Sketchy.

The great sketch we got to play with:

So come along and scrap with me and the rest of the design team on the blog.

Happily scrapping out the year

It's the last day of the year and I've done LOTS of scrapping this year. In fact my stats are:

60 pages inspired by Jowilna
22 for Let's Scrap Sketches
32 for ScrapPlezier
9 for Stick It Down
2 for Off the Rails Scrapbooking
2 for Let's Get Sketchy
and a whole bunch for other online crops too.

In total I scrapped 196 layouts = 99 doubles and 97 singles... which translates to 295 pages.... that's a lot of scrapping! Not nearly at a layout a day goal standard yet, but definitely getting close. Now I need to file most of those too!

Not to forget I also made over 120 cards, 11 calendars and a whole host of quilling creature too. I think it's been a busy and successful year, don't you?

My most successful month scrapping was in July. December was also a good month with over 39 pages (27 layouts) done... and that's with Christmas and a week of family visits as well. Not too bad I say.

 Here are a few of the pages I've managed to finish during this past month:

Did you see where I spilled my walnut ink on this page in the bottom corner? I nearly cried and then thought what the heck and made it part of the design... yip mistakes happen! I am also proud of myself for trying something new on this page... I've had my Curio machine for two years now and this is the first time I used my sketch pens... I found some fishy clipart and turned them into sketches for my page.

I used up some very old stash of stickers on this page as well as some stamping.

All these papers are based on Jowilna original layout designs.

Thanks for following along with my blog and scrapping for this past year and here's looking forward to a whole bunch of the same in the New Year.

Sketch N Scrap - good news

I heard late last night that I have been chosen to be the Guest Designer for January for Sketch N Scrap.... yippee!!! More scrapping in January for me.

You can see my layout that got me chosen in my post from a few days back. Why not follow along on their facebook page too and come join the fun?

Let's Get Sketchy - DT

I am soooooo excited to say that I made the design team for Let's Get Sketchy ..... boy oh boy is 2018 going to be a busy scrapping year for me!

Here is my layout that I made for the design team call:

Come play along each month and join the fun.

Off The Rails - Calendar Tutorial

The year is drawing to a close and it's now definitely time to be thinking of getting your dates in order for next year. Well that's where my tutorial today might just help you out a bit. Why not make your own desk calendar so you never loose track of the date, plus this is the perfect project to de-stash your ever growing pile of leftover scraps.

You can see my full tutorial on the blog.

ScrapPlezier - Christmas Tutorial - Star

My last tutorial is up today on the ScrapPlezier blog... all about making a star for the top of my tree which is now all beautifully decorated too.

I decorated my tree with ribbons and bling sprinkled all around. Just a fairly simple decoration for this year.

ScrapPlezier - Christmas tutorial - Tree

I found some amazing DIY ideas on pinterest for making Christmas decorations and thought to try a few this year. This one has intrigued me for a while... folded magazine Christmas Tree.

These trees can be various heights and fullness depending on the book you start with. To see my full tutorial, head over to the ScrapPlezier blog.

I will show you more next time on how I decorated and finished off my tree.

ScrapPlezier - Christmas tutorial - Foiled Ornaments

I put up our Christmas tree on Monday and added a few new ornaments that I made myself to the tree. I made a simple tutorial that is up on the ScrapPlezier blog today to show what I did... go take a look.

The one surprise I got was when I hung the foiled ornaments near one of the lights, they glow and change colours...the gold one even turns into various rainbow colours... super cool.

Cotton Candy Scrapping

At the end of October I attended the first Cotton Candy Scrap day hosted by Short Cut Crafts. Wow, this day was awesome with LOADS of fantastic new papers designed by Jowilna that we got to use first, plus goodie bags and giveaways. It was a wonderfully creative day, despite being a bit grey and wet.

I've finally managed to finish my layouts that we did on the day plus the two bonus pages, so can now share.

Looking forward to the next event (hint hint!).

Sketch-n-Scrap Be Merry & Bright Crop

Yes it's online crop time again at Sketch-n-Scrap and I decided that it's time to take part... seeing as I had planed to do the November crop and then ran out of time. Here's the layouts I created:

Challenge 1

Challenge 3

Guest Designer Challenge

So why not follow along with the group on Facebook and take part next time too?