Rachel Etrog - It's Your Day Collection

The first of the month has lots of new kits available... just like this gorgeous collection from Rachel Etrog that I got to play with... it's called It's Your Day and is available at The Digital Press for a special price for the NSD weekend.

There are lots more specials available all weekend as well as some challenges going on... so I guess you know where to find me this weekend.

Guest Designer for Dunia Designs

I'm super excited to being chosen as a guest CT member for Dunia Designs at The Digital Press for the months of May to July.

Today is my first reveal using the brand new NSD Grab Bag kit available for NSD weekend, called These Days

I used the kit to document one of our afternoon strolls around the garden.

App Scrappers - April Bingo

The facebook group App Scrappers - Over and Beyond Project Life has been holding a bingo all month... no prizes and no real goal besides what you personally set... well I looked at the card and thought I'd try to do most of it. Here's what we are working with:

I've been scrapping all month with various challenges and making them fit this card as and where I can... and finally I finished. Here is my card:

All these layouts have been created in April and I've shared them in other posts all month long. It's been a very creative month indeed!

The Lilypad - Designer Challenges - April Part 2

I had posted some of my entries for the designer challenges at the Lilypad earlier this month, thinking I wouldn't be doing any more.... then I surprised myself and got some more done. Here's the rest:

Sahlin Studio

Rachel Jefferies

Fiddle-Dee-Dee

Sure has been a very creative month.

TDP - April2020 challenges

This month at The Digital Press there haven't been that many challenges, but I did manage to do them all.

I did the template challenge for GoneDigital Designs which I shared earlier this month.

Rachel Etrog also had a template challenge but it took me a while to get my layout done. Finally managed to put something together.

(Edited 1 May 2020.... my layout got picked as a Galley Standout... whoop whoop!!!!)

I won the luckydraw from Nini last month and so managed to score myself a free kit and got her Cosmos kit which was perfect for her challenge:

ninigoesdigi - flowers

There was also a scavenger hunt which resulted in a new kit to download, and they had their 70% off retirement sale, so I got a few more kits that I've had in my wishlist for a while. I am looking forward to next month when hopefully there will be a few more challenges on offer.

Slow Scrap with Dandelion Dust Designs

I am really enjoying these facebook scrap dates with Dandelion Dust Designs... I've done some of the speed scraps and last night was a slow scrap. The only real difference between these is the amount of time you have to finish the layout and share it. In the speed scraps it's about an hour after the last instruction is given, but in the slow scrap it's 24 hours. The instructions are nicely spaced out that I actually managed to complete the layout within a few minutes of the last instruction.... and that was with dithering and changing things a few times. Love how my page came out:

I can't wait to do another one of these. The nice thing is that I get a free kit just for participating. My stash is building up.

Gingerscraps - Scrap Survivor - Week 5

Another week at home... it's been an interesting week with announcements on tv from Mr Ramaphosa about all sorts of Covid-19 things. The big one is whether or not the lockdown will be lifted and if so by how much come the end of the month. The decision to have different levels definitely sounds good, the question though is where do we fit in? At this stage we will just have to wait for further clarification.

One of the good things abut being at home is that I get to do some of the little things I enjoy, like reading, scrapping and baking. Sooooo this week's survivor challenge was really an easy one for me.

I had baked on Tuesday and taken photos as I went and then on Wednesday the challenge was released so I  knew exactly what to scrap.

Part of this challenge was also to make the recipe page.

 

Now that Scrap Survivor is over I will have to find a few more challenges to do. I still have a few that I want to do this month so best get scrapping (hehehe).

Gingerscraps - TCOT winter pages

One of the designers at Gingerscraps, The Cherry on Top has a progressive challenge going on her facebook group. The winter kit is a freebie and once you've created three pages you get the spring kit. Well I couldn't miss out on this chance to get more stash so finally yesterday I knuckled down (whilst watching tv) and scrapped my three pages.

It's not so easy scrapping "winter" pages with such bright papers but I persevered and made them work. I uploaded them all today to the group as well as to the gallery at Gingerscraps.

I just found out that my "Freshly Baked" page got nominated for "Bakers Best" for this week. Always an honour to get recognised for my scrapping.

The Lilypad - April2020 Designer challenges

It's sooooooo nice to be working at home... no traffic, no stress... just sit at my desk and get the job done. And then I get to scrap for a lot more hours too as I'm not running around shopping and stuff. I could very easily do this for a few more weeks.

Soooooo speaking of scrapping, I've done two more layouts this weekend (well actually last night whilst watching tv!) for two of the designer challenges at The Lilypad. I might do other challenges there still but thought I'd share these today.

First up is one for Elif Sahin.... love her stuff. The recipe challenge makes it so easy to put a layout together... this one used stash from about 8 kits!

Next up is also a recipe challenge but from Lynn Grieveson... another favourite of mine though I don't have a lot of stash.

Till next time...happy scrapping.

Gingerscraps - Scrap Survivor - Week 4

This week's challenge for scrap survivor was lots of fun... and not so much of a challenge for me as it's actually how I scrap... mix and match.

The challenge is to fuse 2 templates and at least 3 kits together. Well I used bits from 8 different kits on my page.

So now I just have to wait till Wednesday to find out what the final challenge it... hoping it's something fun and easy too.