Colour Combo

Just for fun I took part in a wee challenge over at Colour Combos Galore and yesterday I discovered that I was chosen as the gallery favorite, what a buzz! If your looking for colour inspiration be sure to check this  site out.

  This was the card inspiration for this challenge, made by Kim Moreno ...

 This is the picture and colour combo...

And here is the page I created...

I used wax, a stamp and paint to create texture, inspired by the curtain in the photo. 

Check out all of the other wonderful takes on this challenge in the gallery here

Sketch challenge, with a challenge

This week is my turn to do the sketch challenge over at The Scrapbook Outlet, so if you have a spare moment in your week I sure hope you give this a go. I have kept my sketch quite simple....

....but there is  plenty of room for you to add your own mark. My challenge to you is to use your favorite Scrapbook  embellishment on this page. Add it/them where ever you wish to add them.

My most favorite embellishment are those tiny little Prima rose buds that you see on many of my projects.

...they are just perfect to add as a finishing touch. or to full a gap, or to simply add that little bit more!

Sure hope you can join in.  Layouts posted in the gallery by mid-night Thursday 28th October will be in for a chance to win a wee prize. So good luck, and happy scrapping.

Week 8 Kiwiana cutoff

Its sad when things come to an end. Midnight tonight sees the cut off date for week 8 of Scrapbook Outlets Kiwiana Competition. Everyone who has sored 100 points or more as of mid-night tonight will be sent a mystery product to do something with ...hmmmm ... ill say no more


But here is a sneak peek at my attempt with this mystery product...

...Want to see Ruth's sneak peek...check it out HERE

and if your after some inspiration for your next scrapbook page be sure to check out the gallery its loaded with gorgeous Layout at the moment!

Well today was my last day at work for two whole weeks, well eight days really considering I only work four days a week. I really need to hit my scrap room now as I have a load of work to get done.

I also hope to get some gardening in, but this past week has been super cold, so gardening will be on hold until spring shows its self!

This week it's my turn to provide the Friday Sketch Challenge for Scrapbook Outlet.
I almost spent longer creating my sketch design in photoshop than I did creating my example page! Then of course, after creating my page I had to go back and alter my sketch, because Id made a few changes along the way.

Here's my sketch...

And here's my example...

To check out the details head over to the forum ..here

Hope you get a chance to give this ago.

All entries need to be posted to the gallery by mid-night Thursday.

Wishing you all a warm cozy weekend fulled with all the things you love !

Like a Slice??

Stay tuned to Scrapbook Outlet if you would like to win one of these little beauties!

Celebrate NZ

.... and be in to win
keep a close eye on ScrapbookOutlet!!!!
If you haven't registered on the forum yet nows the time to get it done...so you're ready.... !!

New Sketch Challenge

Thanks to everyone who took the time to have a go at my sketch, last month at Up2scrap. Your pages are all wonderful! Well done to Sue Smith on her win.

This month the lovely Dianne has a sketch for us all...

Pop over to the Up2Scrap blog to see Diannes beautiful sample layouts and to check out her theme. Im looking forward to having a go at this one myself.

A wee reminder...

Don't forget to have a go at this months challenge over at Up2scrap... there is a lovely prize waiting to be won...you still have time to enter!!

Raw, naked and unstuck...

.... got you thinking?? Well that is the title of Nickie's challenge over at Scrapbooking by Design
This challenge was all about using using as many naked and raw materials you could to create a layout. Now, that was not even the hard part!! The hard part was using no adhesives !!! I though that I would not be able to successfully complete a page without using a tiny bit of adhesive...but I did it!! It was no easy feet I can tell you, and I am truly over hand sewing now.
Not only did I sew, but I also punched holes in my card and threaded my fabric through, then secured the ends with big knots! My photos are machine stitched to card and 'zuttered' onto my background card. It was very tricky to get my zutter to 'zutt' so far beyond the edge of the card. My sewing machine did not like sewing the firm chipboard either!

I have, of course sneaked a stamp, or two onto my page, but in my defence I have added no coloured ink other than brown.

...another stamp on the tag...and brads worked well instead of glue. That little chipboard bike took some effort to sew into place, I tried to make my stitches look like the spoke things beside the chain!

I may be tempted to add just a little colour to my leaves and chipboard title!!

Thanks for the challenge Nickie!! This was tough, but fun and a great work out for the old 'grey matter'!!

Fabric and stitching

Have you checked out this months challenge over on the Up2scrap blog?? If not, you still have time! Check it out HERE

Here's my take. Just for fun I went bright, and I could not resist a play in photoshop...check out the coloured headbands in my black and white photo.

Instead of flowers, which I tend to use far too often, I went for star embellishments. I cut most of these out on my cricut, except for the tiny ones, which are punched.

I love Vicki's pocket, but was tiring hard not to copy. Instead of the pocket I stitched up a little party handbag.

My photos are slotted into the bag, along with a little letter to our dear daughter, which is hidden behind the photos, to keep it 'private'!

Louise posts a new challenge on the Up2scrap blog each month so remember to keep a look out.

The end has come

Last week was challenge 6 of the Innovations challenge over at Crafytarts . Its sad to be at the end, I have enjoyed pushing myself out of my comfort zone and tring out new ways to scrap.
Last week the challenge was to use an item in a different way..here is what I did...

The little pine cones from our garden where just right for making into little flowers, which I did with the help of some tiny beads. My journalling spot is a cork coaster.

Instead of trim I used a boot lace, I made a frame from corrigated card...

used my stamped leaves, and made daisies from string

For my title I found this clothing tag (I have saved two draw fulls of clothing tags!!)

I knew I could make the words 'in it for life' fit my page..somehow! All I did was add a little ink and attach it to my page using double sided foam.

Check out the gallery to see the clever ideas that people come up with. This has been a fun competition, thanks Craftytart and all of the other 'players' I must tell you that one clever boy took part in this competition as well, and hes only ten!! Way to go Jonathon!! Be sure to check out his work in the gallery and add some encouraging comments.

Been busy

Here I am with some crafty bits! Check out my sugar bowl. I love it, my dear sweet mum in law gave it to me many years ago,sadly we have lost Murial from our lives, but she is never far from our thoughts.... Anyway... back to the sugar bowl... I used it as my inspiration for last weeks challenge over at Craftytarts.

We had to create something using a piece of crockery as inspirationI was sort on time with having to get away to Burwood so whipped up this altered clipboard.

I loved the soft teal colour overlapped with soft leaves and surrounded in white. And that splash of colour inside the bowl is just waiting to pop out I'm sure! (you may need to click on the photo for a closer view, its a little hard to see!)

Below is my first lot of work created as a design team member for Better Scrapbooking. All of the instructions , and instructions from some wonderful works created by the other DT members can be found on this months newsletter..here

All of my pages were created using goodies from last months ScrapPack, available at better scrapbooking.

CraftyTart take 3

Challenge three at Craftytarts was to create a page or OTP (off the page) project inspired by the little people in our lives.
My little people are now all taller than me, but I had a lovely two days - that's how long it took me to decide- digging through photos of 'days of old'.
I settled for Cody playing in a banana box in the end, just because in every photo of him he was up to some sort of 'fun' and always looked to be loving every moment of it!

My photo had such a cluttered background that no amount of photo shopping made it look much better, so I did the unthinkable and cut Cody out of the photo!! Yeeks!!! I have never done this before, mostly because usually the background tells its own story but also because I do not feel confident about scrapping a cut out photo. Anyway, I threw caution to the wind and did it!

Cody loved Dr Seuss books at this age, so I decided to use a Dr Seuss ex cert from 'Cat in the Hat'
as the basis for my LO....

Look at me, Look at me, Look at me now...Its fun to have fun, but you have to know how!

I had fun moving out of my comfort zone and creating this page! Thanks again Craftytart!!

A huge congratulations to Tanya and Grace who come in first and second this week WTG girls!!

Check out all the wonderful entries HERE

Hes a Southern Man

Last week I was up to my elbows in tissue paper and mod-podge creating a LO for Challenge two of CraftyTarts competition. Below is the picture that we all had to use as our inspiration.
I only needed a very short think about this one before deciding pretty much what I was wanting to do and what photo to use.

Here it is... A recent photo from one of Cody's hunting expeditions. It works pretty well with all of that 'white space', which of course I could not bring myself to leave empty. LOL, I'm not really a blank space kind of scrapper...but I LOVE 'white space'

My title was easy, it kind of fell into place as i was using a newspaper to pop a little 'advertising' onto my page (inspiration from the advertising in the sample) I was using a southern farming news paper and my lad is a true blue 'southern' kind of a bloke, so I googled the words of the Southern Man song and ...hey presto... they were totally made for my lad and my page!
My only doubt is that may be they are not suitable for a 'North Island' challenge. Hmmmm...!!!

My embellishments took the most thinking about, I wanted to make them southern man - affied
so I have a beer bottle cap, pull tag from a beer can, a little bit of string, a clock face (which may not have a whole lot of significance except it fitted on the bottle top perfectly!) and rose hip berries and foliage. To tie this in with my background I have rolled up a little of that farming newspaper.

and of course added a little 'snow' in the form of paint. I had fun with this challenge even though I made one huge mess!

Check out this weeks challenge here and do give it a go if you get a chance. Hannah has added a gorgeous sample that is well worth a look.

Brace Yourself

Sad to say that my time on the Scrapbooking by Design design team come to an end today, I am sorry to leave as I loved it there! I have scrapbooked hundreds (almost) of pages since making it onto the Design Team, there has been so much going on there to keep me motivated!!

To keep myself inspired and motivated I have decided to take part in a six week Challenge at http://www.craftytart/ The first challenge was to use the cover of this months Innovations magazine as inspiration for a page, or an off the page project.
The project had to include one of the following things : parenthesis, DIY flowers, or layered dimension, and you had to use the colours from this page.

Here is what I come up with... My DIY flowers are little rose buds, made by rolling two layers of paper together. The leaves are stamped using my newest stamp (thanks ever so much to Carol for pointing me in the direction of this stamp!!) The flower centres are made by rolling up strips of paper and attaching them to a punched out circle.The stitches are my 'butterfly kisses', taken from the journalling in the sample picture.

As you can see the butterfly really inspired me!! I have added in one of my hand crotchet'ed flowers as well

...more flowers. I wanted to add lots of 'movement ' to my page, in keeping with the sample LO, and what better way to do it than with butterfly's, flowers and chipboard swirls!

Pop over to CraftyTart for a look at all of the stunning projects that were created this week, this is another site where lots of talented people hang out!!

Its not too late to join in the fun, details for the next challenge (now on) can be found HERE

Frugal Scrapping!

The little girl in this photo is my mum...and no that is not me in the photo!! LOL
Better Scrap booking have a challenge on for the Month of June and that challenge is to create a scrapbook page for under $5 Of course I can never resist a good challenge.

Here's the approximate costing of my page.....

Background paper.$nil I used a piece of packing card that come with a piece of Prima paper.

Flowers and leaves under 5c each ( from a bunch of silk flowers brought from the super market.

Crochet flowers I made myself, cost of cotton used maybe 10c each

Paper flowers $nil- hand made from scrap paper

Ribbon 90c

One serviette , I have used the top layer and the bottom layer 30c

paint 10c at the most

Two buttons 10c

Everything else is just small scraps from things I have lying around: tulle, lace, fabric, old beads from a necklace.

The Cherish stamp is stamped onto the back of a clothing label (I have a huge collection of these).

Photo approx 20c maybe less, I print my own.

Total cost of my page is around : $2.40 Not bad A!

Silk flowers, with a little swipe of my red ink pad and centre 'beads' from an old necklace.
Paper flowers that I made last week for another scrap page.

Hand made crochet flowers, fabric scrap and very cheap leaves!

I have scrunched and mod podged a tissue onto a scrap piece of card and applied a little paint.

Look at that, I managed to use two of the stamps from my 'stamp stash'

I hunted through my ribbon scrap jar and found just the right piece... it matches my serviette!

It was fun to make a page as cheaply as possible, it took lots of thought! Check out the challenge HERE and give it ago yourself

Remember to watch out for our Winter challenge coming up very soon at Scrapbook Studios as well. Its going to be fun!