Spring it ON at The Sketchbook

Welcome to SPRING IT ON – the FIRST CHALLENGE !! over at The Sketchbook

Week ones challenge to you is to step into SPRING.

Spring is in the air – create a layout/OTP item with the following:

1. Spring colours light greens, yellows, pinks and blues with white
2. Flowers,
3. Lace or ribbon
4. Bling.
5. Strip journalling ie journalling on strips of paper.

AND the big criteria

6. NO 12 x12 patterned paper allowed (any cardstock as a background is allowed) Instead do a spring clean of your scraps of patterned paper and use them!!

You have until midnight on Sunday 6th of September to load your creation in the gallery to be in to win an awesome LUXE prize from Scrapbook Corner.

My layout

Scrappin’ Patch Recipe challenge

Welcome to September’s recipe challenge. Your recipe this week is as follows:

This is the recipe for the recipe challenge (remember you can add more but must have all of these):

1. Cut out a pattern/s from patterned paper
2. Use lined notepaper or patterned paper that looks like lined notepaper
3. Something sparkly eg glimmermist ,glitter, bling, kindyglitz, dimensional magic
4. Buttons or brads
5. AND to help with the spring cleaning something you have been hoarding !! :CRAZY:

You have until midnight the 7th of September to put your layout in the gallery to be in the chance to be In the Spotlight for October if you do this challenge and three others in September.

Here is my layout

Current layouts to share

Currently on at Sketchbook is Rachels challenge to use a photo larger then a 6 x4 on a layout. The deadline for this challenge is midnight the 30th of August. I have used graphic 45 papers on mine.

Here is a layout for Annelies multi photo challenge over at Scrappin’ Patch that ends midnight tonight and was to use at least three photos and scrap the everyday.

Heidis Inspiration challenge at Scrappin’ Patch is to use this ad for inspiration

and here is my layout – the cherry hill papers by October afternoon were perfect!

Check this out!

Here comes spring at Sketchbook check it out on Monday

Some layouts to share

Over at Scrappin’ Patch I have a sketch challenge using a Page Maps sketch from July. You have until midnight this Friday to upload to the gallery there to be in for a chance to be in the Spotlight for September – if you do three other challenges too.

Here is my layout

Another challenge which is running at Scrappin Patch is the boyzone one by Delys and is a music inspired one with the following ingredients :
Have a music theme whether it be the photo, the title (eg thriller-aka michael jackson), papers you have or embellishments or some lyrics that inspire you for this boyzone challenge..and Kraft cardstock and buttons. Thats it!

I stamped the images on the Kraft paper with timber brown Staz on and love the effect.

Here are some layouts from Sketchbook challenges

This first one is an example for Hannah’s current challenge that ends midnight this Sunday. It is a word challenge using the word READ.

and this layout was from Annelies challenge which has finished and was to use only products from two manufacturers – I chose Websters and Scenic Route

Ingvild – an amazing scrapper and an amazing RAK

Wow look at this amazing Rak!!
Ingvild an amazing scrapbooker is celebrating 200000 visitors to her blog. To win this RAK you have to leave Ingvild a commenthereand she will pick a random winner on the 1st of October. You have until the 30th September 2009 at 24.00 Norwegian time (GMT + 1).

Also in this rak is a gorgeous tag created by her.

Here is a photo of her RAK from her blog.

Some happy mail = Inspiration

I got a lovely bit of Happy mail yesterday from Adrienne and Pauline over at Scrappin’ Patch. Inside was some lovely amber coloured Dew Drops and some Prima leaves.

I decide to do this layout recalling how as a child I did not build sandcastles but sand gardens and my daughter did the same last holidays which brought back some happy memories.

I have used the dewdrops as flower centres and on my stamped prima swirls. I just adhered the dewdrops with some tacky glue which dries clear. These are awesome little embellishments and the prima leaves are just gorgeous.

I have also used a Little Yellow Bicycle clear Journal spot, Prima harmony paper and other colour leaves, shells,raffia and Basic grey alphas and frame.

I love this sign of the Spring to come….

Just outside my window….

and at Western Springs

AWOL…..

Sorry I have been awol for a while I have been busy. Just a quick note thatScrappin’ Patch is currently having a 30% sale of almost everything until the 9th of August (yes I have been shopping!!).

I have a few layouts to share first up a couple for current challenges.

Over at Scrappin’ Patch Delys has recipe challenge which finishes midnight on the 10th of August. So on your project the following ingredients are required:
Paint
Buttons
Lace
Fabric
Chipboard and
some stamping…

Here is my layout using Taristo fabric, Junebug and fancypants chipboard, MM stamp using paint, francheville buttons, lace flowers and belle alphas.

Also at Scrappin Patch is Annelie’s Designer Inspiration Challenge which is to make a door hanging of some kind. You have until midnight the 7th of August to upload into the gallery.

Here is mine using an pizza box as the base

Over at The Sketchbook ruths Challenge is to scraplift a layout from the gallery – I chose a layout done by Miss Frizz which I loved. This challenge finishes this Sunday at midnight.

Here is another couple of layouts for examples for various challenges that are now closed.

A layout for Heidi’s recipe challenge last week at sketchbook – no PP, paint,flowers,bling and a journal spot

and this one for Heidi’s multi photo challenge at Scrappin’ Patch

I also want to thank Annelie for the lovely rak she sent me which was just awesome – thank you so much!! – can’t wait to use the goodies.

I had some luck over the ditch at Crafty Sketches as the two sketches I entered I came second in the first one and first in the second so should get some RAKs from them soon – thank you to Crafty Sketches too!!

Scrap Tech Tuesday

With the start of Minute Mondays Scrap Tech Tuesdays will be coming your way once a month over at Scrappin’ Patch. This month by special request I will go over lollipop flowers in a bit more detail.

Lollipop flowers are an easy embellishment to make and there are heaps of possibilities with them. They are also great to use up some scraps. In the following layout I have made a tree with lollipop flowers.

Now depending on the way you like your lollipop flowers to look depends on how you scrap. Some of you might like precise circles in which case you would use templates or diecut circles – others like myself like myself would either cut circles freehand or draw the circles freehand and then cut them.

So firstly cut how ever many different size circles you would like for your flower . All my examples only have three layers.
If you would like a distressed look take each circle one at a time and using your distress tool or scissors go right around the circles and distress them.
You can also distress them using inks.
Next step is to assemble them – get all the circles and put a hole through the centre of them and attach a brad through the holes of all the circles.
They are now ready to be attached to your Project either with the brad or with a glue dot.

Here is another layout which I did couple of months ago using the above technique for the flowers.

You can also make even “scruffier” circles by cutting out the circles a little larger then you want them to be and then carefully ripping the paper around the edges as I have done on this card.

Another cool thing you can do is cut slits all the way around the centre circle to make a different textured look as in this card.

Lollipop flowers can also be made with fabric and buttons like I have done in this layout.

As you can see you can make a variety of different looking lollipop flowers and there are many more ways you can make lollipop flowers.
You can make them with different colour cardstock, spray glimmermist on them or just have circles with no distressing on them for a cleaner look – to name just a few.