Frosted Designs challenge - Up, up and away

I thought I'd join in again with the Frosted Designs challenge this month. The new challenge is Up, up and away - you can use birds, planes, balloons, kites, butterflies etc

I decided to use kites to interpret this challenge. On our family holiday to Broome, way back in 2004  the local community held a family fun day down at the beach on our last day there. The kids had fun joining in. Part of the fun day was the flying of kites, which I have included in my middle photo and used as embellishments.

Scrap Friends Sketch challenge #11

 This is a layout I did for the Scrap Friends sketch this month. A couple of weeks back we were driving back from Geelong and came across this expanse of Sunflowers (unfortunately, some were past their best) but I made DH stop the car so I could take some photos.

I have had these Prima sunflower vines in my stash for a while now and had originally planned on using them for another layout but had never got around to it so decided they went perfectly with this.

And here are some close ups showing my Purple Pumpkin goodies. I this one I used a green crocheted doily and tucked in a brown floral fabric button underneath my corrugated cardboard. You can also see some text washi tape behind the doily. I also used a kraft film diecut.

And in this one I have used a wooden printed floral button.

Scrap the Boys March Challenge

This month the challenge at Scrap the Boys is a recipe challenge. You must include:

2 Photos 6x4 or smaller
Chipboard
Washi Tape
Mists/Paints

on your layout.

Here is my take on the challenge. I have to admit that it is quite heavily influenced by a class I did with Georgia Heald at the Papercraft Show in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago. (Well the strips of paper with gesso on are.)

I have used 2 photos of my son surfing last year as part of his Outdoor Education course at school. I applied gesso to the strips of paper and flicked some mist on my page. I have a chipboard frame under my photos and a small chipboard sentiment and have used grey spotted washi tape.

Products used:

Fancy Pants Park Bench pp

Fancy Pants The Good Life pp

Echo Park This and That pp

Pink Paislee Portfolio sentiments and tags

Grey spotted washi tape

Studio Calico wood veneer triangles

Scrapmatts chipboard sentiment

Unknown chipboard frame

Dear Lizzy date stamp

Crafters Workshop hexigon mask

Gesso

Cinder Glimmermist

Bisque VersaCube ink

Rosa Moka alphas

Adorn it alphas

Scrap your story Challenge #2

This week the challenge at Scrap Your Story is themed based and is to scrap a page about animals.

I decided to keep with the cat theme of my entry last week. 

These are the 2 semi feral cats I feed. They are brothers but from different litters. Smudge adopted Smidge when he was a couple of months old. They are often curled up together when it is cold or are playing and chasing each other around.

I decided to keep it simple so that the focus was on the photos of the cats.

Products used:

Jillibean Soup PP

Kaisercraft pearls

American Crafts thickers

Studio Calico wood veneer cats

Unknown chipboard cat

Once Upon a Sketch Mar Challenge

Good morning. I hope your weekend is going well. Today I have a layout I created for Once Upon a Sketch this month. The theme was to create a page about the weekend.  You had to follow the sketch provided and write some journalling.
I was born and brought up by the sea and beach and it's one thing I miss about where we live in Australia. So I love to go down to the beach at the weekend. Our favourite place to go at the moment is Point Roadknight which is just past Anglesea on the Great Ocean Road. This photo was taken a couple of weekends ago.

With this layout I took the opportunity of having another go with texture paste and used a chevron mask. To add to my background I sprayed two different mists through the chevron mask and added some splodges using Distress Ink and finally stamped used a Kaisercraft texture stamp. 

Here is a close up of my cluster which incorporates a few Purple Pumpkin goodies. I have used a couple of pieces of crocheted doilies. I very rarely use a whole doily. I usually cut them in half. I used the other half of the ecru doily in the top cluster. I have also used a lovely satin flower and a couple of blue resin roses.
I have finished the cluster off with some paper flowers, a couple of real shells, a wooden frame and some shell beads.

Here is  close up of my other cluster. In this I have used a natural looking Prima flower and some light blue organza flowers in place of the PP flower and the resin flowers.




Hope the rest of your weekend goes well. If you are in Victoria, hope you are enjoying the long weekend and it's not too hot where you are.

Smudge as a kitten

It's nice to get back to scrapping after a few really busy days. On Saturday, DD and I went to the Scrapbooking Expo in Melbourne. I did a class with the very talented Georgia Heald and also got to sit next to Scrapbooking Memories Master Beck Beattie. I really enjoyed the class and got to do a layout I was really happy with. On Sunday, we all went to the International Air Show at Avalon. It was a beautiful day but maybe a little too hot at times. On Monday, it was back to Melbourne to watch DS in an interschool swimming competition and then Tuesday DS had an appointment at the orthodontist in Ballarat. 

Anyway here is a layout I have created for: 

Frosted Designs - Chevrons

and

Scrap Your Story - use just 1 photo

This is one of the first photos of my semi adopted feral cat Smudge, when he was still with his mother and siblings. Strange to think that this little cat could turn into the big buffy cat he is now.

I have used:

Teresa Collins - Tell Your Story pp and embellishments

Fancy Pants - The Good Life pp

Scenic Route - Surprize pp

{scrAp this} felt sentiment

Scrap Matts chipboard sentiment

Glitz Designs - washi tape

Kaisercraft - bling

Pink Paislee - Alphas

Doodlebug - Alphas

Purple Pumpkin March Sketch

Welcome to the first day of autumn - my favourite season. 

A new month means a new sketch challenge is up at Purple Pumpkin.

Here is the new sketch designed by Crece

And here is my sample:

I managed to use heaps of Purple Pumpkin goodies on this page.

Here is a close up of the banner using a PP felt banner with pale pink and white bakers twine interspersed with resin roses. 

And here is a close up of my cluster. Here I have used a crocheted yellow/orange/white flower, half a crocheted doily, some mini crocheted orange flowers, a green vinyl heart and a rabbit flair button.

You have until the end of the month to complete this Sketch Challenge and link it up in our sidebar by midnight 31st of March 2013. There will be two fabulous Purple Pumpkin prize packs to give away - one winner will be chosen by the design team, and the second will be a random prize draw.

Please check out our RULES HERE!!!

Everyone has a chance, even without using PP products!

REMINDER: Post your pages on our FACEBOOK wall whenever you use our products and we will choose a favorite to feature on our blog and facebook wall! That's an extra chance to win some goodies!!