The Scrapbook Store June sketch challenge with some FWAB

Found time to enter the June sketch challenge over at The Scrapbook Store. I’m still milking the photos I took on Mother’s Day and have combined some FWAB goodies with Kaisercraft Dream Big patterned paper and collectables.

I created the background using a stencil and texture paste. Then I stamped around the edge with a text stamp and peach ink. Finally, I flicked some teal spray around the outside of the texture paste.

I created a base piece for my photo to sit on using a strip of punched patterned paper and a sticker from the range. Then I matted my photo and placed on this base. I used a chipboard circular frame and then added my embellishments along the bottom. I used a couple of FWAB Elise burnt orange flowers situated amongst some Peterloo botanic flowers. I added some more chipboard and overlaid it with a FWAB Elise Silver Rhinestone Flourish cut up into two pieces. Lastly, I added a few of the Collectables from the range. Here are a few closeups.

And here is the sketch that my layout is based upon:

Thanks for looking.

Judith xx

Stuck?! Sketches June 1st sketch

I've managed to find time to do one of the sketch challenges at Stuck?! this month.

I had a go at the June 1st sketch.

Here is my take:

Mickey Mouse seemed to one of the current trends around. DD bought a few Mickey/Minnie Mouse tops and Typo brought out a range of Mickey/Minnie stationary lines so I snapped up some. They were vintage looking so I gave my photos a 1960's look. I managed to persuade DD to wear some Minnie ears!

Here are some close ups:

And here is the sketch my layout is based upon. I rotated 90 degrees.

Thanks for looking

Judith xx

Scrap the Boys June Challenge

The challenge over at Scrap the Boys this month is to scrap a photo larger than 6 x 4.

Here is my take using another photo from Mother's Day.:

I have a thing about paper straws at the moment and have been collecting lots of different colours. I thought they would go well with the photo to continue the lines of the steps.

Thanks for looking

Judith xx

Once Upon a Sketch June challenge

Wow, it's been a busy month and this is only the first layout I have completed. I have picked up a few days work back at my old workplace so that has cut down on my time for scrapping.

Anyway, I've managed to do the June challenge at Once Upon a Sketch. Besides using the sketch the theme was "the best things in life aren't things"

I decided to do a page about dawn. It really is my favourite time of the day. This photo was taken at Lake Wendouree back in the summer when DH and I had the night to ourselves so got up early and went out to capture the dawn. I couldn't really express how I felt about it but found a poem which expressed things nicely. I also journalled about the experience on the back of my layout.

Anyway, here is my take:

And the poem I included:

Ecstatic bird songs pound 

the hollow vastness of the sky 

with metallic clinkings-- 

beating color up into it 

at a far edge,--beating it, beating it 

with rising, triumphant ardor,-- 

stirring it into warmth, 

quickening in it a spreading change,-- 

bursting wildly against it as 

dividing the horizon, a heavy sun 

lifts himself--is lifted-- 

bit by bit above the edge 

of things,--runs free at last 

out into the open--!lumbering 

glorified in full release upward-- 

songs cease. 

William Carlos Williams

And some close ups. I am quite into the metallic look at the moment and went with lots of copper to complement the photo.

And here is the sketch that my layout is based upon:

Thanks for looking

Judith xx

Scrap 365 June sketch

Today I have a grungy layout to share with you which I did for the Scrap 365 sketch challenge. This layout features a photo of my kids taken on Mother’s Day, one of the few days I can get them to cooperate in photo taking and I have used Mr Fox Kaisercraft collection again and some Flourish with a Bling. I created the background by stamping around the edge and included some copper heat embossing on the edges and in the middle of the page. I also used a stencil and added some metallic texture paste and finally I flicked some splotches of spray around.

I love how the white Elise flowers can be sprayed to complement your layout. I have sprayed these two with Lindy’s Stamp Gang Starburst Cattail Copper Brown. I also cut off some swirls from the Grace Pearl Flourish in Copper and added them to complement the flowers.

I also dotted a few individual copper adhesive pearls around the page.

And here is the sketch that I based my layout on.

Thanks for looking.

Judith xx

Page Drafts 'One of a Kind' Challenge

Just sharing my layout for the Page Drafts 'One of a Kind' Challenge. The challenge was to celebrate 'one of a kind' and use one of Em's sketches.

I decided to do a companion page to my White with 1 page and scrap about feeding the giraffes at Werribee Zoo which made my birthday 'One of a kind'. Here is my take on the challenge. I again went with a gold and white theme. I created a background of gold watercolour and gold Kaisercraft paint and added some gold heat embossing and Viva Decor gold ferro texture paste. I used some Studio Calico and My Mind's Eye pp and some glitter tape from D-lish Scraps. I mounted the circular photos on gold glittered cardstock and added a wire frame to my main photo. My cluster comprises a FWAB Maddison flower, some smaller Prima flowers and some leaves cut out of gold cardstock.

  

And here are some close ups.

I used sketch 30.5  as I had a lot of photos I wanted to include in my layout.

Thanks for looking.

Judith

The Scrapbook Store May Sketch challenge

Today I'm sharing with you my entry for the Scrapbook Store May challenge. 

This is a layout including a photo of my daughter and I taken on Mother’s Day last weekend by my son. I created the background using watercolour paint and then stenciled the brick design on using some Viva Decor Ferro Texture Paste. I then added a few splatters of mists and added some sequins and some individual FWAB adhesive pearls in teal. I used two pieces of patterned paper from the Kaisercraft Snapshots range and one piece of base paper from Kaisercraft. 

For my cluster I used a FWAB Grace Pearl flourish in teal.

I used a couple of flowers and I also sprayed a FWAB Elise white flower with Lindy’s Stamp Gang Starburst spray in Cattail Copper Brown.

The chipboard circle frame is from Blue Fern Studio and purchased at the Scrapbook Store. It was also covered with the Cattail copper brown spray.

Here is the sketch it is based upon designed by Marelize Frisby.

Thanks for looking

Judith xx