ARTastic September layout

 Hi all,

Hope you're all doing well and getting lots of crafting done.

I've done a page for my DT position at ARTastic.

Here is my layout.

These are photographs from a 2019 trip we took with friends to Borneo - Malaysia. This is the first day of our trip where we stopped to get lunch.

Here is the inspiration painting.

It is by Robert Hagan called Big Guns.

There is also a sketch we need to use. Plus extra criteria is boys only.

This a great sketch that you could use over and over again.

I've picked up the colours from the painting, used a kraft background to represent the sand. I also used yellow and blue.

Jump on this. Head over to facebook and upload your layout there.

Dale x

Jane Howden

  · 28 February

Ring Ring - layout for Archiscraps

ARCHISCRAPS

Congratulations to Debi for her win in October's challenge. Now on to November.

RING RING
This is my layout as Designer for this month's challenge at Archiscraps.

I took this photo of my two Samsung phones. I liked my little one as it flipped up to answer it and you didn't have to lock it. It also fit very easily into my pocket. Of course it did not do all the wonderful things my new one does.
I was looking at getting a new one but was actually forced into it. I was sitting at a high bar on a stool in Singapore with Paul and I accidentally dropped my phone. The back that came off where the battery was housed went flying under a massive immovable pylon that had a very tiny gap. I tried to fetch it with my pinky fingers but no go. It always was a bit loose anyhow.
I now have a lovely Samsung Galaxy S4.
I chose this photo  as it was mostly white and black like the inspiration photo. Also today's phones have wonderful ring tones which are musical and you can play your music on them. I use mine to record myself singing at Chorus rehearsal. The extra criteria is use a song title. I couldn't go past ABBA's song  "Ring Ring" for this layout.



Get your entry in at Archiscraps now and you could win the prize from Funky Flairs. Check out their Facebook page.

Layout for October 2014 Scrapbookit challenge

October's sketch at Scrapbookit is:




My layout is:

I've used a combination of old and new stash to create this layout.
I've used a new grey Copic marker and some brown brads to create the border.
The Washi under the bottom photo is brand new as well.
The background paper is by My Mind's Eye. It's floral on the other side. I like how Company's are really giving you a lot of options with their double sided papers.

Thanks for looking.

My Hero - male layout for Scrapbookit's September 2014 challenge

I fell in love with the challenge at Scrapbookit when it went up on 1st September. I wrote all the details down on a post it and finally got to it today (the 5th). Yay. I really wanted to spend some time crafting today and have made a couple of cards and now this layout. So pleased.

Here is the challenge...

Create a layout/a project that includes the following:

* Masculine theme

*The words 'My Hero' included in the title

* 4 patterned papers

* Washi tape

* Twine / Ribbon

* At least 1 handmade embellishment

I felt this challenge was so perfect for me. I'm always doing masculine layouts and I enjoy making embellies too. I was in Amanda's swaps for a while and so have quite a stash. It would be nice if that got going again but Amanda is a busy lady. Maybe one day.

I chose a photo of my boys with their Dad on Father's Day 2012. Perfect. They were wearing blue, black and white so I've used those colours but I wanted to add red to add some pops of colour.
I have all the criteria there. What do you think? I'm happy with it.

LIST OF PRODUCTS USED

Fancy Pants Be Different/Too Cool pp (base)

MME Alphabet Soup/ Boy "Ledger" pp both sides

AC Sketchbook/Padma's Pattern pp

striped washi

spotted blue ribbon

Versafine Ink - Onyx Black

Basic Grey Spice Market sticker

handmade banner, stamped star embellie, stamped camera embellie

chipboard

Kaisercraft stamp

AC black Thickers

red and white twine

blue pen

Mystical CC for May 2014

It's Cyber Crop time at Mystical Scrapbooks.  Each Designer has a sketch for you to play with that has one embellishment type as an added criteria. Mine is ribbon.

MY CHALLENGE

Here is my sketch. It's a double. It's taken it from the October 2011 Page Maps. I like the big circle. You can see how I've altered it to suit my photos below.

Here is my take on it.

From the Shop at Mystical I have used the following:

white and purple cardstock
Cosmo Cricket Pixie-Licious/bloomin babies pp
Fancy Pants Memories Captured/Strips pp/ephemera pack and button set
Echo Park Springtime sticker sheet
Kaisercraft 13th Hour sticker alphas
MME Lime Tiwst Our of the Blue "Family" accessories sheet
black pen
Flourish With A Bling Jasmine, lilac
green and white striped ribbon

TRACEY'S CHALLENGE

Here is my take on it. I love working with circles. So much fun. Tracey's extra criteria is bling.

Products used from Mystical shop:

various cardstock colours, used circle punches and cutting system

Basic Grey Lime Rickey/Rob Roy pp

Ki Memories School days/monkey bars pp

mists

jillibean soup diced denim alphas

Basic Grey knee highs and bow ties sticker

Flourish With A Bling Grace, Pearl

MME Lime Twist Our of the Blue "Playful" alphas

JANE'S CHALLENGE

Jane's extra criteria was flowers.

Products used from the Mystical Scrapbook's shop:
Fancy Pants Memories Captured pp
Jillibean Soup Yellow salt pp
Kaisercraft black min i paper bloom and deep yellow rhinestones
Pink Paislee Hey Kid element stickers
Twiddleybitz musical notes chipbaord
black ribbon
Prima dollhouse collection velvet flower

I Love Rick

It's true, anyone who knows me well knows that I love Rick Springfield.  I have created a layout about him for week 3 challenge in the Monopoly game at SBT50. I rolled a 1 this week which gave me this:



Absolutely no problem I thought.  My touch of colour is red. My hidden journalling is on a black and white tag behind the photo on the left.

Great photos, no? In case you might have picked up on the the fact that my photos are not taken from in the audience let me tell you, I had the special privilege of viewing the concert from the back side of the stage. At one point he turned around the gestured to me (and the other 2 girls I guess). Swoon.

Gift Time - DT layout for Archi-Scraps

This building above is the inspiration for Archi-Scraps for July. It's in Kameroon. Crazy swirly, wonderful looking thing. I'd love to see it in person.

I immediately thought of quilling. It's quite an art form. If you google it the stuff people have created is extraordinary. I made two simple little hearts. Think I'll have to do some more in the future. I also added the big black swirl. Plus the fabric flower is made by winding fabric around. So, 3 elements. Here are the products that I used:

My Mind's Eye - Lime Twist/Life of the Party "Love Scallops" pp
MME - Lost and Found/Market St "Lovely" French stripe pp (it's got a glitter border, wooohoo)
cardstock - red, black, white
ribbons - striped and Francheville Passionate
Martha Stewart punch
Basic Grey - Kissing Booth element stickers
black and white fabric flower
BG Sugared element sticker
WP Storytellers - Color Game On
CM Valentine sticker

Thanks for looking. I hope you play along this month. Prizes to be won.

Hexagon card

CARD CHALLENGE SITE

I found a card site today by typing card challenge into google. It's really, really popular. It's called Less is More.
For week 124 there are 86 entries so far. Wowee. Anyway, they're about to get one more.
Here is my take on this week, which is HEXAGONS. It's made with cardstock and My Mind's Eye papers and stickers, plus 3 little rhinestones to make the flower centres.

My Mind's Eye layout

There is a challenge on the My Mind's Eye blog this month to use the mood board below to created a project. I've been getting into using these mood boards lately. I thought the colours were an interesting combination. I had just the right MME artisan paper for the job. Then I went looking for a photo and found one I had taken at a Museum of this pretty little porcelain scallop dish.
Everything is MME except the alphas which are Prima.
Thanks for looking.

Enjoy the Little Things - CSI #74

This is the second time I've participated in the CSI color stories inspiration challenge. I am loving this kind of challenge. I find it very inspiring.

I have made a starburst page. Yay! I've been wanting to do one. It's of me and my brother. I knew I had this pic of us on our trikes and knew it would be a good fit for this challenge.

I've used some gorgeous MME papers and lots of different kinds of flowers.

See the inspiration board below. I have used all the scheme colours plus a little blue for the bike in the pic. For evidence I have ruffles, rolle fabric flowers, flowers, leaves and cabochons. For testimony I have document a childhood memory, choose a prompt from a site (Saturday) and used the word little in my title. I've also added lacy ribbon to my journal spot.

Plus I have used some of the matching co-ordinates that come with this case file.

Spooktacular - A Halloween layout

HALLOWEEN - A spooky layout


This month's inspiration at Archi-Scraps is the following picture, plus chipboard. It's a pretty cool pic. I could have gone gothic church with a travel layout but have chosen Halloween.

I invited all of Mark's class to go trick or treating and then come back to our house for a party. This photo shows most of them. They all looked great. I sent them off in two groups with a parent helper each.

I've used the following products to create this layout:


cherryArte Morocco chipboard (the circle that says original)
My Mind's Eye (MME) Mischievous Bewtiching pp
Creative Memories (CM) Hocus Pocus 6x6 pp
Cm Earthy Storybox photo mat
Ruby Rock It twine
CM Hocus Pocus layered stickers
Echo Park Apothecary Emporium element stickers
Mr Huey's sunset mist
CM Enchanted epoxy stickers
MME Decorative brads - haunter
Mrs Grossman's Happy Halloween bat stickers
MME Haunted die-cut
CM purple pen
Kaisercraft lilac ink

Go here to take the challenge and join in the fun.

A pink girly layout and an Easter bunny or three

ARTASTIC

Here is my entry for this month's Artastic challenge. A portrait photo and the following painting are the criteria:



Pretty little thing isn't she?

I have had a bit of fun with squares with this layout. You can see my painted squares underneath and the punched squares scattered around that have a felt damask pattern on the paper. I really had some fun with this one.

Now for the Easter bunny. I've made these little bunnies with heart punches. If you'd like to get your hands on one join in with Amanda Taylor's swap theme for March, which is Easter, here.

Happy Halloween - layout for Anna's Craft Cupboard

Halloween layouts are so much fun to create. They are a bit creepy and the colours are great too. I invited the kids from Mark's class to go trick or treating. They all met at my house and I took them around the neighbourhood. The costumes they came up with were terrific. Mark is the skeleton zombie. Can't tell because of the hideous, ghoulish mask he is wearing. We bought it on our very recent trip to America just for the occasion.

I've created this layout using the January sketch at Anna's Craft Cupboard created by Wendy Smith. I flipped it on its side and played with it a bit but it's still the inspiration.

FS2S reveal - Matilda

Look friends. I have created a baby girl layout (with me in). My cousin Lee and his wife, Kathryn, had a baby girl this year. This is the first girl born into our family since me. Therefore, definitely worth a layout. She was born in Sydney so I couldn't wait to meet her once they moved back to Perth. She's a darling little girl and so well behaved.

I've created this layout for From Screen 2 Scrap's January 2013 movie poster challenge.  The poster is a movie I haven't seen called Ted.

The criteria is:
ted

1pt = White base card stock
2 pts= Large BOLD one word title (any colour)
3pts = A teddy bear on the page (stamped image, sticker, embellie)

Here is the poster:

I really hope you have a go at this month's challenge. December's was a bit dismal. Remember, there are prizes and kudos to be had. If you haven't tried it before let Shazza know I sent you. Thanks.

UPDATE
I'm pleased to say that my fellow Designers from Screen 2 Scrap chose my layout as the Design Team winning layout this month.

WW1 layout - Lady Liberty

I have created this layout for the November challenge at White With 1. The challenge was to use WHITE + GREEN(S) + CHEVRON PATTERN. 

I've used a lot of My Mind's Eye and Basic Grey.

I think this is such a wonderful photo that my husband Paul took of the Statue of Liberty. I wanted to highlight it so I've used a lot of white space, which is quite unlike my usual style. I also wanted to add a lot of dimension. I have printed two copies of the photo and fussy cut one of them around the statue and adhered it  using foam squares to raise it up. You can see the effect on the close up below. I've also used a folded paper technique to the pp underneath the photo to add more dimension.

Stop 7 - The Amazing Race

Stop 7 at Top 50 Scrapbooking on the Amazing Race is Africa.


Criteria
1. Fabric (Fabric button and doilies in flower)
2. Happy photo (tick x 4)
3. Song lyric for title or sub-title (Making Faces by Chicken Lips, released 25/4/06, no, I can't believe there is a band called that either)

Thanks for looking.

MME Halloween layout

I designed this layout for the My Mind's Eye October challenge. It was to use stamping. I have used 3 of the Lost & Found Sunshine "Lovely" Stamps. One is on the purple cardstock, another is on the green and the last is the scalloped edge along the bottom.

I really wanted to visit a Wal-Mart whilst in the States.  I had a bit of time to kill during the day on the 2nd of October, before my big Rick Springfield concert event. Damon wanted to purchase some Smuckers Peanut Butter and Jelly, which he had fallen in love with. We found and bought several jars, just $2.50 each. Buying some in Australia, if you can find it, they cost $12.50. Wal-Mart was full of different things we'd never come across before. They also had a fabulous dress-up shop and lots and lots of Halloween gear. I wish we had one here.

The Amazing Race - North America - On the streets of New York

Scrapbooking Top 50 is on to round 4, which is North America.  I chose North America. I had already done a lot of layouts using the good old red, white and blue for my Washington and Kennedy Space Station layouts. I still had a stash of papers from American Made by My Mind's Eye so I've used them again here.

Here is my entry. The Criteria has been addressed as follows. I've got the red, white and blue colours, stars and stripes on the various papers and my pen work is in the top left hand corner. I really hate doodling as my mind doesn't go freehand in that way. I drew the blue pen outline and then coloured in with red pen. I do like colouring in.

Thanks for looking.

Big Attitude

I think this was the start of Damon not wanting his photo taken. I got a chance to snap this shot in the hallway. Missed the top of his head but he wouldn't pose for another. Oh, well, we have to use what we have.

This layout is for the Stash Stomper at Scrap Boutique this month. Challenge was to use 12x12 die-cut paper. I've made this a My Mind's Eye layout.  Great quality papers they have.

Here is a list of what I've used:

My Mind's Eye
Stomp - "Big Attitude" fossilised flowers paper, Title and brads, large accessory sheet die-cuts
Everyday Fun Front Page news pp (Kraft Funday)
Die cut
So Sophie Graceful "little lady" today's event card
Breaking Free Flip N Flight Oh SO Very hot sun kissed stars pp

Other
Creative Memories brown pen and white album page
washi tape

Layout for Anna's July sketch challenge

Wendy Smith's sketch for Anna's Craft Cupboard

I've used My Mind's Eye and October Afternoon to create this layout. That's an engine from a Space Shuttle. So massive and complex, a feat of human engineering.