Archi-scraps February scrapbooking challenge

Look at this beautiful lamp post. So, so pretty.




Pharmacy of Dr. Viladot. Round of sant pere, 40 Barcelona.
By Felix Cardellach

This is the inspiration picture for the challenge at Archiscraps for February 2020.  But you also have to use the colours in this paint chip swatch. Also add a flourish.



I chose to make this layout.

The photo is of hubby and I on a bridge in Melbourne looking out over South Bank. I think I've picked up the colours well and I've added a Prima two tone rhinestone flourish.

THANK YOU CARD

I have created a thank you card for January 2015's challenge at Unstampabelles where I am a Designer. Their challenges are really terrific. I've had a peek at this year's schedule and they're really different. If you like a good challenge keep your eyes out for them. By the way, no stamping allowed.

This month the challenge is:

To create a Thank you card - the twist is to indicate where you live by incorporating something from just outside your window and blog about it.

I was inspired by the colours I see outside. We are going through a hot summer and what I see when I look outside my back door is my pool.  Now my pool is a green/blue concrete one. We've just been away and the garden is not reticulated so it is quite dry and brown. So my two colours to use are the green/blue brown. The first item I chose from my stash was the Thank You sticker by Carta Bella from their Hello Again range. It had the colours I wanted. I then matched it with a doubled sided paper by Sassafras Lass from their Serendipity collection, Hog Heaven. I have used both sides to create my card. I had also added another sticker from the Carta Bella Hello Again sticker (the heart/people chain, Prima Moss Lawn ink, white cardstock and sage ribbon to complete.

Here is my card, both inside and out.

Father's Day Card for Feeling Sketchy #100

FATHER'S DAY CARD

Father's Day is this Sunday. I had 3 cards to make and had only made my FIL's which I sent earlier in the week as he lives over east.  I think it will make it in time. Fingers crossed.

That left 2 more to make so I had to hop on to it today. One I have made as a tutorial at Mystical. You'll have to wait until the 12th to see that one. The other I have made using the sketch at Feeling-sketchy #100. Here is the sketch.



Well, I've made a really simply card for hubby for my boys to give him. I've flipped the sketch on its side though.

I've used a white cardstock base, ric rac, black ribbon and two types of washi. The colour inspiration came from the Nob Hill washi of moustaches. It's pretty cute. The stamps are Kaisercraft and there's a little bit of Prima bling in black. Had to move the sentiment Debi. I'm sure you don't mind!

Thanks for looking.

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

A wedding layout for Mystical's Rapunzel Fairytale - Ch#8

I chose the last fairytale, Rapunzel, for Mystical's competition. It's the last challenge. Hurry up and get your entries in as it's finishing up soon.

Here is the criteria:



Here is my layout:

You'll notice there is no journalling, which is unusual for me, but this layout is only one in a series (yet to create the others) of my sister-in-law's third wedding.  Here bouquet was lovely but she didn't hold on to it for very long so I was glad to get a picture of it.

I've used all the colours in the palette. The light blue is only in the tiny alphabet letters (and a bit in the top photo). Otherwise the other colours all feature prominently. Wedding photo (tick), garden (flower arrangement).

Products from the Mystical store are:

fuschia cardstock, green cardstock

October Afternoon Farmhouse/Church Social paper (background) What an appropriate name for my background paper as the wedding is in a chapel, it also has flowers all over it. I really like the quality of October Afternoon's papers. It's terrific to use as a background

FWAB Chloe, Olive Green

Prima Strawberry Kisses flower

LYB Love Letters cardstock sticker

MME Lime Twist Happy Go Lucky "Together" alphas (also a nice name for this layout)

white flowers

Cooking Up a muted page, add some sequins

My Soul Scrappers challenge is up. Go here: http://soul-scrappers.ning.com/

I'm going with one of the latest trends in scrapbooking and adding some sequins to the mix.  For this challenge you will need to:

1. Use muted colours only
2. Use any of the words: forever, cherish or adore
3. Add journalling
4. Have a small title
5. Add flowers
6. Add sequins

Have your page in the gallery by 28 November please. If 8 or more entries are received I'll give away the prize that I couldn't give away last month. It suits this month's creation too I think.

This is the RAK I'm giving away.

Products used:
Webster's Pages - In Love Collection
Flavia pp
Creative Memories pp
Glitz Teeny Alphas - Aquas Stripe
Creative Memories Copper pen
Prima flowers - Lyric collection
resin rose
angie Winter Designer sequins - clear
D'Lish Scraps flower

Backstage Buddies - DT layout for Archi-Scraps

The inspiration image at Archiscraps challenge blog this month is this fabulous entrance in Marseilles, France.  I thought it was very inspiring.  The extra criteria is faces. You can see them across the top of the arch.

I chose a photo that was just of faces of myself and two girls who were on the stage with me at a Rick Springfield concert in 2010. We were so happy. Look at those big smiles.

I chose a background paper by Prima to start with. It had all these beautiful black swirls that have glitter all over them. So pretty. I thought it matched the image perfectly.

Then I chose the orange paper doily. I then added a couple of Glitz Designs What Not Love Games cards. We all felt very lucky to be there. A little orange ricrac, a hand made flower done with washi tape and some Bella and Prima crystal flourishes and I was done. The journalling to explain will be on a different page.

Hope you choose to join in. Be sure to get on to it quickly as you only have til the 31st of October.

Got Tix? for STB50 Monopoly Go challenge

Scrapbooking top 50 Australia are running a 3 month competition. I went in their Amazing Race comp and it was terrific fun.  This one is called Monopoly.  I almost never win at that game at home. Goodness knows what my chances are like for this comp. Anyhow, the first challenge is a kind of pre-challenge. The rules are to incorporate the word go in your title and add a ticket or game card.  My title is Got Tix? and the actual ticket Paul is buying in the photo is on there - a Statue of Liberty one.  The boys all got to go and do this tour but I was too sick unfortunately.

Good Times - a childhood layout

In this layout I'm enjoying our tree swing and am around 10/11 years old. Shortly after the photo was taken I swung up too high and slipped off backwards and banged my head on a tree root.

Week 17's magazine cover inspiration at Papercrafter's Corner is:



You can see my inspiration is from the girl with her brown hair in plaits and the punches of  yellow and red.

UPDATE:
I'm happy to relate that my layout won this week.

Dining Out - A layout for CSI #72

DINING OUT

This week I have joined in at CSI with their case number 72. It's an enjoyable challenge.  You have a lot of criteria to follow.  Here's what I included:

 

I have used all the colours, as required.
EVIDENCE:
birds, leafy vines, birdcage and metal
TESTIMONY:
Place your journalling in a vellum pocket (I have taken a photo of the little journal box, it also has a bird on it)
Inspiration words: balance, everything, purpose (I've used the words everything and balance in my journalling on the actual page)

Case solved!

Vintage card for Mum

I've made my Mum a vintage card. It is her birthday coming up. Mum, if you read this post, I hope you like it. I've used a sketch for a new blog I've been made aware of courtesy of Julene called Feeling Sketchy. Here is the sketch:



Thanks for looking.

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.

Anniversary layout for ARTastic

Here is a layout about our Anniversary this year. We're about to head off to a wonderful degustation meal at Nobu Perth in the Crown complex. One of our boys took the pic. I took the opportunity to use the colours of our clothes and some flowers.  The challenge at ARTastic (here) this month is to use large, bold patterned paper on the background. I think my background paper looks a bit like wallpaper and is very graphic.

I Am ..... (a little bit girly)

This is a layout I created for The Scrapbook Store. I tell you, the ladies that enter this monthly sketch competition do amazing work so the pressure is on. I took this selfie of me and thought I would use it. I chose colours of pink and green and went with that.

Here is a close up of the blingy features I've added. I do love making girly layouts sometimes as I don't get a chance to do it very often.

Here is the sketch we had to work with.  Thanks for looking and if you make a comment, know that I love to read them and thank you very much for your effort.

Clothes Swap - layout for Mad About Scrappin

Mad About Scrappin's May sketch challenge was spotted by me on Facebook.  Here's my take on it. I had to flip it to suit my photos. The sketch is shown below. I've used mostly Kaisercraft, with some Cosmo Cricket as well.

 About twice a year I get my girlfriends to go through their closets and have a sort out. They come over and bring their clothes and shoes they no longer want and we each go through and see if there's anything we want to keep.  Whatever is left over I take down to a local charity. There are usually 8 or 9 bags of goods left over. Everyone enjoys having a get together as well as the chance to gain something "new" for their wardrobe.

Treasury

I've created this layout of the U.S. Treasury Building in Washington D.C. I worked for the Western Australian Treasury Department for 5 years. It was one of my first jobs and I made some great friends there. This building is rather more impressive than the one I used to work in.

I really wanted to have a $ sign as my S in the title. I just used a slash and put it over the top of an S. No company seems to make a $ sign. I've used red, white and blue of course and added in some craft to make the wall plaque, which looks like copper to me, stand out.

This layout has been entered into the Guest DT's challenge at Soul Scrappers this month, which was set by Natalie Elphinstone. She made it real easy for me. All I had to do was hand journal. As I do that on every single layout I chose to do a page in my Washington travel album. This may be almost the last page in that album, so that is a happy thing.

Fine Art

I do love art. The MOMA in NY is full of incredible art.

I've completed this layout for Red Earth Scrapping. It was a class run by Kate McCulloch. I bought a kit from RES which included Instaframes by Heidi Swapp. I had my eye on these from the last CHA. I really wanted some so I definitely had to buy the kit and have a go. We got to play with paint, which I love. It seemed appropriate to me to use a painting for the photos. I didn't have any friends ones to use so I improvised. The painting had just the right colours to match the kit. I've also used some pretty Prima flowers and a new flowers by Webster's Pages which I got in my win yesterday. It's the mesh one with the pearl centre. Sweet little thing it is.

Let me know what you think.

Also, if you look at my last past, which is for From Screen 2 Scrap, part of the challenge is to use polaroid or instagram photos. I only got these instaframes on Monday so couldn't use them in my DT example, but how PERFECT would they be to use for that challenge.

Happy Birthday card

I've made this card for Red Earth Scrapping's March Stash stomp and for Day 19 at 365 Cards.

Red Earth's theme is something borrowed, blue, old and new.
Day 19 is to use 3 trims.

I started with a piece of double sided paper by The Scrapcake. It's really pretty. I've also used a matching tag. There was Swedish writing on it and I've covered it up with the Prima flower.

The other side of the paper was really pretty. I've just added some white cardstock for somewhere to write.

Kaisercraft Sketch March 2012 #3 layout

I liked the look of today's sketch on Kaisercraft's blog. It is Saturday sketch #3.

Products used:

All Kaisercraft unless mentioned:

Black Cardstock
Great Southern Land/QLD pp
Miss Nelly Sticker sheet
Chanteuse/Eco pp
Waht A Hoot/On the Prowl pp
Wooden flourish dressmaker form painted cream with ribbon
Dusky pink embroidery floss
Chantesue posie
Memories ink - Apple
Prima Glitter alphas

Thanks for looking.

Bride

This month's poster over at From Screen 2 Scrap is absolutely gorgeous. I just love it. The Design Team have come up with some wonderful examples and I'm sure that you will too. I encourage you to try it this month, especially if you've never done it before.

Another good reason is that I am offering a great RAK to some lucky winner this month. Here is a pic of what I'm giving away. It's a great assortment of goodies.

Here is the wonderful poster of The Day After Tomorrow.



The criteria is :

For an extra 6 bonus points :)

1) White title = 1pt

2) One photo only = 2pts

3) White monochromatic layout with a touch of blue = 3 pts

Here is what I came up with. Let me know what you think. The photo is of my beautiful Aunty Lindy. I was her flower girl when I was just 4 years old. My little dress was just this shade of blue of the mulberry paper I have used. I also have some lovely embellishments on this page.