Cat scrapbooking layout

Hello all. 

Hard to believe it is March.

Look at this really super fun image we have to inspire us this month at Archiscraps.

Criteria is to include a cat (of any kind).

I own a cat so this was an easy one for me.

I've used brown and a bit of criss crossing of papers.  Also added in some foilage. There  is one cat, in amongst the trees. My Georgia. She likes to go for walkies on her harness in my garden.

Get to it. I know I'll love all the layouts this month (or cards).

Head to facebook to enter.

Dale x

March ARTastic scrapbook page

 Hey, it's March!  A really fun and quirky challenge is ready for you at ARTastic this month.  See the design inspiration below. You'll see from my example that mushrooms are not at all necessary.

I chose to go with bright colours in a variety of colours and a multitude of patterns. I also liked the border around every side so I added that to my page. 

Go to the ARTastic fb page to add  your entry.

Happy creating.

Dale x

February ARTastic layout

Welcome to the first of my Design Team examples for ARTastic challenge blog for 2022.

We've gone in a new direction this year, taking our inspiration from shop displays.

I had such a multitude of ideas for this one. I had very strong ideas. I wonder which way you'll go. 

Here is my layout. The inspiration pic is below.

I chose to go with black outlined shapes, in my case squares. I also used the 3 primary colours of blue, red and yellow and the theme of shoes.  I love shoes, truly.  I was gonna show you all my shoe closet. I would have had to tidy it though. It's not too bad but still.

Have some fun with this. Go to the facebook page to add your entry.

Happy creating.

Dale x

June ARTastic DT reveal - Heritage wedding page

 Welcome to winter in Australia.

Here we have a new challenge from ARTastic. A gorgeous painting.

Hilda Nicholas with The Bride

The criteria is heritage wedding and add flowers.

Here is my layout.

The photo shows my favourite Aunt and Uncle with their parents. I was their flower girl. This is the only time I was a flower girl. I was four years old.

I've taken inspiration from the photo and used white and soft pale blue. It helps that the bridesmaid and flower girl dresses were also blue. I've added white satin vintage looking flowers and arranged them in a curved spray, a bit like the painting.  Keeping things simple keeps the focus on the photo.

Enjoy creating.

Dale x

Anything goes at Unstampabelles

Well, it is 2021. Hope you enjoyed your break. Unstampabelles' always has January off challenge-wise.

February is an anything goes challenge. Do what you like.  There is no reason not to enter. Let's see what you've got.

I recently completed a Broome holiday album.

Here is a beach page from it.

Cheers,

Dale x

Elvis - Scrapbook layout

Hi everyone,

September has arrived and with it spring in Australia. Yay, such a lovely time of year with all the flowers in bloom.

Time for a challenge.  Head over to FB or the blog of ARTastic to enter.

This is the inspiration photo and the criteria to use is humour.


John Murray with Hear No Evil

I've made a layout about my Christmas gift to my Mum. She's a long time Elvis fan.

Pretty cute huh?

Get your thinking caps on and join in.

Dale x

Dream Big

What do you think of this layout? It's very pink! I like how it turned out.

I've used the sketch from the 15 April Stuck Sketches challenge.  Here is the sketch.

Kaisercraft Design Team 2015 Entry

I Love Kaisercraft

I was so excited to see that Kaisercraft are having their Design Team Call. I've decided to apply as I would love, love, love to be on their Team. It is my ultimate scrappy dream.

I've created 3 projects for them to have a look at. They are all indicative of my style.

LAYOUT - Kinetic Rain

Firstly, I've created a layout. I've used two complementary colours and a lot of layering.  I always add journalling as I believe it makes my pages more meaningful.

The Kaisercraft products I've used are:

Patterned Paper

• Devonshire/Clarabelle
• Base Coat/Weathered
• Base Coat/Bricks
• Peachy Keen/Dandy
• Technologic/Abort
• Rewind/Record

Up, Up and Away Die-Cuts

Now Boarding Collectables

Wooden Flourishes/Umbrella

Hidden Treasures sticker

Periwinkle Alpha stickers

Imagine Brad

I've been using Kaisercraft for a long time. You can see from my list of products that I've used that they are all from various collections released over many years. The beauty of Kaisercraft's products is that they all co-ordinate beautifully. After I created it I re-read the instructions and it said to use product no older than 1 year. Oops. Hopefully that is mainly to show that it has been created recently. I made this layout on 27 March 2015. 

OFF THE PAGE - Art Cabinet

My son and I made this project together. He needed a cabinet for School. They had to present a wunderkammer. We purchased the Kaisercraft wooden Storage Cupboard, the perfect choice for his project.

It was a wonderful project to work on together using a mix of paints, papers, wood and rub-ons from Kaisercraft. He scored high marks for it. Now I get to use it in my craft room to store items.

CARD - 50

I have created a card for a female 50th birthday.  I very recently got a die-cut machine and some Kaisercraft metal dies which I wanted to try out.  Here is the result.

This card has an interesting feature. I've cut a semi circle in it, opened it out and added decoration to it. I made this card on 30 March 2015.

Kaisercraft products used:

Decorative Die - Nested Scallop circles

Confetti pp - Witty and Cheerful

Cardstock - weave/bubblegum

Organza ribbon - pink

Pearls, snow and hot pink

Save the Date - clear stamps

Thanks for looking. Wish me luck!

CSI 115 my Special Agent take on it - How We Sang

Continuing on with my collaboration layouts between CSI and Archi-scraps here is my Special Agent example for Case File 115. How cute is the image?

I was given a terrific photo taken by my fellow bass, Ruth, from A Cappella West. I'm the one with the burgundy top and brown skirt. Terrific colours for this week's challenge.

The background artisan paper by My Mind's Eye struck me as particularly suitable, with the colours and the flowiness from the "scene" picture. They do such marvellous artisan papers.

I've added 3 Prima flowers to meet the evidence. I also added a rolled rose which I have made using the Cosmo Cricket Gluber adhesive and an old chiffon scarf that had a few holes in. Such a terrific way to recycle the scarf. It had just the right colours. I've also added a couple of D'Lish leaves that were complementary. I have a bird on the MME tag.

My testimony is to wind and curl like the hair (the words of the song we are singing). Then I have more journalling on the tag, because I love to tell the story of the layout.

--** GIVEAWAY **--

Hi everyone. I've decided I'd like to host a giveaway. I have 20 patterned pieces of 12x12 paper from my personal stash. They can be yours simply by:

1. Being a follower of my blog.
2. Sharing this giveaway on any social media you want.
3. Adding one comment per person to this post.

I will choose a winner at the end of January. The winner will have 48 hours to contact me with their address details.

AUSTRALIAN RESIDENTS ONLY. Sorry to overseas followers, postage is too costly for this size of giveaway.  Thanks for understanding.

Here is a pic of exactly what you can win.

Vote for my layout

Vote here to choose my design for the April/May ScrapbookAwards.com competition - category Vacation and travel. I'd really appreciate your support. Here is the layout I have entered. I just love how this came out.

I got the idea of entering from Harmony Sweetpea. Thanks for that.

Scrapbook News and Review magazine

Great news fellow scrappers and cardmakers! Scrapbook News and Review magazine is back up and running with a revamped magazine. I just went over and checked it out at http://magazine.scrapbooknewsandreview.com/. It's looking totally awesome. I love the new format.

They have published some of my work again this month.

One layout called Girl's Night Out is in the black and white section. This one is a particular favourite of mine.

Also, four cards. Two are in hugs and kisses, one is in butterflies and the last is called Remember When which is movie based but I haven't found that one yet.

The site has added all kinds of wonderful things which will take some time to check out. I'm so pleased they are back up and running.

Get Picky entry

The challenge blog Get Picky turned 1 recently and is having a blog hop. Lots of inspiration there. This is their current sketch. If you do a layout for it, plus visit and leave a comment on each blog you could win a prize and a Guest Designer spot. I like that the Get Picky blog requires that you use multiple photos as that is always my first choice.  Click here to go Get Picky.



I've left a comment on each blog and done the above sketch in the following layout. It is in my normal clean and simple style. Usually the winners at Get Picky are layouts that are very pretty and girly so I won't win but then I am not expecting to. I'd love to win a prize though. That's always appealing.

The layout is all about the remarkable Washington Monument. It's a really incredible structure and it makes it  easy to know where you are in the City from taking your bearings from it.

Guest Designer at ARTastic challenge blog - TUTORIAL for Brother layout

Hi everybody. I'm back from my 3 week vacation to California. I'll do a post about it so you can read about what we did.

Meanwhile, I'm pleased to say I was invited to be Guest Designer at a favourite challenge blog of mine, ARTastic, which is run by Shazza Bishop.

I created the layout for it on 27 August in preparation for going away and am only just now able to put up a post about it. If I had more blogger nous I could have done one ahead and scheduled it but as I've not done that before and was busy I didn't try it with something important like this.

The inspiration painting used for the month of October 2011 is

Dr Jekyll's Hideway by the artist Maryanne Jacobsen

Extra criteria is:
1. A house =  1pt 
2. Trees = 2pts
3. A spooky feel! = 3pts

Above is my layout. I was into using Basic Grey that week. I've created a layout featuring my brother Dean and I on his birthday.

I started with a background of Basic Grey Max and Whiskers/Gannett/max-2455. I liked the varied colours and needed paper with green to make a sort of scene.

I then took a tree mask and glimmer misted 4 trees on to the paper. One blue, one wheat and two white. In the second pic above you can see the white trees. I thought they created a spooky feel and it satisfied the second criteria of trees.

I've cut a strip off Basic Grey laser cut doilies paper and added it along the bottom to create some greenery.

Then I've used a Dusty Attic Main Street chipboard house, just cut one off the strip. I've painted it and tucked it into the doilie paper.

I had an offcut of Making Memories Artisan Toile Greenhouse Paperie paper but it was too bright against what I had already so I've used a black ink pad to darken it up. It then matched really nicely with the clothes we are wearing in the photo. I adhered that to the page.

I mounted my photo on to some Basic Grey Origins/authentic pp. I placed a strip of Darice Oh So Trendy sage ribbon across the page and adhered my photo down.

I took some scrap BG paper, rubbed on a Creative Memories word sticker, cut it to fit behind Making Memories Vintage Findings mini kit nature piece  for my title. It had brads so I used them to attach it to the page.

I've used more scrap of Kaisercraft Hunt and Gather PP to punch a strip and placed it underneath the photo. Then I've just added some sticker strips from BG Olivia and BG Oxford Element stickers and journalled and I was done.

Thanks to Shazza for having me as Guest Designer this month. I have assembled a glitter prize pack to give away and will be choosing the winner. Please have a go and mention that I sent you if you're new to the blog.  Just go to http://artasticchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/october-inspiration-will-come-from.html to have a look. You'll see the other prizes on offer and what the Designers have created. Make a blog post and link it up. You stand a good chance of winning something. Best of luck.

From Screen 2 Scrap plus 2 giveaways - look at this

Hi there.
This month's inspirational movie poster over at challenge blog From Screen 2 Scrap (where I am Production Assistant) is:



I used an old photo of me with some beautiful red roses Paul had given me for Valentine's Day. I used lots of strips of paper inside the heart shape and mounted the  photo of me on it. Here it is. I also got to  use a pretty Prima flower.

GIVEAWAY NUMBER 1  Now this month I am one of the giveaway sponsors so if you have a go at the poster you may get a goodies gift pack from me. Go over and check out what you might win at http://screen2scrap.blogspot.com/.

GIVEAWAY NUMBER 2 As I'm such a lovely person I have decided to do my first ever BLOG GIVEAWAY to coincide with the DT giveaway. Here's how it will work:

• If you are a follower, leave me a comment on this post to get one chance.
• If you start to follow me now, leave me a comment on this post to get one chance.
• If you put a layout into the challenge this month AND tell Shazza that I sent you, come back and leave a comment on this post for one chance.
• At the end of the month I will randomly choose a winner. Here is what you could win:

From Scrap 2 Screen - Guest DT - Me

Great news. This month I am the Guest Designer at From Scrap 2 Screen, which is a terrific challenge blog. You need to make up a layout using the following and then post it to Shazza. If you have not tried this before and are going to, please let me know.

September's inspiration will come from the movie poster.......

Invasion of the Body Snatchers




Added criteria for an extra 6 bonus Points

1. Black title = 1 pt
2. Must use red and yellow card stock on the page = 2 pts

3. A hand print somewhere on the page = 3 pts

Design Team

View details of the Scrap Of Your Life Design Team here:

http://www.scrapofyourlife.com.au/design_team1.htm

View my gallery here:

http://www.scrapofyourlife.com.au/gallery1/profile.php?uid=25

Scrap Of Your Life March Sketch Challenge

Put your creative caps on ladies.  Here is the link to the monthly sketch for the site I'm a Design Team member of.  Upload a layout into the gallery and be in the running for a $10.00 voucher.
http://www.scrapofyourlife.com.au/forum1/showthread.php?t=360

Progress Report

Here we are, day 6 of the new year.  have completed 10 scrapbook pages so far this year already. On a mission.
It's hot here in Western Australia. There have been bushfires aplenty already, some deliberately lit. Losers who do that make my head boil. A bushfire is so frightening and damaging we should all be doing our utmost to prevent them, not create them.
Looking at getting artificial turf for our back yard. Grass is not successful there and I want some greenery. The sand pit creates a sore and sorry sight and the black feet create an issue when people want to return inside.

Two more sleeps

Wow, only two more sleeps til the big day. How exciting!  I loooove Christmas.

Here is a layout I did for Anna's Craft Cupboard this month. It's taken at this year's Perth Royal Show in the cooking pavillion. I love the cakes the people make to include in the show. SOOO amazing.

Have yourselves a Merry Christmas one and all.