Put a rose on it

August Archi-Scraps challenge

Here is your guide to this month's scrappy challenge.

Use the pic below and add a rose to your layout.

I have used the colour scheme. There are 5 pot plants along the front of the building. I have added 5 flowers in a row.

I've added a white rose with a similar petal arrangement.

There are also roses on the Webster's Pages embellishments that I have used.

Have a read of the description of this wedding gown. It's very interesting. The gown was also really very small.

Head over to the facebook community page to add your entry.

Thanks for looking.

Dale x

Book Nook

 

Oh my goodness. I love this so much. I want one.

I love to read. We have lots of books. We're renovating our laundry this month. It's a huge space, so we are dividing part of it off and making it into a library. It won't be so magical as this though.

This is Archiscraps' July challenge.The extra criteria is:

Put a large hole in your page with a layer underneath it.

You must do that to qualify to win the prize.

Here is my layout. I wish it was a book one, but oh well.

I cut out a shape on my cardstock that reflected the shape of the roses in the flowers in the bouquet. It also highlights the top photo.

Maybe you can do better, come up with something more exciting. Give it a go hey.

Enter on the FB page.

Dale x

A Christmas scrapbook page

May is going to be a fabulous month with lots of fun stuff happening.

Do you like this classy image?

If it inspires you, let me tell you how you can get creative with it.

I've been on a Design Team for a scrapbooking challenge blog for month years now. It is called Archiscraps. You are given an image and a criteria to include and you need to make a layout inspired by it.

There are several designers who give examples of each month's image. You can view their work, and mine, here.

Then, once you have created your page, go and upload it to the facebook page album here.

I saw this image and thought of Christmas. I loved the gold accents too.

The criteria to follow is: Black/ white/ red /gold and something hanging. (Like a charm or bead etc)

Here is my page. I definitely needed to add some black and I had this great sparkly red cardstock.

I saw the hanging wreath but didn't want to add a wreath so I added a chipboard circle as my title.

I have a few gold accents throughout. I think that the gold banner really pops.

I had a fun tassel which I added using a gold brad.

I've definitely met all of the criteria. Make sure you do. The DT vote on each month's entries and we do make sure that the winner has met it.

Best of luck. We'd love to see your entry.

Dale x

Double scrapbook page layout

This picture is your inspiration for April 2024's Archiscraps' challenge. Isn't it grand?

You must use brick texture on your layout.

I have a small Prima brick wall stamp. I've used two ink colours on it and stamped it in four places on my double page layout.

Pop over to the blog to see the inspiration from the other Design Team members. Make up your own layout and enter it on the facebook community page. Easy.

Dale x

Archi-Scraps August challenge

Happy birthday to all the horses.

This month at Archi-scraps your creativity will be challenged.

Here is the inspiration picture to work with. Fancy living in this home!

AUGUST- Use curves, no straight lines (except the edges). Added extra is ribbon.

I have done a wedding page. Cut the cake.

My nephew got married in Donnybrook, WA earlier this year.

There are curves and circles everywhere here.

The background paper has circles all over it.

The cake is circular and sits upon a round table.

There are scalloped edges and curved edges on my patterned paper and stickers, plus I fussy cut that cloud.

I've made 3 felt flowers.

I added a sweet ribbon and tied it in a bow, to represent tying the knot.

What will you do?

Head to facebook to enter.

Dale x

Guest Designing for Stick It Down

Happy news. I was chosen to be a Guest Designer this month for Stick It Down challenge blog. 

They do sketches each month, a double page, single page and a card. I typically always do the card challenge and that was how I got offered to be a Guest Designer for July 2023.

I chose to design a page for the single layout sketch. Here is what I had to work with:

I looked at that little rainbow and immediately chose to do a page of my nephew's wedding. They had a rainbow theme. Everyone had to dress colourfully.

Here is my page.

You see the lovely arch with the rainbow colours that they got married beneath. I thought that I would make some rainbow type arches in two corners as a feature. I used various coloured papers and cut them out using Creative Memories oval shapes. I inked each one and added some co-ordinating coloured beads for texture.

I've made sure to all the colours of the rainbow throughout my page. I've chosen to add my handwritten journaling underneath each photograph rather than in a block.

Thanks for having me at Stick It Down.

You can click on the link in the first line of my post to see all the details.

Dale x

Scrapbooking challenge, use distress techniques

Welcome to July. One of Australia's winter months.  The photos in my scrapbook layout were taken in July 2019. I was in Borneo, where it was warm and humid.

This layout is created for the July challenge at Archi-scraps.

This is the inspo pic:"

The challenge is : JULY- Distressed

Use lots of inks to dirty it up, tearing edges etc. Make it look as wrecked as this house!

I took inspiration from the wood at the front of the house. I've used distress ink in forest oak and aged mahogany and done two types of tearing of paper. I've added in some wonderful leaf stickers as well. There are some trees in the inspo pic.

You can see that I'm upon a wooden deck, to lift us up a little bit from the Jungle floor. There are lot of mosquitos down there, amongst other things. Also, it protects the environment by keeping visitors on the path.

Come and join us, there's a prize to be won!

Dale x

Lego

Check out this fun pic to be inspired by for the May 2023 Archi-scraps challenge.

I know Lego is so popular. A store just opened to a big fanfare at my local shopping mall.

Here is the page:

When my kids were tiny I took them to an interactive exhibit of Lego in Myer in Perth City. They got to play at tables with tubs in the middle and they had a lot of fun.

I've hand cut some letters and hand sewn some beads on to them, put them on different coloured card and hand "faux" stitched around each one.

Enter your page at the facebook group page.

Cheers,

Dale x

It's 2023. Who's up for a challenge?

2023 is going to be a good year. Happy new year to my readers.

Here is my first scrapbook page of the year.

It is for a challenge at Archi-scraps, another year as one of their Designers.

The challenge is two fold. You must use the sketch provided and include a building.

Here's the sketch.

I've used just the one photo. You can flip the sketch too if you'd like to. Some of the other Designers did with their page.

I picked up the colours and the foilage from the photo to inspire my choices.

Hope you can join in. There is a prize to be won. Head to facebook to enter.

Dale

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November 2022 ARTastic double page DT layout

Check out this jungle themed display window for our ARTastic challenge inspiration this month.

I instantly saw a double page spread, so that's what I created. Mostly green, with some brown and jungle themed. I used paint, nuvo drops, kinda glitz, die-cuts and stickers. Plus one flair.

Here's my page.

I started with some green cardstock as my background. I chose a couple of different coloured green paints and some white and randomly drew my brush through the colours and then created some curved lines across each of my pages.  I added some nuvo drops and kindy glitz for added shine and interest.

I've matted each of the photos with brown so as to add that colour from the inspiration pic.

The twine is for the vines that monkeys swing through and if you look at the inspo pic you can see some of the "vines" do go across.

There is one pop of orange so I picked that colour up for my title. Appropriate given the photo subject, yes?

Then I've just added some die cut and sticker leaves, along with a little journalling.

Get your entry in.

Dale x

ARTastic October scrapbook layout

Hello.

I've got my Design Team layout for you to look at today.

The display window to take inspo from is below.

My inspiration included a busy navy and white background. I immediately thought of Basic Grey and Graphic 45. I used a G45 paper called Anchors Aweigh from the Catch of the Day collection. Then I added orange papers and made a feature with squares.

I couldn't use foxes but there are a few birds so I thought I'd add a winged animal and I popped this big butterfly die-cut with foam squares.

Thanks for looking. Head to ARTastic's fb page to enter.

Dale x

ARTastic cyber crop

 ARTastic are holding their second cyber crop. Go to the link for all the details.

They are playing some fun games and doing 3 challenges. I have examples for the following:

Challenge One

RECIPE CHALLENGE

Please use:

1 x photo

2 x buttons

3+ other patterned papers

Arrows (you chose how many)

Enamel dots (you chose how many)

Challenge Three

THIS or THAT CHALLENGE

BOY themed or GIRL themed

BLUE tones or PINK tones

BLING or BRADS

FLOWERS or CHIPBOARD

TWINE or WASHI

PAINT or INK

My choices were:

This or That
Used boy, blue, bling, cb, washi and ink. The nautical buttons and the title are cb stickers. I particularly wanted to use bling on a blue page. I've said boy because it's not a girly page.

RULES

To be eligible for each challenge prize draw your entry must be placed into the appropriate album (or left as a comment in that album) by midnight Sunday, 28th August. Any entries only placed onto our wall will not be included in the prize draw. Entries must be your original work created exclusively for our Cyber Crop. International entries welcome.

Get on it. Still plenty of time. We'd love to see your entries.

Dale x

August ARTastic design project - scrapbook layout

I hope all is well with you.

I love a nice cup of chai latte. It warms you up in winter and it tastes yummy. Lately I've been having it with almond milk. Very tasty. Adds a nice nutty flavour.

This month's window challenge for ARTastic is a really interesting one. I'm keen to see the interpretations in the entries. I'll show you the inspo pic and then post my layout, then give you my interp.

 

I felt like there were many choices here.

I've picked up the kraft coloured background, the red from the dress and the wheat. The cinnamon in my tea looked a bit like wheat I thought. Plus, there's bound to be tea in that picnic basket, right? I made a little teacup with some charcoal coloured paper (from the saucer colour in my photo) and I had a chipboard spoon which I coloured with a copic marker. I've also added a banner (inspo came from the spotlights hanging off the sides).

Have a go. Head to facebook to enter here.

Dale x

August Archi-scraps Design Team layout

Check out my colourful page! A feast for the eyes.

It is my Design Team example page for August's Archi-scraps challenge.

This is the inspo pic. Lots of swirls of colour, I mainly pick out blues and reds and some yellow. The added criteria is to use the colours.

There are also lots of lines so I've incorporated those into my layout as well.

It reminded me of Freemont St in old Vegas where they put the light show on at night so I've made my page about the lights and glitz of Las Vegas.

Join in, go to fb and add your creation.

Dale x

Use weaving on a scrapbook page

Hello,

It's winter here in Perth. A good time to do indoor activities like scrapbooking.

The challenge at Archiscraps this month is to use the weaving technique on your project.

Here is your inspiration building. This is the Longaberger building in Ohio, USA.

The colours are very pretty in the night sky.

I went with hues of blue for my project.

I cut a lot of strips in complementary colours and wove them into blocks in two places. Then I put the photo in the middle so that your eye travels diagonally down the page.

It works I think.

Have a go and add your project to the facebook page.

Dale x

Cyber Crop- Hollywood theme

I'm very excited to tell you about something special going on at ARTastic this weekend. They're holding a cyber crop. It is Hollywood themed. How fun is that? I was asked to create a challenge for it. I just love my challenge and I hope you do too. Here it is:

JUNE CYBER CROP

Base your layout on the Hollywood Walk of Fame logo, using any number of the following criteria:

1. Feature any of the words Hollywood, Walk, Fame.
2. Use the colours of the logo: pink, gold, black and white.
3. Use the design of the logo as a sketch.
4. Use one giant star as the feature of your page.

I've use all of the colours in my layout. I very loosely followed the logo and I three different stars, as well as the title.

I really can't wait to see the entries for this. 

Dale x

Create a dynamic page or a subtle one

 Hello friends,

A new month and a new challenge. Archiscraps gives us an interesting one this month.

Create flying buttresses. One immediately thinks cathedral, yes?  Maybe not.  Check out what the other Designers did on the facebook page.

MAY- Flying buttresses.
Use a central picture (layout) or die cut/picture (card) and think of a way to have strips or curves coming out from it.

For me, I wanted something subtle. I chose to use vellum.  Here's my page.

I simply chose a single sheet of white A4 vellum and cut it using one of the cutting wheels on my American Crafts trimmer, (mini waves, like I said, subtle). I had two interesting photos so I used both, but put them in the centre of my page. Makes you focus on the photos, which I like.

Put your thinking caps on.

Dale x

Add paint to a scrapbook page

 ARTastic has mixed it up this year. They're going with shop windows as inspiration.  I love this theme. I also came up with it, hahaha.

ARTastic challenge for May 2022

I really adore this month's inspiration.  I immediately thought of washi tape. You could use that. It would look great.

When I chose my photo for it though, I changed my medium.  I decided upon paint. There are such beautiful blues in the photo so I got some acrylics and mixed up my own colours. I had a lot of fun doing it.

I needed to add the punches of colour from the rig, orange and yellow. So happy with the outcome.

Dale x

Archiscraps April challenge

Happy April 1st (and April Fool's Day). I hope you don't get pranked.

Here is something a bit different. Archiscraps is asking you to take inspiration from this image:

There is the added criteria of "Use brackets as your main feature on your layout or card".

Here is my DT layout.

I have used some chipboard and inked it to replicate the hammock in the photos.

I've taken the soft blues in the inspo pic and made that my background.

I chose to use the beautiful blue in the photo for my alphas and I wanted to mix the alphas up so I've also chosen some woodgrain ones (inside the brackets). I thought that made the brackets stand out more. By using one whole quarter of the page just for the title I thought that emphasised the brackets as well.

What will inspire you? Enter on the facebook page.

Dale x

February Archiscraps challenge

 Hope you're all doing well.  It's been a real scorching hot summer here in Perth,WA, the most isolated City in the World.

Hope you are inspired to join in the Archi-scraps challenge this month. Here is the inspiration pic and the criteria is to use squares and roses.

An idea popped into my mind of using punched squares in a circle.  I wanted to pick the colours out from the photo. I chose a nice blue patterned paper with roses on it for my background. Then I added mostly green squares (as per the inspo pic) and a few magenta ones to pop. I had fun choosing some flowers and tiny white kaisercraft roses and a few little leaves to embellish.

What do you think?

Dale x