Scrap The Girls - June

I've never entered Scrap The Girls' challenges before. Happens I can do this month's which is pink. I do like to do pink layouts, just don't get much occasion for it.  Here is "love". Obviously I am a bridesmaid in this outfit. hahahaa

Bow making tutorial

I like this tutorial on bow making at the Crate Paper blog so I thought I would share. It's pretty simple but there may be one or two methods there you might not regularly use. I often forget about certain techniques I've learnt in the past and re-remember them from browsing at blogs. Do you do the same?

Week 4 - Tennant Creek layout and card

The place we're visting this week on the Red Earth Road Trip is Tennant Creek. Never been to the Northern Territory myself. It's the only State or Territory in Australia I haven't visited.

The task was to incorporate red, brown and other earthy colours in our layout and card. Also to be inspired by Aboriginal art. Plus of course to include the bonus item of which there were 3 this week. One is in the middle of 3 of the flowers (1 on the card and 2 on the layout).

This magpie caught a mouse and I saw it in my front garden. Another maggie was trying to get the mouse and the maggie was having none of sharing.

Products used in the layout are:

S.E.I. playday/tickles pp

Echo Park A Walk in the Park/Mother Nature pp

K&Co handmade green bird damask PP

Crate Paper borders/School Spirit

Sam & Lucy in bloom paper flowers

Tiffany's Treasures Petaloo jewel centre

gold brads

Crate Paper borders - brook

Kaisercraft chocolate pearls

Adorn it Random mini alphas

Fancy Pants Rusted Sun alphas

Sassafrass count journal tag cs sticker

Anna's June challenge

Anna's Craft Cupboard's June sketch is above. I've used two 4x6 photos as I just find that one is never enough for me. The photos are the first I took of New York City on our visit last October. The street sellers are just packing up for the day. I thought the gnome graffiti art was interesting too.

I've used mostly the Basic Grey Wander collection.  It's really cool and I have a lot of it.

Scrap The Boys sub for June

At Scrap The Boys this month there is a colour challenge (see above).  Here's a fun layout of my youngest boy Mark. It took forever for him to get a bird to land on him and feed it some fruit. He was getting quite upset about it and was thrilled to finally achieve it. You can see the pleasure in his face. I'm glad I could capture it in a photo and scrap it.

Week 3 is Sydney on the Red Earth Road Trip

I enjoy visiting Sydney. The hustle and bustle and variety of things to do is appealing. The river offers a wonderful aspect to wherever you might visit in the City.  Sydney was the destination for our Red Earth Road trip. Challenge criteria included no patterned paper, use blue and family photos. As my boys had both just had their birthdays this was too easy.  Here's my layout. It's of our lunch at Fast Eddy's for Damon's 14th birthday. The venue was his choice and we each had something different and enjoyed our meals. I've used cardstock as a background, grosgrain ribbon, punched cork shapes, a lollipop I made and some other embellies, including the mystery item (which was a WISH ticket) from our rescue kit.

We also had to make a card. Similar criteria, without the photo.  Here is mine.

I've used various shades of blue cardstock and a baby blue ribbon which I have woven together, AC sea foam thickers and a Creative Memories sticker.

Day 107 - Mega Movie Wednesday

I can't believe it's day 107 at 365 Cards. Holy moly, where has the year gone to?

Movie poster week is a very cool challenge theme.  I liked the look of the Green Lantern movie poster. I've chosen to be inspired by the colours. Was going to go with a city theme but didn't. The tag that is attached to the card is one I have made 6 of. 5 are for June's swap for Amanda's swaps. I've posted them off this morning. So, if you chose to go in the tag swap you have a sneaky peek at what you're getting from moi.

This is the poster. Very cool huh.