Scrap the boys/ Feeling sketchy March

Got another couple of pages done for my cruise album this morning - Feeling on a roll here! This might actually be my first ever complete coordinated album to be finished....

For these two pages I used sketches from Feeling Sketchys International scrapbooking month challenge and scrapthe boys. As the album is coordinated I matched them as best as I could...

I made myself a kit for this album consisting of G45 Tropical travelogue papers, Kaisercrafts Paradiso collectibles, Primas By the sea flowers and some tags from Scrapmatts along with a few other odds and ends I found. However my G45 papers are starting to run out!!! Its getting harder and harder to coordinate, however this is the end result:

First page for Feeling Sketchy :

 

Second page for Scrap the boys :

And together:

Stick it down March

 http://www.stickitdown.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/march-double-team-reveal.html

Yay - I have completed one more page for my cruise album! I first saw this sketch and tried something else but just couldnt get it to come together.... Then I saw one of the DT entries (Thanks Sharlene!) and liked the idea of completing the sketch using half sized landscape photos. I had the perfect number of photos from the beach at Isle of Pines.

 I followed my album theme using  G45 Tropical Travelogue with Kaisercrafts Paradiso collectibles and Prima By the sea flowers and managed to get a few clusters in after humming and haaing for awhile!

Now to fill in some journalling....

Prima March BAP

               

 Prima's March build a page - sketch by Jennifer Snyder. I used Primas Stationers desk collection along with a few flowers, mists and a stamp
http://prima.typepad.com/prima/2015/03/come-join-in.html

Lasting Memories - Anything goes (Friendship theme)

Today the final challenge for March was posted over at Lasting Memories. The theme is "friendship" - anything goes. Make sure you get yours submitted in time!

I was feeling less than inspired, so I started with my scraps bag - using various scraps and punches I started by making some flowers and fussy cutting some other bits from leftover papers. I put them all together and added this cute picture from when my kids were little. They were all cuddling on the bed.

Come and join in at Lasting Memories

Halloween shenanigans

 

 A few blog posts ago I mentioned this months challenge over at Pixels and Paper (image top left) and how inspiring I found it! My first layout for the challenge was about shoes, but I really wanted to make something with that gorgeous old styled colour theme! So I went through my 'scraps' bag and pulled out everything in shades of brown and red to work with. I actually made this one with my good friend, and we shared papers and stamps - so her similar entry should be popping up soon!I used a photo of my daughter and her friends dressing up for Halloween to fit the clothing theme in the image. Of course my daughter is the 'pretty' witch in the middle. After painting her friends faces she decided that she was too cute to end up with scary makeup, so she had only extra eyelashes painted on - what a princess!!

I decided to follow the sketch over at Cest magnifique, (top right) it was just perfect! The kit this month is to die for - wishing I lived in America!!! I moved the layering to the right a little so you could still see the inking underneath.

This months challenge at Red carpet studios is from the film 'Public enemies' and the requirement is 'The good old days - use a distress technique'. Of course as my layout was inspired by the vintage theme from pixels and paper, good old days fit perfectly and I distressed the edges of each paper with scissors. I also used picassa to make the photo colours more vintage to fit.

This layout is entered into the following challenges:

http://cestmagnifiquekits.blogspot.ca/2015/03/march-sketch-challenge.html
http://pixelsandpaperchallengeblog.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/welcome-to-march.html
http://redcarpetstudiochallenge.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/rcs-93-public-enemies.html

Also - don,t forget its challenge time over at Lasting Memories -This months theme is friendship, and the challenge this week is 'best of friends'. Make sure you come and join in - everyone has a best friend!!!

Lets Scrap DT Reveal

Yay its reveal day again at Lets scrap..... I loved this sketch so much I made two versions - one for my new nephew to be, and I liked it so much I made another baby album for my middle child.

Im really kicking myself that my eldest daughters baby photos were the first ones scrapped (badly) and none were digital.... would have loved to make the kids a baby album each....

This is the fabulous sketch  - you will love creating with it!!! Come and play over at Lets scrap

 This is my first version of the sketch - which was also my DT reveal! I used graphic 45s Baby to bride collection along with Kaisercrafts bundle of joy collectibles. I am also linking this page up to Scrap it with a song for the month. This months song is "photograph" by Nickelback. Although the song is about photographs so pretty much any layout would probably fit, these photos really resonate with the song lyrics - (look at these photographs every time I do it makes me laugh/ cry, time to say goodbye.) These photos were from my daughters birth so it was definately a happy time, however this was also the final photo I have of their father, as he died five weeks later. Which is why it resonates with looking at photos making you cry, as well as saying goodbye.Also fitting with the song they are fairly old photos (almost 10 years) and it shows where my daughter initially grew up.

I am also linking up over at Artastic challenge blog. the challenge this month uses the inspiration picture shown blow, and the requirement is to use a quote on your work. I added a quote rubon to the journalling tag at the top in this layout.

My second version of the sketch is below, I am linking this one up over at White with one. This months colour is hemlock, which happened to be perfect for a baby page using Kaisercrafts "bundle of joy" paper range. Cant wait for my sister to fill in this page, I think she is going to love it!

Enter at: http://whitewith1.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/march-challenge-time.html

 

Scrapmuch?/ Lets get sketchy March

 

 http://letsgetsketchy.blogspot.ca/2015/03/team-b-march-week-2.html

                                                                                      
http://shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2015/03/sketch-y-friday-with-team-a.html

Lets Scrap International scrapbooking Day Challenge

Its always great to see a new sketch over at Lets Scrap! This one is a month long special for international scrapbooking day (March 4th - who knew???) and everyone is eligible to enter - including the DT, YAY!

This week I have been working on an album for a set of photos taken right before I started scrapbooking, from a cruise I took my family on in 2011.... They were the first set of photos I ever scrapbooked  - and boy was it a doozy!!! I chopped up the photos and kind of made a photo collage, completed with some puffy stickers and some journalling..... I actually had an amazing time on the holiday though and figure it might be time to redo them with my stunning Tropical Travelogue paper collection from Graphic 45. I added a set of Prima "By the sea" flowers and a set of Kaisercrafts "Paradiso" collectibles and an ancient set of tropical flower stickers (Dont you love when you use up something that has sat around for years!!! It always gives me a huge feeling of accomplishment)

I posted the first page previously but stuck to the theme with this great sketch!






    

Sassy scrappers/ Berry71Bleu March

I decided to combine the colour palette from Sassy scrappers this month with the challenge over at Berry71Bleu to add loads of flowers... I had a fair few floating around in pinks and peaches! You can enter over at:
http://sassyscrappers1.blogspot.com.au/
http://berry71bleu.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/march-challenge-mood-board-flowers.html

Scrap the girls March

What a beautiful sketch.... my take on it - with a cute picture of my daughter from a few years back.
Enter over at: http://www.scrap-the-girls.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/march-team-reveal-and-challenge-and.html

Scrapmuch?!/ Stick it down

 

 Left: Stick it down March single page sketch, Right: Scrapmuch week 2 sketch

Enter over at:
http://www.stickitdown.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/march-single-page-reveal.html
 http://shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2015/03/sketch-y-friday-with-team-b-and-winner.html

 This set of photos from a Pacific cruise back in 2011 were the first set of photos I ever scrapbooked.... and, like most first albums it was rather terrible. Having recently got hold of the full G45 tropical travelogue collection I wanted to use it to make a nice album for these gorgeous pictures. I couldnt find a double page sketch which worked so I decided to match up two single page challenges. To coordinate both sketches I added a sheet of the blue fish in the background.
 Below are both single pages. The photos are from the main beach over at Isle of pines!

Prima/ Stuck/ My creative sketches

I saw the Prima product mix this month and its stunning green and turquoise hues and just had to give it a go.......  The colours made me think instantly of my Prima seashore collection and a bunch of recent photos we took at Stevns Klint, Denmark with a church overlooking a narrow pebbled beach with sheer chalk cliffs. We all had a go at taking "little mermaid" shots sitting on the rocky outcrops over the ocean ad trying to capture the seaspray. We went there at around 9pm with the midnight sun so the muted colours in the photos were perfect for the collection!


I decided to begin with a couple of sketches that I could turn into a double pager! Eventually I went with this months sketch from Stuck?! and the one over at My creative sketches


This is the completed double page - I am entering over at PPP. You can enter your Prima based projects at: http://prima.typepad.com/prima/2015/03/come-join-in.html

This is the first page I am entering over at Stuck - need to stick a few of the corners down a little better - I hate when mixed media stops everything from sticking properly!

You can enter over at: http://stucksketches.blogspot.co.nz/2015/03/march-1st-challenge-reveal.html

This is the second page I am entering over at My Creative sketches:
http://mycreativesketches.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/february-sketch.html

Better do that journalling now too!!

Scrapmuch/ Pixels and paper March

 

I love my double page sketches - they are always the first ones I complete each month! At the moment I have fallen so much in love with the new baby album I made for my sister (just dont want to give it away!) that I have decided to make similar ones for the baby photos I have of my own children. 

Of course prior to photography my kids managed to sit on this one.... they are such total slobs! grrr

I found this months image over at Pixels and paper very inspiring  - and am hoping to do a few more layouts with the red and vintage theme at some point - but was firstly inspired to use these cute photographs of my daughter in my shoes.... not sure what it is about kids but they just love mums (and others) shoes and handbags.

I followed this months double page sketch over at scrapmuch, but had to adjust it a little as I only had two photos....

I am making the whole album with a mix of G45s baby to bride papers and Kaisercrafts pitter patter embellishments and fussy cut flowers.

Make sure you enter these fantastic challenges over at:

http://shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2015/02/sketch-y-friday-with-team-a.html

http://pixelsandpaperchallengeblog.blogspot.com.au/

Lasting Memories March 1 reveal - Partners in crime....

Its a new month over at Lasting Memories - which means a new theme! This months theme is ' friendship', and the first challenge uses the theme 'partners in crime'.

I chose a photo of myself with my besties a few years back in our wilder days... we may not have been criminals but we sure knew how to have a good time!!! This night we dressed up as schoolgirls and went to play laser tag in the city, before heading to a retro nightclub.

What fun it was being young.....

Make sure you come and play over at
http://kcclayoutchallenges.blogspot.com

Lets Scrap 2-25-15

My favourite challenge site ever has another fantastic sketch - this one dated right before my first DT reveal......I saw the number of photos in the design and immediately thought of these hordes of gymnastics photos - I purchased the lot at my daughters' recent gymnastics championships and have a shot or two of just about every imaginable pose. I gave a lot of the best pictures from this print run away  at Christmas but still had plenty clogging up my photo piles (got to love the halfway leaps etc lol)! Even chopped up they were  a little too large to reproduce the sketch faithfully but I am very happy to have them scrapped and albumed.
Apologies for the dodgy photography! This linky closes tomorrow and Id like to get this one up in time - while its probably now too late to enter this one come check out the latest sketch over at Lets Scrap

Lets Scrap DT Reveal

So today is my first official day on the design team over at Lets Scrap!  I discovered and fell in love with this challenge site only last month and was so thrilled to see a site dedicated to double page sketches (and I have to admit I like these sketches so much I have made many of them several times over....)

This layout is my first reveal for the lovely sketch above - and is also the second last page of my Christmas mini album. We drove around the local areas looking at Christmas lights - and found some amazing displays. The kids took these photos to remember them by.....

Make sure you come and have a look at the amazing challenges this month!

Join us over at:
http://www.letsscrapsketches.blogspot.com