Saturday Sketch Club

This past weekend I had the privilege of posting my first Saturday Sketch Club Challenge at The Paper Passion. I have been a big fan of Becky Fleck's page maps for a long time so it was no surprise that I used one of hers (October 2009)as the basis of my challenge. I like how it all turned out and hope you do too!

Why not give it a try and link me up to your creation! Or put it in The Paper Passion gallery for us all to love!

Have a great day and happy creating!

Weekend of scrapbooking

I participated in an online crop this past weekend and got several pages done. I thought I'd share them with you.

OCTOBER KIT REVEAL

The October Kit is now available at The Paper Passion! You can view it here

It is chock full of goodies and I had a great time playing with it! You can check out what three other girls did with it here  This month Rosa instituted a "mystery kit" for the other three DT members and you can see how they used the Sassafrass kit here as well.

Here are the five (yes FIVE) layouts I created using just the kit contents and one sheet of white cardstock. I still have plenty left over to play with :)

I hope you've enjoyed what you see! Happy Scrapping and don't forget to check out the other gals' creations at The Paper Passion!

What a week!

Last time I wrote, I was telling you about the upcoming crop. Well the crop is over now and the tallying has been done for prizes and such. Here are the three challenges I offered up for the weekend and my sample layouts:

For this challenge I wanted people to use the birthstone colour "bling" from whatever month they were capturing in their layout.

I chose these photos of gd's first photo shoot (I was the photographer) and since she was born in August and the shoot took place in August, I used peridot for the butterfly and the trail.

This layout was all about distressing. Some folks are distressed about their birthdays so I used some heritage photos (my grandfather, my father and myself) to create a distressed "heritage" layout for gd's scrapbook.

I used a lot of distressing techniques including sanding, ripping, inking, aging, Ranger Industries "Rock Candy", fabric and metal. I really like how this one turned out!







This challenge was all about numbers. Pretty simple. Use a number (i.e. the candles on your cake) in the title of your layout.

I chose this sweet photo of my ds and dil on their 1st anniversary this summer. The Bo Bunny Calypso paper, flowers and rub ons added to the fun, summer feel.

My final challenge was to create a masculine birthday card. I find it easy to make "pretty" cards but doing boy cards is a real challenge! This is a card I made a while ago but it worked perfectly for this challenge and for the time constraints I was under at the time.

I also did a game. I love the easy "guess how many" games at crops so I decided to do one for this crop as well. The person who came closest without going over was "inspiredscrapper" and she has a RAK coming her way in Monday's post!

I was sorry I couldn't be around the crop more. I did have a great time getting ready though. I love the push to create.

Happy Scrapping!

COME CROP WITH US!

I'm really excited about a few things today. The most exciting is of course the start of The Paper Passion's one year birthday/anniversary crop. I've had a chance to see some of the "behind the scenes" work being done and it's amazing. You'll love it and for scrapbookers/card makers you'll get a LOT of inspiration.

In order to be considered for prizes (Rosa gives the best prizes!) Please upload your newly created page in the gallery and into the challenge thread no later than Wednesday October 14, 2009 at 11:59 PM EST to get 1 entry into the prize draw!

You'll have to register for the forum and the gallery in order to participate but I promise, you won't be disappointed.

Here's a sneak peek of one my challenges. It's not what you think. :-)  Just saying...

Am excited about my ds arriving tomorrow, Thanksgiving weekend and our trip south this coming week. Have a good time while I'm gone and as a dear friend of mine likes to say, if you can't be good, be interesting!

Ciao!

LO tag! (October 2009)

This is one of my favourite scrapping games to play. Last week we played a round at The Paper Passion. Here's my take on the tag:

I used the Webster's pages "Postcards from Paris" line of paper and added ribbons (unknown), butterflies (from $ store) and some flowers (Prima) attached with MM brads for dimension. This is my dil at 39 weeks pregnant. Baby was born two days later!

Cards! (October 6, 2009)

I participated in a card crop this weekend and while I didn't get a lot done, I am pretty pleased with the challenges I was able to complete.

This was a "tag" challenge. I used a tag that I received in a RAK from a friend on The Paper Passion.

This little gift card holder was a snap to make. I can see making more of them for Christmas and other occasions.

This is a "joy fold" card. It is comprised of two pieces of cardstock the smaller one is folded over the larger one to form the front "flap". I used a kit I received last December and hadn't broken into yet!

I really like "non-traditional" Christmas colours.

This was a challenge that I provided for the crop. I used two photos that we took at the pumpkin patch a couple of weeks ago and asked that people use them as inspiration to create their own. I really like this card and was happy with the ones that others created as well.

So that's what I did this weekend!