Creative Craft World - Scrap Map challenge July

I have  felt as though I have been neglecting the Creative Craft World Saturday Scrap Map Challenge recently so here a couple of layouts I have done this week to catch up a bit.

July 2nd's challenge theme was 'At the Beach'

This I my 3 DSs with my friend's son Hamish and their daughter Sopie at Polzeath beach. They all spent ages making boats and jet-skis in the sand. They had a fantastic time, surfing, ice creams and a slap-up meal in the evening.
Lazy, hazy summer days :)

I also used Georgia Keays LO in Australian Scrapbook Memories for tips and techinques and inspiration. Thank you Georgia  for a very informative article.


And the second LO is for the week beginning 9th July. This week there was no theme just the sketch :)

And this is my DS1, having finished his breakfast, now chewing a toy car!!

Everyone seems to be using bubble wrap to print their backgrounds so I thought I would have a go! :-)

UK Scappers - weekly challenge

This was my LO this week for the challenge -  

We were asked to use something old (a technique or embellishment) I used distress inking, a punched flower (the little one in the centre - it was about the 3rd punch I bought- the other 2 were both circles!!!) and some rik rak ribbon that I often use.

Then we had to use something new so I tried a triptych technique with my photo - something I've been angling to do for a while and I also use alcohol inks on gloss card for the photo mat. This is my newest and current fav technique!!

Then for something borrowed I used a Sketch from PageMaps (January 2011)

http://www.pagemaps.com/ 

and I also used something blue - think that one's obvious !!!

Goonhavern Village show

My easel card (see 3rd July post) got 3rd place  :-D in the 'Handmade greetings card' class

The other 2 cards I entered did not get placed :(   

This was one................I seem to have mislaid the other one !!  (Sorry, the colour is much nicer IRL !!)

I also got a 2nd place for one of my photos.

A good scrappy weekend

Well I have another bit of news - on top of my success at winning week 10 Play along with Scrap Factor on UK Scrappers and coming 2nd in the monthly house challenge I have also won a challenge on ScrapFit with my Legoland LO :D

This challenge was to use items from around the house on your LO. I had used a pie case, corrugated card and my 'signature' ring pulls!!

Here's a reminder of the page I did

 Check out their web page 

  http://scrapfit.blogspot.com/
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I also finished my UKS weekly challenge LO last night!

This challenge asked for a photo of one thing (animal, vegetable or mineral!), circles, brads and/or eyelets and doodling.

The idea of the circles came from Jules on her blog 'Scrapping Mojo'. I used faux stitching as I needed doodling on the page for points.



And I just completed my double page for June for the album through the year that I am doing at a Scrap Angels class.

First Easel Card

Here is my first attempt at an easel card. It was supposed to be a double twisted easel but I didn't like the way the first one was going so I binned it and started again !!!

I used caramel, raspberry and sunshine yellow alcohol inks on glossy card. I also inked the lower flower petals but just used the caramel and yellow, so it toned but was not exactly the same!

UKS - Play along with Scrap Factor wk 11

Last weeks LO........

Won the 'paper' section !!!

Yay - what a lovely surprise and a lovely memory of my dearest dad!!

I really enjoyed doing this page - it's surprising what you can achieve without any patterned paper!!

And I was pretty pleased with the result   :-D

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So this week we had to 'scraplift' one of our own earlier layouts. This was quite a challenge as I have only been srapping for 7 months and I don't think my style has changed that much - although my earlier LOs were somewhat naive and lacking dimension and techniques.

So I decided to re-do my first solo page (previously I had done a page at a Scrap Angels class)  :-D 

Since starting scrapbooking I have learnt -

how to re-size my photos ~
distressing ~
inking ~
making my own flowers ~
heat embossing ~
spritzing  ~
and much, much more ....

 

The original LO was mounted on canvas and was a Christmas present for a dear friend. All the embellishments were bought and I only had pinking shears to edge my tags  !!

What do you think ?  x x

A Batch of Layouts ............

I wonder what the collective word actually is for a 'batch' of layouts - is there such a thing even?

Anyway here they are ....This one was last week's UKS weekly challenge


For this challenge we were aksed to scrap animals or birds in our everyday lives. I chose to use pictures I took of the seaguls (I don't have any pets!!) at the water's edge on Perranporth beach. For the swirls I used 2 blues and silver alcohol inks. I titled the page 'goelann' which means 'seagul' in Cornish!

And this was this week's..

This is me and my friend Wendy. Our birthdays are only 9 days apart so we thought we would treat ourselves to a birthday breakfast at Jamie Oliver's 'Fifteen' restaurant at Watergate Bay, Nr.Newquay. Wendy's daughter Katie also came with us - she took the photo! We had lovely food but it was spoilt by an extremely jobsworth waitress who insisted on sitting us behind a huge pillar, because we had dared to turn up without booking. You didn't used to be able to book for breakfast so we didn't know that it had changed!! Her excuse was that 'it gets busy you know' - breakfast was set up in about 1/3 of the restaurant and of that there were 5 tables taken when we went in!!  :(

This is the page I did for Creative Craft World Scrap Map Saturday challenge - we were asked to scrap our craft space. I choose to craft on my kitchen table mainly because of the view but also because it is convenient!!

And this is the LO I did at Scrap Angles last week.


Nick's 12 th birthday - I know that only because that's how many candles are on the cake :-D