This is a long one with lots to share......

I have had extra creating time so have been doing a few layouts for various challenges, design team layouts and even one layout just for fun.

There is a new challenge site called Puzzle sketches where you get pieces of "puzzle " and you have to create a layout using those bits. The prize is done on a vote system - you can vote go look at the site in my challenges links. Heres mine :



products used:
Fancy Pants about a boy paper
Kaisercraft paper
7 Gypsies chipboard
basic grey and American crafts alphas
Jenni Bowlin journal spot
buttons

I have also done a challenge finally for white with one - I started a few weeks ago but got stuck on a title and journalling - I had initially started to try get on their design team but then decided not to. The photos on this are nearly eight years old so good to get them scrapped.



products used
Cant remember the patterned paper
textured paper and corrugated card
kb chipboard car
Shabby Chic Journalling card
Heidi swapp, mm and kaisercraft flowers
chipboard circle and crown
provocraft alphas again!
button

Scrapbooking by design has a quickfire challenge this weekend - to do a layout in 30 minutes in an Ali Edwards style using decorative scissors and buttons. Great way to scrap these photos of Brendan ( he is the baby in the previous layout now almost eight).



Products used
Basic grey, jenni bowlin and dream street papers
7 Gypsies tag
buttons
provocraft, scenic route and carolees alphas


The sketchbook has a celebrity challenge from Susan Weinroth using speech bubbles in your layout and this is the layout I did for it.



Products used
Prima paper
Kaisercraft Gems
Scenic route and crate paper speech bubbles
7 Gypsies chipboard
felt man
butterfly charms
Basic grey, craft matters and carolee alphas


And last but not least a layout which was started months ago but not completed until this morning. It was initially started as a layout for a challenge at SBBD and for me is a simple layout and lots of white space. Check back on Wednesday/Thursday this week for my design team layouts (yes I did two as once I did one I found another piece of paper which I thought was perfect for the sketch). Have a great week.



Products used
basic grey and Kaisercraft paper
ribbons
kaisercraft and Hambly rubons
provocraft alphas
buttons

Little Shop of Sketches - Sketch 15

Wow we are up to Sketch 15 here's the new sketch at Little Shop of Sketches



And here's my layout - using some bits I have used on other recent layouts.



Products used
basic grey paper
unknown textured paper
Bazzill in stitch template and DMC thread
K and co leaf diecuts and chipboard alphas
October afternoon sticker and journal tag
chipboard bird
american craft alphas
mesh material

Scrapbook Dreams sketch challenge

The challenge was a sketch and you had to do doodling on your layout. So to follow on with my fairyland theme from the first challenge at the Olympics I have doodled a castle and scallops. I had fun with this one!!



products used
pink and white cardstock
stemma fairy paper
cloud and green paper -unknown -sorry
fancy pants flourish
pink paislee scallop border diecut
K and Co stickers
October afternoon flower sticker
Jenni bowlin tag
paint and glitter
provocraft letters (my fav at moment by the looks of things)

Olympics Week One - Cycling

Week ones challenge at the Olympics was to use dot/circle paper and have circle embellishments on your layout. I loved the mushroom paper from K and co from when I first saw it in cyberland and managed to find it last week.

Here is my layout:



products used
K and Co and kaisercraft paper
cardstock
Scenic route journal spot
Shabby Chic Mushroom spot
K and co dimensional stickers
other paper almost like cardboard for tree and circles
K and co leaves
bubble stickers
dmc thread
provocraft letters
Pebbles inc and crafters workshop words
white paint

Whoo Hoot Wednesday

Well its whoo hoot wednesday again. Hi Janine

A couple of things to whoo hoot about:

Rediscovering my love of reading recently - I was a real book worm as a child/teenager loved my books to an extent that I would be totally engrossed and not notice the time or if people talked to me. I love fantasy books (Eragon) and historical books (like the Boleyn series) - an alternative escape to scrapping. I know its in the young adults section but the next set of books I am going to read is a Jonathan Stroud trilogy.

I'm really enjoying doing my layouts for Little shop of sketches and I loved how my layout came out for the olympics at sketchbook. I'm really grateful that I have the creativity to do layout that is not simple in under an hour as my scrapping place gets cold (its in the garage)- though my idea for the first challenge might take a bit longer as I am planning to do some experimenting.

I made a pea and ham soup on Saturday in the crockpot without a recipe and it was really tasty combined with a lovely loaf of yeast free sourdough bread - yumm and the kids ate all of theirs.

Yay NZ has medals Yippee and the All Blacks won whoo hoo

That's me for tonight - have a great week

Little Shop of Sketches - sketch 14

The new sketch is up at Little Shop of Sketches. Here is the sketch



and here is my take



Products used
Cardstock - white and light blue
October Afternoon paper and little adhesive bird
Crafters Choice brads
bazzill,memory garden, green tara and prima flowers
fancy pants chipboard flourishes
pink paislee journal spot (office lingo Line)
Provocraft and american craft alphas
kaisercraft gems
love charm
leather string

Have fun with the sketch and upload at Stampin' Scrap and you could win a RAK at the end of the month.

Scrapbook dreams Challenges to share

Here is two layouts for Scrapbook Dreams challenges - first one for the weekly challenge from last week (which was just using the sketch) and second one is for the August challenge (a sketch as well but you have to include at least one stamped image.



Products used
Bazzill cardstock - pink and white
basic grey paper for journalling
Chipboard flourish
Heidi swapp, MM and green tara flowers
ribbon
canary paint
provocraft letters
buttons



products used
pink cardstock
sassafarass Lass Paper
belle chipboard
Provocraft chipboard Number 2
pink paislee letters
shabby chic journal spot
fancy pants stamps
paint and glitter
(the teddy bear is a photo of the cake I made)