tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25313679723785761342024-03-12T23:20:15.355-04:00Scrap Paper Scissors etc.Crafty little snippets of this and that!Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.comBlogger480125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-49222039545488191512015-08-22T17:44:00.000-04:002015-08-22T17:44:35.285-04:00Explore<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Ok, I just got home from work so I'm a little later than expected with this post but it's worth the wait!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I get to blow my own horn a little as a couple of months ago I surprisingly (more like totally astonishingly!!) won the monthly challenge over at <a href="http://scraparoundtheworld.blogspot.fi/">Scrap Around The World</a>!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I don't know if you're familiar with <a href="http://scraparoundtheworld.blogspot.fi/">this challenge blog</a> but I drop in pretty regularly to ooooh and ahhhh over the DT creations and equally awesome entries from scrappers all over the world and occasionally, when I have the time I'll link up my own effort.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The first time I entered I managed to snag an 'Honourable Mention" which believe me pleased me no end, but the second time I actually won!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">After my initial disbelief, then happy dance, came the reality that I'd be invited as a Guest Designer, and that's when the panic set in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The <a href="http://scraparoundtheworld.blogspot.fi/">SATW blog</a> is constantly full of the most amazing creations which are totally inspiring, so my only hope is that I wouldn't embarrass myself! Lol</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Anyhow, here is the current Mood Board I was given for inspiration:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Gorgeous it is too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I could have gone so many routes with this, but in the end I decided to take a little from each of the photographs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Here's my interpretation:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Lots of layers behind the photo's including paper, die cuts, embossed chipboard and thread, and just to mess up that gorgeous 'map' background paper a little, I added texture paste through a stencil and inked coffee mug stains.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">A vintage style photo slide seemed the perfect place to tuck a little wooden bicycle.......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">.........and the title was created by using my Cameo to cut 4 layers of cardstock, glue them together for a little extra dimension then inked to match the colour scheme.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Finally, a great little quote in the top corner which I've always liked, and I thought it would be fun to place it on 'signpost' style strips.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I think that's about all and I'm pretty satisfied with the outcome.......think I can hold my head up!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">There's still time to join in with this months Mood Board Challenge so feel free to link up your own interpretation......there's always a whole bunch of fabulous prizes up for grabs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">A big thanks to the SATW team for the honour of winning and the awesome Guest DT opportunity. I'll definitely be stopping by on a regular basis for my dose of inspiration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Have a gre</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">at weekend and I'll see you next week,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Jayne.x.</span></div>
Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-68109037898866535152015-08-21T10:28:00.001-04:002015-08-21T10:28:56.856-04:00Sketchy Friday at Scrapmuch? - The Deep<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I can't quite believe how fast the weeks turn around these days, but yes it's Friday again and time for another Sketch Challenge over at <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/">Scrapmuch?</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">My page this week showcases a couple of photo's that make me smile, from a day trip to Ripley's Aquarium in Toronto earlier this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I think it's the look of combined terror <b>and</b> joy from my eldest daughter that draws a chuckle from me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">And here's the Sketch it was based on:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I stuck with it for the most part, just tweaked a couple of elements and changed up the number of photo's obviously.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The background started with texture paste and a stencil, then a little Gesso sponged messily around the edge of the page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Finally, a simple title cut using my Cameo, and a touch of doodling to finish things off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Why not play along with us this week as the sketch is pretty versatile.....lots of scope to change things up however you please! Don't for get to link up over on the <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/">Scrapmuch blog</a> and check out the creations from the rest of the DT.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">That's it from me but I'll be back tomorrow with a special, blow my own horn kinda post.......they don't happen too often so indulge me! Lol</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Have a great Friday,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Jayne.x.</span><br />
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Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-83214882673611135482015-08-13T16:38:00.001-04:002015-08-13T16:38:46.574-04:00Mmmm Hot Chocolate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Just dropping in with another well overdue (to be blogged anyhow!) layout!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This one is the second from my <a href="http://www.twoscrapbookfriends.blogspot.ca/">Two Scrapbook Friends</a> DT Kit using the Cozy collection by Authentique so as you may guess, it's a Wintery kinda page. The title sort of gives things away, and although I'm guessing most of us wouldn't settle down with a steaming hot mug at this time of year, in my book, you can enjoy something sweet all year round.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So here we go:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b><u>Mmmmm Hot Chocolate</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The background started off with a layer of clear Gesso, then mist smudged with a watery paintbrush.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">There's also texture paste stencilled on there and some stamped coffee mug stains. A little collection of embellies in the top corner, and I do love that 'knitted' print paper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">More layers of punched papers and Gesso splattered chipboard behind the photo's, and a little journalling printed onto vellum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Finally, a small cluster of flowers and chipboard snowflakes.....all dabbed with more Gesso.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">That's about all folks so I'll try to get back again over the weekend with another page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Have a good week,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Jayne.x.</span></div>
Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-68243840335001916722015-08-08T14:35:00.001-04:002015-08-08T14:35:41.310-04:00Sketchy Friday at Scrapmuch? - It's All In The Smile<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Well hello there!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Another week has flown by but I have finally finished work for the day, so it's time to catch up on this weeks Sketchy Friday challenge over on the <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2015/08/august-7-2015-sketch-y-firday-with-team.html">Scrapmuch? blog</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This weeks sketch is a beauty and I definitely see myself using this one again sometime. Here's my page for this week:</span><br />
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It's All In The Smile</span></u></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">And here's that sketch I mentioned:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So, obviously <b>I</b> flipped it 90 degrees to accommodate the proportions of my photographs, but I do love working with smaller prints so this sketch suits me perfectly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I started with a fabulous wood grain patterned paper from MME for my background (can't go wrong with a wood grain in my book!), then continued with a Tim Holtz stencil and some Martha Stewart Texture Paste for the sunburst element.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I love that some of the most effective embellies, such as this simple curled piece of paper, happen to be the cheapest and most accessible!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Finally, a little random stamping to complete the look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">That's me done, but I know you're dying to create your own page with this weeks Sketch so go ahead! Just don't forget to link up over on the <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/">Scrapmuch? Blog</a> to be in with a chance of winning this months prize.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I'm off to go see what the rest of the Team has been up to so have a wonderful weekend and I'll see you next week,<br />Jayne.x.</span></div>
Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-28983759957224788542015-07-28T11:37:00.000-04:002015-07-28T11:37:07.348-04:00True Happiness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So let's catch up shall we? There's been far too little blogging around here recently and as I still have Winter pages to post, I think I'd better get moving before this Winter decides to make an appearance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">You'll have to forgive grammar and spelling today as I'm not moving all that quickly.......the results of a Birthday sleepover for my eldest last night.......5 girls, lot's of food, movies, chatter and a full on pillow fight complete with war paint at one point - but it was all good fun and we did sleep.....eventually!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So, today's page is from what feels like eons ago (because it was!) and was part of a DT Kit from <a href="http://www.twoscrapbookfriends.blogspot.ca/">Two Scrapbook Friends</a>......the Cozy Collection by Authentique.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This first page uses some treasured photo's of my girls when there were small.....I just love the expressions on their faces, but I have been told by certain people (you know who you are!!) that this is not a 'Jayne' page at all!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It starts with a fab little background cut from 'Birch' grain paper on my Silhouette and layered on top of Kraft.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">There's also a textured white embossing powder dabbed here and there for a snowy effect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">A few layers of stickers, paper and thread hold the photo's, and I do like those brass mittens and natural hemp. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Finally the action shots......framed with Kraft, photo corners and a little white Gesso around the edges.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The title was also cut using my Cameo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">There we go.....one down......a few more to go!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Have a wonderful day enjoying the sunshine I hope and I'll see you in a couple of days,</span><br />
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Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-58739869014296961682015-07-24T18:37:00.000-04:002015-07-24T18:37:17.101-04:00Sketchy Friday at Scrapmuch? - Family<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I am trying to get back at it - the crafting/blogging that is now that my In-laws have returned home to England. It's not that I don't want to scrap whilst they're here, I just like to make the most of it when any of my family visits.......it's amazing how much you can miss general adult conversation! Lol</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Anyhow, it's time for another wonderful Sketch Challenge over on the <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2015/07/july-24-2015-sketch-y-friday-with-team-b.html">Scrapmuch? blog</a> and as I took a hiatus 2 weeks ago, I thought I'd better get back at it this week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">In keeping with the whole 'family' kinda conversation, here's my layout for this week:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">There's nothing subtle about those background colours now is there.....Good Day Sunshine from Simple Stories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Here is this weeks Sketch from Laura:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So for my page, I decided to flip the sketch horizontally and change up those background circles a little by using </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Viewfinder die cuts instead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I also used a fine line brown marker to doodle a few lines around the photo element.....gives a little more definition to that group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Finally, a simple title cut using my Cameo, and a scattering of wooden and enamel dots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Another page and another trip to Niagara Falls completed....bring on the next!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Why not join in with this weeks sketch and link up over on the <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/">Scrapmuch? blog</a> to be in with a chance of winning a prize?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">There's also a bunch of inspiration there too from the rest of the DT.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I will be back on Monday with the start of my new regime to get back into the swing of things......there are layouts to be blogged including 'Winter' pages so I think I'd better make a start!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Have a great weekend and I'll see you then,</span><br />
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Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-53490541199321353292015-06-29T21:43:00.001-04:002015-06-29T21:43:21.590-04:00Sketch-y Friday at Scrapmuch? - Lucy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Well unlike the title suggests....it's obviously not Friday, but as usual I seem to be playing a game of catch-up for the current <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2015/06/sketch-y-friday-with-team-b_26.html">Scrapmuch? sketch challenge!</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Relatives arrived from England a few days ago and are staying with us for a month which pleases me no end, but means the house is generally busy (crazy at times) and quite often loud!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I <b>am</b> going to try and carve out my own little crafty time, but find myself drawn to the adult conversation and goings on in the house (Lol)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Hence.....my post this week is late.....apologies!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The sketch this time around however was another lovely little bit of inspiration, and I decided to go the vintage route.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I dug into a tattered envelope of old photographs my FIL had brought over a few years ago and found a beauty of my husbands Grandmother (or Nan as we like to say).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I believe she was around 18 at the time and this photograph I'm guessing, was probably in a small oval frame on a mantel or some such place, as it was quite jaggedly cut by hand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I cut a vintage style frame using my Silhouette to hide those edges.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Layered papers, flowers, glittered chipboard and mesh ribbon.......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">As you can see there is a larger panel in the background of the sketch, which I felt would probably overpower my page. I wanted to keep some of the white space, but needed a little something.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">OK so this was the final <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/">Scrapmuch?</a> sketch for the month of June, but we'll be back this Friday with another round of inspiration for you.....feel free to play along for a chance of winning a prize.</span><br />
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Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-47579702561598415142015-06-12T10:32:00.000-04:002015-06-22T23:58:21.444-04:00Sketchy Friday at Scrapmuch? - So Loved<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It's time to get your craft on with a brand new Sketch and Challenge over at the <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2015/06/sketch-y-friday-with-team-b.html">Scrapmuch? blog.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I haven't had much time myself for crafting recently, so I thoroughly enjoyed carving out a little time for this one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">And here is this weeks wonderful Sketch:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I decided to condense most of the design to the central area of the page, used smaller photo's and therefore left a larger area of white space. It always amazes me how sketches can produce such different results each time, even when all the basic elements are there.....just by altering a few minor details.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The starting point for this page (other than the sketch!) was my burning desire to use my new Prima stamps. The dripping paint effect has been a long fave of mine, but to be quite honest I'm far to lazy to try to recreate it! Along comes a set of stamp that takes away all the hard work!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This time around I used pastels to blend with my choice of papers (I Am by Simple Stories), but I look forward to experimenting with more vibrant colours in the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">There's an eclectic mix of Washi tape, paper strips, messy thread, pencil circles and chevrons (using a brayer and gold paint) lurking in the background.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">And more layers provided by die cuts, vintage style photo slide frames, and of course.......a pin button - can't go without one of those now can we?!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">A modest sprinkling of enamel dots and that's about all from me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">We would love for you to join us with this or any of the four sketch challenges provided over on the <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/">Scrapmuch? blog.</a> There's always a chance to win a fabulous prize and a whole bunch of inspiration there too from the rest of the DT.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Have an awesome weekend,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Jayne.x.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The colours, chevrons, and touches of gold on this page were totally inspired by the gorgeous mood board over at <a href="http://scraparoundtheworld.blogspot.ca/2015/06/june-2015-challenge-26-by-veera.html">Scrap Around The World</a> this month. However, when I completed and posted the page on my blog, I somehow thought I'd missed the deadline for entering this months challenge!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Duh.....I just realised it's still open till the end of the month so this baby will be heading over there.</span><br />
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Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-39030744124019794842015-05-22T10:13:00.000-04:002015-05-22T10:13:18.768-04:00Sketch-y Friday at Scrapmuch? - Everyday Snapshots<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It's time for a brand new Sketch Challenge over on the <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2015/05/sketch-y-friday-with-team-b_22.html">Scrapmuch? blog</a>, which means it's about time for a page on here from me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Here's this weeks effort:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">........and of course the lovely new sketch from Laura:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I pretty much stuck to the sketch, just added an extra 'wallet' sized photo on there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I also decided on a 'peek-a-boo' kinda thing by folding the corner of my paper, then tucking embellies behind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Layers and a couple of my faves here......flair and thread!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">My title was cut using my Cameo, and the circle element is a chipboard frame from <a href="http://www.creativeembellishments.com/">Creative Embellishments</a>........love this company and always reasonably priced!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Finally, a scattering of enamel dots together with a good measure of my signature 'faux' stitching here and there and we're done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This is the part where I now tell <b>you</b> to run to your scrappy hideaway, get creating so that you can create your own masterpiece, then link up over on the <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/">Scrapmuch? blog</a> to be in with a chance of winning a fabby prize.....got it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Glad we're on the same wavelength but whilst you're there, check out the inspiration from the rest of the team.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Have a great weekend,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Jayne.x.</span></div>
Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-68394072067931516482015-05-09T16:39:00.000-04:002015-05-09T16:39:49.502-04:00Sketch Challenge at Scrapmuch? - Everyday Moments<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Hi there, I hope you have some glorious weather wherever you are and are able to enjoy a little this weekend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">We do (about time too!) and I've just finished work so I'm of out to make the most of it but before I do, time to catch up on yesterday's Sketch-y Friday Challenge over at <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2015/05/sketch-y-friday-with-team-b.html">Scrapmuch?</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">There's a lovely new sketch up on the blog for you to play with so here's my effort:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">and here's the sketch:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I changed up the bracket shape for some chevrons to keep with the clean modern feel. I also added some interest to the background with a little texture paste, Glimmer mist and doodling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The journal strips were printed using my Cameo and of course, I had to get a pin badge in there.....always space for a little flare!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Finally the title which was super easy......don't you love these new puffy title from Queen & Co? A little embellishment with a paperclip from Maya Road and we're done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Now it's your turn - head on over to the <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/">Scrapmuch? blog</a> and choose this or any of the sketches provided for you this month.......link up your creation and you could be in with a chance of winning a prize!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The DT have a whole load of inspiration waiting there for you too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">That's all from me so it must be time to enjoy the sunshine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Have a great weekend and I'll be seeing you next week,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Jayne.x.</span></div>
Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-30608054461737531472015-04-29T10:40:00.000-04:002015-04-29T10:40:53.864-04:00You Can Always Find A Friend In A Good Book<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Time for a little more action on here I think, so today I thought I'd finish off my creations from a recent DT Kit from <a href="http://www.twoscrapbookfriends.blogspot.ca/">Two Scrapbook Friends</a>......the 'Enchanted' collection from Simple Stories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This is a lovely feminine line full of pastels, but with a wonderful mix of modern geometric patterns, and a touch of Kraft in there too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Can't go wrong really and with a house of girlies I knew I could put it to good use!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The only thing I seem to be struggling with recently is a lack of photo's.....for a scrapbooker my penchant for taking photographs is pretty hopeless really!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Note to self: take more photo's (or at least remember to bring your camera).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So, I lucked out when I found this little gem - no idea who took it, certainly not me so probably my youngest who unlike her Mother, is definitely 'snap' happy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Anyone that knows my eldest daughter is well aware that this is the position she can usually be found in.........with her nose in a book!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b><u>You Can Always Find A Friend In A Good Book</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The background paper starts this one off for me. I decided to add a little colour to the 'postcard' stamp with watercolour paints.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The large chevrons were fussy cut from another sheet of patterned paper, the vines were courtesy of my Silhouette, and I used a combination of mini alpha's and more Silhouette cuts for the long </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">long</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> title.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">and finished things off with a scattering of enamel dots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Just about covers everything I think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">You can find 'Enchanted' over at <a href="http://www.twoscrapbookfriends.blogspot.ca/">Two Scrapbook Friends</a> either in person or at their <a href="http://zencart.twoscrapbookfriends.com/">online store</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Have a wonderful day.....enjoy the sunshine and hopefully I'll be back here again later this week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Take care,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Jayne.x.</span></div>
Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-32991562593502606632015-04-25T08:50:00.000-04:002015-04-25T08:50:06.743-04:00Sketchy Friday at Scrapmuch? - I Am So Very Blessed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Another Friday has rolled around which means it's time for another Sketchy Friday reveal over at <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2015/04/april-24-2015-sketch-y-friday-challenge.html">Scrapmuch?</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>'I AM'</b> liking my page this week for a couple of reasons........firstly due to the fact that I had to put it together pretty quickly, but surprisingly <b>'I AM'</b> super pleased with it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Secondly I've been dying to use the new paper collection I picked up from the Scrapmuch? ladies a few weeks ago.......<b>I AM</b> by Simple Stories (just in case you hadn't picked up on my subtle clues there!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So here goes:</span><br />
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I Am So Very Blessed</span></u></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Here's this weeks sketch provided for your inspiration.....another beauty if I say so myself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I pretty much stuck to the general scheme of things, just a little tweaking with my photo arrangement because I really wanted to use a variety of these super cool, old school frames.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I tore into a sheet of paper for the angled background piece, and intended to use pink until I tried the green and loved the subtle tone on tone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">A little of my signature 'faux stitching (you can check out the tutorial <a href="http://www.spsetc.blogspot.ca/2015/03/faux-stitchingre-invented.html">here</a>) plus I also got to make use of plenty of the die cuts found in this collection, by layering them up here and there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Feel free to hop on over to the <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/">Scrapmuch? blog</a> where you'll find lots more inspiration provided by Team B this week. You also still have time to enter your own interpretation of this or any of the four sketches provided this month........just link up over on the blog to be in with a chance of winning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">That's it from me but I'm off for a whole day of scrapping on Saturday so fingers crossed that the mojo co-operates!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Have a great weekend,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Jayne.x.</span></div>
Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-65084036822502026732015-04-19T11:31:00.000-04:002015-04-20T22:05:18.100-04:00Sketch-y Friday at Scrapmuch? - Oh Happy Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Yes I am still alive and kicking after a couple of weeks absence on here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">My post today was one that was originally scheduled for <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2015/04/sketch-y-friday-with-team-b.html">Sketch-y Friday</a> over at <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2015/04/sketch-y-friday-with-team-b.html">Scrapmuch?</a> on 10 April, but I've had a crazy couple of weeks.....as seems the norm these days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">My hubby was in Europe for two weeks over the Easter hols, so of course I got sick while he was away......this seems to be the norm too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">A head cold/flu kinda thing kept me down and out between work shifts and Easter Bunny duties, so I hadn't been back to my blog since last Thursday to check if my scheduled post <b>did</b> actually publish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Obviously it <b>didn't,</b> so I'm back today with the revised version!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Laura gave us another fabulous sketch to work with (incidentally, there was another posted Friday so you still have lots of inspiration and time to get your entries in before the end of the month) so here's my interpretation:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This page records some happy memories recently, when my girls finally got to go see some of the characters from their favourite TV show - The Next Step, live on stage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I was also lucky enough to be gifted with the perfect DT Kit from <a href="http://www.twoscrapbookfriends.blogspot.ca/">Two Scrapbook Friends</a> this month........the 'Enchanted' collection by Simple Stories..........works perfectly for this theme!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The background paper has a nice scattering of stars, so I added a few enamel dots (which are part of the collection) and some hand drawn/glittered circles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I also wanted to include our tickets, so I used an acetate photo overlay stapled in place to form a pocket, and a decorative paper clip to hold them in place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Lots of paper layers, Washi tape, sequin stars and some faux brads using an Epiphany punch and epoxy overlays.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">And finally, the title was cut using my Silhouette and......wait for it.......the foil lid from a Chinese take out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I happened to find a spare in a recent order and the resourceful scrapbooker that I am.........etc. etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Well that's about all from me but I guess I should post Laura's Sketch before I leave........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Told ya it was a good one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Feel free to jump in with one or all of the Sketch-y Friday challenges this month - you have four to choose from, then link up over on the <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/">Scrapmuch? blog</a> to be in with a chance of winning some goodies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Both Teams A and B have a whole bundle of inspiration waiting for you there too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Have a great weekend and I'll be back next week trying to catch up on a few posts here and there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Jayne.x.</span></div>
Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-32113033862721781732015-03-20T09:26:00.001-04:002015-03-20T09:26:22.340-04:00Sketch-y Friday at Scrapmuch? - Hello Handsome<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Here I am again trying to dust off my lonely little blog and bring you this weeks post for Sketch-y Friday over at <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/">Scrapmuch?</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">My new job is keeping me pretty busy, so definitely not much time (or energy!) for crafting. Toss in a little March break (trying to keep the kiddo's happy/busy/exhausted) activity and I've got no chance really.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Once I got started on this page though, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I was just surprised how long it took me to complete. For a relatively simple looking layout, this one took forever, probably because of my constant need to add more elements to the background!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Anyhow, enough chit chat, let's get down to business.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b><u>Hello Handsome</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Awwwww isn't he cute, that handsome chappie in the photo there?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">My hubby aged approximately 5 or 6 I'm guessing. My girls had a little trouble recognizing him, probably due to all that hair that they're not used to seeing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Before we move on, here is this weeks wonderful Sketch provided by the ever talented Laura Whitaker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">OK, so that background I was talking about......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The Sketch inspired me to start randomly punching holes from my paper, but one size of hole punch wasn't enough...........no we had to go with 5 just to make sure it looked totally random!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I inked the edge then added a few different sizes of metal gears. After reviewing again, I decided we needed more holes (of course!) and started to add eyelets in various sizes and metals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It was at this point I decided 'no more.....time to move on or it will never get finished"!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">There's the usual bunch of layers around the photograph.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">and a nice little group of grunged/vintage elements at the bottom - chipboard from <a href="http://www.creativeembellishments.com/">Creative Embellishments</a> (love their products!), vintage film strip and a heart charm by Tim Holtz.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Finally, the title started with a pre-made metal word from Jillibean Soup.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It was originally silver coloured but I decided that looked far too clean and polished, so I set to work with a brown Copic marker and ended up with old Copper wiring - perfect!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The second part of the title was cut using my Silhouette and Kraft cardstock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So that just about covers everything, except for the part where you now head to your craft room to create something spectacular using this weeks Sketch, then link up over on the <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2015/03/sketch-y-friday-with-team-b-and-new.html">Scrapmuch? blog</a> to be in with a chance of winning a prize.......yes?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Phew, glad we got that sorted!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Don't forget to check out a little more inspiration provided for you by the rest of the Scrapmuch? Team, whilst you're there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I hope you have a wonderful weekend.....I'll be working (surprise, surprise!) but I'll be seeing you again next week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Take care out there,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Jayne.x.</span></div>
Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-42019365106165000042015-03-10T06:00:00.000-04:002015-03-10T06:00:00.044-04:00Love This Face<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Off to work for me today so I finally remembered to schedule a blog post!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Today's page is the second and final from my recent <a href="http://www.twoscrapbookfriends.blogspot.ca/">Two Scrapbook Friends</a> DT Kit, using the Hugs and Kisses collection by Simple Stories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This is a sweet little mini collection perfect for those valentine, love inspired or general girlie pages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I paired this time around with Kraft cardstock......who can resist a little Kraft here and there?</span><br />
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Love This Face</span></u></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So you can see that the whole page centers around the background die cut......<b>and</b> the gorgeous little girl in the center there of course!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The 'heart' background is a 4"x6" overlay in the Silhouette store called Doodle Hearts which I stretched to approximately 8"x12". I then randomly filled some of the hearts with patterned paper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The bottom section of the background is letters I 'welded' to the overlay to form part of the title. This is what I love about the Silhouette.....the possibilities are endless!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I decided not to glue these down and left them hanging as I like the shadow they create in this tone on tone area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">As always with collections from Simple Stories, there are co-ordinating stickers so I made use of a few of them starting with the word 'Love' for the title.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This was actually the inspiration for the whole page!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Finally, more stickers and layers to embellish the photograph, and a little messy thread to finish things off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">That's about all from me for today, but you can grab this collection for yourself either at the <a href="http://www.twoscrapbookfriends.blogspot.ca/">online store</a> or in person at <a href="http://www.twoscrapbookfriends.blogspot.ca/">Two Scrapbook Friends</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Have a great day and I hope to be back Thursday with another page for ya.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Till then,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Jayne.x.</span></div>
Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-8773026782756699612015-03-06T06:00:00.000-05:002015-03-06T06:00:07.374-05:00Sketch-y Friday at Scrapmuch? - Oh Charlie!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I realize I've been a pretty bad blogger the last week or two so please forgive me. I changed jobs a few weeks ago and I'm still trying to get into the new routine. Unfortunately crafty time always seems to suffer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Hopefully things will settle down soon and I can get back to it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Today though, it's Friday and time for a brand new Sketch over on the <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/">Scrapmuch? blog</a> together with a little inspiration from Team B.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Here's my effort this week:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I do seem to be scrapping the dog quite a lot these days as I have more photo's of him than anyone! (be warned......there are more to come!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Here's Laura's awesome sketch for you to take a peek at:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">As you can see I stuck to it fairly religiously this time around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I used a die cut from the Silhouette Store for the background panel and title, and outlined with some doodled lines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I layered a Polaroid style frame over the photograph which I've hoarded in my stash forever, and added some chipboard and scattered enamel dots (one of my new faves - just as well really seen as I bought a job lot of them!) .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Considering the whole theme of this page ie. the dog destroying every toy he has ever been given within a matter of minutes, I love the fact that in this shot he's licking his lips with anticipation!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Finally, I had to get a little flair in there and a few handmade metal ringed tags - the best ever $2 yard sale purchase as I've used at least a dozen already, and still many more to go!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">That just about covers things from me, except of course to mention that you should immediately head over to the <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/">Scrapmuch? blog</a> to check out some inspiration from the rest of the team, then join in with this weeks challenge yourself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Have a great weekend and I'll see you next week,</span><br />
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Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-52909000818189070782015-03-04T10:37:00.000-05:002015-03-04T10:37:39.338-05:00Faux Stitching.....re-invented!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have a little tip posted over on the Scrapmuch? blog today so I thought I'd share here too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't know about you but I love the look of stitching on scrapbook pages, but I hate the fact that I don't have enough room in my scrappy space to accommodate my sewing machine. This means if I want 'the real deal' on my pages, I have to lug all my supplies up from the basement, get everything set up then reverse the process when I'm done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The easy way out is to grab your fine line marker and get drawing and that's perfectly fine, but it certainly doesn't look as realistic as machine stitched thread, probably because there is no texture involved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before you get to work with your marker, pierce your paper with one of those pointy, paper piercing kinda things.........simple!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's certainly not rocket science and it's a little more time consuming, but it does make a difference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have a variety of pens I like to use in different colours and the effects are very similar, but whichever you choose I would suggest a fine nib.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can see a close-up here of the comparison with and without the piercing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's an example of some random black 'stitched' lines I used on a recent layout:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">.......and a quilt effect in white on another:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope you'll give it a try because believe me, no-one will ever know you cheated!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enjoy,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Jayne.x.</span></div>
Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-59827916577863243502015-02-20T11:47:00.000-05:002015-02-20T11:51:18.911-05:00My Furry Valentine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It's Friday.....an extremely COLD Friday for sure, but never the less it's the perfect time to get your craft on!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I'm killing two birds with one stone today in the form of 2 DT projects.......I try my best not to do this but my time was fairly short the last couple of weeks so needs must!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I was given a great new kit from <a href="http://www.twoscrapbookfriends.blogspot.ca/">Two Scrapbook Friends</a> containing the Hugs and Kisses collection by Simple Stories. Perfect for those Valentine pages, but if you're like me and not much into lovey dovey photo shoots, it works great for the everyday too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Also as it's Friday, it happens to be time for a brand new Sketch challenge over on the <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2015/02/sketch-y-friday-with-team-b.html">Scrapmuch? blog.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Team B is up this week so here's my take on this weeks sketch using the Hugs and Kisses line.......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Here's the sketch for you to play along with:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I flipped my page 180 degrees as I'm sure you can tell, purely because the background paper I chose to use has a flower cluster in the bottom left corner, and that's where I wanted to place my title.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I happened to have 2 sheets of this paper so I fussy cut the flowers from the second and stuck them over top with foam dots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">More fussy cutting for the line of hearts which were taken from another sheet of PP, then stitched with embroidery floss.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Finally, the photo (a selfie of me and my boy!) and lots of layers using a combination of papers, chipboard, paper clip, pin badge and the perfect co-ordinating stickers you can find in this collection.I also added a little embossing to the background using a stencil and pale pink embossing powder, and a little 'print' with a rubber stamp and black ink.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I also added some embossing to the background using a stencil and pale pink embossing powder, and a little more 'print' with a rubber stamp and black ink.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I think that's about all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">You can obviously find the Simple Stories line over at the <a href="http://zencart.twoscrapbookfriends.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&zenid=74787785deb9cc292d8c971eef8d64bc&keyword=hugs+and+kisses&x=11&y=5">Two Scrapbook Friends</a> store so you can grab your own supplies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Also I'd love for you to play along with this weeks Sketch-y Friday challenge with <a href="http://zencart.twoscrapbookfriends.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&zenid=74787785deb9cc292d8c971eef8d64bc&keyword=hugs+and+kisses&x=11&y=5">Scrapmuch?</a> You have until the end of the month to play along......just link up your creation over on the <a href="http://zencart.twoscrapbookfriends.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&zenid=74787785deb9cc292d8c971eef8d64bc&keyword=hugs+and+kisses&x=11&y=5">Scrapmuch? blog</a> to be in with a chance of winning some goodies. You can check out a little more inspiration from the rest of the team whilst you're there too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Have a wonderful weekend. We have an extended one here due to extreme cold temperatures and schools being closed......I wonder if it's too cold to shop?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">See you next week,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Jayne.x. </span></div>
Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-19986828978299666952015-02-15T11:00:00.000-05:002015-02-15T11:00:01.776-05:00Inspiration Elevator - A Fond Farewell!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">After some thought and consideration, the time has come to retire Inspiration Elevator. But before we go, we need to hold a big retirement party, so we've invited everyone who's been involved with Inspiration Elevator back for one last reveal, and to our delight most were able to accept! We are so delighted to have so many IE alumni along this month! Thank you to each of you for helping us end our elevator ride with so much fun and creative energy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This month's challenge is posed by one of IE's co-creators and team admin, Ann.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><em>This month's challenge is simple, but I hope, challenging as well. </em><br /><em>Here's the challenge: Inspiration Elevator launched on May 15, 2012 and at that time, we explained our purpose as, "Welcome to Inspiration Elevator! What a thrilling day! Today is the launch of Inspiration Elevator (IE), a challenge blog created by my dear friend Christa Uttley and me. We chose the name Inspiration Elevator because it is our intent to raise our creativity to heights through challenges issued every month. We want to raise our designs from the ordinary to the extraordinary. We hope you'll join us on our journey!</em></span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">IE is a group of like minded scrappy friends who want to raise the bar in their own creative process through unique challenges that we issue to each other once a month. These won't be run of the mill challenges and we hope you'll join us each month and be inspired by the creative designs we've created." </span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">That vision has remained unchanged over the last (almost) 3 years. The challenge this month is to just create - no holds barred. Take some time, or challenge yourself to do it in 1/2 hour if time is tight, but think about what you'd like to create if there were no agenda, no design team requirement. In other words, <strong>create for you, and enjoy the process</strong>!</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So there you have it.....one final no holds barred challenge from Inspiration Elevator!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So that's exactly what I did with my page. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">One totally messy, just for the fun of it, no worries about using a particular paper or product, just a get down and dirty kinda page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">And I had a blast!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b><u>Just Imagine</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It all started with the photo I've hoarded for the last couple of years not quite knowing exactly what to do with it, and a challenge that was issued on the <a href="http://scraparoundtheworld.blogspot.fi/">Scrap Around The World</a> blog. I'll get to that later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I think the photo was taken by my youngest daughter whilst I was lying on my bed, and after a little play around with editing, it always gave me the impression of being underwater....the hair floating across the bed sheets!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So that was the start that inspired me to get creating with some absolutely gorgeous new beach/water themed papers I'd picked up a couple of weeks ago....the Sandy Toes collection from Kaisercraft.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I scrunched up a plastic bag and dabbed white Gesso here and there, followed by a layer of texture paste applied through a burlap stencil. I then stamped in brown with a cross hatch kinda stamp, all around the paper placement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">All of the papers and my photo were brushed with a little Gesso to create that whitewashed look. I cut a lace trim using my Silhouette then tore chunks from it to distress a little.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The chicken wire chipboard was also attacked (in a loving way!) by cutting sections from it, brushing with Gesso then layered between the papers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Lots of flowers, wooden leaves, Silhouette cut vines, dew drops, cheesecloth and more chipboard all finished with a covering of brushed Gesso and splatters of mist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Love it! So much fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">We hope you'll take the time to hop through and visit each of our participant's blogs, beginning with our guests, then our current team, and finishing off with our co-founders. Feel free to leave comments and lavish each one with appreciation for all that they each brought to the Inspiration Elevator challenge over the last 3 years!</span><br />
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<a href="http://audreysreflection.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Audrey Yeager</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://christyriopel.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Christy Riopel</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://kookaliciouslifeisyummy.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Denise Morrison</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://luvalotland.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Jodi Wilton</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://scrappinaroundtheclock.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Laura Whitaker</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://want2scrap.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Laurel Seabrook</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://shelby-shelbysspot.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Shelby Dwyer</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.spsetc.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Jayne Morgan</a> - that's me!</span></div>
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<a href="http://scrappingoutsidethelines.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Joanne Burton</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://fruitofmyscraps.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Katherine Sutton</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://lisasscrappyhideaway.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Lisa Moen</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.lisaspiegel.typepad.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Lisa Spiegel</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://myanaloglife.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Michelle Hernandez</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://scrappydayinparadise.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Wendi Robinson</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://dowhatyoulove-maxadriane.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Christa Uttley</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://inkspiration.typepad.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Ann Jobes</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I would personally like to thank Ann and Christa for all their hard work over the last 3 years, and to the rest of my team mates who have continually challenged and inspired me to create to my limits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Finally, a big thank you to <b>YOU</b>......everyone who has visited and encouraged me on my journey with IE, through comments and 'pins' etc. I do hope you'll stick around in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Before I go there's a few more deets I need to cover regarding a fabulous challenge over at <a href="http://scraparoundtheworld.blogspot.fi/">Scrap Around The World</a>, but needless to say.......have a great day,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So obviously my inspiration was not the colour green.....I am not a big 'green' fan!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">However, my starting point was the hair (cue hoarded photo!)followed by the water, then all that lovely texture jumping right out of each and every photograph.</span></div>
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Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-12791073445625872882015-02-09T11:37:00.001-05:002015-02-09T11:37:04.526-05:00Together<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I'm a little later than intended with today's post, as <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/">Scrapmuch?</a> combined forces with <a href="http://www.stucksketches.blogspot.ca/">Stuck?! Sketches</a> on Saturday to create a Colour/Sketch Challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">As a member of the Scrapmuch? DT, I was given the opportunity along with the rest of the team to create a page using the current Sketch at <a href="http://www.stucksketches.blogspot.ca/">Stuck?!</a> combined with the current Colour Challenge from <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2015/02/february-colour-challenge-and-winner.html">Scrapmuch?</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">You can check out all of the creations from the Scrapmuch? DT over on the <a href="http://www.stucksketches.blogspot.ca/2015/02/february-challenge-feature.html">Stuck?! blog</a> (lovely they are too!), but here's my effort.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Before I continue with the deets, here is the Sketch......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">and here's the colour combination.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So for my page I went a little 'artsy', in other words I had a little play with some mixed media......more so than usual I guess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The background started with a subtle wash of blue watercolour, followed by stencilled modelling paste, stamping and some paint splatters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I managed to get a little wood on there and some of my recent chipboard winnings from Creative Embellishments, which I covered with a pale pink embossing powder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">A stand alone cluster of pretties here.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">And the main group around the photo.....flowers, die cut, clothes pin, cheesecloth and more chipboard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I finished the whole thing with some pencil drawn circles and a few dew drops here and there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So, do you feel like a challenge? If you combine the two challenges and link up on both the <a href="http://www.stucksketches.blogspot.ca/2015/02/february-challenge-feature.html">Stuck?!</a> and <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2015/02/february-colour-challenge-and-winner.html">Scrapmuch?</a> blogs, you could be in with a chance of winning two prizes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Can't beat that!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I'll be back again sometime this week so till then have a good one,</span><br />
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Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-29042246898816677462015-02-06T09:59:00.000-05:002015-02-06T09:59:12.643-05:00Sketch-y Friday at Scrapmuch? - Blowing Raspberries<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">There's a brand new Sketch over on the<a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2015/02/sketch-y-friday-with-team-b-and-our.html#comment-form"> Scrapmuch? blog</a> which means it's time to get your craft on!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I don't really know what it was about my page, but when I started this one I had no idea where I was going with it......the only thing I'd decided upon was the title.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Interesting where creativity takes you I guess - sometimes good places, sometimes not so!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Is he a whole load of cuteness or what?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Shame he looks nothing like that now after his recent 'trim'....more like a chihuahua!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I started out with a kraft base and used my Silhouette to cut various files from the Ahoy There paper collection by Carta Bella.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Once everything was on there I splattered away with a little white acrylic paint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Did you see I managed to get one of my faves on there? A pin button holding down that messy thread.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">And here's that title I mentioned.....the only sure thing on the page!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So all you need now is the lovely sketch and then you can join in with the challenge to try and win yourself some goodies!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Don't forget to link up over at <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2015/02/sketch-y-friday-with-team-b-and-our.html#comment-form">Scrapmuch?</a> and check out a little more inspiration from the rest of the team.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Have a great day and I'll be seeing you again tomorrow with a sweet little page for another sweet little challenge!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Till then,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Jayne.x.</span></div>
Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-44979577756083388492015-01-29T13:36:00.000-05:002015-01-29T13:40:34.640-05:00Right Now<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I'm quite looking forward to a night in tonight - first one this week anyhow!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">My sporadic blogging is becoming a habit too unfortunately, so time to get posting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This is another page I created a couple of months ago, just never got around to posting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It's just another everyday kinda page, but it does have me in front of the camera instead of behind for once. I believe my youngest was the photographer during one of her snap happy phases last Summer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I believe I used an older sketch from Scrap365 that was printed and sitting in my stash for ages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Chalk ink and a stencil for the background together with a few stitched butterflies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Followed by a few more and one of my faves........a pin badge/button.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Papers are a bit of a mix but mostly old MME.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Short and sweet today but I'll try and make it back with another page in the next couple of days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Have a great weekend,</span><br />
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Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-21680074083388048292015-01-23T10:02:00.000-05:002015-01-23T10:02:57.938-05:00Sketch-y Friday at Scrapmuch? - Third Grade<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">There's a brand new Sketch up over on the <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/2015/01/sketch-y-friday-with-team-b-and-our_23.html">Scrapmuch? blog</a> and Team B is providing a little inspiration, so that's means a layout from me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I have now finally finished scrapping this years school photo's so I'm officially up to date!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I really like this paper collection.....Creative Agenda by Echo Park. It happens to match the outfits my girls were wearing perfectly!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I cut a deckled edge around the background paper, layered onto a separate sheet of cardstock, then stamped and applied more layers of washi and paper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I found this cute little camera frame in the Silhouette store so that was added and of course I'd got to get a pin badge/button on there somewhere!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Those blue, shaped brads really are from my hoarded stash.......I think I bought them when I first started scrapbooking!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I added a few more Silhouette cuts - the scribbled circles, and finally the title.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I rotated this one 90 degrees clockwise and substituted the three photo's for a larger one........the possibilities are endless if you start with a good sketch!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Don't forget to link up your own creation over on the <a href="http://www.shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/">Scrapmuch? blog</a> to be in with a chance of winning a prize. There are at least four sketches each month!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I'm off for a day of scrapping with the Scrapmuch? ladies tomorrow.....woo hoo, so whatever you're doing, have a good one and I'll see you next week,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Jayne.x.</span></div>
Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-22847608293276445412015-01-21T11:32:00.000-05:002015-01-21T11:32:41.138-05:00Sweet Memories<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Hey, how's it going?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Thought it was about time I posted another layout on here as I've been a class one slacker recently! I meant to make an appearance yesterday but decided to give myself the day off as it was my Birthday..........any excuse I know!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Anyhow back to it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This page has been lying around for a few months (hangs head in shame!) just waiting for it's debut. I love the photograph......fond memories of a visit from my parents last Summer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I can imagine as we speak, my Mom and Dad are testing their brains thinking "where was that photograph taken".......hehe I think I'll leave them in suspense for a little while and test them later!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Lots of distressed layers on this one......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The papers are a really nice Fall collection from last year by Authentique. I've veered away from a fair few of their recent collections as I got a little tired with the designs, but I was reminded when creating this page how consistently awesome the quality is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The background consists of stamping and ink stains, and lots of layers around the photograph too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">More layers on the opposite side and a sweet little cluster of embellies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This weeks happens to be my turn for a layout over on the Scrapmuch? blog so I'll definitely be back Friday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Till then, have a good one,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Jayne.x.</span></div>
Jaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07968491117940562513noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531367972378576134.post-27297038699528185002015-01-15T11:03:00.001-05:002015-01-15T11:03:55.917-05:00Inspiration Elevator - New<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Our main purpose here at IE is to challenge ourselves, each other and YOU to take the creative process to the next level; to inspire growth and change in our scrapbooking beyond our usual boundaries.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">You can see all of Inspiration Elevator's previous challenges on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/InspirationElevator?fref=ts" target="_blank">Facebook</a> .<br /><br /> This month's challenge is issued by the creative and prolific Lisa Spiegel, a scrapbooker from California who works hard to keep her pages focused on the photos and the story. Here it is in her own words:</span><br />
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<strong><em><span style="font-size: large;">" January is a month where we make resolutions, start fresh and have a new outlook towards many things. Our scrapping is the same way! We start new albums, pick "one little word" for new focus and even try new techniques. My challenge this month is to use the word "new" to inspire your page. Try to move beyond new products (although that is fun!) and scrap about something "new" you're committed to (maybe a new diet?), "new" to you experience and while you're at it, use a "new to you" technique. Something you've NEVER tried before this page. Tell us how it goes in your blog post!!"</span></em></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So.....New huh?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So far I'm slightly unsure of 2015 as there seems to be a little too much 'new' in one form or another! Makes me realize that I am not overly keen on change.....good or bad......makes me nervous!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">For my page this month I decided to play it safe in a way. I dealt with the obvious instead of delving too deep.......yes, burying my head in the sand but I just wanted to use my scrapping for the therapy it quite often is. A lighthearted opportunity to let myself go with whatever creative flow I get caught up in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">That said, my 'New' is a 'Do' I'm guessing I will need to explain but my page will do most of that for me!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">My title got me to thinking though, after I'd already got it down on the page, when it's too late to change of course!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I'm not sure the term 'a new do' is commonly used here in North America? I tried to test out the theory on my daughters, them being born and raised here in Canada, to check if they knew what the heck I meant and they said "Of course.....we listen to you all day". Hmmm.... I'm not quite sure they are considered a 'controled' experiment!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So just to make things clear - the term 'do' is used pretty commonly in the UK(as far as I'm aware) to refer to your hairstyle (hairdo!) and is quite often shortened to 'do'!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Of course I could be way off and this might only be used by those such as myself from The Midlands or Black Country to be precise......we can be a funny bunch!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">On with some deets:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I did try to include a few more 'New' elements, those being my paper collection to start.....fancy that......me buying more paper! Lol</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This line is from Pink Paislee's Bella Rouge line.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I also tried a 'new to me' technique for the title (can't believe I haven't tried this before......so not with it!) and cut directly into my background, then layered a co-ordinating paper behind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">A hand-drawn outline helped give a little more definition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">My journalling is written onto vellum (using my Silhouette) - something I love but don't do enough of.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Another 'New' is the style of the page. I went uber clean and simple for this one - not my usual thing but I actually like it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Embellishments consist of four things......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">a feather tied with jute, a vellum tag, a few enamel dots and a sparse scattering of brads.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I could get used to this if it wasn't for the fact of not making any dent whatsoever in your stash!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">(For those that don't realise.....making a dent in your stash means the ability to buy more stash!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Finally, my background has a mixture of punched circles, stitched lines and doodled pencil drawing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">That's about all from me but we encourage you to check out each designer's creation this month: here's a complete list of this month's participating designers!</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.lisaspiegel.typepad.com/" target="_self"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Lisa Spiegel</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><a href="http://inkspiration.typepad.com/" target="_blank">Ann Jobes</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.spsetc.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Jayne Morgan</a> - that's me!</span></div>
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<a href="http://scrappydayinparadise.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Wendy Robinson</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><a href="http://lisasscrappyhideaway.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Lisa Moen</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Why not give the challenge a try yourself? Then pop by our Facebook page and share with us what you created!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Have a wonderful day and I'll be back tomorrow.....time to catch up from my slack week of blogging,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Jayne.x.</span></div>
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