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Well hello there......remember me?!
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
Anyhow, it's time for another wonderful Sketch Challenge over on the Scrapmuch? blog and as I took a hiatus 2 weeks ago, I thought I'd better get back at it this week.
In keeping with the whole 'family' kinda conversation, here's my layout for this week:
Family
There's nothing subtle about those background colours now is there.....Good Day Sunshine from Simple Stories.
Here is this weeks Sketch from Laura:
So for my page, I decided to flip the sketch horizontally and change up those background circles a little by using Viewfinder die cuts instead.
Various layers here and there including a few carefully placed stickers to interpret the top panel in the Sketch.
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.
Finally, a simple title cut using my Cameo, and a scattering of wooden and enamel dots.
Another page and another trip to Niagara Falls completed....bring on the next!
Why not join in with this weeks sketch and link up over on the Scrapmuch? blog to be in with a chance of winning a prize?
There's also a bunch of inspiration there too from the rest of the DT.
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!
Have a great weekend and I'll see you then,
Jayne.x.
Good morning!
It's time to get your craft on with a brand new Sketch and Challenge over at the Scrapmuch? blog.
I haven't had much time myself for crafting recently, so I thoroughly enjoyed carving out a little time for this one.
Here goes:
So Loved
And here is this weeks wonderful Sketch:
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.
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!
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.
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.
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?!!
A modest sprinkling of enamel dots and that's about all from me.
We would love for you to join us with this or any of the four sketch challenges provided over on the Scrapmuch? blog. There's always a chance to win a fabulous prize and a whole bunch of inspiration there too from the rest of the DT.
Have an awesome weekend,
Jayne.x.
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Edit:
The colours, chevrons, and touches of gold on this page were totally inspired by the gorgeous mood board over at Scrap Around The World 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!
Duh.....I just realised it's still open till the end of the month so this baby will be heading over there.
Here's the mood board:
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 Two Scrapbook Friends......the 'Enchanted' collection from Simple Stories.
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.
Can't go wrong really and with a house of girlies I knew I could put it to good use!
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!
Note to self: take more photo's (or at least remember to bring your camera).
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!
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!
You Can Always Find A Friend In A Good Book
The background paper starts this one off for me. I decided to add a little colour to the 'postcard' stamp with watercolour paints.
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 long title.
There are some cute die cut paper clips found in this collection, so I layered a couple of different ones in a cluster of embellies here......
and finished things off with a scattering of enamel dots.
Just about covers everything I think.
You can find 'Enchanted' over at Two Scrapbook Friends either in person or at their online store.
Have a wonderful day.....enjoy the sunshine and hopefully I'll be back here again later this week.
Take care,
Jayne.x.
Hi there.
Another Friday has rolled around which means it's time for another Sketchy Friday reveal over at Scrapmuch?
'I AM' 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 'I AM' super pleased with it!
Secondly I've been dying to use the new paper collection I picked up from the Scrapmuch? ladies a few weeks ago.......I AM by Simple Stories (just in case you hadn't picked up on my subtle clues there!).
So here goes:
I Am So Very Blessed
Here's this weeks sketch provided for your inspiration.....another beauty if I say so myself.
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.
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.
A little of my signature 'faux stitching (you can check out the tutorial here) plus I also got to make use of plenty of the die cuts found in this collection, by layering them up here and there.
Feel free to hop on over to the Scrapmuch? blog 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.
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!
Have a great weekend,
Jayne.x.
Good morning!
Here I am again trying to dust off my lonely little blog and bring you this weeks post for Sketch-y Friday over at Scrapmuch?
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.
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!
Anyhow, enough chit chat, let's get down to business.
Hello Handsome
Awwwww isn't he cute, that handsome chappie in the photo there?
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!
Before we move on, here is this weeks wonderful Sketch provided by the ever talented Laura Whitaker.
OK, so that background I was talking about......
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!
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.
It was at this point I decided 'no more.....time to move on or it will never get finished"!
There's the usual bunch of layers around the photograph.....
and a nice little group of grunged/vintage elements at the bottom - chipboard from Creative Embellishments (love their products!), vintage film strip and a heart charm by Tim Holtz.
Finally, the title started with a pre-made metal word from Jillibean Soup.
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!
The second part of the title was cut using my Silhouette and Kraft cardstock.
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 Scrapmuch? blog to be in with a chance of winning a prize.......yes?
Phew, glad we got that sorted!
Don't forget to check out a little more inspiration provided for you by the rest of the Scrapmuch? Team, whilst you're there.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend.....I'll be working (surprise, surprise!) but I'll be seeing you again next week.
Take care out there,
Jayne.x.
Good morning.
Off to work for me today so I finally remembered to schedule a blog post!
Today's page is the second and final from my recent Two Scrapbook Friends DT Kit, using the Hugs and Kisses collection by Simple Stories.
This is a sweet little mini collection perfect for those valentine, love inspired or general girlie pages.
I paired this time around with Kraft cardstock......who can resist a little Kraft here and there?
Love This Face
So you can see that the whole page centers around the background die cut......and the gorgeous little girl in the center there of course!
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.
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!
I decided not to glue these down and left them hanging as I like the shadow they create in this tone on tone area.
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.
This was actually the inspiration for the whole page!
Finally, more stickers and layers to embellish the photograph, and a little messy thread to finish things off.
That's about all from me for today, but you can grab this collection for yourself either at the online store or in person at Two Scrapbook Friends.
Have a great day and I hope to be back Thursday with another page for ya.
Till then,
Jayne.x.
Good morning.
It's Friday.....an extremely COLD Friday for sure, but never the less it's the perfect time to get your craft on!
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!
I was given a great new kit from Two Scrapbook Friends 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.
Also as it's Friday, it happens to be time for a brand new Sketch challenge over on the Scrapmuch? blog.
Team B is up this week so here's my take on this weeks sketch using the Hugs and Kisses line.......
Here's the sketch for you to play along with:
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.
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.
More fussy cutting for the line of hearts which were taken from another sheet of PP, then stitched with embroidery floss.
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.
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.
I think that's about all.
You can obviously find the Simple Stories line over at the Two Scrapbook Friends store so you can grab your own supplies.
Also I'd love for you to play along with this weeks Sketch-y Friday challenge with Scrapmuch? You have until the end of the month to play along......just link up your creation over on the Scrapmuch? blog 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.
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?
See you next week,
Jayne.x.
It seems only fitting that I should share a Christmas layout on here today in the midst of our Winter Wonderland out there.
This page is another I seemed to have missed blogging, and was the second I created using my Two Scrapbook Friends DT kit 'Cozy Christmas' by Simple Stories. You can check out the first here.
I'll confess (as I seem to do regularly on here!) that I'm not a huge fan of this page. I loved the first one using this collection so I guess I must have used up my quota of creativity by the time I got to this!
I don't hate it exactly........just (definitely!) not my fave. I think it has something to do with using a large number of photo's on a single page..........I'm a single (or maybe 2) photo gal at heart.
Joy.
Busy huh?
I'm definitely missing my white space......probably another reason I'm not a fan!
I made lots of use of the die cut collection pack included in the line, some are layered and others 'popped' with foam dots........
I do love that kraft washi I've been hoarding in my stash. It has random phrases printed on there and space to add your own journalling.
I cut a few Polaroid style frames with my Silhouette and used them to highlight a few of the photographs.
Everything sits on a background of stenciled chicken wire pattern, and finished with randomly scattered enamel dots.
Phew, that's about all for that one and as I'm usually a 'NON' Christmas scrapper, I think that should keep me going for a while!
Have a great weekend........keep warm out there and I'll see you on Monday for a fresh bunch of goodness from Inspiration Elevator.
Take care,
Jayne.x.
This is a second and rather late in the day post from me!
If you're looking for this month's Inspiration Elevator challenge.....please scroll down or click here.
Otherwise stick around as I have another layout to share.
The reason for my late appearance is that firstly, I've been meaning to share this page FOREVER, and secondly, I wanted to submit it for the upcoming edition of the Let's Get Sketchy Get Inspired magazine, and the closing date for that is......well.......today!
Last minute of course - no surprise for me!
Anyhow, let me get on with some details.
This layout happens to be the first page I created using my recent DT Kit from Two Scrapbook Friends. This time around I had the pleasure of working with the yummy new Christmas collection from Simple Stories......Cozy Christmas.
I loved the combination of woodgrains, glittery prints and traditional red, green and gold colour schemes throughout.........visions of a log cabin Christmas come to mind.
I had one of my 'struck with inspiration whilst lying in bed moments' for this page which if nothing else, usually means the outcome is interesting!
A Winter's Tale.
I do love how this turned out - pretty close to what I envisioned in my head for a change!
There's obviously lots (and lots!) of torn layers including patterned paper, corrugated paper and zipper trim from Maya Road.
I happened to have a few zipper pulls in my stash, so I added one of those too along with a little faux stitching.
There's 'snow' on there, in the form of Martha Stewart Texture Paste and a Tim Holtz stencil.
Lots of layers were provided by a few patterned papers, enamel dots, and the ecclectic die cut pack you can find with this collection.
As you can see I also trimmed the photo into a 'tag' shape to add a little interest.
Finally, the simple title was cut using my Silhouette and layered with glitter cardstock.
That's about all.......probably one of my faves for this year I think.
If you are local and would like to create your own version of this page, Two Scrapbook Friends are holding a workshop at 6.00pm on Wednesday 3rd December where you can do just that! You can contact the store for more details or to reserve your spot.
So, onto the second reason for my late post.
As mentioned, I am submitting this page to the Let's Get Sketchy Get Inspired Magazine in the hope that I may get lucky and achieve another publication.
This is an awesome online publication full of lots of inspiration from crafty gals far and wide. I was totally over the moon when the last edition was released and yours truly found she had made the cover!!
Totally honoured and thrilled to bits!
Anyhow, the next edition will be brimming with seasonal goodies, so my page will be submitted to their 'Mood Board' challenge.
Here is said board:
Fingers crossed but I look forward to the next issue regardless.
OK, I think that's just about covered everything so it's time for PJ's and a little snack for this gal.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend and I'll see you next week,
Jayne.x.
Good morning.
I disappeared for the last few days cause things have been rather busy around here, plus if you remember from my post on Tuesday, I was in the beginnings of a delightful head cold!
Well I'm pleased to say the battle has been fought and I won, earlier than expected actually.......the cold seems to be on it's way out! Just as well really cause I'm heading out tomorrow for a delightful 12 hours of fun scrapping and NOTHING was getting in my way!!
Also, today happens to be the day for a brand new Sketch over at Scrapmuch?, and Team B are up so let's do this!
Grade 2
Look at that face!
I thought I'd better get up to date with scrapping last years schools photo's before this years arrive!
I've been hoarding these papers (Simple Stories) for a year until finally, they've reached the top of my 'to do' list.
I cut a few pieces using my Silhouette, and covered some chipboard for the number '2'.
Made use of a few stickers, and I can't tell you how many times these paper clips have been put to good use (they're actually from the K & Company 'Smash' book collection).....
And finally, a few ink splats using distress ink and a stencil......
I had to get a little doodling in there just to finish things off but apart from that, we're done!
Here is this weeks awesome Sketch for your creating pleasure........
We would love for you to play along and link up over on the Scrapmuch? blog.
Also, don't forget we have a Sketch Design Team call ongoing at present, so you still have a little time left to get those applications in!
That's it from me so I'll be seeing you again soon.
Have a great weekend,
Jayne.x.
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