Sunday 8 December 2013

She fills our hearts with JOY

Have you seen the December challenge over at Show us your stuff? It's an easy one with the criteria being to include the word JOY on your layout. And also the standard constant criteria of using handmade goodies on your page.


Here is my page using Rainbow splendour embellishments and a doily from the Chip Chop Shop.
Techniques to create my background were learnt in a Pop and Colours work shop by the talented Birgit Koopsen. See my other pop and colour layouts here and here













































Products used:

American crafts cardstock
Basic grey doily paper
Jillibean soup alphas
Cre8tive alphas
Tattered angels glimmer mist
Shimmerz mist
Studio calico wood veneer stars
Prima template
Typo washi tape
Rainbow splendour pinwheel, flower and butterflies
The chip chop shop doily
D-lish scraps washi tape, flower and pearl spray
Texture paste
acrylic paint
Helmer's scrap dots
Earring
Posca pen

TFL
Sarah x

Monday 25 November 2013

D-lish Scraps November inspiration board challenge

Have you seen the November inspiration board over at D-lish Scraps? I really enjoyed the board.
I started with the sketch in mind, but in the end my layout only used a couple of elements of the sketch. I was inspired by the colours, the colour scheme leans edged me towards a male layout. The nautical theme inspired me to create a wave type effect on my background. The twine inspired me to use fibres- vintage doily and tape measure ribbon and the metal inspired me to use metal wire.
Background inspiration taken from a workshop by the talented Shirel 












Products used:

American craft cradtsock
2 crafty chipboard
Dusty attic chipboard
Monte Marte water soluble oil pastels
Shimmerz mist
Prima template
Typo ribbon
Kaiser stamp
Versamark ink
Jillibean soup alphas
Bo bunny chipboard alphas (background)
D-lish scraps washi tapes
Craft wire
staples
Gesso
texture paste
Denim
Corrugated card
Acrylic paint

TFL
Sarah xo


Sunday 17 November 2013

Pop and colours! Workshop 2!

Have you heard of pop and colours?

Well there are 12 awesome workshops by amazing international artists.
I have only had time for two of them so far. See my other post here for the first workshop I did.

The workshop I did this time was by the talented Shirel 

Photo of me taken by the lovely Jen Hall from Jenerations photography












































Products used:

American crafts card stock and patterned paper
Kaiser patterned paper, texture stamp and stickers
Bo bunny patterned paper
Prima flower , mask, packaging and patterned paper
Studio calico wood veneers
Dusty attic chipboard
Imaginarium designs chipboard
Wow chipboard
Tattered angels glimmer mists
My minds eye overlay
Ranger distress stains
Crafters workshop template
Typo ribbon
Rainbow splendour flower
Dlish scraps washi tapes
Assorted Stamps
Sequins
Gesso
Texture paste
Assorted alphas for background
Ink
Glitter
Corrugated cardboard

TFL
Sarah x



Monday 11 November 2013

Big girls bike

Have you seen the our weekly challenges over at Scrapbooking Top 50 Australia Monopoly!! It's not too late to join in the fun!! You can pick your token, roll your dice and scrap your way around the monopoly board.

There is awesome challenges and amazing prizes up for grabs.



I'm playing catch up as we are up to week 6 now. But for week 5 we had sketches.


I landed on the "free parking" challenge 


I modified the sketch to scrap an A4 page.
And used a metal Prima bicycle 
and a created a twine rectangular frame. 








Products used:


American crafts cardstock
? patterned paper
Kaiser patterned paper
WOW chipboard
Prima metal bike and alphas
Typo washi tape
MME enamel dots
Heidi swapp stickers
The crafters workshop template
Tattered angels glimmer mist
Jillibean soup alphas
Purple Pumpkin Twine
ScrAp this flag
Greatest view badge
LuminArte
Nail polishes

TFL 

Sarah x


Monday 28 October 2013

Pop and Colours!!! Workshop 3

Well for quite some time now I have felt like I'm just churning out the same scrappy stuff over and over. I guess I've just been stuck in a scrappy rut.
So when I saw some of my friends signed up to Pop and Colours online workshops I jumped in too.

Three workshops have now gone live. It's not too late for you to sign up too.
I'm very time poor. So have only done 1 of the 3 workshops.
I did the wonderful workshop by Gaelle Ly

She gave a wonderful tutorial, and I loved the background techniques.















Products used:
American crafts card stock and patterned paper
Prima patterned paper, mask and resin flower
WOW chipboard
TCW template
Opals embossing power
Kaiser stamp
Tim Holtz distress stain
Luminarte
Mont marte water soluble oil pastels
versamark watermark stamp pad
Studio calico wood veneer alphabet
MME enamel dots
Typo washi tape
D-lish scraps washi tape
Gesso
Texture paste
Paper doily
Vintage doilies
Acrylic paints
Adhesive rhinestone squares
Craft wire
Helmer's scrap dots
3d foam tape
Posca Pen

TFL

Sarah x

Sunday 20 October 2013

Crazy. Silly. Family.


Have you seen the week 3 "Colours" challenges over at Scrapbooking Top 50 Australia Monopoly!! It's not too late to join in the fun!! You can pick your token, roll your dice and scrap your way around the monopoly board.

There is awesome challenges and amazing prizes up for grabs.







For week 3 I landed on "Complimentary Close" 
For the complimentary colour wheel I went with the purple and yellow scheme.


Here is my layout, the photos are some selfies that my daughter, my sister and I took while we were goofing around together.

The layout is quite different to my usual style as its very clean! But that's what I was in the mood for. Lol.





Products used:

Tim Holtz cardstock
Ruby rock it patterned paper
American crafts patterned paper
Jillibean soup alphas
MME enamel dots
WOW chipboard
Rainbow splendour tags and pinwheel
Scrap this fuzzy felt journal
Rhinestones
3d foam tape
Helmers scrap dots
American crafts precision pen


TFL
Sarah x

Saturday 19 October 2013

Creative types!!!!

Have you seen the week 2 "Style" challenges over at Scrapbooking Top 50 Australia Monopoly!! You should join in the fun!! You can pick your token, roll your dice and scrap your way around the monopoly board.

There is awesome challenges and amazing prizes up for grabs.






For week 2 "styles" I landed on "Freestyle Freeway"


Here is my layout. Yes it's another camp mojo photo. Of Annette and I : )








Products used:

Jillibeansoup alphas
American crafts precision pen
Prima resin flowers
WOW chipboard
MME enamel dots
Typo washi tape
Rainbow splendour purple heart wheel and teal leaf
Paper doily
Vintage fabric doilies
Bling sticker
Acrylic paints
Star sequins
Craft wire
3d foam tape
Helmer's scrap dots


TFL
Sarah xo



Friday 11 October 2013

Arrows and multi photos! SUYS october challenge!!


Have you seen the october challenge over at Show us your stuff

Its a fun challenge with  fabulous sponsors!  

The challenge this month is to use multiple photos and an arrow or arrows on your page!!  And as always to include a handmade item/s on your page.

And our awesome sponsors this month are flutterby designs and Artified

I met Anita from flutterby designs at a recent scrap retreat, she is a darling and a very talented scrapper! 
Anita kindly supplied myself and the rest of the SUYS DT with gorgeous flutterby designs goodies to use on our layouts. Thanks so much Anita x

I have used 4 "photo cut outs' which look like photo tabs, from flutterby designs. They are cute designs and super fun to work worth.




Here is my page with photos of me and my scrappy friend Annette at Camp Mojo 2013.
Using nail polishes again to create my dripping colours on the page.













Products used:

American crafts cardstock
2 crafty chipboard
Jillibean soup alphas
MME enamel dots
Prima flowers
Heidi swapp stickers
WOW chipboard
Typo washi tape
Flutterby designs photo tabs

Scrapbooking from scratch washi tape
D-lish scraps washi tape
Purple pumpkin button
Nail polishes!!!
Acrylic paint
Sequins
Helmer's scrap dots
3d foam tape

TFL X


Monday 7 October 2013

A colourful life

Have you seen the Monopoly scrapbooking competition going on over at Scrapbooking Top 50 Australia!?



It's an awesome competition, which I'm privileged to have arranged with the other DT's over there.
You should check out the awesome challenges and prizes we have going on. And who doesn't love a game of scrapbooking monopoly! Come and join in the fun here

For week 1 I rolled my dice and landed on Chevron Street.
So I used Chevron, stars and handmade embellies by Burdy's handmade embellies and My little bit of whimsy.

The photos are of me the start of this year with my headgear I wore for the colour run. 
I used nail polishes again to add the colours to my background.





Here is my layout:









Products used:

American crafts patterned paper and card stock
Jillibean soup alphas
MME enamel dots
Typo washi tape
Studio calico wood veneer stars
Wow chevron chipbaord
D-lish Scraps washi tape
Burdy's handmade embellies flower
My little bit of whimsy resinbutton
Sequin trim
Nail polishes
Acrylic paints
Craft wire
Craft feathers
3D foam tape

TFL x

Saturday 5 October 2013

GOod times @ Camp Mojo 2013!


Have you seen our awesome Monopoly competition  at Scrapbooking Top 50 Australia?! Its an awesome competition, with inspiring challenges and amazing prizes up for grabs. You get to pick your token, roll your dice and "move" around the scrapbooking monopoly board.



It's not too late to join in the fun here: http://scrapbookingtop50.forumotion.net

The "Go" Challenge was our first challenge on our monopoly board. And I did a sample page for the go challenge.

My sample page is of my scrappy friend and me the lovely Annette, at Camp Mojo, Hunter Valley 2013. Annette gifted me my first pot of LuminArte which I used on this page. Thanks Annette xo










Products used:

Pattered paper
Jillibean Soup alphas
MME enamel dots
Tattered angels glimmer mist
Purple pumpkin tickets
Scrapbooking from scratch washi tape
Perfect pearls
Nail polishes
Craft feather
pearl trim
Dice from SBT50 monopoly players kit


TFL X

Monday 23 September 2013

A winter freezy

Yep its me again, catching up on another layout, I created for a challenge last month, I created the layout at camp mojo 2013.

This one was for Vicki's word challenge last month over at SBT50 Australia.






Products used:
Basic grey patterned paper
American crafts cardstock
Typo washi tape and ribbon
Sudio calico wood veneer stars
Jillibean soup alphas
Heidi swapp stickers
Burdy's handmade embellies yo yo
Purple pumpkin button
D-lish scraps washi tapes
Craft wire
Staples
Helmers scrap dots
Acrylic paints
nail polish


TFL

Sarah x

Friday 6 September 2013

You make our world go round

Have you seen the current challenge over at Show us your stuff?

It's another great challenge we have going on there. With fabulous prizes up for grabs.

The challenge this month is to use the colours RED and WHITE and as always to include a handmade items/s.
My handmade item is a flair badge from A piece of cake designs.

I created my layout at Camp Mojo 2013. I went there last month. It was my first retreat ever and what a ball I had! I met fabulous people and there was so much inspiration around. I have more layouts to share soon.

I bought some new goodies too. Including this pie chart template that I used on my layout. The template was a tricky one to use and I nearly gave up on it a couple of times.
But I persevered.

Here is my example layout. I'd love to see you all join in the challenge here.














































Products used:
Tim holtz cardstock/patterned paper
Jillibean soup alphas
MME enamel dots
Studio calico wood veneers
TCW pie chart template
A piece of cake designs flair badge
Scrapbooking from scratch washi tape
Paints
texture paste
Craft wire
staples

TFL
Sarah x

A sweet treat

 I can't believe it has been so long since I have been on here. The weeks are flying by!

I have lots of layout I haven't shared. Here is my most recent one. For our current sketch challenge over at Scrapbooking Top 50 Australia.

We have a great prize up for grabs. Join in the challenge here.

This is the sketch (from Scrap friends)





And here is my take on the sketch.






































Products used:

American crafts cardstock
Tim Holtz patterned paper
Basic grey patterned paper
2 crafty chipboard
Greatest view kraft bags
Crate paper peg
WOW chipboard
Rainbow splendour felt butterfly
Multiple washi tapes from D-lish scraps, typo and scrapbooking from scratch
Heidi swapp sticker
Jillibean soup alphas
Cre8tive alphas and polaroid frame
Sequins
3d foam tape

TFL
Sarah
 xo



Sunday 28 July 2013

My "biggest loser" challenge


I'm running really behind with my blog posts. In fact with most things in my life. As work is consuming my life at the moment. Hopefully work will slow down and I can catch up on my life soon. Anyway..

Our "back to reality "Cyber crop is almost finished as Scrapbooking Top 50 Australia

We have awesome challenges and great prizes up for grabs.

You still have until midnight tonight to Join in the fun here





The challenge I set is a "biggest loser" challenge. We also have a "masterchef" challenge, a "my house rules" challenge and an "extreme makeover" cxhallenge. Join in the fun here.
My challenge was inspired by the reality TV show "the biggest loser". Where contestants weigh in every week, hoping to have lost weight.
Since the biggest source of weight on our layouts is usually embellishements.
My challenge is to either stack on the weight by using multiple embellishments, at least six.
Or to shed some weight by using no embellishments at all!

If you decided to go with no embellishments you can get creative with patterned papers, mists, paints, ink, doodling. The only "embellishments" allowed are washi tape and alphas.
Since my layouts tend to usually be embellishment heavy, I decided to challenge myself, by using no embellishments!

I got creative with pattern papers, doodling, washi tapes, paints and multiple different colour nail polishes!


I'd love to see you all give my challenge a go. Join in the fun here








 






















Products used:


Echo park patterned paper
American crafts cardstock
D-lish scraps and typo washi tapes
Basic Grey and prima alphas
Acrylic paints
Nail polishes
Journalling pen


TFL xo

Saturday 13 July 2013

SUYS winter Challenge

Have you seen the current monthly challenge over at Show us your stuff?

The challenge this month is to use a winter photo and as always, to include handmade items on your page.

We have fabulous sponsors as always! And this month we have an extra prize incentive being offered by the Lovely Charm of Charm's creations.
If you get your layout for this challenge uploaded before 12pm Monday July 15th you will go in the running to win this gorgeous extra prize.



I have scrapped some photos of my daughter in her new winter outfit.
And my handmade embellishments are by The Chip Chop  Shop
















































































Products used:
Tim holtz cardstock and film strip ribbon
American crafts patterned paper
Basic grey alphas
Prima ribbon
Kaiser rub ons
The chip chop shop doilies
D-lish scraps wahi tape
Sequins
fabric
Nail polishes

TFL
Sarah x