Always stop to smell the roses?/ February SBT50 Cyber Crop Challenge

Our "Date night" Cyber crop has now begun at Scrapbooking Top 50 Australia.

There are super fun challenges and great prizes up for grabs.

Here is my "perfect match" challenge.

Inspired by the TV dating show- "Perfect match" : )

The challenge is to pick 2 items from my "perfect match" Table below and include them on your layout.

The catch is that the items must be from the same horizontal or vertical line.

Here is the table I made for the challenge.

I'd love to see you all play along with my challenge and the others too.

Come and join in the fun here.

Here is my example layout using my perfect match of Chevron and Ink.

Notice the gorgeous felt Butterfly and bottle cap from Ah Scrap! 

Products used:

Basic grey patterned paper

American crafts patterned paper

Prima alphas and twister

Kaiser bling

Tattered angels glimmer mist

Stayz on ink

Manor house creations flowers

Ah Scrap bottle cap and butterfly

D-lish Scraps washi tape

Acrylic paints

Helmer's scrap dots

 TFL

Sarah x

SBT50 "Date night cyber crop"/ Sneak peak

Our date night cyber crop at Scrapbooking Top 50 Australia is starting tomorrow night (Monday 11th feb) At 8pm SA time.
There will be a live chat in the forum, bingo and the first challenge of the cyber crop will be revealed.

The challenges are sure to get your scrap mojo flowing and there is great prizes up for grabs too.

And here is a sneak of my DT layout for the challenge I have set for the crop

TFL

Sarah x

Ah Scrap sale! 13/2/13 and prize draw!

Ah Scrap is having another Sale.
The sale is on February 13th this month.

And Ah Scrap is also having a prize draw.
Wouldn't you like to win this!

Just go to the blog here or facebook page here and share and comment to win.


Here is a sneak peak of some of the gorgeous goodies for the sale.  I have been lucky enough as GDT to get my hands on these and they are all so gorgeous!

Purple flower wheels

Little family bottle caps

Red flower wheels

Valentine owls bottle caps

TFL

Sarah x

Sprinkles/ BW2 challenge

Happy Monday to you all!
I hope you had a nice weekend.

So normally I am scared off doing a layout on a black background. Im not sure why but I've always shyed away from black and tended towards lighter backgrounds.

But when I saw this gorgeous image shared by my scrappy friend Donna. I knew I had to challenge myself to have a go.



The image is from Black with 2 februarys challenge. The challenge is to use predominately black with blue, yellow and 5% white.
The gorgeous image is to help inspire you.

So here is my layout,
(apologies for the poorer quality photo, my SLR is not charged, using my iPhone : )

Products used:
My minds eye black paper
Manor house creations flowers
Prima twisters
Basic grey alphas
Equip hair clip (black with bling centre)
Purple pumpkin button
D-lish scraps washi tape
Scrap this fuzzy felt heart
Cocktail umbrella
Acrylic paints
Helmer's scrap dots

TFL
Sarah x

Crystal diva/ My challenge and tutorial

Happy february to you all!

I have a new challenge up at Scrapbooking Top 50 Australia.

Well after a recent class with the amazing Lou Nelson I was inspired to mix up my style a bit.
Lou plays with mists and watered down gesso a lot. See her work here: http://louise-justloolabelle.blogspot.com.au

Since her class I have been watering down my paints and allowing them to drip run over my page.

For my challenge I would like you to give this drip/run technique a go.

You can use watered down paints like I do or traditional mists.

Here is my example layout 

To take part in my challenge head here: 
http://scrapbookingtop50.forumotion.net/t4917-sarah-s-feb-2013-technique-challenge



Click here to see the full detailed tutorial with photos and extra tips i have made  I have also included some of my other recent layouts using this technique. I hope they inspire you  



Products used:

Kaiser patterned paper
Kaiser card stock
Prima flower and twister
Manor house creations flower
Sassafras alphas
Tim Holtz memory frame
Grace Taylor rhinestone sticker
Butterfly punch
Craft wire
Equip hair clip
Acrylic paints
3d foam tape
Helmer's scrap dots

TFL
Sarah x

CSI case file 56

I hope you are all having a great weekend.
It's very rainy here today in Sydney.
Case file 56 is out at CSI.
It's my last case file as a returned DT for the month if January.

The birthday celebrations are still continuing at CSI. Join in the fun here


Here is case file 56. Isn't it gorgeous!

Here is my DT layout:

For my Evidence I used:
Wet medium
Something translucent
doodle dashed lines
plain cardstock background

Testimony:
My testimony is written on the back of the layout.
I used:
Tea for 2 - Choose a prompt from this site that has the number 2 in it, e.g., 32, 27, 12, etc

I chose
http://journalbuddies.com/creative-writing-2/creative-writing-prompts-65-fabulous-ideas/
52. Write a letter thanking someone who has helped you recently.



Products used:
Prima patterned paper and alphas
Kaiser cardstock and rub ons
Manor house creations flower
Dusty attic chipboard
Burdy's handmade embellies chipboard button and fabric flower
Feahers
Tinsel
Acrylic paints

TFL x

Kindy Christmas concert/ CSI case file 54

Hello everyone,
Happy Monday to you.
Case file 54 is live at CSI.
And check it out isn't it awesome!

In addition to meeting the case file requirements you also get to play with the awesome sketch by Em Starface of page drafts.

CSI is one this month and there are birthday celebrations and lots of presents, come and join in the fun here.

Here is my layout as a detective out of retirement this month : )

For my evidence I used:
Text pattern
music pattern
paper piecing


For my testimony I used:
"write in the form of a ticket"
"handwrite your journalling"

Notice my 6 gorgeous Ah Scrap goodies on this layout:

Kraft doilies
pinwheel
black star button
text button
christmas bottle caps

Get your own gorgeous Ah Scrap goodies here.

Products used:
Kaiser patterned papers
Tim Holtz paper tape
Prima alphas
Sassafras banner
Manor house creations flower
Ah Scrap embellies
Greatest view embellies
Fabric
Vintage doilies
Acrylic paints
Helmer's scrap dots

TFL x