Colour lovin' 2013/ Life Paper Scrapbook Colour Challenge

So I was blog hopping recently and came across this sight, Life Paper Scrapbook.

I was drawn to their 1st Colour Challenge.
Check out how gorgeous the palette is

I raided my paint stash and mixed up the 5 colours in the palette. 

Before watering them down and running and splatting them on my page.

It's a pretty bright page. 

But it goes with my feel for 2013. 

I want my year to be full of colour and happiness. After my last year of grief and darkness, I deserve light and happiness. 

And I'm off to a good start this year as last month I ran the MS colour run. Sooo much fun.

Anyway back to my layout. Please excuse the dullness of the photos. It's overcast here today.

Products used:

American Crafts cardstock

Prima alphas

D-lish scraps washi tape

Rainbow splendour doily, pinwheel and heart

The chip chop shop doily

ScrAp this! Fuzzy felt jotter

Craft feathers

Craft wire

Staples

Machine stitching

Acrylic paints

vintage doily

TFL

Sarah x

2013 Colour run/ Vicki's date night cyber challenge

I took part in the MS Colour run last month.
It was so much fun and I got a stack of awesome photos to scrap- Yipee!

This was a quick and easy layout for me. Don't you love those!

The layout is for Vicki's date night challenge over at the SBT50 Date night cyber crop.

Her challenge is themed around movies dates.

I picked the genre of drama- the criteria is "clean with a dramatic splash of colour"

Since dramatic splashing of colour is my thing at the moment I picked the drama category.

However I did find the "clean" aspect a challenge as I tend to have busier layouts.

Anyway here's my take on the challenge.

Notice the 2 gorgeous Ah Scrap goodies I have used on there, a purple dotty button and purple flower wheel. Get your own Ah Scrap goodies here

Products used:

The Scrap cake patterned paper
D-lish Scraps washi tape
Acrylic paints
Gesso
Ah Scrap embellishments


TFL
Sarah x

She loves to create/ SUYS monthly challenge

Happy saturday to you all!
Have you seen the gorgeous monthly challenge we have happening over at Show us your stuff?

The prompt the month is this fun image.
The only other criteria for the challenge is as always to use handmade items.

How fun is that! The sponsors for this month are amazing too!

ScrAp this! And a piece of cake designs.

The other challenge that you really should check out it "Sophie's corner " over at Show us your stuff.
It's a  challenge for the junior scrappers in our lives.
Sp let your kids into your scrap room and hope they don't get too messy. LOL.


And here is my design team layout for the challenge.

Notice the 2 gorgeous badges I have used from a piece of cake designs.

And the striking red felt arrow from scrAp this!

My other handmade items are from Ah Scrap. They are they red star button, fabric pinwheel and the gorgeous red flower wheel. Get your Ah Scrap goodies here.

Products used:

American crafts patterned paper and card stock
Manor house creations flowers
Prima alphas and twister
Sassafras alphas
Stayz on ink
Ah Scrap pinwheel, button and flower wheel.
A piece of cake designs badges
ScrAp this! felt arrow
D-lish scraps washi tapes
Gesso
Acrylic paints
Helmer's scrap dots

TFL
Sarah x

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