Last Monday's sketch challenge

Sorry it's taken so long to publish last weeks sketch challenge pages / cards I've been busy, busy, busy. The sketch was another from Triple The Sketch site and I have published the cards that were also made using the same sketch. The challenge was also to try and use fabric of some sort on the page/card, it could be fabric, ribbon, lace or felt -(anything that could be used it sewing.)

BasicGrey paper challenge

Do you remember this paper challenge my friend Helen and I set each other ( posted 23rd May)? Well we got together and checked out each others page and I thought you might like to see them too.
This first one is mine and I really struggled with trying to keep everything just in the top of the page so that the beautiful bird still showed, although I did cut around some of it and slipped the photo in underneath.

This is Helens page and I am totally impressed that she managed to cut out the whole bird! I haven't got the patience for cutting out intricate images but the bird does stand out more now that Helen mounted it on some sanded core-dinations paper (which she said was hard work to get the look she was after.)
Why don't you get together with a scrappy friend and challenge each other, it doesn't have to be complicated you could just use one element as we did with this paper. The important thing is having fun with friends, you could even complete it at each others houses and make it really sociable ( don't forget the snacks for the hard working brain, I always recomend cake!)

Sketch challenge

This is the sketch I gave out at my craft club a couple of weeks ago and below are the wonderful pages that have been done using said sketch. I sometimes add the extra challenge of a colour or item of stash but this was a free for all so all the pages look completely different.

The Sketch came from a sketch site called Triple The Sketch and if you like working from sketches it's worth a look as their design team post there pages they have done using the sketches ( please excuse the multiple use of the word SKETCH!).

Hope you enjoy looking at our work.

Aprils mini kit pages

Here are some of the mini kit pages that the ladies from my craft club did a few weeks ago but if you remember we had a blackout so I couldn't get the photo's taken. There are only a few of them as not everyone brought them back in this Monday but I hope to post some more later. If you want to see what was in the kit go to April 21st post as there is a picture of all the items.

The page above was done by Joan.... I forgot to take the photo of it with her name on.

trying something new

Hope you like this page, it's a little different to my usual style but I am trying to push myself a bit to use the stash I have got and make my titles more interesting.

Initially I wasn't even going to scrap these photo's as they were a bit dark but I decided to work with it and use the main colours and especially the red for impact.I don't know if you can tell from the photo but the word 'tourists' is cut out of shiny red foil which matches Kyle's and Freddy's clothes.

The word labels were fun and easy to do on the computer then print out in different font's and red ink. I like the effect of this sort of wording which you can normally buy in sticker form but I was trying to be frugle ( and complete the page today) but I will definately do it again. Why not have a go yourself and have some fun playing with font's colours and sizes.

My next post should be two lots of craft club challenges - as long as we don't have another power cut on Monday !

Multi photo layouts

Here I am with another double layout - I have been trying to use up all the sets of photo's that I had printed a while ago. I much prefer to do single page layout's but have set myself the task of getting these done and being able to have a bit more space on the page to GO WILD !!!! (now you know me, I play strictly in my own little box) But watch this space I may surprise you - outside the box has been calling to me.

This Center Parcs layout was done using BasicGrey's Urban Prairie papers, I wasn't very pleased with my title, although I had to distress it and go around the letters with black pen so that they would blend with the papers I have been getting lazy with my title's layout. This is where I must think more about being creative with my titles in future instead of just leaving a space and then sticking some die cut letters in.

I was in Ipswich shopping the other day and just popped into WHSmith's to check out magazines and what did I find but a brand new mag. It seemed very expensive - £5.99 ! But on inspection it's the best scrapbook mag I 've seen, It's not for beginners as it's not your usual layout. It has no demonstrations or techniques, no letters from readers, just page after page of beautiful scrapbook pages (with a half dozen cards thrown in.) When I looked up their web site it is an American mag that has been re-edited for the British market but I do prefer the American style of scrapbooking (it just seems tidier if that makes sense).

I shall bring it to the next club meeting so you can all see it. In the meantime here is a picture of the front cover if you want to go check it out yourself.

And this is a picture of my favourite layout in the mag. I just like the bright colours and the ripped papers.

I popped in to see my friend Helen the other day and we decided to have a challenge between the two of us - to do a page using this paper ! It is another BasicGrey sheet this time from the Eva line , I really do like BasicGrey at the moment, even my craft club challenge from last week I have used another different line of theirs.

I will post our layout's ( if Helen let's me that is ?) to show you how we both got on. Apparently Helen has already finished hers so I had better get my thinking cap on ( if I can find it - last seen under a pile of ironing).

Thanks for stopping by. Kerry.

craft club blackout

We had just set up the craft club on Monday and everyone was arriving when the electricity went off!! So we had a look at everyone's mini kit challenge layouts and cards but it was getting too dark to take photos of them to post on this blog but we were sure the power would come back on within a few minutes.
How wrong we were, at 8.45pm we decided that it was even getting too dark to stay and chat so we started to pack away. Just as we were starting to leave the power came back on!!!!!!!!! A bit disappointing to say the least especially as our next meeting can't be for three weeks due to another bank holiday.
But I have given everyone a sketch challenge to be getting along with and we will all bring our layouts to the next meeting and I will post them all then.

This next layout I started with a sketch from the last Creativity Life magazine but didn't follow it to the letter ( But then I rarely do) I found this lovely paper that I could cut around the flowers to make it more interesting and then because the paper was quite busy anyway it didn't need much more on there so I just cut some more flowers and placed them on top of the others using some foam pads. I decided to add lots of gems to jazz it up a bit.
click on the image to see up close. Thanks for looking.