mists and twine...

We have been getting stuck into our products over at Scrapz.Biz and are into our second week of daily challenges designed to get you to use your products. We kicked things off with mists last week and since it was my turn to come up with the Scrap Write Now challenge which is all about journalling, I thought it would be fun to create a few misted tags to journal onto.

I started things off with the fun Echo Park A Boy's Life collection kit which seemed perfect for this page about my cheeky little guy

I made a couple of custom tags by hand cutting a few star shapes to use as a mask before applying the mist to give my tags a bit more interest

this collection is full of awesome patterns as well as loads of fun alphas and stickers which helped everything come together quickly.

This week's challenge is to use twine, and here's a little peek at just one of the ways I've added twine to my page for the Fetch a Sketch challenge.

You can see the full page as well as the sketch I came up with over in the forum and while you're there don't forget to check out all the fabulous daily challenges the rest of the team have created... the challenges are open until the end of the month so there's still plenty of time to play along and have a chance at winning one of the monthly store vouchers :)

Have a great weekend!

love is in the air...

You might have noticed that I don't usually use pink and flowers on my pages, but with Valentine's Day just around the corner, I thought why not! I was inspired by a gorgeous page by Melinda Spinks to have a go at the Sweetheart sketch challenge over at the My Little Shoebox blog.

Here's the sketch Melinda created...

and this is the page I came up with about my little sweetheart using a mix of the Enchanted Garden and Home Tweet Home ranges from My Little Shoebox.

I really loved using these awesome 3D roll-up flowers from the Enchanted Garden collection, and am thinking you might see more flowers creeping onto my pages in the future :)

Thanks for stopping by!

january challenges...

January has come and gone pretty fast, and I've been busy playing along with a few more challenges. As soon as I saw the criteria for the White With One challenge I knew I had to play along... scrap a page using white + lime + buttons. This is what I came up with...

I've added a few of my {scrAp this!} fuzzy felt clouds

and more of Judith's doilies

I also had a go at the Scrap the Boys January challenge, which was to scrap your boy's favourite holiday activity, and for my boys that's definitely swimming!

and once they get in the water, it takes a lot of convincing to get them out!

the next one is a Scrap a Rainbow challenge I set over at Scrapz.Biz for a 'feeling hot' theme

My layout is about a tiny crab Cameron found at the beach which he called his little buddy

mainly using the cute Echo Park Splash range

moving into February - here's a little peek of a new Scrap it Blind challenge I put up today

using the gorgeous Holiday Ticklez kit from Scrapz.Biz

I guess that brings me up to date... thanks for stopping by :)

scrapping & sorting...

I've spent the past couple of weeks organising my supplies thanks to the daily missions for the Scrapz.Biggest Loser comp at Scrapz.Biz and I've got to say that it feels great to get organized :) and makes it so much easier to actually scrap!

Apart from sorting through and purging some of supplies I've also used some of them up to get a few pages done. This first one was inspired by a sketch challenge, although I ended up going in a bit of a different direction once I started to die-cut all the circles.

I've mainly used a mix of Studio Calico papers and had a lot of fun sorting through my stash to find all the little bits and pieces to add to the circles 

this page is all about my eldest and youngest boys being silly at the park

I have also used one of Charm's lovely lollipops as well as one of Judith's die-cut doilies

here's some more little details...

The next challenge I tackled was to use nothing but scraps to create a page. I started with the orange heart paper and gathered up lots of other leftover pieces that I thought might match

and put them all together to create this page about my little happy man :)

I've started sorting out more scraps (I have so many) and am on a mission to try and add them in to more of my pages. Do you keep your scraps too?

challenges...

I'm still trying to get through some of my Christmas scrapping and have joined in on a few challenges to help me get up to date.The first challenge was to create a layout using blue, white and a splash of red for the Show Us Your Stuff December challenge

part of the challenge was to use some handmade items on your page, so I used some of my scrAp this! fuzzy felt jotters and embellishments

I've also added a cute krafty koncoctions cardstock doily

this next photo was actually from 2010 but I thought it would be perfect for a sketch challenge that is part of the Scrapz Biggest Loser competition over at Scrapz.Biz where the mission has been to sort through and organize our supplies while using them up for various challenges.

 it feel so great to get organized and even better to use up some of my older supplies

I've used a few new items but most of this layout was made using some old Making Memories papers that I've been hoarding for ages ;)

I still have a lot more Christmas photos to get through, so I'll be on the look out for more challenges for inspiration... have you scrapped all your Christmas pics yet?

scrapping again...

After packing away all my scrapping supplies over Xmas, I couldn't wait to scrap again and thought that using some the Christmas pics would be a good place to start.

I created this layout for the Scrap the Boys December challenge using the following colour combo

I've mainly used a mix of Echo Park along with some of my {scrAp this!} xmas themed fuzzy felt embellishments which I hope to get up onto my blog soon :)

this layout is all about the countdown to Christmas and Cayden telling us everyday that "Shanta is coming"

I layered up lots of scraps to create the banners and added in more fuzzy felt with the candy cane flag pick

I've already started another page so I'll see you in a couple of days... in the meantime I am excited about organising my stash over here!