Another exciting announcement today with the addition of a new Project Life challenge at Stuck On U Sketches with an all new Design Team including.....ME!!!
You can find the announcement here and if you want to check out my Project Life posts so far for 2013 they are all found here.
I think that is all my good news announcements for a while! Thanks for visiting.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Monday, May 13, 2013
Sketchabilities...it's nice to see you again!
Very excited to announce I am back on the Sketchabilities design team from June-August. You can see the announcement and the rest of the team here. So if you are on the lookout for a great challenge you can always be sure to find some inspiration in one of the sketches over at the site, they are fab and I can't wait to get creating with them!
Sunday, May 5, 2013
A new challenge blog - Scrap Around The World
There is a new challenge blog recently started called Scrap Around The World. I thought I would join in their very first challenge, so I came up with this layout:
The current challenge is a combination of a mood board for inspiration and a sketch. I went with the colours of the mood board, and rotated the sketch 90 degrees to suit my portrait photo.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Catching up with Project Life
Seems once again the poor old blog has been a bit Project Life neglected - my album IS all up to date just not so much here...so that will shortly be rectified!
Week 15:
Aren't you just loving the "Lex you are awesome" note that Kiara wrote?!? Mind you, I think there was also a "Lex you are a poo" note that had earlier been disposed of...
Loving the simple pages lately with lots of photos, simple journalling ON the photos and some filler cards with stamping.
Week 16:
Just a single page spread this week.
With a little ANZAC day insert:
Week 15:
Aren't you just loving the "Lex you are awesome" note that Kiara wrote?!? Mind you, I think there was also a "Lex you are a poo" note that had earlier been disposed of...
Week 16:
Just a single page spread this week.
And Week 17:
With a little ANZAC day insert:
Monday, April 22, 2013
A My Mind's Eye Mini
Say that three times fast! One of my favourite projects that I did for my April Guest Designer spot at My Mind's Eye was the mini album I made using the My Girl range. The papers and embellishments in this range are so bright and fun and were perfect for nearly every photo I take of Alexa.
So off we go! The basis for this mini album is simply 6x4 chipboard sheets that I cut out using my trimmer for some pieces that I had kept, probably from the back of some of the girls notepaper, or as packaging from some scrappy purchase. I never throw these pieces of thin cardboard away, they are perfect for the base of mini album pages. I simply then selected some of the gorgeous patterned paper from the 6x6 patterned paper pad which are ideal for these kind of smaller projects with the scaled down designs.
For my front cover I kept with a fairly understated patterned paper as I wanted the title and the banners to take centre stage. I just adore these chipboard banners, they add just the right amount of colour and embellishment to this cover. I used a combination of stamps for the "I love you today tomorrow and forever" (which I also love...wonder how many times I am going to need to say that throughout this post?!?). To finish off the front cover I added a strip of contrasting patterned paper that I took to with one of my {many} border punches, and covered the edge with decorative tape.
I selected my photos from my favourites throughout the year. I tried to stick with roughly one per month - but some months I didn't choose any, others more than one. For my month stamps I have used the Yesterday stamp set from Give A Girl A.... although I did try to stick with My Mind's Eye products for the rest of the stamps and embellishments. I found the month stamps just added that extra touch and gave me a rough date for the pictures in the album as well.
A nice little hint with the next pages is to use your stamps in different ways, or add other words to them to make phrases. I used the "just" from a piece of paper and then stamped the "beautiful" underneath on the left hand page, and then stamped directly onto the decorative tape on the right hand page. I like this effect and must remember to do it more often. It would be great on Project Life type pages, too.
Another use I got out of the circle stickers from the sticker sheet was to chop them in half and use them as a scallop border under the left hand picture. I just love the look of the fussy cut Hello speech bubble on top of the photo.
One of my favourite things about the techniques in this mini album is to use just "parts" of stamps. On the right hand page for the border I simply stamped the edge of the ruler stamp and it made a great border.
For pages with quite bright and busy backgrounds I tried to keep everything else fairly simple so as not to overwhelm the page.
Here I used the dash line stamp for a butterfly trail. I roughly guessed where I wanted the trail to be and stuck the stamp to a large clear block in that pattern and stamped.
A little bit of decorative tape can look fantastic to add a bit of colour and funky design, and some punched out shapes can also bring in some of the other colours and use up some of the tiny scrap pieces laying around.
And finally the back cover, nice and simple with this great patterned paper.
So off we go! The basis for this mini album is simply 6x4 chipboard sheets that I cut out using my trimmer for some pieces that I had kept, probably from the back of some of the girls notepaper, or as packaging from some scrappy purchase. I never throw these pieces of thin cardboard away, they are perfect for the base of mini album pages. I simply then selected some of the gorgeous patterned paper from the 6x6 patterned paper pad which are ideal for these kind of smaller projects with the scaled down designs.
For my front cover I kept with a fairly understated patterned paper as I wanted the title and the banners to take centre stage. I just adore these chipboard banners, they add just the right amount of colour and embellishment to this cover. I used a combination of stamps for the "I love you today tomorrow and forever" (which I also love...wonder how many times I am going to need to say that throughout this post?!?). To finish off the front cover I added a strip of contrasting patterned paper that I took to with one of my {many} border punches, and covered the edge with decorative tape.
I selected my photos from my favourites throughout the year. I tried to stick with roughly one per month - but some months I didn't choose any, others more than one. For my month stamps I have used the Yesterday stamp set from Give A Girl A.... although I did try to stick with My Mind's Eye products for the rest of the stamps and embellishments. I found the month stamps just added that extra touch and gave me a rough date for the pictures in the album as well.
A nice little hint with the next pages is to use your stamps in different ways, or add other words to them to make phrases. I used the "just" from a piece of paper and then stamped the "beautiful" underneath on the left hand page, and then stamped directly onto the decorative tape on the right hand page. I like this effect and must remember to do it more often. It would be great on Project Life type pages, too.
Another use I got out of the circle stickers from the sticker sheet was to chop them in half and use them as a scallop border under the left hand picture. I just love the look of the fussy cut Hello speech bubble on top of the photo.
One of my favourite things about the techniques in this mini album is to use just "parts" of stamps. On the right hand page for the border I simply stamped the edge of the ruler stamp and it made a great border.
For pages with quite bright and busy backgrounds I tried to keep everything else fairly simple so as not to overwhelm the page.
Here I used the dash line stamp for a butterfly trail. I roughly guessed where I wanted the trail to be and stuck the stamp to a large clear block in that pattern and stamped.
A little bit of decorative tape can look fantastic to add a bit of colour and funky design, and some punched out shapes can also bring in some of the other colours and use up some of the tiny scrap pieces laying around.
And finally the back cover, nice and simple with this great patterned paper.
Saturday, April 20, 2013
A Paper Stories sketch
The April sketch at Paper Stories is a beauty and was perfect for this gorgeous snapshot I took of Alexa on her 7th birthday. The soft colours in the photo matched perfectly with those in the March kit from Scraptastic and with those fabulous banners and doilies I couldn't go wrong. I love the way this one has turned out!
Project Life and My Mind's Eye
Ahhh, two of my favourite scrappy things in the world - Project Life and My Mind's Eye. Doesn't get much better than that combination. When I saw the Collectable Unforgettable there was no question what I was going to create with it - a Project Life layout. And what chance that the week I was up to in my Project Life just happened to be Alexa's 7th birthday so an insert featuring these products was perfect.
Instead of my normal PL "style" I went with slightly smaller pics for this insert, simply so I could incorporate more of the gorgeous patterned papers in the layouts. I mostly used papers from the 6x6 paper pad which is absolutely perfect for use in smaller projects like this, the patterns are scaled down so you get to see the complete pattern in the smaller scale than if you simply cut a 3x4 from a full 12x12 piece of patterned paper. I also loved the Story Journal paper (You are the best, Life is good with you around & The Story) which is great value as you can get so many journalling cards from the one piece of paper. Again I have used a mix of the stamp sets on these layouts, stamping is perfect for Project Life as you can add a little extra embellishment and colour without any bulk.
The Tiny Word Stickers are great to add a little extra as well, and I love the look of stamping around the borders of the 6x4 patterned papers. And the decorative tape. Let's face it, there wasn't much about this range that I didn't love! And these Project Life spreads are just sooooo very Alexa - the colours, the patterns the "feel". Happy Birthday Lex!
Instead of my normal PL "style" I went with slightly smaller pics for this insert, simply so I could incorporate more of the gorgeous patterned papers in the layouts. I mostly used papers from the 6x6 paper pad which is absolutely perfect for use in smaller projects like this, the patterns are scaled down so you get to see the complete pattern in the smaller scale than if you simply cut a 3x4 from a full 12x12 piece of patterned paper. I also loved the Story Journal paper (You are the best, Life is good with you around & The Story) which is great value as you can get so many journalling cards from the one piece of paper. Again I have used a mix of the stamp sets on these layouts, stamping is perfect for Project Life as you can add a little extra embellishment and colour without any bulk.
The Tiny Word Stickers are great to add a little extra as well, and I love the look of stamping around the borders of the 6x4 patterned papers. And the decorative tape. Let's face it, there wasn't much about this range that I didn't love! And these Project Life spreads are just sooooo very Alexa - the colours, the patterns the "feel". Happy Birthday Lex!
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