Wicked Princess Layout Challenge

This was the 1st layout challenge that I actually enjoyed :) Even more exciting was that it was my 1st play on the sewing machine. I will definately be going back for more. The cute cosmo criket paper went well with what Cooper was wearing. http://www.wickedprincesses.com.au/wickedforum/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=2111

My Favourite Males

This one was just for fun and I loved all the colours :)

Another Wicked Princess Challenge :)

Princess Kate Challenge

You must have something felt/fabric

do not use the colour green

There should be a smile on your page

Buttons, buttons, buttons

A piece of string from here to there..

A little spotty or dotty

This is my page for it and I LOVE it :) My lil sis and I on a night out in Brisbane. 1st night out together since she turned 18.
I used chip chop shop doileys, Kaisercraft paper, Used the sewing machine for the border. For the 1st time I sewed the middle of some crepe paper and then pulled the thread to make this cute embellishment. Added a strap from a top of mine that had broken and some Heidi swap and Kaisercraft lettering.

Flowers

I saw these flowers somewhere a while back and I thought they would look great on some girly pages. So as my first tutorial I have taken step by step photos of me making one. Sorry I have done them in pale pink which isn't great on the white backdrop but I hope to put them in a page soon which will help show you have great they look :) I have used 5 flowers to make this flower.
Step 1:  I've left one flower whole and flat. I've used a kaiser flower, you could you almost any time of flower that folds easily.

Step 2: I have then folded it in half

Step 3: Then in half again

Step 4: I have done step 2 and 3 to another 3 flowers making this 4 folded flowers all up.

Step 5: I have then glued the 4 flowers onto the base flower and  there you have it, a cute flower. You could fluff it up as much as you want and really change the look of it depedning on what you put in the middle. I'm yet to decide what to use..

Get Picky

Loved this layout over at Get Picky http://getpicky.blogspot.com/2011/04/april-sketch-challenge-7.html
Robot paper with Birch. Some perks of this bright and cute paper are the pages glitter and embossing. The paper is thicker so it was great to distress. This photos are from last easter so It was good to finally use some older photos. I have hundreds that Id love to scrap before the end of the year.. These photos crack me up, he is so dramatic sometimes!! This was over him and some of his friends fighting over his bike. He LOVES his bikes!
My local scrap shop has a crop night tommorow night so Im looking forward to doing lots more pages :) I have no camera at the moment :( so I'll probably have to do another bulk blog later in the week.

My new FAVOURTIE Page!! :)

Ok so this was a challenge but I can't seem to find who is running it but Im starting to think it may of been from last month :( Either way I love the page!! Now to go and find where it should be... if anywhere. lol
Using the 'Down on a farm' kit from them it has 'My Little Shoebox' papers. Ive added some embellishments from 'The Chop hop', 'My Vintage Blossoms' and some random embellishments from at home and my local scrapbooking shop http://www.facebook.com/media/set/fbx/?set=a.1500613320157.2067291.1378913613&saved#!/pages/Scrapbooking-24-7/112443688803564

Magic Challenge

Ove at 'Bird is the word' http://birdisthewordchallenge.blogspot.com/ they have a challenge where we have to use the word 'Magic' in our title. This is my page below using Kaisercraft papers and chipboard and flowers from 'My Vintage Blossom'. This is a bit of a simple one but I love the photo so much that I didn't feel right adding too much to it. Didn't want to take away from the photo.

Kraft it up

Oh I love the Kraft it Up challenges and was so excited to get my Kraft cardstock in time to do the April Challenge.
The challenge this month was a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 challenge. I had to create a layout based on the following...
1 piece of Kraft cardstock
2 photos smaller than 6x4
3 different Alphas
4 different patterned papers
5 different embellishments

I used 'Playgroup' paper from Echo Park that I bought from http://www.annascraftcupboard.com.au/store/, Piggy Bank sticker is a Jolee sticker that I bought from http://www.facebook.com/#!/shezsscrapbookingstickers, Doily from http://www.etsy.com/shop/thechipchopshop. Now to recieve my 'Purple Pumpkin' order. Can't wait!!

Inspiration!

I am really enjoying all these competitions. It has given me so much motivation to scrapbook photos that I've had sitting around for over a year or 2. I am trying different paper and colour combinations and I find my style is evolving and changing with each page I do. When I got back into scrapbooking last year it was mainly for kids and adults classes so I felt I had to keep it all quite simple and I was told to not leave empty corners. Now I can experiment and I am loving it. I still sometimes make boring pages with not many techniques or excitement but then I remember it's not for a class and the next one is better as I remember to let lose.
My camera has died but I can't wait to take photos of my new layouts tommorow!
Happy Scrapping :)

OUCH

This page was for the Stuck Sketches Blog http://stucksketches.blogspot.com/2011/04/more-from-april-1st-sketch.html and although Im not big on using sketches I actually really like how this page turned out. It makes it alot easier with all the great inspiration on their blog. This is another one using Bo Bunny papers. I have also added some ribbon, Kaisercraft letters and ink.

So I was just thinking today that I have embossing stuff and I havn't embossed in over 8 months! So hopefully I can get into using it on my pages again!! I have also just bought alot of stencils so Im looking forward to using them on pages aswell. Because my scrap room is downstairs, but I scrap mainly upstairs, it means I forget about alot of stuff that I have that I don't use.