Troublesome paper.

 What to do with this old paper from my stash by Rusty Pickle named cupid's socks.

I searched pinterest for argyle patterned layouts and found this one from http://wickedlywonderfulcreations.blogspot.com/2014/01/love-is-in-air.html

It got me started at least!

First I found a co-ordinating paper in my stash and matted in white then attached it.

Next, I used a contrast strip across the middle. As my photos are about the sea I chose blue.

I added my journal card and title plus some smaller embellishments. Here's the final layout.

I hope this helps someone, it is just an idea.

Lasting Memories 2nd challenge.

 

The next challenge at Lasting Memories is to be inspired by this palette and or picture. Mine is more the picture!

Many years ago (2009) My daughter and I went to Greece to visit a friend I met at Teachers College. While we were there we saw this peacock.

I had 7 gypsies bird paper in my stash, so decided to use that.It has the blues,green and the brown tones from the photo (no purple)

. I hope it is close enough to the palette for the LM team.

I dribbled mist on the bird paper to link in the blues.

Scrap the Boys and Freaky fast Friday

 I'm combining these 2 challenges.

I started by cutting the pieces of paper for the second challenge then arranged them as near as I could to the sketch.

I chose photos of the Tour de France winners wearing face masks as I have a covid album of unusual occurences this year. 

Again I used my Counterfeit Kit.

First I flipped the camping paper and used the plain orange on the other side. The smaller strips were arranged as I said to resemble the sketch.

Instead of tags, I cut the circle in half and made 2 semi circle tags.

I added some "bling" I had on my scrap desk as a final touch but it is subtle.

Scrap our stash and Sketches in Thyme.

 My next challenge is at Scrap our stash

I'm combining it with a sketch from Sketches in Thyme.

Here's my layout

Again, I've used items from my Counterfeit Kit here,the papers,the alphas and the die cut stickers.

I was going to put this in the holiday album but I think it will go in my COVID 19 album as it was well needed.

Challenge YOUrself.

 My 3rd layout this morning is one for Challenge YOUrself

The theme is Home for the Holidays.

When Warren and I were first married we drove for 2 hours to visit both sets of parents on Christmas Day.In this photo we are with his mother and aunt. It was the first year we were married so very keen to "do the right thing".

I painted the edges of the paper to look like snow.I also used old music paper as Warren is quite musical and it was a tradition there to sing carols. The ribbon roses came pre-made and the chipboard scraoll was inked in gold. The 2 reindeers were painted red. I added sequins as well.

Shopping our stash

 At Shopping our stash they have a tic tac toe.

I've chosen to go across the bottom row.

Using one of the neutral papers from my kit I made a background for my 2 die cut tags.

They are attached with gold heart brads and I then chose 2 words as inspiration Faith and Hope.

This could be a get well or cheer up card or even for Christmas.

This or That at Paper Issues.

 In my kit was this pink paislee scalloped edge paper named fetching

When I'm not sure of design I often go to Pinterest, where I found thr same paper in this layout from Luzma on Scrapbooking.com.

I'm doing this for a This or that challenge at Paper Issues.

I've chosen apple (a strip from Shimelle Now go), orange, thicker title, leaves, real stitching, 3D bow and dots. (I used my thick dotariffic pen for those.)

The diamente on the bow made me think of the dog tags.notice I used the paw print paper again,it seemed apt. I added 3 words to describe Buster and Benji who are brothers and best mates.

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I've also done a 2nd layout about the dogs.

Buster is a food scrounge. He begs for food, even if he has just eaten. In this particular case my friend has some marshmallow slice. He came under the table begging for food.Making all the appropriate faces and whimpers until he got some. He developed a taste for marshmallow while we were there.

I used an EK success paper and kept it simple otherwise with gold arrow,heart and plus signs.

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