As you like it challenge.

 At "as you like it"  there is a beach challenge.

We had to justify if we like the beach or not. One of my favourite places is the beach and swimming in the surf. I travel quite often so love visiting beaches wherever I go. It calms me and helps put things in perspective. 

I made a travel card but could also just be a general beach card. 

The Male Room

 The Male Room (themaleroomchallengeblog.blogspot.com)

At the Male Room the challenge is travel. 

Last night I made 2 cards, for cruises, to give to men.

I used a combination of papers including a quite busy ocean wave paper. The top layer is a journal card map from Prima and the 2 chipboard embellishments are also from them. 

Just for fun I also made this card with the same paper plus a tag. 

Sketches in Thyme and Mystical cyber crop #3

 

Here's the sketch at Sketches in Thyme. It is a good opportunity to use up odd, shaped bits and pieces.

I started with a circle I had already cut out, but not used. Next the triangle was similarly cut from a strip. I used red cardstock as my background as the wagons both had red on them.

Instead of arrows I used enamel dots. 

Mystical cybercrop challenge #3 wants 1 coloured background, 2 photos and 3 frames. It also qualifies for that. 

Challenge YOUrself.

 At Challenge YOUrself they want us to scrap our happy place.

A couple of years ago I did a layout for Challenge Yourself named "cracked". Julene By Design: Challenge YOUrself. As I pointed out there my happy place is to do with my state of mind. Somewhere where I can be myself and let the fun side of myself shine. With that in mind I did this layout.

It is a Christmas layout. 

A friend was given a silly hat for her cat to wear. It had gold plaits hanging down either side. I popped it on my head and pulled a silly face. My 2 best friends thought it was hilarious. 

I named my layout Christmas Nonsense. I also used a large camera chipboard piece which I painted pale green. I added tiny white chiffon flowers as well.

Go Green.

 My last layout for this month's kit is using the green tropical paper.

I had a strip of the pink leaf paper so put that across the bottom. The other floral paper came in handy behind the photos. I also used a strip of butterfly washi tape across the bottom as well.

I had a green camera and matching enamel dots so they became my embellishments. The journal tag became my focal point I think.

Challenge #1 Face in the crowd.

 

I saw this layout on a Facebook page and have decided to scraplift it. Mainly using the idea of a central strip going vertically down the camera paper.

I also have these misted canvas shapes I want to use. (Not all, but definitely some.)

Using my camera paper I added a pink strip down the centre. Next I matted my 2 photos with vellum. I layered a large journal card behind the top photo as it has an arrow pointing down. This lines up with Erica in the top photo. I used 2 canvas hearts to draw the eye to her head. (Her face in the crowd moment). I added another small circle of canvas bottom left to balance my layout. The 2 larger canvas pieces are for my title and sub-title. 

and here's my clusters

White with one cyber crop -Tic tac toe.

 

We had to choose one colour to scrap with so I choose red. I used a stencil to make the travel words top and bottom with red paint. The 2 corner pieces are misted canvas. The chipboard piece is above the right-hand picture of me. It featured hearts so I also added sticker glitter hearts and 3 diamentes to the layout. I went down the left-hand column.