February "What's in the Bickie tin?"

 At What's in the bickie tin  for February we are asked to use a stencil, hearts and either pink or red.

(Valentines theme if wanted).

I used a stencil and red paint to create my hearts. They're rather chubby hearts as the pain was runny.

There's also tiny hearts on the yellow strip across the lower secton.I used red as my colour

You can join in the challenge here

What's in the bickie tin?

Scrap our stash sketch

 

I had one photo left from the birthday snaps of Erica. This one featured her hairdo.

She always does something a bit different to match her outfit.

Again I used the Maggie Holmes Elizabeth Kate papers from Crate Paper on here.

I started with white background and splashed red mists on it.

Cutting my strip then backing it on pink softened the layout. I used a journal card instead of a second photo. It says exactly what I wanted. My title is actually cut from the flair packet.

I used one flair bottom right saying "snap shots".

I used faux stitching on my circles then added some pearl embellishments.

Lasting memories-Events

 We are asked to scrapbook an Event for this challenge.

Erica turned 34 in November and now we are 2 mature ladies we went to the Hyatt hotel for a high tea.

It was very special and food was scrumptious.

I chose grey and pink for this layout and kept it simple as I needed to fit 3 photos plus the large card on it, containing the title.

I used a strip of the black and white diagonal paper to tie it in with the other layouts I've already done about this. 

Lasting Memories- Best sellers

 The next challenge at Lasting memories is best sellers.

AS a librarian, I'm always reading and I had to do this challenge didn't I?

Many years ago I read a Town like Alice and I've also seen the movie a few times. Then 5 years ago I visited Alice Springs. The photo is the Red Dog Cafe where I bought a coffee.

I used colours that blended with the photo and added another photo of the book's cover. I also added a large flower, small amount of washi tape, butterfly and some enamel dots. I hope you like it!

Challenge #2 Let's begin.

Challenge #2 is Let's begin

Record the start of something new - or a fresh start or a restart - on your pages. Or maybe you could start a new technique for the first time on your page. Or try a new design. Or a new-to-you colour combination. 

I had a good think and came up with  a peephole technique using tearing and an extra sheet adhered to the back which needs to be double sided.

Using 2 of my woodgrain papers, I wanted the flaps that peeled back to also be woodgrain.

I tore rather than cut because I was going for a rustic look. 

Mystical cyber crop sketch challenges.

 At Mystical Scrapbooking there is a cyber crop featuring sketches.

This is Donna's sketch.

I decided to use some papers I bought from Mystical which were Maggie Holmes Elizabeth Kate.

My theme here is Erica's last birthday at the Hyatt hotel in Canberra.

I chose 3 photos from our High tea and arranged them similar to the sketch. 

I also used a "family" word from a thickers set I have plus smaller alphas for my subtitle. I made the tag from the verso side of one of the papers and used red ribbon.

The flair saying Our stories is cocoa vanilla.

Here's a close up

and the actual layout

The next challenge was using this sketch

I decided to use the same range of papers plus add pink and another striped SEI paper. Glitzmas

It wasn't planned that way but I can see her gazing into the distance,her spirit showing through.

This gave me my title vision,spirit and heart.

The drink cup bottom left says "You've got this!"

I decided to flip the sketch to suit the photos.

Lasting Memories travel layout.

 In 2019 we were lucky enough to travel to Christchurch in New Zealand for a week's holiday.

In the botanical gardens they have a Peace Bell from Japan I think, that you can "ding".

I used a Bella paper from their New York range plus some smaller offcuts that co-ordinated.

The 2 tickets added to the theme and my cork alphas added texture.