Paper Issues sketch challenge

Here is the December sketch at Paper Issues.

I'm still scrapping my Canada holiday and in this case the Mountain goats at Park Omega.

I only had the 2 photos so used them instead of 3 on the sketch.

This was great as I have used lots of brown scraps as my background. I even had the bracket shaped one to put at the top for my journaling.

 

The long hair on the goats inspired my tassels and I went with the animal these and used leopard print alphas.

This makes 40 layouts of Canada done .

Sketchy boards challenge

Here's the challenge at Sketchy boards this month.
I had a set of die cut border strips one of which was gold. I used that as my central strip and the negative of it as my sunburst feature.
I had very few other gold embellishments, but have used 2 other washi tapes and a tiny bow.

My feature on here is the bear button I bought in Canada.

This was at Park Omega again and we were amazed when the bear on the right stood up.

A kodak moment!

Nobody puts baby in the corner

Paper Issues has a challenge to put your photos and details in the corners and leave the middle section bare. This isn't as easy as it seems.
I used 4 photos from our Canada trip which featured a square that was right in front of our hotel.
We ate dinner in one of the restaurants opposite it and walked through a few times so it features in my memory.

I kept my embellishments to a minimum and ran my title across the top of the photos.

Searching for inspiration

I have 3 photos to scrap and couldn't work out a design for my layout.
I looked on Pinterest.
I searched through challenges and sketches.
Finally, I looked back through my own blog until I reached February 2012 and found this.

Also at Paper Issues there's this challenge :

"We want you to create a project using an odd number of items.

For Example: 3 Photos, 1 Circle, 5 enamel dots, 7 stickers, etc."

So working on odds I started.

My background paper is an old one from Sandy Lion. I chose it because of the vertical stripes.

Next I used 3 border strips from Sassafrass Lass.

I've used one journal tag. I've also used one arrow. I used one wood veneer leaf (Canada).

Even the alphas have 9 letters!

Paper Issues 2 layouts.

On the Paper Issues facebook group they have several challenges.

The first is to scraplift this one.

I started with a green chevron paper bag.

I added 2 colours of Kaiser mist which was a big disaster as one leaked all over the layout, me, the board, and my desk.

After cleaning up I decided it looked ok so continued.
I punched the edge of some black paper and used it as a mat.
Next I added bright orange pompoms and the black and white printed bracket plus the pale blue tab.
Final touches after the alphas were a flair,asmaller acrylic embellishment,my smaller words and some handwriting.

Next was a colour palette.

 I started with green paper and pale pink mat for the photos.
I punched 2 inch squares for the right hand side using the remaining colours.
The flag pennant helped top provide interest down the centre and was inspired by the colour flags on the right.
The 3 photos document a chair lift ride at Mt Tremblant and I added the ticket as well.
Small sticker words added and it was done.

Mystical colour swatch.

Mystical Scrapbooks has a colour challenge this month.

The above swatch is the colour scheme and we must use either white or black cardstock as our background.

I started by dribbling blue mist on my card,then used 2 strips of pink ribbon on the vertical.
Next I put 2 lime strips on the horizontal.
I have a whole bag of tiny green buttons so I glued those between the 2 strips of pink.

Yellow is used to mat the photos.
Here's my journaling.

went a bit uphill there but never mind.

And here's my layout!

The scraproom jump start challenge

This is the jumpstart challenge sketch at thescraproom
I have a bundle of brightly coloured papers that will not work as a large page so cut pieces from those. I also made my tags from scraps.
My centre piece is the Canadian maple leaf as the 1000 islands are there.
The arrow is subtle and the enamel dots are a finishing touch.