It's all blue sky and sunshine over on Scrap It With a Song ...

Final weather related song from Scrap It With a Song this month and it's a great choice - Mr Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). Love this song!!

So much choice with lyrics for this one and so many different ways you could interpret this song.  I've gone with the happy, cheerful theme of playing in the sunshine.

Scrap It With a Song and we are out in the sun ...

Week 2 with Scrap It With a Song and we have another weather themed song in the form of "Soak up the sun" by Cheryl Crowe (and I'll admit I have not heard this one before).

 

 

I used a few lines from the song to highlight my page.

 

 

 

Freaky Punks or Punky Freaks? ...

I've not played along with Punky Scraps before so thought it about time I did.  Their April challenge was a sketch with the added criteria of yellow and feathers.  I've used quite a lot of yellow on this layout and added a few yellow embellishments plus one little birdie with a silver wing for the feather component as I didn't have anything else to use. 

 

 

I've combined this challenge with one from Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge who this month have asked the question ... What did you want to be when you grew up?  A doctor? A fireman? A nurse? An astronaut? A mommy?? 

 

From my photo you will already have guessed perhaps ... I wanted to be a librarian when I grew up :) but unfortunately that didn't happen.

 

 

 

Some sweet with the sour ...

The Lollipop Ladies have sour coke bottles and glitter as their first inspiration challenge this month.

 

I finally decided on a card in similar colour tones although I have added a subtle pink to umph it up a bit.  I have glittered the pink petals on my flower to give it some added sparkle.

 

It is dull and raining here today so my photo has come out a little darker then in reality.  I have brown inked kraft card and used a slightly darker toned brown polka dot paper with the overlay of the lighter dusky rose.

 

 

A quality week with Shimelle (Part D) ...

The final six challenges and my layouts for Shimelle.  Gosh 24 challenges and 24 layouts in a week - that has got to be some sort of record for me!!  Thankyou Shimelle for the fabulous inspiration and the motivation to get these done :)


Challenge 19 - Use some paint

Paint applied with a credit card. (I know I haven't done the journaling as I need to locate some information which currently isn't accessible).

Challenge 20 - Scrapbooking with smaller photos

Using 2 x 3x4

Challenge 21 - Divided page protectors

I have never used a divided page protector for an actual layout but I have to say I really like this method.  The idea is that this divider will sit next to a normal 12x12 layout of my dh cutting his birthday cake.  By doing it this way it has saved me the effort of completing two layouts or of making a double page.  I'll use this technique again :)

 
Challenge 22 - Scrapbooking with squares

It's all squares!

Challenge 23 - Stretch your supplies

Using tiny scraps from off my desk which would normally be thrown out.

 

Challenge 24 - Record a milestone

My dd's 11th birthday.

A quality week with Shimelle (Part C) ...

And here I am still playing along with Shimelle for NSD.  Here are the next six challenges and my interpretations ...

Challenge 13 - Highlight your favourite paper

I love a lot of paper ranges - I'm particularly partial to Crate Paper,  Echo Park, Studio Calico, October Afternoon and My Mind's Eye.  This layout uses For the Record from Echo Park.

Challenge 14 - Double pages

I've decided doubles are hard to photograph!!

Challenge 15 - Line up small embellishments

Using little things from a small cup I have on my desk where I put lots of left over little things!

Challenge 16 - Record hope or gratitude

Grateful for the friendship of these two boys.

Challenge 17 - Scrapbook with fabric

Fabric square as background, denim fabric behind picture and ric-rac across bottom of pic.

Challenge 18 - The power of three

Lots of visual triangles and clusters of 3.

A quality week with Shimelle (Part B) ...

And yet more NSD challenges from Shimelle.  Here are the next six and my interpretations ...


Challenge 7 -  Using unexpected supplies

Using transparency and felt.

Challenge 8 - Scrapbook yourself

A page for my Book of Me.

Challenge 9 - Fancy cutting

Cutting from a sheet of patterned paper.

Challenge 10 - Use a mood board

I don't use mood boards so took this one from here and just followed the theme of flowers, green and purple.

 

 

Challenge 11 - Add some sparkle

I don't do sparkly so adding a journaling card with glitter and a scattering of rhinestones is as good as it gets.

Challenge 12 - Journaling in letter format

A letter to my daughter.

A quality week with Shimelle (Part A) ...

I have to admit to being a Shimelle groupie.  I just love her work and her style and how she does things - her classes are awesome!.

Each year she does the most amazing scrapping event for (Inter) National Scrapbooking Day and each year I try my best to play along.  This year I actually thought  I would endeavour to do all of the challenges she set - that was until I realised she had outdone herself this year and listed 24 !!!  Thank goodness she give us a full week to complete them all :)

So since the only way to finish something is to actually start it that is what I have done - "slowly and steadily" as the saying goes.  Here are the first six challenges and my interpretations.

Challenge 1 - Scrapbooking in pink

Pink, pink and a little more pink!

Challenge 2  - Scrapbooking with 4x6 photos

Using two 6x4 photos.

Challenge 3 - Scrapbooking with spray inks and mists

Subtle silver misting behind photo.

Challenge 4 - Write with repetition

Used a rub-on with "We" sentiments.

Challenge 5 - Scrapbooking with brads and eyelets

Using 7 brads.

Challenge 6 - Scraplift yourself

It did this layout some years ago but like it's simplicity - it is also a great way to use up some of those smaller pieces of paper which would normally find their way to the bin.

 

and my own scraplift ...

 

 

Scrap It With a Song for May Week 1 ...

It seems that spring is in the air over on Scrap It With a Song this month although here in Australia we are heading into the colder winter months.  Regardless of the season I feel May will be all about the weather.

First up is an oldie but a goodie in Bob Dylan with Blowing in the Wind.  This really is a classic protest song and no-one does these iconic songs quite like Mr Dylan.

 

So many wonderful lyrics in this song - I decided to not go with the obvious title but take the line "How many roads must a man walk down ..."

 

 

 

 

Guest Designing on Child's Play Challenges in May ...

Woo Hoo - I'm Guest Designing on Child's Play Challenges this month and my first layout is up.  The first challenge is a skipping rope inspiration and I decided to record a few of those skipping rhymes my friends and I used to chant as we skipped.

 

Come join in the fun!!

More Foolish Games on Scrap It With a Song ...

I've always loved Foolish Games by Jewel which is the final song inspiration on Scrap It With a Song this month.

 

So many wonderful lyrics in this song if you wanted to go this route for your submission ... and of course I did :)

 

 

 

 You took your coat off and stood in the rain,
You're always crazy like that.
And I watched from my window,
Always felt I was outside looking in on you.
You're always the mysterious one with
Dark eyes and careless hair,
You were fashionably sensitive
But too cool to care.
You stood in my doorway, with nothing to say
Besides some comment on the weather.

Well in case you failed to notice,
In case you failed to see,
This is my heart bleeding before you,
This is me down on my knees, and...

These foolish games are tearing me apart,
And your thoughtless words are breaking my heart.
You're breaking my heart.

You're always brilliant in the morning,
Smoking your cigarettes and talking over coffee.
Your philosophies on art, Baroque moved you.
You loved Mozart and you'd talk of your loved ones
As I clumsily strummed my guitar.
You'd teach me of honest things,
Things that were daring, things that were clean.
Things that knew what an honest dollar did bring.
I hid my soiled hands behind my back.
Somewhere along the line, I must've got
Off track with you.

Well, excuse me, guess I've mistaken you for somebody else,
Somebody who gave a damn,
Somebody more like myself.

You took your coat off,
You stood in the rain,
You're always crazy like that. 

Guess who at Child's Play ...

Who remembers playing Guess Who as a kid? (or played endless games with your own kids!!). 

Well this is the final challenge on Child's Play this month.

 

This cute game is where you flip over a collection of faces with different coloured hair, eye colour, hair, hats, glasses etc. to deduce who the secret person is that your opponent has chosen. You flip over the hooked tiles as you narrow your choices by asking characteristic questions like "Does your person wear glasses" or "Do they have black hair".  Guess it is a game of deduction for juniors!!

 

I went with the deduction theme (of a sort) too.  My son loved to hide when he was little although I have to say he totally sucked at it !!!  He just didn't get the concept that throwing a blanket over yourself to hide didn't necessarily make you invisible lol.