A new challenge blog ....

Look out for the new sister challenge blog to ARTastic called Pixels and Paper launching on the 1st of July - we'd love for you to pop over and support us.

Going sporty ...

Scrap the Boys is calling for a layout about 'SPORT' and the use of a photo smaller than 6x4.  We are to include some stamping and at least one of these colours: Red - Teal - Orange  or Yellow.

I've done a page on a swimming carnival my son attended a few months ago and I've used a mixture of the above colours with stamped stars.  The photo has been trimmed down from a 6x4.

 

 

Winter colours ...

Scrap the Girls is asking for layouts in winter colours this month.  Here is my interpretation.

Use Your Words ...

There is a new challenge blog about to start up and are on the look out for an initial DT.  It's called Use Your Words and will be using words to base your layouts upon.  Call past and check them out.

 

Seeing stars ...

It is sketch time on Another Freaking Scrap Challenge and this one features big stars.

 

and guess what  ... I had me some !!!

 

 

Pretty in pink ...

It's musks and spots over on The Lollipop Ladies for their second challenge this month.

 

I decided to interpret the "dots" as circles and incorporated these into the main centre on my Princess card and of course used lots of pink.

 

 

 

 

It was really nice to be asked to Guest Design for The Lollipop Ladies last month along with Margaret - it was a real shame no-one bothered to contact me about this or at the very least respond to my email to them. 

Going cruising ...

The second inspirational tune on Scrap It With a Song this month is Cruise by Florida Georgia Line  and is much more my style - I like this one :)

I could have gone the cruise route - in fact I have a few hundred photographs of the cruise we took last year aboard The Celebrity Solstice ...

 but well ... I rarely go the obvious direction.

Instead I decided on using parts of the chorus ...

Baby you a song
You make me wanna roll my windows down and cruise
Down a back road blowin’ stop signs through the middle
Every little farm town with you

 

Don't we all wish we could just let it all go - if only for a little while !!

SIWAS is having a DT call this month - check out all the details on their blog.

Who's the leader of the club ...

The second inspiration on Child's Play Challenges this month is a TV show I'm not familiar with, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, as my own children are long past this targeted age group.

It did, however, bring back some childhood memories of my own when I watched reruns of a different Mickey Mouse Club made for yet another generation of little boys and girls.

 

 

 

Child's Play Challenges are having a DT call this month.  Check out their blog for all the details.

A proposal ...

Another Freaking Scrap Challenge asks ...

How did your spouse propose to you? Where? How did you propose to your spouse? If this has never happened to you ‐ how did you dream it would? Or did you ever want that to happen to you?

It was after dinner at the Balmoral Pavilion restaurant in Sydney - he asked and I said yes and the rest, as they say, is history :)

Not quite a suit and tie ...

First challenge on Scrap It With a Song this month is Design Team choice and we lead off with Justin Timberlake with Suit and Tie,  a fav for Becky apparently.

Can't say I share her choice in music but we'd be a boring old world if we all liked the same thing, now wouldn't we? 

 

Here is my take on the song using the lyric line Going hot, so hot, just like an oven as my inspiration. 

 

 

 

My family were fortunate to take a cruise last December aboard the Celebrity Solstice.  On board they had a Hot Glass Show which was both fascinating and extremely educational - we actually spent a number of nights huddled together on the upper deck of the ship watching the glassblowers at their trade - brilliant stuff.

 

 

Scrap It With a Song is having a Design team call at the moment - full details can be found on their blog.

Our little red wagon ...

Child's Play Challenges  is using the classic Radio Flyer little red wagon as their inspiration piece for their first challenge this month.

 

 

I'm not sure we ever had these in Australia - I certainly don't recall seeing them but guess we may have had similar but neither of my children had one.

I decided to go with the big boy version of something bright and swanky :)

 

 

Child's Play Challenges is having a design team call this month - check out all the details on their blog.