STG for March ...

Playing along with Scrap the Girls for March with this bright but rather unusual moodboard ...

My first thought was to run with the colours rather than the content so I pulled out the orange, red and green and worked with that.  I found a designer specialty paper that has been in my stash for so long and I never really knew what to do with it, fussy cut out two flowers from the area behind the photo and then added some additional elements to create my page. 

thanks for looking,

Jane xx

What's in the Bickie Tin for March ...

What's in the Bickie Tin for March ...

The colour Pink

Add some Paint

Do some handwriting

Continuing on my theme of using up older paper lines and supplies that have been sitting in my stash mostly unused, this month I pulled out a white Adirondack Lights paint dauber, a few project life cards, a few pieces of patterned paper from my offcuts box and a paper doily and set to work ( I even found some very old Basic Grey feltees in a bottom draw).

Hope you can find time to play along with us this month.

thanks for looking,

Jane xx

STB February ...

Always fun playing along with Scrap the Boys and I liked their poster inspiration this month so I ran with the idea of playing nice "online".

Trying to use up a lot of older supplies this year and managed to succeeded with a number of "little things" on this layout.

thanks for looking,

Jane xx

ARTastic in February ...

Our inspiration on ARTastic this month comes to you from Emma Uber with Lady in a blue hat.

CRITERIA -  Use paint and flowers on your entry

I watered down some pink paint and used the splatter effect for part of my background and then went with a random, bright and colourful design using a number of the colours from the artwork.

Hope to see your amazing layouts in our Facebook gallery.

thanks for looking,

Jane xx

White with 1 in February ...

Welcome to our February challenge on White with 1.  We thought we might try to be a little different in the sea of red and pink of a valentine month.

  Introducing ....

We hope you like our inclusion of a sketch courtesy of PageMaps to help inspire you further. You don't have to use this to put in an entry but we'd love it if you do :)

Courtesy of PAGE MAPS

Jane Howden (Australia)

I really enjoyed using this sketch and thought it the perfect opportunity to scrap a few island cruise photographs.

We'd love to see how you use our White with 1 colour combination this month. Please come and join in with us! 

What's in the Bickie Tin for February ...

What's in the Bickie Tin for February

The colour White 

Add some Chipboard 

Use 2 Photos 

I use white a lot, in fact it is probably my preference for a background.  Continuing on with my theme of using up older products I pulled out some very old patterned paper and a few stickers from my stash, along with some washi and a few other bits and bobs to complete my page.  I added two chipboard corner edges which I had sprayed with Kaiser mist.

Hope you can find time to play along with us this month.

thanks for looking,

Jane xx

Scrap the Girls for January ...

Playing along with Scrap the Girls this month and almost forgot to put the entry in ... duh!  Loved the bright and colourful bohemian style moodboard which inspired me to create a page celebrating my daughters birthday using many of the colours and design elements found in the moodboard.

Got to love these bright and happy colours.

thanks for looking,

Jane xx

STB January ...

Playing along with Scrap the Boys this month using this as inspiration.

I decided to run with the blue and green colour scheme and used the bubblewrap with spray inks to create my background to give a watery effect and enhance the random style of this page.  

thanks for looking,

Jane xx

Soul Scrappers in January ...

Playing along with a few challenges on Soul Scrappers this month.

PICK 3 

Using a banner, candles and party hats as embellishments and a picture all about the cake.

Mystery Bag Challenge - anything Christmas

This one speaks for itself :)

GDJAN 

This one is all about the eyes.  Supposedly your own but I couldn't find a single photo of myself that would work so resorted to using one of the kids.  They will need to forgive me :)

thanks for looking,

Jane xx

January White with 1 ...

Welcome to our very first challenge of 2020 on White with 1.

  Introducing ....

and here is my page ...

We'd love to see how you use our White with 1 colour combination this month. Please come and join in with us! You have until the end of the month to get your entry in.

thanks for looking,

Jane xx

What's in the Bickie Tin for January ...

What's in the Bickie Tin for January

The colour Blue

Add some Sequins or Confetti

Use at least 3 layers

Continuing my theme of using up old or unwanted stock.  This page is made entirely from left over bits and pieces.  The white cardstock was a piece I had already used (I'd sprinkled it with black ink drops) but I didn't like how it turned out and had cast it aside. I sprayed it with blue ink, positioned my photo and layered patterned paper (all left over pieces from my scrap basket) over the worst of it and covered the remains spots with the sequins.  The other bits and bobs were remaining pieces from various packets which invariably end up in a small bowl I keep on my scrap desk – you never know what you might find in there. 

Hope you can find time to play along with us this month.

thanks for looking,

Jane xx

ARTastic in January ...

Our first inspiration for 2020 on ARTastic Challenge Blog is this bright and happy artwork by Donald James Waters called Day Trippers which should work perfectly with our criteria this month of a vacation or travel theme.

While I am the first to admit I love vacations and cruising is one of my top destinations there is something extra special sailing into Sydney Harbour as the sun rises and you know you are home again.  I picked out some of the colours from the artwork for my page.

We hope you might find time this busy month to play along with our challenge.

thanks for looking,

Jane xx