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February Papercraft Challenge

If you haven’t been following along on my Facebook page I invite you to do that now!  Each month I issue a challenge of some kind.  Sometimes the challenge is a mood board, a sketch or something totally different.  The February papercraft challenge is based on an amazing mood board.

February Papercraft Challenge

The amazing February papercraft challenge mood board comes from Georgie The Content Creator.  I loved that it was soft and dreamy like we think of love, but it didn’t scream Valentine’s Day.  Don’t stick to just the colors though, feel free to think outside the box.  Do the trees somehow inspire you?  Do the flower petal in the left make you think of dragon scales….go for it!  The whole point is to get you creating and using your stash.

When you are done creating head on over to my Facebook page.  Pinned to the top of the page is the challenge announcement.  Add a picture of your creation to that post.  If there are five, or more, entries for the month random winner will be chosen for a gift certificate for the shop!

I can’t wait to see what you create, and I hope this inspires you to get in your area and have some fun.  Until next time…stay crafty!

Long Title Scrapbook Layout

Hey crafty friends!  Glad to be back again so quickly.  This time I have a long title scrapbook layout to share with you as part of the Scrap Our Stash Golden Group challenge for October.

For this challenge we were asked to use the movie Sing as inspiration, and to add bling/whinestones to our layout.  This was the first time I had actually seen the movie we were asked to use so that finally clicked, but I don’t have a big stash fo rhinestones so that was my challenge for this project.

As my nod to sing I used a long title which is a lyric from a Kane Brown song.  It’s appropriate for a picture of my hubby and I because I am a worry wart.  I always have a what if for every situation. He is the opposite and always says what if…that doesn’t happen or what if it’s actually good.  I’m so blessed to have that balancing force in my life.

This long title scrapbook layout was created for my husband's 38th birthday using 8.5 x 11 size rather than you standard 12x12.

This kit is from Felicity Jane, and I will tell you it was gorgeous.  If I remember correctly it was the Felicity or Alexis kit.  The puffy stickers were my favorite piece.  I paired the kit with some simple mixed media using the packaging technique.  I did not use gesso prior to the mixed media and since I went light on the water there isn’t much warping thank goodness. I don’t remember where I got the wood flower, but they made a perfect home for a few rhinestones.

I really love how this came out.  The colors are some of my favorite to work with.  How will you interpret the Sing challenge?  Do you use long title?  Make sure to tell me in the comment below.  Until next time..stay crafty!

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LONG TITLE SCRAPBOOK LAYOUT SUPPLY LIST

Autumn | Challenge Yourself | Hip Kit Club

     Afternoon crafty friends!  I’m sharing a layout today that was inspired by two different challenges.  I wanted to use the mood board at Challenge Yourself and the weekly sketch on the Hip Kit Club Facebook forum.
     Both of these challenges were perfect to get some of the photos from our recent apple picking trip done.  I took these selfies with each of my kiddos because getting them both to sit still for one together is almost impossible

     The products on this page came from an old My Creative Scrapbook kit…Fall 2015 to be exact 🙁  The papers included in the clip were from Echo Park’s The Story Of Fall and the chipboard was from Carta Bella’s A Perfect Autumn.  
     I really like the dimensional interest using some flat stickers and some chipboard gives the page. I used a white pen for my journalling since my favorite black sharpie didn’t really show up.  Do you have a favorite white pen as I’m not sold on the one I have?
    Okay – enough chatting for today…back to creating.  Stay crafty!!

Summer Fun Day | Scrap Our Stash

     Hey Scrappy Friends!  I’m here today with another layout!  Can you believe it!?  This is the most I’ve gotten done in a month in a long time.
     This layout was created with an old My Creative Scrapbook Kit (July 2015!), and a sketch from Scrap Our Stash. 
     One of the thing about the Scrap our Stash challenge is you also had to use the work learn.  You had to use one thing for each letter. Mine was L – layers of patterned paper E – enamel dots A – asterisk embellishment – R – raised (puffy) title N – no splatters and natural wood button.

     I also used the spotted paper for the dotty challenge over at Southern Girls Challenge blog. 

     I also am calling this kit killed.  I have learned that when I have to phone a friend and say “Why don’t I like this layout, and how do I fix it!?” that I’m done.  Thank goodness all I had left was one full sheet of paper and some scraps.
    Until next time…stay crafty!


Happy Little Head | Felicity Jane

    Hey Scrappy Friends…Happy September!  I’m starting the month off by participating in Challenge #359 over at Lasting Memories.  The challenge was to use polka dots.  You can use a little or a lot. 

     In the main photo it’s hard to see so I took a close up for you.  I also used a stamp that looks like polka dots.  
     All of these goodies are from the Felicity Jane Summer kit.  I’m working  on using this one up.  So far I’ve gotten five layouts from the kit and I have three full sheets of paper left.  I’m hoping to get at least three more layouts from the kit.  My goal for each one is at least eight.
    With that said…I’m off to use a new sketch and try to get that kit killed.  Until next time…Stay crafty!