Carousel Ride for Child’s Play Challenge

     Welcome our final reveal for Child’s Play Challenge 🙁  I am so sad to see this challenge blog closing as I’ve loved my time with them, and how it’s challenged me to think outside the box.  I hope you’ll come over and give us a great send off by having the most entries we’ve ever had!  We love seeing your support of our creations and efforts.
      Our theme this go round is the classic Lite Bright.  I had one as a girl, but didn’t have any photos of me playing with it.  I choose to use photos of our son’s first carousel ride with twinkling lights in the background.
      These papers, and embellishments, are from the older My Minds Eye collection The Sweetest Things – Bluebell. All the papers on this page are from the 6×6 paper pad….love how the smaller patterns let you layer without being overwhelming.
     The tag was originally ivory, but with some antique linen and faded jeans Tim Holtz distress ink I was able to create a hue close to what was in the papers.  Some vellum star stickers and ink drops and I had a perfectly simple, but stunning page.
     Until next time…Keep Scrappin!

Scrapbook Generation Blog Hop And Child’s Play Challenge Reveal

     Hi everyone and welcome to the Scrapbook Generation blog hop for December teamed with my December 1st reveal for Child’s Play Challenge.  If you’re hopping along with Scrapbook Generation you should have arrived here from Laura’s blog.  If you’re here for the Child’s Play Challenge reveal, or would just like to join the hop, please start at Scrapbook Generation’s blog.
    For the hop we were asked to use any sketch by Scrapbook Generation.  For Child’s Play Challenge we were asked to use the movie Polar Express for inspiration.  Since both reveals were on the same day I challenged myself to combine them.
     I have never seen Polar Express so I decided to use blue for my main color like the cover of the movie.  The cover also had a train coming almost right out of it and that’s where I decided to merge the two things.  I chose the October 2014 free sketch since it also has photos coming out of one corner.  The photos are from 2012 wacky week at our son’s daycare.

     You can find the SG sketches in their books and as downloads in the SG store, and there is a free one every month in case you wanted to try it out.   Now before you head on over to Penny’s blog I’d love for you to follow me here, with bloglovin and on Facebook.  Alsoleave a comment on each blog and one lucky commenter will receive a free sketch bundle of their choice from the store.
     The winner will be drawn on Monday, December 8th which leaves you one week to leave a comment.
      I am also entering this for the Lasting Memories DT call
     Until next time…Keep Scrappin!

In case you get lost at any point, here is the list all the blogs
Scrapbook Generation blog – http://scrapbookgeneration.blogspot.com/

Let’s Ride – New Bicycle Layout

     Hi everyone – time for another reveal for Child’s Play Challenge.  This time we were asked to create a layout based on the toy hot wheels.  I have loads of pictures of my son playing with his hot wheels, and even one of him trying to share his apple slices with every truck he owns, but what really hit me was him getting his new balance bike…graduating from a tricycle to two wheels. 
     I worked with the week one sketch from Let’s Get Sketchy as the three photos inspired me, as well as the simplicity of the rest of the sketch.  I really allowed me to embellish as I chose.
I have had the Boy Crazy collection from My Minds Eye in my stash since maybe April waiting for just the right layout to cut it up.  With the large bicycle sticker…it was just the time.  I chose the star paper for the focus piece since the circles mimicked wheels.  I just layered everything from there.
     A little tip…don’t always think of 3×4 or 4×6 project life cards as just for pocket pages.  My title of Lets Ride was cut from a 4×6 card.  Also, don’t think of 6×6 pads as just for cards either.  My banner and squares behind the photos are from a 6×6 pad.  If cut strategically they are great layering pieces.                                                              I hope you enjoyed my take on the challenge, and let me knows what Hot Wheels makes you think of. Until next time…Keep Scrappin.

Child’s Play Challenge – Christmas Tree Hunting

     Hi everyone – welcome to this month’s Child’s Play Challenge 1st of the month reveal.  This month we teamed with Pixels and Paper to offer a super fun challenge with two chances to win.  We had to use both a photo and a recipe (both at the end of this post).  
    I choose to use photos from our Christmas tree hunt in 2012…they fit the recipe well and the awesome sketch I saw at Creative Scrappers. All of the papers are from older Stampin’ Up lines, as is the red card stock.  One tip I have for you…color your photo mats with ink.  I love Stampin’ Up’s Cherry Cobbler, but a pack is expensive…especially with the cost of shipping.  To make my mats I took white card stock, an ink dauber and used the Cherry Cobbler ink pad.  After a few minutes of drying time, just to be certain, they ere ready to go.  Perfect solution to keep costs lower.  
   As I was creating this I kept thinking it was too busy, but when done, and I took a step back I love it.  It’s actually one of my favorite layouts I’ve made recently…along with my son’s pre-school one (which can be found here).
   Thank you all for reading, and I hope you’ll play along.  Until next time…Keep Scrapping!
  


Recipe:
Gold – Washi tape and the stars on the tree
3 patterned papers – green/red stripe, green stars, red gingham
something 1 year or older – the green strip of trees as well as the pictures
animal – my hubby…lol
bling – the gold stars and red bling as tree toppers

 Photo – the red and green color and the tree on the tin.













Challenges:
Pixels and Paper
Let’s Get Sketchy Magazine – Mood board
Craft Galore – Anything Goes

Child’s Play Challenge – Alice in Wonderland Reveal

    

     Welcome to another reveal for Child’s Play Challenge.   We were challenged this time to use Alice in Wonderland.  I’ll tell you think took me a good long time to come up with something.  My final thoughts were…Alice goes to a tea party.  Parties are celebrations.  Weddings are celebrations…I’ll do something from our wedding!
     At the time when I did this layouts my mojo was slim to none so I started with a layout template and added my own touches.  I added bling to the swirls and the 3-d sticker of the couple dancing to match my photo.  The thickers I used were originally white, but I misted them with hot pink and blotted to achieve the soft pink of the rest of the page.
     I hope my out of the box inspiration challenges you to give a second look to inspiration that maybe didn’t jump out at you on first glance.  Can’t wait to see what you create based on Alice.  Until next time…Keep scrapping! 
Challenges:
Crafts Galore – Spooky or Sweet – our wedding song was How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You