White with 1 - May Challenge

A new challenge and a new colour to pair up with white at White With 1.  And if you can include some elements inspired by the photo too that would be great.

I got a bit arty with this layout and colourised my photo in photoshop. What do you think?

I used the bubbles and spotty paper as my inspiration from the beads in the photo. I also managed to include some feathers and a patterned paper that looked a bit lacy.

The machine stitching is also a nod to the lace.

Supplies:
Papers: Cocoa Vanilla, Wild At Heart; SU, Feels Like Frost; Scraps from my stash
Stencil: Funky Fossil, Rainfall & Splatters
Ink: SU, soft sky
Punch: ek success, border 
Dies: Spellbinders, standard circles small; Xcut, Spiro circles
Alphas: Pink Fresh, Just a Little Lovely, ep, Country Drive; Bella Blvd, Sopisticates
Stickers: Simple Stories, Simple Vintage Botanicals; Ppaperchase, puffy hearts; Kaisercraft; MAMBI Sticks; Carta Bella Practically Perfect enamel dots; gems from my stash
Ephemera: Pretty Little Studio, satars; Cocoa Vanilla, Biys rule; Feathers, gift from friend Lizzy hill

I love this aqua colour and really enjoyed creating this page. Will you join in and play along? I look forward to seeing how the colour and photo inspire you! Find the details HERE.

Huge thanks for dropping by today, it's always more fun when you do.

Keep safe, stay home and craft instead.

White With 1 - Cyber Crop 1

Have you joined in with the White With 1 Cyber Crop yet? Well today I'm sharing a page I created for Day 1. - HERE

When I received this pic it brought a big smile to my face. I'm so grateful to my kids for sending through photos of my grandkids. I miss them all enormously!

I used pink as my add on colour - of course - and managed to get all the other elements onto my page. * at least 3 flowers, one photo, washi tape and four patterned papers.

The pic above shows the washi, the four papers and two of the flowers. The papers are all scraps from my stash - where do all these scraps come from, I must have used the whole sheet of paper at some time!

Supplies:
Papers: All scraps from my stash
Alphas: Pink Fresh Studio, Just A Little Lovely; Simple Stories, You Are Here
Embellishments: Cocoa Vanilla Wild At Heart flowers; Echo Park, washi; Paperchase, puffy hearts; Echo Park enamel dots, Imagine That
Stickers: Vicki Boutin, Maggie Holmes & Tim Holtz

Huge thanks for dropping by today, it's been a pleasure to have your company for a while.

Keep safe, stay home and craft instead!

Tuesday Talk

Today I'm sharing a scrapbook page documenting my grandson's second week of home schooling. It also uses a grid format to include multiple photos and may be an idea you could borrow if you're trying the White with 1 cyber crop  - HERE.

I die cut all the photos into stitched squares so that they would be easy to line up. i chose some very busy background paper as I loved all the words and bright colours.

I had quite a lot of school related stickers left over from when I shopped for his first day at school last September - my how time changes and flies by! I know he's missing the contact with little people the same age as him, but is being very stoic and not complaining too much.

And the journalling is mostly about the video that I sent him to show him the moves from the Black Lace superman song - now that's a last from my past. I shared my video on instagram if you fancy having a good laugh at an old lady trying to balance - HERE.

Supplies:
Papers: Simple Stories, Oh Happy Day & I Am
Alphas: Simple stories, I Am; Scho Park, Little Boy
Stickers: Echo park, Back to School

Thanks so much for dropping by my blog today, I really appreciate you taking the time.

Keep safe, stay home and craft instead.

Monday Moment

Today I'm sharing a card I created using the colours from the current CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge.

Here's my card:

I don't have any of the SU colours specified so I opted to match them as closely as possible to my Copic pen colours. The stamped image and greeting is from Clearly Besotted.

Supplies:

Stamps: Clealry Besotted, All Booked Up

Ink: Memento, tuxedo black

Pens: Copic, G17, Y02, Y04, B37, W1, C0 , C1

Short and sweet today, but thanks for looking.

Keep safe, stay home and craft instead!

AAA Cards Game #164 - One Image + optional twist Inspired by TV

Another fun CAS challenge begins today at AAA Cards. The main theme is to just just one image - and to me that means one image not a stamp with multiple images.

So for my card it was an easy pick of stamp using one of the dancing girls from CASual Fridays Tutu set - who just happen to be the challenge sponsor. I also included the twist and was inspired by The Greatest Dancer.

As this stamp is a pretty solid one I decided to use a Kaleidacolor ink pad to get some variation in colour. I added the sentiment under and a little shading just to ground her.

Supplies:
Stamps: CAS-ual Fridays, Tutu
Ink: Kaleidacolor, cappuccino delight

The rest of the AAA Cards DT have also been busy creating sample cards to encourage you to play along and we also have the lovely and talented Jasleen joining us as our Guest Designer. Check them all out HERE.

Huge thanks for dropping by today, I really enjoy having your company for a while.

Keep safe, stay home and craft instead!

Guest Designing at Addicted To CAS

I'm thrilled to be Guest Designing at Addicted To CAS today. The code word is Silhouette.

Here's my card:

I started by inking through the Funky Fossil Dotty Frame stencil and then placed the Butterfly Flurry stencil on top. i masked off all but the three butterflies I wanted and then used black ink to ink them up.

I stamped a greeting and matted it onto a white card base. Simple, quick and so easy!

Supplies:
Stamps: Uniko retired set
Stencils: Funky Fossil, Dotty Frame, Butterfly Flurry
Inks: Ranger distress, wilted violet, picked raspberry, lucky clover, mustard seed, black soot; Versafine Clair, nocturne

Thanks so much for dropping by my blog today, I really appreciate you taking the time.

Keep safe, stay home and craft instead!

Friday Focus

Today I'm sharing a card I created for the Masking Challenge at Perfectly CAS.

I used the adorable elephant from Funky Fossil's Wild Things stamps set.

I started by masking off the top and bottom of the card and then stamping the first elephant. I masked her off and then stamped the second elephant.

I then masked off the second elephant too before placing the Scenic Borders stencil over and inking up some way sky. I removed both the elephant masks and inked through the grassy bit of the stencil.

Supplies:
Stamps: Funky Fossil Wild Things
Stencil: Funky Fossil, Scenic Borders
Inks: Memento, tuxedo black; Ranger distress, blueprint sketch, lucky clover
Pens: Copic, R20, C00, C1, C3

Thanks so much for looking today, I've really enjoyed having your company.

Keep safe, stay home and craft instead!

White With 1 - Cyber Crop

Hi! I'm super pleased to have you visit my blog today as I'm hosting one of the cyber scrapbook challenges at White with 1.

Over the weekend there will be three challenges and mine is the second. Check out yesterday's challenge HERE.

Here's the details of my challenge and you can find it HERE:

Use white with dark blue and a grid layout to add multiple photos to your layout.

Optional extras - fill one of the grid sections with journalling and/or add stamping to your layout

Optional twist - once your grid layout is complete use it as a starting point to inspire a card.

My prize is a Pocket Letter filled with goodies plus a few extra bits.

Supplies:
Stamps: Funky Fossil, Distressed Elements
Inks: SU, night of navy
Papers: SU patterned paper; Papermill Direct. 12" x 12" white card
Dies: Lawn Fawn, stitched square stackables & Louie's ABCs
Alphas: Webster's Pages, Storyteller
Stickers: Vicki Boutin; Elle's Studio

My optional twist card:

Supplies:
Stamps: Uniko, Pure Florals Gerbera + matching die & Birthday Wishes
Inks: SU, night of navy
Die: Lawn Fawn, Foursquare Backdrop Portrait

My prize:

  

You can find my challenge HERE. I really hope you join in with the fun!

Thanks for looking today.

Keep safe, stay home and craft instead!

Wednesday Words

Well I did warn you that once I got back into scrapbooking I would be on a roll. So today's share is page using a grid type of layout.

And here's a bit of a heads up about a cyber crop that's coming up at White with 1 over the weekend. One of the challenges is being set by me and it might just involve a grid layout as one of its components, but there are other elements needing to be included so you'll need to wait to see.

My beautiful granddaughter spent simply ages playing with her shoes sticking and unsticking the velcro fastening. And all the while wearing her new pink flowery wellies!

I die cut the white stitched squares and placed them straight onto the background paper, but then adhered each photo at a jaunty angle. I kept all my embellishments down the centre line and added journalling strips that I printed. A lot of the embellishments were gifted to me from my Australian scrapbooking friends Helen and Lizzy.

Supplies:
Paper: Vicki Boutin, mixed media
Embellishments: Scho park enamel dots Faith; Flowers from Helen; washi strips from Lizzy; Paperchase puffy hearts; Cocoa Vanilla Happiness die cuts from Helen
Die: Lawn Fawn, stitched squares

Thanks so much for looking today, I've really enjoyed having your company.

Keep safe, stay home and craft instead.

Tuesday Talk

Today I'm sharing the scrapbook page that I didn't want to create, but knew had to be done. How could my 2020 album be complete without a mention of these difficult times we're experiencing?

This is not for any challenge, but just to document where I am at the moment. So it's quite journalling heavy and I've kept the overall design simple and straightforward to not distract from what I'm saying. Hopefully in years to come I, or one of my family, will be  able to look back at this page and say we overcame it!

Although a lot of it is about the restrictions on life, I have tried to include a little about how I'm trying to adjust to a new routine. But I didn't want to sugar coat it - it is the most difficult thing I've ever experienced.

Supplies:
Papers: Echo Park, Bundle of Joy
Punch: ek, scallop border
Embellishments: Pink Fresh Studio, Everyday Musings; Echo Park enamel dots, Have Faith

Thanks so much for looking today, I really appreciate you taking the time.

Keep safe, stay home and craft instead!