Ain't it Fun

 Ain't it Fun

I hope everyone has had a easy week and will have a nice relaxing weekend.  I brighted up my week by creating this colourful layout with the help of Colour Stories Inspiration #142 and Scrap it with a Song - Rock Challenge song - Ain't it Fun.

Colour scheme - All colours used

Evidence: Arrows, Stars & Circles 

Testimony: Insp word - Team

I had great fun scapping this layout and reliving the memories from this photograph.

The photo is of my son and his 3 friends playing in a neighbours back garden. The four of them were 'as thick as thieves' growing up and playing together and used to get up to all sorts of mischief.

I love using masks and decided to use two on this layout and spongue ink through them. I also used something called 'Wordle' which creates 'word cloud' using the words you type in.

For the title I decided to include the little letters on the big letter of the word fun.

I plugged the holes of most of the buttons with liquid pearls in contrasting colours.

The multicoloured 'masked' bricks reflect the bricks in the photograph and the masked circles represent the sunshine they were playing in on the day.

Used - http://www.wordle.net/ to create the ‘word cloud’

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Products Used:

Wooden Star Buttons

Echo Park – A boy’s life – small orange alphas

Basic Grey – Lime Rickey – Large Alphas

Fancy Pants – About a Boy – Rub Ons

Scenic Route – Garden Grove – Die Cut Arrows

Making Memories – Boy Primary – Epoxy Shapes

That Special Touch Mask – Stone Wall

Clear Scraps Mask – Spiral Dots  

Craft Planet – Fuzzy cord – Yellow

Ink it Inkpads – Orange & Blue

Brilliance Ink Pad – Pearlescent Yellow

Washer Word – Adventure

American Crafts – Foam Arrow – Orange

Liquid Pearls – Key Lime, Daffodil, Pumpkin, Ruby Red, Ocean Blue

Embroidery Floss and loose threads

Journaling – MME – Bloom

Used - http://www.wordle.net/ to create ‘word cloud’

Photographic Friendship - Scrap it with a Song DT Pop Gals

It's February and they're in the mood for love over at Scrap It With a Song. They've got a whole month of romantic tunes to add to the playlist and spark some creativity in your scrapbook. 

This weeks song is Prince's - Purple Rain

Here is what I a made of it!

I have to admit I struggled with the song this week.  I found it hard to find lyrics that I could use.

I eventually decided to use the word 'Friendship' as used various photos of my gorgeous grandson which have been waiting to be scrapped and called it 'Photographic Friendship'.

I decided to go with a small lettered title as I generally use large alphas for my title

Close Ups

My grandson has had a relationship from the camera from the day he was born, mainly thanks to myself being 'enamoured' with him.  I have a whole host of photographs of him waiting to scrap because I cannot help taking snaps of him.

I also used a colour challenge for Color Stories Inspiration no: #60 - see details below

I used the following:

Evidence: Big Flower, Hearts, Layers, Add Icing (sparkly brad & sparkly houndstooth paper)

Testimony: Add hearts to your journaling spot

Products used:

Echo Park - For the Record 2

Patterned Paper - Lazy Daisy

Patterned Paper - Notions 

Element Stickers - Journaling Spo/Take Lots of Photos/You are Special to Me

Alpha Stickers  - Flower Tag/Orange and White mini alphas

My Minds Eye - Laundry Line - Natural Strength Houndstooth Paper

Imaginisce - Out on a Whim - Steel Magnolias Metal Flower

Dovecraft - Small Heart Punch

Impress - Dye Inkpad - Chocolate

Sugarloaf/Whispers Pen - Brown

Dulux Colour Card 

American Crafts - Chipboard Arrow

Prima Heart Stamp

Making Memories Green Sparkly Brad

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Camera Point Shoot - Scrap it with a Song

It's February and they're in the mood for love over at Scrap It With a Song. They've got a whole month of romantic tunes to add to the playlist and spark some creativity in your scrapbook.  First up we have "As Long As You Love Me" by Justin Bieber 

 

I used the lyrics - Camera Point Shoot for my layout below.

Here is what I created:

I also used a colour challenge #56 from Colour Stories Inspiration

(see below)

I used the following from the evidence & testismony for the challenge:

Evidence: Strings/Dashed Lines/Wet Medium

Testimony: Write your journaling on a tag that has string

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I used the following products for this layout.

MME - Miss Caroline - Dolled Up Patterned Paper
AC Thickers - Giggles - Foam Alphas - White & Blue
Making Memories - Journaling Book Page - Just Chillin Girl
Imaginisce Snag Em Stamp - Camera
Kanban Crafts - Clear Stamps - Cogs
AC Thickers - Delight - Red
Bazzill Basics - Half the Edge - Pheonix
Sharpie Pen - Blue
Bakers Twine - Red/White
Papermania - Chronology - Gears
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Slide

Above is the layout I put together using the colour palette (#105) and sketch from The Colour Room.

 

This as you can see is a close up of the title.  I have shown this as I have used American Crafts alphas which I have altered using American Crafts rub-ons which helps them fit in with the overall colour scheme.  This is so quick and easy to do and with so many rub-ons on the market the possabilities are endless.

Colour Room Sketch #105 and Palette.

I enjoy putting all my layouts together but I thoroughly enjoyed doing this one.  I don't know if it was the colours, the small photos or the sketch, but I just loved it and it look so fresh and fun.

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I used the following products to put my layout together.

Bazzill Basics Shaped Paper - Lemon

Best Creations Inc – Basic Glitter Paper – BGP217 - Blue

Best Creations Inc – Basic Glitter Paper – BGP 223 – Brown

Sassafras Lass Paper – Secretly Smitten – Dainty Sketch

Sassafras Lass Paper – Serendipity – Hog Heaven – Lots O’ Luck

Making Memories Just Chillin Girl Clear Stamp Set (Small Circle/Star Stamp)

American Crafts - MiniMarks Baby Boy – Book Boy (Book One) (to alter alphas)

Scrapbook Magazine free paper – Bumbleberry Cottage

Sassafras Lass – Felties – Perchers – Owl

Ink it Up Stamp Pad – Brown

Staples – Blue

Cosmic Shimmer Mist – Ancient Copper

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Celluloid Moments

This is yet another layout about my grandson (he is such a good subject)

I printed the teeny photos a while back and when I saw them again I was inspired to line them up 'like in a negative' and the layout just developed from there

I used a colour prompt from Colour Stories Inspiration found here.  Or you can view the details below.
I used the items highlighted.

EVIDENCE DETAILS
Choose two (or more)of the following elements to include on your layout:

• text pattern (patterned paper or some other element, e.g., letter stickers, with a text print)
• striped pattern (patterned paper or other element that contains stripes)
• dictionary page (yep--tear a page out of an old dictionary)
• definition stickers (stickers that have words with definitions--these used to be really popular a while back--Making Memories had them)
• bird accent
• hot-air balloon accent
• mesh
• Use something translucent so that the background can show through

JOURNALING DETAILS (TESTIMONY)
Choose one (or more)of the following to inspire your journaling:

• Journal as a definition.
• Document a journey.
• Write a six-word memoir (see http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/ for examples)--This is really fun!
• Use a line or phrase from the song Wind Beneath My Wings and use that as a jumping-off point for your journaling - lyrics here: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bettemidler/windbeneathmywings.html
• Inspiration Words: wing, roam, surround -- Inspiration Words are meant as jumping off points for your journaling--not just titles (though you certainly can use these as your title; just please also have a story of some sort for your page).

I used my own sketch (see below) - which was very crudely drawn in the car on the way back from dropping my grandson back home.  Drawing isn't my strong suit as you can probably tell!

I used these supplies:

Glitz Teeny Alphas - Bubblegum pink
Brenda Pinnick Paper (background)
Making Memories Chipboard Tag - Just Chillin No: 31842
Turquoise Core'dinations cardstock (circle frame)
Black Core'dinations Cardstock (negative frame)
Pink Paislee/House of Three - Daily Junque paper (bird & a little bird told me)
Narrow white ric rac
Grey papermania cardstock
MME La Paperie (Jen Wilson) Dots paper (for flower)
Elsie Paper - Zoe Click Click
Fancy Pants - Kraft Kuts Stickers - Blues Alphas
Old Dictionary Page
Blue ink pad

Hope you enjoy this layout and remember...

A day without scrapping is like a day without sunshine!!!

Lynn

Life in Cartoon

This is a layout I have done for the True Xo Xo Scrapbooking design team submission.  I am sorry for the photos, but it seems that however I try to photograph them they come out too dark or two light and I cannot find any middle ground, grr.

For the DT submisson I had to show how I was inspired by or scraplifting any of the DT layouts used in challenge 27 on True Xo Xo Scrapbooking . So to I had to consider colour, design, subject or wording. 

 This is the layout I chose to scraplift which is by 

Tiffany Call   

The aspects of Tiffany's layout that inspired me where the bright, fun and funky colours she used and I tried to incorporate this is my own layout and the hand written title alongside shop bought alphas.   I also love the grid format and the random embellishments across the layout.

Take a look at her fantastic blog by clicking on her name above or her layout below!

I chose to scraplift this layout as it was a simple, interesting but graphic, which is not the style I normally go for.  I also chose to use Kraft cardstock (like Tiffany) as I knew I was going to using bright photographs.

I discovered a programme called Cartoonize which lets you import your photograph and converts it into a 'cartoon like' photograph.  I converted 3 photographs to use on this layout and chose to print them on canvas to give them a 'fabric like' look.    

I used new products from the Papermania Boofle range such as clear stamps and the self adhesive fabric.  I stamped the Boffle image but decided not to colour it in as I think it represents cartoons when they have 1st been drawn.

I used:

Sugarloaf Strokes Black Pen
Sakura Gelly Roll - Fl Green
Sakura Glaze - Black
Design Objectives- Boofle Stamp
Design Objectives - 12 x 12 Self Adhesive Fabric
American Crafts Foam Shapes
Making Memories - Just Chillin' Canvas Alphas
Ranger Liquid Pearls - Ruby Red
Papermania Kraft Cardstock

I really enjoyed putting this layout together.

Thanks for looking and remember .......

A day without scrapping is like a day without sunshine!

 Lynn

Play

I have taken part in sketch challenge #161 taking place over at Creative Scrappers.

Here is the layout below

And this is sketch #161 which I used as inspiration.

I have had the paper, cardstock and photograph for this layout set aside for at least 6 months but somehow I never managed to get around to scrapping it.

When I saw this sketch, I discovered the stash & photo set to one side and decided this was the time to scrap it.

I love the colours in this layout and thought it reflected how 'aglow' my grandson looks in the photograph.

Thanks for looking.

Remember a day without scrapping is like a day without sunshine!!

Lynn