My Favourite Photo

I love using doilies on my layouts. I love the work from Stephanie Howell and she often uses doilies and inspires me to use them in new and innovative ways. I saw a layout she did recently where she misted a doily which i wanted to try. When I saw the challenge over at Scrap Fit I thought it was the perfect opportunity!
For this layout I misted a few doilies and tucked them under for a different look. I wanted to go for a homespun feel following the ruffles and colours in my daughters dress

A Granny's Kiss

I love the challenge blog The Creative Type. They have had some really cool layouts and really cool designers recently- Tina Azmus and Rahel Menign are two scrappers I follow. The challenge this months is really cool. Its to scrap a layout inspired by one of your favourite designers. There are soooo many talented people out there it is so difficult to pick one person only. I could spend all the day looking at peoples blogs and it would still not be enough!

However, I do love Stephanie Howell not only because I love her style but also because I love her blog. It is really exciting that now she works for My Minds Eye and is their blog coordinator. Check it out! She is super fun! Anyway, her signature product is a dollie! She loves them and she originally inspired me to use them. I also have a huge tendency to scrap with either a cream, white or kraft background (I guess that is my style). She loves to use a flowery and girly (she has 4 girls herself) background paper. When I saw this beautiful paper by October Afternoon I bought two. One I chopped up and used the flowers. The other one I did something daring.....I used it as a background paper! It is really daring for me because it is not only not white but its also a busy paper. To break that up I used tissue paper which softened it a bit and also a dollie. Since the layout is about my mom's relationship with my daughter I felt I wanted to add a homespun feel to the layout which I did through the paper and dollie. The picture was taken on an October afternoon so I used the manufacturers branding from the bottom.

The rest I kept very simple and I did a first as well - I put my journalling at the back of the layout!

Pancakes and Ketchup?

I love these pictures of my daughter which we took at the airport. She insisted on having PANCAKES AND KETCHUP!!! I have learned that with some things it is best not to argue....especially since it was 5AM and we had a long flight ahead of us. For the sake of peace and some great scrappy pictures I let it pass. She seemed to like it though!
I made this for a challenge over at Sketchy Thursdays. Their sketches are great and this LO took me no time at all to make. I punched out some scalloped circles and put paper behind it. I also punched out some ribbons and hearts and used the negative. I am loving using the negative from the punch. I can't believe I used to throw them out!!!!
I used the Modern Homemaker range from October Afternoon and some Jillibean journalling spots. I also recently got a EK Success punch which punches photo corners in scallop. I love all things scallop so used it for the first time on this layout since most of it I used scallop circles

Are we there Yet?

Another completed layout! I actually did 2 again last night! Nothing like an soon-to- arrive baby to make one scrap like crazy!!! This one I used some of my Magpie Club kit and October Afternoon Boarding Pass papers. It's for a challenge over at Challenge Me Happy which required: 1 cardstock, 2 pics, 3 x different alphas, 4 x different patterned papers, 5 x buttons, 6 x staples.
For me the real challenging part was using only 4 patterned papers because I have a tendency to use alot more than 4 papers. The way I got around this was to use the same patterned paper in different ways so it actually looks like there are more than 4 papers. Also I tend to use a journalling tag but here one could not be included and the paper was too dark to write on....so I had to think think think! I then punched a stamp (using a new Fiskars stamp punch) on some lined paper and used that for my journalling. The staples I used on the trail of the airplane which I cut out from the patterned paper to add a bit of interest. I love the Hambly silk printed paper I used for my background! I need to get my hands on more!!!!

Ready Set GO! Sketch 2

A layout I completed last night for a Brazilian blog challenge. I finally got into my BOARDING PASS kit from October Afternoon. It is a fab kit and I am loving the vintage feel and the stamps are so cool too! Here I used papers from the kit and some CANDI which I put on the sides and sprayed it with the coordinating Boarding Pass spray inks.

Completei este layout para o desafio do sketch 2. Usei o kit, carimbos e tintas do October Afternoon Boarding Pass e Candi para complementar. Estou adorando estes papeis!!!

Tofu Scramble

I made this LO last night with a sketch from Shimele Laine http://www.shimelle.com/
The sketch called for a splatter of paint across the middle section of a 6x4 picture. I started off by spritzing some October Afternoon paint and the droppping some paint here and there.
I did my LO mostly with Modern Homemaker October Afternoon papers, stickers and buttons. I also added a Melissa Frances hidden journalling envelope and a fabric brad
Once I finished my layout something was missing....but what?
I looked around and found a HUGE bag of CANDI which I had bought back in April at the Scrapbook Show in Alexander Palace and had never used them. http://www.craftworkcards.co.uk/products/by-category/1/1/card-candi.html
I tried them on here - on top of the splattered paint- and I love the effect they give. I am soooo gonna use them more now! That is what I love now about the sketches because they kind of force you to go through stuff you had forgotten you had and use them in new and interesting ways. I think these CANDI are gonna work very well for some birthday LO I am thinking of doing....someday!!!