Combining Challenges

This weekend I thought I would save a little time and combine a couple of challenges. Usually I don't like to do this, that's just my own personal preference, but I was happy enough with the outcome.

The picture is of my DD over 16yrs ago, its not the best photo I had to get a copy of this from my DD scrapbook album. For some reason the negatives have gone missing with all our moving around so I now have to scan from photos that I allowed her have. Now when I say have, at no stage did I think I would need them back. So now I have to make do with cropped photos from an 8 year olds photo album....do I need to say more!!!

So this week I combined the Dusty Attic Feb Sketch Challenge along with The Color Rooms Palette 45. Although my photos are not quite vintage yet, I must admit I love doing pages with a vintage flavour.












Products Used: [Papers Used Cosmo Cricket Flueriste Vinyard, MME Adventure Teal/Strip, K & Company Que Sera Sera & Scrapbooking Australia. Stickers K & Company Dollhouse, BG - Wisteria rubons. Flowers hand made with daisy punch. Dusty attic frame & clock]

Techniques used [ Photo mat was stamped around the edge with 7Gypsy script with watermark ink and the clear embossed. I used a kaiser stamp inked with colorbox purple randomly on the mat as well then spritzed the whole mat with TA Bubblegum. I distressed all the paper edges with a Heidi Swapp distreser and then machine stitched around the edges.

Websters February Challenge

Well I surprised myself this week by completing two challenges, on time, that I thought I would do another. Hadn't been on Websters site for ages and noticed they had a February Challenge using Trims and Bloomers. So I went with Bloomers, I had beautiful pack of them but hadn't really been to inspired to use them, that is until now.

For me personally I felt the bloomers where a little to big and in your face so I went with cutting them down the centre and stitched them around a die cut from the Hollywood Vogue range. I also matted the die cut first and distressed it and then I stippled stitched it all down onto the background paper. The picture is one of my DD on her 16th, she is never over keen to have her photo

taken so you take what you can. The banner was from Fancy Pants and I spritzed the color to blend in with the Websters papers. I also printed one of the Websters Digi butterfly's on transparency and mounted it with foam tape. The journalling is behind the photograph. Hope you enjoyed looking at this weeks creations by me.

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Since I had some spare time I thought I would also give this weeks color palette ago, fairly easy one this week, the challenge was to basically use all the same color of green with slight shade difference and adding white with it. So this was my take on it.

The picture has photographed a lot lighter so the colors are not looking exactly as the palette.

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Well I finally finished my LO in record time, well for me anyway. The new palette goes up Friday around lunch time, that is in QLD time. I had no excuse but to get it done it was so hot and humid of the weekend it forced me to stay inside in the air con.

This weeks colours inspire med to use one of the old photos of my Grandma when she was a little girl, I don't know how old she was as their is nothing written on the back of the original. I am so glad her parents spent the money on getting some lovely studio shots done.





If you would like to see close ups of this layout pop over to Color Combos Galore. These Palettes are such a great way to challenge you to use colors that might not normally use, not to mention its interesting to see other people's interpretation of the colors. For those unsure how it works CCG post the colors that you are required to use in the palette, my interpretation of these Palette Challenges are that when you look at the palette and LO side by side you should see the same tones, for others they simply just add a couple of the colors. So why not come on over and give it ago, the ladies over there are a nice bunch and if you feel like chatting on the chat bar thats always fun as well. Anyway thanks for looking and thank you in advance for any comments you may leave.

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Super busy week this week so I barley squeezed out this Layout, but I just loved the colors and had to make some time to get it done. This is a photo of my niece taken some time ago and have been wanting to scrap it for ages, its nice to look back at them when they where babies.





I used some white Bazzill cardstock for the base of the layout. I spritzed this using Tattered Angels in Yellow Daisy and the splotches are Black Magic. Tim Holtz dimensional pearls in Stream where used to create the semi circles.

Patterned papers is a Websters Leap and Bounds scrap that I had. I used a free digital banner download, changed the color and printed it onto transparency. The other digital download had its color also changed and then printed onto transparency. Cutout are from Websters papers and the white flowers are handmade.

I stamped a banner onto transparency and popped the date in behind it using making memories magnetic stamps. I was unsure whether the Color Black Tea was black as it was showing to me more of a ink purple, I notice however once you do upload you picture next to the palette you can see whether your choices a similar.

Hope you enjoyed looking, and thanks to those in advance who leave comments.

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Love the Palette this week over at CCG. It was a great opportunity to use pictures of my Son. Whilst I love using the odd flowers on my pages I prefer to use other products. So since Im trying to get rid of my stash of Basic Grey rubons I thought I would use them again. The beauty of these are even though they are starting to perish a little and not rub off the sheet you can use them on your backgrounds and if they don't rub off, then you can overlay with something else. This is basically what happened with this batch of rubons.

Part of the Challege was also to incorporate clouds so I used my Quickuts border cloud die as a mask and then cut around the negative and stuck that down for some extra dimension. I've also used my QK cloud die for the floating clouds and cut from a Kaiser paper the large splashes of water and glued them down. Other products used are Tim Holtz distressing stamps, Dimensional Pearls and Heidi Swapp Acetate.

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I really enjoyed doing this weeks Palette over at Color Combos Galore, although we don't celebrate National Tea day here in Australia, well to my knowledge anyway, I decided to do a layout on my puppy. The Challenge was to use the word Comfort either in the Journalling or Title. I forgot to do this however I did find a quote instead that for me described the comfort of a puppy. For those who have a love of animals will know they give us plenty of comfort when its needed.






I used two packs of Basic Grey rubons. For the background on the left hand side I firstly used magic mesh, then did some stitching before rubbing on the rubons. Which I then colored using watercolor pencils. On the right hand side I firstly stamped using one Tim Holtz Grundge stamps then stitched then used the rubons. The piece underneath the photo was rubbed on to white cardstock, colored then cut out and raised using foam dots. I did use some white paint to wash over the stamping.