Scrap the Boys March Challenge

This is the mood board for this months challenge at Scrap the Boys.

To be truthful I think I may have missed the mark a little with an exact match on colours but I have still used orange and blue on my page. The papers I have used are from a Basic Grey paper pad called Hey Boy that came out a little while back. As for the chipboard alphas they are also Basic Grey and are dated 2009. I found them in my last tidy up and new they would be perfect with this colour theme.

The page was mainly going to be about the annoying phrase my son has been using a lot lately (seems legit) and is one of many that he has picked up from watching You Tube videos. But then it occurred to me that it really did fit well with this very recent photo I took of him on his birthday.

I'm not a mixed media kind of girl but I do like the look so I thought that the busy papers and spotty alphas gave the page the mixed media look without all the mess of paints, modelling paste etc.

Thanks for looking.

Stuck Sketches Feb 15

I took this photo just last month and only then really noticed how much my boy is growing. Such a lovely moment of father and son captured moments before they took off on a boys weekend. Love it.

Jan 15 Stuck Sketches

Love this sketch, thanks Stuck!
When I first saw this multi photo sketch I had to rack my brains a bit to come up with enough related photos that I wanted to use. I then remembered all the selfies I took while on holiday last year.


The other reason I wanted to use these photos was because of the beautiful Project Life style cards and die cuts I recently bought at the Reject Shop. I knew this range would be perfect to fill the little spaces between my photos. I'm also thrilled I got to use some of the new gold dipped Thickers for my title. Looks great alongside the other gold foiled die cuts.
As for the text I was going to leave it out as I felt the page had good white space but then common sense prevailed and I added info about where each photo was taken. Whoops still have to add the numbers to my photos.


Anyway that another challenge entered, some new purchases used and another layout added to my holiday album. It's a win, win, win.


Thanks for taking a look.

Stuck Sketches Jan 2016

First cab off the rank for the new year sketch challenges. I "found" this photo in one of my albums late last year. It had been scrapped (by me) some time ago and although I love the photo I wasn't thrilled with how I had scrapped it. So I kept the photo and chucked out the rest.


When I checked out the recent sketch as Stuck? I thought I would give this picture a new lease on life, so to speak. I tried to work with the colours and found that the Amy Tan Finders Keepers papers had a lot of similar colours to my photo so that was my base. I loved searching through my stash and finding co-ordinating embellishments to update this layout. So happy with how it has turned out and that the photo is back on display.

Scrap the Boys - December Challenge

At first when I looked at the sketch I was wondering how I would replicate the circle shape in the background. I know that a sketch challenge doesn't have to be adhered to exactly but I did like the sketch and wanted to use the large circle.
As luck should have it I recently received a purchase of an amazing clear stamp set called Desert Oasis from of all places, Aldi supermarket. This stamp set is so cute and features a pineapple and flamingo in addition to other summery/tropical images.
So since watercolour is super trendy at the moment and yes I do love a good trend, I thought to stamp the pineapple image in clear embossing powder onto white cardstock and then go over it with watercolour. I'm really happy with the result and feel that it gives my page a real strong summer vibe to match the photo of my overjoyed son. This year we had a pool installed at our place and nothing screams summer more than a swim whenever you heart desires.

A close up of my embossed and water coloured pineapples

Jot November Challenge

These photos were taken at Kings Park here in Perth. I wanted to make the pink and yellow paper flowers the focus of the page but I kind of over embellished and you can't really see the flowers but hey I don't mind because I had so much fun putting this page together.

Initially I put the paper rosette on the photo because there was a person in the distance which detracted from my photo and then I kind of just kept adding the embellies.

I loved using these colours together. I pulled out all my scraps to find the pink and yellow papers and then I punched out my own flowers from the scraps. Well I haven't done that in ages. I then used up some of my 10 million Kaisercraft rhinestones that I have been hording since they became popular years ago. I can't remember the last time I added this much bling to a layout. Best of all I got to use the beautiful bee paper that I was also hording for ages.

 

Scrap the Boys November

This month on Scrap the Boys it's all about boys and their food. Ben my 12 year old has some serious food issues and I found this great photo to scrap about. It's journaling heavy and also heavy with Maggie Holmes Shine collection. Yep I received a beautiful box full of awesome products this week and got straight on to using them. The file stickers on the side of the papers are from  an Echo Park sticker sheet, that I felt co-ordinated well.