Scrapbooking challenges

Sometimes I manage to combine more than one challenge, or at least take inspiration from them (more often than not as you know I actually forget to enter into the challenges anyway...let's see how I do today!)

I am a huge sketch fan and I loved this one from Stuck Sketches

I also went with inspiration from this palette over at Colour Me Scrappy

Whilst Shimelle is on maternity leave (.... have you seen the picture of her baby boy.... totally cute and adorable....huge congrats to you all xxx) anyway, whilst she is off there are guest bloggers setting us weekly challenges.  This week Relly asked us to scrap about a place.

So combining these ideas I came up with this page....

I love this house in the country that a family member lives in and it is in a wonderfully rural position with it's own huge field....sighhhhh it really is idyllic and I am lucky enough to have visited on several occasions.  i am grateful to have had the opportunity to use these photos together as I wasn't quite sure what to do with then initially.

I love challenges!

Sharing scrapbook pages on Sunday

As usual I have joined in with the UKS weekly challenge.....
we were asked to 

1) Document a change you’ve had in your life 
2) Either leave lots of white space  or fill your page to bursting 
3) Use something at least 4 years old 

I used this sketch from Skissedilla 

and made this page

An awful photo taken with my phone in the gloomy light of this wet grey day.  The title is a play on words as the photo was taken whilst looking up at the blue skies on a warm day when DS and I were out for a walk, it sure made a change.....it was also great that DS was having a good day and things were definitely 'looking up' 

Can you guess what is more than 4 years old?  The spotty blue paper which I am pretty certain was from one of those huge 12 x 12 pads of Papermania paper that were just never used... though I actually quite like this blue sheet!  Also I have obviously gone for the 'white space' option.

Love scrapbooking......

UKS monthly challenge for March was to use this fabby sketch

and I made a page featuring these gorgeous children 

This palette from colour me scrappy

was used to create this page

Sharing scrapbook pages on Sunday

The weekly challenge was a bit challenging this week over on UKS.  I was fine using a photo of a pet/animal and I was happy with using circles (or cogs) but using the title of a song from a musical had me thinking!

I decided to use a page kit I had put together from the Counterfeit Kit Challenge CSI file

I used all the colours in the scheme, for evidence I used a patterned background, sheer pale blue netting cut into circles, wood buttons and a wood veneer, 3 blue flowers under the buttons. My testimony is in the form of the vellum envelope which holds my journalling on a tag.

In the end I came up with this page

I realised I had never scrapped about how my cat was going to be 'Tinkerbell' as chosen by my then 4 year old daughter.....but when the cat arrived it was a boy so his name was changed to Tinker and that has really suited him! So using the title 'the naming of the cats' was an easy choice for my page.

Another page I made at my crop yesterday was based on this sketch by my teamie Niki over at Being Scrappy

and this colour scheme from Kreative Concepts (though I think I may be too late to enter this challenge as usual!) a good challenge for me to use gold and pink on a LO but actually really liked this combo and will use it again

The colours were a perfect fit for another Harry Potter page this time featuring Dolores Umbridge

Sharing scrapbook pages on Sunday

The weekly challenge on UKS has been set by my talented team mate Niki....

use the sketch, use stars, use square photos and chevrons.

I always use stars on my HP pages so this just had to be another page from the HP studios....

One of my other teamies kindly cropped and resized it so I could add it to UKS and then upload it to my blog as I am still on the ancient lappy!

Scrapology challenge

Another page created at my retreat last weekend was using the Scrapology sketch for their March challenge, closing today...

Unfortunately I am on the old slow unhelpful laptop and I am unable to crop or resize photos with it (ys I have put in a request for a lappy of my own that works, works all the time and can actually do some simple things that I need lol!) so I have had to share a not so great photo of my page.....when/if I can access another pc at home I will improve the photo.  So for now this is my take on the sketch...

I have made the photo extra large so you can see the layout.... I love how this one turned out and it used lots of stash!  I stripped the sketch right back to being really simple and unusually for me haven't added any jounalling.....looking at it now I think I will add some along the bottom within the frame.

Thanks for a great challenge Scrapology!

A weekend of scrapbooking.....

I got back last night from a weekend away with some amazingly talented crafty ladies.  So inspiring to watch people express themselves artistically though various mediums..... there were scrappers, cardmakers, origami makers, quilters, minibook makers, mixed media, gelly plate users..... so many new and exciting crafts.

I learnt some new things and some tried some new things that I will share another time but today I just wanted to show you some scrapbook pages completed for challenges closing today.....

Over on UKS Mini Owner is a well known scrapper and she has a blog and runs a monthly sketch challenge as I shared before.  This is the March sketch.....

and this is the page I made

Over at SJ Crafts Blog there is another challenge to be inspired by .....

I took my ideas from the colour palette....shades of brown,  blue and cream, using several photos, using square photos and images of water.  I really love the page I made of my hubby and son when we all went on a local walk.....

                                      

I turned this image from Sketch N Scrap......

into this layout that doubled up nicely as my weekly UKS page using the photo from 1 photo 20 words (we had to use numbers as part of the challenge, feature yourself, pic of yourself and visible journalling)

I loved being away for the weekend and can't wait to do it again (sadly not for several months I suspect!).  I will be back to share more pages and something else I made soon.