LETS PLAY

Happy Friday everyone. Here is a layout  I have just finished with Jessie when she was little.
For this one I used the colours from the photo, aqua and brown, with a little silver, plus I wanted to pick out a little of the green jelly shoes and pink dummy! I made the little pink flowers using a quilling tool.
So this is how I did it.
I used a sketch from SCRAPPING EVERYDAY MIRACLES for my inspiration. See link below.
I chose my papers and embellies.
I matted my photo first in brown then aqua and white papers and distressed all the edges.
I cut down the other three papers and distressed them as well.
I glued them down then added a doilly.
I added my matted photo.
I diecut  a birdcage and bird, then painted them.
I started to embellish with all my flowers and leaves and butterfly vine.
I added some doilly lace down the sides and some silver ribbon.
I added a couple of journal stickers.
I then added the title and a stick/hat pin.
I hope you like it and give it a go.

SCRAPPY STASH
Pretty papers x 4
Plain white cardstock
White doilly
Martha stewart doilly lace punch
Prima butterfly vine
Fabric butterfly
Sticky back pearls
Assorted flowers and leaves
Quilling tool and pink paper
Tim Holtz bird and birdcage die
White dabber paint
Brown ink
Crackle glaze
Stickers
Branch punch
Stick/hat pin
Silver ribbon

Friday Sketch Challenge
scrappingeverydaymiracles.BlogSpot

sketch by tracy Gregory

 

SKETCHABILITIES DESIGN TEAM

Yay - I have been accepted on the SKETCHABILITIES DESIGN TEAM

 March - May 2013

Their sketches are awesome, find them here http://sketchabilities.blogspot.co.uk/

Look out for the new teams reveal on the 15th March.

This is their current sketch challenge

 

BUILD A PAGE - New Years Eve

Morning lovely scrappers. For those of you who are beginners I have put together a page from scratch for you. In ten easy steps.
So first of all, choose your photo, your cardstock and pretty papers.
Then choose your embellishments.
Now lets start with your background paper. This one is from Prima.

Take a co-ordinating paper, cut it down to 9.5 x 9.5 inches and distress the edges with a distressing tool or a pair of scissors. Ink the edges.

Take another pretty paper, cut down to 9x9inches and distress and ink the edges.

Now add a doilly, you can ink the edges, but I think I forgot on this one!

Take another peice of card 8x8inches and distress and ink the edges.

Add another peice of card 7.5x7.5inches, distress and ink the edges.

Add another doilly.

Add your matted photo. Distress and ink the edges.

Add some flowers to one corner. I made these using a punch and a die.

Add a  small border.

Now start to embellish. I added lots of assorted flowers, some butterflies with beaded bodies, a title tag and a few bits and peices. Hope you had fun and gave it a go.

SCRAPPY STASH
Plain cardstock
Pretty papers by Prima
Two doillys
Brown ink
Distressing tool
Flower punch
Flower die
Butterflies
Beads and wire for the butterfly bodies
Tim holtz hanging sign die for the tag
Clock stamp
Mini metal clock face
Pretty chipboard peice
Pearls
Assorted flowers

SOUS FRIDAY DESIGN TEAM SKETCH REVEAL - WILD THING

http://stuckonusketches.blogspot.co.uk/

Morning everyone, today is Sketch Reveal Friday for STUCK ON U SKETCHES.

And here is my layout using the above sketch. I struggled a little with this one, so if it helps, keep it very simple. Also you could flip the sketch.

For this one I chose the colour scheme around Jessies dress and kept it all quite simple.

I like to follow sketches pretty closely and think Ive done that.

I chose various tones of orange, black and white.

I chose all my cardstock first and then matted my photo.

Next I layered up the background as per the sketch and adhered my photo onto some music paper and the scalloped black card.

I then used some texture paste and a mask and made the brick wall to run alongside the wall in the photo.

I die cut my hearts, added some pearls and started decorating with my flowers.

Last but not least, I printed out my title - lyrics from a Trogs song.

A simple, quick and easy page, why not give it a try?

SCRAPPY STASH

Plain cardstock

Music paper

Heart die - sizzix sizzlitts

Alphabet die - sizzix

Sticky back pearls

Assorted flowers

Wavy scissors
Texture paste
Prima brick mask

A FIRST CLASS MURDER MYSTERY

Hi everyone, here is another layout I have just done, using a sketch from Sketchabilites No 84 for my inspiration. If you didnt know - I love sketches and challenges. If you want to give it a go just click on the link below.

So, for this one I chose to change some of my photos into sepia as this party was placed in the 1920s.

As it was our party I  decided to keep our picture in colour!!

Anyway, I then chose my papers and cardstock and double matted my photos.

I made a huge tag as per the sketch, using some Prima packaging and black cardstock.

I then matted my sepia colour cardstock ( I distressed the edges on this) onto black cardstock and glued this down.

I attached the large tag then added my matted photos.

Next I made the smaller tags using some Prima paper and black cardstock.

I then started to decorate.

I chose assorted flowers in neutral colours, I punched out some small branches, I made two large butterflies and added beaded bodies, I added some small pearl heart shaped buttons and a small wooden tag.

The journaling tag describes the characters and who dunnit!

Hope you like it and give it a go, the sketch or the party!! It was great fun by the way!

http://sketchabilities.blogspot.co.uk/

SCRAPPY STASH

Plain cardstock

Prima pretty paper and packaging

Assorted flowers

Handmade butterflies

Beaded stick pins

Heart mother of pearl buttons

Pearls

Alphabet die

Branch punch

Wooden tag and wooden butterfly

BLOG HOP FRIDAY MARCH 1st

Hi everyone, the design team at SOUS have been invited to join Whimsical Designs on their  Blog Hop so

if you like hopping mark these dates on your calendar

Friday March 1 ---Sunday March 3 

happy scrapping and see you there.

STUCK ON YOU SKETCHES

http://www.stephanie-whimsicaldesigns.com/

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT

Hurrah its the weekend!  Lots of happy scrappy time!
Here is my latest layout I have done, using a sketch from SKISSEDILLA.
For this one-  I first chose all my papers ( Prima Natures Garden) and cardstock first, then gathered all my co-ordinating embellishments and decided to make some matching flowers.
I made the three cream ones in some mulberry paper, using a Donna Sallazer flower die.
Then I made the tree by using a mask and some texture paste and masked straight onto the paper. I then made another tree by masking onto some plain cardstock and when dry I cut it out and placed it on top of the other one for some dimension. I then added some gold paint to accent it.
I matted my photos in colored cardstock and inked the edges and glued all this down.I then ripped my edges to about a 10x10 inch background. I adhered this onto the plain background card.
I then added lace, netting and a doily around the edges.
Next I turned down the top right hand corner and decorated with flowers.
I cut out three small birds from the Prima paper (can you spot them all?) and inked them and attached to my page.
I added my hand made flowers and assorted roses, leaves etc.
I decorated my textured paste tree with mini rose buds.
I die cut three small butterflies and added pearls to their bodies.
I added a pearly swirl (Prima) and other bits and peices.
The twig I picked up off the beach!
Last but not least I added the title.
And I think thats about it! (See sketch below). I hope you like it and give the sketch a go.

http://skissedilla.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/sketch196.html

SCRAPPY STASH
Plain cardstock
Pretty paper (Prima Nature Garden)
Cream lace
Pink netting
Texture paste
Tree mask
Mulberry paper flowers
Assorted flowers
Pearls
Twig
Corrugated cardboard
Branch punch (woodware)
Pearly swirl (Prima)
Butterfly die (Marianne creatables)
Ink
Prima leaves
Twine for the swirly twig
Two pink buttons
Three small black beads for the birds eyes
Glimmer mist in gold on the mulberry flowers
Gold paint on tree
Flower dies.

WE HAVE A WINNER

Happy Friday lovely scrappers.  I hope its particularily happy for one of my new followers, for we have a winner. 
Congratulations goes to blsd2scrp.
Please send me your details so I can mail out your prize.
My email is pac.wright@ntlworld.com

And thank you to everyone for all your kind comments and visits to my blog. I hope you enjoyed the SOUS blog hop and  I look forward to seeing you all on the next one. (March 1st).

In the meantime, dont forget to check out the SOUS Sketches blog for our weekly challenges posted every Friday. Have a great day.
 http://stuckonusketches.blogspot.co.uk/

STUCK ON YOU SKETCHES BLOG HOP

WELCOME TO STUCK ON U SKETCHES 100th  SKETCH BLOG HOP

We are extremely excited to have you all visiting on a historic day for Stuck on U Sketches! 

Today's post marks our 100th sketch! How awesome is that, right?

And to celebrate in a big way we have invited our entire Design Team to join in our sketch challenge! 

An additional challenge was to use this as a layout sketch or transform this into a card design!

The surprise in the blog hop is waiting to see what everyone did!

Now we just couldn't let a big day like today go without a bit of a treat for you all so we have a few wonderful sponsors for our hop!

Our very own Lisa Norris of Pretty Paper Pretty Ribbon

Regina Easter of The Cutting Cafe

And two stamp sets from Stephanie of Whimsical Designs:

Our only expectation is to be a follower of Stuck on U Sketches and leave a little love along the way for each team member (this will take some time so our hop is a week long!) We have 3 sponsors and will

pick 3 winners and we'll have those to post for you on Friday, February 8th. 

And some additional sweetness...many of our Design Team members will be offering blog candy on their personal blogs as well! So the chances to get a lil' something is pretty awesome, not to mention all the eye candy with the great projects to see! 

Here is our sketch designed by Leah Schaeffer

And our blog hop line-up-

Starting with your SOUS Leaders

Nanne

Sandi

Leah

And Design Team

Wanda
Tracey K.
Tracey G.
Sylvie
Shona
Shilo
Patricia
Misty
Margie
Lizzy
Lisa
Leslie
Laura
Kim
Jane
Holly
Fern
Erica
Charlotte
Caroleanne
Bonnie
Becky
Annette
and Andrea

PLEASE LINK THE PERSON THAT COMES NEXT IN THE LINE UP,

So if you have come here from Charlottes blog, you are on the right track.

Up next in our blog hop is Bonnie with her name linked here Bonnie  or go here http://prettylittlesomethings.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/stuck-on-u-sketches-100th-sketch-blog.html
If you get lost along the way just go back to SOUS and go from there. Have fun and thanks for stopping by.

http://sous-projects.blogspot.co.uk/

BLOG CANDY...

ALL WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON FRIDAY THE 8TH MARCH.

To be in with a chance to win my blog candy, just become a follower and leave a comment to let me know.

 As its Valentines Day soon, I have included Valentine papers and lots of flowers. 

   

My Blog Candy

 HERE IS MY TAKE ON THE SKETCH

Hope you like it and enjoy the hop.

SCRAPPY STASH

Plain cardstock x 4 co-ordinating colours

Pretty paper x 2

Doily

Grey mesh

Heart die

Envelope template

Assorted flowers

Sticky back pearls

Dragonfly die

Two hand made stick pins

Pink brad

Distressing tool

Alphabet die

BFN

I have also made a card using the same sketch - hope you  like it

STASH USED for the card.

Bo Bunny papers - Little Miss Collection

Plain cardstock in 3 co-ordinating colours

Sizzix heart die

Prima flowers

Sticky back pearls and heart

Hand made stick pin

Envelope template

Green brad

Title sticker - Hugs
Printed and inked labels x 3

Twine

Bronze pen for the cross stitch.

TIPS ON HOW TO PUT A LAYOUT OR CARD TOGETHER

If you are a beginner and would like to know a sure-fire way to put a layout or a card together,

just follow my five easy fail-safe steps below.

1. Choose your focal point i.e. photo for your layout or your main theme for your card

    (For my card above my main theme was the envelope)

2. Choose your background cardstock/paper and pretty papers

   ( I usually tie in my colours with my photo or theme)

3. Put together a border (brings the page together)

4.  Add your embellishments (try to colour co-ordinate them)

5. Add a title/greeting (in this case HUGS)

   (Keep your colours down to three or four, too many will clutter your page)

And there you have it.

Hope this helps, have fun and happy scrapping  - Bye For Now and many thanks for stopping by.