Wedding Dress LO

I've decided to split up my previous post into seperate ones for the LO and details about the show. The LO below was completed 4.9.11 before I headed off to the Show. This is for the Challenge Heaven September sketch challenge. As soon as I saw the sketch I just knew I had to use these photos from my wedding. The doily was originally white but I've coloured it to match the LO with a mixture of tea and three different Glimmer Mists. The majority of the papers are Kaisercraft Dancing Jewel with the music and card from the Timeless range. Dress form, flowers and pearls are also Kairsercraft.

The sketch:

I've also found yet another challenge blog I look the look of. This one is called Young Crafters Unite. The challenge for this month is to colour a stamped image. I have entered my LO above as I painted the dragonfly in the top right using Tinkling H2O's. Entries are open until 15.9.11, new challenge comes out 23.9.11.

Challenge Heaven CC Blind Crop LO

Last night I took part in the Challenge Heaven June cyber-crop event which will be continuing all week. They started with a game of bingo and then provided instructions for a Blind Crop. I normally wait until all the instructions are up, sketch out the general design of the LO and then pick papers and embelishments to suit. Last night I decided to just go with the flow though and am actually pretty happy with the resulting LO.

It was fun to get my stamps out again. Those leaves have turned out to be so versatile. The two-colour title was due to the fact I had run out of green 'e's. :)

Giggle LO

I have finally managed to create 4 LO's in the one month for Challenge Heaven so I'm eligable for prizes this month. :) This is entry number four for the themed challenge: Smiles, frowns and funny faces with twine on the layout. My twine is on the tag and I think I've covered all three expressions with these photos. I handmade all the flowers on this LO, pretty proud of myself there.

The Dress LO

Here is my third entry for Challenge Heaven's March contest. This is for the sketch challenge. As soon as I saw the sketch I thought it would be perfect for these photos of my picking up my wedding dress. It's not often I get to do a flowery LO so this was a change. The tissue paper flowers are from Pretty Paper Petals, I love these and will probably order more soon.

The sketch I had to work from:

2009 -What a Year LO and a look at my craft room

First up we have my second entry for Challenge Heaven this month. This is for the Word challenge: it had to have 'year' in the title and strip journalling. Why would I chose to do a page based on 2009 in 2011? Well, for one I almost always seem to run about a year behind on special events but the other reason was I cleaned up my desk last weekend and discovered a list of major events in 2009 so I decided to scrap them. Pretty simple LO, really wanted to keep the focus on the memories.

In case anyone was wondering what my newly cleaned and re-organised scrapping area look like, I have taken a photo to show off. Please ignore the mess under the table, I didn't quite get around to cleaning everything on the floor. :)

Smile LO

Entry number one for March at Challenge Heaven. This is for the colour challenge which this month was red and blue, extra criteria was to include a love heart. Turns out I don't actually have a lot of simple navy or red patterned paper so this was difficult for me. I ended up changing the colour of the chipboard, the doily and the title stickers to get them all too match. I really love the photo and the chipboard florish from 2Crafty.

Love This City LO and Pencil Eye ATC

 This is my first entry for February's Challenge Heaven. It's for the 'transport' theme and had to use inks. I've picked a photo of Ben and I on a tram at Melbourne and used some old packaging paper which has different maps on it as the main background paper. The big embellishment cluster is a bit different for me but I'm really happy with the end result.

This ATC is the final one in the series for the pencil/charcol swap I'm taking part in.

Cherished Memories LO

This would have been my fourth entry for last month's Challenge Heaven competition, however I didn't complete it in time. This was for the themed challenge which was 'Grandparents' and had to have a Kraft base. The journalling is Ben's words reflecting on the death of his Grandpa in November.

My third entry for the Dec/Jan Challenge Heaven competition. This one is based on the sketch below. I found these papers by My Mind's Eye, part of the Alphabet Soup range, in a new scrapbooking store near my work. They're not the kind of colours I would normally use but for some reason they captivated me and I had to buy them.

Old Time Fun LO

I'm on fire at the moment. :) This is my second entry to Challenge Heaven's Dec/Jan challenges. I originally made this LO for the Sketch challenge, however after I finished I realised it also suited this month's colour challange of Brown, Green and White with 2 photos. I decided I'll pop this into as my colour challenge entry and do another Sketch LO. The green is actually more vibrant in real life, but disappointed with how this one scanned.

A day at the races LO

My first entry for the combined December/January challenges over at Challenge Heaven. This is my entry for the Quote Challenge, criteria were to use the title 'A day at the ...' and it had to have ribbon or twine. I thought this was perfect since I've been meaning to scrap these photos since July 2007 and I used the ribbon I actually wore in my hair that day.

I actually hand-stamped the entire purple background paper with Versamark watermark ink pad and a Kaisercraft stamp to get that effect. The crocheted flower was originally white and made by my mum, however I sprayed it with Glimmermist to fit the LO. I'm pretty happy with how the papers worked together, I've been a bit lazy recently using the same paper schemes so it was good to mix and match this time round.

Family Fun LO

For the sketch challenge at Challenge Heaven. Couple of old photos from my childhood on this one. I'm not sure of the exact years these were taken. I think the one on the left might have been Dad's work Christmas party at the Melbourne Zoo. I think the best thing about looking back at these old photos is laughing at the fashions! :)

This month the sketch was by Inspired Blueprints. As per normal, I stuck to the sketch pretty closely.

Melbourne LO

I really liked the sketch challenge for Challenge Heaven this month and knew right away which photos I wanted to use. As often happens however I had trouble finding enough time to complete the LO, so here it is finally finished on the last day of the month. :) I'm always happy when I get to use papers which have been in my stash for ages and I got to use TWO old ones on this LO! I don't normally do mixed alpha titles, however I had spelled out all of 'Melbourne' except for the M before realising I'd already used the M on another LO. Pretty happy with the end result.

I should be back later today with some ATC's as well. :)

Happy Birthday LO - Mike's 20th

Continuing my trend of completing birthday LO's WAY after they actually occured (my brother actually just turned 21 last month), this LO shows Michael's 20th birthday and is a Challenge Heaven entry. This is for the themed challenge, theme was birthday and it had to have a photo with the cake. I went with hidden journalling on this one as it's already looking crowded enough. The cake photo actually opens up and the writing is on the blue paper.

I'm aware the photos themselves look silly. I missed capturing all the 'moments' so my siblings kindly agreed to re-stage them for however their acting ability is questionable. :P

We 'R' Still Family

4th challenge for the month! This is for the song title challenge, it had to have the title "We are family" and a scalloped edge. I changed the title slightly because I ran out of 'e's. :) How cool are the crochet dolies on this one? I purchased a whole bunch from Pretties Etc at a very reasonable price.

My family would get yearly family portraits for a couple of years but then we just seemed to stop bothering. The recent one on the LO was taken just before mum commence her chemo treatments. Pretty safe to say we all look a lot different now compared to the first photo!

Aussie Christmas LO

The colour challenge at Challenge Heaven this month was Red, Black, Green and Orange. I had such a hard time figuring out how to get those to all work together and was about to go in a totally different direction with orange as my base colour when I came accross this patterned paper while looking for red paper for the previous LO. I think the end result if pretty cool, and I'm happy I got to use another older photo of my and my siblings.

Fun Creating With Dad LO

What's this, a LO with a little person in the photo?! It's actually an old photo of me, creating something with my dad way back around 1990. This one is for the Challenge Heaven Ebony and Ivory Challenge. Colours this month were black or white and red and you had you use paint. This was nothing like what I'd originally intended to create but I think it worked out rather nicely nonetheless.

Birthday Boy LO

The month is almost half way through and I have only created one LO so far! I don't think I'm going to have much luck getting to the 4 I need to be entered into the monthly draw at Challenge Heaven.

Photos are my parter and his mother celebrating his birthday. I loved the little monkey I've cut out of some patterned paper as my nickname for Ben is 'monkey'.

Anyway, this LO is based on the sketch provided by Shell.

A Time of Change LO

Here is my fifth LO for July at Challenge Heaven. Finished it a day late so it wont count but I had this idea of the LO sketch for a while and couldn't go past the chance to do any orange LO since it's my favourite colour. For the Ebony and Ivory challenge, had to pick black OR white and orange and use mini-alphas. If I had a chance to do this one again I'd get rid of some of the white space at the top to leave more room for the journalling at the bottom. I wasn't expecting to write that much.

 

This LO focuses on my mum's battle with breast cancer and the start of her chemo treatment. One of the biggest challenges for her is the loss of her hair so that is what I've focused on here.

New Friends LO

I made it to 4 Challenge Heaven LO's this month, so I'll be entered into the monthly prize draw! Here is my 4th LO for the month. It was created for the Theme challenge and had to be about holidays using no more than 3 patterned papers. I chose to scrap some photos of Ben taken on our 9 year anniversary holiday to Coffs Harbour, NSW. The trip was amazing and the highlight was visiting the Pet Porpoise Pool.