Other CIS challenges

It turns out I was the only one who entered the CIS challenges for October. :( And they were great challenges too, I thought! I already shared my 'Technique' challenge in my previous post, but thought I'll share the other two now.

The 'Shaping Up' challenge was to use rings on a layout. Love this photo of O and CJ.


And the 'Favourites' challenge was to create a layout of women/girls in your life, based on a sketch. Here's Livewire with her oldest cousin.

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SOUL Sketch Layouts

I realised that I haven't shared my take on the SOUL August sketch layout, which was by Rach. I changed the sketch around a bit (though like Rach, I also used the Heidi Swapp Invisibles Julie sent us!) and here is the result ...

The mottled effect was something I created after meeting Nic Finlayson at the Canberra Craft and Quilt Fair. To achieve it, you spray Glimmermist liberally on the paper/cardstock, then put salt crystals on top. The salt draws some of the moisture and leaves other as a grainy residue and so you end up with the effect you see!

And I created the SOUL September sketch, which was carried into October as well because I was a bit late with it! I even changed my own sketch a bit to create this layout.

This layout is actually pulling double duty - I also used the looped flowers technique I learnt through CIS on the layout as part of the monthly challenge at CIS as well!

Stay tuned for another SOUL sketch layout ... one of our members, Chris, created a sketch which I am in the middle of!

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SOUL Cybercrop

There's a cybercrop at Scrap Of yoUr Life (SOUL) this weekend!

The theme is based around National Bandana Day tomorrow.

Think of textures, patterns and shapes ... and colours!

I'd love to see you there!

Not creating

I haven't been scrapping much lately. Various reasons, mostly that I am just so tired.

So I just thought I'd share this layout from a month or two ago, which I haven't shared here yet.


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Vale Scenic Route Paper Company

Ever since I heard that one of my favourite ever paper companies, Scenic Route, was closing its doors, I have been grabbing bits in my scrap box and creating with them. Here are two quick and easy double layouts I created.

This first one is a scraplift of a layout by Nic Howard. I often look to other people's layouts and/or sketches when I want to incorporate a HEAP of photographs.

And this second one applies a couple of the same principles - a consistent line extending across both pages (though I actually did this one before the one above!).

This single layout I did in response to a cybercrop challenge at TSE (to use the colour green, a frame, and a tag, and preferably include a baby theme). As you can see, I cut the frame! (It is from Yvette, so thanks Yvette!)

And while I'm on the subject, this is the other TSE cybercrop challenge layout I completed (to use the colours pink and blue, a repeating element, and a tag). There's no Scenic Route in this one though - it's old CherryArte. Not that happy with this one but at least I recorded the sentiment.

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SOUL October challenges

For this month's first challenge, I set a 'recipe' challenge. Layouts are to include one male (at least), the colour red, at least two photos, and a themed embellishment to match your page (can make own). I had an ulterior motive - I bought a Jolee's in 2005 to scrap these photos of my son and I never have. I know Jolee's are 'not trendy' (to say the least) but I don't mind this one (especially for boy pages), it fits the page, I like the challenge, and I am full of justification! LOL Anyway, at least I finally scrapped the layout.

Julie set the second challenge, to create a layout with some snippets of information about the habits/sayings/quirks someone has at the moment. The layout needs 10 snippets; has to have three main colours, rubons and some felt. The 10 snippets are self-evident (recorded from my notes from last year on my daughter) ... three main colours are blue, pink and yellow ... rubon is the bracket in the title ... and felt is the small black flower underneath the denim flower.

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Cybercrop layouts

I participated in the CIS cybercrop recently, so I thought I'd share the layouts I did. There were four challenges but I only completed two.

One of the challenges was to scraplift a layout of someone else's, using one of the colours and one of the techniques in their layout as well. I scraplifted a layout by my friend Ali called 'Cloud Trees' - it was originally 8.5x11 but I translated it to 12x12.


Another challenge was to create a layout based on a sketch, with photos no bigger than 3x4, and using product at least a year old. This one is full of old product, the oldest product is the title stickers were leftover Creative Memories ones I had from five years ago!


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