Lets Scrap Sketch: 7-31-13: AWESOME

The sketch has been revealed today at Lets Scrap.

Using lots of strips with space for a few photos, It is a fun sketch to play with:

This week I received a bottle of Texture paste from a friend, so decided to have a go at distressing my layout and playing with the Texture Paste.

These are my favorite photos of Brenton my youngest, and these Simple Stories papers just worked so well !

I mixed the Texture paste with brown paint and then used a Hexagon Stencil that I had to apply to the corners.

The edges of the layout were randomly punched out and the layout was stamped, inked, distressed and all over texturised.

Lets Scrap Sketch: 7-24-13 HO HO HO

The new sketch is up at Lets Scrap this week.. Loved it and had so much fun with this one..
Really enjoyed playing with two tones of papers.. 

I created mine using my huge stash of left over Christmas ranges that I have in a box.  Ended up using everything from Kaiser to Bo Bunny.

Photos are of an old photo shoot we done in 2011..

Here is the sketch we used:

This is my layout:

Close ups of the layout:

You can view a tutorial on Night Owls blog for the tree here: http://cliona-at-night-owl.blogspot.com/2011/12/folded-christmas-tree-card-tutorial.html

Lets Scrap: Challenge 166

I just loved the Design Team "FRAME IT" challenge over at Lets Scrap this week.

Karen asked us to create a layout using a Frame, Tags, Ribbon and Clustering..

Check out challenge details HERE.

I have this photo of my two boys from when they were very tiny.  Neville had just been to Germany and brought them back a cute T-Shirt each.  They were busy posing for us with their new shirts.  This has to be my all time favourite photo of my boys EVER !!

I used MME Craft papers and elements for this layout and Scrap Collections diecuts.

I used Maya road fabric tags and added rickrack for my ribbon.  The clustering was made with various elements from the MME pack.

I finished off the layout with Scrap Collections diecuts.

Close ups of elements: