Tuesday 17 May 2011

Challenge Scrapping

Well, I have to say I have been scrapping up a storm this weekend! I was lucky enough to spend the weekend with girlfriends at a scrapping retreat and I was very proud of myself having completed 9 pages!! Can you believe it?? I almost couldn't. I rarely get much done when I scrap with friends (I am guilty of talking too much and scrapping very little!), so I really didn't expect that I would achieve much at all. But I think I packed right, didn't think about things too much and took challenges and sketches to work from and then things happened!

So, I have a Purple Pumpkin sketch challenge entry (because my order arrived just in the nick of time on Friday before I left!). So here is the sketch:
and here is my take:


The only other criteria was to include some Purple Pumpkin goodness! Which I did with the cool pink spotty button. I used Crate Paper Emma's Shop which is absolutely lovely to work with too.

The other challenge was for Scrap Jacked. I chose to use a page by Bec as my inspiration and used some Basic Grey Life of the Party for a simple boy page. Here is the inspiration page:


and here is mine


I still have trouble looking at this photo of Liam for too long, he just looks too grown up, certainly older than his six years!

Well that is enough for now. But rest assured I will be back with some more pages to share soon!!

Catch you later,
Katie

13 comments:

Anne P said...

Fabulous Katie. Love your take on the PP Sketch and glad the embellies arrived just in time. Glad to hear you had a great weekend away as well.

Samantha Hauzer said...

Love your take on the Purple Pumpkin sketch, and your other layouts are gorgeous too :) And that boy of yours sure does look older than 6 years in that photo! They just grow up too fast don't they?

Shimano (aka Christine) said...

Gorgeous layout for Scrap Jack - thanks for playing along. xx

Melissa said...

WOW Katie, how cool is your jack of Bec's...love that new paper...you have me wanting some now.Thanks for joining us at Scrap Jacked!!!

ps....Love your take on the PP sketch too..beautiful

Julie said...

great take on bec's page. thanks for playing along with us at SJ.

Belinda said...

Beautiful work Katie!! Love your gorgeous take on the Purple Pumpkin sketch. Such a lovely fresh colour combo. Thanks for playing with us!!

Kelly Massman said...

Came over from Purple Pumpkin! What beautiful layouts!!!

Hayles said...

What a great take on the sketch, thanks for joining in:)

Angela Weimer said...

Such a great layout. Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day. Angela

Unknown said...

Gorgeous layouts Katie!! love your take on the PP sketch...thanks for joining in :)))xx

Vicki said...

Gorgeous stuff Katie :)!!! I think I need to go shopping for some of that paper too. Awesome boy layout! Hope to see you at Scrap Jacked on the 5th for next month's challenge.

BecM said...

Oh this is just fab!!!
Love your take on my page. Fantastic!!
Thanks for playing along with us at Scrap Jacked!!

Natasha said...

your work is FANTASTIC!!! love these too! Thank you so much for this post.
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