Scrap the Boys - January 2018

Well it has been a long time between posts. Many challenges are moving to Facebook now, making the blog less and less necessary, so I can see it is only a matter of time before it won't be used...

But until then I will still pop in with the odd post! Today I am sharing the January challenge for Scrap the Boys which is to use flowers on a boy page. Easy!

 

And this is my take:

 I had this great Boys Fort collection from Pink Fresh Studio that I had yet to use, so using that was my first challenge (for myself!). I had this great picture of my two boys and decided that some flowers cut from the patterned papers would be a good way to go. I used a free cut file from Paper Issues and cut some hibiscus flowers and leaves in a couple of different papers and sizes, then I was half way there. I used some distress oxide ink in antique linen with a triangle stencil to break up the white just a bit too.

 I used mostly the coordinating embellishments that I had for the collection, but added a Charms Creations black and tan arrow (which was a perfect colour addition by the way!) layered with a few bits and pieces.

Another little cluster with a wood epoxy, word sticker and some tags. I used some brown paper twine in the tags and secured them with my tiny attacher (one of my favourite tools!).

Well, that is all from me for now, thanks for stopping by and catch you later.

Katie x

Scrap the Boys September Share

Happy Wednesday! Yesterday saw the mid month reveal for Scrap the Boys so I can now share my sample for this month. We had an awesome sketch to work with this month, and at the time that I was creating this I was in a Pink Fresh Studio mood! (Actually it was a use up my ever growing collection of Pink Fresh products!)

Here is the sketch:

 And here is my sample:

I love how this page is full of non-traditional boy colours, but the colours work so well with the fun carnival feel in the photos!

 With the cloud theme to the papers/embellishments I was able to add in some of the cool clouds from Charms Creations too.

The Pink Fresh goodies are great to layer with. Here I have used a canvas pocket tag, enamel frame, puffy stickers and die cut.

 I decided that I didn't need a huge title so I simply wrote this on the label that I had layered with other embellishments.

So, there you have it, a great sketch to play with, check out all the other great samples here, and I can't wait to see yours!

Thanks for stopping by,

Katie x

Kraft +

In the nick of time! I don't think I have ever put together a page so quickly, and I must say it was kind of nice. No over thinking, no pushing things around, just laying things out and sticking them down. So I did the Kraft + challenge, their first ever challenge too. The challenge was this colour combo:




And here is my very quick page:

I used a piece of Kaisercraft patterned kraft for my background and then only project life cards to mat my photos.

The downside of quick last minute pages is photographing them at night! I think I will redo the photo in the morning with some close ups too.

Anyhoo, that's it from me. Thanks for stopping by.

Katie x

*Edited*

So I am back with a better photo. It is amazing how much better the photo looks in natural light.

Love playing with the new mini hearts from Charm's Creations, and also in love with the wood drops from Pink Fresh Studio!

 A few pretty flowers from D-lish Scraps and a couple of gold enamel dots.

All done now.