Cyber Crop at Ideal PaperCrafts (formerly The Scrapbook Estabhlishment)

This is a card for the April Cyber Crop at Ideal Papercrafts.
We were given an illustration for inspiration which had four rectangles of bright coloured pictures and the dominant colours of each rectangle was in the same order that I have used on my card.
We had to add doodling to our card - I doodled the border around the edge.
Also we had to use string and a bookplate.

I used the challenge to make an acceptance card I needed to reply to an wedding invitation.

Cyber Crop at Scrap of Difference - Card Challenge

This is the card I made for the Scrap of Difference Cyber Crop Card Challenge this month.
We were asked to use a handmade flower ( mine is made using a tutorial called "Pinwheel Flowers") and the word "Friend" had to be somewhere on the card and also to use an item bought for something other than scrapbooking - for this part of the challenge I have used an old calendar for the floral square and the paper used for making the flower. I sanded the edges of the circles cut for making the flower and also sanded the square of calendar paper.

Cyber Crop at Scrap of Difference

This last weekend I took part in a Cyber Crop for Scrap of Difference - only got to do one challenge layout and the card challenge.

For this page we had to use two hand made flowers or one hand made plus one altered flower. I enjoyed making the flowers for this. In the forum some links to tutorials on making flowers was shared. I chose the "Loopy Flower" and the "Scrunched Rosettes" to play with and I am pleased with how they turned out. The Rosettes worked well as I had some nice soft silk type paper in my stash from years ago.

This is a photo of my daughter and her husband on their wedding day taken by the professional photographer. I have always felt this photo had a "hippy" feel to it which I thought the use of the flowers would work okay with.
My photographing of the layout has not shown the true colour of the plain cardstock I used - it was a light cream colour which matched the cream colour in the patterned paper of the flowers.
It was good to get another page done for the album of my Daughter's wedding.. seeing it took place in December 2005.

Some Recent Paper Scrapbooking

These are two layouts I have finished this week for a Cyber Crop at The Scrapbook Establishments. One featuring my friend Cathy and her Dog which was a challenge that we were given a photo to obtain inspiration from. I chose the colour chocolate brown from the photo and the heart shaped chocolates and also in the photo was tissue paper so I made my own tissue paper flowers for my page.

The Summer Holiday layout was for the challenge to use a Song Title for the title of the page and I remembered this holiday from back in 1996 which I had never scrapped and remember us sometimes singing the first two lines of that Cliff Richards song leading up to that holiday. Also on our page for the challenge we had to have two photos and use chipboard which I did with the letters and the two arrows.

Sherbet coloured card

This is for this week's colour challenge at Christian Paper Crafts. We had to use Sherbet colours of pale green, peach, pink and white.
I usually prefer to work with bolder colours but I did enjoy putting this card together using my Spellbinder dies and cutting up the flower shape to make it look a little like patchwork.

Sketch Challenge at Christian Paper Crafts

This is a card using a Sketch from the challenges at Christian paper Crafts and was one from a few weeks ago. I only got around to having time to use it yesterday and thought it would work well for a card for my Brother-in-law's birthday this month.

Sketch Challenge at Christian Paper Crafts

This is the latest card I have made for a Sketch Challenge at Christian Paper Crafts ( CPCST41 )

I have a Stamp Pal who lives in Illinois,USA and late last year we started to exchange a card each month. This month we are exchanging Valentine Cards so this is the one I will sending to her.