Layout which won me a prize.

This is a layout for a mid-month challenge at Ideal Papercrafts which I won a prize for.

The challenge was a Recipe one. We were given a list of things to include on our page as follows:
Two patterned papers, one plain cardstock, a piece of lace cardstock, 8 brads, two ribbons ( I placed a yellow variegated one over a brown one), 3 rubons ( the flowers ), an alpha ( hobart ); three pieces of chipboard ( the arrows).

I was happy to get another page put together for a holiday we had in Tasmania back in 2007.

Prize won at Ideal PaperCrafts

It is so exciting that this week I won a voucher at Ideal Papercrafts for my "Two" layout which I have shared below.

Then today I got a message to say I won last month's mid-month layout prize so I will share that layout after I post this. For that I receive a prize ( scrapbooking supplies)

Cyber Crop at Ideal PaperCrafts (formerly The Scrapbook Estabhlishment)

For this challenge we had to use an envelope, fourishes and some bling.

I had not scrapped this photo of my granddaughter taken on her 2nd Birthday so I used this challenge as incentive to do so.

The journalling reads:
Imogen celebrated her 2nd Birthday over in Canada with her parents and some of her Dad's family.
Once again Grandma was not there to celebrate the day.
Imogen's Mumma and Daddy gave her a toy camera.

Cyber Crop at Ideal PaperCrafts (formerly The Scrapbook Estabhlishment)

For this challenge we had to use Monochromatic colours with only one added accent ( I used the gold) and we had to have bling, rhinestones or pearls ( I chose pearls ) and a photo corner.

I hope to eventually make a matching page on which I will do lots of journalling about our celebration of my parents 50th Wedding Anniversary which took place in May 2002.

The group photo has their Bestman ( my uncle - Dad's brother) and Bridesmaid (my cousin who is only 10 years younger than my mother)

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.