Michelle's - sketch challenges

Firstly i want to apologise for been absent this week....just haven't had a spare moment to check my emails or do any posting.

But in my in-box i found Michelle has sent me a couple gorgeous LO's, the sketches from last month and this month!

Hi Sue
Sorry I’m late with this one.
Here is my take on last month’s challenge.
Cheers
Michelle

This Month's:
I just love the colours of this Michelle, so soft, and the hint of inking around the edges blends the colours all in gorgeously!! Love that flower!! And what a cute little face knitting away!!

Last months sketch:
I am glad you decided to send this and show us all....just love it...that chip butterfly swirl is beautiful with another yummy flower there too! Great take on the sketch Michelle.

Thanks for sharing these Michelle. xx

Long weekend challenge ...

Okay ... back already!!

My inspiration comes from

... here

and

... here

Create a layout or even an off the page item with  fabric somehow incorporated on it!

Can't wait to see what you come up with ... email to me!!

I will wait until Monday to have a go at this as I have visitors until then ... my youngest sister and her family will be arriving soon!! Can't wait to see them!

And they are sleeping in the scrap room!!

Little 1 and 3 year old boys don't go well with scissors, paper and glue so it is all packed up on the cupboard and elsewhere!!

But the best bit is that at least I'll have some great photos to scrap after their visit!!

Long weekend challenge ...

Hi all!

I will be back at some stage soonish with a long weekend layout idea / challenge!!

Stay tuned ... need to get my thinking cap on!

For those of you going away ... have a wonderful break!!

Sue's sketch - Meredith

Scavenger hunt - Maryanne

"here's my scavenger hunt layout....bloody hard work too!!!

OA label sticker

font, sweetie pie, from dafont

vintage image is the digital images in the bottom right hand corner

2 green circles are the brad and I'm counting the little green paint splatter digital brush as a circle.

1 photo

red ribbon [with white too]

folded corner

date title."

Photo by Tiff Firth Photography.

Fantastic Maryanne ... I did look for a little while for the 2 green circles and then felt silly ... very creative!!

I really like that font too so off for a look and download I reckon!!

Sue- colour challenge

This colour challenge was really a challenge for me, these are not colours that i would normally grab for, let alone have in my stash. Once i bought some orange cardstock, i found some of my favourite OA papers, and slowly i worked it out!

Marika - scavenger hunt

Would you believe it but this is Marika's first EVER vintage page??!!!

So not only has this chickadee done the tricky scavenger hunt challenge BUT done it vintage style. LOVE IT.

I was almost tricked with the green circles until i noticed the buttons! Beautiful photo and you really did it justice Marika. Well done.

Amanda - scavenger hunt

new font : Doctor Soos

scavenger hunt - Meredith

My bits:
2 green circles ... the flower
vintage image ... a doily rub on
sticker ... at the top left of the photo
folded corner ... at the top left of the photo too
new font ... American Typewriter LH Lt Cd
Oh and my new favourite tool ... a Tim Holtz tiny attacher ... cute little staples!! Beautiful to use!! As per the folded corner and how I attached the twine!

A funny thing with this layout ... I saw Sue at football yesterday and she said she had uploaded her "scavenger layout" so I set myself a challenge ... not to look at Sue's until I had posted mine!!

I am so keen to see hers now and I think it made me get mine done!! So now I am off to check it out!

Sue- scavenge hunt

At first this challenge of Amanda's had me stumped, but then i found these photos of Ethan and i found this old cosmo cricket paper...then the rest just fell into place. When i went to place the white tag with the stapled twine i noticed on the pp there was a vintage image of someone dancing...can you spy it??..i didn't notice it at first. My new font is Prissy Frat Boy. Hope all the ingredients are there..

Good challenge Amanda! Can't wait to see what everyone else comes up with.

Sue x

Maryanne - WOS

hi amanda



I have attached a LO which Ive done.I was inspired by this Layout which I absolutely loved, by Armance on 2peas, where she had printed song lyrics on her background.

 Mine is using the song "Nothing Else Matters", by Metallica, which actually holds a lot of meaning for me at the moment.


My white cardstock is covered in text, but as I have scanned my LO, and have some dimension on it, it hasnt scanned very well.[sorry].


cheers maryanne

 
 

I keep thinking to myself 'wow wow wow' when i look at this Maryanne. I totally LOVE the lyrics idea and the song you have used by Metallica is perfect.....i have had that singing in my brain since i first peeked at this layout this afternoon!

Love how you have taken the colour scheme and lyric idea but totally made it yours.  I am in absolute awe of what you do. It is always stunning.

Beautiful. Just beautiful.

June Sketch Challenge

Great challenges there Amanda...hmmm....they will have me thinking, especially the scavenge one!

Well, here is my sketch challenge for this month. For those of you who have popped into my blog you may have seen my 'summer days' page that i have based this sketch on. It is a good one to use up those multiple photos from just one occasion, placement is totally up to you, along with some pp's and pop some journalling in amongst it too.

Here is my example:

Have fun with it and i look forward to seeing what you all come up with!!

Suexx

June Challenges

the scavenger hunt.


Idea from scrapboxx and Sue

To incorperate all these elements onto one page.

• an odd number of photos
• red ribbon
• a vintage image
• a folded corner
• two green circles
• a date used as the title
• loops of string/twine fastened with staples
• use a new font for journalling
• a sticker

Can't wait to see what you come up with!


colour challenge

cream, light grey and mustard yellow and orange sunset. Inspired from the grey and orange delight in  Meredith's Good Friday layout!

Dont forget - the more the merrier. Please join in! If you do not want to join in the scrapping side of things,but enjoy looking at our blog please leave a little comment. This encourages us to continue with the e2c blog and lets us know that we are not just prattling on to ourselves here!!

Stamp cleaning ...

Me again ...

Just found this post over at Studio Calico and thought it was very interesting ...

http://www.studiocalico.com/forums/topic/23034

The link to the original Tim Holtz topic ...

http://timholtz.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/05/how-do-you-distress-day-4.html

You can also see Tim's other posts on distressing at his blog ...

http://timholtz.typepad.com/my_weblog/

Happy stamping!!

Clever idea ...

Hello ... I have been MIA lately but thought I'd stop by to post this great link ...

http://mayaroad.typepad.com/dt/2010/05/a-useful-post-color-swatches.html

There is also an example for fabric!

Obviously we may not have easy access to Maya Road mist but Tattered Angels Glimmermist is available locally!! :-)

WOS - Tiff

inspo from Sandra with her picket fence with the roses poking thru it.




inspo from Color Room Palette 6 for the colour scheme and the bones of a sketch.


inspo from Twiddleybitz for the May nude chip challenge.

and of course inspo from e2c blog for getting me off my butt and getting this one done.

;p

cheers Tiff

(sorry Tiff but the bigger sized option is pixelating for me)

Love those 'nude' chip people. I much prefer chip to be left naked so this is a great challenge idea.

The look on Paige's face is pure love. This is beautiful... and the journalling spot on. Honest without bullshit and fluff. Brilliant.

Great job!

Sue's sketch- Janice

Hi Sue,

I have had this page done for awhile now and just never got around to photographing etc to put on the blog (Im not very good at the photographing and cropping bit).
After a phone call today from my good friend, I was asked if I would share it so decided it was time to send this email to you.
Thanks for another great sketch, look forward to the next one.

Janice

Wow Janice...thanks for sending this one in....i just love the colours and papers!! I love how you have mounted the journalling...i am seeing alot of this lately and just love it! Great photos and you have scrapped them beautifully!

Sue - WOS

When i saw this LO of Sande Krieger over at 2peas...i knew i had to lift her page...totally!!

With our bags all out ready to pack, travel brochures laying around everywhere and the excitement of actually going...her page was just the perfect idea for me scrap us getting ready for our first trip OS. So out came all my old 'mail art' stamps and new label stamps and away i went. I even had the OA Road trip range in amongst my stash...surprise surprise!

Here is my page:

Here is Sande's:

Like i said....an exact lift! But why change something if it is just perfect? I love her LO!

Tatum - WOS

Hi Amanda,

Here is my 3rd challenge Layout.

I've taken some of the common elements and style that the very beautiful Mardi Winen uses on her layouts. Mardi is an inspiration to me for so many reasons and I was lucky enough to do a couple of classes with her last year which gave me some great insight into the way she creates.

I have used some scrap strips from my recent projects, machine stitching, 8.5 x 11 and a story about everyday life...all things that I associate with Mardi's style.

As far as techniques go I have used my new favourite...a bit of heat embossing on the flower :)

Tatum xx

wow wow wow Tatum.

This is stunning. Amazing. Just awesome. LOVE your colours - i really am in heaven looking at all your beautiful elements.

Stunning use of colour.

and so glad to see some more Mardi inspiration :)

Marika - WOS

Hi Amanda,



A lift from fran tynans blog a layout called easter. It is great to get some pages done have used this green patterned paper that i think has been sitting in my pile for several years.


Thankyou Marika

and here is Fran's original:

Great work Marika. Fran is so inspiring!! Those red accents on yours really pop against the kraft and green. Beautiful job.