Tiff - June colour challenge + large photo/vertical title

Wow Tiff. I have always thought that photo of Sean is amazing. His eyes look stunning and so crisp. Definitely one to be proud of!

The autumn colours in your cluster are lovely as is the touches of blue and the string is perfect.

Lovely!

Amanda - colour challenge

I was going to delete these photos but thought that maybe i should use them instead. A quest for less perfection lol.

Journalling says: I should have realized that getting a 'nice' photo of us together at 4am after a night out was too much to hope for!

Karen - Fran's August sketch (2)

I spied this over on facebook and convinced Karen to send it through for the blog also.

She has used Fran's sketch again and rotated the whole thing... using squares for the repeated elements.

Love it, love it, love it.

Notice how all those random papers just seem to 'go' together. Beautiful stuff...

Ali - Fran's August Sketch

Hi Amanda, here is my simplistic take on Fran's sketch challenge... thanks for the fantastic sketch Fran!

Ali

Ali ... simplistic = totally unreal in my book! 

The little stapled loops of baker's twine, the splats and the delicious kraft look amazing together. Fabulous butterflies too - the whole page looks just so awesome.

Fran's sketch certainly has produced some fabbo pages! What an inspiration!

Michelle - colour photo

WOW Michelle those flowers on the ?raffia? really pack a punch... love how the little birds, leaves and butterflies appear to be perching/growing out of them. Excellent work. The photo is awesome too - i spy a 'thirds' effect there!!

Also anyone who journals by hand has my instant admiration. Great job!!

Karen - Fran's August sketch

*sigh* perfect.

Karen this is brilliant. Just beautiful. So glad to hear you are scrapping again. You are so very clever it would be a huge shame to not see your work.  What a sensational photo too! awesome.

Sue- Fran's sketch challenge

When i spotted Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's LO in the July/ August Creating Keepsakes, i instantly thought of the graffiti art i saw around Berlin.....and together with Fran's sketch....i was inspired to do a layout of Berlin Graffiti Art.

'tis something different for me, but it reminds me of all that graffiti....and you can sort of see Fran's sketch amongst it!

Great sketch Fran....love it!

Sue- page 100 challenge.

Well, at last i have scrapped!!

I have attemped Meredith's page 100 challenge. I found this inspiration from the real living magazine, August 2010.. ( i actually had to buy a magazine as i had nothing but scrapping ones left in the house!...i had a big chuck out before i left for OS)

What i was inspired on this page was the many different sized black framed photos....and i loved the font along the bottom.


And i thought it would be a perfect way to quickly scrap some photos from our day in Paris.

Now, to see if i can attempt another challenge!

Amanda - Fran's August Sketch

Marika - Fran's August sketch

Oh wow Marika. Brilliant colours - they work so well on boy pages! That orange is just striking! This goes to show that you don't need heaps of embellishments for it to be a repeated theme... those three circles are brilliant!

Really like that little button on the orange star too.... just add a little extra KAPOW.

again those HS round stickers are just so Fran too!

Michelle - Fran's sketch

Hi Amanda

Here is my submission for Fran’s sketch this month. 

I enjoyed completing this challenge.

I would love to give a special mention and thank you for the inspiration from Julie Winks for the “banner of hearts”.  I loved it so much that I have scraplifted from one of her recent layout.

Thanks

Michelle

This is lovely Michelle and that row of hearts is gorgeous! Lovely vintagey colours - great take on the sketch!!

Those prima blooms are just stunning aren't they?! Fabulous work.

sorry your pic is so small Michelle - i tried to make it bigger but it just pixelates :(

Take a look at this ...

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http://www.timholtz.com/vid_distressink.htm

Wow ... this may have been around for a while but it is worth a look for some inspiration!

Floral art ...

Photo from Maya Road Blog

http://mayaroad.typepad.com/mayaroad/2010/08/sneak-peek-week-wrap-up-and-flower-tutorial-1.html

Wow these flowers are delish!! I'm on the look out for this ribbon!!

A huge thank you ...

I would personally like to say an enormous thank you to everyone who has been posting us layouts lately ... the blog seems to be really busy at the moment!

At times we feel that we could just shut it down but it's times like these that we feel invigorated and want to carry on with free abandon

... okay I might be getting a little carried away

... but thank you, thank you and again thank you!!!!

Fran's sketch - Lou

I feel like I am repeating my self but ... WOW!!

Love what you have done here Lou!

The white ? brads for the repetition (they actually look like Mentos to me ;-)), the title and the strip of chipboard (I think) looks wonderful! And I really like how you have "poked" the butterfly at the top!

Just worked out this is Nat May's daughter and husband ... I think??!!

Thank you!

Amanda - page 100 challenge

wow this one was a fantastic challenge Meredith. Very very different and got you thinking! I liked it very much :)

My page 100 was from and old O magazine (Oprah's) which i found heaps of scrapping inspiration from in the past simply by the layout of the beautiful adverts and features.

on opening it to page 100 though......... blergh. Lots of text and one tiny, teeny drawing.

BUT WAIT! I had been toying with the idea of turning a photo of myself into a cartoon for a while so this was the perfect layout to do it on. It turned out to be a VERY long process in photoshop because i didn't like any of the action type of cartoonizers..... so this is the end result.

and it has a lot of dimension - which is unusual for me...

Fran's sketch - Tracey

Tracey said ...

my layout to answer Fran's challenge. 

I found the repetition thing hard (it doesn't take much to confuse me!!)  

This layout also has no pink on it which is highly unusual for me, I'm not really a red kind of girl.  

What a stunning photo! I love your layout Tracey - I love the facts about Charlotte too, a great way to remember those things!

Beautiful colours too.

Thank you again for supporting us! :-)

Colour challenge - Lou

Wow Lou - beautiful photo, love the embellishment clusters and the brads (I must try that as I have heaps of brads!).

Oh and maybe a sprinkle of mist or paint? Really love the butterflies too. And what a groovy paper to use as the background - gorgeous!

Thank you!

FYI ... Steamboat!

Okay we interrupt regular posting to bring to you all a cooking delight

... the steam boat

... my Mum calls it the Steamboat Shuffle and in some articles it is referred to as a hotpot!

Some of the articles show ceramic steamboats, some are stainless steel or brass.

Some links for you ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_pot

http://ilearn-culture.com/chinese-hot-pot-or-steam-boat/

I remember it as being lots of fun but you wouldn't want to be worried about "double dipping"!!

Hope that this information has been helpful.

We will now return to regular posting!

Marika - Fran's August sketch

oh beautiful Marika. AND you have used a trademark of Frans.... those round Heidi Swapp stickers!!

Love your wave element along the bottom and those yellow thickers are one of my fav. ones. Great, bright summery colours also in the banner.

Just sensational!