Red, White and Blue

Last NSD page now, and I confess that it's the one I like the least. I made it for the 'Abstract Art' challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper which was to make a monochromatic page and to use large brushstrokes. 

I started by looking for a photo which would suit a single-colour page, and found one of my sister at a fancy dress barbecue. The theme for the event was red, white and blue, and she dressed as a tin of blue paint (also available in red and white), which tied in with the brush strokes required.

I based my page on Sketch-n-Scrap's Sketch #225, making my background from a mix of painted brushstrokes, washi tape and paper scraps.

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill

Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Dream On, American Crafts/Dear Lizzy Star Gazer, Pinkfresh Studio A Case of the Blahs, Jillibean Soup Soup Staples

Letters - Doodlebug, Docrafts

Butterfly Die-Cuts - Jillibean Soup?
Word Stickers - Tim Holtz Idea-Ology
Washi Tape - Hobbycraft?

Flair - Dotty About Flair
Puffy Stars - Elle's Studio
Enamel Stars - Doodlebug
Gems - KaiserCraft?

Paint - Golden
Ink - Ranger

Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools
Big Shot & Dovecraft Label Die
X-Cut Circle Punch

By the Sea

Back to the NSD scrapping now, and I have two pages left to share. I'm still back in the photos archive for this one, which I made for the 'Dadaism' art-themed challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper. They asked us to use new stash and either a new technique or one we haven't done for a while. My newest stash is the beach-themed Salt & Sunsets collection from Rosie's Studio which led me to old beach photos of us as children,  and I chose stencilling for my technique as this meant I could double up with Hey Little Magpie's stencilling challenge.

Supplies

Cardstock - UK Crafts

Paper - Rosie's Studio Salt & Sunsets

Puffy Words - Rosie's Studio Salt & Sunsets

Die-Cuts - Rosie's Studio Salt & Sunsets

Word Stickers - American Crafts

Washi Tape - Little B

Enamel Dots - Echo Park

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Pretty My Page Circles Stencil

Comfy?

This page is another with an old photo, made for a scraplift collaboration between the Scrap Squad and Scrap Academy groups on Facebook.

The original page that we were asked to lift was made by Suse Fish for Citrus Twist Kits back in 2016. I chose a single photo for my page, and flipped the design to suit the direction that my brother was looking in the photo.

I find that the colours of older photos don't work well with modern white backgrounds so I chose a distressed paper with a diagonal ombre print for mine and then went through my scraps box for coordinating pieces to make up the vertical strips and the layers behind the photo.

Supplies
Paper - Authentique, Crate Paper The Pier, Jillbean Soup, American Traditional Designs 
Letters - SEI
Tags - Kaisercraft
Enamel Dots - My Mind's Eye, Pretty My Page, Marianne Design
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Big Shot
Dovecraft Tag and Label Dies

Tickets Please

Another of the 'Scrap in Colour' challenges from For the Love of Pretty Paper was a simple Pick 'n' Mix, to use something old and something new together. I combined this one with an ABC challenge from UKScrappers where I picked up T for Trains. 

My trains are just the engines really, a trio of steam engines on the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway in Kent, a favourite place to visit from my childhood, but I haven't been back since my own children were small.

My 'something old' is the papers, labelled 2006 though I can't have had them that long, and my 'something new' is the gold letters, bought earlier this year. 

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill, Stampin' Up!
Paper - Bo Bunny Shabby Princess
Journalling Card - Project Life/Crate Paper Bundled Up
Letters - American Crafts
Tickets - from a Stash Swap
Stickers - Simple Stories
Enamel Dots - Doodlebug, My Mind's Eye
Ink - Docrafts

Tools
Big Shot & Dovecraft Label Die
Woodware Postage Stamp Punch
Silhouette Portrait

Captured

One of the early challenges in the recent 'Scrap in Colour' event over at For the Love of Pretty Paper was a simple one to use a single-coloured background. I took the opportunity to use up one of my 'starting point' pages, pairing it with old photos of my cousins. I'd previously made most of this page to kill off a collection so just needed to add photos, title, journalling and embellishment to finish it off.

Supplies
Paper - Teresa Collins Daily Stories. American Crafts Shimelle, First Edition, My Mind's Eye
Vellum - Docrafts
Letters - Hobbycraft
Puffy Sticker - American Crafts/Shimelle
Enamel Dots - Pretty My Page, Eyelet Outlet, My Mind's Eye
Ink & Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Fiskars Shape Cutter & Circles Template
Fiskars Postage Stamp Border Punch

Alton Towers

The theme of the National Scrapbooking Day cybercrop over at For the Love of Pretty Paper is 'Scrap in Colour' and the girls there have certainly come up with some interesting challenges. For 'Name that Colour' we had to visit the site spycolor.com, pick one each of the top three colours listed for our initials and use them on a page. I had a choice of Acid Green, Aero or Aero Blue plus KU Crimson, Kelly Green or Kenyan Copper. Kenyan Copper was the best of those colours so I hunted for suitable photos and paper before picking my second colour to be Aero (mid-blue). 

My photos are old ones from a trip to Alton Towers which I cropped slightly and arranged in a block. A quick sketch hunt threw up Sketch #177 from Sketch-n-Scrap which was easily adapted. 

My title looked a little lost at the bottom so I added an extra panel below it and I moved the embellishment cluster up next to the photos as I didn't have any journalling to add to this page.

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill, Papermania
Paper - Kit 'n' Craft, My Mind's Eye Collectable
Die-Cuts - Jillibean Soup
Label Sticker - Tim Holtz
Ink - Docrafts

Tools
Silhouette Portrait
Hobbycraft Star Punches
Big Shot & Dovecraft Label Die