Go Bananas for Rag

This one was an epic page for a birthday challenge from Dotty About Flair. They released their first flair designs on 10 July (10/7) last year and the challenge was to use as many items as possible from a list of 107, a mix of colours, motifs and techniques. My first task was to find a suitable set of photos, and I hit on RAG week at university, a week where students raise money for local charities, as a subject that could take some random motifs.

One of the items on the list was to scraplift another member of the group, and I picked this page from Kerryn; she made the stripes on her background by swiping ink pads across the page. It's easy and effective and something I shall do again. I chose three colours for my page and used the remains of a sheet of alphabet rub-ons over the stripes for 'something quirky'.

Other items included a flip or flap and a hidden element so my main photo lifts up to reveal a second one inside (for 2+ photos too). We could use the same thing for more than one item on the list so my filmstrip ticks off black, coloured cardstock, vellum, frames and cut-file in one go, as well as holding some puffy stickers which tick off a few more elements.

Under the Flap

I'm not going to list all 107 items but I do have them all on the page (with a degree of interpretation such as using a shell for the beach prompt). 

I think I've managed to keep the front as a cohesive page, and then I used the space inside my flap to hide some of the more random pieces like a strip of union flag washi tape to represent Britain.

By the way, "Go Bananas" was the theme for that year's RAG week. We had "Go Sharkin' for RAG" and "Go Barking Mad for RAG" in subsequent years.

Supplies

Cardstock - Crafts UK

Paper - Pink Paisllee/Paige Evans Whimsical, Pink Paislee/Paige Evans Rurn the Page, American Crafts/Vicki Boutin Storyteller, American Crafts/Amy Tangerine, Photoplay Boatding Pass

Letters - American Crafts, Pinkfresh Studio

Rub-Ons - Three Bugs in a Rug

Ephemera - Jillibean Soup

Chipboard - Pink Paislee/Paige Evans

Flair - Dotty About Flair

Wood Veneer - Studio Calico, Freckled Fawn?

Puffy Stickers - Journal Studio, American Crafts/Amy Tangerine

Stickers - Simple Stories, Pink Paislee/Paige Evans

Twine & Washi Tape - Unknown

Sequins - Pretty Little Studio

Enamel Dots - Eyelet Outlet, Simple Stories

Epoxy Hearts - Studio Calico

Brads - Papermania

Ink - Ranger

Paint - Golden

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Big Shot

X-Cut Camera Die

Dovecraft Labels Die

We Dare You!

A little while back I made a pile of 'starting point' pages from my scraps box, and it didn't take long for me to use up the first one. I was actually looking for photos for another of these pages when I found a pair that would work better with this one.

The pictures are from 1990 when I was at university and a group of us went to the beach one afternoon, where someone dared one of the group to swim in the sea ... in March.

I matted the photos on a scrap of cardstock and added an extra paper layer (also a scrap) behind them to give my title a calmer background to sit against. The circles of stars are one die-cut cut into three pieces and I added more stars to each piece.

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill
Paper - American Crafts/Shimelle, Lily Bee Design, Echo Park Note to Self
Letters - Fancy Pants
Die-Cut - Jillibean Soup
Word Sticker - Cosmo Cricket
Glitter Tape - Hobbycraft
Stars - MRI
Ink - Ranger
Mist - Docrafts, Cosmic Shimmer

Tools
Hobbycraft Star Punch
Dovecraft Star Die
Fiskars Postage Stamp Border Punch

Happy Days

Christina's Page

This is the fourth and final page that I made for the Chinese Whispers game in the Mind the Scrap Facebook group. As always, I was scraplifting a page from Christina, and as soon as I saw hers I knew that mine would be a close copy, using insta-cards and a beach photo.

I'd imagined that beach photo being one of my children, but it appears that I've already scrapped them all so I went back to our university days and some really old photos of us on the beach at Teignmouth. There were two, so I adjusted the page slightly.

I wanted a cloud print for the background, but I couldn't find one so I compromised by painting white cardstock with mist. I arranged a grid of 3x3 cards at the bottom of the page and cut the sun and cloud from a 4x4 card. The title came from one of Shimelle's prompts for her 25 Days of Scrapbooking Words last month.

Supplies
Cardstock - Colorset
Paper - Imaginesce
Insta-Cards - Simple Stories Good Day Sunshine
Wood Veneer - Make & Create
Letters - October Afternoon
Labels - Sarah's Cards Printable
Washi Tape - Little B
Enamel Dots - Simple Stories, Echo Park, My Mind's Eye
Mist - Cosmic Shimmer, Docrafts
Ink - Ranger

Tools
Big Shot & X-Cut Travel Mini Dies
X-Cut Circle Punch