Who Moved First?

With the web full of challenges for National Scrapbooking Day, I suppose it's normal for duplicates to be issued. It certainly cuts down the number of pages I need to make to complete them all. This page is for both Shimelle's Challenge 6 and Two Peas in a Bucket's Challenge 8 - Scraplift Yourself.

I started by looking for a page that was a bit 'different' as I frequently scraplift myself anyway, and I came across an old one that used overlapping paper strips, something that I haven't done on a page in a while. The photo is of my son and two other babies from our ante-natal class. It's a bit blurry as they all moved, but it's the only shot I have.

This was the original. I changed things up with softer colours, one less photo, an extra paper strip, inked edges and some cross-stitches, and I moved the title and journalling too.

I prefer the new page to the old one, which feels a little unfinished now. I think this may be an indication of my style evolving as time goes on. I may have to see what I can add to this one, or I may just leave it alone as it is part of a finished album.

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill Butter Cream
Paper - Crate Paper DIY Shop, K&Co Hannah, Basic Grey (Doily), Sandylion Travel Stripes
Washi Sticker - Crate Paper DIY Shop
Letters - Basic Grey Curio
Ink - Ink It Up!
Thread

New Baby Card

My final project for the fairy tale challenges at Scrap Whispers. This is for the Thumbelina challenge - make a card for or a layout about a small person (i.e. a child). With no time left for another layout, I decided on a card and went hunting for bits to use.

Finding the little pink rattle, I decided on a card for the birth of a baby girl and put it in a small bag with a piece of paper, a piece of princess vellum and lots of micro-beads so that the card itself rattles:

Here's a close-up of the bag:

No supplies list this time, as these were all bits and pieces that I had lying around, and I don't know where most of them came from originally.

Little & Large

This is the last page that I'll be making for the fairy tales challenges at Scrap Whispers as they are closing shortly, but I think I have time for one final card before then.

It's for the Sleeping Beauty challenge which was to use bling, sparkle or glitter, but also fits with Shimelle's Challenge 11 - make it sparkle. I've chosen a spotty paper, where all the spots are glittered, with a photo of my son and my nephew in co-ordinating outfits when they were babies.

Having chosen such a glittery background paper, I didn't want to cover it up, so I stitched a bracket-shaped square on the page for interest and I kept my other papers to just small pieces stacked up under the photo.

Supplies
Paper - First Edition Spring Feast, plus Scraps
Letters - American Crafts Remarks
Thread - DMC
Ink - Ink It Up!

Tools
Bracket-Shaped Square Template
Paper Piercer

Paper Strips Card

It's time for a card now, in response to the Princess and the Pea challenge at Scrap Whispers. Rosey made a card with lots of strips of paper which look a bit like all the mattresses that the princess slept on in the story, and she asked us to scraplift it. 

Here's my version, made for my brother's birthday next week:

And this was the original card from Rosey:

Supplies
Card - Craft Creations
Paper - Making Memories Fresh Anthology 6x6 Pack
Ink - Ink It Up!
Button & Tag - from Stash

Tools
Sewing Machine
Woodware Medium Scalloped Circle Punch

Silly Faces

The next challenge from Scrap Whispers was based on the fairy tale Cinderella and has the theme of old and new. I decided to try and use some of my oldest stash and picked on my ancient (pre-2008) shaped eyelets.

My 'new' is a set of photos from the photo booth at my sister's wedding last month. Her wedding colours were pink and turquoise so I chose a pink background paper. This ties in with the very first NSD challenge that Shimelle Laine set - scrap in pink; her fifth challenge - use brads or eyelets; and also her twentieth challenge - use smaller photos.

I backed my pink paper on grey cardstock to give it some stability, sprayed it with white mist (which is almost invisible now it has dried) and marked out a circle of eyelets around my photo. I initially just put a strip of washi tape below the photo, but then I decided to turn it into a frame. The letter stickers are more old stash. I've discovered over time that I don't really like multi-coloured titles, but they seemed just right for this page.

Supplies
Cardstock - DCWV
Paper - HOTP Pink Swirls
Eyelets - Unknown
Letters - Lakeland
Washi Tape - Trimcraft
Ink - Ink It Up!
Mist - Mr Huey

Tools
Circle Template
Eyelet Setter

Fish for Tea?

I'm back to a more normal schedule now after the Bank Holiday weekend here, and my next page is for another Scrap Whispers challenge. This time it's based on Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and more specifically the number three. We were asked to create a page with three of everything - three photos, three papers, three embellishments etc.

This ties in nicely with the 18th NSD challenge posted by Shimelle Laine, which was to embrace the Power of Three. I picked my three photos and decided to scraplift a page from Shimelle's alter ego Glitter Girl, and this links in to Challenge 7 at Two Peas in a Bucket - be inspired by a Garden Girl (their design team). 

My page has three photos, three patterned papers, a three word title and three areas of embellishment made up from strips of washi tape, three pieces of yellow border sticker, three punched circles, three die-cut tickets, three brads and three fish cut from a fishing border sticker.

I'm really quite pleased to have used some of those fish. I liked the rest of the sheet of outdoors stickers, but I thought I'd never use the fish borders and they were destined for the bin once I've finished the rest of the sheet. 

Supplies
Paper - Basic Grey Wisteria, Basic Grey Archaic, Imaginisce Sole Sisters
Washi Tape - Queen & Co
Border Stickers - Doodlebug Fancy Frills (yellow), Sandylion Camping Sticker Borders
Letters - Basic Grey Periphery
Brads - Bazzill 

Tools
Big Shot & X-Cut Ticket Stubs Die
Woodware Medium Scalloped Circle Punch

So Sleepy

Another day, another page from the NSD Fairy Tale challenges at Scrap Whispers. This one is based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and we were asked to make a page using one of the dwarfs' names as a title. 

The obvious name for me to use was Sleepy as I have an assortment of photos of sleeping children. The first one I found was actually of my son and my husband together so I went with that one, and pulled a turquoise and green paper out of my scraps box as a starting point.

But then I was stumped, not sure where to go. I started playing with a circle of the paper, cut as large as my scrap would allow, but it was too small to have any impact on the page. Just messing about really, I turned the circle into a hoop and then cut a series of concentric circles. Inspiration finally hit me and I joined the circles into a chain, spritzed and spattered my background with mist and backed two of the circles with vellum. Then I added my title around the largest circle and a few brads near the joins to finish off.

I'm linking this page to a couple more of Shimelle's challenges too. Challenge 3 was to use mist on a page, and Challenge 22 was to use square photos.

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill?
Paper - Authentique Loyal (double-sided)
Vellum - Paper Adventures
Letters - docrafts
Brads - Papermania
Mist - Mr Huey's

Tools
Kreaxions Circle Cutter
Fiskars Shape Cutter & Circles Template