2 birthday cards

The Day 84 challenge at 365 Cards is : Today's challenge is to create a Clean & Simple card using only 1/3 of the space provided.  The card size and theme are entirely up to you.


I've actually done two cards as I liked the design so well.

Clothes Swap - layout for Mad About Scrappin

Mad About Scrappin's May sketch challenge was spotted by me on Facebook.  Here's my take on it. I had to flip it to suit my photos. The sketch is shown below. I've used mostly Kaisercraft, with some Cosmo Cricket as well.

 About twice a year I get my girlfriends to go through their closets and have a sort out. They come over and bring their clothes and shoes they no longer want and we each go through and see if there's anything we want to keep.  Whatever is left over I take down to a local charity. There are usually 8 or 9 bags of goods left over. Everyone enjoys having a get together as well as the chance to gain something "new" for their wardrobe.

SNR publication

I have 2 layouts and 1 card published in today's release of Scrapbooking News and Review magazine.

The card is in the doily section and it's called "Have your cake and eat it too".

One layout is called Purple and is in the What I Wear section.

The other layout is called My Eyes Adore You and is in the Blue section.

If you have a subscription have a browse through. There is always lots of great inspiration in there.

Treasury

I've created this layout of the U.S. Treasury Building in Washington D.C. I worked for the Western Australian Treasury Department for 5 years. It was one of my first jobs and I made some great friends there. This building is rather more impressive than the one I used to work in.

I really wanted to have a $ sign as my S in the title. I just used a slash and put it over the top of an S. No company seems to make a $ sign. I've used red, white and blue of course and added in some craft to make the wall plaque, which looks like copper to me, stand out.

This layout has been entered into the Guest DT's challenge at Soul Scrappers this month, which was set by Natalie Elphinstone. She made it real easy for me. All I had to do was hand journal. As I do that on every single layout I chose to do a page in my Washington travel album. This may be almost the last page in that album, so that is a happy thing.

NYE 2011

Here is a layout I did yesterday for Soul Scrappers International Scrapbooking Day competition number 2. I told my husband that it was still NSD in America so therefore I should do some (more) scrapping. I really have got a lot done this weekend.
This will be the last page in my 2011 Family album. I did take some photos of all the kids but none of them turned out. My friend Kate took these with her DSLR, which is why they worked. Picked out the colours in the photos and used them to make this layout. I've fussy cut the big flower at the top.

Vintage Basic Grey

Basic Grey are running lots of NSD competitions. This layout is entered is their use vintage Basic Grey challenge. I have a lot of vintage BG so I jumped at the chance to use it in a challenge.  Here's my layout.

I've also entered this layout in Anna's Craft Cupboard's May sketch challenge. Here is the sketch.



Products used are all Basic Grey except the bicycle chippie which is Crate Paper.

Papers:

Pyrus/Chinese White
Life of the Party/Paper Straws
Offbeat/Unexpected
Hello Luscious/Dandy
Kioshi/ran (which I have fussy cut)

Also: Oxford element stickers and Picadilly alphas

A dancing double

Scrap Boutique's May 2012 Stash Stomper is to use alphas as a decorative element. I've based my design around Mark's shirt and the colours in the photos. I've used some chip board American Crafts Thickers as a deco element up the sides. I don't think they look so much like letters done in this way. Quite happy with the result and I've  used 7 photos, which I'm pleased about. This is for Mark's School album.