Forget Everyone & Be Yourself: Challenge YOUrself October Challenge

This months challenge on the Challenge YOUrself blogis to use an affirmation or saying. I had a browse through my sayings board on Pinterest and decided to use this affirmation to inspire me

I've been admiring layouts on Pinterest using circles and decided to dust of my circle punch and make this layout. 

I used a paper collection from Recolections which is based on an old MME collection, punched circles from random papers and arranged them into a grid. The collection also had a sheet of cut aparts which had some sayings on which seemed apt for the layout. 

I finished by adding a scatter of sequins, a couple of embellishments from my box and my trademark doily lol! I used some October Afternoon mini market letters to spell part of my chosen affirmation for the title. 

Overall I love this layout and will use this design again. It may even be one of my favourite layouts of mine. 

Easy like Sunday morning: Challenge YOUrself July challenge

This months challenge over on the Challenge YOUrself blog is a colour pallette challenge

I'm enjoying these kind of challenges at the moment as they get me looking through all my stash for anything which will match. This one though really had me looking hard as I struggled at first to find anything, in fact I chose my photo before my stash! I was near to giving up but perserveered and eventually made this layout 

The colours in the colour pallette matched the tones in this photo of me in my chilling clothes on a Sunday morning. The papers I used were Carta Bella for the background with Crate Paper, Amy Tangerine and American Crafts layered on top. I used some cut aparts from my die cut box, some stars, a doily and a brad to embellish. As I was scrapping the Faith  No More song Easy kept popping into my head so I used this as my title, using Pink Paislee letter stickers and Thickers to spell it out. 

There for you always: Challenge YOUrself May challenge

This months challenge on the Challenge YOUrself Blog was to use the sketch below and to include a photo of not only youself but also a female in your life

This month we have had Boo's Christening and I was honoured to be asked to be a Godmother, so I chose a photo of the two of us and made this layout

All the papers used are from Maggie Holmes Flea Market collection, including some cut a parts. For the banner I used a Heidi Swapp mistable banner from a set my mum had given me some time ago. I misted it with Boss Lady from Mister Huey to show the resist pattern underneath. 

This is layout 21/30 of my 30 Layout Challenge 

Purrfect Fit: Challenge YOUrself April Challenge

This months challenge on the Challenge YOUrself Blog is to use at least three trends on a layout. A perfect, or purrfect, challenge for layout 16 of my 30 layout challenge. So once again I flicked through my photos to find any with me in them and then jotted down some trends around at the moment. This is the layout I made, the photo was taken last summer in a shop on Carnaby Street

I don't know why I didn't buy these Hello Kitty glasses cos I love them! 

The trends I used were chevrons which were leftovers from a card I'd just made for Ian, sequins, cameras and a wood veneer frame all from old kits. 

The background paper is a Dear Lizzy paper with mist on it, but as I didn't do the misting I didn't include this as a trend. The other papers are both sides of a paper from Pebbles, Dear Lizzy cut a parts and a scrap of Lily Bee paper. The title is made with Authentique alphas. Title credit goes to Gemma's husband Mark who I will be calling on again lol!