Twilight Addicts CC: First two challenges

After a slow start mixed with mild panic over what I was going to do, I managed to complete two challenges yesterday. This is probably the first time I've done more than one layout in a day since the retreat in March!

The first challenge I did was set by Gemma. She asked us to include something round, some tearing and some glitter/bling. This is the layout I made:

I punched some circles out using a Martha Stewart pinked circles punch, distressed the papers on the photo mount, and added a little bit of bling between the circles, in the top corner and used glittered Thickers. The papers are from a Gotta craft kit and are Carta Bella. I have to admit that when I saw them I wasn't sure if I'd use them as while they are beautiful they are not a style of papers I would go out and buy but I was pleased with how they worked together for this layout.

The second challenge I finished yesterday was set by Karen. She asked is to scraplift this layout by our fellow Twilighter Carin

To use either bold or muted colours, to use only patterned paper, & to include stitching. This was the layout I made:

I went for the bold colour option to scrap these photos of mine & Ian's different wellies (it was a little joke that he looked like a farmer in his jeans and green wellies, while I looked as though I was going to a festival in my purple jeans and flowery wellies!) I used only patterned paper, with the exception of the twine and the lettered stickers. All the papers are ones I've had hanging around for ages, obviously I had to use the American Crafts wellie paper. The strips are from my scraps bag and the base paper is the reverse side of a cute Kaiser Craft paper with little birdies on, I was saving this for just the right project, whenever that may have been, but on the reverse the purple was just the perfect colour!

Twilight Addicts CC: My challenge Specs Appeal

This weekend a few of the Twilight Addicts are having their own cyber crop. I've never taken part in a cyber crop before as I've usually been working so I cant meet the challenge deadlines, but luckily enough I'm off this weekend and as we're a nice bunch of lasses we've set the deadline for a weeks time! We're all taking turns setting a challenge, for my challenge I took inspiration from ATDML who sometimes set a challenge where you have to select 3 elements from the table but you can only have 1 element in each row and column

EDWARD                     BELLA                       JACOB

Use more than 1 photo    Use paints/mists        Make your own

                                                                 embellishment

Avert from reg 12x12    Use stitching/sewing       Use at least 2 diff

                                                               alphas  

Use stash from only              Use at least 3             Cluster

one manufacturer      diff patterned papers      embellishments

                                                              

                                         

This is the layout I made

From the list I chose to use more than 1 photo, use at least 2 different alphas & used 3 different papers. The papers are MME Nostalgia which cam with a Gottacraft Kit and I love them, it was a shame to cut the up lol! The small alphas are Authentique and the large American Crafts thickers

10 things on the 10th

I've seen a few bloggers join in with this so I thought I would give it a go. Basically on the 10th of every month you make a list of 10 things of your choice and share with everybody else. As this is my first 10 things I thought I would start with a 10 random things about me!

1- Basic info: My full name is Jessie Michelle Grey and I was born the 16th June 1981. I live with my partner of 6 years Ian and our pooch Buster

2- I live in the small market town Stamford in Lincolnshire. We are in the far bottom corner of Lincolnshire, if you head out of town in one direction you find yourself in Rutland, another lands your in Cambridgeshire, another in Northamptonshire!

3- Ian and I originally went out with each other briefly at school. Years later I became friends with his sister Jo who set us up and the rest they say is history!

4- I'm a huge Bon Jovi and have been fortunate to have seen them 5 times!

5- We have 2 little friends who always comes away with us on our travels. Vernon the turtle and Roger the monkey always sneak into our bags when we go away whether it be on holiday, on scrapbooking retreats or even in our rucksacks when we walked Snowdon!

6- I've recently become a Zumba nut! I started going to Zumba classes last year and instantly became hooked! Since then I have taken part in two Zumbathons for charity (the first was 2 hours, the most recent was 3 hours on the one weekend this summer we actually had warm weather!)

7- I love Snoopy! If Snoopy is on it then I have to have it! I have a complete collection of McDonalds Happy Meal toys (mostly brought from carboots or Ebay you'll be pleased to know!) & I also still have my original Snoopy I stole from my mum when I was 2 years old!

8- I currently drive a Nissan Micra called Susie Suu due to her number plate although I am trying to save for my dream car a Betty the Beetle.

9- I love pink & stars. I work in a baby & childrenswear shop and its a little joke that if I'm involved with the buying and an item is pink or has stars on or is pink with stars then I'll choose it!

10- I'm not ashamed to say it but I am a Twihard! I read Twilight just as the film was released and I was hooked, although I've always been a slight vampire girl whether it was watching Interview with a Vampire with my mum when I was 13 or watching Buffy and Angel later on. Thanks to this slight obsession and through scrapbooking I've met a fab group of ladies on UKS and next year we will be having our third annual retreat

 So those are a few random anecdotes about me, hopefully I haven't bored anyone! I'll get thinking about next months list x

Jubilee

Pinch, punch for the 1st of the month! Another month has flown by, probably by all the wind we've been having, which means its time for the Sketchy Scrappers layouts to be unveiled. This month yours truly set the sketch and I chose this one from Creative Scrappers.

Like many people at the beginning of the month we had a little garden party to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. This has also meant that there are lots of Union Jack/ British inspired stash around at the moment, and the last issue of Docrafts magazine came with a selection of Papermania Portabello Road papers. So I put them to good use by creating this layout

All the papers are from the Portabello Road range and the scalloped circle was made by sticking two of the semi circles from the die cut paper pack together. I then added some Air Mail bakers twine from Sarah's Cards and some red, white & blue flowers from a pack brought ages ago from Hobbycraft, one of those impulse buys which then never gets used! The letter stickers are from an old Quirky Kit, I think they might be Echo Park?

I'm very pleased with the outcome and how everything coordinates just nicely. Luckily the layout came together quite quickly as we were going away the last week in June, we just came home yesterday, from a wet week in Wales. I'm sure pictures might follow soon! xx

Outtakes

Well its the first of June and for the past week its actually felt like summer. Its also the start of the next batch of layout reveals for Sketchy Scrappers. This month Ali very kindly stepped in and set the sketch. She chose this lovely sketch from Pagemaps

I had an idea straight away of what I wanted to scrap after receiving my last Quirky Kit Lite & reading last months Scrap 365 magazine which encouraged us to scrap the photos which probably arent perfect but which still tell the story of the occassion, after all who will know in years to come that they werent meant to turn out the way they did? With this in mind I created this layout telling the story of when SIL & I were trying to set the self timer on her camera to take a self portrait of us on the beach at Wells.

My Quirky Kit included some fab camera embellishments & a sheet of camera paper which I think was from Echo Park. I cut cameras from the paper to replace the punched circles on the sketch with the ready made camera embellishment replacing the third photo.

Also in Scrap 365 was an article about using packaging from clothes & other everyday items on our layouts. I recently brought a top from Fat Face who use fab luggage labels as their pricing labels & these are too good to throw away so I trimmed a Tim Holtz raffle ticket down to cover the product info and used one for journalling.

Who's That?

I'm quite pleased with myself as I've managed to do two layouts this week. One is for Sketchy Scrappers so you'll have to wait until the end of the month, sorry I like to tease! The second is this one made with this months Gotta Craft kit which I've just started subbing to.

This months kit uses some lovely Lily Bee papers which I've never used before but will be again. The colours and patterns are lush and they are a nice heavy weight. The photo is of Buster keeping watch as a car pulled up outside. The photo lifts to show a second photo underneath capturing the moment he realised he was being watched

Sand Heart

Another month has flown by, can you believe its May already! Not that it feels like it, with all the rain it feels more like March! Anyway its Sketchy Scrappers time again. This months sketch was set by Karen and spookily was one I had on my shortlist for last month!

This is my interpretation of the it...

The photos are from our girlie day to Wells last year. You cant go to the seaside and not build a sandcastle but of course us being us we didnt have a normal bucket so built a sand heart instead! I'm not entirely happy with the layout as I started it one weekend, then was ill and came back to it but its growing on me. The papers are either from my scraps bag or sheets I've had for AGES so some stash busting has been accomplished! The embellishment in the corner didnt come out as I had imagined but its not bad...

Hopefully now the bugs have gone I'll be motivated to scrap some more especially as I've just subbed to the monthly kit from Gotta Craft!