Nap in the Garden - Layout and Video

I made a new video. This time I documented the creation of this new layout. It's about the first dog we had and how she always napped in the sun.

Here a photo:

Here is the video:

For the layout I used the Hope Chest Collection by PinkPaislee. I also had the Die-cut pack. I used 3 different alphas. The first one is a green felt chipboard alpha from the Lush line. The second one is from Webster's Pages and the third one is by Basic Grey.

The stencil I used is made by myself. I applied a thin coat of gesso through the stencil to get the cascading boxes down to the title.

To embellish the page I used bottons from my stash as well as a bit of twine. I kept it simple because the background paper was very busy. As a last step I used some ColorWash - Espresso to lightly splatter the layout.

The layout is a response to Nicolejones911 1000+ subbies challenge. If you don't know her videos, you should hop on over to YouTube and check them out. They are fantastic. So many wonderful ideas. 

Congratulations to Nicole on reaching 1000+ subscribers on your channel. You deserve each and every one of them and I  hope you get lots more.

Something different - a Mouse

The following card is my take on shabby chic. I scrap-lifted the design from a tagswap I did a while back.

The background paper as well as the flower are made with the Glitz - Vintage Blue Collection. The image of the mouse is from an old sheet of diecuts I bought at a fleemarket.

I entred this card into the following challenges:

Anything Goes Challenge! - Paper Crafting Journey
HIMCR #113 - Freestyle! - Hiding in My Craft Room
Anything Goes - Frilly and Funky
Animal Antics - SimonSaysStamp.com - Wednesday Challenge

Heaven Sketch challange - 8/13

Here is a quick layout I did yesterday. It is the answer to the Scrapbook Heaven challenge 8/13. Here is a picture of the sketch:

I know it is already september but I am still behind on my christmas pictures. This layout brings me one step further to finishing them all. The pictures I used here are 3 christmastrees from my family.

I used some old Graphic 45 collections for this layout, mainly Christmas Past I cut out a tree from one of the papers as well as the little stamps.

Heaven's Sketch 6/13 Challenge Response

The following layout is a response to the Heaven's Sketch 6/13 over at the Scrapbook Heaven blog.

The layout will be about my bestfriend and me sitting outside enjoying the one day of sunshine we had this year haha. I don't have the photo developed yet so I put in a piece of white cardstock as a placeholder.

With the weather as it is (59°F / 15°C) and alot of rain I am in the mood to scrap alot of bright colors. The Basic Greay - Picadilly collection is perfect for this.

As I don't have any 12x12 paper for this collection anymore, I needed to come up with a solution to get a 12x12 layout. The white stripes are leftover scraps with a white distressed pattern. All the other papers used are from 6x6 papers.

I embellished the page with chipboard pieces from the colleciton as well as some overlays, dimentional stickers and rub-ons.

Kathryn Scraps - Layout Week - Day 3 Challenge

Here is the third challenge from Kathryn's Layout Week over at The Scrapbeach. The following picture shows the sketch:

The layout is about my 21 year old cat Lizzy. I am her servant since I was 10 years old. She is still the queen of the household, even though she can't see that well anymore. She still expects that everything has to go her way like every other cat :P

For the background I used a 12x12 sheet of cardstock and coated it with gesso. To tone down the white I sprayed the background with Glimmer Mist - Gumdrop.
After the paper was dry, I drew my sunburst pattern and used my Color Wash sprays to get the blocks of color. The colors I used are Butterscotch, Red Pepper, Sailboat Blue and Meadow. To get the lighter colors I just mixed the Color Wash with a lot of water and used a paper towel to blot of the excess.
Because I knew the spraying wouldn't be pristine from the beginning, I didn't even try. To define the outline of the sunburst a bit more, I outlined the rays with a black pen.
The papers and embellishments are from the Basic Grey - Picadilly collection. The bright colors were perfect for the background.

Kathryn Scraps - Layout Week - Day 4 Challenge

Here is the fourth challenge from Kathryn's Layout Week over at The Scrapbeach. The following picture shows the sketch:

The layout is about Schloss Weikersheim. I stayed close to the sketch and only placed the embellishment cluster on the right side over to the left.

I used the Crate Paper - DIY Shop Collection for the layout. Only the background paper is from Basic Grey's Fruitcake collection. I outlined all the papers with a black pen and bend the tails of my banners up to give them some dimention. To embellish the page I used the stickers and diecuts of the collection.

Kathryn Scraps - Layout Week - Day 2 Challenge

Here is the second challenge from Kathryn's Layout Week over at The Scrapbeach. The following picture shows the sketch:

The layout is about a trip we took to Rothenburg ob der Tauber in south Germany in 2011. I altered the sketch slightly:

I used the Basic Grey - Picadilly Paper Collection. To embellish the page I used the die-cut shapes, fabric stickers, chipboard stickers and journaling cards from the collection. The papers and diecuts are all inked with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink. I used the colors of the background papers in each quarter of the page to tie them together.

Kathryn Scraps - Layout Week - Day 1 Challenge

Kathryn, over at The Scrapbeach, is having a Layout Week. Each day, she is posting a new layout with a sketch as well as a process video. If that is not enough to get our creative-juices flowing, she  challenges us to create a layout from the sketches.

Here is the Sketch from the first day of Layout Week.

As you can see, I stayed quite close to the sketch:

I used the Crate Paper DIY Shop Collection for this layout. The photo frame is distressed. The layers of the different pattern papers are all outlined with a black pen and then slightly distressed with my fingermail to give them abit of depth. I then used some diecuts and stickers from the collection to embellish the page.