You heard right! It's time to get that chipboard out and use it! I'm sure you've got tons of it in your stash... There's so much you can do with it: paint it, ink it, cover it with paper, use it raw...
Here's my layout. It's Tintagel in Cornwall in the UK. I used a chipboard bird which I covered with paper then inked with distress ink. I kept the chipboard flowers raw. They're from Magenta and I love the color of their chipboard. I distressed the chipboard alphas by sanding them.
Check out all what the rest of the DT did with their chipboard on the blog here! Hope you join us and make a dent in your chipboard stash!
Happy scrapping!
Martine
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Hi!
There's no sketch this week at Let's Get Sketchy since this is the 5th week of the month, but that doesn't mean there isn't a challenge! The challenge is to do a "white +1" layout, i.e. a white layout with one other color. Go check out the blog to see what some of the DT members have done with it!
I didn't participate in this week's challenge, but I do have a few pages to share with you. First up, two layouts from our 2009 trip to the UK. The first is Bodiam Castle, based on a sketch by Cherie Averill, of Sassy Lil' Sketches.
The second one is Durdle Door, the amazing landscape of the Devon coast.
And finally there's this page, "The Art of Being Zen", where I attempted a clean and simple look. I had a hard time with it... I'm still not sure if my layout looks finished or not!
That's it for today. Hope you have a scrappy week!
Martine
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Hi!
It's Monday and a new sketch is up today at Let's Get Sketchy! I didn't play along with this one but it's a fun sketch! Here it is:
I do have a layout to share though, it's one that I did at my scrappy retreat a few weeks ago. It's based on an old sketch from Sketchabilities. It's a companion page that I finally finished from a long time ago!
Hope you check out what Team A created here and play along with the sketch this week!
Happy scrapping!
Martine
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Hi there!
August is here and it's time for another reveal with the new DT at Sassy Lil' Sketches with two new sponsors too! Here's the fabulous sketch by Cherie Averill. Seriously, I'm always inspired by her sketches! Every time!!
So this week was a one photo sketch... I always have a hard time sticking to only one picture on a LO (because I always take waaaay too many pictures on my trips! lol!) My solution was to do a 9-photo contact sheet instead!
This is a LO about the "fauna" that we encountered on our trip to the UK last summer. Cows by the side of the road (and the roads were so narrow they almost had their head through the car window! lol!) My favorite, the highland cows, so cute with their long hair and big horns. Sheep everywhere! And of course, kitties! :)
I made this LO as a companion to the one I did on the "flora" of the UK (which was scraplifted from Lisa Tottle) .
I think I've mentioned before that I always do two pages for my travel albums, but I don't make "double layouts". I make two single LOs that kind of "go together" (same paper, similar sketch...). (I do that because I don't do both pages at the same time... there often is a long gap of time between my 1st and 2nd pages!). But in this case, I couldn't really use the same papers, because the flowery, pink and purple papers of the flowers pics didn't match with the animal pics. So I tried to tie in both LOs as much as I could by using a CS base (which I rarely do!), misting the same butterfly in the opposite corner, using the same alphas for the title (but inked in a different color) with the same little butterfly bling, and by curling the edges of my paper layers in the same way. They ended up not clashing too much side by side in my album, so I'm happy!
So go check out what the other DT members did with this wonderful sketch right here!
And we have two new sponsors this month!
Our paper sponsor is ScrapFreak! One lucky winner will receive a beautiful embellishment kit! (US only)
Our digi sponsor is The Cutting Cafe! Somebody will win three digi files from this site!
So what are you waiting for? Every sketch you complete during the month of August will give you one entry for the prizes! The more you create, the better chance you have at winning! You have until September 5th at 11:59 PM EST to link your creations.
Happy scrapping!
Martine
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I finally scrapped a new LO! It feels good to get back into the scrapping mode... It had been too long!
So I participated in the CSN giveaway contest at Sassy Lil' Sketches. You had to find an item in their stores and use it as inspiration for a LO using a Sassy sketch. So I used the February 28th sketch:
and this peacock dish:
to make this layout:
It's Scone Palace in Scotland. Its emblem is the peacock, so when I saw that pretty (but expensive... 499$!!) peacock dish, I immediately thought of Scone! It's a great castle, complete with an old cemetary, a giant hedge maze, highland cattle (those cute, long-haired cows!), and of course, a few peacocks roaming the grounds!
I got to use my old Blue Hill Crate Paper that has peacocks on it. I stamped swirls on the pinkish cardstock with Versamark ink and embossed with clear powder. And did I mention that I love glimmer mist!!! I didn't have a trim that matched my LO, so I used some cream-colored dollar store trim and misted it with "Patina" glimmer mist. It matched perfectly! I also used the same color with the title on the new Heidi Swapp IR-RESIST-IBLE Alphas. I added a few Zva bling swirls and flowers (and a little dragonfly... I love butterflies and dragonflies lately!) to complete the LO!
I'll be back in a week or so with my next Sassy reveal! (Unless I really get the mojo going and make another LO before that! ;) )
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Yep, I'm so happy to have been picked to continue on the DT team at Sassy Lil' Sketches for another 6 months! I always love Cherie's sketches that we get to work with! And with the new sponsors, things are hopping more than ever over there! Go check out the other new and returning DT members here!
This was the sketch for the DT call:
And this was my take on it. It was my favorite B&B we stayed at during our trip to the UK last summer. It was in Devon, near Dartmoor. It was a beautiful, old, thatched-roof house with a beautiful garden. Our room was lovely, the English breakfasts were delicious, and our hostess was so nice! And there were lots of birds and rabbits flitting through the yard! It was a great stay!
I used BG Sultry papers, some K&Co and MME transparencies, some grunge flowers to which I added glimmer mist and distress Stickles, a K&Co die-cut (the bird), a punched out butterfly with added rhinestones... It was a fun LO to put together!
Go check out all the great sketches and join us for some fun!!! See you there!
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Good news! The Monday Night Mystery Layouts (MNML for short!) have started again at Love Is In The Details! Those are so much fun! On the first Monday of every month, a DT member posts instructions to build a LO, one step at a time. A supply list is posted ahead of time so we know what we need to create the layout. It's fun to follow along and create without knowing what the final results will be! And it's always a kick to see how different your own, the other members' and the DT's layouts end up! Oh, and getting a LO done in one evening is also a plus for me! ;)
Last week, Lisa Tottle was the "ring master" for this MNML. It was a lot of fun! It did confirm that I'm "right/left-perception-challenged", but I really liked how my LO turned out! The pretty flower pics remind me that spring is right around the corner, my new "Green at Heart" BG paper makes me happy, and I love the new technique I learned in an online class I'm taking by Nic Howard with Big Picture Scrapbooking, paper curling! So simple to wet the edges of your paper to curl them then let them dry... how come I never knew that?!?
I also made this LO with my new BG Kioshi paper, scraplifted from Nic Howard for my Dimensional Details class. It's a LO about my scraproom, my confort zone! (You can spy a few cats in there too... they're part of my comfort! :)
Hope you had a good weekend! I was alone with the kitties this weekend as Mike was out of town helping his sister and BIL remodel their kitchen. I was hoping to get a lot of scrapping done, but it just didn't happen... oh well, I still have a few hours left!
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It's time for a new sketch and reveal at Sassy Lil' Sketches! Here's the fun sketch we had to work with, by the talented Cherie Averill.
And here's my take on it. The title means "Looking for Nessie at Loch Ness". As I often do, I substituted one of the 4x6 for two smaller pics (always trying to fit more trip pictures on my LOs!)
I have to admit that I bought the "Archaic" BG paper pack just with this LO in mind! lol! I have a thing for BG paper packs, but I never had a "reason" to buy Archaic, since I don't scrap little boy LOs and had no use for dinosaur pp and die-cuts. Well, last spring, during an online sale of paper packs at Love Is In The Details (I can't resist a good sale! ;), I realized that I would be going to Scotland and visiting Loch Ness. Can't scrap the Loch Ness without talking about Nessie... There was my perfect excuse for buying the Archaic line! ;) A year after buying it, here's my first LO using it!
I also needed two capital "N"s, but only had one in the alpha stickers in the paper pack. So I used the one N, then cut out its outline and used that for the N in "Nessie". Like how that turned out.
Well, hope you enjoy the sketch and my LO, as well as the other ones created by the rest of the DT. Go check it out here and give it a try!
(Oh, and if you're wondering, we didn't catch a glimpse of the real Nessie while we were there, despite our "deep scan" boat tour! Had to settle for the fake one on land! But we got a good chuckle out of it! ;)
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Yep, another sketch is posted on Sassy Lil' Sketches! It's a great multi-photo sketch. Go check out what this week's DT did with it!
I'm finally done with my report cards, so hopefully I can go back and play in my scraproom soon! I don't have anything new to share yet, but here are my latest LOs. They're both 2nd pages (companion pages) that I finally managed to complete. I have this tendency to make "false" double LOs... I make the first page (usually for a challenge of some sort), then I end up waiting and waiting before making the 2nd page that goes with it. They're not really double LOs, it's more like having 2 single page LOs that somewhat match! I've been notoriously bad about neglecting my 2nd pages (I think the record is 3 years!!!) These two haven't waited that long!
This was page 1 of Bodnant Garden, in Wales. I made it last October; it was loosely based on a sketch by Nicole Nowosad.
I did this 2nd page during March break, based on the Feb. 28th Sassy sketch.
I love that little picture of the birdie! I had always wanted to see European Robins, and I finally got my chance last summer in the UK. They are just so cute! (American) Robins are one of my favorite birds, so this was a real treat! Oh, and by the way, I was excited to see my first robin of the year driving up to school this morning!
My second companion page was made to go with the one I made for the DT application to Sassy Lil' Sketches. It was the pretty and colorful town of Portree, on the Isle of Skye, in Scotland. I just flipped Cherie Averill's sketch for the 2nd page.
Well, that's it for now. Hopefully I'll have a new LO soon. I'm itching to go clear my desk and scrap now that all the corrections and report cards are done! :)
If you participated in the "Going Green Blog Hop", they should be announcing the winner soon!
Talk to you later!
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When?
Friday, March 12th through Sunday, March 14th
What?
Create a project (card, layout or altered) using "Going Green" sketch AND
one of the "Going Green" criteria below:
"Go Green:" Do a project that is predominantly green in color.
"Reduce:" Reduce your stash by creating a project where all the product used are at least one year old (no new stuff).
"Reuse:" Do a project with left overs from a previous project.
"Recycle:" Do a project with an item that was used for something else first.
We will be offering a random Grand Prize for one participant.
Participants can get their name in for the Grand Prize by:
1) becoming a follower of Sassy Lil' Sketches,
2) leaving a comment on each of the DT's Blog,
or 3) by doing the "Going Green" Challenge and linking it to Mr. Linky at http://www.sassylilsketches.blogspot.com/ by 9 P.M EST on Sunday, March 14th. If you do all 3, then you will get your name into the Grand Prize random drawing 3 times! :)
If you've just popped in here directly without coming from Jess Bree's blog you might want to go to Sassy Lil' Sketches to start from the beginning and see all the great LOs that the DT have prepared!
So here's the blog hop sketch, another great one made by Cherie Averill!
And here's my take on it. It's Lydford Gorge in England. I went "green" (easy for me, it's my favorite color, and I've got tons of green pp!) I also "reduced" somewhat... well, at least for the paper part of the layout! I used some old Bohemia and Signature Suite from MME, some of it from 2006. I also have some old K&Co in there. I used some old flocked alphas from the dollar store too. There were cream colored, well actually more like a dirty white! I was playing around with inking them in some way to make them match better (used up a few Z's and X's that way!). I was trying to decide which of two colors of distress ink would work better, when I realized I like the two-toned effect! I then popped some of the letters for more dimension. I'm pleased with how the title turned out! There will be a companion page to this one, and that's where my journaling will be.
Well, now that you've taken a peek here, please head on to the next blog, and visit Brenda's creation here!
Happy hopping and happy scrapping!
P.S. In case you get lost along the way, here's the complete list of blogs for you to follow...
Starts at Sassy Lil' Sketches with Cherie's project - http://sassylilsketches.blogspot.com/
Katie's blog - http://scissorsspatulasandsneakers.blogspot.com/
Carla's blog - http://reallifewithcarla.blogspot.com/
Deanna's blog - http://momentstocherish-deanna.blogspot.com/
Jess Bree's blog - http://www.jessicabree.typepad.com/
Martine's blog - http://scrapcatslove.blogspot.com/ <---You are here.
Brenda's blog - http://brendasscrappyblog.blogspot.com/ <--- You are going there!
Carly's blog - http://j-and-a-mama.blogspot.com/
Cathy's blog - http://behindthesceneswithcathy.blogspot.com/
Liz's blog - http://lizscardsandlayouts.blogspot.com/
Zabou's blog - http://zabouscrap.canalblog.com/
Eleni's blog - http://egratsia.blogspot.com/
Erin's blog - http://crazycommamomma.wordpress.com/
Holly's blog - http://www.hollysscraps.blogspot.com/
Lisa's blog - http://www.redmomscraps.blogspot.com/
Sara's blog - http://stampingwithsara.wordpress.com/
Amy's blog - http://gebmom.blogspot.com/
Cheryl's blog - http://cherylswindow.blogspot.com/
Heather's blog - http://scrappininak.wordpress.com/
Kim's blog - http://zoezscraps.blogspot.com/
Trish's blog - http://justthe6ofus.net/
Ends at Sassy Lil' Sketches - http://sassylilsketches.blogspot.com/
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