Scrap Map

It's time for the new Scrap Map challenge at Creative Craft World and this month I've done a digi page again... mainly because I'm on my hols and a couple of hundred miles away from my craft room! :lol:

 

 

For my page I've actually used some photos of myself! *gasp*

 

As the journalling explains, I'm almost never in photos because I'm always the one behind the camera taking the photos. Plus I usually look awful in photos! :lol:

 

However, when we spent a (gorgeous, sunny) morning at the beach this week, my hubby actually picked up the camera - for once! - and snapped some pictures of me paddling in the sea. And I thought they were perfect for this month's sketch. :)

 

I used a Creative Victorian digikit called Visual.

 

The Scrap Map challenge is lots of fun and so easy to enter - just make your own project using the sketch provided and link it up at the CCW blog for a chance to win yourself a prize.

 

 

Scrap Map Challenge

A new month, a new Scrap Map challenge at Creative Craft World! :)

 

I've gone digi again for my layout this month - much as I love papercrafting, digi is quicker to do and I've been soooooo insanely busy over the past few weeks, mostly due to Easter, school holidays and DD1's birthday! :)

 

 

I used some photos of my two girls having fun hunting for Easter eggs in the garden last weekend and used digi papers and elements from the Sweet Easter kit from Peppermint Creative.

 

We're once again blog hopping around the DT blogs this month, each of whom will be sharing their layout for this challenge. Leave a comment on each blog in the hop to be in with a chance of winning a prize. You should have come here from the Creative Craft World blog and your next stop along the hop is Jen. If you get lost along the way, you'll find a full list of all the blogs in the hop at the CCW blog.

 

Don't forget to enter the challenge yourself to be in with a further chance of winning some goodies - just make a project using the sketch as inspiration - you can check out the sketch at the CCW blog.

 

 

Scrap Map Blog Hop

It's time for the new Scrap Map challenge at Creative Craft World and once again we are adding to the fun by having a DT blog hop.

 

Each of the Design Team will be posting their Scrap Map-inspired layout on their blog and if you follow the hop and comment on each of the blogs, there will be a randomly-drawn prize on offer.

 

And, as ever, if you enter the challenge (by making your own layout inspired by our sketch) you will be in with a chance of winning yourself one of CCW's gorgeous kits and a guest design spot.

 

So here's my page for this month:

 

 

I've had a mad busy couple of weeks and the craft pit is in dire need of a major tidy so I decided to do my page digitally this month. I used Photoshop to fussy cut around a photo of my two daughters and used a gorgeous kit by Anja Schernau for Scrapper's Guide to make the page.

 

Thanks for stopping by - you should have come here from the CCW blog and your next stop along the hop is Jen's blog. If you get lost along the way, there is a full list of participating blogs at the CCW blog.

 

Scrap Map Blog Hop!

Not only is it time for another Scrap Map challenge at Creative Craft World - seriously, where the heck did January go? I feel like I blinked and missed it!! - but this month we're doing a blog hop too!

 

Each of the Design Team have posted their Scrap Map pages on their blogs... not also is there inspiration galore with some gorgeous pages to enjoy but there's also a prize draw... all you gotta do is pop around the hop and leave a comment on each blog and you could could be the lucky winner. :)

 

And don't forget there's another chance to win, by entering your own project into the Scrap Map challenge this month - make a project inspired by the sketch and link it up at the Creative Craft World blog to be entered into the draw to win one of CCW's fabulous kits, a guest DT spot and a store discount!

 

Here's my page for this month's challenge (I loved this sketch by Sue):

 

 

I used one of the gorgeous professional portrait photos we had taken on DD2's birthday... I love the white background and bright colours in this picture and decided to echo this in my layout, using lots of white space, sections cut from a 12x12 die-cut sheet in fresh green, a flowery border punch and some paper flowers.

 

You should have come here from the Creative Craft World blog and your next stop along the hop is Tricia's Doodles and Swirls blog. If you get lost along the way, you'll find a full list of blog hop posts over at the CCW blog. :)

 

Scrappy New Year!

Woohoo! My first scrapbook page of 2013! :)

 

I haven't actually done much scrapbooking recently. It was what got me into papercrafting and will always be my first love but these days I seem to do a lot more cardmaking than scrapbooking... aside from anything, I don't have to clear as much space on my chaotic craft desk to work on a card! :lol:

 

But what better inspiration to get the scrapbooking juices flowing than a challenge... and a scrap map one at that? :)

 

That's right, the new Scrap Map challenge is up at the Creative Craft World blog today with a fab sketch to inspire your pages. Here's what I made:

I scrapped my DD1's first ever school photo. :) I used navy blue and white cardstock, to match her school uniform, and spritzed Glimmer Mist over a doily and through an alphabet stencil.

 

I then stamped a few stars (a freebie stamp from Craft Stamper magazine) and coloured them in with a blue metallic Promarker. I added a title using alpha stickers and Thickers, doodled a border around the photo and around the white cardstock and wrote my journalling in white gel pen.

To join in the challenge, just make a scrapbook page, or other project, inspired by the sketch and link your entry up at the CCW blog. It's great fun and you could win yourself a prize! :)

Get your scrap on! :)

There's no festive project for the Christmas Countdown at Creative Craft World's blog today... because it's Scrap Map Day! :)

 

Yup, once again it's time for a new Scrap Map challenge. It's simple to enter - check out the sketch at the Creative Craft World blog and make a scrapbook page using the sketch as inspiration. Link up your entry to the CCW blog and you could be a winner!

 

Here's my page for this month's Scrap Map:

 

 

I chose these photos of my DD2 stomping around in the garden with her customary determined expression on her face! :lol: I teamed them with a lovely bright pink paper that was a perfect match for the pink of her t-shirt in the photos and cut long pennant strips from coordinating patterned paper. I also made my own bunting using more of the patterned paper and plain white baker's twine. The title is a mixture of alpha stickers and rub-ons and I added jounalling using a white gel pen.

 

It's Scrap Map time!

The new Scrap Map challenge goes live today at the Creative Craft World challenge blog.

 

It's easy to enter - just create a project using the sketch as inspiration - and you could be in with a chance of winning yourself a fab prize from CCW - one of their fabulous, sold-out kits, a guest DT spot and a rather nice store discount! :)

 

Here's my page for this month's challenge:

 

 

 

 

I used kraft cardstock as the background and splattered green paint across it before adding some stamping with some funky border stamps. The title is done with a Sizzix die and some Kaisercraft mini alpha stickers. Journalling is hand-written. :)