September Sketch Challenge - Life Paper Scrapbook

Its Sketch Challenge day at Life Paper Scrapbook.. I had a lot of fun creating this layout

Our sketch for the month

And this is what I came up with...

Ive used papers and embellishments from the Amy Tangerine 'Yes Please' collection teamed up with some Give a Girl a stamps, sequins, a couple of paper doilies and a camera flair from A Piece of Cake Designs. Ive also experimented with my gelatos on the background, to tone down the paper a little and give a slight hint of extra colour.

I used a journalling card in the extra photo position, and went mad with Kellie's stamps from the Currently set

Love these alphas. I have many packets!

Love APOCD's cherry flairs for an added element to a page.

A close up of where I have used the gelatos to give the paper a slight metallic sheen. Definitely having fun using gelatos in different ways.

I hope you have enjoyed seeing what I came up with for this months Sketch, cant wait to share the next one.

Sponsor for this months Sketch is Polly Scrap Kits, a small Australian kit club that offers monthly kits for scrapbooking and project life. 

Polly scrap Kits will be giving one randomly selected participant in the LPS Sketch challenge a free Project Life kit. In addition, based on the submissions to this challenge, Polly! will be inviting one person to be a guest designer for an upcoming kit! How awesome is that

Head on over to the LPS blog post to link up your layouts to enter.

Project Life Week 18 - Fun with Amy Tan

Week 18 - Another quiet week.. That was until the weekend struck and I headed off to Melbourne for the Better Homes & Gardens Live show to catch up with Amy Tan YAY.. 

I was originally going to use a completely different product for this weeks layout.. however due to the subject of most of the photos, what better range than YES PLEASE by Amy Tangerine.
Everything I have used in these inserts are part of that range which I purchased from Polka Dot Creative. (apart from the piece of doily and back of previous weeks clips - top right)

As you can see I had only taken 3 photos for 6 of the days this week then a massive bunch for the BH&G show. Ive used the 6x6 paper pad from this range and cut them down to fit into the pockets. I left some of the tabs that hold the sheets in the pads for extra colour on the tops and sides of the papers (middle row)

Just a few photos of Amy and myself and the other lovely ladies I met up with on the day. This was the first time that I had met Carol from the Project Life Australia group, but the second time I had met Carolyn and Betty, and of course Amy. It was a lovely day out together. We had a lot of laughs!

Ive added the brochure and a card that we made at the Make and Take session with Amy, She left a lovely note inside for me about the blanket I made her.

More photos of us crazy kids. and a couple of smaller ones to show that we did see some of the other stars from BH&G tv show. All embellishments, stickers and letters are from various Yes Please packs.

Absolutely LOVE this range and the awesome designer behind it. It was so much fun meeting up with Amy again! Such a Beautiful person. I can't wait to hear about the arrival of her Little Cutie in a few months time :)

Project Life is a concept designed by Becky Higgins. It is a range that works anyway you want it to. You don't have to embellish your layouts or use any extra products like I do. You can easily record an album full of memories with just a Core Kit, bulk pack of page protectors and a 12x12 Album. I purchase all my core products from Craft House - Exclusive stockist for Australia and New Zealand. 

March Sketch Challenge

Hooray its Sketch Challenge reveal day for Life Paper Scrapbook

This is what we had to play with this month :)

And this is the layout I whipped up last night

 I flipped the sketch slightly so that it worked for me, but its turned out awesome!
Ive used the Yes Please range from Amy Tangerine for this layout. LOVE the colour combo! It suited the colours of Leilas tshirt in the photo so well. You can find the entire range of Yes Please over at Polka Dot Creative, be quick as things are selling out fast!!
I started with a 12x12 sheet of corrugated card and spritzed and splattered a white Mister Hueys mist around the page. I then scrunched up the 3 papers from the 6x6 paper pad then flattened them out and stapled them onto the page. I used the strips from the tops of the 6x6 papers along the top of the page with an adhesive flair badge.

Ive used the Aqua ombre thickers from the Studio Calico Sundrifter range, and Sherbet mini market alphas from October Afternoon. Loving doilies right now and found a massive packet of mini ones at a local market last weekend. Winner!! And how cute is the hearts and arrows paper!!

And I gave the stitching templates from the Yes Please range a try to add a different element to the page. Im not entirely happy with how it turned out, but I can live with it :)

Our Sponsor for this months Sketch is my awesome and super talented friend Raquel at A Piece of Cake Designs..

A Piece of Cake Designs is a unique and scrumptious monthly scrapbooking kit club which provides kits that are jam packed with papers and cool embellies. Owner, Raquel Bowman, prides herself on the fact that all the hard work of combining and creating unique colour combinations and brands is done for you, therefore making it 'a piece of cake' to start scrapping and creating in this busy world we live in!

This year, APOCD have released an exclusive new product, Cherry Flair. These gorgeous 1" flair embellishments are designed and handmade with love and care by APOCD. Each month new designs will be released and available on their website. The monthly kit will also include an exclusive pack of Cherry Flair ONLY available with the purchase of the kit. 

The winner of this challenge will receive 2 packs of her cherry flair (winner's choice of packs) AND a 15% off store voucher!! UNREAL! Raquel is also a Guest designer for us this month. Head on over to the Life Paper Scrapbook blog and check out the rest of the teams fantastic creations and enter your layouts for the chance to win this awesome prize.

Happy Scrapping :)