Non Traditional Scrap Page - Scrapbooking Global December 2022 Hop

This challenge was chosen by our Stampin Up Global Scrapbook design team member, Sharon Dalton. Our last page for the year - who could believe it has come around so fast! They are great colors for a non Christmas page so I knew it would be a interesting challenge. 

Here is what I came up with. Photos from last year of my 3 ladies and pups.

   

There is a bright red (Sweet Sorbet) and green (Parakeet Party) in the 2022-24 InColor collection so I have already thought that they would be perfect for Christmas.  The Blues (Tahitian Tide, Orchid Oasis and Starry Sky) make a great colour range to compliment my abundance of Sweet Sorbet.

Thanks for popping in now please head on over to see what the lovely Sharon has to share with us. Then hop on through and visit each page in the list below to see everyone's page. I am sure you will find a heap of inspiration.

Participant list 

It's the last month of our mini catalogue (July-December) and this means:

• Stampin' Up! have announced which items will retire at the end December.
• Great discounts to be had NOW on retiring items (typically up to 60%)
• All papers are retiring and are reduced (stock up for next Christmas)
• Limited items are carried over and available until end April 2023

Grab some bargains and those items on your wish list before it's too late
Don't miss out - is there a stamp set, die set, punch, paper or embossing folder from the mini catalogue on your wish list?  Items are only available whilst stocks last, so I recommend you act quickly.

                     

Download the PDF for the current Catalogues with a click of the images below.

Courtenay 

Do you live in Australia and would you like to become a Demonstrator, save yourself at least 20% every time you shop, get great rewards and get to craft with Stampin' Up! products before their release? If you answered YES to any of those questions click here to join my team - for more information. 

  

Want to get the best bang for your buck as us Aussies like to say - then Join my Uni-Q Crafters team here: 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊 𝐓𝐎 𝐉𝐎𝐈𝐍 - for only $169 netting you $235 worth of goodies (*note when there is a joining special this amount is subject to change)

Want to get the best bang for your buck as us Aussies like to say - then Join my Uni-Q Crafters team here: 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊 𝐓𝐎 𝐉𝐎𝐈𝐍 - for only $169 netting you $235 worth of goodies (*note when there is a joining special this amount is subject to change)

Srapbooking Global, Sketch inspiration page - September 2022 Blog Hop

Welcome to this months hop - I got to pick this one and I am looking forward to sharing my page with you. I love Sketches - I think they sometimes make it easier to scrap but other times well - you know it can be hard.

So this is my sketch but there is heaps to choose from on the net. I have a bucket load saved to a board on my Pinterest page and will add mine to it as well. I know you can go a bit left field from the original but sketches are really there for inspiration.

When designing this sketch all I had in mind was that I wanted 2 normal 6x4” photos on it and a couple of clusters of embellishments. I had no idea what orientation my photos were going to be in, actually I had no Idea what I wanted to scrap!

So first things first I picked a couple of photos from our trip to New Orleans for Backstage. However they were in landscape not portrait – no problems I just flipped the sketch to suit my photos. I then had to decide on my background colour – I am using the Celebrate Everything DSP – yes the same as last month, because it is a great pack of DSP. 

I then used a dinner plate and my Stampin’ Write marker in black to draw my stitched circle (would have used the sewing machine but ahm that is packed up for a sewing room revamp). I did try it free hand first as the plate is bigger than I wanted but let’s face it, I can not draw a freehand circle lol.

So I positioned where I wanted my photos to land then I planned everything else out to match the sketch around the 2 photos. The sketch has multiple layers and it was a matter of working from below until I was happy with what I achieved. I also needed to turn the sketch to accommodate my landscape photos.

For some of the extra elements I used a variety of our dies this giving different edges to my DSP pieces underneath. Because I turn the sketch on its side it made it so that my title was fatter than the sketch aloud for so I had to do some serious tweaking with my placement plus I didn’t want to lose the title in busy background.

  

The Glossy Dots Assortments provided me with fun bead like accents, the feathers were from the table displays at the actual event and the black plastic pieces I cut myself with my cutter. I used a variety of stamp sets to get the sentiments I wanted - I also had to put my handwriting to the test.

Let us all now hop on over to see Julia's page using the same sketch - just click the next button below. If at any time there is a broken next button you can use the list below to jump straight to where you want to be also.

This months Participant List

Remember you can get your paper craft supplies in Australia without even leaving home!

Download the PDF for the current Catalogues with a click of the images below.

Courtenay 

Do you live in Australia and would you like to become a Demonstrator, save yourself at least 20% every time you shop, get great rewards and get to craft with Stampin' Up! products before their release? If you answered YES to any of those questions click here to join my team - for more information. 

  

Srapbooking Global, Tic, Tac, Toe page - August 2022 Blog Hop

Welcome to this months hop - Sherry Roth got to pick this one and I am looking forward to sharing my page with you. I created this one as a Christmas page as I love the Celebrate Everything Designer Series Pack that's available exclusive to Hosts in the Mini Catalogue so wanted to use it.

So what is a Tic, Tac, Toe board when it comes to scrapbooking? A bit like a bingo card but we scrap in a row - any row we choose. I am straight across the top row plus the bonus square in the middle lol.

I have used the Love, Santa Tag Kit to go with this page and make my embellishments because they are as cute as a button and I only gift a few items so do not need a big bunch of tags each year. 

So what sketch did I use - there is heaps to choose from and I have a bucket load saved to a board on my Pinterest page but this is the one I finally went with. I know its a bit left field from it but that's where I started and sketches are really there for inspiration.

Let us all now hop on over to see Julia's page using the same theme - just click the next button below. If at any time there is a broken next button you can use the list below to jump straight to where you want to be also.

This months Participant List

Remember you can get your paper craft supplies in Australia without even leaving home!

Download the PDF for the current Catalogues with a click of the images below.

Courtenay 

Do you live in Australia and would you like to become a Demonstrator, save yourself at least 20% every time you shop, get great rewards and get to craft with Stampin' Up! products before their release? If you answered YES to any of those questions click here to join my team - for more information.