Pages Galore

I just realised I haven't been sharing my pages... I have been doing some secret ones but I forgot to share the ones I can share. The secret ones are for challenges coming up soon, but there are others that I've done over the last week or so, inspired by challenges from the forums I visit. I do love the creative minds that set a challenge and spark off so much other creativity, and I love seeing what everybody does with the same set of instructions or guidelines. It's endlessly fascinating.

I am on a stash buster kick at the moment, so almost all of these pages have been put together using up bits and pieces already cut, already made up, gifted by other scrappers during swaps or RAK items from friends. I have cut or made a few bits, but for the most part, the next month or so I am just using scraps - and loving the personal challenge :-)

First up here are my pages for Home and Scrapped and the Mid Week Challenges at Scrappy Sketches, both my own sites where the challenges were mine to start with.

 Mid Week Sketch 3-12 

I don't wear much red, or have much red in my life actually, but this new t-shirt has made me realise that it's not as bad as I thought. My DH and I have been together for half our lives now. The title says all there is to say about that.  

 Mid Week Sketch 2-12

My wild child using up more energy than is seemly (OK, more than I can muster, lol). I love all the different variations of banners/bunting that people use. This one was inspired by a journaling card I have, that has something similar printed on it. It's supposed to look like mini doilies. 

Then there are a couple for Challenge Heaven, another site that I sketch for. 

This is the December Sketch, which I turned on it's side and instead of one large photo, I used 4 smaller ones grouped together. Strong background colour for me, but it went so well with my daughter's bed linen.

And Rebekkah, who runs Challenge Heaven, set us a bonus challenge this month, to scrap-lift a page we like, preferably from CH, and I chose a page by Leah Cameron for it's elegant simplicity and different techniques. I rarely stamp straight onto a page, so I had to be brave, lol and just do it. Love the way it turned out. And yes, more red... but my daughter loves red and black, so it's not so unusual for her.

The butterflies came from pps I bought last year, aren't they pretty? One was BoBunny, but I can't find the name of the other one - must have thrown away the strip when I was cutting them out. I've bought a few pps just for cutting out the beautiful butterflies or flowers, it's a much more economical way to add embellishments to the stash.  And I love butterflies, love putting them on my pages, so I am always looking...

And because I don't have enough to do (um, or something...) I recently joined another forum. The Scrapbooking Haven had a Cyber Crop this weekend, so I've been being very inspired by the DT's challenges and have been happily creating pages this weekend for that. Still a few to go, but we don't have to have them done till Thursday, so I will keep going because they are all good. Here's what I've done so far:

This was a card sketch challenge - more red, lol... must be a craze at the moment with me. 

This was a white + one challenge, and the one was magenta. I didn't even know I had much in the way of magenta, but there you go, I had enough :-) I was inspired for this by my mother's magenta dress and I was delighted in the end, because this was the only half decent photo of her visit to Brisbane recently and it was a story I wanted to tell. I was putting it off a bit because of the photo, so this challenge was perfect and I love how it turned out. I used my delicious and treasured last snippet of the magenta Basic Grey I had to make the roses, and I think they set it off really well. The dark strip is a piece of velvet ribbon. Yum.

Believe it or not, this is quite a lot more yellow in real life. Dull day photography doesn't do much for some colours. The challenge was to use blue and yellow. I didn't cut or make a single thing for this page, it was already in my stash, tucked away here and there. I bet I could do a few pages like that... 

I have actually done another page too, and I have one on the desk, so I will be back later with more to share. Hope you like what I've been doing so far. I wish I could share the other three I've done, but all will be revealed in time. 

love, Heather "It's about love. You don't have to scrapbook to love but you have to love in order to scrapbook." June