3 Bugs – Color me Pink (and very very bright!)

Wowzer – them there’s bright colours 3 Bugs are putting out these days. Not sure what I let myself in for when I offered to work with this range this month. Not my usual papers at all.
I have to admit though that these Colour me Pink papers from 3 Bugs in a Rug are [...]

Mixing old and new

I don’t know about you but I often pack up a range I have used and then forget about it. I’m not a big one for mixing outside of manufacturing ranges or just randomly picking bits of stash out to put on a page. I like to coordinate and when the companies do it so [...]

Thanks

Just wanted to post a note to say thanks to all the lovely fellow scrappers who have been so generous in their comments and support.
I appreciate your thoughts – all of you.
Particular thanks to Sami (from the 123 forum) for nominating one of my layouts to a scrap praise blog and to Tanya (from the [...]

Sakura Park

Okay – so here is the latest in the challenge layouts. It uses yet another lovely paper range that has been sitting sad and neglected in my stash. For a red/black/white/grey combination, Kaiser’s Sakura Park range is very bold and striking, yet also very girly. I had a couple of outfits in mind for using [...]

Prima – Tea and Silk

I’ve had this in my stash for ages. Just loved it when it came out, but never got the chance to use it.
But it was perfect for my second challenge.
The criteria for this one included: lace, embossing, flowers of different sizes, a journalling tag and the colour green.
Not as happy with the final product as [...]

Urban Prairie

Love a challenge – they are great for getting the old Mojo up and running.
The criteria for this one included: sanding, a frame, at least one stamp, chippy and the colour blue.
Plus there was the added incentive that it had to be done in 24 hrs – and a speed scrapper I am not!!
So [...]

Creative Imaginations “Mon Ami” (Dec Newsletter)

You gotta love foil papers – there is something lush and decadent about them. I have a huge collection of them – mostly from Creative Imaginations – but have very few layouts that actually use them.
I think it is the enormity of actually cutting one up that scares most of us off actually using them. [...]

TSE – LYB “Christmas Magic” (Newsletter 18th Dec)

Yep – I’m cheating – the following is pretty much what I had for my newsletter feature for this paper range. Since I am trying to catch up – rather than write something totally new, I am using what I had written – so if you get the TSE newsletter you can safely ignore this [...]

Dragonfly Dreams (Kaiser Dancing Jewel)

Love love love this paper range. Reminds me of the butterfly one they did a few months back now. Lovely colours and paper design. I knew just what I wanted to do with it too. Besides cutting the photo into the paper pattern, I wanted to use some dragonfly chippies that Julie from A2Z Scraplets [...]