Chop Your Paper Challenge

Okay, here we go, challenge two, Chop Your Paper Challenge.

All embellishments made/cut out from the paper itself.

Challenge Link

Starting Point Challenge

It's nearly deadline time at Shimelle.com! I have till midnight to post the links to the challenges I took part in for her cyber crop last weekend. Having had a mad crazy week I haven't had the chance to do it until now. So, I have a marathon of uploading to do. I best get to it then :)

To begin with - Starting Point Challenge

 

Challenge Link

Shimelle And Holidays

Here is my layout for Shimelle's sketch this week. I've been trying to kick my Kraft paper addiction - I reckon when I'm over it I'll look back at all my layouts and be a bit annoyed that I didn't use a bit more variety. But, I tried using a patterned paper with this layout and I hated it. So, out came the knife, I cut away the blue patterned paper I'd been using and (hurrah!) back with the Kraft paper :) So, for the moment, my obsession with Kraft continues!

 Some close ups...

The photo quality isn't great, don't know what exactly was wrong, but am under time pressure today, so I guess they'll just have to do..

I haven't updated my blog since the last Shimelle sketch, but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy... in fact, it's just been scrap, scrap, scrap lately. I have nearly finished our holidays from 2009 and 2010 ( I got horribly behind at one stage) So here is the fruits of my last fortnights labour...

She'll be so cross at this pic when she's older :)

 

Going for a simple layout

Another!

Still more :)

I do actually have a few more done, but I don't want to over excite you all. I'll save them for next time :)

Windmill

I wasn't sure when I saw Shimelle's sketch this week - it's a lovely simple layout, but I wondered if this simplicity would make it hard to create my own original interpretation. Yes, these are the things that keep me awake at night. Forget the recession and banking crisis it is scrapping dilemmas that get me worked up!

Anyway, after staring at her layout for an age, I finally had inspiration :)

Shimelle's Sketch and her layout

I felt that the placement of the orange paper on her layout reminded me of a pinwheel/windmill. Once I had this I was off! I know it's cheating a little to get my inspiration from her layout, rather than from the sketch itself. But hey, the scrapping police might just let me off with a caution this time...

So, here we are...

Am I allowed use the Americanism of 'bangs' instead of fringe? Sounds a lot better for my title!

Some close ups - 

 

Sketch Crazy

I don't get out much. It's all to do with having four very poorly behaved children. When I am forced - so very much against my will - to herd the cats and leave the house, I try to do everything and more in one go. So, when I saw that we needed multiple photos for this weeks Shimelle Sketch of the Week - I decided to get loads printed out and see which combination worked best.

And in the end, I used them all! I did three layouts based on the sketch. I tried a little something different with each of them, so that I didn't necessarily have three identical layouts in my album.

To kick off - the sketch...

So, here is my first attempt -

Whimsical Lily

 And the second one -

 With the first one I used about a half a ton of paper, so with the second I went minimalist. I love them both, actually delighted with them for once.

The third layout isn't actually finished. My printer is dead and I wanted to print out the journaling. My handwriting is worse than a doctors, so I do like to have it printed out a lot of the time so that future generation will be able to actually read it...

Anyways, it's late on Tuesday, I better go upload this or it won't count!

Sketch

Okay, here we are - my interpretation of Shimelle's Sketch of the Week.

I was getting concerned as to where the line is between working from a sketch and just scraplifting the layout - I suspect it's like on X Factor when Simon Cowell either likes someones interpretation of a song or calls them a cheap karaoke singer! So, hopefully I've made it through to boot camp with this layout  :)

This was the sketch -

And here's my take...

Hope you like it!

Layout Crazy...

Well I've been in the zone. I got my glue. I got my photos. I got my pretty paper. And amazingly, I've got a bit of time.

And it's great what you can come up with when you ban yourself from printing out any new photo's till you use all the ones you have already. The 'Casino' layout below uses some photo's that I really wasn't crazy about (don't ask me why I printed them). But I'm delighted with the finished product. Wouldn't have happened if I hadn't made myself use them.


The other layouts use photos I love, but tomorrow I'll be posting my Shimelle Sketch of the Week layout, and that uses pics that I had in desperation printed out for a workshop crop. Once they were printed I wasn't that delighted with them and ended up never using them. But, just like the 'Casino' layout, having trimmed and snipped them, I actually quite pleased!

So, here we are...

 CASINO

The pics really weren't up to much, but I really like them in the layout

Completely delighted with how the 'bricks' came out.

Ru and Nanny

I just love this Basic Grey Sugar Rush paper.

Waga Baba

Drat. Spelling mistake in my journaling. Anyone got any tips how make it better?