It's Saturday!

And we have a double whammy with crafty coolness at CCW!

There's been a change in our challenges and starting this month there's going to be only one Scrapbook challenge a month - so more time for submissions and a great chance to win some goodies!

Anyway for this month we have this sketch to base our LOs on -

and here's my take -

I'll admit that it did stump me for awhile on how to actually carry out the LO. Could be my mojo trying to run away, could be the papers I was using or maybe I'm just tired since we're in the fasting month right now.

Hope your mojo is with you so come on over and have a go with the layout challenge here.

I'll be back real soon with our weekly card challenge!

What's your style?

Many of us usually associate a certain signature style to our layouts. It could be minimalist, plain and simple, cluttered, shabby chic, vintage - well there's a lot of styles isn't there? Anyway in this post I just wanted to show how I vary my style of scrapping depending on the photo I use.

First up is the 'whimsy' look. I like to use especially if it involves my son. It just oozes happy and I love that!

I was actually experimenting on those lovely looking ink blotches on layouts and instead of using my mists I was trying out reinkers. I obviously failed LOL so ended up spreading the ink here and there and I thought the end result looks like a sunny background.

So I got out the polaroids I have of me and my son, took some scraps of paper and layered them randomly. Since I had the brick patterned paper I put it on the edge so it kind of looks like part of a house we're in. Am I making any sense? LOL I added some cloud cutouts from some scrap papers as well and decided to add those felt mushrooms at the bottom along with a brown strip of paper which looks like dirt.

I love this type of layout because I'm able to use up my scraps (which I have a ton of and bet you do to!)

Next up is what I call my attempt at 'shabby chic'. This photo was of me and my cousins on her wedding day so as you can see we were all glamoured up. For these type of photos I usually reach out for my Webster's Pages. Their papers are always gorgeous but sometimes I am at a loss on how to use them. Eventually I found that using these types of pictures work for me and along with WP, Prima flowers and leaves and of course bling are a must!

I love the clustered look of flowers but I don't use them on all my layouts so this was a perfect opportunity to totally use my 'investment' of Prima flowers LOL Oh and that lace! I love lace, it just makes layouts look extra special.

The third layout I have for you today is one of the 'minimalist' genre I highlighted above. I found this look usually goes well with the hipstamatic photos I religiously took when it was first introduced.

With the different types of film, filters and such, the polaroid lookalikes are some of the photos I absolutely adore. They may not be perfect - sometimes a bit blurry or crooked but I love them nonetheless. An example is in my layout below.


This took less than half and hour to make. The thing that took up the most time was probably alligning the alphabet stamps and making sure they stamped right on the paper.

I used kraft cardstock (one of scrapping staples), sprayed a bit of 'Black Magic' glimmer mist (it's one of the Heidi Swapp colours). I stuck on the photo and added the word I wanted to highlight with some thickers.

Then I stamped the other words needed using a Pink Paislee alphabet stamp set including the hearts which was from a Lawn Fawn stamp set. I coloured the hearts with red promarkers and journaled around the photo and I'm done!

These are just some of my favourite ways to scrap my photos and I just wanted to show that there's no one way of scrapping layouts. Everyone is unique and there's always fun with new challenges including varying the way you scrap!

See you again soon!

So far

January has come and gone in a blink of an eye but luckily I've gone ahead and did some crafting!

I created an 8x8" canvas for our new home (we recently moved apartments in December). It had been quite a while since I did anything crafty since most of my tools and such were in boxes so I was pretty happy with the outcome. It even won a challenge here!


My 1st LO of 2011 was based on SIC's sketch challenge. I love the sketch that my friend Vivs came up with! I didn't manage to submit it on time though but did it all the same.


I also made an LO set by the FSFS monthly challenge group also based on a sketch. It was really challenging for me to use more than one or two photos but in the end I managed to and quite liked it.


Also in January I participated in the first ever international guest designer challenge over here. AND I WON! I couldn't believe it! It's my favourite LO at the moment because of the picture I took of my son looking out the window. I'm glad I did it some justice.

Here was my entry.


So what do you think?

My crafty life has been pretty good and I'm hoping for more crafty time soon!

Till then!