A Challenge - Orange, White and Teal

Last weekend my lovely friend Jennifer hosted an online Blog Event called Refresh Your Craft and Soul.

If you've never joined in her events you really should look out for the next one as they are great fun.

Anyway, she set a number of challenges over the weekend and I picked out a couple I liked the look of to have a go at. The first one was the Teal (or blue), Orange and White Challenge.

This is a really unusual colour combo for me - I rarely use orange but I had a hunt in my supplies and found a few bits of stash in the right colours.

Here's my layout:

I hope the yellow/orange sunshine paper is allowed in the challenge!

I love these glitter blue thickers

I created two clusters of embellishments with some circle stickers from the Simple Stories "Words Stickers" Pack, buttons and enamel dots and added the orange "Happy" sticker from the same set to balance the page.

My journalling reads: "It was a hot Summer's day and after a long day at school, Hannah was happy to come home and find the pool up in the garden all ready for her to jump in and cool off!"

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A Sketch Challenge

The 2014 monthly challenges launched over on S J Crafts yesterday.

For our first challenge, Jennifer came up with this fab sketch:

and here's the layout I made based on the sketch

My main supplies were Simple Stories Daily Grind papers and stickers, Glitz hearts washi tape and a sprinkling of enamel dots.

A couple of close ups:

I also made a divided protector page to sit next to this one in my album - I'll pop back and show you that here soon!

We'd love you to take up the challenge as well and play along .... all the details are in this post , along with some fab examples from the rest of the Design Team. You have until the end of February to link up your layout/cards over there.

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My Christmas 2013 Journal

Hi everyone

December and the build up to Christmas is always crazy busy in this house but it really is one of the most wonderful times of the year for me! 

I take a million photographs throughout the festive season - ok, so maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but I do take a lot!

Each year I like to select a few favourites or the ones that tell a story or were taken at special events we have been to and get them into my albums.

This year I've decided to make a smaller book as well as some larger 12" x 12" layouts that will go into my main album.

Here is my first page in my book:

The page is 7" x 7" and I'm using an album I've had in my stash for a while now. 

The album is plain cream pages held together with a book ring. The front and back covers are thick chipboard which I will also decorate as I don't think lime green arrows are very festive!

For several years now I have loosely followed Shimelle Laine's Journal Your Christmas. This is a class which for a very reasonable initial cost gives you access every year so you can follow the daily prompts year after year if you wish.

For my Christmas book I'm using a variety of supplies , some older and some brand new. For this first page I used a sheet of Echo Park This n That Christmas matted onto red cardstock and added some Simple Stories December Documented papers and stickers, wood veneer stars, enamel dots and red gems to embellish.

Do you have a separate album/journal or book for recording December and Christmas? 

Have you started to scrap the season already or do you wait until January?

Happy December!

Sarah x