In The Spotlight

My lovely crafty friend Hayley recently emailed her first layout for the Wight Craft Circle 'Scrap With Us' Challenge. As she doesn't have a blog I offered to upload it so the WCC ladies could have a look ;0) Here is Hayley's gorgeous interpretation of the sketch below.

WCC Week 46 Sketch Challenge:

I love the Christmas-y colours and the texture added by the embossing and glitter. I also spy a gorgeous scrapbooking use of the Bliss Sale-A-Bration set too ;0)

Now, as Hayley has put me to shame, I should really get on with my sketch interpretation for the week ;0)

Happy Crafting ;0)

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A shameless "Paige-Lift"

I printed this photo from the John Lewis Partnership website. This is my sister Natalie, proudly modelling some posh Waitrose cheese on the Deli where she works. We've been teasing her about being the face of Waitrose as her photo appeared on the front page of the site. (We tease her, but we are all actually incredibly proud of how well she is getting on at work ;0). 

This LO is an shameless scrap lift of a LO Paige completed for the WCC Challenge. I was looking for a bit of inspiration for what to do with my photo. I had picked my Waitrose colour inspired cardstock and papers but didnt quite know what to do with them. This has turned out perfectly. I embellished with a crown from the On Board Mix and Match set from Stampin' Up!. The colour scheme is Old Olive and Night of Navy. Note sure where the papers are from. They were just tucked away in my paper stash. And I finally got to use my Colour Spritzer Tool on the background of the LO (I do so love splodging ink everywhere!)

This is my creation for the Week 41 Wight Craft Circle challenge- Space. I do have difficulty leaving large areas unembellished on my LOs. And I did still have to splodge a fair bit of Night of Navy around on the Old Olive. But I'm really pleased with how it has turned out ;0) Thank you for the inspiration P.

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Wight Craft Circle- Scrap With Us

Saturday was the Wight Craft Circle crop. I was having a bit of a creativity block (I blame it on the late night Friday at Sam's Stampin Up workshop followed by sitting on the Downs watching the meteor shower!) so only completed two LOs. At the time I really didn't like them and felt like I was banging my head against the scrapbooking wall. But then when I took them out yesterday to show Mum and take these photos I was much happier with them. I really love the 'My Lucky Guilty Pleasure' one. I bought these papers on the off chance having seen them online and they turned out to be perfectly matching (I knew I wanted to use the scanned image of the lucky scratchcard I bought the other day). So, from being disappointed on Saturday it actually ended up that I love them. And to celebrate I made the 6x6 mini LO yesterday ;0)

Scrap With Us:

Week 25 "Guilty Pleasure"

Week 26: "Life's A Beach"

Pictures taken in Hawaii of the Lost location beach. Sadly no cast members or filming the day we were there. But we did get to see all the key beach locations.... Locke's sweat lodge, the burial mounds of Shannon, Boone etc., Sawyer's tent, parts of plane 815 and rows of Dharma Initiative cans and food.

And one final 6x6 just for fun in my mini LO album. My sister when she was little causing havoc in the local nativity play ;0)

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Scrap With Us Week 21

Wight Craft Circle Scrap Challenge- Home is Where the 'Soul' is.
I've set myself a bit of a personal challenge scrapbooking wise. My storage box full of odds and ends and scraps seems to be getting a bit out of hand. So I am attempting to use up old bits of card stock and oddly shaped bits and pieces to tidy up and make things a bit more manageable. At this rate I'll need a brand new mansion just to house my crafting supplies ;0)

For this weeks 'Home is Where the 'Soul' is' challenge I went round to my Mum and Dads house and took photos of their house and a lovely home sampler my Mum stitched a few years back. I wanted to give this LO a bit of a home stitched feel. Unfortunately (after all my drawing effort) the photos havent picked up the cross stitching detail I drew on all the way round the outside. Oh how much easier life would be with a mini sewing machine *lol*

I tried out a couple of new tricks as well. Whilst last crafing with Paige I watched her sew buttons onto one of her LOs so I gave that a go (using up the remainder of a box of Playground SU buttons I've had for a little while). And the linen thread matches the feel of the LO a treat ;0)
All in all, a good LO for me! I am getting a little happier and more confident with each scrap challenge week that goes by. I am reading more online (and watching the odd tutorial too) so I am able to think a bit outside the box scrapwise. Although I still see very strong straight lines running through every LO.

Also really enjoying the Paperclipping roundtable blog. Makes me smile each week and has good info on where to go for tips and tutorials.

Right, now two more LOs to catch up with (still stuck with 'A cherry on top')....

And one more final post for the day.....

I have finally gotten around to starting to catch up with the Wight Craft Circle Scrap With Us challenge. I am still two behind. But here is my LO for Week 22 Days Gone By. I borrowed a huge box full of photo albums and loose prints from my Nanny a while ago. I had my fingers crossed for a wedding print of my grandparents and I found a whole wedding album full of beautiful pics of their big day. I think I might be scrapping a fair few of them as they are all so elegant and gorgeous.

So here is what i put together. I wasn't 100% happy as once again the image in my head looked a lot different to the finished product. But I will have another go at a later date with a picture of my Nanny in her wedding dress and try and create my perfect vintage LO.

Products used: Mini Catalogue Night and Day Papers, Pretties Kit.

Wight Craft Circle- Scrap With Us Challenges

I had another lovely day crafting at Paige's on Saturday. As a result i had a very productive day completing 3 LOs for the scrap challenges and gaining inspiration for a fourth which I completed yesterday.

I worked on the two most recent challenges: Week 17 'I'm Feeling Distressed' and Week 18 'Girl Power & the Rule of 3s'. I also completed two earlier challenges: Week 1 'Be Musical' and Week 2 'Use Flowers, Trees or Leaves'.

I have used a mix of old and new photos. I had been wanting to complete a LO for my Great South Run medal for a while but not found the right fit. As it happens I think the 'distressed' challenge worked perfectly ;0) And I managed to coordinate all the papers to match the medal too ;0)

And of all my LOs to date my absolute favourite is my 'Countryfile' LO. This picture was taken of me and Sam with Adam Henson on Friday at the Good Food Live/Gardener's World show. I'm a bit of a geek when it comes to watching Countryfile and I adore the 'Adam's Farm' features each Sunday.

Enough chatting, more photos......

Week 2: Use Flowers, Trees or Leaves

Week 17: I'm Feeling Distressed

Weeks 2 & 18 (Double Layout): Be Musical & Girl Power/Rule of Threes

WCC Scrap Challenge- Week 13

Here is my LO for week 13's challenge. I found these gorgeous pictures of Tintagel and my friend Hannah's Hen Party a couple of years ago. I loved this week's challenge and using the sketch and photo for inspiration.

I used my new Stampin Up Cottage Wall Papers and the tiny tags stamps and punch for this LO.