Card Creations and More 'Inspired by" Challenge.

Over at Card Creations and More by C you'll find three great challenges for July. I saw this 'Inspired by" challenge and LOVED it. 

I rarely copy ideas directly I have seen (hence the recent arrival of my merthing!) but I have read so many great blogs and mags and this was a chance to copy one of my favs. I don't often do girl layouts, so it's nice to copy a master at it. This is my layout:

And I copied Sandra Gerdes' 'So Cute' LO. Click here for her blog post.  This is her layout as also featured in Scrapbooking with the Experts:

 

Now lots of blogger friends already know that I ramble on, but last week you found out I have endless inner dialogue too...but there's more!!!  Not only is that party going on in my brain, but ALL day long I sing songs in my head as well, multi-tasking with inner dialogue.  

My brain is a very loud annoying place to be... WHY am I rambling all this??? (with an inner dialogue that is screaming STOP rambling!!! and 'Here comes the sun' by Nina Simone on endless repeat today). Well, sometimes with such a head party... songs I hear become so internalised, I make them my own... So while I am on a copying spree... this is also stealing Taylor Swifts 'Best Days' and making it my own story. I don't listen to Taylor much at all, but this song when I heard it was so close to my own story.

Two thefts in one day. *hangs head* I'll get off on good behaviour because it's my first offense. lol. 

All the detail in Sandra's layout is amazing and I tried my best to copy with my own twist on it. 

Hate the hair that fell on my work pre-photo. I'll use it as DNA tracking system in case someone steals my layout idea that I stole from Sandra! lol!  

I used SCAL swirls with pink Cri-kits pens, cut a bazillion Accents flowers - used only about 30... doah! 

Then proceeded to clock up a few kilometres on my white and pink gel pen's scribble-o-meter. 

I used some cute Doodlebug brads and a few Candi and some new heart shaped i-rocks...Imaginisce is finally saying, "Phew... she used our products NORMALLY"

Thanks Christina for an awesome challenge! I have loved following your blog for a long time. You make the cutest whimsical cards. 


If you didn't see my big announcement last night...scroll down to my previous post (if this one hasn't taken the whole length of my blog). 

Sketches in Thyme Challenge

I am so excited to post this layout!  My favourite day of last year was the Eclipse Premiere and the Twilight Movie Marathon. It was the only movie I went to see in an actual  cinema last year!! (Small country town girl!)

I loved the sketch by Jana Eubank over at Sketches in Thyme and wanted in on the challenge.   

Thanks for a great sketch ladies!!! It was a fun challenge!

I used Martha Stewart Holiday Cakes for the leaf flourish,  Heritage cartridge for the frame, SureCuts a Lot2 for the titles and good ole faithful Accent Essentials to give me the scallop border. 

Glossy Accents as usual on everything to gloss up the lettering and scallops and I used my new Pentel silver outline pens to highlight the word Eclipse!

Scrap Jacked Challenge!

While the boys were asleep at lunch time today I had some fun with the Scrap Jacked challenge.

All you have to do is choose ONE DT's sample and use it for inspiration and create a scraplift of it. Either a layout/card/Off The Page. I love Christine's scrapping style and I am exploring new ideas lately so I thought I'd give hers a go...

My poor mum didn't get any granddaughters... just all boys! And we always take the opportunity during Christmas to photograph all the boys together. 

This is Christine's layout I scrapjacked:

So in the spirit of the scrapjacking: