Imaginisce Monthly Challenge - and my hot scrap assistant's plan!

LOVE anything Imaginisce, including their fun blog challenge at the moment. Sketch challenge in threes. 3 papers, 3 colours, 3 embellishments. 

PLUS - just for fun I challenged myself to use 3 of my Imaginisce tools to make it happen!

 Jack's birthday is coming up. I was lucky enough to be invited by his mum into the labour ward and I helped deliver him 2 years ago. It is a precious moment in time I could never forget.  So this card was made with so much love, because every time I think of him, it makes my heart flutter with memories of that day.

 

 Great Sketch by Melinda Spinks.

I cracked open my i-bond for the very first time and I must say... I LOVE that little light and the fact there is no cord. So many times I knew that my glue gun would work best but was stifled by unpacking it, plugging it in, sitting close enough to a wall with a socket... NOW I'm FREE!!!!

So I used my i-rock to make subtle little highlights and I used my i-top to make a brad as the centre of the not-so-subtle bow.

I used the DinoRoar set of papers from Imaginisce (Before I saw Erin Bassett's wonderful DT card I swear - I can not believe how similar they are and I did not see it before I made mine, I promise!) Creative minds think alike!

Then I used the i-bond to glue on the bow over thread covered wire, which I i-bonded to the dinosaur and the wild sign. 

I love the way it looks in the light at night, casting a giant T-rex shadow on my wall.

Jacob, my hot scrap assistant did not like the experience much, surrounded in my pink pretties! 

He'd prefer to fix motorbikes and chase a few vampires. So he told me all about his little plan for a very fun blog hop... stay tuned to my blog. In a few days and will be revealed!!!

Remember gorgeous followers - you only have till Sunday for a chance to win Camping Critters cart on my blog - Click here for more details!  And I'm nearly at 100 followers... Celebrating soon with prizes! Thanks for your blog love and sharing inspiration.  

Thanks so much to Imaginisce for a fun challenge. 

Frosted Designs - Sketch Along Tuesdays 1-25

I liked the Tuesday Sketch 1-25 from Frosted Designs. I normally like a lot of photos on a layout, but this photo was special. 

It is Julia, my Education Assistant from 1996 - 1999 in Mount Magnet, my first teaching post. (Plus an extra little cutie Josh) Julia was the most gorgeous lady who taught me a lot about being a good teacher. Sadly she passed away a few years after I left town. 

Julia's funeral was 800km away from my teaching post and my car broke down on the way to her funeral. I never felt that I have been able to say goodbye. We phoned each other every three months after I left town and I really miss her chats. So writing her a letter, and making this layout was my way of saying thanks for her time and the opportunity to have met her. 

 This font is Hello Kitty and I i-rocked the stamped flowers.

 

When I saw the rickrack element on the sketch, there was only one thing I could use, the necklace Julia gave me as a present which I wear the first and last day of every school term.  I can print this off as a 12 x 12 to showcase the necklace.

 

This was the sketch. 

I used the i-top brad maker to make the centre of the dot on the J and swirls embossing folder for the middle element underneath the photo. 

Thanks for the sketch Frosted Designs. It was nice to fuss over paper, ink and elements while reflecting on the beautiful person in the photo.

Sketches in Thyme - Thursday Takes #32

If you are looking for my flowers tutorial click here!

This week at Sketches in Thyme they had a fun sketch. It uses elements like flowers, buttons and other things that I rarely use in my layouts, so I thought I would give it a go! 

 This is the Sketch:

 

These are photos of my 8th birthday. 

I used the Imaginisce Enchanted range of paper. 

Made the embellishments with the i-top and punches.  

Copied the trees from one of the papers.

Thanks again for an awesome challenge at Sketches in Thyme.

Do You Stack Up Challenge #2 Distress it!

Over at Do You Stack Up they are having a challenge for Distressing. I have my new Heart Attack tool and so I thought I would give it a go.

 

My little boy having playdough fun. 

I sanded the edge of the photos and used Ranger Distress Ink Barn Door. 

I used my i-top brad maker to make a stressed looking embellishment.

I used my Cricut Dental Pack to scratch into the Kaiser paper and used Distress Ink Walnut Stain to highlight.

I wrote the title in pentel ink pens and added coloured staples to highlight areas and added some tearing and folding. 

Thanks for a great challenge Do You Stack Up! 

I may have never decided to use that amount of distressing on one page and my son LOVES it. He has a rare form of albinism and is close to legally blind. He found the textures of it fascinating.

Head over and check out the DT pages at Do You Stack Up...

They use the cutest stamps... that may have to be my next scrapbooking learning curve... stamps!

Found Altered Challenge! My new Pink "Get Em Girls!"

I found a pair of shoes in my cupboard. I've hardly worn the poor things, opting for my favourites all the time. I wear them maybe once a year... IDEA!!! Dress them up for an annual event. I'm entering in the "Found Altered Challenge" on the Imaginisce blog that Pinky is hosting.

Watch out shoes!!! Your boring black is about to get pretty! 

Every year I attend A Girls Day In event for Breast Cancer. This year is particularly special for me as we are celebrating 20 years since my mum beat breast cancer! She was diagnosed at the young age of 39. Being 35 years old myself I am very vigilant. Last year I received genetic testing for the aggressive BRACH2 cancer gene and tested negative! So rather than 80% chance of cancer, my odds are now 1 in 11 like the general population. (Still very high odds to me!) so I'm all for promoting awareness. 

 

So once a year, I'll be wearing my old/new breast cancer "Get em-girls"! (More often than I wear them now!)

As you can see I covered the black using the new range of Imaginisce Enchanted range... which I was lucky that my local shop was unpacking Tuesday morning! 

I used my I-top to make a large brad for my buckle. 

 

I cut out two different sized flowers from the Princess Posies paper and cut the petals on one and frayed it, placing a small i-top covered brad in the middle. I cut the pink ribbon from SCAL and i-rocked it! 

I papermache'd the back using the crowns paper and placed a thick layer of glossy accents over it. I also love using the i-top punch shape occasionally, like I did here, to create an embellishment. 

Some matching enchanted ribbon by Imaginisce and I'm all finished. Ready to party. 

 Thanks Pinky and the team at Imaginisce for such a great challenge. I loved taking the time creating these reflecting on what an awesome strong woman my mum was to survive chemotherapy and the great job Breast Care Nurses and research companies such as K-Confab do.  

I'll wear them proudly, if only once a year. 

I know you are all waiting for my calendar... well at least two of my followers are! lol. I'll be posting tomorrow (If I don't get distracted again!) AND there is a prize too! See you tomorrow! x

 

 Having all boys in my house, I love my girly zone of scrapbooking things. A girlfriend recently showed me a link to Amy Moss and her awesome creative work and I wanted something like her icecream parlour in my room... so...

I got busy with Kaisercraft drawers and advent calendars.

 

Isn't it just the cutest!!! This cupboard holds all my precious Tim Holtz distress inks which I use all the time on my layouts.(I just didn't put in the drawers) PLUS by adding another set of drawers underneath I can store lots of my other frequently used items. 

I love my I-Top and Sew Easy tools so I gave them the worship they deserve in this little advent calender which I converted. The different heads for the Sew-Easy are along the top (colour coded of course like a true OCD queen I am) and the threads have been wound on thread cards cut to fit about six in each little box so I can have a variety of shades of one colour. Then the little boxes dedicated to the i-top, I have put an actual made-up brad on the front to show the sizing. 

Again used Amy Moss' style marquee and JUST LOVE my scrap zone!!!