Stamp Club June

With the new catalogue out next month the retiring list is out. The challenge for this month was to create a card using something from the retiring list.

I picked itty bitty stamps, punches and buttons.  I have made a card recently using them but haven't done much with them.  I found this card when I googled the stamp set and started to play with similar papers and elements using the set.  I used certainly celery and chocolate chip as the colours as they are retiring as well.  I love it when you find ways to combine different sets.  I recently bought the ciao baby stamp set and punches.  I used a stampin write to ink the edge and use for some of the layers.

Colours: certainly celery, chocolate chip, very vanilla
Stamps:  itty bitty bits, ciao baby and best yet (SU), a little argyle (PTI)
Finishing touches;  circle punches, striped ribbon, jewels basic pearls, petite scallop punch, itty bitty punches, linen thread, dimensionals, beautiful wings embosslits, itty bitty buttons and DSP newsprint (SU), button, brad, tiny tags die (PTI)

28 Days of Sketches - Sketches Two, Four and Five

28 Days of Sketches

I was never going to get the 28 Sketches done in 28 days.  I seem to go in chunks where I get to do a lot of crafting and then no so much.  With winter ills and boys home sick the last few weeks have been spent hunkering down and getting the basics done.  I finally have the chance to get back to my projects.  That is what I love about Big Picture Classes.  Stacey gets it.  Life has a way of throwing things at you that are unexpected.  The ideal is that you do the class when it is on but the beauty is that once you have signed up you get life time access to the class material and gallery.  So I do want to complete the sketches.  I have several packs for photos ready to do the sketches.  It will just happen when it happens.

Here are three more pages that I have done.

Sketch One

This was using four smaller pictures in a circular arrangement.  I decided to add the larger photo and use the sketch for a double spread.  Love that I captured this story.

Sketch Four

One of those everyday moments

Sketch Five

A boy and his passion

I have been keeping the pages simple.  My focus on the story

You can see more of my pages using sketches here

Page Maps Anniversary Challenge - shape up card

Page Maps 7th Anniversary Celebration

I tend to keep to the standard half A4 sized cards.  So the challenge was to create a card based on the sketch in any size. 

I decided to keep adding to my boy collection and realised I hadn't inked up my Up, Up and Away set from Stampin Up.  It goes so well with a set of papers I have from My Minds Eye with hot air balloons.  As I looked through my stash to see what else I could use I came across the quote card from Pebbles.  So I went big on this one.  Love how it turned out.

 

Colours:  crumb cake, not quite navy, baja breeze, early espresso, tangerine tango
Stamps:  up, up and away (SU),
Finishing touches:  papers (MME), quote card and clothes pin (pebbles), buttons, twill tape (SU), paper shapers speech bubbles punch (ek success), stitching

Page Maps Anniversary Challenge - sketch conversion

Page Maps 7th Anniversary Celebration

The sketches at Page Maps come in all different sizes 81/2 by 11, 12 by 12 and as doubles.  Often photos or pages you want to create are not the same size as the sketch so the challenge was to convert the sketch to fit the 12 x 12 layout.  Love the Websters Pages products.  I hadn't come across them until I got my ribbons in my prize pack

With bigger photos I stretched the sketch and used the same elements.  Washi tape works well for the banner embellishements

Page Maps Anniversary Challenge - Boy/girl

Page Maps 7th Anniversary Celebration

This challenge was right on the mark for me.  I have four boys so am always looking for different ideas for their pages.  A lot of product and inspiration is girl inspired.  Here the challenge was to look at a sketch with girl elements and use it for a boy or girl.

Stars are always a go to, as are brackets, arrows, banners, and circles.  I do use flourishes just in little doses.  I tend to use bakers twine rather than ribbon and am loving washi tape.

Page Maps Anniversary Challenge - Paper Mixology

Page Maps 7th Anniversary Celebration

Patterned papers.  I do use them just not so many at once.  I see lots of ways to put them together I just never seem to get it looking balanced so this challenge was a good one for stretching my use of them.  Loved the different elements that Kelly used.

I used one larger photo and converted it to 12 x 12

Four different patterns.

Page Maps Anniversary Challenge - 1-2-3-4 Challenge

Page Maps 7th Anniversary Celebration

A card challenge this time.  

 Use the sketch and the number of elements to create your card.

I started with the colours.  The patterned paper that I found set the rest of the card.  I found my stash of vellum and have been using it more lately.  I liked how it softened the pattern allowing it to show through.  A solid layer would have covered a lot of it up

Colours:  baja breeze, pure poppy, old olive, very vanilla

Stamps:  impressions (bella!), le chateau (kaiser)

Finishing touches:  vellum, victoria crochet trim and vanilla flower trim (SU), carribean bakers twine (the  twinery), edgers No 1 die (PTI), brad (francheville), secret admirer quote sticker (kaiser), stitching