{Inter}national Scrapbooking Day @ studio calico

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The fun of {Inter}national Scrapbooking day at Studio Calico lasts all week.  They have challenges, chats and prizes on the day and then you can carry on with the challenges and upload all week.

Challenge One - Picture your mood

Use the mood board for inspiration

Challenge Two - Recipe

Tag. wood veneer, paper, washi, journalling card

Challenge Three - Sketch

Challenge Four - Combine kits

I don't subscribe to the kits but used my Ali Edwards story stamps combined for this challenge

Challenge Five  - Stamps

Again I used my Ali Edwards story stamps for this challenge

Challenge Six - Instagrams

Always good to get the photos from your phone printed and the stories told

Challenge Seven - Pockets

This challenge was the Project Life style pockets with a twist.  This year I want to keep on top of my pictures and stories and am opting for the pocket style pages.  I got as far as putting in the photos for this challenge and need to go back and add the extras!

Challenge Eight - Go bold

I went bold with the colours and the photo for these layouts

Challenge Nine - Watercolour

Loved this layout that I had pinned on pinterest.  This was the perfect challenge to try it out on

Challenge Ten - Less is More

Another fabulous round of challenges and layouts to add to my albums.  Great motivation

Party time

One of my biggest projects has been catching up on the stories that I want to tell.  Birthdays made it to the top of the list.  I have been having fun telling the little stories but I want to make sure that I have all the big stories too.  We have lots of fun at our boys parties and I want to remember them.

I had pulled all my birthday related products together and went from there.  Seems the grid theme is working for me at the moment.  Especially as I have lots of photos for the parties.

I am pretty much up to date on birthdays now.  Just this year's to go!

How does she?

I get a lot of layouts done when I have the chance.  {Inter}national Scrapbooking day is the perfect chance to get something done so I go all out.  I have my photos organised in stories and lay out several at once.  Then I go through my stash and pick out what I might use for each of them, matching colours and embellishments that suit.

With the extra space to spread out in our new studio I set out my photos (I always use white cardstock for my backgrounds).  Then I add in the papers either with grid style or layered.  Then I add embellishments and journal and date.  Love seeing them all together.

{Inter}national Scrapbooking Day @ scrapbook.com

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The challenges for the day were structured quite differently this year.  Instead of separate challenges you had the opportunity to check out all the free classes that they have on offer.  There were loads to choose from and lots to learn.  Several were organisation based (time for a posted update on my space I think).  These layouts were from a couple of the other classes.  While in the past they have selected winners at random, this year they were selected based on how well they represented what had been learnt in the class.

With so many opportunities to enter for prizes the one below was the one that won. It was nice to do something a little more girly for a change.  So I get $75 voucher to spend.  Yay!

And this was my favourite.  Seems watercolour effects are the thing at the moment.  Each site I played along with had a challenge.

There is something for everyone.  From mini albums to cards.  There were lots of great ideas and new techniques to try.

  

{Inter}national scrapbooking day is so much fun.  Definitely making sure I check it in on the calendar for next year.  Maybe I can get some others to join me for the fun.

 

Baby cards

Whenever I have been away from scrapping for a while, making a card seems to get me back into the swing of things.  With a couple of friends having babies it was the perfect chance to get creative.  These bits and pieces haven't been out in a while so it was fun seeing what I could come up with.  I started with the girls card and once I had the design, adapted the colours and images for a boy.

Colours:  brocade blue, pumpkin pie, white

Stamps: baby (kaiser), storytime alpha (CDS), parateddy (elzybells)

Finishing touches:  striped ribbon (SU), wood veneers, letter sticker, stitching, paper (unknown)

Colours: lovely lilac, certainly celery, pink pirouette, regal rose

Stamps:  baby (kaiser),peek-a-boo (elzybells), wood veneers, letter stickers, stitching, paper (unknown), striped ribbon (SU)

{Inter}National Scrapbooking Day

Well May has all of a sudden crept up on me.  With the first day of soccer I realised we were into May and wondered if it was in fact Scrapbooking Day as it is usually at the start of May.  In fact it is the first weekend of May and so here I am checking out what is happening around the web.  Good thing New Zealand is a day ahead so I can get a bit of a heads up before the challenges start.  Here are the ones that I have been a part of in the past.  Some of the formats have changed, but certainly not the fun.

Studio Calico

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Big Picture Classes

 Not sure what is happening with this one as the format for classes has changed.

Any excuse to scrap.  Love getting my stories told.  And my photos that I had organised are all printed and ready for pick up.  Must make a note in my diary to spread the word earlier and get others to join me!