Sunday, June 20, 2010

Happy Birthday Scrapbook Dreams

Scrapbook Dreams is 2 years old!  Yippee and Yahoo!  It was Shell’s site that I found on my very first search for a New Zealand ATC swap and I have been an active member ever since.

To celebrate, Shell issued 4 challenges last Saturday.  First was a scavenger hunt that took us all over the site to find the answers.  It was great fun!  Answers were e-mailed to her so no one could “cheat” with a copy and paste, lol (as if we would).

Next came a layout challenge.  The theme was of our choice but we needed to use this sketch for inspiration:

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I was so pleased with my end result.  It just came together:

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Challenge 3 was a card challenge.  We had to use at least 3 items from a list Shell provided and one of 4 card sketches:

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Here is my entry for this one:

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The final challenge was a tag one, again with a sketch given for inspiration:

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And, here is what I came with:

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Thanks for a great site Shell and all the hard work you put into it!

 

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Good Grief!

I haven’t put up a post for such a long time! Talk about slack!

In my defence, now that Winter is upon us, it is pretty chilly in my craft cave so I don’t spend very much time in here.

Having said that though, I have been pottering a wee bit here and there. Making a few cards, a couple of layouts and some atc’s and tags for swaps.

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Scrapbook Dreams May Challenge

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Scrapbook Dreams April ATC Swap – Hattitude

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Scrapbook Dreams Mid April Motivation to use Handmade Flowers.

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Tags for RAK gifts made with my Bombshell Angel stamp, a cut out dress for her and background stamping in Dusty Concord.

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An easel card for Kelly’s baby shower.

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A tag turned easel card for Jane.

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A tag for fun! Lots of techniques used on this. Spritzing, masking, transfer to selloptape, lace flower.

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Teaching myself to make these paper flowers, which I just love!

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Scrapbox NZ Challenge – Black and white only

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Scrapbook Dreams June Challenge.

So, you see, I have been doing something after all. I also made my sister-in-laws wedding invitations/RSVPs which I was really happy with.