The Story of the Purple Bubbles

With the fun colours in the photo I was scrapping I knew I had to go bold and bright with my layout this month for the new Scrap Friends Sketch Challenge.

And this is the fabulous sketch I based my page on. Angela keeps on amazing us with her great sketches, you can see why our challenges are rapidly gaining in popularity. They certainly get me running to my scrap table every time she sends a new one through!

When my brother and his girlfriend come to visit they often have a little surprise to give to the Girls. Not having kids themselves, these gifts sometimes involve a bit of noise and mess (we're still in the midst of making slime from their last visit) but honestly... the Girls love it of course.. and that's all that matters.

On this occasion they brought a bottle of bubbles. They were purple bubbles! So of course Moodles jumped up and down in excitement, and Munchy couldn't wait to give them a go :-) They pretty much used the entire bottle in one crazy exciting adventure!

I wanted my page to really capture that excitement and fun, so I started with my background paper from Glitz Designs and layered it up with the bright colours from Amy Tangerine, Teresa Collins, ICC and Studio Calico. The orange arrows are actually one of the Greatest View chevron bags cut into strips (something I'll have to try again) with the Heidi Swapp neon tape peeking out underneath.

So if you want to give this challenge a go this month, all the details are over here on the Scrap Friends blog. Not only do you have a chance of winning a Guest DT position, but a store voucher is up for grabs too :-)

And I'm going to leave you today with a sneak peek of one of the projects I've been busy creating for a certain Australian kit-club I'm Guesting for this month. You can check out all my projects here if you can't wait!

xxx


Supplies:

Aussie Scrap Source Cardstock Lavender	Glitz Designs Hello Friend Bokeh	Teresa Collins Tell Your Story Tickets	Teresa Collins Tell Your Story Cards
ICC La Dolce Vita	Amy Tangerine Sketchbook Bailey's Brush	Studio Calico Classic Calico Numerical	Studio Calico Abroad Locale
Crate Paper Pretty Party Die Cuts	Amy Tangerine Sketchbook Remarks Palette	Heidi Swapp Day Glow Neon Alphas	Heidi Swapp Day Glo Neon Washi Tapes
Amy Tangerine Sketchbook Clear Stamps	Evalicious Vintage Labels Buttons	American Crafts Magenta Chevron Ribbon	Glimmermist Key Lime Pie
Greatest View Chevron Bag	Hydrangea: Lime Green

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Farewell...

It's come time for the 'old' team at Once Upon a Sketch to step aside for the newbies that are coming on board. So it's with mixed emotions that I say goodbye to my DT position with Nadia and the rest of the fabulous team.

Sad of course because this is a fabulous challenge blog with a philosophy that I truly believe in; that's about capturing the memories and telling your story. But excited too that I got to be a part of this fantastic journey from the beginning, and it's time for some fresh faces and new talent to join.

So this shall be my last layout share as a Designer (I've got a feeling I'm going to be joining in as a participant from now on!!) We worked with this fabulous sketch:

and made sure to include this month's theme which is "Birthdays". You can interpret that anyway you like, and journal just about anything to do with birthdays. I captured a recent memory that I had written down in my quote book.

It was recently my 30th birthday and during the celebration The Man turned to me with his philosophical look on and stated "you've accomplished a lot in your 30 years. You've got 1 husband, 2 kids, 3 degrees....and....um....... you live 4 hours away from your parents!" Like that was something to be proud of?!! HHhhmmmmm not sure about that?

If you want to give the Birthday challenge a go, then check out all the details on the Once Upon a Sketch blog. They've positively got a truck-load of prizes to give away. Too many for me to list them all here! And good luck for the future OUAS :-)

Supplies:

Studio Calico Sorbonne Addon: April 2012	Studio Calico City of Lights April 2012	Greatest View Sunburst Badges	Imaginarium Designs Edward Relief
FWAB Grace Pearl flourish: Mango	FWAB Jasmine Puffy flourish: Lilac

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You Tube, Me Tube

My girls are constantly drawing pictures - that's just the type of girls they are. And as much as I want to keep all these, there's no way I can file away the hundreds of drawings they come up with.

And I guess they get that from me, 'cos I too am coming up with hundreds (?) of layouts. So that's when I came up with the idea of including them INTO my layouts as much as possible. It's like killing two birds with one stone! And I get to capture the essence of this time in our lives even better.

I've had to put my mind to thinking up different ways to incorporate the two forms so they blend seamlessly together. 'Cos I don't really want all my pages looking the same either. The method I used here was to try and re-create Munchy's drawing on my own background by painting a continuation of her rainbow.

So that's my introduction for my very first VIDEO!! Eeeeekkkkk! I was so nervous doing this (and you can totally tell!) but I think it gets better as it goes along. And ultimately I had a lot of fun putting this together.

I used this as my monthly tutorial at Scrap Friends. Which means I'll be doing another one next month! I would love to hear what you think. Things you liked? Suggestions on what I could do better? Would you be interested in seeing more videos, or do you prefer to stick to photo-based tutorials?

I used some of my most favourite supplies on this page. Check them out!

Supplies:

ICC My Diary	Websters Pages Alpha Stickers Ladies & Gents	Crate Paper Paper Heart Border Stickers	Crate Paper Paper Heart Phrase Stickers
Greatest View Chevron Bag	Greatest View Sunburst Badges	Amy Tangerine Sketchbook Doodle Stickers	Teresa Collins Everyday Moments diecut sheet 3
Imaginarium Designs Clouds	Gesso	Woodware Fluffy Stuff	Glimmermist Starfish
Glimmermist Sun Sisters	Glimmermist Chalkboard Seven Seas	Mister Hueys Heirloom Blue	Studio Calico MIster Huey Lunch Tray

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