Scrapbooking Starting Point with Shimelle - You Rock (Scrapbooking)

I am a huge Shimelle fan (and a Glitter Girl fan too!).  I visit Shimelle's blog often and was excited to see she had a challenge up called Scrapbooking Starting Point.  She started with this basic layout and added her own photos, title, and embellishments.  She wanted us to start at this point in the process, forget what she did and just do our own thing!  Awesome idea!!

 

 

I had to give myself a few days break to actually forget what Shimelle did (or try to forget) so that I wouldn't just copy her overall finished result. 

 

In the end, I scrapped these photos of my son playing his guitar when we were camping.  I chose bright colours for my patterened papers (all BasicGrey)!  The arrow-like stamp ... that is one I created myself! 

 

 

While Shimelle always uses stickers for her title, I decided to go with stamps and used jibber jabber from Alley Way Stamps (stamped with Walnut Stain ink by Ranger).  I also used the ticket stamp from the Miss Caroline set by My Minds Eye (with Fired Brick ink by Ranger).  And see that brown circle with the embellishments - it is actually a postage circle stamp from French Country Postage by gel-a-tins.  I like it alot because it is not a perfect circle but has imperfectios. 

 

 

To finish the layout, I added a few blue heart brads to my 3 embellishment spots as well as a few green brads at the top right and bottom left corners.  I spattered on some Mr. Huey's Dark Calico color mist (that is becomming a favourite of mine!) and drew some brown lines around the edge of the cardstock to finish off the page.

 

 

So, if you are interested in scrapbooking and want some inspiration, you MUST visit Shimelle's blog! (and go see Glitter Girl at 2peas as well!!)

 

Thanks for dropping by.

Donelda

CASual Friday #48 and Less is More #63 - Hugs

Hello.  Nice to see you again LOL!

Today I have a card that again (2 days in a row) fits for 2 challenges.  The first one is CASual Friday #48 where we were to use opposite colours on the colour wheel for our Clean and Simple card.  I chose orange and green.   The second challenge is the Less Is More Challenge #63 - doodling.  Well, I love to doodle and I had seen Godelieve do some amazing doodled birds a while ago .. and the idea popped into my head to make an orange doodled bird.

And here is my card.  The picture didn't turn out so great, for some reason he is really shy and did not want to cooperate and take a nice photo. 

The sentiment is from Jibber Jabber - The Alley Way Stamps and all the other images are hand drawn ... or doodled!!  FUN!!

Okay, off to see everyone else's doodles....

Donelda

The Alley Way Stamps (TAWS) and Less Is More - Sweet Friend

Hello everyone!  Today I have created a cute card.  I took the inspiration from 2 different challenges going on right now.  The first one is The Alley Way Stamps Be Inspired Challenge #3.   I mean look at this delicious photo and colours for inspiration.  And the second challenge is the Paper Pretties Wednesday challenge #201 - to use 2 or more different designer papers on your project. 

Here is my card ... clearly inspired by the photo above.  I used 3 different sets to create the focal point.  Kitchen Gadgets for the scale, part of an image in Snow Much Fun for the container as well as a circle for the cherries, and finally the sentiment is from Jibber Jabber.

That was a whole lot of fun!!

Donelda

The Alley Way Stamps meets Cosmo Cricket

Playing around with more Alley Way Stamps.  This time I paired this cute butterfly with papers from the Boyfriend paper collection (Cosmo Cricket).  Love the striped paper in this kit! 

Check the butterfly body .. coloured in with my Sukura glitter pen (which I rarely think to use .. why!  it is so glittery!!)

Love the clean graphic look of this card.

Donelda

Alley Way Stamps - Zoom Zoom

A while back, I was so lucky to win the January release from Alley Way Stamps thanks to Barb's challenge!!  I adore all the cute stamps that I received and decided to pull them out and play a bit. 

I love this cute little car so I did some paper piecing with it.  The zoom zoom is so perfect for us, we both own Mazda's!!  And the designer papers are from my friend Imke and is from the Boyfriend collection from Cosmo Cricket.  (thanks again Imke!)

I like the soft muted colours in all the elements so that the blue car stands out!  

Donelda

The Alley Way Stamps (TAWS) Challenge #2 - Congrats

Wanted to play along with The Alley Way Stamps (TAWS) Inspiration Challenge #2.  Loved the colours ...

So I took the 5 colours and did some paper piecing to create a cute little scene using these little birdies.  One is from Snow Much Fun set and the other is from Priceless Joy set. 

I used my new tumbled glass Distress Stain for the sky!  Love it!! 

Off to see what everyone else did with this great inspiration piece.

Thanks for dropping by.

Donelda

The Alley Way Stamps (TAWS) Challenge #1 - In a Jam

Hi Everyone!  A number of weeks ago I was lucky enough to be a winner on Barb's blog and managed to snag all these babies .....

... the January release from The Alley Way Stamps - a new stamp company by Alison Spelman. 

As I spent a bit of time browsing TAWS site, I saw that Alison was hosting the very first TAWS Challenge #1 with this great inspiration photo.   I decided I HAD to play along.

I decided to be inspired by 4 of the colours, the blue, rose, yellow, and kraft colours ....

These jam jars are adorable!!  I actually used 2 Alley Way stamp sets in the making of this card.  The jam jars and sentiment are from Kitchen Gadgets and the polka dot horizon was created using the dotty line from the Jibber Jabber set.

Okay, that was fun!  Going to play more with these stamps!!

Thanks for dropping by.

Donelda