Thursday, May 28, 2015

Hump Day Challenge - May 27, 2015

Happy Thursday scrappy people!  I am stopping by very quickly to post my Hump Day challenge layout from the Victoria Marie FB Group. I am very excited to be on her very first Challenge Team starting in June!! (more about that soon!).

This Wednesday's challenge was a sketch (and there is a BONUS sketch for PL which I hope to also use after I get my butt in gear and order the last 6 weeks of photos!!)

Here is my layout and a couple close ups AND a process video (done very quickly with no editing):



(FYI, I ended up making 1 change to this layout after I posted the video. All I did was move the middle layout OVER the pp with the muffins on it. You can still see a couple rows of muffins but not so much. I like it a LOT better now).


Thanks for stopping by!!

Jen

Sunday, May 24, 2015

A layout with no photo!

Hey everyone, today I have a layout (and video!) of a layout I did this week that had no photo. This is not something I do (like ever!) but, as you will see if you watch the video, there is a reason I didn't have a photo.  But I still wanted a way to capture this.

This layout ended up being my submission for 3 different challenges.  The first was a tool challenge which was a weekend fun challenge over on the Victoria Marie FB page (here is her blog).  THEN, I saw the "3 to inspire" on Citrus Twist (HERE) which was to use circles, enamel dots and stickers.  And then after I had already punched out what felt like a million circles... the Victoria Marie weekend challenge for this past weekend was circles.  SCORE!!

I thought using my punches to cut circles would be a great way to use up the scraps of patterned paper I had left from my March and April kits and it pretty much used them all up.  I had just tiny bits left that either went into the recycling or into my pp scrap files.

I saw a layout by Nicole Nowosad done for SCT magazine for NSD and went from there.  So a shout out to her for the idea (HERE)

So, enough of me talking...  here is the layout, close ups and video.




Thanks so much for stopping by!!
Jen

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Project Life - March 23-29, 2015

Happy Thursday and I am here to share my most recent Project Life spread.  I am slowly doing a catch up but... seriously I need to hurry up and catch up as I think I am not farther behind. I might need to start doing 1 recent and 1 behind layout at a time and meet in the middle :)

Here is the layout itself:


And I don't usually do close up of each card but here are a few. I used the Sketch Class that Citrus Twist did and for each sketch you use and add to the gallery you are entered for a monthly draw. I have NEVER used a sketch for my PL before but numerous times in the class the contributors did so I thought, hey, I should give it a go and ended up using 5!!!






Sorry, no video this time!  My phone was almost out of battery last night and my cord won't reach when it is on my recording clamp.  Next time!

Jen




Thursday, May 7, 2015

National Scrapbook Weekend

Well, this past weekend was AWESOME and I found I wanted to play everywhere and just couldn't. So I mostly used the challenges over at Hip Kit FB forum and with some inspiration from Pinkfresh Studio's challenges (which I had hoped to do more of, maybe still might make it as I have til Saturday).  I also was playing along with the super fun ladies at Victoria Marie FB group in the challenge to get 10 layouts done over the weekend.  I managed to get 8 layouts done in all:

This layout was inspired by a challenge to use dimension in your layout but also a Pinkfresh challenge of using gold, aqua and pink.  That background paper was my starting point.

This challenge was an idea I got when I saw a challenge on the PinkFresh/Winnie & Walter NSD to make your own background. I used watercolours to mimic the water in this AMAZING photo.


This layout is pretty simple and was a symmetrical challenge, how do you translate symmetry? For me it was using the colours in the photos in the background and ensuring when a colour was not present that I added it (ie yellow and blue to the green pp).

This was a black and white challenge. To use a B&W photo and ONLY neutral embellishments and then a hit of colour.  I love it. I did the background with a stencil and some citron Color Shine.

This was my OLW for Apr and a balanced challenge.


This was a pastel colour challenge.

This challenge was to use just one colour to add contract to a B&W layout.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Saturday, May 2, 2015

National Scrapbook Day YouTube Hop!!!

Hey everyone!!  Thanks for stopping by on this wonderful sunny and gorgeous morning. (or afternoon or whenever you made it here!!)

I made a fun layout using my kit from Memory Workshop (a Canadian kit club) with mainly the Elle's Studio Cienna collection.  Here's some photos:




And here is my video:

AND, last but certainly NOT least, here are the links for all the other participants:

Nicole Jones 911 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtHU...

Scrappy Jem https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWf4...

Kelly Wells Barron https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiMb...

Katty Miranda https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCDVTHw...

Felicia Young 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-F1...

Mari Clarke https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ3O...

Jen Stokes (Scrapsbyjen) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAdr...

Sarah Swann 
https://www.youtube.com/user/sarahbr18

Megan Paulos Blethen (Crafty Meggy) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt3w...

Jessica Lynn https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCihq...

Carlie Hamilton https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0_P...

Manda Moore https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUsW...

Sandy Carter https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTVj...

Auntie ReCreates https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC78T...

Asa Malm https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOU3...

Melissa Jane Vining 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W-...

Gina Wojciechowski https://www.youtube.com/user/ginascra...

Hannah Lemieux 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsFO...

Tanya Hubbard https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCF3o-6...

Rachel Reynolds https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-KY...

Haylay Stewart https://www.youtube.com/user/hayleyst...

Tracey Eisenberg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb64...

Victoria Marie https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2gk...