Stuck?! Sketches challenge from Oct 1, 2015

Another day, another challenge...I've come to realize I really enjoy these sketch challenges, they are so much fun!

Here's the sketch from this latest Stuck?! Sketches challenge:

I wasn't sure what photos I should scrap or what paper to use, I only knew I wanted to use a cut file that came with the Let's Cut Class 01 @TheCutShoppe. I had to alter it to fit my needs, but I like to customize things when I can! 

In the end I chose papers from the We R Memory Keepers Hello Darling and the My Mind's Eye Jubilee Sherbet collections. I've lost count how many times I've used these papers to back up paper cut outs! I love the colors, especially the lime!

I printed some random old photos yesterday that I love and I went with one where my boys were just being silly and were pretending to be samurais. I don't actually remember why! My son would have been a really cute little girl too, don't you think? :) God I miss him being so little!

I did some messy machine stitching on the layout, I really like how those turned out. Added the title, some wood veneer stars, enamel dots, ink splatters and I think that about wraps it up! Looks simple enough but it did take me 4 hours to make this LO due to all the backing. But then again, I enjoy busy work :). 

So here's the final LO and some close-ups. Hope you like X

My Scraps & More - ScraptoberFest Challenge

Back with another challenge...two posts in a day, not bad, huh? :)

Now this one is a really cool challenge! It's 4 challenges in one in fact! 4 pages came together and teamed up, and all provided one challenge for the layout. So basically the goal is to combine 4 challenges in one layout. COOL! 

1. Scrap Our Stash Stash challenge - Create a layout using at least 2 different type of washi tapes.

2. Challenge YOUrself - Create a layout that includes YOU in the photo.

3. My Scraps & More - Color challenge (incorporate these colors in the layout)

4. The Memory Nest - sketch challenge

When I saw the color combo, I had this Eureka moment: Fancy Pants Flutter collection! It has exactly these colors. And I remembered I have a 12x12" butterfly print paper and a lot of bits and pieces from the ephemera pack. So I went through my stash, which took me a good hour because I keep all ephemeras in bulk ha! I pulled out everything from this collection and whatever else I thought could match. At this point I was still planning to use the love cut file from The Cut Shoppe because I had it cut weeks ago already and didn't use it yet - but I just couldn't make it work on this LO either :(.

As for washi tapes, eventually I chose 5 different ones from the Amy Tangerine Finders Keepers washi sheet. Then I chose two photos of myself that my boyfriend took many many years ago in the Maldives...just because I thought the colors would go well.

Here's what I've come up with:

Thanks for stopping by, any questions, just leave me a comment xxx

Scrap Challenge YOUrself CY #22 - Note to Self

So I've found another page with layout challenges yesterday, Scrap Challenge YOUrself. This kind of spoke to me. More about that in a second.

The challenge here was to use the given sketch, the phrase "Note to Self" and the layout had to include a photo of me. ME. So here is my biggest challenge. I do remember taking some photos with my son a couple of weeks back but I don't find them anywhere. And since there's hardly any photos of me from recent years and the ones I did have, had already been scrapped...I looked through old photos and picked a random one. Which was perfect for the theme I chose actually; the most important note to myself that I should remind myself of every single day. To accept myself the way I am. This is why this challenge spoke to me.

Here's the sketch:

The first collection that caught my eye going through my supplies was the My Story collection from My Mind's Eye. It's so extremely gorgeous I HAD TO buy some of it even though I didn't really think I'd have the chance to ever use these items! Now I think I will order some more 12x12" papers from this collection (can you believe it, I forgot I have the 6x6" paper pad which I could have used for this layout...Dumb!).

The only paper not belonging to this collection is the background paper, which is from another beautiful new collection, Documentary from Dear Lizzy. 

Here are some close-ups and the final layout itself!

I hope you like! Thanks for stopping by x