Scrapbooking in January - Week 1 Challenges

I discussed some of the goals I had already for this year and so far I am on track. I worked on a mini album and made 5 layouts this week, including 1 Disney layout. 

The first challenge was to work on my mini album, which I did, but didn't grab a picture of it just yet! 

The next challenge was to use one of the stash kits I had sitting in a bin. I made this kit a while back and it was perfect for a single page. I am a huge fan of doilies lately. And I was so happy to cut into that transparency paper. Sometimes I hold onto those for way too long!

The next challenge was a Jar Challenge. I had to use a color wheel. I went online and chose the following colors using the Triad option.

I went to work, first taking papers from my 100 papers bin. Then I took out one embellishment sheet that had all the colors I was looking for and found this picture of my son wearing pretty much the same colors for his school picture this year. It all worked out pretty quickly. 

Next I had to "Kill" a Kit on Friday. I made two layouts, but one has a class picture with school sign so I decided not to post that one. The other layout is below. I have been holding onto this book paper for a while now knowing that I wanted to use some pictures I've taken this year while reading. I am so happy I decided to focus on reading again so I wanted to make a layout about it. 

Finally, I used the Hip Kits Club Sketch  from this week to create the layout below for my Sketch Saturday. I am thrilled with how my Disney Album is turning out. I did take Shimelle's Disney class over the summer and hope to finish going through all the videos and sketches to make even more layouts for this project. 

 That is all for now! Happy Scrapping! 

Pumpkin Love

I've been having so much fun this Autumn with all of the traditional things to do and spending quality time with the family. I needed to get back into crafting again so these pictures have somewhere to go! But I'm determined to scrap some old photos first. Here is one from 6 years ago and I am working on one of Shimelle's challenges to use Autumn Colors. 

NSD2016 Challenge #17: Using Stencils and Red and Blue

The Challenge was to use a stencil in two ways so I used a cotton ball and distress ink over this star stencil that was actually the trash from a board game after I took out all the star chips for the game. Then I used a pen and outlined all the stars. 

I kept two other challenges in mind when I pulled out the star stencil: Shimelle's challenge to use red and blue and Mercy Tiara's challenge to create a background. 

NSD Challenge #13: Color Scheme Challenge

The last challenge on the Paper Issues NSD Challenges  was a color scheme challenge. I used papers from the Echo Park Playground collection and Shimelle's first collection and embellishments from Shimelle's Starshine collection to go along with the color scheme. 

That's it for now as I go out for a Mother's Day dinner. Hopefully I will be back tonight with the next set of challenges! Who needs sleep anyway?