Scrap Our Stash- January

The lovely people at Scrap Our Stash have added me to the design team ( hooray) and here is my effort for the January challenge which is to scrap something new- anything at all

Having said the challenge is something new i have gone for some misting- but then I am always way behind the times with scrapbooking trends! I have very recently bought my first two bottles of
misters and have used one of these for my "new" LO. Anyway I used the frame from some
old chipboard letters and misted through to make an alphabet background paper
which I thought went really well with my son's school photo from this year.

Artastic Challenge

No3 0f 365

This LO is for the Artastic Challenge blog that asks you to use art as inspiration for your LOs.

This LO is about our New Year's Eve celebrations- we shared a gourmet schotel with our friend ( otherwise known as a raclette in Switzerland) they are widely popular here at Christmas, Easter, New Year and Sinterklass. In fact the little bits of meat for it are almost all you can get as special food in the supermarkets at those times of year..... but the rest of the year you can't!

I've also used my Christmas present on this...my husband is invariably useless at Christmas gifts- he likes to buy me something useful or a gadget- so I was quite pleased this year when he bought me a polaroid pogo portable printer that uses special polaroid paper and no ink- it prints out these tiny little photos as stickers- cool huh?

Oh and I'm also being cheeky and using this for the American Crafts challenge- a New Year's LO
The Inspiration was this from Renoir and added criteria was

1- a celebration

2- at least three people

3- food on the LO

I think I managed all three

supplies

American Crafts abode paper

two American crafts flair badges

two kinds of American crafts Christmas paper

American crafts remarks stickers

and of course thickers

Scrap it with a song- Rain on my parade

Yet more good news for me- I am now on the Design Team over at Scrap it With a Song- hooray!

I love Challenge blogs as you may have gathered by now but I'm quite happy to skip a few if I don't like the challenge so I am so excited to be on a few design teams so that I stretch myself and have to participate.....

My first challenge on Scrap it with a Song was from Glee- Don't rain on my parade- I chose the line" freckle on the face" as my inspiration and used a close up picture of Nancy with all her beautiful freckles- The title is on a luggage tag which tucks behind the photo

New Year's Eve- don't you hate it when you can't punctuate

4/365

This is for the American Crafts challenge on their blog - a New Year's LO

The LO shows some random photos of our drunken celebration and cutey boy Arthur sleeping through all of it on the sofa. He was desperate to stay up and see the fireworks but was asleep by 9.30.

And the title of this blog post refers to the tiny alphas I used which have no punctuation so no apostrophe fro Year's.

Supplies used

American Crafts

thickers

heat wave paper x 2

city park paper

Dear Lizzy Christmas paper

and some abode paper (I think)

Summer?

5/365

This LO is for Kraft it up and being based in Australia they are right in the middle of summer so that was their theme for the January challenge- use kraft, a summer layout with a summer word for the title

Oh man did I find this difficult a summer LO when the ground is covered in snow and ice and I'm shivering with cold even inside! I think it turned out Ok though

Scrapbooker's Anonymous January Challenge

Having set out my plan to make 365 LOs this year in the previous post I'm back with one of last year's LOs.

The January Challenge over at Scrapbooker's Anonymous is Buttons. You have to use at least 17buttons on the LO in any way you want. I used them as a sort of frame under the photo. I am in awe of the LOs created by the rest of the design team over there- go have a look and join in there are great prizes on offer as ever- and we all love to see your efforts.

It's good to be back

Happy New Year to you all. I'm so glad to be back to blogland after a long absence over the festive period. I won a class pass to Shimelle's journal your Christmas at the end of November and that took up much of my scrapbooking time but now I'm back

I've set myself the challenge this year to make 365 LOs again ( I did manage last year with time to spare) I'll post as many as I can in the right order but some are for my Design Teams so they can't be shown as I make them..

So this is no 1 of 365 a LO for Sarah's cards blog- one of my two favourite online shops. They had a sketch challenge this month and here is my effort.

This is the Sketch

So 1 down 364 to go.......