Wednesday, 5 August 2015

It's Challenge Time!

Hello and welcome back to my blog!

I love entering online challenges but sadly, I find my other scrappy commitments often prevent me from having enough time to just indulge. Recently though, I had a scrappy night to spare so I checked out a few favourite challenge sites. I found three that really inspired me so I thought I'd give them all a go! Here's my layout:


To make the background on this, I first applied Silks to a sponge brush and swirled it down the page. I added some orange to a couple of places on the brush for the swipes below the photo. I've become a bit of a Silks addict and am loving experimenting with this gorgeous product.

I then cut a couple of strips of 7 Dots paper, punched the edge of one, and painted them with the Silks. I drew a light pencil line where I wanted my large flourish to go then I stitched it, adjusting my stitch width as I went. It looks pretty cool I think!



The thing I really liked about these challenges is that they allowed me to create a layout that really means something to me. We recently went on a holiday and met some amazing people and I wanted to write about how meeting great people like these is such an important part of travelling.



I took a Dusty Attic Large Number Panel and trimmed it to fit my photo. I painted it white and used it as a frame. I like the numbers peeking out from behind the pic.





The challenges I'm entering are:

Scrapki-Wyzwaniowo

The challenge this month is Typesetting - incorporate letters or numbers into your project. I used letter stickers and words cut from papers to create my journalling and incorporated numbers as a photo frame.


Mixed Media Place


The challenge is to use a special word. Travel is an important part of my life and I relished the opportunity to explain one of the many reasons why I love it so much.
Products that I used in my layout are:
Silks - Apricot Nectar
Silks - African Jade
7 Dots paper - Destination Unknown
7 Dots paper - Thoughts Keeper


Words & Paintery


I love the colours on this one and my beach photo worked perfectly with the theme. We were just chilling on the beach watching the sunset. Aaaahhhh.....


Happy scrappin'!


Heather

23 comments:

  1. WOW!!!STUNNING page.
    Love your details.

    Have a nice day.

    Merethe

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  2. The stitching is fabulous, I wondered if it was a stamp when I first saw it.

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  3. Beautiful page Heather. Your stitching is amazing. So glad you found time to play along with challenges and create this meaningful page.

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  4. Look at you go! 3 challenges in 1......v clever....& those silks on the bg look wonderful. My fave bit is the stitching....WOW!!!

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  5. Wow wow and more WOW!! This is gorgeous! LOVING that awesome stitching and loving the title work!!!!!!!

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  6. Clever gal to do three challenges at once. Like you, we love to meet like minded people when we travel. LOVE the stitching and the silks.

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  7. It is really nice to have that freedom to play along and scrap just what you want to.
    This is a brilliant take on all 3 challenges Heather....great photo, love the background silks and stitching and the way you have journaled. Love it!

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  8. This looks fantastic! I love the mixed alphas in your title.. And love the numbers peeking out under your photo.. Great memories scrapped brilliantly! Love the stitching too!

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  9. That is a great page and quote.

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  10. Wow!!! What a stunning layout - absolutely LOVE it! The background, stitching and journalling is inspired!!!

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  11. Good for you for combining three different challenges. I really like how you used the chipboard numbers as a frame for you photo. And the mixed letter stickers in your journaling look great, too. TFS!

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  12. Beautiful colors and very energetic! Thank you for joining us at scrapki-wyzwaniowo :)

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  13. I know the feeling, no time for challenges at all. Good you did now :) I love the way you did the journaling . The whole layout is fun and looks fresh, I love it. Thanks for playing with us at Scrapki-Wyzwaniowo. xxx

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  14. Oh wowwwwwww so pleased you found the time for our challenge at Words & Paintery Heather!
    Love the artsy feel of the black stitching! Thanks for playing along with us !

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  15. Heather,
    What a beautiful layout and the stitching is awesome! Love the colors and the very cool design - and what a wonderful photo.

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  16. Beautiful layout.It´s cool design. Thank you for playing with us at Words & Paintery

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  17. Beautiful page with a heartwarming sentiment! Thank you for joining the Mixed Media Place challenge!

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  18. oo woww...such a cool and happy page...love it..Thank you for playing with us at Words & Paintery...:)

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  19. Awesome layout Heather! Thank you for joining our challenge at Mixed Media Place!

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  20. Fabulous page! Thank you for joining in the fun at Mixed Media Place this month!

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  21. Very groovy page Heather! Loving the stitches. Thank you for joining us over at Scrapki-Wyzwaniowo xx

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  22. Love the page! Fabulous! Thank you for joining us over at Scrapki-Wyzwaniowo!

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  23. absolutelly georgeous! thank You for playing along with Scrapki-wyzwaniowo!

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