Today I am sharing the four layouts I did last weekend at the Warrington crop. I had such a fabulous day and had a really good laugh whilst also being pretty productive! There were a few of us who were involved in the Scrapbook Challenges UK group so there was a fair amount of competition going on and great deal of banter! All four of mine were included in the challenge for the week as either 4 or 3 pointers – I couldn’t work out a way to get balloons in the pages! 🤣
Page one was a page kit I tweaked. Sarah designed this one and I loved working with it but felt it was too vertical with the photo so had to turn the layout and then mixed it up a little more.
Really happy with how this turned out.
Next I used the leftovers of the papers from the page kit and added in some other bits leftover from #100patternedpaper challenge pile which I had taken along with… this made this page of me and the hubby.
Really liked how the dark background helped to make the colors pop and the pinks picked up on the colours in the photo.
It was fund to also hunt through my limited supplies from being at a crop to make this work – I think the star gems I added must be around 15 years old – definitely good to get something old used!
Next I will share the page I actually made last because I made use of a lot of the stickers left from the page kit – plus a few bits of the paper – but teamed them with very different papers from my #100patternedpaper pile.
Those stickers were perfect for making the subject of the photo and story work and I loved working the torn red circles for pulling out the pattern on M’s hat – plus the check in the background just helps ground it all I think!
A fun page that came together quickly – although I will admit I left the journalling to the day after as I was super tired at this point in the day! Who knew crafting could be so exhausting! 🤣
To be honest I was probably exhausted by this final page I am sharing where I decided to add lots of sewing!
I was inspired by having seen a lot of pictures of other peoples makes where they used strips to make a Christmas tree in the background – and so that is what I did. I did make it a little different by having each strip be a triangle (the challenge for week 2 included using triangles on a page).
I then used a new stitching ruler that Sarah has designed for Hey Little Magpie that I bought at the crop to pierce the different designs across the tree and then sat and sewed them all with the brown thread.
This was time consuming and headache inducing (the pattern on the other side of this paper did not make it easy to see the holes!) but I think well worth the effort!
I loved adding the Pom Pom ribbon on this and all the embellishments from the embellishment kit (and a couple of new purchases from the HLM shop like the title!).
So those are my four pages. I’ll share more details on instagram but here is a quick collage!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
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