Scrapbooking Top 50 September Challenge

This month SBT50 has a tic tac toe challenge:

Here's my take:

Just like in the real game I had a few false starts before I completed a row. I started with glitter, moved to arrows and then completed leaves, washi and strip journalling.

The funky paper and moulded flowers are part of a new release from CTMH, The bow, doily and arrow are from D-lish Scraps.

And the awesome leaf is from Rainbow Splendour. In excellent news Rainbow Splendour is having a new release tomorrow. New goodies and old favourites - yay!

I took this selfie as I headed back to work after 175 long days of medically-enforced leave. The strip journalling gives a glimpse of what I was thinking and feeling but I also included some journalling on the project life card tucked behind the photo.

The journalling reads: Gosh! Look at those wrinkles... I guess that's what happens when you have a knee replacement that goes wrong, lose (and then find) your daughter in a cyclone, have another knee procedure - more painful than the last, your son starts Year 11 and more. So much more...

This year has been tough. My knee still isn't right. I don't know if it ever will be but on this day it was nothing but blue skies!

I hope you've been celebrating the blue sky days too. Life is short and can change in an instant, don't take it for granted xx

Paper Dvizhnik September Challenge

Every month Charm posts a list of challenges in a facebook event. And this challenge by Paper Dvizhnik was included:

I loved the colours in this moodboard and they were perfect with a bunch of photos that I had ready to scrap. I've been doing a mix of traditional and PL pages in Zoe's album. Here's what I came up with using the moodboard:

And a close up featuring a new Charms Creation Terrific Tab:

This was a great challenge and I'll definitely be checking out what they have on offer next month.

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Scrap the Boys September

This month Scrap the Boys had a funky sketch:

My take:

And a close up:

The journalling is on the tag behind the photo and tells the story of how my son ended up with these slippers. I took him and my mum shopping for slippers, Mum wanted moccasins and Angus wanted ugg boots but they didn't have any in his size. He seized upon these slippers claiming them to be both 'old man slippers' and 'nifty' - funny kid.

I used my newest CTMH stamps and inks to create the background and then added the Lawn Fawn papers, a D-lish flair, some enamel dots, sequins and cotton as well as some random stickers and tags from my stash.

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D-lish Scraps

So, my plans of blogging throughout the month amounted to nothing! Here's another challenge I completed and photographed way back at the beginning of the month.

The moodboard:

My take:

Some close ups:

The paper is from the latest The Scrappery kit was a perfect match for this month's D-lish's Just Add Paper kit.

Another page for Zoe's Vanuatu album :)

Happy scrapping.

Scrap the girls September

Every month I happily scrap away and then do a mad scramble to post all my LOs for the various challenges in the last couple of days of the month. So, I've decided to try something different this month - let's see how it goes, it's early days... Today I photographed and edited the four LOs I've completed and now I'm blogging about one even though every fibre in my body is instructing me to step away from the computer and to re-enter my craft empire. And the force in that room is strong ;)

So without further ado here's this months's STG sketch.

And here's my take.

 I used the latest Scrappery kit

and a fabulous new Terrific Tab from Charms 

a CTMH flair, some Stampin' Up washi and a D-lish cabochon. 

Some more close ups:

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