D-lish Scraps April Moodboard

This month D-lish Scraps has a soft and pretty moodboard in shades of grey, pink, tan and white.

The accompanying Just Add Paper kit was filled with gorgeous embellies and I was itching to create a LO with it. But it proved so much harder than I expected. First of all I didn't have a single photo among the trillion I printed that featured soft pretty colours. Nothing, not even close. In the end I settled on this photo of Zoë as it contained greys and tan. But it was really hard to do the kit justice. A quick pick through my stash yielded plenty of paper in the right shades and I rotated the sketch but still I struggled. I'm sure this LO took three times longer than average! Anyway this is the finished product. The colours were a little hard to photograph too. The background paper is a soft grey not mauve and the doily, diecut and alphas are all charcoal. 

I used papers from Heidi Swapp, Simple Stories and Pink Paislee, Thickers and Basic Grey alphas, elements of the D-lish Scraps JAP kit, plus a tab, some carbonchans, rhinestones and a Rainbow Splendour pretty pin. I finished it off with some splattered Mister Huey's calico mist. 

The good news is I have heaps of pretty goodies left from the kit and I've the perfect photo on my phone to use them with! I might just give this moodboard another go.

Thanks for stopping by :) 

Ali

D-lish Scraps monthly moodboard - August

Every month I purchase a D-lish Scraps Just Add Paper kit and every month I admire the gorgeous moodboard inspired by the colours in the kit. Most months I join the D-lish scraps cyber crop, sometimes I even finish all four challenges, I always use lots of my D-lish goodies but, I have never actually entered the moodboard challenge. Until now.

The colours in is this board are gorgeous and that sketch got me thinking... I have a photo of my daughter and her boyfriend dancing in the rain, it's a beautiful candid shot that captures the joy of the moment and also their feelings of freedom as they had just finished Year 12. I kept getting that photo out and smiling at it - especially since my beautiful girl is far away on her gap year adventure. But I just never had the right paper or the right sketch to do something special with that special photo. but then that moodboard spoke to me!

I've added some journalling on the little card in the chevron bag and used lots of gorgeous bits out of the JAP kit. Gosh I love that photo!

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SBT50 June Challenge

I managed to squeeze one last challenge in today. I love the bright colours of the SBT50's mood board.

This challenge was a perfect match for a photo I took on Saturday. 117 days after my surgery the swelling in my knee had finally gone enough to fit back into my jeans - oh happy day!

The photo is a bit dark and shadowy as I took it inside after dark but that's what you get when you finish a challenge right at the last minute ;-)

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Studio Fourteen40 Mood Board

I love adding Studio Fourteen40's quirky flairs and wood veneer to my scrapping projects so, when I saw they had their first ever challenge I decided to play along.

The challenge was a mood board.

At first glance this is a pretty feminine palette but I had some photos of Rob from his New Year's Eve gig wearing a purple shirt that I'd been wanting to scrap. Going to his show was a great way to spend New Year's Eve - an 11 course degustation and a table right near the stage because we 'knew' the band. A fun set list of Aussie rock anthems to remind us all of our misspent youth. It was tricky getting photos of my guitar hero but these capture the moment. I love watching Rob play, after all who can resist falling for the guitarist? 

So, back to the LO.

The base paper is from an old Kaiser range, I used a Stampin' Up star template and some Grape Ape Glimmer Mist plus some washi tape from Cosco to complete by background. I found the other paper in the my scraps box, these are really old, from when Scarlet Lime were still shipping their amazing kits to Australia. Anyway I teamed them with some brand new embellishment cards from Crate Paper (they arrived in the post yesterday). I love these packs but I never seem to use them all so I was pretty chuffed when the colours were all ones I needed for the challenge. I then added a Studio Fourteen40 word veneer and flair plus a few brads I had lying around, my finishing touches were a sprinkling of enamel dots and a paper clip star from D-lish Scraps.  

Some close ups - how cute is that retro radio card? It seemed kind of suitable as Rob's gig was an 80s rock show - very retro!

And the Studio Fourteen40 tin button flair. A star for my star :)

And another star to keep with the theme.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you're having a creative day.

Scrap Around the World

The last couple of months Charm has compiled all the month's challenges in one handy Facebook event. When I was checking out what was on offer I found this gorgeous mood board by Scrap Around the World.

It was a perfect match for the Mad About Scrappin kit that I won in Charm's Think Pink Auction.

I used another old photo of Rob and me - this time we're on top of Mt Panorama, home of the Bathurst 1000. We drove the course in a car without air conditioning in 42 degree heat. Looking at this photo I have no idea why we have bare feet - the ground must have been baking or why I'm holding a troll. I guess I'll just say it was 1992 and leave it at that!

Now that I look at this LO, it's a bit hard to see how I was inspired by the mood board. Perhaps the colours in the photo are a little wonky... never mind, life is too short to worry about little details like that.

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Jot Mood Board

Rob dragged out a stack of old photos recently - shots of us when we were young and carefree :)

The colours of the Jot October/November Mood Board caught my eye, they were perfect for this photo of us discovering treasure at an old farmhouse one of sisters rented while she was uni, way back in the early 90s. The journalling is on the tag.

Happy scrapping!