SUYS April Mood Board

This month's SUYS challenge is a gorgeous mood board created by Kim.

And here's my take on it. These are a few photos of Angus and his friends at their Year 10 formal in December last year. They had a great time :)

For more inspiration and to share your LO pop over to the SUYS blog. 

Scrapbooking Top 50 Mood Board

One of my favourite forums closed down in January. I think it may have been the last forum still operating. I spent a lot of time at Scrapbooking Top 50 and always enjoyed the scrappy chat as well as their monthly and cybercrop challenges and their fabulous and incredibly creative competitions. It was the end of an era but the Vicki and Chloe haven't disappeared completely, they're continuing the Top 50 tradition with a monthly competition on their blog. February's challenge is a mood board.

Here's my take, my little niece and nephew dressed in their traditional Japanese costumes. Hopefully you can see I was inspired by the colours and textures.

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SUYS February Challenge

It was my turn to create a challenge for Show Us Your Stuff this month. I chose a Countdown Challenge - it's far simpler than it looks at first glance and lots of fun too.

Here's my take. I didn't have any recent photos in a smaller size so I stepped back in time to 1998 and scrapped these random shots of Angus' first Christmas. They were taken back in the age of film before I learnt about getting close to your subject and all that other useful stuff that makes for really good photos...these still made me smile though. Angus really wasn't that impressed by all his amazing presents, once he found that little book in the shape of a drill, he stopped looking.

My handmade embellishments are a Rainbow Splendour heart stack and a APOCD flair.

Hope you get a chance to play along. Don't forget to link your creation to the SUYS blog. And while you're there check out the great offer by this month's sponsor - Scrapping Life.

Thanks for stopping by!

SUYS January Challenge

Welcome to 2015!

The January SUYS challenge is up on the blog. It's a great sketch by Amanda - perfect to get you feeling and being creative.

The sketch:

My take:

Hope you can find time to play along, I'd love to see what you do with the sketch.

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!

Show Us Your Stuff November Challenge

It's a new month and the challenge at SUYS is a cracker!

I chose laugh, butterfly, stencilling and a mini print. This is what I came up with:

Since moving house and having the luxury of a dedicated craft room, I've really enjoyed digging into my stash and using all the things I'd forgotten about while they were packed for three long months. My handmade items are the flowers and butterfly from My Vintage Blossoms. The paper, date sticker and buttons are from a Lime Tart kit I got at least two years ago and I used some ancient paint to colour my modelling paste which I used with my favourite TLC template. Still makes me sad that neither MVB or Lime Tart are around any more. But on a more positive note I rarely scrap pink LOs so I was a bit excited that both my sisters were wearing pink in the photo! 

Newer items include the doilies, some D-lish Scraps enamel dots, a Heidi Swap word sticker and the Doodlebug sequins - they come in such cute little jars. I got mine from The Scrapbook Store. 

The wish tag is off my new blazer - so good of them to supply such a scrappable price tag, the little velum pocket came in the kit with the papers.

I hope you'll have a go at the challenge too. I can't wait to see what you come up with - don't forget your handmade item! Visit the SUYS blog to link up your creation.

Have a great month.

Ali xx