Supreme Scrap Tournament – Round2

Well, I made it through to Round 2 in the Supreme Scrapbook Challenge! Phew! The competition is really tough so I’m pretty pleased I made it! But I have my work cut out for me with the next challenge.

The challenge is to make a monochromatic double page layout, using at least one photo and the theme is up to us. One photo must be black and white and must span both sides of the layout. We are not to use black anywhere on the layout – even for journaling purposes and no brown antiqueing unless brown is our colour choice for the layout. Sounds tough, right? I was tossing around colours like blue and pink but somehow when I printed my photos out, grey was the colour I started gravitating towards. Go figure. Here’s my page.

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An Art Journal Page for Practical Scrappers

Happy Tuesday! I’ve got a lot to share with you today starting with my latest foray into art journaling.

One of the changes we’ve made over at Practical Scrappers this year is to introduce a regular Art Journaling feature. This month’s inspiration is a quote from Vincent Van Gogh.

“The way to know life is to love many things.” – Vincent Van Gogh

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Black and White … plus one!

A few days ago, the prompt for LOAD (Layout a Day) was to use only black and white products. I believe the myth we were busting was that all scrapbook pages have to be colourful. Well … I tried. I really tried to restrict myself to black and white. But the pink accents kept jumping into my hands.

No really. I would look down and think “how did that pink label get into my hand?” LOL!

Then I remembered that the wonderful ladies over at SWAT have a challenge this month to use black and white plus one! Bingo!! I embraced the pink, said a little apology to Lain for not following her prompt to the letter, and created this.

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Scrapping our Stash: Practical Scrappers Blog Hop

Welcome to the Practical Scrappers Blog Hop where we are Scrapping our Stash.

This month we are focusing on scrapping our Valentine’s stash, or at least stash that has to do with love.  We are thrilled to once again have Kiwi Lane Designs sponsoring this month! Kiwi Lane Designs creates templates that help take the frustration out of scrapbooking!  And one lucky winner today will get a border set and an accessory set from Kiwi Lane. Details on how you can win this prize can be found here!

You should have arrived here from Jennifer Haggerty‘s blog. Today’s list of blogs to visit is quite long so I thank you for choosing to visit mine today.

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Our Tree – A Layout for the Supreme Scrap Tournament

Here goes nothing!!

I mentioned before that I’d signed up to participate in the Supreme Scrap Tournament along with 15 other super talented Canadians. Today our first challenges are due! I am in the Scrap Diva Tournament only and our challenge was to create a double page layout or double mixed media project that shows where we live – within 1000 steps from our home. We were not allowed to use any spray inks, we had to use at least 3 photos and we had to add visible journaling of at least 50 words.

Here’s what I came up with.

Our Tree by Alison Day – Challenge #1 for the Supreme Scrap Tournament

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LOAD is Here!!

It’s February! Can you believe it? Two very exciting things started today. The first is LOAD – LayOut A Day – with Lain Ehmann. This go round we will be busting some serious Scrapbooking Myths!! Yahoo! I am a firm believer that there are no rules in scrapbooking so this will be a fun, and freeing, month! I’ll get to the second exciting thing in a bit but first, today’s layout for LOAD.

LOAD214-1 Just One Please

Our prompt was about needing good photos to create good pages.

Ha!

I think anyone who is familiar with my work knows that my photos are … mediocre at best!! LOL!

I am fortunate to have 3 beautiful, if sometimes non-compliant, subjects to photograph. Today’s layout is all about that.  Continue reading

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An Art Journal Page for Practical Scrappers

Practical Scrappers is launching a new feature this year that I am super excited about. Art Journal pages!

I’ve been dabbling with my art journal for a year or so and recently (as in two days ago) took a class with the aMAZing Donna Downey to learn 40 different techniques to make my pages … better. Can’t possibly make them any worse!! LOL!

This month’s prompt is New Beginnings – here’s my page.

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