Pickleberry Pop meets Gotta Pixel.

This month Pickleberry Pop and Gotta Pixel have collaborated to create a mega kit, each site is offering a challenge and for completing both challenges you earn the full mega kit (one half from each site). I have to say I am a huge fan of Gotta Pixel already and I have taken part in a few things at Pickleberry Pop but never really gotten around to making it somewhere I remember to visit. The challenges looked really fun so I thought I would give them a go. This one was for the challenge hosted by Gotta Pixel which just happens to be a what's in the pickle jar challenge (Pickleberry Pop's signature challenge) they give you some pickles (items you must use on your layout) and your challenge is simply to scrap a layout with all of those "pickles" on it. The pickles for this one were Family, Black, Bow, 2 Photos and Bracket. The whole challenge is really open to any way you choose to see it, and to me that was very appealing, so this is what I created. I will be back in a bit with the Pickleberry Pop one, will add it to this post for easy reference. The fonts I chose for this came from the font challenge in the April issue of Bella Scraps Magazine not ones I would have usually used so I was surprised to see how well they worked together I did add one extra one and leave out the dingbat one they wanted used but challenges like this always confirm to me just how little I know about fonts and typography maybe one day I will learn something about it and my titles and journalling will improve but until then there's challenges lol.

Credits: Layered template by Hetty DeBoer (Sketchabilities 2008 Template 6) and Bow Beauties 03 and 4 The Boyz 1 - The Basics by Royanna Lea Fritschmann. Fonts are Sue Ellen Francisco by Kimberly Geswein, EpoXY histoRy and 4990810.

Journalling reads: Why is it that whenever we go anywhere as a family you always want to wear your WWE hooded sweatshirt. You have so many other lovely clothes but this is your favourite one. You wore it when we went to the fair and when we went to the park, You wore it when we had an egg hunt and you wear it around the house at every chance you get. It’s not very easy to take nice photos of you in it because you are like mummy a little bit too pale skinned to wear black clothing. I guess I can take some comfort from the fact that it’s starting to get a little bit small now, so maybe sometime in the near future I will be able to take you out for the day wearing one of the other outfits that I have bought for you. But knowing you the way I do I am pretty sure that you will probably just insist on wearing something else that is hard for me to photograph. I guess I could just buy you clothes I like, but I don’t want to do that. As much as I sometimes wish you would wear what I want you too, I love how you pick your own clothes, and have your own sense of style, it’s what makes you well you, and I would never change that for anything in the world.

Enabling: Bow Beauties 03 and 4 The Boyz 1 - The Basics by Royanna Lea Fritschmann available here and here. Sue Ellen Francisco by Kimberly Geswein available here, EpoXY histoRy available here and 4990810 available here. You can find all the details of that template challenge including the download link here.

I was intending to do the layout last night but I never got around to it, I have been doing it today though so here is the layout for the challenge at Pickleberry Pop. The challenge was a photo hunt (a challenge Gotta Pixel are well known for). You had to include a photo for all 5 of these:

A - Something appetising....your guilty snacking pleasure.

P - A prize that you have won...either online or in person.

R - A picture of yourself or someone in your family reading.

I - One of your favourite interests (hobbies)

L - A picture of someone you love

Since I have photos relevant to Lukas for all of these, I did it from his point of view and I have to admit I am very proud of the end result. Even if it did take longer than it should have done.

Credits: Layered template by Amy Bleser (Starting Blocks 2 Series 1, Template 1), Staple Shapes by Mikkel Paige, Twelve{12} September, From My Notebook and ScrapApple Week 14 - Memories by Sue Cummings. Fonts are Dymo and DJB Nicole by Darcy Baldwin.

Journalling reads: Reading my books (or at least looking at the pictures in them)
Eating chocolate buttons (even if I do end up wearing more of them than I eat)
My Bunny Rabbit cuddly toy (I won him as a prize, for finding all my eggs really quickly in our easter egg hunt)
Bowling (but I need a little help because the ball is still a little bit heavy for me to lift)
The two people I love best (apart from myMummy, My Daddy and My Nana) Conor and Ella my cousins and my best friends in the whole wide world.

Enabling: Starting Block 2 Series 1 Templates by Amy Bleser available here or here, Staple Shapes by Mikkel Paige available here, Twelve{12} September, From My Notebook and ScrapApple Week 14 - Memories all by Sue Cummings available here, here, and here. Fonts are Dymo available here and DJB Nicole by Darcy Baldwin available here.