Mrs Wresh Blog Challenge Final Layout

How did 12 weeks go so fast? I do have a lot to say about this challenge but I am not very well so I am uploading this and then I am going to go back to my bed under my duvet. Credits: Layered template (Template 54) and Basic Frame Sampler by Mrs Wresh and A Papered Life 10 - Restoration Retro by Royannna Lea Fritschmann. Fonts are DJB Nicole by Darcy Baldwin and FancyPants.

Journalling reads: I am 23 years old, and my hearts been through the mill,it's suffered lots of hardship, in a body always ill.I have cried many tears, and given lots of love, I've talked to all my angel babies, living up above.Sometimes I have sat here, and scrapped a page or two,to let you know about me, and what I have been through.I've also made some others, that showed you how I think,about my love of music, and my hatred of pink.I've shared a lot of photos, asked questions of my family tree, I've showed you what is precious, what means the world to me. When I am gone, and left behind, is just this simple book, I hope that you will snuggle up, and slowly take a look.For now there's living left to do, things to do and see,And surely one day those things too, will be a memory.I hope that these will one day, be something you can treasure, all the snippets of my life, the things that gave me pleasure. You will never really know me, and that's a little sad, But for this glimpse into my life, I hope you will be glad.

Enabling: A Papered Life 10 - Restoration Retro by Royanna Lea Fritschmann available here. The Basic Frame Sampler and The Layered Template were both freebies on Mrs Wresh's Blog. As for the fonts DJB Nicole is available here and FancyPants is available here.

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.

I really need to start tagging these posts

so I don't have to search every single time I am trying to remember which weeks of which challenges I have done lol. Will start with this one.
These two were created for week 5 of the Simply You Challenge at Divine Digital. I would ask if you want to see, but it's a bit pointless really since I am going to show them to you whether you want to see them or not lol. I have a confession to make, the 1st one is scrapped with photos I took while I was trying to scrap it lol (with the exception of the 2 stock photos because I tried taking photos of my ipod and I just couldn't get a decent one, and the hot chocolate I have some and cream but I was too lazy to go make it, bring it up, photograph it and too hot to drink it lol.) But as usual I am getting away from the point, the confession is not my photography skills *snigger* it's that this layout is one that I really like lol yes I know very very rare for me to like one of my layouts. The 2nd one I am not so keen on it's a country song so I thought using Royanna's Americana Country (that I had to have to complete my collection but never actually had any ideas for using lol) would work but I am not so sure now it's finished, good thing I save layered documents, I might go back and switch some things around to try and make something I like better, the only part that is going nowhere is the swirly doodle things made up of brads, I think there are 90+ they took ages but I think the end result is pretty cool. Anyway enough with the rambling I better hurry up and show them to you since it's 5:16am and I really need to get my very tired body into my very inviting looking pit aka my bed.
Credits:Layered template by Hetty DeBoer (Sketchabilities 2008 11 Template), Fasten Down The Hatches, Tweet Baby Alpha, Keepin' Tabs 01 and A Papered Life 11 - Waverider all by Royanna Lea Fritschmann. Stock photos: Ipod shuffle from images.pcwelt.de and Hot Chocolate from Stock Xchng (by LastClick).Lightroom Presets: Vintage New York Effect Light and Vintage New York Effect Dark by Matt Kloskowski and Vintage Pop by Annie Manning (Paint The Moon).Fonts are DJB Nicole by Darcy Baldwin and Stamp Act.

Journalling reads:1.My engagement ring and my wedding ring. 2. My Latex allergy bracelet 3. Caffeine Free Coke (my favourite drink) 4.My Ipod shuffle (the best way to have all my music in one place, I listen music and audiobooks on it while I scrap. 5. My Shakeaway badge (myf avourite treat to myself) 6.Hot Chocolate (the onlyhot drink I will touch) 7. My computer (aka my lifeline for so many reasons) 8. My Leo bracelet (won as a prize for a photo competition @ Divine Digital, helps me feel close to Leo when I need to) 9. My Mothers Day cookies (a gift from Lukas I love to be reminded that I am a mummy)10. My bandaged wrist (it’s the only way I can use it) 11. My birthstone ring (I had originally wanted a silver and turquoise engagement ring but we couldn’t find one. Nan saw this one and bought it because she knew I would love it).

Enabling: Fasten Down The Hatches, Tweet Baby Alpha, Keepin' Tabs 01 and A Papered Life 11 - Waverider all by Royanna Lea Fritschmann available here, here, here and here. Lightroom Presets: Vintage New York Effect Light and Vintage New York Effect Dark by Matt Kloskowski available here and Vintage Pop by Annie Manning (Paint The Moon) available here. Fonts are DJB Nicole by Darcy Baldwin available here and Stamp Act available here. All the details of the template challenge including the download link can be found here. Stock photos: Ipod shuffle from images.pcwelt.de (found via google) and Hot Chocolate from Stock Xchng (by LastClick).
Credits: Layered template by Chris Greiser (Twosies, Template 1) and Americana Country by Royanna Lea Fritschmann. Font is DJB Nicole by Darcy Baldwin.

Journalling reads: I love this song everytime I hear it, I am reminded thatI shouldn’t feel guilty about all the time I waste every single day. Sure I could be moreproductive and be caught up oneverything for once in my lifebut then I would miss out on all the fun stuff about having Lukas. Things like snuggling on the bed watching dvd’s, going to play in the park. The “work” is all going to be here waiting for me but those precious little moments with him will be over way too fast. To me that definately is time well wasted. My Favourite Song April 2008. Time Well Wasted Brad Paisley. The other writing is the song lyrics.

Enabling: Twosies Templates by Chris Greiser available here, Americana Country by Royanna Lea Fritschmann available here and DJB Nicole by Darcy Baldwin available here.

Yet another template challenge

This one is from a slightly older challenge at Divine Digital, Sketchabilities with Hetty (number 13), the challenges at Divine don't ever really close, you can usually take part in them anytime. Actually I believe you can still download the layered template from the 2nd week in December!
Credits: Layered template by Hetty DeBoer (Sketchabilites 2008 template 13), Warm Winter Wishes and Studio Styles 05 by Royanna Lea Fritschmann. Fonts are DJB Nicole by Darcy Baldwin and Snowflake Letters.

Enabling: Warm Winter Wishes and Studio Styles 05 by Royanna Lea Fritschmann available here and here, DJB Nicole by Darcy Baldwin can be found in this pack, Snowflake Letters can be downloaded here and you can find all the template challenge details here.

Another template challenge layout

I have a real thing for templates, and as I am sure you have noticed a slight obsession with challenges, so template challenges are my idea of a perfect combination lol. I get inspired and I get a new template to add to my small *insert sarcasm lol* collection of templates. What I love best about template challenges is if I don't like the template the way the designer made it I can flip it, rotate it, remove certain parts of it, add more parts to it and the end result sometimes looks nothing like the starting template. But anyway enough rambling, this one was created for the latest Sketchabilites with Hetty (number 15) over at Divine Digital.

Credits: Layered template by Hetty DeBoer (Sketchabilites 2008 template 15), Winter Bliss and Studio Styles 05 by Royanna Lea Fritschmann. Fonts are Frosty and 4990810.


Enabling: Winter Bliss and Studio Styles 05 by Royanna Lea Fritschmann available here and here. You can find the details of the template challenge including the download link here. 4990810 font available here and Frosty font available here.