White with green

Today I'm sharing my layout for the White with 1 challenge for April.

Here's the mood board and challenge criteria ~

Colour:  GREEN on a WHITE cardstock background
Theme: NATURE

I'm also sharing my page at Simon Says Wednesday for the Anything Goes theme.

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ATC challenge - March

I'm enjoying the mini art challenges at the Scrapping Clearly 2025 ATC Challenge. I finished these ones in March - 

Week 10 ~ Stencil Art
Stencil Girl Terri Stegmiller - Scribble Blooms stencil
Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Mustard Seed and Wild Honey

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Week 11 ~ Gel print patterns
I don't have a gel plate, so I watched a few tutorials on faux gel press printing.  Nicole Watt's video was fun to watch, easy to follow, and very helpful!  I used a rubber embossing mat, with acrylic paints {Kaisercolour Olive and Making Memories Scrapbook Colors - Chocolate}.

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Week 12 ~ Fabric and Fibre
Small scraps from my habby stash, with a themed chipboard sentiment {Basic Grey Lucille collection}. YAY for using old stash!  Background cardstock is one of my gel print failures - see previous week's challenge... 

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Week 13 ~ Charcoal
This was something different for me.  I learned how to make charcoal paint from Louise D'Alise, an artist I discovered on YouTube.  Painted some large brushstrokes for my background, and added some diecuts {Pink Paislee Indigo & Ivy Ephemera}.

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Mt Norman Road

I'm sharing this page at Scrapbook Fantasies for the March Mood Board Challenge.  Inspired by the image of the stones and the words NATURE and OUTDOORS.  I used a Scrapbook Fantasies colour cut on this page {Aussie Grunge - Aussie Florals & Words set}.

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I'm submitting this page at these challenges:

* Park Hopping My Happy Place ~ Marching into Spring
The beautiful field of yellow wildflowers brings to mind the carpets of colour at EPCOT's World of Nature gardens.

* Scrap Challenge YOUrself ~ Bling!
I used gold for my background {DCWV Watercolor Garden embossed patterned paper}, glitter gold satin flowers, and a row of yellow bling on the lower photograph {selfie of my daughter and me}.

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Hello

More pages for the girls' weekend album:

Design and colours inspired by these challenges:

* Park Hopping My Happy Place ~ Marching into Spring
The mood board image prompted me to use lots of pink flowers!

* Scrap Challenge YOUrself ~ Bling!
I used bling centres on the flowers, and leaves punched from glitter cardstock:

* Off the Rails ~ March Colour Challenge

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I'm sharing this page at Scrapbook Fantasies for the March Mood Board Challenge.  Inspired by the words NATURE and OUTDOORS.  I used Scrapbook Fantasies colour cuts {Easter Blessings - Flowers & Leaves}

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Scrapping Clearly

Two more pages for the 2020 outback travel album ~

I'm sharing this layout at Scrapping Clearly for the March moodboard. Inspired by the greys in the colour palette, and the textures.

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I'm sharing this layout at Scrapping Clearly for the March sketch challenge.

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Paluma Range

I'm sharing this page at Scrapbook Fantasies for the March Mood Board Challenge.  Inspired by the fields of flowers.

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Page design inspired by these challenges:

* Scrappy Friends ~ Rochelle's sketch
A great design to use up a bunch of patterned paper scraps.  I rotated the sketch 90º.  

* Scrappy Friends ~ Stacy's Tic Tac Toe
I used the middle row:

- twine
- tag
- wood {wood veneer birds}

Simon Says Monday AND Simon Says Wednesday ~ A Bit'o'Green
Lots of green! The background paper is from DCWV Palms & Ferns collection, and the strips are from my "green scraps" bag.

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Us

Inspired by, and sharing at, these challenges:

* Park Hopping My Happy Place ~ Marching into Spring
Inspired by the bright floral displays at EPCOT. I tried to use flowers in different ways - floral patterned paper background, fussy-cut floral motifs, and mixed yellow flowers.

* Scrap Challenge YOUrself ~ Bling!
I used yellow bling centres on the flowers.

* CSI Challenge ~ Case #451
How I solved the case: I was immediately drawn to the colour scheme!

01/04/2025 Edit to add - Selected as a winner at Park Hopping My Happy Place!

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Cottage weekend

Hiding out from cyclonic weather conditions this weekend, hoping we don't lose power. Perfect conditions for a spot of cyber cropping!

I'm sharing this page at:

* Life is Art ~ Cottage Weekend

* Simon Says Wednesday ~ It's a stitch-up

11/03/2024 Edit to add - Well, we did lose power, and phones, and internet... for almost 5 days.  So I didn't get to participate in any other challenges.  

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Go out and explore

I'm sharing this layout at:

* What's in the Bickie Tin? ~ Sketch challenge
I used the sketch and I included chipboard {Dusty Attic Hello April word set, coloured with Pro Markers}.

* Simon Says Monday ~ Favourite technique
This page has three of my favourites - mix & match patterned papers {Kaisercraft, Stampin' Up, Websters Pages} + stitching + fussy cutting.

* Simon Says Wednesday ~ It's a stitch-up
I've used machine stitching around the edges of the patterned papers.

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Cardwell

I'm sharing this layout at:

* Uniquely Creative ~ March colour palette
I used patterned papers and fussy-cut pieces from Uniquely Creative Flowering Utopia collection. #uccraftingcommunitychallenge

* Park Hopping My Happy Place ~ Marching into Spring
Inspired by the pastel colours of the moodboard image, and spring flowers. (In Queensland, our spring months are September/October.)

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This page was inspired by the Soul Scrappers March Tic Tac Toe challenge.

* Three word title {Snapshots of Paradise - Kaisercraft Sunkissed - Collectibles title word}
* Multiple photos
* Die cuts ~ {Kaisercraft Sunkissed - Collectibles flowers and leaves}

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Palmerston NP

I'm sharing this layout at Soul Scrappers for the March Screen 2 Scrap challenge, inspired by this movie poster (wow... E.T. is over 40 years old now!)

This is the criteria I followed:

Navy blue and white {Cocoa Vanilla No Limits - Eclipse patterned paper}
Circle/s {Kaisercraft Stargazer - Orbit patterned paper}
White title {Sizzix/Tim Holtz alphabet cutting dies}

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I'm sharing this layout at the Soul Scrappers March Mystery challenge: "Use TREES on your page. Add at least six trees to your page, make it a forest!"

I used a foliage background {Creative Imaginations Pamela Woods - Green Maple patterned paper} and I fussy-cut the trees from a title card {Pink Paislee/Paige Evans Turn the Page collection}. Very happy with my super simple page; a bit of stash-busting and letting the trees do all the heavy lifting!

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More birthday layouts

Two more pages for the birthday concertina album ~

I'm sharing this page at Soul Scrappers for the March One Word challenge, featuring B for Boys.

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I'm sharing this page at:

* Archi-scraps ~ Pink & grey

* Simon Says Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

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Outback travels

Saint George, 2021 -

This page was inspired by the Soul Scrappers March Colour Board, with added CAMERA {fussy cut from American Crafts/Shimelle Starshine - Pathfinder patterned paper}.

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Cobbold Gorge, 2020 -

The page design was inspired by the Soul Scrappers March sketch challenge.

Image source: Page Maps April 2016

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White with... travel

Today I'm sharing my layout for the White with 1 MARCH challenge ~

Here's the mood board and challenge criteria ~

Colour: WHITE cardstock with ONE colour from the image - blue or brown or yellow 
Theme: TRAVEL {Local travel - taking the back roads}

I'm sharing my page at Simon Says Wednesday for the Anything Goes theme.

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2025 ATC Challenge - February

Second month in, and still playing along at the Scrapping Clearly 2025 ATC Challenge. So far, so good!

Week 6 ~ Mixed Media
I played around with layers - patterned paper, tissue paper, paint, rice paper quote {Ranger Dina Wakley - Collage Words}, distress ink, journalling pen

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Week 7 ~ Brushstrokes
Four wide watercolour brushstrokes in the background.

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Week 8 ~ Doodled Details
I started with an offcut piece of patterned paper {Stampin' Up Dandy Garden}, fussy cut some extra leaves and flowers, and layered them up. Then I added black pen definition to some of the layered leaves (a bit hard to see) + white Sharpie border and detail on the dandelions.

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Week 9 ~ Ink Splashes
I used stamped ink {Uniquely Creative Splatter Mark stamp, with VersaColor Bark ink pad} and 'real' splatters {Seth Apter IZink - Thundercloud pigment ink}.  I received the stickers {Recollections} in a RAK prize and decided it's time to start using them!

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Cyber cropping

I created these layouts for the Scrapbook Fantasies Country Style Cyber Crop:

Challenge #1 - published in this post.

Challenge #2: Create a project with a country-style theme.
I used a colour cut from Scrapbook Fantasies Aussie Grunge - Aussie Florals & Words set.

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Challenge #3: Create a project using shades of blue as the feature colour.
I used navy blue {Kaisercraft Stargazer patterned papers and Mintay Garage - Paper #6 journal cards}

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Challenge #4: Create a project using lots and lots of stars.
Lots of stars on my patterned paper background {Simple Stories Hello Baby - Blue Wood (b-side)}

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Challenge #5: Create a project using hexagon shapes as the feature.
I used patterned paper and fussy cut the edges of the shapes to ground the photographs {Poppy Crafts Honeycomb patterned paper}.

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Challenge #6: Create a project using smooshing as a technique.
I used two inks {VersaColor Topaz and Bark} to make the background for my journal page.

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