With one thing or another I’ve not made it along to any ‘real life’ crops in quite a while, so when I saw that Big Picture Classes & Creating Keepsakes were holding an on-line crop to commemorate (Inter)National Scrapbooking Day, I thought “That’s for me!”
With an eight hour difference in the Time Zones, kick off was at 5pm on Saturday, with the deadline at 6am this morning! What a fabulous event it was! Twelve challenges, live video chats & a live (non video)chat room, buzzing message boards & some amazing sponsors offering fabulous prizes for each challenge (& one overall uber-prize!)
Anyone who has scrapped alongside me knows that I am a very S-L-O-W scrapper! I take an age, arranging & rearranging before I will commit to glue!! But I enjoy the process, & that’s what it’s all about isn't it?! I’m not a speed scrapper & never will be!!
So…for me to have completed SIX different LO’s in 18 hours of scrapping is something of a feat!! To have completed all twelve would have been a MIRACLE!! LOL!!
Without further ado, here they are…
Challenge #1…’Feature a photo with a fanciful frame’…
…I used photo’s from our 2010 trip to ‘Windy City Scrapbookers’ in Chicago where I hyperventilated over the HUGE selection of ‘Thickers’ (my passion!) on offer!!
Challenge #2…’Grab a photo from a few years back & one from today & compare’…
…as I had just scanned this photo of a three year old Alex for yesterdays ‘Storytelling Sunday’ it was the obvious starting point!!
Challenge #4…’Use twine as a technique on a LO’…
…Nathan at twelve months! I hate stickiness & my boys were wiped clean to within an inch of their lives!! But my sister had given Nathan an ice cream & proceeded to teach him to bite off the end of the cone & suck the ice cream through the hole!! A skill he has never forgotten! I used twine to mark the butterfly’s route & spiralled some over buttons for the flower centres.
Challenge #7…’Create a LO using three colours that are adjacent on the colour wheel’…
It was the colour of Nathan’s hoodie that decided for me! I went with Lime Green/Orange/Yellow & photo’s from last years London holiday, outside Buckingham Palace!
Challenge #10…’Use any ‘Cast-Off’ item on a LO’…
…hmmm? This one took some thought & them I had a ‘light bulb’ moment & remembered the packaging from my recent ‘Cath Kidston’ mail order delivery! Using strips of the plastic & fashioning a name tag from the address label I created a LO to document my passion for all things CK, featuring my first CK bag! I now have quite a collection but this one remains my favourite!
Finally…Challenge #12…’Use Kraft in at least two different ways on a LO’…
…this time photo’s from Amanda & mine’s visit to Betty’s in York! I used Kraft as my background, to cut the scalloped frames for the small photo’s, the journaling strip & for the tone-on-tone title alpha’s The doily was actually one from a saucer on the day, so it was perfect to use!
So, that’s me all scrapped out for this weekend! Actually my mojo is all fired up still, but I have to spend some time with my family, don’t I?!!!
Apparently this on-line (I)NSD crop is an annual event, so I highly recommend you mark your calendars for next year!
Thanks for stopping by & hanging in there through this pic heavy post! If you’re in the UK, enjoy your Bank Holiday! Come back soon!
9 comments:
Wow Sandi - I'm in awe of your beautiful creations. I didn't know about the BPS crop - but then I have been pretty busy myself!It certainly gets the old mojo fired up doesn't it?I REALLY don't want to go shopping today lol
I followed the crop but didn't get to join is as I was away. You have been so creative and made some great pages I particularly love how you have used all those thickers to frame the photo
Wow...that is a plethora of pages!!!
Well, wow! As a very slow scrapper myself I am stunned by the beautiful pages you have created in the timespan. Amazing! Each one has so much to look at in it
Amazing layouts - well done you for getting so many done so quickly! And I fully sympathise with your Thickers passion, since I share it! Great way to use up leftover letters :)
Oh my gosh you did soooo well. I signed up, but of course forgot the time difference lol. But I'm still hoping to do the challenges over some time
I love that young picture of Alex. And the bright colourful LO is just up my street.
Love all of your layouts! I am a slow scrapper as well and I think you created some fabulous pages!
What great use for those random letters in a frame.. we all have them.. me more than most! K
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