Feeling Sketchy | World Cardmaking Day Challenge

The Feeling Sketchy Team are running a special challenge to celebrate World Cardmaking Day and here is the inspiration photo.....

Although it's not Autumn here in Australia, I decided to play along with these gorgeous colours and make a birthday card.

I added Distress Inks in Bundled Sage, Wild Honey and Spiced Marmalade to some watercolour paper, then diecut a tag from the panel.  I then diecut another four tags from white cardstock to add dimension before popping it all back into the negative space.  I painted and clear embossed a chipboard "happy" from 2Crafty and white heat embossed a sentiment from Avery Elle on a strip of black cardstock.

I added some black and white twine to the tag to co-ordinate with the sentiment strip.

Thanks for stopping by- all the challenge details can be found on the Feeling Sketchy blog.

Kraft Plus | October Challenge

I haven't had much time (or if I'm honest, the inclination)  to scrap lately but I am really enjoying the challenges at the Kraft Plus Challenge Blog.  This month's challenge is another lovely one, and once again, it pushed me out of my comfort zone.  

I'm not one to embellish my layouts very much, but I decided to give this a go while sticking to my typical clean and simple style.  I also have a very large collection of chipboard thanks to the Scrapbooking Memories Masters sponsors, so I decided to overcome my fear of chippy and use some of it up!  I also dug into my collection of old transparencies and Fancy Pants Designs collections.

I tied some twigs together with twine as the base for this cluster...

This chipboard piece from 2Crafty is heat embossed with copper embossing powder from Zing.

Here's another twig wrapped in twine...

I found some leaves from a rose bush in our garden that had a lovely maroon colour, so I layered those under some old Hambly transparency.

This chipboard feather from Imaginarium was painted and then copper embossed just on the tips...

Thanks for stopping by- I have some serious catching up to do on Project Life and posting other random scrapbook layouts.....stay tuned!

Your Creative Wings Chipboard

I would love to share a few projects I made using Your Creative Wings Chipboard, which is available now at Tomorrow's Memories.

Your Creative Wings is a family owned and run business, specializing in laser cut chipboard.  Their chipboard comes in a natural kraft finish and is 1.8mm thick.

To start with I made a set of three cards using the YCW Monsters 1 Set.....

I coloured my monsters with markers and combined them with papers from Kaisercraft's Something Blue collection and a really old stamp set from my stash.....

Next, I took a variety of chipboard from these sets.....

.....and added inks and embossing powders to create the colours and finishes I wanted,  combined them with papers from Kaisercraft's Pitter Patter Collection, to create this layout.....

I hope you will visit Tomorrow's Memories and grab some  Your Creative Wings Chipboard- it is great quality and there are so many different ways to use it!