Scrap Whispers Challenge 55

This week's challenge is A Novel Idea. We were asked to take a children's book and build a layout around it in some way. One of my favorite picture books is Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney. The journaling on this layout reads: Guess How Much I Love You is a wonderful book by Sam Mc Bratney and Anita Jeram that shows the love between a child and parent. No matter how much Little Nutbrown Hare shows his love, Big Nutbrown Hare love him more. Yeah, that's the case. The love of a child for a parent is doubled and returned.

Scrap Whispers Challenge/Truth or Dare Challenge Layout

This layout is a "kill 2 birds with 1 stone" layout. The Scrap Whispers challenge for this week was to spend time journaling. My Truth or Dare challenge for my own T or D Circle Journal was to "create a layout using photos of reflections." I cut the title with Cricut Design Studio using the Old West cartridge. The journaling comes in 2 parts. On the left page is a Bible verse: And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's Glory are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 2 Corinthians 3:18. The other part says: "It has always been my goal to lead my children in their faith so that they will reflect the Lord in their lives. I often thought that meant the future, but so often that meant the future, but so often right now, I see it as they go about their normal lives. They have such reflected glory."

The pictures are from a photo challenge last year. Oh and if anyone wants to say I didn't follow my own rules in putting my picture with the journaling in the layout, look behind the flash in the top photo. That's me!

Scrap Whispers Challenge 2

This week's challenge at Scrap Whispers was to use watermelon as an inspriation for our layouts. So this one uses a variation on the watermelon's colors. Instead of light red and dark green, I choose light green and dark red. I cut the scalloped sheet in half and placed each half on a page then added 27 pictures from a trip to Fort Worth Zoo. That was only a few of the images we had from that day! It's a great zoo to visit. Oh and the "bat phones"? They allow you to hear bat sounds, but mostly my Batman loving daughter had to have a picture of the old tv show words around the Batphones.

Scrap Whispers Challenge Layout 1

Remember the New Year's Challenge 4? To lift this layout? http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/image/layout/539078.html

Well, I've done it and combined that with the first Scrap Whispers challenge layout of this new round. The challenge was to use purple and turquoise on a layout. I thought these pictures from Kat's senior photo shoot just fit with Jael's layout and wanted to wait till I got them to do it. I'm so glad I did!

These photos were taken by Christa Holland from Green Shoes Photo. See her link at right!

Challenges 3, 5, and 6

First, yes, I can count. I'm saving Challege 4, which is to scraplift this awesome LO by Luvscrappin http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/image/layout/539078.html. I'm saving it till I get Kathleen's senior pictures in. There's one in there that is beyond awesome.

Now the ones I've finished. First you see challenge 3. It was to use pretty, bold pp that you are scared to use, large flowers, black accents, double matting. I had these wonderful shots of rainbows we took around Sweetwater in April, coming back from Lubbock. The stained glass PP is one I've had for several years and have just never gotten around to figuring out how to use. The green is a scrap of one I love. The pics are double matted on light purple and black.

Challege 5 was to use green, 5 sentences of journaling (at least) 3 patterened papers, and ribbon. I love these pictures Kathleen took of Amelia in her laundry basket and have had them waiting to scrap for a while. I used pp from a pet stack, a set of pet pp my Jazzy sister gave me and the blue and green came from an Amy Butler set. The journaling reads, "It's a fact. No open box, drawer and especially laundry basket is safe. Amelia believes they belong to her. Heaven forbid someone try to put clothes in one. As soon as she sees it, she'll jump in for a ride."

Challenge 6: orange, bling, minimum of 4 pictures, and a flower. So of course, I choose my son's robotics pics! I used several ribbon scraps, scraps of 3 different pp, a Deja View journaling block, and a paper flower with a glitter brad (it is a guy layout) for the flower and bling. The journaling reads, "Archie has enjoyed Robotics competition the last few years. This year, he and AC did pretty well with their robot. After 3 rounds, they placed 10th-the best of any team from our school." Oh and the name of their robot was Indybot 2.0--so named for the little Indiana Jones Lego figure on the front and the fact they had to rebuild it, because the first one didn't work well.

Challenges 1 and 2

My next several posts will be about scrap challenges I'm working on. I have several projects going on and this weekend I've been working on some challenges that Mon and Marylouwho have posted on the General Scrapbooking board at Scrapjazz. They have us working on New Year's challenges and I've completed several.

The first challenge was to "use stamping or rubons, buttons, a heart or a star and pink or blue." On this one I used some flocked pp and some embossed pp from Me and My Big Ideas, a stamped journaling star, some vintage buttons and blue letters from The Paper Studio along with some stickers from my stash I'm trying to use up. The theme is this past year's One Act Play, "The Diviner's" The journaling reads, "Kat was 'Goldie' and Arch was an Alternate. Kat was named to All Star Cast at Zone." Challenge 2 was to do a Christmas LO or one with red, do some type of stitching, brads or eyelets, and a circle. This layout uses some green cardstock from my stash, some Basic Grey "cupcakes" pp, a journaling block from Anna Griffin, two green brads, a wooden word from Plaid and some machine stiching in the circle. The kids were playing on my Sister-in-law's trampoline and we just managed to get some fun shots. More LO's in other posts.