Back in the Challenge game...

This week I made a couple of pages and checked out some new to me challenge sites to see if they were something that might give me a push.

Firstly I did the sketch challenge over at Life Paper Scrapbook, they are not new to me but they are a favourite so I always try to stop by, oh and this is what it looked like this:

and here is my page...

and my second page is from their mood board...

and here is my page...

Both staring the fabulous Gabriella!
Off to look for my next challenge.
Hayley

Lost in the wonder

Hi guys

Because the weather is awful and gloomy and drab.... you get the idea.. I'm having a hard time taking pictures of my pages so this morning I will share a page I have already taken a pic of.. it isn't part of my collection cleanup we will resume that later on if it brightens up ever. I do know you shouldn't start sentences with because, just saying before my english teacher friends come and let me know.

So this is a page I did with Dear Lizzy's Polka Dot Party Collection, this collection and Fifth and Frolic are my all time favourites, because they are delicate and gorgeous and I could make a million pages with them.

You know what I love, doing the journaling around the border like that. So often I end up with this boxy journaling but I love how this just blends into the page. This picture is of my daughter Sophia, collecting treasures and carefully carrying them around in her sunhat, you know instead of wearing it. We live in NZ you need to be wearing that hat seriously. Just letting her be a kid.

Thanks for coming by
Have a fab day
Hayley

# Raising Girls

Here is another page in my Collection cleanup of 'Yes Please' by Amy Tangerine.

This one I really liked how it turned out, I cut the circle die cut mat on my lovely Cameo, I seriously love this machine, and then I filled the holes (an in front of the tv job) and then all the rest came together. 

I usually find that if the background has a lot going on, you don't need to do too much else.

I just realised these last two layouts I have little date tabs with no date! Must fix that now.

Thanks for dropping by.

Hayley

Down the beach

I am doing a little collection clean up with Amy Tangerine's Yes Please Collection. I ended up loving this collection a lot more than I initially thought, it seems to go with everything.

I am down to my last bits now, I still have some diecuts and stickers but am almost out of papers and scraps. I love that feeling. Unfortunately I don't get to the end of a collection often enough but I'm trying.

On this page I used all my retail strips going across the page, it's worth saving those and putting them all together.

Have a wonderful day
Hayley

Page Share Thursday

A few pages to share...


When I first got these photos printed I was like wow I should have done them black and white, those are some bright jammies. I really thought I would have zero in my stash to work with this colour but as I looked through I did find some bits in my Amy Tangerine's Yes please collection that did just nicely.

Anyone that knows me knows how much I love the Dear Lizzy line, fifth and frolic and Polka Dot Party are my all time favourites. I really enjoy the blues and greens in the Polka Dot Party.

Liv and I on a class trip together. Love this kid.

Have a fabulous day
Hayley

Creative Scrappers Sketch

I really liked the look of the sketch challenge over at Creative Scrappers too.
It just seemed like a really usable sketch and it came together super quick.
I am doing a collection cleanup (where I use up all the last bits of a collection and do as many pages as I can with it) of Amy Tangerine's Yes Please. These supplies were already out and ready to go so I used them.
I have several more pages to share with my cleanup but I think I might still get one more page done with it!
I love how it feels when I totally use it up.

Anyways, back to the sketch...

and my page:

Hope you're having a creative day
Hayley

Scrapfriends sketch challenge

I have been super productive this January and I have a whole bunch of stuff to share. I love it when it just comes so easily!

I did this following page for sketch challenge #21 over at ScrapFriends.
Here is the sketch:

A lot of the sketches they offer are a bit more artsy than I am, but I love the challenge and enjoy playing around.
Here is my page:

Gosh it had been a long time since I had done a page on my husband, I felt kinda bad. I have quite a few with him in them and with the children but not just him. I must fix that this year.

Have a fab day
Hayley