Stick It Down DT Layout for December

Hi Lovelies!

 

I did an oopsie and just discovered this post didn't autopublish! 🤦🏼‍♀

Anyways it's the final sketch challenge over at Stick It Down for 2020!  How did we end up in December?  For some reason this year has flown by so quickly!  

I know it sounds nuts, but it's just the way it is for me!

For this sketch, I flipped it over on its side once I picked three photos.  I had a set of four of Fitzy grabbing a pawful of diecuts, shove them in his mouth and start to eat them! I literally had to fish them out of his mouth!

I LOVE colour and the grey cat on a brown sofa in the pics was just meh so a riot of colour was the very thing!

I think I was still on a craft cat vibe so I was thrilled to be able to use this amazing paper from Paige Evans' Whimsical collection.  I have previously fussy cut an entire sheet, but I wanted to be able to use it on a layout too and show off all those little crafty images.

I added a large vertical strip in a contrasting colour (a navy from Page's newest collection (Go the Scenic Rout).  The colours of the two go really well together. 

I decided to stick with Paige's papers since I was already there and used the paper pads (they seem to be easier to come by than individual sheets here) to layer up a paper stack under each photo and a few under the title, journaling and embellie box.

A couple of round die cuts from Go the Scenic Route was a nod to the sketch's original circles and I used paper strips in two places.

 

 

I dripped some of Dina Wakely's Gloss Spray, but only some of them looked glossy.  Still, I felt the messy look added to the feel of the page

 

I found some word strips from sticker sheets, cut from paper and die cuts which related to crafting (or eating as the top right goes) since I kind of imagine Mr Fitz doing his own version of crafting.  

The coppery text of the small sticker on eating made me grabbed copper hearts and some old candy dots to finish

To make a third circle, I cur one out of patterned paper and pulled alphas from Shimelle and Amy Tangerine to squeeze the title in such a small space

Gobble Gobble Gobble

Love, and Stick It Down!

Cat Lovers Hop Project #6 and Stick It Down November DT Layout

Hello Lovelies

 I know some of you are here from the

Cat Lovers Hop and others from Stick It Down so bear with me!

November was my turn to be a "featured" designer on the SID sketch reveal, so mine is ready before the single page team reveals their work (typically the second week of the month).

 

I'll get onto the sketch and all that in a minute.  Before I do I want to say that while the official Cat Lover Hop is finished,  I'm still making projects since I'm not closing my giveaway until Friday, so please keep following me on m socials to get a heads up for new projects and chances to win.

OK so this month's sketch for Stick It Down's single page design team looked like this:

I never need an invitation to scrapbook cats and this one touches a little on our 'Rona experience and the story is short so I may end up writing a much longer one as an insert, but basically we didn't stockpile anything.  We just don't have that "me first" mentality. 

 Nobody was sure what would happen in the early days so I can understand to an extent.  Friends with a large family gave us some stuff "just in case".  We were able to return the favour when some of NotPinkCraftyHubster's restaurant social media clients offered to include us in their commercial orders of flour and yeast so we bought a 12.5kg (almost 28lb?) bag of flour and 500g/1lb bag of dry yeast for ourselves and the family who insisted Andrew take some stuff that they probably couldn't spare but wouldn't take no for an answer.  We knew it would be ok and it was.

Ophelia aka Pheeps aka PhiPha has mixed feelings about the relatively empty shelves and our pitiful stockpiling efforts.  No cat treats and just small quantities of staples that we have on hand anyway!  OTOH she does like hanging out on shelves so there's that!

The first thing I realised was that in order to accommodate the image with Pheephs facing to the right, I'd have to mirror the sketch.  Not a problem!  It was a pretty easy change to make.

Since I wasn't feeling 100% so I kept things simple.  I started by looking at the two covid themed/inspired collections by Photoplay.  I decided early on to fussy cut some of the rainbows to use in place of the stars since rainbows are a sort of lockdown symbol during the 'Rona (think Rainbow Trail).  I also wanted to incorporate some of the toilet paper images party because that's what everyone was hoarding and partly because I'm really an 11 year old boy trapped in a middle age woman's body and I fund stuff like that much funnier than it should be!

Next I needed paper layers.  I wanted something other than white for the background and since y Amy Tangerine Late Afternoon paper pad was nearby I grabbed one from there.  

The colours in the photo are dark and brooding, aren't they?  I wanted something bright to set them off, yet at the same time keeping that feel.  Late Afternoon was doing that for me, but I needed something to bridge the gape between it and the very cartoony any lighthearted Photoplay.  Shimelle's woodgrain from Never Grow Up was perfect.  I wanted a woodgran anyway as a nod to the wooden shelves.

In the end, other than the rainbows and some fussy cut TP and word motifs, I didn't end up using the Photoplay,  It's OK cos it was part of the overall process.

The rainbow paper in the background and the actual rainbows made me want to make a stack of photo mats in the rainbow colours!  And a fat stack it was too, but I love love love layering up paper!

I added an extra cluster of embellies above the pic and jornaling across the top.  I threw on a few non paper embellied and goldmist sprinkles as an afterthough.  

In the quest to find a substitute for my rapidly dwindling bottle of "Heidi Shine", I tried the Kaisercraft gold mist and so far it's the closest in colour, opacity and viscosity so I think we have a winner!

Journaling

Embellies

 

Title

 

This is How We Stockpile

 Giveaway Prizes 

🐱 Update! Since my first project (the cat masks) caused so much excitement, the three winners of the physical prizes can pick a cat fabric and I will make a mask to go with their prize (if they would like one).

Please understand that I can't do it for the electronic gift card prize, since it would mean shipping costs and the value of the gift card takes into account that I don't have to spend money on shipping.  Thanks so much!

 MFT "Purr-Fect Friends" Stamp Set

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jane Davenport "Purr-fect Cat" Stamp Set

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cat Embellie Pack 

with stickers, clips and half of the Echo Park "I Love My Cat" paper pad 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Max's Choice" Bonus Prize

A gift card to the crafty store of your choice to the value of $20USD (or equivalent in your currency) to the closest denomination of card available.

Giveaway Rules

📌 I have three items (and a bonus fourth prize) to give away (pictured below) and I'll pull three names for the first three prizes.

📌For the  fourth "bonus" prize: it will go to someone who has entered the main blog hop (please let me know your project numbers if you would like to be considered.  You can wait til the blog hop is over (but before the close of the giveaway) to do this since the order changes sometimes.)

📌 The first name drawn gets first choice, second name gets second choice and so on.  Bonus prize will be TallCraftyDude's favourite project!

📌 This Giveaway is NOT SPONSORED.  I purchased the prizes especially for this giveaway.  This year I picked stuff other than just stamp sets to mix it up a bit

 

What Do You Have to Do?

You will receive an entry (or entries) for each of the following.  You absolutely don't have to do everything - just how ever many you like.

If you have previously followed my socials then these are already counted for you!  (unfollowers will not be counted)
📌 The giveaway will remain open until 11:59PM AEDT on Friday 6 November.   Please visit THIS SITE to calculate in your own timezone
📌 The winner will be drawn on Monday 9 November so PLEASE CHECK BACK HERE
❗If the winner and I can't make contact by Monday 16 November, I will have to draw a new winner since I need to get these prizes out all together.
❗Please try to email me at alex@pinkcraftymama.com This really is the easiest way for me to get in touch with you since not all blogger profiles have an email attached and if you JUST leave comments, I have no other place to search for you.

So...what do you have to do to get entries?

🐈 Follow this blog - 3 entries (in the left sidebar)

🐈 Subscribe to my YouTube Channel - 3 entries

🐈 Follow me on Facebook - 2 entries

🐈 Follow me on Instagram - 1 entry

🐈 Comment (once per day per person) on a project post between now and the close of the giveaway - 1 entry per post.  Index page with links to all my projects. 

Please don't hesitate to email me with any questions at alex@pinkcraftymama.com

If you're entering the giveaway, comment below and tell me...If your cat was in charge of stockpiling for lockdown, what would s/he buy? Doesn't have to be just food!  Or anything else if this doesn't grab you.

 

Love and stay safe,

Stick it Down DT Project for October

Hello Lovelies!

It's Stick it Down time again! Please head on over to the blog to see what the other girls have made!

As I may have already mentioned, NotPinkCraftyHubster and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary on the 7th of this month.  While I have been scrapbooking wedding photos for the past month or so, this sketch reminded me of a Paige Evans cutfile I had (with stitching holes) which I planned to use to scrapbook some anniversary photos from 2018.  

I added additional cut files of the card suits before sending it through to the Silhouette.  I'm pretty sure it has been waiting patiently for me since then!

I picked a variegated pink floss to tie in with the small amount of pink in the costumes.  There will be a facing page with larger photos.  That's why the journaling is really brief.  It's scattered across all the pages from the Alice in Wonderland exhibition we to on our anniversary that year

I cut back the white cardstock a bit and added red and black gliiter paper behind the holes shaped like the card suits (Glue Dots to stick bumpy to bumpy) and a 2 tone navy diagonal stripe as a frame since I wanted to bridge the gap between blue and black. 

I used both the first and second Alice in Wonderland collections by Echo Park.  I rarely stick to one manufacturer, but I felt between the paper and embellies and the fairly minimalist sketch, I had everything I needed.  

 In any case, while I do often take a sketch way past the point I shoould have stopped at, I had to keep telling mysef the stitching kind of works as embellishment anyway.

 

I sneaked in some extra paper layers (and die cuts posing as paper layers - rather apropos for Alice, no?),

It was the ideal layout to add some Emerald Creek charms to and a few brads from the rapidly dwindling pack.  Just a few left! 

In lieu of a separate title, I cut out the had and quote from a 3x4 card and attached to to a stack of squares to fit better in the space.  I felt the wording wasn't entirely out of place with the journaling!

 

Do More of What Makes You Happy

Love, and Stick it Down!

Stick it Down DT Project for September.

Hello Lovelies!

My projects (and DIY kits) will have a slightly special vibe for the next month at least.

NotPinkCraftyHubster and I have a rather special anniversary coming up and I realized I have been putting off scrapbooking our wedding album.  

We had such amazing professional photos that there is some pressure, but I think what has held me back is not having electronic copies of our photos.  We have negatives.

We have a proof album with all our proofs so scanning those is an option, but we no longer have a flatbed scanner, so I thought investing in a gadget which digitizes negatives might be the way to go.

The black and white ones turn out fine, but coloured ones are still a bit...off.  I thought I'd give the tech obsessed TallCraftyDude the job.  He didn't much care for the novelty factor of playing with what's now probably considered an antique!

Getting back to my layout, the sketch we were given to work with this month reminded me a lot of the

scrapbook pages which have a garland of "stuff" so I ran with that rather than have extra photos.

All the things in the garland have some meaning to us, so I'm more or less happy with it having never made and I used a quote for the titles and continued on in the journaling.

 Journaling

Title

Embellies

Love is a Journey Not a Destination

Love, and lovey-dovey scrapbooking!

Stick it Down DT July Layout using FLHK kit

Hello Lovelies

I'm not sure whether I've mentioned here on the blog that I'm joining the crew over at Stick It Down!  I love using scrapbook sketches so I was pretty excited about playing with these girls!

I'm using my July For The Love Of Homemade Kits supplies to put this layout together.  You can find more on that in the description box of my video.

The sketch was a bit different for me as I mention in my process video (scroll down!).  The titles placement and embellies on just one part of the page forced me (most willingly!) out of my comfort zone!

Here's the link to July's Challenge:

Stick it Down Single Page Challenge

This one is packed with dimensional embellies of all sorts and to adhere anything (especially anything requiring some extra strength) to mixed media calls for Permanent Glue Dots! 😍😍😍

If you watch the video and compare the finished layout there to the still photos, you may notice I moved all the tiniest enamel stars and lightning bolts.  🙈🙈🙈

While I am happier with them after the change, this page one one that took on a life of its own and I'm not sure how pleased I am with it. 

It's definitely not what I pictured in my head, but the crazy energy definitely reflects the story of two crazy energetic little girls who would barely stand still long enough to pose for a couple of photos!

Journaling

Close ups for your reading pleasure as always (if you can decipher my writing! 😳)

Embellies

YouTube Process Video

Wonder Woman & Super Girl

Love, and STICK IT DOWN!