DT Share: Learning

With all out book challenges happening for the Cyber Crop this week I pulled out all the photos I could find that were book or reading related and spent the CC weekend scrapping our families love of books. I've put old and new together with this simple LO. My patterned paper is from the My Mind Eye Line Lime twist- it's a die cut sheet but I trimmed the edges and mounted it on black. Most of the rest of my page uses pieces from one of the newest line in store Fancy Pants Family and Co.

New Design Team!

I'm thrilled to announce our new design team for the next 6 months 💗

Please welcome Jodie Digney.  Jodi loves to bring colour, texture and depth to her papercraft and has a wonderful motto.

    THERE ARE NO MISTAKES IN SCRAPBOOKING, ONLY UNIQUE CREATIONS.

Here's a link to her blog! - Craft of the Run

and Karen Haywood.  Karen love photography and die cutting!  Lucky girl owns 3 machines! :) 

and here's a link to Karen's blog -  Country Girl 

The girls will start sharing their projects and talent with us in September.

I would like to thank everyone who took the time to apply, it makes choose only 2 very difficult. Some of these lovely ladies will be joins us as Guest DT members over the next couple of months

Gallery Pick- Dy Loves to scrap

This weeks Gallery Pick is the very talented DyLovesToScrap, with two beautiful pages which made it impossible for me to pick a favourite. Dy most certainly has an eye for pulling colours together- her layouts a very pleasing to the eye. Her fussy cutting, clusters and embellishing in general in impressive! Thanks so much for sharing these lovely pages with us Dy!

Donna's Cybercrop Challenge- Gypsy's Page

Donna's challenge for the Cybercrop was to use an old book page- this is a favourite of mine and I have a stash of books including a number of old and failing dictionaries just for this purpose. And that's what I decided to use today- in fact it's the thesaurus section for the page that has 'read'. :-)

Just for fun I decided to challenge myself to use the inspiration board from one of my own CC challenges for my page. I've used ideas from the two books in the top left. My layout design is the adapted from the cover of The Rhythm of Family. And my title is one continuous line just like the title of the book Follow The Line.

 

I loved this inspiration board and see a heap more ideas I'd like to use; A newspaper page design for a page, the title work on The Lost thing, one main and multiple small photos like on Animalia, the stacked triangles and journalling on paper pieces as per The Flame Alphabet (bottom left), the red and blue or black and white colour schemes on Alice, and the title work and flag banner on Two Caravans were just a few of the things I'd be keen to give a go.

August Book-Tastic Cyber Crop

Hello scrappy friends, and welcome to our August Cyber Crop!

We have 3 challenges for you, using our love of books as our inspiration.  Deadline is Sunday 27th August.  Make sure you upload your pages to the correct gallery to be in the draw for a $20.00 shopping voucher.

Please join us over at our Facebook chat page.  We love to welcome new friends, it's a private page for people that do our challenges, just message me and I can add you :) 

Challenge 1 - Use a book page on your layout.

Book pages make a wonderful background, here's my take.  I've brought a cheap book from a second hand shop or flea market years ago, and using gesso I've creating this background.

And here's my layout.... I managed to use some die cuts that where RAK to me by one of the lovely Mystical girls ❤

Challenge 2 - Use a quote or line from a book somewhere on your page. 

Here's my take- My quote is from Jane Austen: "What strange creatures brothers are!" I adapted a sketch for my page and I have included that as well... it's not needed to complete the challenge.

Challenge 3 -  Be Inspired by books.

Take inspiration from one or more of the book covers above. Take a look at the designs, colours, shapes, elements, text, and presentation on these cover and use some of them as a starting point for your page or cards.

Here's my page... I've been inspired by the cover divided into quaters (middle right) the circles on Alice (bottom middle) and The 3 Little Pigs cover (top right) reminded me of this Basic Grey newspaper print paper.

You have a week plus to upload your creations into the gallery - Here

Due date Sunday, 27th Aug - Midnight

We will be giving away 1 shopping voucher valued at $20.00, and each entry receives 1 ticket into the draw.....each challenge you do gives you a chance to win!

We will also have a surprise prize!!  Our DT members will chose their favourite over-all layout and I will send that lucky person a surprise in the mail.

Happy Scrapping.

Mystical Team

Gallery Pick- Ebony Jane

This week I have picked a new comer to our Gallery who shows a whole heap of promise as a scrapbooker considering she is only seven years old!

Ebony Jane shared this page in our gallery for the June Winter Cybercrop. I love that she has kept her colour scheme really simple almost monochromatic- the blues look great together. I think the wide mat under the photo really helps to showcase the picture which was an excellent choice for this challenge. I think keeping the embellishing simple was a great choice. The title is very inventive and a cool tip if you happen to be short on some letters. I also think highlighting the journalling with the smudges of blue was a great idea.

 

This page is from Donna's May Tic tac toe challenge and Ebony Jane chose Doily, tag and flowers. Using the tag as a home for her title was a great idea- and the same goes with using middle of the doily for her journalling... an idea I'm definitely going to scraplift soon. I think the offset purple frame adds interest to the page. She's made great use of her flower and butterfly stickers using the visual triangle design technique to help unify her page and keep the focus on the most important elements. The pink and purple papers work well together and I like the added touch of the hand drawn rainbow to balance out that banner in the top.

Thank-you so much for sharing your pages with us in the Gallery Ebony Jane- we're looking forward to seeing you develop your scrapping skills and inspiring us even further!

Play!

I can't believe we're already a week into August- the year is flying by! Have you had a chance to look at this months challenges? I gave Donna's sketch a go over the weekend. Here's my variation on the idea...

 

I went with portrait instead of landscape photos and created a little home for some journalling. 

 My kit this month is the Fancy Pants Line: Family & Co. All the product on my page is from that line and it made the process of pulling my page together so much faster. I love the solid heavy colours in this line. It's designed for Family and Home type pages but I think it's flexible and would work well for winter and both boy and girl pages and so many more.