Jessy's Challenge

Well this computer is taking some getting used to let me tell you! Not enjoying the process at all despite the crystal clear graphics LOL. Finally here are my images - taken FOREVER to upload whereas before they loaded almost instantly! Anyway, enough moaning...here is my layout for the "Friendly Challenge" over at Jessy's. Not sure how it happened but I got a slightly different Inspiration Picture that you can see I printed out in the photo below. Anyway, the colours were the same LOL {Thank Goodness hee hee...} This was the only photo I had that matched & as my printer is now broken {yes....grrrr...} I had to make do with it ;-D

I pulled out my new stash bag & immediately my eyes fell upon the October Afternoon "Fly a Kite" line with the blue & orange shades. The photo is an old one from a frame. Not in the best condition as it somehow got "stuck" to the glass & I had to try to steam it off, rather unsuccessfully, so I had to trim it down quite a bit. Pre-digi photography days so not simple to just reprint {especially as my printer is broken in any case lol} Have a basket full of negatives which I need to scan into my pc one of these fine days...

Decided on white bazzill for the base as it's always so crisp, clean & modern, & some swiss-dot bazzill in the most gorgeous shade of cornflower blue. Also added in some candy pink bazzill to tie-in with the pink flowers in the vase on the inspiration photo. Then used 2 prints from the OA Fly a Kite line & added in one from the new Cosmo Cricket Line too. {Delovely it's called & it sure is...} Sun, flower & pinky polka dot scallop border stickers all from Echo Park Sweet Summertime Line & date sticker & multi-coloured alphas from OA Fly a Kite line. "Holiday" alphas Dear Lizzy by American Crafts.

With stash like that it's not hard to pull off something sweet quickly & easily. Took me 2 hours from start to finish which is speed scrapping for me. We all LOVE this photo in our family...especially Cami's vibrancy at 3 & the way Reilly {at 5} is grabbing on to Chelsea's arm! A rather chubby arm at that I might add...she has certainly slimmed out since being 10...

This pleating is seriously easy if you precut your strips {you need 3 times as much as the distance you want to cover} - helps that I am very used to pleating from my sewing & pattern-making days. You just line the strip up with the cm markings on your cutting mat & bring the 3cm back to the 2cm, etc, continually pleating so that there is a one cm space between each pleat.

On my latest stash shopping spree I bought tons of alphas & am so glad that I did. I have a great selection now & use these all the time so they are never wasted. The Dear Lizzy ones above are a re-order so now I am getting to use up all the consonants I never used up before!

Here is a list of all the other ladies participating in the "Friendly Challenge". If you are interested in playing along with Jessy leave a comment on her blog & you can join in next time! I have come to learn, through this wonderful blogging pastime, that scrappers from Malaysia/Thailand/Singapore/etc are seriously talented, with a free, artistic style that really appeals to me so I am honoured to have been part of Jessy's challenge & have already signed up for her next one! Hope your week got off to a good start Blog People...

Sandy Ang

Lori Hairston

Wati Basri

Helen Tilbury

Rachel Clarke

Kirsty Vittetoe

Sharmandeswari

Cindy Lee

Janet

Amelia Khalik