March Virtual Crop Challenge

It's Virtual crop weekend again (YAY!) so welcome to your March Mood Board inspiration challenge ahead of our Virtual Crop day tomorrow.

This month the mood board colours are fresh and spring like in soft pinks and aqua with a hint of grey.  There are flowers (feature those on your page), a wheel (circle layout element/design maybe), hanging lanterns or will you just stick with the colour scheme to inspire your spring page? There is plenty to take your inspiration from including the layout of the mood board itself if you fancy creating a more graphic/block feeling page which is where I went with my layout. 

Here is my page where I also stick to the pinks/aqua colours of this board to scrap some pbotos of my daughter and I atathe statue of liberty lastvyear. 

I hope you will join in this challenge and if you haven't had a go at the January and February mood boards yet you can find them by clicking on the underlined hyperlink. These are a great way of kick starting your creative process and it is really interesting to see the variety of layouts inspired by the same board.

If you do take part this month in our March Mood Board challenge why not share your pages in our Facebook group Mood Board gallery adding the month and your name so we can give credit where due and share our favourites ahead of next month's virtual crop.

See you back here tomorrow at 10am for your first Virtual crop class for March 2018.

Spring is in the air

A little less rain, a little more sunshine, lighter evenings and plenty of birds chirping away in the mornings. Yes spring is definitely in the air. The latest issue of The Scrapbook Magazine has a designer section of Spring inspired layouts including “Rescued Bird” by yours truly.



The layout is easy to recreate using supplies available in the shop and features a nice Prima flower cluster and three different styles of stitching. The Thickers used are from American Crafts latest releases and are gorgeous!!

To create a similar layout you will need:
Background cardstock – I used Bazzill Silver bling 12x12
Bazzill Lizzard Green 8 ½ x 11 Cardstock
MME Little Miss Muffet - Celebrate - Party Dots Paper
MME Little Miss Muffet - Hello Beautiful - Beautiful Butterflies Paper
Pearl Chipboard Thickers - Marquise - Pewter
Prima Flowers
Thread, Buttons, leaf punch or rubons (or you could draw by hand)

Instructions to create the page:
Cut along the line of the seventh dot on your party dots paper and adhere, at an angle, to your 8 ½ x 11 cardstock. Then add your 6x4 photograph, also at an angle. Next pierce where your pink stitches will go to join the two papers, around the edge of the cardstock for your green stitches, then along the bottom and slightly up on the right of your photograph for your blue/grey stitches. Then sew your paper which is easier to do at this stage before adhering to your 12x12 background cardstock.

Add your title using journalling stickers and Thickers, decorated with butterflies cut from the Beautiful Butterflies paper. Then add a Prima flower/leaf cluster at the bottom left corner of your photograph, adding buttons and more butterflies on foam pads for dimension.

I hope you have fun scrapbooking your Spring inspired pages. Don't forget to share them with us here on the blog with a link to your page in your comment!