I left the giveaway open a couple of extra days because I simply wasn't feeling great, so any comments entered until now are counted.
I'm running late with some video editing so if Max and I don't do the draw tomorrow (Wednesday) my time then it will be Thursday. We'll do a video draw as always.
Now remember when I talked about the Scrap Backwards concept here? It would have been "The Royal Cat" layout and video I posted.
Well these are the remaining layouts I made with the kit. I'll include a short video of the wrap up and show what I had left, what I made etc.
Now here are the three cat layouts and journaling close ups. I used the same three sketches that Kathy and Adam used during the month by Lisa Sikorski.
Culture Shock
Purrfect Combo
The 3AM Crazy
Thanks for stopping by and there will be a new May I Scraplift You video on my channel in the next 24 hours. (hint...DOUBLE CATS!)
May I Scraplift You is a weekly video series (on Saturdays) started by Crystal Barrett/Pineapple Papers. For double cat content I scraplifted the lovely Moira's layout about HER cat Chopin. He's even grey like Fitzy!
Moira also takes part in May I Scraplift You.
Since this overlapped with the hop this year I decided to do a cat layout. I also decided to use my "Scrap Backwards" kit for October.
Here's my process video:
And below you can find photos:
Title
Journaling
Embellies
The Royal Cat
Giveaway Info
Giveaway Rules
📌I Have TWO electronic gift cards to the crafty store of your choice (Value $20USD or approx equivalent in your currency)
📌One prize will be a random draw and the second prize 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 second prize is traditionally TallCraftyDude's favourite project!
📌 This Giveaway is NOT SPONSORED, but costs lovingly covered by yours truly as a way to support the hard work Janis puts in every.single.year!
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 Sunday 7 November. Please visit THIS SITE to calculate in your own timezone
📌 The winner will be drawn on Wednesday 10 November so PLEASE CHECK BACK HERE
❗If the winner and I can't make contact by Wednesday 17 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 - 2 entries (in the left sidebar)
Please don't hesitate to email me with any questions atalex@pinkcraftymama.com
If
you're entering the giveaway, comment below and tell me...what is it about cats that you love? PS sorry if I confused anyone with the same question on multiple days. I forget to change that part when I C&P 🤦🏼♀️
Wow I can't believe it's Cat Hopping season already!
Day 1 is already reaching it's end from where Janis hails, so I'll keep this short(ish) and sweet in an attempt to get back on Janis's timing!
Here is the link to Janis's MAIN HOP PAGE with all the links and info you need for a smooth hopping experience. (don't forget to register to be eligible for prizes!)
I've made 3 new projects for Janis so those will be appearing here and besides those, I might share some cat projects I haven't blogged.
Today is one of those projects. This one has a process video on YouTube which you can find below
YouTube Video
Layout Pics
Let's Be Lazy
Giveaway Info
Giveaway Rules
📌I Have TWO electronic gift cards to the crafty store of your choice (Value $20USD or approx equivalent in your currency)
📌One prize will be a random draw and the second prize 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 second prize is traditionally TallCraftyDude's favourite project!
📌 This Giveaway is NOT SPONSORED, but costs lovingly covered by yours truly as a way to support the hard work Janis puts in every.single.year!
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 Sunday 7 November. Please visit THIS SITE to calculate in your own timezone
📌 The winner will be drawn on Wednesday 10 November so PLEASE CHECK BACK HERE
❗If the winner and I can't make contact by Wednesday 17 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 - 2 entries (in the left sidebar)
It's Stick It Down time once again and can I just say how much I really REALLY loved this month's single page sketch!!
My first thought was to use a cut file. Pretty sure there are several out there which have flowers already built into a heart. I decided instead to roughly machine stitch a heart and fussy cut flowers.
The sketch reminded me of a wedding or anniversary layout so I opted to scrap our 20th wedding anniversary, which was a case of Murphy's Law at work if ever I saw one! Read the journaling! 😂
Seriously - you just can't make this stuff up! And I'm often in these situations so I just laugh about them now.
Embellies
I used the Hello Today and Quarantined collections both by Simple Stories. Great colours and a vintage vibe which reminded me of our wedding and played beautifully with three different papers by October Afternoon which I fussy cut and used to create the cluster along with some stickers of the "Rona" bug, some chipboard shapes and brads. The plastic bow is an old Dear Lizzy one!
Can you believe only the mint green mat behind the photo is the only paper that was a single 12 x 12 pattern on both sides? All the others were either cut apart cards or the B-Side of a cut apart sheet. I punched the individual "Ronas" from the back of a card I didn't think I was going to use.
I chopped and re glued the month card and circled the date which is a sort of a nod to our wedding album where I'd try use the numbers 7 and 10 on each page.
Journaling
I deliberately chose the ledger paper which was the B side to one of the Hello Today cut apart sheets. Perfect for writing and reminded me of a hospital chart. The inside of the heart gave me plenty of room for a longer story.
Title
I used a card from one of the cut apart sheets as the title and a subtitle with small stickers from the sticker book on a clipboard from the chipboard sheet.
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It's Stick It Down time again and the sketch this month is by Antonia. Head on over to the Stick It Down Blog to add your own project!
I loved the diagonal details on the sketch, but my style is pretty heavy on paper!
Sara Scraps came to my rescue when she shared this layout of her son and I thought I could apply the general idea to the sketch. She even dared me to keep it clean and simple! 😂😂😂
Now I'm not a girl to resist a dare, but even I know when something is a lost cause! 🙈🙈🙈
I started by going though my camera roll for a pair of photos and a story. Facebook memories helped by reminding me it's been 3 years since this even for JDM car enthusiasts and while the story probably is more recent, it doesn't make a huge difference to album chronology.
Having figured out my story, I had to include black and a very specific shade of blue. I ended up pulling mostly papers from Shimelle'sSparkle City collection with a background from Glitter Girl. the black paper with neon signs had me thinking of drifting so the one from the paper pad with the holographic was a great place to start! The ombre background paper reminded me of the duochrome paint finish on some cars.
It was going to be a bit busy so I toned it down with gesso and added paint and mist splatters. I even had some prehistoric Flutterbies from American Crafts. Hands up who still has those? Bunting kind of goes with an even like this and the one I used which was meant to co-ordinate with Dear Lizzy's5th and Frolic collection is a great colour match for the black neon sign paper!
I also used some Simple StoriesBro and Co for the stamp set, stickers and die cuts.
Title
Chipboard and foam thickers for the title - Micro Glue Dots make the chipboard ones a breeze to adhere! (Thanks Columbus Trading❤️)
Embellies
In addition to some stamps for the diagonal embellies, I also used some clear and cardstock stickers and random car themed die cuts and stickers.
Journaling
Black and Blue
Please see what the other girls on the Design Team have made and also check out Sara's YouTube channel!
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The diamonds remind me of several patterned papers with large diamonds. I picked one from Shimelle's Glitter Girl line and cut out the diamonds. They were a little bit smaller than the ones in the sketch so I had to jiggle them around to get them to sit nicely and stitched them down.
Stitching on paper means my regular Kokuyo dot roller is unlikely to hold down the elements, so enter my beloved Glue Dots (Thank you, Columbus Trading! 💖💖💖)
There is a process video (scroll down) and some stills where you can read the journaling.
