Scrapaneers - Champions Challenge

Hello Everyone,

I hope you are all enjoying this festive season.

Every month over at Scrapaneers, there is a challenge based on a theme. This month revolves around, 'The Reflective Spirit'. Some new techniques I learnt at Scrapaneers 'Champions', includes double exposure and reflective text. I was playing around and this is what I came up with:

This layout was super fun to create. This photo is of my children fooling around with some glasses and blow-up microphones they received from a party bag, and I just love it. It was a lucky snap.

To start with, I 'Googled', 'rockstars on stage' and found the image of a black silhouette crowd against the gorgeous blues/greens of lights. Perfect. I then blended my photo into it, and made the rest of the layout black. I added another photo, but as is, it was too white against the rest of the layout, so added a photo filter to soften the white and give a bluey/green tint. The scatter/frame is from Flergs - Urban Grunge which I re-coloured and then used Flergs - Wild Boyz glitter alpha and star element for the title to which I added a reflection (love this technique). Lastly, I added some extra sparkle from Rosey Posey - Needful Things.

Thank you for popping in. Hope you are enjoying a wonderful day.

Scrap Our Stash - July Sketch Challenge

Hello Everyone,

I'm participating in the Scrap Our Stash July Sketch Challenge this month. The sketch is by the talented, Em Stafrace of The Nifty Pixel. The challenge is for traditional layouts, not digital, but I still am submitting a digital one as I'm not fussed about winning prizes. I just wanted to play.

The sketch for this challenge:

If you do want to enter a digital layout, then please go HERE to download the template from the generous Em.

My layout:

Be a Little Wild

The Nifty Pixel | Template

Flergs | Wildboyz

Katie Pertiet | Bradded Photos No.1

Katie Pertiet | Inked Twists No.1

The Nifty Pixel | Wanderlust Brush & Stamp Set

The Nifty Pixel | A Tad Torn V.2

As part of the challenge, a banner is also needed to be added. Mine is across the page - a banner of coloured arrows, stapled down on either side.

The challenge started a few days ago, and runs until July 29. Go HERE to check it out. :)

Hope you are all enjoying the weekend. Thanks for coming by. :)