Retreat scrapping

I've been retreating this weekend with some friends and had such a blast. I had some dt work that needed to be sorted out for Just scrapbooking and Lime Tart and once that was done and dusted I played around with creating for a few challenges.

Sweet cat dreams

Our Reenie sound asleep in her basket.

I love Missy Lou but this green paper was really giving me challenge.

I hot Mama.

I ended up swipping the green paper with white paint and ink as it was too stark for me. The photo is of friend Yvonne taken a few years back. She challenged me at the retreat to scrap it for her. She has been scrapping for years and has always included a punched out frog on her layout and her grandies love looking for them so when I finished it I added a frog for her. You can see him sticking out from under the flower spray.


After struggling with this when Lou said as she was working on a layout that she needed to think outside the box I challenged her to do a layout with her cricket. lol it was like I asked her to pull her teeth out a defiant no. Anyway Yvonne and I were joking with her about it all and we started to play little tricks on her. Turning of her cricket a few times and the like. Well we decided to hijack her gypsy when she went and had a shower. When she came back there was a ransom note on her chair. It was so funny watching her trying to work out who we had passed it onto. Hope you still love me Missy Lou.

I'll share my Lime Tart projects once they go up in the gallery.

Little Lou.

I have been promising Lou for a while now that I would scrap her up a tag and here is the start of it. I am going to pop her into a insert and embellish the outside a little. I have done this up for a challenge blog I stumbled across called 7 kids collage fund challenge blog. The challenge was to use pink and dots.

Here are the colours I used to colour Lou.

Hair-E50,e51,e53
Skin-EOOO,EOO,E01,R11 and so E11 as eye shadow.
Here dress, shoes and flowers were all stamped on patterned paper.

Hi card.

This one I did up for a challenge over at Anya ink. The challenge was to created a card using black, white and 1 colour. I was really struggling with what to do for this one until I decided to go with shades of brown as my one colour.

Here are the colours I used.
Hair- C3,C5,C7,BV29
Skin-E50,E52,E53,R11
Dress-E31,E33,E35
Shadow-C1

From our house.

The latest challenge over at Hero Arts is to create a back to school or keep in touch project. I just love the scene I created.

Here are the colours I used.

Sky-B60
Grass-BG93
Bird houses (L to R) all with a blender swipe to give them a worn look.
W3,W5,W7
BG 93,BG95,BG97 (and flowers)
E13,E15,E17
E31,E33,E35
Birds E50,E51,53
Berries-E19

Well that is all from me for now. I'll be back tomorrow to post my ASJ layout which went live while I was away. Till then as always thanks for popping in, any comment and happy creating.