My creative efforts so far this month.

Have managed to do a little bit of scrapping this month - a mixture of blind challenges, weekend workshops, monthly marathon scrap weekends & monthly challenges. I don't think I would be motivated to get anything done were it not for these craft groups. Having the challenges gives me the push I need to get layouts completed.

First the Blind Challenges ........... I wasn't sure whether I really liked these at first as there is no diagram or page map to follow. We are given a list of items required for the layout & then the instructions are given in stages. Depending on how everyone interprets the instructions means we can all end up with completely different layouts. But now I really enjoy the challenge and love to see what everyone comes up with.

The following layout was actually one I did last month & was called a recipe challenge but very similar to a blind challenge. We are given 'ingredients' and then the 'recipe' to follow.
This is the layout I did for the first Black Magic Scrap Challenge this month. There is a second one to complete as yet which I am hoping to be able to do but will just have to see how things go.

I WON A PRIZE - WOOHOO.
This is the flower embellishment which I won a prize with at Mystical Scrapbooks earlier this month. I was so thrilled when I found out.......the prize was a bottle of glimmer mist which I have never used so now have to do a layout using it but first I need to experiment with it a bit.

Then we had a challenge to complete a layout preferably using the flower which we made for the previous challenge. This was my effort.
The card challenge for this month with Mystical is to do a pop-up card. I had never made one of these before but was quite pleased with how mine has turned out. As you can see ... I LOVE butterflies - LoL.
This month's Monthly Mammoth Marathon had a few challenges. I managed to complete a few but unfortunately my arms started flaring so I had to pull out of entering the last challenge.

The was the colour challenge where we were given a chart of certain colours to use in our layouts. I just adored the Heliconias on Dunk Island and felt the colour combination lent itself to using these photos.


Then this was the "Heartfelt" challenge using felt and hearts. The journalling was supposed to be mushy too but I am not a mushy person so used the photos we took at Josephine Falls & wrote about my love of the rainforest and cascades.

Another challenge was to do a mini layout. I chose the 8"x 8" size. These are both sunrises taken when we were on holidays last year... one from the MV Trinity (the cargo ship we took to The Cape) and the other of the beach at Bingil Bay (North Mission Beach) on one of my early morning walks. Yeah - I know - most of my layouts lately have been of that trip but I have sooooo many photos to scrap.This was the layout I did for the Blumars Weekend Workshop. It had to be a layout depicting a holiday photo but had to be blue & show water. I used a collage of different colours of blue to make what I hope looks like the sea & waves - LoL ... but you do need a good imagination.