Brownie, my Sweetie Pie :)

Hi everyone, I'm back with another layout! This time I scrapped my cat :) His name is Brownie and as you can see, he's my sweetie pie :) I worked with sketch #22 by ScrapFriends and I used the mood-board by Scrap around the world for this layout, too. You can find their wonderful mood-board and the sketch I used at the end of this post.

I used a lot of different sprays and inks to create my clustered background. I was inspired by the colors of the mood-board and I tried to catch the orange, pink and gold of it. Besides, it inspired me to use the title "you are my sweetie pie".

I played with different sizes and mediums to create checker-boards (stamps, masks, brads).

My sweet title...

... and a little bit of my background stamping... :)

I used gel medium on my orange hearts and covered them with Inka Gold after that. The gel medium resists the Inka Gold and reveals the orange paper. 

And here are the beautiful mood-board and the sketch I used for this layout:

Thank you for stopping by! :)

A sketch and a color challenge

Hi Scrappers! Scrapfriends brought out  their new color-challenge today. Quiet funny that these are very similar colors to a layout I created just some days ago for the Life. Paper. Scrapbook sketch challenge :D This time I used a sketch provided by Scrap& Music. The pictures are from the Dec. 31. 2013. We decided to spend a relaxed new year's eve and travelled to the highest mountain in Germany, where we did some hiking trips.

This is the mood board for the color challenge # 21 by Scrapfriends: 

I wanted to submit this layout for the Scrap&Music sketch challenge #19, but I forgot to use a piece of their chosen song as title for my layout.... So.... anyway, this is the sketch I used: 

Thank you for stopping by! :) 

ScrapFriends sketch challenge #21

I'm so in the mood to scrap! I finished another sunny layout, which was inspired by a sketch challenge. It's the January challenge from Scrapfriends and it was a lot of fun to finish it. Just as some weeks ago I used bright yellows and greens for this layout. We had some nice sunshine today, maybe that's the reason why I wanted to use these colors :) The picture is from 2011, when I did my first hiking-tour with my best friend. We had a great day together and since this time, I really enjoy hiking and exploring nature! Besides, there isn't any missing "e" in my title, it's just the German word for nature ;) 

I used different techniques for the background: water-coloring, misting, masking with modeling paste and masking with distress ink. On two spots I stitched a circle with baker's twine and the frames behind the picture are made out of different ribbons.

This is their cool sketch for January:

Thanks for reading and wishing you a fabulous week :)

Let's go hiking

Hey Roadies, tonight I'd like to share a new layout with you. The pictures are from one of our last hiking-trips this summer. We had a great day seeing all these beautiful waterfalls while being quiet alone in the forest. I created this layout for two challenges. The sketch is provided by ScrapFriends Challenge #20  and in the meantime I used the Challenge #5 December tic tac toe board from 1 2 3 Get Scrappy.

I had the background paper for quiet a long time in my stash and didn't know what to use it for and finally I found a theme what matches perfectly. On the background I used a lot of different techniques: painting with gesso and acrylic paint, masking, spritzing, smearing inka gold and stitching.

Here you can see the glitter alphas I used and the small fuzzy cutting I did for this project.

For the frames of the photos I used an old map, which is quiet good matching with my theme as I think. On that layout I used my first bottle cap as an embellishment. I cut out a circle of my map, glued it down and threw some clear UTEE in the cap. After heat setting I glued the bottle cap on my layout. 

After having applied a layer of gesso and acrylic paint I did some masking. I took Inka Gold (in silver) and painted the embossed parts lightly with my finger. Every picture "hangs" like a painting on my layout. 

Behind every picture I used some lace trim to give it a more layered look. Besides, I glued my subtitle on a piece of vellum and added some flowers. On the last detail picture you can see the stitching quiet well, too. 

And that's the sketch and the tic tac toe board I used as inspiration. I used a diagonal row from the board: eyelets, baker's twine and the color green. 

Thank you so much for stopping by, and it would be great if you become a follower of my blog :)

Yay! ScrapFriends Candy Giveaway!

Scrappers, what sweetens your day? Well I can tell you what sweetens mine :D The ScrapFriends Candy Giveaway! If you want to get a chance winnig a fabolous price, just visit the ScrapFriends blog and follow their instructions.

This is what you can get: 

And this is their store: http://www.scrapfriends.com.au/ 

Have fun joining in! 

☆ Arabian Nights ☆

Hey Scrappers,

I hope you had a great start into your week :) Today I wanted to get along with a color and a sketch challenge. The color challenge is from ScrapFriends and the sketch challenge from Stuck?!Sketches, and that's my take on these two challenges: 

The color scheme from Scrapfriends (black, dark grey-blue, light grey, curry, light grey-blue) is really cool and I've never used these colors on a layout before. I took two pictures, which were taken in Egypt on market at night. We drank some black tea and enjoyed an arabian show. What a great night! All these bright colors and lights were really stunning and beautiful. Since the colors of the pictures match perfect with the color scheme of Scrapfriends, I used them for this layout.  

For the title I used some acrylic letters from Maya Road and sponged them a little bit with InkaGold (some gold wax from Viva Decor).

I used the new "moon and stars" Bigz die from Sizzix to cut out these tiny stars in different sizes and covered them with some "mustard seed" Distress stickles. 

The chipboard banner piece is an embellishment from MME; I just put some twine through it an made a bow.

For the background I used again a stencil and some molding paste, which I mixed with some acrylic paint to give it this dark yellow look. After that, I stitched a huge circle with some darker yellow sew-easy floss. 

The stars below were from the Sizzix cutting die, too; I just painted some dots with Liquid Pearls on them.

For the background I used a StudioCalico paper from the Aboard series; for the layering I used patterned paper from the MME series "find your wings and fly". 

Thank you so much for stopping by, and have a wonderful week! 

I hope you enjoyed my work :)