Jeaunes

JUST CRUISIN'

Monday, February 10, 2014

Hello there, today I am sharing a layout I made using a sketch from Nuts About Sketches.

Here is my take on the sketch. I used BoBunny papers for the layout. The pictures are from the Sunday after Jonathan turned ONE. My parents bought him a tri-cycle for his first birthday. Due to the fact that it was to big to take and open at the Spur on his birthday, we went over for lunch and he had a ball opening this BIG box. The top two pictures were taken of him while he waited for his dad and grand-pa to assemble the tri-cycle, and the bottom three pictures are from his first ride on the tri-cycle.

The flags and banners are all from the BoBunny papers. I just added some bling and buttons to the banners.

For the title I used some red chipboard stickers that I had in my stash. I think it is a very old range from Thickers.

Instead of machine stitching I used a stitching stamp, which I stamped above and below the title.

Lastly I added some bakers-twine to the flags in the top right corner of the layout. I also added a little tag I found somewhere in my stash, I added the date, 8 September 2013 to the tag.

Thank you for the visit!

Friday, February 7, 2014

Hello ladies, it is Friday again, which means it time for another Project Life Inspired post over at Frosted Designs.

I have two single pages for you today. Even though they will be next to one another in the album, I wanted to created separate layouts for the pictures.

The first layout is about the day we took Jonathan home from the hospital, and these are the only two pictures I have from that day. I used bits and pieces from the My Mind's Eye - Cut&Paste collection, as well as some Project Life cards to which I added some journaling and embellishments.

The journaling reads:

After being in hospital for 3 nights, both you & mommy were able to go home on Friday, 7 September.

We dressed you warmly that day as it was a bit chilly.

Daddy came to fetch us at around 10h00.

We went home for the first time as a family! You had your bottle & went to sleep for the first time in you own room & your own bed - what a champ you were!

Mommy slept a bit in the afternoon while daddy looked after you.

That night you had your fist visitors - Aunty Marine & Uncle Nick.

Products Used

My Mind's Eye Cut & Paste - Hey You Journaling Card

My Mind's Eye Cut & Paste - Hey You Trend

My Mind's Eye Cut & Paste - Carefree Relaxed

My Mind's Eye Cut & Paste - Decorative Brads

My Mind's Eye Cut & Paste - Chipboard Stickers Carefree

My Mind's Eye Cut & Paste - Decorative Chipboard Buttons

My Mind's Eye Cut & Paste - Cardstock Stickers Carefree Labels

Color wash cold pressed watercolour tags

Project Life Jade Core Kit

Here are some close-ups of the detail.

The second layout has pictures of Jonathan sleeping in his cot the following day, 8 September. Here I also just had these two pictures. I really love the contrast with the red and white, so wanted to use paper that emphasized that, hence my use of the Beautiful Life collection by Echo Park.

The journaling reads:

Mommy dressed you in a lovely white & red outfit when you woke up that morning.

Here you were taking a late morning nap. In the afternoon mommy & daddy's friends came to visit, meet you & watch the Springboks play Nieu Zeeland.

Products Used

Echo Park Beautiful Life Collection Kit

Project Life Jade Core Kit

Here are some pictures of the detail.

I really had so much fun creating these two pages and love how they turned out!

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Have an awesome day!

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Hello there, today I will be sharing the latest challenge over at Black with Two.

The rules are VERY simple, use BLACK cardstock along with TWO colours from the mood board. to tantalize your creative MOJO. The colours this month are HOT PINK & AQUA. Along with that you must use the sketch as inspiration and included DREAM in your journaling.

Here is the sketch and the new mood board.

Here is my take on the challenge.

Originally I wanted to use on the aqua colours in my layout, but then I saw the cards from the Project Life Brush edition core kit and I decided to use a little bit of the pink colour as well.

I used the black cardstock as my background, as well as to matt my picture in. Instead of using pattern paper to bring in the aqua and hot pink, I used the Project Life cards.

I used a bingo card with the word dream on as my title and added the bird rub-on, buttons and bling.

The little white heart I cut with my cuttlebug and the flowers I made with stamping and distress inks.

Thank you for stopping by and having a look!

Monday, February 3, 2014

Even though here in South Africa it is suppose to be summer, we have been having some cold and rainy weather for the past few days. And according to the weather report, this will last the rest of the week!!!!

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SUPREME SCRAP TOURNAMENT 2014: CHALLENGE #1

Hello there,

I am writing from a cold and wet Johannesburg this afternoon (and by the sound of things, it will look like this the rest of the week).

As mentioned last week, I sign-up to take part of the Supreme Scrap Tournament 2014, which has over 200 members from all over the world. The challenge for round 1, went life on Saturday, here are the criteria:

Make a double layout or double mixed media project that shows where you live. But it all has to be within 1000 steps from you home!!!!

You cannot use any spray ink!
You will have to use at least 3 photos on your project (scrapbooking and mixed media!!)
You will have to add a visible journaling of at least 50 words.

Here is my layout and take on the challenge.

I used the Basic Grey Permisson collection along with plain cardstock on my layout. The pictures are of our back garden and was take on 7 August 2012, when it snowed in Johannesburg, for the first time since September 1981.

My journaling reads:

We live in Joburg, South Africa and are not likely to get snow in the winter. So you could imagine my surprise when snow fell on August, 7th 2012 @ 14:17 in the afternoon (3 weeks before the start of spring). It was the heaviest fall we have had in Joburg, since September 1981.

With Jonathan due in less than a month, I was already on maternity leave (and therefore warmly covered in a blanket on the couch). I still remember looking out the window and seeing snow falling. At first I thought it was a mistake, but when I got up and looked out the lounge winder, it was white. I was lucky enough to be able to have captured this day on camera with these pictures of our garden; so that one day we can tell Jonathan about the snow that fell only a few days before he arrived.

Here are some close-ups.

Instead of having some ink splashes, I "splashed" with some bling!

Thank you for the visit.

Friday, January 31, 2014

Happy Friday everyone!

Over at Frosted Designs Lisa is hosting the Fabulous Friday Challenge this week! The challenge this Friday is a frosty one using this mood board as inspiration for your project.

Do you have the winter blues? Chase them away with some scrappy time, create a project using this mood board as inspiration for your project. Whether you are inspired by the colours, the pictures or just the overall mood, these images and colours portray, get creative and let us know what thing or things from this board inspired you!

For my project I made a layout that was inspired by the colours in the mood board, even though my layout does not have a winter feel at all (to be honest, the pictures were taken in January, the middle of summer here in South Africa). I used the white from the snow, the blue from the cup, the green from the leaves and yellow from the light. Here is my layout.

So, what are you playing for in this challenge?????

That's right, Frosted Designs is hosting this challenge!!!! We are going to let one lucky winner do a little shopping! And with all the new manufacturers we have in the store, you are sure to find something you like!

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You have until noon (central time) Thursday, February 13th to link up your project HERE!!!!!!!!

SUPREME SCRAP TOURNAMENT 2014

Tomorrow the Supreme Scrap Tournament for 2014 kicks off! It will run from 1 Feb to 30 March with 4 rounds and then a Grand Finale!!!!!!!!!!!

It is run by Bep and Nanette and over 200 participants from all over the world. The countries that are participating includes Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Norway, Phillippines, Poland, Sweden, UK, USA and of course South Africa. We have a awesome and very talented team from South Africa, which include the following 12 awesome ladies:

Tertia - Card & Scrap Diva Tournament
Val Thorpe - Scrap Diva Tournament
Rene van Wyk - Card & Scrap Diva Tournament
Margaret Atkinson Creighton Jones - Scrap Diva Tournament
Jeaunes Viljoen - Scrap Diva Tournament
Shamela Hendricks - Scrap Diva Tournament
Belinda Basson - Card & Scrap Diva Tournament
Ezme Harman - Card & Scrap Diva Tournament
Jen - Scrap Diva Tournament
Kekkelk - Scrap Diva Tournament
Linda King - Card & Scrap Diva Tournament
Michelle van Wyk - Card & Scrap Diva Tournament

Start tomorrow, the first challenge will be posted. There is a scrapbook challenge as well as a card challenge. Each one of us will have until 7 Feb to complete the challenge. Once we have completed our layout/card, we upload it to the site and after the closing date of the challenge, the voting will start and after 5 days, the voting will close for that challenge. There are 5 rounds in the tournament with the last round being the Grand Finale. In challenges 1, 2 & 3 approximately 50% of each group will go through to the next challenge. In the end there will be 2 winners, who will each get one of these unique trophies.

So let the games begin!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Hello there, today I want to share a layout I created using the Cut&Paste collection from My Mind's Eye!

I loved the colours of this collection and the fact that it is really such a "boyish" collection! The pictures in the layout is from Jonathan's Cake Smash for his first birthday. But as you can see from the expression on his face he was not impressed AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!! Unlike most children that really dig in and smash that cake, he did not want to have anything to do with it. Other than a finger lightly touching the cake, and the pulling of the face, there was NO cake smashing!!!!!!!!!!

I loved how I could use the white cardstock and blue patterned paper as the background, but then also include the various patterns on layout, without it being over the top and too much!

As part of the collection, there was Decorative Chipboard buttons. I used a combination of those as well as one or two buttons I had in my stash. To round them off, I just threaded some white thread through the holes.

When I did the banner under the main photo, I used some of the flags from the collection and the others I made using washi tape. I finished it off with some bakers twine and brads.

And lastly, for the title I used one of the die-cut stickers and included some hand stitching.

All of the products I used in my layout are available in the Frosted Designs store and then best part is - they are ON SALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So pop on over to the store and quickly!!!!!!! The kits are on sale along with other great products. These include 20% of all Authentique products, including the new Flourish and Suave Lines (Exp. 2-3-14) and all single bottles of Dylusions Spray Inks are 15% off (Exp. 2-3-14)! There are also LOADS of new CHA products coming soon! So make sure you stop on over and fill up your cart! I cannot wait for my order to arrive that I placed earlier this week to start playing!!!!!!!!

I hope I have inspired you today!

Cut & Paste - Carefree Relaxed	Cut & Paste - Hey You Route	Cut & Paste - Hey You Trend	Cut & Paste - Smile Shine
Cut & Paste Charm Decorative Chipboard Buttons	Cut & Paste Charm Cardstock Stickers - Carefree Label	Cut & Paste Charm Decorative Tape	Cut & Paste Charm Decorative Brads