Thursday, October 8, 2015

Scraptoberfest

Many times on this blog in the past I've talked about how I love sketch and colour challenges as a way of focussing on using my stash instead of spending money building up my stash. (like here) I've proven this to be true over the last month as I've forced encouraged myself to partake in a number of challenges, instead of spending all my spare time on Youtube, which invariably leads to me looking for particular supplies on my favourite internet Scrapbooking sites.
But I've got another reason to add why I love these challenges so much . . . they can really help when your creativity is low.  A sketch is the perfect solution when you feel like you've gone to your "go to" designs to death, and a colour challenge is a great help when you can't see past the fact that your daughter is wearing (yet again!!!) pink, and you don't want your page to mimic the Barbie isle at Kmart.

This month, I've come across not just a sketch AND a colour challenge, but a chance to participate in 4 challenges AT ONCE!!! If you're visiting from any of the sites involved in Scraptoberfest, you know about this already, but if not, here's all the challenges:

The Memory Nest has this sketch:


My Scraps and More has this colour palette:

Scrap our Stash asks us to use 2 different types of washi tape.

And finally, Challenge YOUrself asks us to "include yourself in the photo".

The option is to do any or all of these challenges individually, but I took the combined option of all 4!
Here it is . . .

I had a photo of myself ready to scrap (tick!), with neutral-enough colours that I could use the colour palette (tick!).  By using two of the three photos from the morning, I was able to easily use the sketch (tick!) and the royal blue and pink washi tapes complete the final challenge (tick, tick, tick, tick!)


 I decided to scrap the final photo from the morning separately, as I had a story I wanted to document but didn't have a specific photo to go with it . . .


. . . about how I worked my childcare magic on my niece that weekend, who's always been really shy with us.  To the amusement of all my family, she now loves her "Uncle Julie".



I'm still working with my September Counterfeit Kit, and both pages use those "Best of" Crate Paper papers, which makes me very happy!

Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget to let me know you've stopped by.  I'd love to hear what your favourite type of challenge is!

19 comments:

  1. Great pages and I love that you're called Uncle Julie - I have two nephews who call me Uncle Jane because they thought my name was James. Thanks for sharing at The Memory Nest.

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  2. awesome layout! Thanks for playing along with SOS!

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  3. Your layout is beautiful, Julie! I love how you used all 4 challenges to make your gorgeous page! Thank you so much for joining us at Scrap our Stash and Challenge YOUrself!

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  4. I love that both pages are same color scheme, but one so much bolder than the other. Great job on these, really great!

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  5. Love these papers! I saw this challenge, and I may have to give it a go!

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  6. You did a great job combining all 4 of the challenges. Thanks for joining us at Scrap Our Stash and the Memory Nest.

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  7. Fantastic, and great to get in all the challenges! A big thanks for joining us at THE MEMORY NEST!!!

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  8. Great combination of challenges and such wonderful layouts, love your use of colour!

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  9. Super fun! Love your take on all four Scraptoberfest challenges! So glad you joined in.
    Lynn ~ Challenge YOUrself

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  10. Wonderful job combining all four challenges! Thank you so much for playing along with the ScraptoberFest Challenges!
    Brenda ~ Scrap Our Stash

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  11. What awesome page. Love the details, stash used, and great take on all 4 challenges. Thanks for your entry in our challenge at Scrap Our Stash!

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  12. Great job on the challenges! hanks for playing along with Scrap Our Stash!!

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  13. I too love challenges and you rocked this "quadruple" one!! :-) Lovely layouts, great job!! Thanks for playing along with all of us at - The Memory Nest, Scrap Our Stash and Challenge YOUrself too!!

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  14. Great take on all four challenges, you nailed them all! Thanks for playing along with ScraptoberFest.
    ~Tracy, Challenge YOUrself

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  15. Both layouts are awesome and love the stories with them...great papers, espec the cloud background and love that you mixed the washi's and the super cute cameras! And believe it or not, stash challenges are my favorite probably because I have sooo much of it! Sketches are a challenge even though I am on 3 Design Teams! Kate (Challenge YOUrself)

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  16. Great take on all 4 challenges. Lovely layout. Thank you for joining Challenge YOUrself.

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  17. Fabulous layouts!!! Love the background with the other products in the first one. Love the colors in the second one. Thanks for playing along with the Scraptober challenges and for linking up with The Memory Nest! Hope you will stop by and play along with our monthly challenges!!

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  18. Beautiful pages - I especially lovethe composition of the second one. Highly scrapliftable!

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