Scrapbooking | Hey Little Magpie Cyber Crop

Some times I want to just scrap whatever I fancy, whatever flows out of my fingers with no rules or parametres; other times I love to get stuck in to a challenge.  Recently I've been all about the challenges.   Hey Little Magpie ran a cyber crop over the weekend and I have managed four layouts so far.  I have a few more planned out in my head too, but we'll see if they get made before the deadline...

Concord and 9th watering can die paired with Heffy Doodle patterned papers, rainbow photo corners, old stickers and a little bit of subtle embossing with a scoreboard and bone folder.  Percy, my last budgie was nicknamed Sweet Pea and these were 'her' flowers that bloomed after she passed away.  I feel very sentimental and soppy about them, and her, hence the journalling on the front.  I also added journalling on the back.

This is the song the big boys sing to their little brother.  It's the lyrics to Party All Night by Sean Kingston altered to fit newborn baby life!  These Amy Tangerine alphas have been in my stash for YEARS!  I went to my account section at HLM to see if I could work out a year but the order history doesn't go back that far!  That feels like a good chunk of them used up and there are still loads of consonants left, and some vowels left, so the possibility of more titles to come.  Ideally I'll finish the entire alpha book up over the next few months!

This green creation is based on a sketch by Jackie Ashton.  I sorted through my enamel dots and I have an embarrassing amount.  I frequently reach for the small ones and ignore the large ones.  I was pleased to get a few big ones on to this layout.  These circle negatives were left over from January's shape focus - because apparently I never throw anything away!

The challenge for this layout was to use a black and white photo.  All of the paper and cardstock was already out on my monstrosity of a desk and it was simple a matter of arranging it and adding labels and dots.  As it is a fairly simple layout I added interest by adding a tone on tone patterned background.  This is an old cut file I designed for SpiegleMom Scraps which you can grab for free here.

I have some heart makes to photograph this week so there should be a blog post soon sharing them.  I made the mistake of about thinking about triangles (which will be my next focus) and now I'm itching to move on when I haven't really fully exploited the heart stash yet.