August Mystery Challenge

Before I show you what I did with the fabulous Scrapping Turtle August Mystery Kit, I am thrilled to announce that the layout I did for the July Mystery Kit was chosen as the winning layout. I am so excited!!!!! It was posted on the Scrapping Turtle blog too.

Here is what my winning layout looked like:

The August kit was a lot of fun to work with, as are all the kits. I really like the Jillibean Soup papers and Lori combined some fabulous goodies in this kit. We certainly were given lots to work with. I created the 'frame' around the paper using strips of the papers we were given. I cut the Quickutz border piece into four equal pieces for each of the corners, then embellished those with flowers, the centres from the border piece, brads and the ribbon.  The frogs were hand cut from the paper. 

I'm really excited to see what surprised Lori has for us in the September kit. I know it will be something fabulous!!!!

July Mystery Challenge

I had a great time with this month's Mystery Challenge kit from the Scrapping Turtle. It was full of lots of scrapping yummies -- American Crafts papers, die cut cardstock, buttons, brads, two kinds of ribbon, tulle, loop, transparency, Clearstar Gelly Roll pen, and pom pom ribbon. Fantastic!!!!!! 

I used my Quickutz Flourish border die with the striped paper, then cut the flourish into two sections. I also cut my title from the striped paper, using my Quickutz Sugar Sweet font. The flowers were created using three sizes of circle punch, then scrunching up the paper, lots of inking, and layering them together. I topped each flower with a button and a knotted piece of tulle. I used the transparency rulers to create my flower stems. The pom pom ribbon and polka dot ribbon formed my border across the bottom, while I used hand cut scalloped pieces to form a border on the right. I created ribbon leaves from the thin green ribbon, and used one more piece on the loop at the top. I outlined the die cut paper and the title with the Clearstar pen. I put it all together with these fabulous photos of my daughter Sara, taken by my dear friend Kim Munro.

I am thrilled with how this layout turned out.