Just a little bit of teaching

I am helping a friend sort out her blog so am practising some techniques here so I can explain.
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Height????

The next challenge on Off The Rails Scrapbooking   http://offtherailsscrapbooking.blogspot.com.au/
involved adding height to a project which severely limited what I could do so I decided on a cake platter of cupcakes.

I cut a 6 x 4 card and then a background piece of lightly decorated paper and then inked the edges of both the card and the background using a gold ink pad. 

Next step was to open the new die that I bought from Shelley's Land https://www.facebook.com/groups/486192618129379/ and then to find some silver paper. Fortunately I had some in my old Creative Memories stash. Then I used the Cuttlebug to cut and emboss. I have decided that fleecy fabric works well as shim. A bit odd I know - but hey - if it works....why not?

I used a mini patty case to cut the paper shells but after I had decided on the cakes I had to trim them a bit more. I tried both circle and football punches and decided that the football with trimmed sides made excellent little cakes.

 

Then it was time to mount the cakes onto the cake stand using raised dots - I had a bit of height. Not a lot I must admit but a bit!!!!!!! Now all I needed was a bit of bling.

 

Doesn't look like it has any height at all - but I am happy and it won't rip in the post.

Scrapping along and meeting challenges

This latest challenge from "Scrapbooking Off The Rails" involved a choice of 4 colours. Most others in the group are hands on paper scrappers and use lots of embellishments. I have decided to keep going with my own approach and continuing my digital work as I can do it in the van and while we travel. Craft supplies take up so much room! I manage to take card making bits and pieces with me in the van but leave the paper scrapping to home time.

  I took the 4 colour panel on offer in the guidelines and decided to use those exact colours as the background paper. Plaiding was my plan. However it looked somewhat dull and flat so my final step was to use both the 4 colour panel and the flowers that were included in the challenge. My background fiddles are shown below.

First try at background

Next step after I rejected the above arrangement

Still not satisfied so I used the flower strip in both directions to achieve my finished background paper

Then it was time to add the pictures. There were too many to choose from so I ended up with a double page spread. I reversed the background paper on the second page of the spread.

I quite enjoyed revisiting this beautiful part of Australia through my scrapping and now look forward to printing some of these pages and popping them in my album.

Dear me - I reread the instructions and discovered I should have used their sketch as well.

This is where digital scrapbooking comes into its own. I took my final page above - deleted some of the photos - added some more trim, moved the title and then I had my entry!