3-in-1 Challenges

Ooh, 3-in-1 challenges! This is my first time participating in 3 challenges using 1 layout. I have been joining Made With Love (MWL) challenges and twice in Lily Bee Design challenges, using different layouts.

This round, besides the regular MWL's fun, I chanced upon Lily Bee's sketch and at the same time, when I was viewing Juanna's layout from MWL gallery, I visited her blog and it mentioned Scrap With V's inspiration challenge.

I have never attempted any inspirational challenge, especially based on colors palette, hence I decided to give it a go.

Here are the respective criteria:

1)MWL 'Scrap This n That Challenge #11' hosted by Liana:

  - Scrap a 12 x 12 layout (no digital)
  - Show at least 1 circular shape and any bird image (papers, cut outs, or stamps)

2)Lily Bee Design 'Sketch Challenge #9' hosted by Patricia Roebuck:
  - Your layout must use at least two Lily Bee products.

3)Scrap With V's May Inspirational Challenge' hosted by Julianne:
  - Draw inspiration from this palette:

With the above in mind, here's my humble piece:

Here's the story of creation of this layout:

I found the above three photo which their colors matched so well to the inspiration palette.

So I started the layout by selecting Lily Bee's pattern papers (pp) that matched to the color palette. I die-cut circular shapes using the pp and did a rub-on bird image to fulfil MWL Liana's requirements.

Here are Lily Bee's pattern papers (pp) and alphabets:

Buttercup, Rain pp: 

Victoria Park, Grand Theatre pp:

Harvest Market, Pumpkin Seeds pp:

Harvest Market, ABC stickers:

I drew inspiration from the items in the lime hues palette - the leaves and the green+pale yellow flower (as shown below) somehow relates to the lime with leaves. This little cluster was done to match Lily Bee's sketch too:

I was pleased with this God-dropped little inspiration: the pumpkin seeds pp were punched and cut out as part of the banner. The colors of the tiny hearts and the 2 ribbons were to adhere to the color palette: 

The title was made using Lily Bee's ABC stickers which were pasted onto ice-cream sticks and I lightly painted the stick with some gesso. 

That's what I had done and indeed it was a 3-in-1 fun!

Today is Mother's Day and here's sharing a picture found from Pinterest. I love the wordings. To all the wonderful Mommies: God bless you richly with His strength and favours as you nurture your little ones. Blessed Mother's Day :)

Thank you for visiting and have a Blessed day :)

Photo-A-Day >> April 2012

April – What a pretty name for a month and perhaps for a lady too :)

My April PAD layouts are done with the intention of having a border around the page by using stamps, stamp pads and washi tapes that I have recently purchased, and to make it simple.

My heart said to use Technique Tuesday Ali Edwards ‘Hello Routine’ stamps:

However, when my eyes looked at them, they are all near-oval shapes and I frowned. But hey, God dropped me a little idea – break them! Haha, not to physically do so, but to stamp and use half of it only. Voila! I love the border result – the ‘Hello Routine’ is now nicely splitted into half using the blue and pink color. What do you think?

For part 2 of the PAD, I wanted to adopt the same theme, and I screened through the same set of stamps. I knitted my brows once again. Which stamp is suitable to do a border?

This round, I looked at them a different perspective – pick the words that are applicable. There it goes, the ‘everyday’ and ‘life’ from 2 stamps.  Yay, I am happy with the outcome again!

As I used white cardstock for the background of both, I filled up the white space of each day’s cell by random stamping with the entire block of matching distress ink. Lastly, the other sides of the borders are laid with washi tapes.

That’s all for the PAD. Here's sharing a scenery Clouds@Sky on 26 Apr 2012, 6.30am. It resembled a hedgehog vs a dragon. Just my imagination :)

Thank you for visiting and have a blessed lovely day.