Seven layouts Seven Challenges

This post is an attempt to get around the problems I'm having posting a link to all seven layouts done for the seven challenges on the Challenge Me Happy blog 'Hoopla'!  So I am posting all layouts in one big post.  So here goes: BIG FAN OF ROSES is the four word title.

Firstly, the challenge from Hannah with the recipe.  And I chose to create a layout of my forever favourite climbing rose.  Sorry, don't know the name of it now as it is quite old. It lasts only for 6-8 weeks, but strangely now, in the middle of winter has three or four flowers.
The second is Missy's Book of Me with the title including the words 'Someday I hope to...' I finished it with the plea to have more time to scrap.

Here is Norine's challenge of creating a layout of a birthday.  Any birthday!  So here goes - a fifth birthday.

Next is Lisa's challenge of a take on an advertisement using multi photos. I did the journalling using mini alphas, which took ages to stick on.  The journalling describes a typical Christmas for our family.

For Annelie's challenge using a photo to entice us to create, I put all of the details on the right hand side of the layout as if piling them up on the bookshelves which appear in the photo.  This is one of two Motat layouts I did for this challenge.

The penultimate layout is for Michelle's word challenge - to use the word Happy.  And always, catching sprats at Bucklands Beach is a time for the boys of great happiness.

And lastly, the sketch challenge from Marie meant I created a page showing Motat's holiday programme in January, when they put on a spectacular light show which the boys loved.

Well, these are all my layouts.  Thanks Challenge Me Happy for the incentive to speed scrap.  Not something I usually do, as my pace is quite leisurely.

I've been scrapbooking rather a lot

Here is another layout for the Challenge Me Happy blog hoopla challenge.  It is of Hannah's challenge - a recipe.  And I chose to create a page about the climbing rose that flowers briefly in spring.  The title is four words and all of the elements of the recipe are there.  This took some thinking about how to fit in all of the elements, but I made it!

Challenge Me Happy - the deal and two layouts!

This is a poor, sad blog.  It's February since I wrote anything, let alone loaded up some layouts I've completed.  And I have completed lots!  It's just time to do everything in my case.
But along came a challenge site I fell upon - Challenge Me Happy.  It's been going for a year and has seven challenges to entice a scrapbooking addict.  So here are two layouts I completed.

The bottom layout:  Motat Light Show is based upon the sketch challenge from Marie. The photos were taken at the Museum of Transport and Technology's light show and here the boys created shadow silhouettes of themselves on a screen on the left.  On the right they are posing! The top layout:  Happy is based upon the challenge to use the word 'Happy' in a layout and is from Michelle. And anything to do with the boys catching sprats equals happiness.

Challenges

Layouts as different from chalk to cheese.

I've been inspired by two sites to create layouts and follow the instructions. The first is The Color Room and the palette for #96. The second has many more challenge to be faced for it has journalling requirements and evidence requirements as part of the challenge. It is a new site. Go to CSI for this challenge. But either are just one of the many exciting challenges now on the net.

Altered photos

There are heaps of photo editing programmes available on the net and I love fiddling with the way a photo can be altered to produce a unique image. So in this layout is a take on using altered photos. How you alter them can produce layouts from the serious and sublime to the ridiculous.

Love this site!

The papers and inspiration from The Scrapcake Blog are a joy.