September Class

Last month we started a new feature here at Pics 'n Tales - a Scrap-Challenge. We kicked off with an "ugly paper" challenge. After all the fun we had playing "musical paper" to get our paper packs, we were very excited to see what the ladies came up with. I must say, we were delighted with the outcome. The layouts are all beautiful! Well done girls! 

Here are the layouts:

Ezme Hartman

Mare-Liez Oosthuizen

Karen Coetser

Patricia Owermeyer

Colleen de Wet

Helmien Van Reenen

Niesa Hermanus

Stacey de Wet

We are having a sketch challenge for October and can't wait to see the ladies' efforts!

Back to serious business: Our kit this month consisted of the Curiosity Collection from Kaisercraft. The kit was stacked with lots of paper and flowers, including the co-ordinating Curiosity clear stamp. It was my turn to design the layout this month and the colours just worked perfectly with photographs of my daughter, recently taken by Samantha Hanlon, from Sun Kissed Studio.

The title of the layout is "Life" and I used the stamp for the rest of the sentiment. I stamped in black ink and then embossed it with dimensional glaze. Besides lots of fussy cutting, I did not want to distract from the beautiful paper with lots of techniques and settled on some border punching.

This is my layout:

And as it is customary for us to give a second take on the same kit, here is Mare-Liez's layout as well. 

From now on we will also feature some of the layouts finished in class, especially those who added their own flair to the layout, like Helmien van Reenen;

and Niesa Hermanus.

We were so enchanted with this paper collection that both Mare-Liez and I made a second single page layout with the left-over paper. You can read more about these layouts on our personal blogs.

Ezme's blog

Mare-Liez's blog

We also had the prize giving for our Charity Scrap Challenge that Niesa won. Congratulations again, Niesa , enjoy your prize!

Well, that is all that I have to share for the moment! Thanks for stopping by.

August class

We had a blast at this month's class! We welcomed new friends, we had a fun challenge, and two very different takes on the same layout - all in one day....

Before the class, we asked everyone to bring a few ugly papers from their stash, along with an ugly embellishment, to class. Well, let me just say that not everybody thinks of "ugly" in the same way. While some paper sets really fit the description, others would still be bought if they were on the shelves today. We had quite an energetic round (well, three rounds) of "musical paper packs", before we were each rewarded with someone else's idea of "ugly". The challenge now is to make a project, where at least a bit of all the paper and embellishments in the pack is visible, before the next class at the end of September. Can't wait to see what the ladies come up with!!!!

Then it was on to the business of the day:

 

 

The name of this My Mind's Eye paper range was so beautiful, I decided to use it as the title for the layout. The gorgeous patterned paper was combined with some washi tape with cute little birds and birdcages on it, a sticker sheet used in an unusual way, ribbon and a few brads. Each kit also contained a full set of MME stamps, so everyone could really personalise the layout to suit their own style.

 

As always, there were as many variations on the layout as there were people in the class. To provide even more inspiration to the ladies in the class, Ezme created a slightly different layout, using the same kit content:

 

So after a full day of creativity and fun, we look forward to seeing you at our next class. Happy scrapping until then!