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.