Hogwarts | Michelle Mills (UglyBugPlans) | Moodboard

Moodboards that contain bright and bold colours? Yes please! This months theme is totally up me street and I had just the photo I wanted to use. The strong colours in the photo meant that I couldn't just pick one of them as a back ground colour so it was perfect for a multi coloured back ground.

I used bubble wrap and ink pads to create the back ground and chose to frame my photo in white, it then made sense for my title and embellishments to be white too. The title was actually a happy accident, I had planned to stamp the word "Hogwarts" onto the actual background in black (seeing as I have no white ink or embossing powder), before committing I decided to test stamp it on a piece of white card stock and I really liked the way it turned out!

Enamel dots gave a lovely texture and I used 3 of each colour seeing as there are 3 main objects in the photo and 3 flower embellishments, what then drove me to try to use all the colours when placing the row of enamel heart I will never know and I soon changed my mind and used just the red, green and blue to match the centre of the flowers!

You can view the whole process HERE!

NSD Winners

Thank you so much for your participation in our National Scrapbooking Day challenges.  Here is the post you have all been waiting for... it's time for the winners!

Challenge 1 - Single sketch sponsored by Lottie Loves Paper
The winner is Michelle Jeffrey

Challenge 2 - Double Sketch sponsored by Mind The Scrap
The winner is Courtney Grace Hirst

Challenge 3 - Mandala cut file sponsored by Hey Little Magpie
The winner is Sarah Kentzer

Challenge 4 - Flowers cut file sponsored by Pretty My Page
The winner is Cathalyn de Jong

Challenge 5 - Fleur cut file sponsored by Craft Consortium
The winner is Sandra Daly

Challenge 6 - Words cut file sponsored by Crafty Ribbons
The winner is Ally O'Neill

Challenge 7 - Scraplift our Whispers sponsored by Lollipop Box Club
The winner is Gemma Steele

Challenge 8 -Instaloop sponsored by UglyBugDesigns - The winner is Jo Boland

Challenge 9 - Moodboard sponsored by Crafty Templates
The winner is Natalie Nelson

And for the RAK's from my wonderful creative team;

Maria chose Cathalyn's take on the Scrapbook Whispers Challenge

Roxy chose Jo Drury's comment from the Scrapbook Fails post;

"The Worst Scrapbooking Fail EVER!!!!!!

We had a challenge at a retreat to use spare alphas. My idea was epic... I completely covered 2 pieces of card stock with random chipboard alphas of all sizes, it was a beautiful jigsaw of alphas covering every inch of the card from top to bottom. I painstakingly painted the entire thing black with acrylic paint so that they both looked like a blackboard with lovely embossed letters on the background. It took 3 coats of paint and the entire thing took nearly 24 hours from start to finish. I used them to back a fab picture of each of my twin nephews with school awards that they had recently won. It was a true labour of love... but it looked absolutely amazing!! I proudly hung them on the wall and was chuffed to bits when it was voted the challenge winner at the retreat.... I proudly walked up to collect my prize and Lorraine our crop organiser whispered with a sad face and a big sigh.....

You didn't cut the manufacturers strip off on either page.....

Epic fail! Although I can laugh about it now they still don't fit in my page protectors or album and I still haven't figured out a way to fix it!!! And it's still a topic of conversation at the crops whenever I start a new layout.. lol"

And Pol chose Leo from the Scrapbook Fails post;

"My biggest scrapbook fail was making an album - I make quite a lot of albums so it wasn't like I didn't know what I was doing but I think that's where the problem started - over confidence! This one was going to be a 9x12 size. I spent hours padding the chipboard bases, gluing and cutting some very precious fabric, (like Japanese import stuff quilting shops sell for ££) putting in the spine, riveting etc etc. Really cuffed to bits with it - go to put my page protectors in.... oh no, I made the album 9x12 perfectly totally forgetting about the page protectors being larger for the spine bits. doh doh doh!" 

And lastly, I (Laura) chose Wendy's layout for the sketch challenge because it includes Sussex Pond Pudding!!

Winners! - Please can you send an email with your name and address to ukscrapaddicts@gmail.com and we will sort out your prizes!  You have until 23rd May to claim your prize, any remaining prizes will be re drawn on the 24th May.

We would like to say a huge thank you to our wonderful sponsors for the generous prizes, and another huge thank you to all who entered!  See you again next year!!

NSD | Mood Board Challenge

 

Hello and welcome to our last challenge for NSD 2017!  This one is sponsored by Crafty Templates.  They are offering one of their fantastic Quirky Kits to one scrapper who links up a newly made layout inspired by our fruity mood board.

Here are what my fabulous team have come up with...

We've also got an example from Crafty Templates boss lady ...

And in case you were umming and aahing about whether to join in here is the prize Leonora is kindly offering...

Create a new layout based on this moodboard and link up below.


Entries close on Sunday 14th May at 9pm.  Winners will be chosen and notified on Monday 15th May 2017.  Prizes posted to UK addresses only.

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NSD Sponsor | Crafty Templates

Revealing the ninth (yes, we have NINE prizes up for grabs tomorrow) of our National Scrapbooking Day sponsors and prizes...

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All the details, how-tos and when-bys will be announced on the 6th May on this blog - see you there!