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colours and words week 13 - simple

 

 

At first Chris found this colour scheme quite challenging, then she remembered this photo of her husbands indoor cricket team and thought the colours could work together - well she was right! Chris has used We R Memory Keepers MVP range mostly on this layout as well as mixing in some Basic Grey Offbeat buttons. She also pulled out the old trick of 'if you can't find an alphabet in the colour you are after then hand cut it from cardstock.'

For the word prompt Chris has used 'simple' in her title and this is what her journalling says "Mens 2008/09 indoor cricket team. The team lost 8 games on the trot, but did win the vital games that put them into the Semi’s and then the final. The team they came up against in the final had beaten them quite convincingly during the season, but the boys pulled out their best game of the season when it counted. They thrashed em’!"

 

   

Blue, orange and green are three of Mel's favourite colours to scrap with, so given that this challenge included three of those colours, it was an easy choice for product. Mel chose to keep the page relatively simple as she wanted to use the layout as a front page for a camping album that she is working on at the moment. The chipboard buttons and diecuts are from the Crate Static range - such warm, rich colours and the buttons are easily added to the page with their adhesive backing.

The main title has been gently lifted off the page to add extra dimension and the hand stitching around the edge ties everything together and gives another texture to the page.
Keeping with the theme for the challenge, Mel included journaling (alongside the long colourful strip) talking about the simple pleasures of getting away in their camper as a family.

Congratulations to Tracey Henly for winning the poll with her excellent layout last week.  And now for our final week of Colours and Words we have three fabulous entries.  Thanks ladies!  Vote for your favourite in the sidebar. 

 

Sandra Wilkinson

 

Tracey Henly

 

Danielle Quarmby

colours and words week 12 – random

 

 

Jaimie has used a random photo and clustered random embellishments in her colour challenge page.

Random is a word that Caz hear alot in her house. Everything seems to be random to teenage girls these days. Caz decided to do another page for her 'book of lists'. She loves to collect quotes to use on layouts and these quotes are her all time favourites. They are printed out and sticky taped to her wall near her desk on scraps of paper but Caz felt that they needed a permanent record of their own.

They epitomize Caz in a way - a quote about jeans (her fav clothing), a quote about not accepting growing older, a quote about photography (her fav hobby) and a quote about being true to yourself (something she is always telling her kids).

Caz has noticed people using these random circle accents to decorate their pages lately and decided to have a go herself. She simply punched out 3 different sized circles, distressed the edges using her fingernail, stuck them on top of each other and added a button. Not high tech stuff but she was very happy with the result.

 

And now to some stunning pages from our readers – thank you ladies!

 

Alicia Redshaw

 

Janine Koczwara

 

Tracey Henly

 

Trina McClune

 

Sandra Wilkinson

 

And congratulations to Sandra Wilkinson for winning last weeks challenge.

 

Next week is the final one in this series – one for the boys perhaps!

colours and words: week 11

 

 

 

Steph found these colours really easy to work with, and the Basic Grey Lemonade range was perfect for this challenge. Bright pinks, greens, yellows and blues are showcased on this fun layout of her daughter Emma. She distressed all the edges with Heidi Swapp's Edge Distresser and then inked them in the gorgeous inks that Hero Arts distribute.

Steph added that home made touch with plenty of machine stitching and she made her own flowers and leaves using the new Aussie Scrap Source Cardstock. I think you will agree that they just finish off this lovely creation.

 

 

This colour challenge lent itself more to a girlie type layout, but Carole managed to sneak her son into the picture as well lol !!
The vibrancy of these colours was really beautiful and some of Carole's favourite colours, so she decided to make this layout more delicate and pretty, and utilise the use of pretty butterflies and other cute embellishments to match.

 

And now to your entries!  We thought this was a difficult colour palette – but your fabulous layouts make it look effortless.  Thanks so much to all who have participated.

 

  

Janine Kocswara

 

Jo Kinder

 

Trina McClune

 

Tracey Henly

 

 

Debbie Johnston

 

Sandra Wilkinson

 

 

Penny Ash

 

Congratulations to Jo Kinder for winning Week 10! Jo please email us with your details so we can send out your prize pack.

There’s only two more weeks to run with our colours and words competition and here they are…

 

Week 12 – Random.  Due Tuesday 8 September.

 

 

and finally – Week 13 – Simple.  Due 15 September.  Please email your layouts to aussiedt@iinet.net.au by these dates to be included in the blog post. 

colours and words: week 10

 

 

 

As soon as Nic saw this colour scheme she decided a nice mix of BasicGrey Wisteria and Porcelain would be perfect. Both have gorgeous green papers that would mix well with small amounts of the purple and blue to fit the colour scheme. Nic created her base with the BasicGrey papers, but decided to use a green decorative edge paper in the Little Yellow Bicycle Zinnia series to embellish down the right side. A small spray of a blue Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist and the base was done.

NIc finished her layout by creating distressed circle flowers from the purple and blue in Wisteria, and a small flourish from Pink Paislee. The title was created with perfectly coloured Heidi Swapp cardstock stickers, (love them in the new booklet!) and a BasicGrey font sprayed with Juniper Glimmer Mist. Although this layout is predominantly green, it is the smaller touches of purple and blue that add contrast. Perfect for the colour scheme Nic was given!

 

 

Chris said she loved working with this colour scheme and thought of the SEI Bridgeport range straight away. She put the papers together with this photo of her daughter and her friends getting ready to go to school camp recently. The journalling explains that the friendships have been a bit more challenging this year, but that the group of girls always manage to work it out.

 

 

   

Jo Kinder

 

 

Tracey Henley

 

Trina McClune

 

Congratulations to Nina Granzien for winning last weeks poll with her beautiful layout.  Next week is a challenging one!  Email us at aussiedt@iinet.net.au by Tuesday 1 September to play.

colours and words: week 9

This colour combo has SEI and Heidi Swapp written all over it, according to Donna! It just screams pink lemonade, flowers, love hearts and whimsy...so that's exactly what Donna did with this beautiful colour palette. Here she has used Heidi Swapp's Lemonade Dots patterned paper as the inspiration for the layout paying particular attention to the large circles in the design. The circle design comcept is repeated throughout the layout with Luxe circle rubons, Hambley's overlay and SEI epoxy stickers.

The meaning behind the layout - which is just as important as the design concept - talks about Donna's realisation that her baby girl is growing up. The journalling reads:  "She fills my days with fun, laughter, frustration, joy & chaos, but above all, sheer happiness! We are nearing the day she will become a school girl & I'm afraid my happiness may fade - just a little. But, I guess it's all part of the job!"

 

Another journalling-based layout, this time from Suz, tells the story of when her daughter got a folded straw (sample shown on the layout!) stuck up her nose and she had to take her to the emergency department to have it removed. 

Suz admits she got a bit carried away with the colour palette side of this challenge, and completely forgot about the 'word' part. She was so happy to get a story in an album that she really wanted to be there, and afterwards realised that technically it actually had nothing - at all - to do with happiness. She couldn't even find a way to add it in as an afterthought.  Apart from the fact that her two children are her main focus and happiness on this earth, and she's completely happy with that being the case.  She’s hoping that counts?! 

Suz has used Aussie’s new textured cardstock as the basis to this layout and added some gorgeous BasicGrey elements from the new Lemonade range.

And now some beautiful contributions from our readers…  thanks to all of you – our regulars and some new faces - for participating!

 

 

Penny Ash

 

Janine Koscwara

 

 

 

Rachel Tucker

 

 

 

Anthea Peterson

 

Tracey Henley

 

 

Nina Granzien

 

A big congratulations to Janine Koscwara for winning our last weeks challenge with her stunning layout.  Email me Janine with your address so we can send out your prize!

 

This is our next weeks colour palette and word.  Please email your layouts to aussiedt@iinet.net.au by Tuesday 25 August.

week 8: colours and words – ready?!

 

 

 

Jaimie actually had a completely different project for this theme - however when her daughter came out wearing these very funky knee-high socks for school she knew this was a LO in the making! The beauty of the colour palette theme is that there is no limit to product and the amazing thing is just how many manufacturers go together. Jaimie has used a mix of Basic Grey wisteria and Eva as well as Pink Paislee and Hero Arts stamps with a little bit of Heidi Swapp.

The end result is a very cute girly page with the focus on her daughters emerging and very individual fashion sense. The theme word "Ready" has been used in the title as a play on the 'Ready or Not' catch cry.

 

Chris found that the new Little Yellow Bicycle Zinnia range went quite well with this colour chart and she also used a bit of Crate Paper Prudence and Luxe Simply Turquoise to bring in the other colours. Chris has recently had passport applications done for both her daughters, she used the out take photos for this layout and the prompt word 'ready' for part of her title.

And here’s our readers takes on this potentially tricky colour palette – thanks to all of you for your patience with this post!

 

 

Anthea Peterson

 

Jo Kinder

 

 

Lara Moss

 

 

Penny Ash

 

 

  

Agnus Kasprzak

 

Janine Koczwara

 

A big congratulations to Jo Kinder for winning last weeks layout!  Jo – please email me with your address so we can send you out some goodies.

 

Finally, our next colour palette is bright and pretty – we’d love to see what you do with this one!  Please email us at aussiedt@iinet.net.au by Wednesday 18 August with your layout.

 

colours and words: week 7

 

 

 

 

For this colour challenge Mel used a mix of Pink Paislee chipboard elements (Fetching) on a background sheet of We R Memory Keepers diecut (Anne). The mix of aquas and yellows worked perfectly with the colour guidelines and the title (believe) was included in with the journaling. Final touches were added by dressing up the chipboard a little with some Queen & Co rhinestones (Halloween) and a splash of machine stitching.

 

 

This was a colour palette that Nicole might have overlooked had it not been for this challenge. She hardly ever uses yellow yet was impressed by how it emphasised the subtle golden tones in her photograph.

The fresh colours were the perfect combination for this story about a cheeky note written by Nic's daughter Madeleine as to why she couldn't clean her bedroom. A row of eyelets in the gold colour laced with Heidi Swapp tulle balances the layout design nicely.

 

And now a big thank you to all our readers who participated in this week’s challenge – some regulars who we really appreciate joining in each week,  and some new faces which is exciting to see!  Here are their layouts – all are welcome to browse through them and vote for your favourite in the sidebar.

 

Ali Williams

 

 

Anthea Peterson

 

Debbie Johnston

 

 

Jo Kinder

 

Lara Moss

 

  

Lyndal Higgins

 

Penny Ash

 

 

Tanya Soutar

 

 

And finally a reminder for next week’s challenge – enjoy!  We can’t wait to see your entries.

colours and words: week 6

 

 

 

This was a more challenging variation on the pink and green palette than Suz was expecting though the slightly-off more tertiary colours were beautiful, they were harder to find examples of.  Lucky for her the gorgeous new SEI Mimosa provided the perfect cardstock backdrop and of course changing photos that didn’t rely on colour to black and white was a go-to solution.

Suz used few embellishments, but loves the new BasicGrey bling and handcut a Hambly leaf, and a combination of all-new Websters and Rose Moka alpha stickers worked wonderfully with the colour palette.

 

It's not often we see Nic use a lot of cardstock in her layouts, but this one, using Kraft cardstock, is perfect timing with the release of new Aussie Scrap Source textured cardstock in 75 colours. Nic paired the Kraft cardstock with Basicgrey Eva, carefully cutting patterns to create a delicate pattern across the layout.

The emphasis in this layout is definitely the story, with journaling printed directly on to the cardstock capturing memories of when Nic was a little girl.

A simple yet effective layout, using cardstock and one range of patterned paper. Finishing details include a Twiddleybitz butterfly, Rose Moka alphas and BasicGrey Bling.

   

This weeks contributors – thank you to all of you for hanging in there through school holidays and busy days…

 

Lara Moss

 

Agnus Kasprzak

 

Anthea Peterson

 

Nina Granzien

 

Julie Bode

 

 

 

We’re giving you an extra week to create with this beautiful colour palette – please email us at aussiedt@iinet.net.au with your entries by Tuesday 28th July.

 

Congratulations to Anthea Peterson for winning last weeks challenge.

colours and words: week five

 

 

Here's what Chris has to say about this layout: 'I took this photo of my daughter Annaliese and my nephew Jack enjoying a bit of poetry from my husband a few months ago and I've been wanting to put it down onto a layout and didn't really know how I wanted to the page to come together.

That's where these sorts of challenges are perfect. When I saw the word prompt was 'listen' I thought of this photo and worked a title around it. I used quite a few different pattern papers from Crate Paper and some more from SEI and a little bit of Scenic Route thrown in for good measure! With some Hero Arts flowers and a combination of Crate Paper and Little Yellow Bicycle alphabet stickers the layout came together wonderfully!'

 

Caz combines 2 different companies paper rages to get the colour scheme for this weeks challenge, Heidi Swapp's World Traveller and Dream Dining Room, and Basic Grey's Granola. She cut out a few heart shaped templates and then randomly cut the hearts from different papers that complimented each other. All the edges were inked with brown ink to give them uniformity.

This is probably not the first colour scheme she would have chosen for this picture of her daughter and one of the Disney Fairies in Disneyland but the neutral background lets the bright colours of the fairy stand out. The sentiment also seemed to fit exactly as even though Caz's daughter is starting High School next year, she is one of those children that likes to hang onto little pieces of her childhood, including her belief in fairies.

 

And thanks to those few readers who have found time over the school holidays to continue the challenge – not many but we love the different interpretations of the colour palette.

 

Anthea Peterson

 

 

Lara Moss

 

Penny Ash

Congratulations to Nina Granzien for winning last weeks challenge!  Prizes for the first four weeks will be sent out in the next few days.

 

And here’s next weeks colours – we’re looking forward to seeing what you do with this soft pretty palette.

colours and words – week four

 

 

 

 

Caz is not sure which threw her more, the unusual colour combination or the journaling prompt 'routine'. These gorgeous papers from the SEI Bridgeport range had the perfect blue and purple, then Caz cheated a little and added some of the lime to give it a lift. She snuck the 2 shades of yellow in using the Basic Grey letter stickers as the title.

Caz actually built the page before she even thought about the words, after all, she really has no set routine, she just gets in the car and drives the kids around, ALOT.  It wasn't until she sat down and wrote out what they did routinely every week that she realised it wasn't just random driving at all (and that she really shouldn’t worry that her kids don't get enough exercise, lol).

Caz downloaded a calendar page from the internet and changed the colour to match her layout then simply printed her journaling over the top.

 

This colour challenge was something that took Jaimie time to get her head around. It’s one thing to create projects using manufacturer product but to just go off colour alone was a little tricky. Jaimie liked the striking combination but felt in using so much 'bright' any photo or journaling might become lost so she teamed the palette with white which toned down the yellow and orange making the blues and dark purples pop. The journalling prompt was a word that is at the foundation of Jaimie’s world! Routine is something she lives by and could not survive her hectic life without. Jaimie journalled about her insane need to have everything running to schedule and how she relies on lists, diaries and plans to make her life run smoothly.

A photo of her daily diary complete with her much used highlighter pens gives focus to her journalling and her cute clusters of layered flowers, brads, circle cutouts and a very large but cute bird sticker add a touch of whimsy to Jaimie's page about her insane need for routine.

 

And now to our readers entries – some fabulous examples of colour schemes here.

 

Anthea Peterson

 

 

  

Cookie Aguilar

 

 

Julie Bode

 

 

Lara Moss

 

Moira Garton

 

Nina Granzien

 

 

   

Ronnie Simpson

 

Congratulations to Nina Granzien for winning Week 3 with her stunning layout.  Nina please email me with your address!

 

 

We’ve had great feedback on these challenges so we thought we’d keep it going another few weeks (and maybe another few after that!).  Here are the next four weeks colour palettes – we love to see you return each week and new readers are always welcome – pop in for just the one challenge if you like the colours -  or do the lot!

week five – deadline tuesday 7 july

 

week six – deadline tuesday 14 july

 

week seven – deadline tuesday 21 july

 

week eight – deadline tuesday 28 july