Blueprint To Go...again!

My gorgeous January scrapagogo kit arrived this morning and I couldn't wait to play with it.  I am loving the new Blueprint To Go that Scrapagogo have on their club house (which is open to non subscribers!) so I decided to use it again.  I thought a paper layout with the sketch turned through 90 degrees would make it different enough that it wasn't  obvious I had used the same starting point.

Something different

Scrapagogo have started a new monthly sketch and I decided to use that together with the hybrids they produce to see if I could produce a digital layout and this is the result.

As the main purpose of the hybrids is to print and cut out the elements to add to traditional paper supplies there aren't any background papers.  So I created my own papers (the tan background and the green photo mounts) using the colour scheme provided with the sketch.  All the other elements except the brads are from the gogo hybrids created by Kirsty Wiseman over the last 2 or 3 months.  The brads are part of a set by Carina Gardiner.

If you can't guess photos were taken on my daughters 18th birthday!

December Crop continued

Here are the rest of the layouts I did at the December crop.  The double layout is photos taken at Universal Studios of some of the props for the Halloween Horror night.  We went to the horror night 

but I didn't get any good photos - too scary to stop and take pictures!

The other layout was a quick one put together at the end of the crop.  The photos are some of the many taken at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Universal.

December Crop

Ok I am a little behind as we have had the local January crop already but here are a couple of layouts I did in December.  The first one is using a picture of my daughters bedroom wall, covered in layouts we did during the summer holidays in 2009 to decorate her room.

The second layout is from our holiday to Florida last October.  We went to see the band The Script at the House of Blues in Downtown Disney.  The last concert we went to in the US they wouldn't allow cameras so I didn't try and take mine this time so of course they were allowed!  I took a couple of pictures on my phone but the conditions weren't great!  The flowers are some handmade ones I found in a shop in Orlando.

As usual the majority of the supplies are from Scrapagogo kits, probably Sept, Oct and Nov last year.

Cyber Crop

At the beginning of the month was a UK Scrappers cybercrop.  I only did a couple of classes.  This one was all about tearing papers and I used some old favourite photos that went with the theme.

The other class I did was a digital layout.

Same template different layout

Having enjoyed creating the previous layout this morning I decided to see how I could adapt the template to give me a different layout.  Template is from Jessica Sprague but the papers and elements are from LivEdesigns, Sing for Spring kit also available from JessicaSprague.com

Digi Layout

I am loving Jessica Sprague's photoshop Friday series.  Really quick pages but learning something new every time.

Digital Designer

One of the reasons I didn't post much over the summer was because I took part in Jessica Sprague's Art of Design course.  It was aimed at college (US) level so was fairly intense, especially as I hadn't done any real design before and only a small amount of digi scrapbooking.  It was a fantastic course and I learnt so much.  At the end there was an exam and we had to submit some work to Carina Gardner for her to critique - scary stuff but I was over the moon with what she sent back.  So here is the proof:-

I still haven't finished the full kit as I still need to work on a few extra elements but I have created a layout with some of the papers/elements I have designed so far.

I really want to finish off my first kit and get to work on the next....hopefully soon!

Monthly Crop

Today was our monthly local crop.  It was a really nice day, good company and a reasonable amount of scrapping done too.

I think everything I used for all 3 layouts came from the gorgeous Scrapagogo September kit (except the brown thread).  This has to be one of my all time favourite kits and I still have loads left.

Gogo Take Shape

I know it has been a very long time since my last entry but a couple of weeks ago was the Gogo Take Shape event in Jersey.  Here are the 5 layouts I did that weekend. It was a fantastic day of classes, all different.  I think the one thing I learnt most was how useful and versatile the hybrid alphas are.