Jacob Love's Trains

I have a group over at Let's Scrap called Let's Scrap Our Stash.  We try to encourage each other to use the stash we have instead of buying new things.  We also post a couple of challenges each month that use up lots of stash. Because I wasn't feeling the greatest for a while and then life got real busy  I have been very fortunate the past few months to have my good friend Kathy Perry posting the challenges for me.  I figured it was about time that I gave Kathy a break and I did the challenge for a change.
For the challenge this time around I wanted the members to use lots of chipboard and use at least different techniques on them to alter the look of them.  I was very fortunate to have been gifted a lot of the Enmarc Crafts white chipboard pieces "chippies" last month. Enmarc is a business in South Africa and they have amazing products.  They started a scrapping group a couple of months ago and each month they have a sketch challenge. You can find there group here. So I decided to use this months sketch and several of their "chippies" for the Scrap our Stash Challenge.
Here is what there sketch looks like:

and here is the layout I made using it

     Where I live there is a rail line right beside us so there are trains passing by several times a day.  My grandson has always been fascinated with them and every time he hears one he runs to the window to see it.  I decided that he was finally old enough to go visit the Railway Museum that we have here in town.  Although it was one of the hottest days this summer that we picked to visit he still had a fantastic time.  He got to go inside a bunch of the old trains and check out the buttons and phones.  He also got to see a huge  train set that they had all set up there and loved watching all the different trains traveling around all the houses and people.
     I was thrilled that Enmarc had sent me the train mini album because it worked perfectly to hold my journaling in and was light enough to be attached to the layout.  I also loved all the chipboard gears they sent.   I used different techniques to color all the chipboard.  Some I used embossing powders on, some I painted, others I stickled and I even used markers on one of them.  I find the "chippies" so versatile that you can use just about anything on them.  I also decided to use the Timeworks Tim Holtz masks on my background paper because they looked like gears and used blue skys glimmer mist to make them show up.  I had a blast doing the layout.
I hope all of you are having a great week and Happy Scrapping.

Happiness

Today I posted the second Let's Scrap Our Stash Challenge over at Let's Scrap.  I am so thrilled with all the interest the members are showing in the group and the challenges. 
For this weeks challenge you have to use at least 5 brads, 3 patterned papers and 3 different stamps.  Here is the example I posted for them.

For this layout I used 14 brads, they are tiny but they were used in all the flowers and the two metal pieces on the last picture.  I used 4 different patterned papers, they are the yellow polka dot paper for the title, brown polka dot paper behind the pictures on the first page, yellow patterned paper on both pages (it is quite light but it is pp) and the green pp on the second page.  I then went crazy with stamps and used a total of 10 different stamps. Everything I used were Close to My Heart products.
I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with for the challenge.   If your interested in joining in on the challenges you can find out all about them buy joining me at Let's Scrap.