Scrapbooking...small style

I have signed up for a 6"x6" scrapbook page swap.. I thought that I would do a few today just to warm up... It's a very different thing to try and fill a 12"x 12" page to one a quarter of the size.. It felt like no sooner had I put a picutre on, than the page was filled. Here's my first few goes... there's no journalling as there just wasn't room! I wanted to use my SU! scrapping supplies and see what I could create just with paper and stamps.. (and perhaps just a little bit of the 'Recollections' paper range...)

Ethan is such a cute little man and the rosy red cheeks inspired me to use the Cranberry Crisp paper!

Doodling seems to be big.... I tried it on the next page ...

..and last but not least.. A picture of mum that I just love... I have been wanting to do something with this forever. I still want to do a larger page, but I had a copy of this in small format and it fitted perfectly... The colours haven't scanned just quite right, and it's a bit crooked ~ but you get the idea....

And after all that.. I'm still not happy with the page that I did for the swap... I shall just have to keep playing until the inspiration hits the bulls-eye..!

Cybercrop

I was part of my first ever cybercrop last Friday - it was hosted by my upline Jayne. She set the challenges and we had to complete them.. It was a great experience.. This page is from the first challenge Jayne set.. it was a sketch from the SU! website (here's the sketch if you would like to see what it's based on... http://www3.stampinup.com/images/WorkshopWizardintl/30-4579925.jpg )
and here's my take on the sketch....
The backgrounds are created using SU! stamps and the papers are from the Earth Elements colour family. I've embossed the "PASTA" and cut them out with the tag punch (love it!!). Yes I know there is no jouranling.. that's what the big blue sqaure is for... When I get it done I will change the picture. I was pretty happy with this for my first 'cyber' attempt.

The second challenge was to choose a card from the catalogue that uses a set you'd never buy and make the card again using a stamp set you own. We could change the colour scheme if we didn't have the same colours but the layout must be the same. I picked a card from page 88 of the current catalogue to interpret... I didn't have any of the "hardware", so made up my embellisjment from a couple of cut out leaves from the In Full Bloom set.


I can't wait for the next team get together..!