Another entry ...

We have another email entry, this time from Jacqui Mc Cully.  Thank you so much for taking the time to enter our challenge.

Our January winners ....

Well it appears to be the "Tale of two Lizzy's"  for last month.

Congratulations to Lizzy Hill and Lizzy Crust for their fabulous entries.  Well done ladies.

Lizzy Hill

Lizzy Crust

and I've also done a random draw winner - Number 8 which is Tracey Bickerton

I have addresses for both Lizzy's but could you please email me yours Tracey and I will see your prize gets out to you.

Thank you to everyone who entered last month - we'd love to have you play along with us again.

Our first entry ...

We have an email entry for February from Donna Seamon.

 Donna says ...

I love the style of the inspiration poster. It challenged me to use colors together, that I wouldn't normally gravitate to.

The color and movement reminded me of this photo of my daughter, that I took after we finished decorating for my grandson's birthday party at the Milwaukee (Wisconsin) County Zoo.  My daughter's sense of accomplishment and pride beam in her smile. She did a twirl and 'snap', I captured it all.

February on Pixels and Paper ...

Welcome to February.  We had a wonderful response to our inspiration piece this past month. Thank you so much for creating with us.

This month we bring you something a little different - a vintage poster.  I just love the colours and the free flowing feel of this design.

What do you see when you study this image?  Dancing, water flowing, a bright tropical scene, flowers, parrots,  a red haired girl, ballet class, playing dress up, Paris, even a wedding perhaps.  We'd love to see your interpretation of this wonderful poster.

You will be delighted with the sample pages created by the Pixels and Paper team.

DI

For my inspiration I looked at the suggested movement of the dancer, body and clothes, took some of the colours, and gave it quite a twist, (as you shall see!)

The very first thing that sprang to mind when I first saw this picture was a Spanish Dancer... not  the human variety, but the marine creature. It is the name given to a spectacular branch of the sea-slug (horrid name for gorgeous creatures) family.

I've used a dotted card stock background (Bo Bunny) and among the techniques used have been applied gesso through a stencil and coloured it with mists and ink sprays to give extra dimension and texture.


HEIDI

 I really enjoyed this page, I was inspired by the lovely bright colours in the picture and the Paris theme.  I used lots of liquid pearls using my fingers on the masking using impasto. 
 Lots of stamps and charms and some Paris epoxies. I love to create shabby pages.


JANE

I loved the colours in this poster and to me they fully screamed "tropical location" so I combined both these aspects as well as figuring in the dance aspect by using a photograph of hula dancers in Hawaii.   


TONE-LILL

I love the inspiration picture this month, and as I am making an album for my niece I had the perfect photo of her to use. She was standing on my grandmum's kitchen table trying her "flower girl"  dress on, for her parents wedding, flicking the  dress skirt as she felt like a Princess.


ALICIA

This month I was captivated by the passion and fluidity of the dancer, the blue dress flaming where she spun reminded me of a picture I have from our wedding reception almost ten years ago! My father had them bring out ten saganaki, and they were lit on two trays at the same time. The tradition is to say, "Opa!" To show happiness and celebration (can you tell I'm from a part Greek family?) I selected a yellow champagne page and matted the photos in red to play off the colors in the photo. I chose white accents because they reminded me of her milky skin tone. I hope you are inspired by the photo this month and join us by creating your own expression of this picture. 


Please upload the DIRECT link to your actual entry with the link tool on the LEFT by 11.55pm on February 28th, 2014.  

Pop back later next week when we will announce the winners for January.

Introducing Heidi ....

to our design team for 2014.

Hi my name is Heidi Williams I've been scrapping for 15 years now,  I love the creativity of it, and to preserve my memories of my family and friends.

I asked Heidi a few scrapbooking related questions in order to get to know her a little better. 

 

Do you have a favourite manufacturer?  My favourite manufacturer is Prima and Kaisercraft and lots of others.

Do you have a must use tool you can't get by without?  I cant live without my distressing tool.

What time of the day do you prefer to work? and why?   I work on projects at night when the house is quiet and everyone is asleep.

Do you have a distinct style or tend to go where your creativity takes you?   I love to create new things all the time and use different mediums and products, I'm starting to slowly find my style as I go along this awesome journey and I feel very excited to be on the Pixels and Paper design team.

Please visit my blog to see more of my work.
http://funkyrosebudcrafts.blogspot.com.au/

A December winner ...

My apologies for the late announcement of December winners - a big thank you to our three entrants.  I know how manic the lead up to Christmas can be so thank you so much for taking the time to put in an entry with us.

I have randomly drawn a name to be our winner who will receive a Christmas RAK from me. Congratulations Wendy Crowe ! 

 If you could please email me your details to  jjjustjane@bigpond.com - I will get this away in the mail for you.

Please join in with us this month, we'd love to see your work.

We accept any form of paper craft and digital entries.  International submissions are always welcome.  You have until 11.55pm on January 31st to get your entries in.

Welcome to 2014 ...

Welcome to a brand new year and some more delightful inspiration from Pixels and Paper.

Firstly I'd like to welcome our new team member, Heidi Williams, to the fold.  I'll introduce Heidi more fully during the month.

A big warm welcome back to Di, Tone-Lill and Alicia.

Our first inspiration for 2014 is a lovely carefree photograph which reminds me very much of my childhood days of summer where padding and frolicking in the park fountain wasn't frowned upon and kids could be kids regardless :)  I just love how the afternoon sunlight reflects off the water in this picture.

When you look at this photograph what do you see?

Alicia

 I loved the inspiration photo this month. My son had so many great moments in water, I had a hard time choosing a photo to work with! Once I settled on this one I knew I wanted to include orange from the photo so I used this sunset background paper. I layered a couple of printed papers on the page and used a few of my favorite techniques to make it pop. I inked the edges of everything to create borders so the prints didn't fade away into nothing. I also use my zig glue pen to do some glue tracing on everything that was orange to make it stand out and add a bit of sparkle. I hope you are as inspired as I was to create a layout!

Di

I loved the inspiration photo for P & P with its fun feel: children splashing and enjoying themselves, the light bathing the area, the movement of the water -  all captured my interest.

My layout, hopefully reflects some of these elements. The background paper has been stamped with inked bubblewrap, and stencilled with the use of sequin waste. Circles to represent bubbles, have also been cut from some of the inked bubblewrap. Added to this is a piece of sheer organza, kind of representing the steps in the image. I've also added 'splashes' cut from metallic silver card and blue paper and acetate. The silver card and acetate have been alcohol inked. The other embellishments are discs decorated to look like sea anemone or sand dollar shells. Part of the title was painted with white acrylic paint and then repainted with glitter paint to add the sparkle.

The photos are of our son taken when he was 2 years ol. The splash pool would have been a pressie for Christmas. He was a real water baby at the time and loved nothing better than to splash around in the water and would have stayed there for hours if allowed. 

Heidi

Here is my page of water fun -my kids love to swim.  I've used various techniques - stamped the background, used liquid pearls, mesh to decorate and give texture plus these lovely bright summer papers ... enjoy :)

Tone-Lill

I got inspired by children playing in the moving water, so I chose a photo of my niece and daughter playing by the sea where you can see the tiny waves, so  with AC pattern papers "Sketch book" together with spray ink I tried to recreate a summery day by the sea. 

Jane

This photograph brought back memories of those days during summer when my friends and I would head down to the river and spend many happy hours swinging off the bank into the cool, lanquid water.  We'd sit on the river bank chatting and chilling as teenagers once did - those were good days!  I've used a mainly olive and gold colour scheme to reflect those used in the photograph. 

Please upload the DIRECT link to your actual entry with the link tool on the LEFT by 11.55pm on January 31st, 2014. 

Now please remember our December challenge is open until the 6th of January so there is still time to get your Christmas entries in.