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Swatch it up!  This month the challenge is to use paint swatches. I chose my photos before getting my paint swatches so I would know which colours to get. I went to Mitre 10 Mega and found the 5 colours that best matched the butterflies and white in her dress.  I then got some other types of swatches in all colours of the rainbow for future use!!  May as well since I was getting them. I found an image I liked on Pinterest but it had butterflies cut out of the top of the pieces.  I didn't want to do that as I wanted to keep the names there, they worked well with the photos.  I was glad I had taken two of each colour so I was able to extend them down under the photos. I very carefully lined them all up with rulers so they were not crooked.  :) A fun challenge this month, I wouldn't normally use paint swatches on my layouts and now I have plenty more to use.

This month the challenge is Helium Blue, like the blue of the sky after the rain we have had lately. And since blue is my favourite colour, I was happy to do it again. I thought about using the sketch but forgot all about it! Instead I went with the idea of blue sky, clouds and sunshine.  Especially after finding the cute photos of my youngest daughter, 3 months old on her tummy in the sunshine. I used blue gelatos to make the sky.  A dark blue gelato under some modeling paste for the clouds. And some gold sticky dots for rays of the sun. So good to have the sun back after days of rain.

This months challenge is called Orange Peel.  Orange isn't a colour I use very much when scrapbooking so I went through my drawers to see what I could find. I've had the big flower for a long time so I was determined to use it.  I coloured in the chipboard to be orange to fit in better. The title placement was somewhat accidental, I realised near the end that I needed to put the title in so I fitted in it vertical rather than horizontal.  I think it goes well with the climbing theme.

This month's challenge at Kraft + is a Denim Revolution, to use denim in some way on your creation. I had at once stage had a pocket from an old pair of jeans sitting in my drawer but it seems that I had cleaned it out as it been there so long and I thought I wouldn't need it for anything. So I went down to the local opshop to look for a cheap pair of jeans, and found one with a pretty pattern on the pocket.  I was ok to chop them up for the pocket as they were a size 10 and would of course never fit me! I then found a photo of a younger Chelsea in a pair of overalls so that photo had to be used.  Neither of my girls got to wear overalls much so I was surprised to find the photo. I struggled for a while with the title.  I wanted to use those alphas as the colour fit in well but there was only one 'e'.  I knew I had the word 'overall' so spent time searching for another word without an 'e'.  I liked the play on words, even if hubby found it a bit...

I have seen someone posting their layouts for this challenge group but never done anything for it, until now. I don't normally scrap on white cardstock, I prefer more colour in my background paper.  So I decided to try it for this months colour, since blue is my favourite colour. For this challenge there is a sketch provided and I used parts of it for my layout. And this is my take on the sketch, using blues.  I tried to get my gelatos to run down the page with water but it didn't turn out as well as I had hoped so I will have to try that again.

For the month of February, Kraft + has a challenge called Coastal Chic.  A sketch and colour challenge. Blue-greens and browns with a great sketch.  I love using sketches to help me scrap, makes for less thinking for me.  And blue is my favourite colour, even though I don't have a lot of it to work with as pink seems to have taken over! In spite of my lack of blue, I managed to create two layouts this month.  The second one I did as I recently purchased some lovely Faber Castell gelatos and I was keen to try them out. Here is the sketch: This is my first layout: And this is my second layout, much more happy with this layout: