Twisted Sketch #083!!

Here's  a sketch from Twisted Sketches which I love!!! The twist on the sketch being...MAP! Now strangely enough it was the twist that pulled me in rather than the sketch. As soon as I read MAP I knew I had to scrap a photo of one of Kennys adventures.

My interpretation of the sketch

I love this tag that I saved from a White Stuff Jumper, it has a teal metal ring which matched the colours of my Layout, just added the word South Pole in little alphas to it.


Used my robo to create this letters with 2 matts, one slightly bigger than each other, distressed each layer and glued them all together. each second letter is then attached with foam squares to give the title a little more variation in depth.

    

First Layout for 2011!!

Pencil Lines Sketch #219

Very excited to say that I've managed to complete my first layout for the New Year and even used a recent photo....one of us stirring the christmas pudding and making our traditional christmas wish. I used this very lovely sketch from Pencil Lines for my inspiration.

Stash and Tools Used: 

Gorgeous christmas papers are BOBUNNY NOEL

White Glitter Thickers

MM Red Glitter Foam Alphas

Distress Inks

Fiskars Border Punch

Bazzill Cardstock

Pedal Powered Walkies

Have finally done a layout if Samurai's latest mode of transportation. I was scrolling through Pencil lines website and came across this sketch to use as my 'inspiration'. I used Bobunny's 'Olivia' range of papers, plus a sheet out of their 'noteworthy' pad. Hand cut the flowers out and then covered them with rock candy distress stickles give them a little more dimension. Painted some grungeboard flourishes with a metallic teal ink (which took a bit to dry.....I got it everywhere!!!) And then of course got out my trusty craft Robo to make a scalloped matt for the main photo and to cut out the title. Must order a new blade for robo soon as the letters were a little rough so I think the blade may be getting blunt.

Last one for September!

I managed to squeeze one more  layout for this month with Kenny away. Still using up my "My Minds Eye, So Sophie" papers. I love using multiple photos as it seems to tell more of a story but it does make things a little more complicated though.....some more to shuffle round my cardstock. I splattered some glimmer mist on the cardstock first to give it a more textured look, waited til it dried then ironed it profusely as it wrinkled up a bit.


I dug up the antique sewing machine I inherited off Kenny who in turn got it off his mum, it's an old Singer which she used to use when Kenny was a kid so I'm pretty sure it's older than me!!! Anyway its a cracker of a machine, perfect for scrapping and I managed to zigzag an almost perfect circle!! Nice to know I can still manage a machine. Mounted all the photos on some chocolate cardstock to make them pop a little more, threw in a tag with some journalling, a couple of staples, some fab foam thickers and I'm done! No time at all...pat on my back.....note to Mel : 4 days of paper shuffling!!!!! :o)

My favourite Layout....

Well ATDML are asking what our favourite layout is. I decided to go through some of my old layouts and post one of them on my blog. This is by no means my all time favourite of favourites layout but it certainly holds a special place in my heart and everytime I look at it, well it just makes me smile. I did this one in a UKS cybercrop class, it's a fairly simple layout, no fussycutting, no fancy letters, no expensive embellishments. But I love the way it turned out and I think it showcases the photos really well. It captures what Samurai is like when he's sleepy, looking so cute and cuddly ( well he does to me) and I just LOVE the last photo of him with his eyes scrunched up after finishing his yawn.

One Last layout for August!

Well I finally managed to sneak in one last layout before September. I was using one of Shimelles challenges of trying to use 4 different patterned papers. Did make my mind tick for quite awhile, especially trying to tie them all in together somehow. Hope Kirsteen likes it!!

Shimelles Scrapping With a Sketch!

Finally I've managed to complete a scrapping challenge instead of a photo challenge!! This challenge was to create a layout using this sketch as a base.

Here's my result, I've updated the photos too.

I love these glittery thickers!

Well I finally finished the layout that I started on Saturdays crop!!  I was inspired by a sketch and LO in the activity pack of issue 46 of Scrapbook magazine so decided to 'lift' it. Struggled a bit at first matching the papers and purple (not a colour I've scrapped with before) hence me spending the crop shuffling PP a lot. Quite please with the way it turned out although I have decided I'm crap at doodling, must practice that more. :)