Twisted Sketches #43

The Twist this week is "Pattern", so I've gone for very patterned paper and cutting the patterns from the papers.

My father is still busy getting fresh digital copies of his old negatives, so I'm able to scrap my birthdays-gone-by. These are all cakes from my early teens and surprisingly, the shapes were all made by my father. I guess that he ate all the offcuts... I've never asked!

Overuse of my new mini butterfly and mini flower punches. After I borrowed Teamie Sue's on our retreat last month I've been after a mini butterfly and now I use it all the time. Too cute!

Also, I'm being published! No idea when, but when I am I'll pop the layout up here on my Blog.

Bijoux Belles Retreat Album

Basic Grey Luggage Tag Album featuring the Bijoux Belles on Retreat in early March 2010.

The Importance of choosing the Correct Wine Box...

Hugging Super Susi!

Kay and Sal and my early attempts at stamping and embossing.

Learning some metal work at Linda's on our first night together.

Food!

Jo and Little Ru.

Kay and Curly.


Lulu, Sal and the very odd Petrol Station in Olney.
"My" Bathroom! As opposed to the other bathroom or the toilet we failed to find...

Brian the Oddnidod! :)

Our Tally Chart.

Maria and one of her many glasses of wine!

Sketchy Thursdays 1.21

The journalling explains that I took the pictures of Winchester cathedral whilst I was at University in the days before digital cameras. My teeny camera couldn't handle the whole front elevation in one shot, so I had to attempt to piece it together when the pictures came back.

The photo has spent most of its life living in a clip frame with lots of my other pictures being shipped from place to place. I eventually decided that I was a bit too grown up for photo montages and since then it was just in a box. However, now I have scrapping to give those pictures a second life.

WC - Jan Week 2

Our final day in America and we were unable to find the beer we wanted, so we settled for some Arrogant Bastard, which was pretty good in the end. The label is actually readable in the picture, but in case you're wondering here is their website: "I am not a fizzy yellow beer drinking ninny here under false pretenses"

The challenge was to scrap Forbidden Fruit (I really shoudn't be drinking beer) and to use ribbon and bling. All bases covered.

The Studio - Jan 1st Challenge

This is my entry to The Studio's January 1st challenge.

I've not entered one of their challenges before, but I'm going to try and get more scrapping done this year and will therefore need all the challenges and mojo boosting blogs I can get hold of!

This challenge was to create a layout with plenty of white space, three photos and to scrap your fears. The journalling might not show up terribly well, but the basic gist is that I had such a happy childhood that I cam afraid I may never get to be a mother and therefore, have a second happy childhood. All the pictures are of me as a child and they're taken from scans of slides - hence the poor quality of the photos.