Shimelle's Cyber Crop - Stickers

I love stickers. I have lots of them. When I was little I used to collect them, especially fruit stickers, they were fun. Somehow, though, I just don't seem to use them enough on my layouts, so this was the perfect challenge. In fact, I decided to abandon patterned paper altogether and just use stickers - with a bit of background misting that looks much better in real life, it's very shiny and glimmery!

Some of the stickers are backed onto card and then cut out to make them easier to work with and to layer. I've managed to include:

October Afternoon - Thrift Shop
October Afternoon - 5 and Dime
October Afternoon - Ducks in a Row
Cosmo Cricket - Circa 1934
Cosmo Cricket - Early Bird
Cosmo Cricket - Earth Love
Echo Park - For the Record
Jillibean Soup - Monster Stew
Making Memories alphas

The journalling says that Adam is seven days old and we're heading out on our first trip in the pram - to the voting booths!

Mojo Jar - June Dip

This month I had "Scraplift from a Teamie's Gallery" - so I lifted from Maria.


I decided to scrap the "wonderful" chandelier that adorned one of the ceilings at the Retreat back in March! The amazingly freaky thing.

Art?

I think I did some Art today. Perhaps it's an 8x8 layout. I'm not sure. But I do know that I got my old paper and inks out again. I was, however, inspired by a couple of pieces I saw at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition on Sunday.

The artist had used full pieces of book page, highlighting certain words on the page to create a new phrase. Then the rest of the page was inked in beautifully. Obviously, I've no intention of ever recreating that, but I decided to use the highlight technique on a couple of words on these.



I'll be experimenting with this technique a bit more. I found an old book that was going to binned at work, so that should give me plenty of bits of paper.

Meadow Brown 2

My butterfly layout won Challenge 4 at Creative Craft World!

I knew there was a reason for taking pictures of things even if I should have been thinking about rocks! :)

Meadow Brown

Couldn't come up with any decent title for this, so I didn't bother. There's no rules, right?! Besides, I did mention in the journalling that it's a Meadow Brown!

I took the picture at Summer School last year when I was supposed to be looking at rocks. But it landed right by me and I just had to take its picture.

Made for Creative Craft World - Challenge 4, to use primas, which all of these flowers are.

Twisted Sketches #44

Wow! I was finally able to take a decent picture of a layout because the sun came out and I could take it outside! Well, that's exciting for me anyway. This layout turned into a bit of a Cosmo Cricket Love Fest as I used parts from four different collections.


The Twist this week is "Orange" and there are bits of orange scattered over this layout.

I finally stopped stroking the ribbon I bought at Liberty's and used them both on this. I love the butterflies so much, although they are a bit of nuisance to stick down, wings everywhere and their antennae come off far too easily



This is actually layout number two. I thought that scrapping Halloween would be the easiest way to use orange, but it just didn't come together, so I ditched the glaringly obvious orange in favour of this more subtle approach.

Twisted Sketches #33

This week the Twist was "envelope", so I made one and put my steam train tickets in it. Turns out I'm not good at making envelopes.

The main picture is our Third Class compartment before we were bumped up to First. See how how happy Melman is! Everyone should take a giraffe on their voyages.

Sketchy Thursdays - Card Challenge

Finally decided to enter some card challenges. I may as well start making cards for birthdays and things now that I have so much stash. Why fork out extra money for cards if I can make them myself?



This one features a lot of plant life and will probably end up with my mother.

The January Dip

My January Mojo Jar dip was a sketch by Susi. This is the result, using titles from Sue!

My Dad in the Valley of Fire State Park.

UKS Cyber Crop

These are my favourites from the recent Cyber Crop on UKS.

One of the Summer school locations, Hundale Point. This was taken about twenty minutes after a massive rain storm.

My parents on Glastonbury Tor. The little felt cherries came from one of my Bijoux Belles! :)

Sunset at Grand Canyon, South Rim.

Judy!

My mother objects to having hre name shortened to Judy, but sometimes your Alphas run out and there are no more I's and T's left. Needs must!


This was taken in September on a blackberry picking expedition.