Grinding and Sight-Seeing

I forgot to upload this one in time for the Weekly Challenge on UKS last week, still it was done in time. You had to use brights, ribbon and a page size that you don't often use. It's been a while since I did an 8x8, so I went with that. I've also been wanting to use up more of my scraps, so I made this from Christmas papers. Next challenge to Self will be a non Halloween layout using Halloween papers. I have a lot of them now and very few pictures from Halloweens.

Just a quickie of Edinburgh Castle. You can see me reflected in it...

Twisted Sketches #31

This time the challenge was "White", so it just had to be Frosty Mk 1. Although, at the time the photo was taken he was just "Frosty" as Mk2 had yet to be created. I've been thinking about experimenting with inking techniques and was under the impression that in order to get that splattery/inky effect you had to use inks in a mister.

Obviously I wasn't thinking it through, and my Teamies were quick to point out that paint on a toothbrush would achieve the same spattered result. This layout features my first attempt to toothbrush spatter acrylic onto a layout - just don't tell John that I stole some of his posh gold acrylic to do it with (and to paint the snowflakes and some of the paper edges...), really should get some of my own!

It doesn't show up terribly well as I was a bit nervous about really going for it and coating my entire crafting space in gold speckles, but text time it'll be more dramatic.

UKS Monthly Challenge

For this month we had to scrap about our habits and how we would change them in the New Year. Every challenge I've seen this year so far has been about New Year's resolutions, it's getting ridiculous! Anyway, here's my monthly challenge:



Have used the Colorful Christmas again, but this time on a non-Christmas layout. Trapped in stocks at Sherwood Forest. All those rotten tomatoes were awful until Robin Hood came along and saved me.

Christmas 2009

Took this picture during the December snows. Made for the lastest Twisted Sketches. The twist was "glitter", which doesn't show up here at all well, sadly. Still, I used a glitter button, some gems and the chipboard elements are all very glittery.

This week's UKS Challenge entry.

The challenge was to use the sketch, ribbon and a celebration theme. So I chose a photo of my Dad celebrating Christmas with some Leffe.