Massive Weekly Challenge Catch-Up!

I did get all these done on time, but my lack of mojo and general enthusiasm has meant me not taking the pictures in time and getting them loaded onto UKS. So here are a bunch of layouts for weekly challenges taken yesterday in rather dodgy light!


Baby Blue / 3 of Something / Bunting / Celebration
Last Christmas with both sets of Parentals.


Ice cream colours / Change / Stripes / Journalling
Me as a child. I was able to use up a lot of bits of Crate Paper - Blue Hill that I've had lying around for ages.


Guilty Pleasure / Chocolate Brown / Circle
John and I indulging in morning tea at Little Bettys in York. I saved one of the doily things that go under tea cups to catch the drips - gotta love emphemera. Also managed to use one of the beautiful Lakeland doilies that I've been stroking for a while.

Different Fonts / Inspired by Nature /Make an Embellishment
Used some of the skeleton leaves that Daddy found for me at a boot sale. :)


Panorama / Stamping / Altered Lettering
This one is actually current! Grand Canyon from North Rim. Stamped journalling boxes and painted thickers.

Twisted Sketches #34

The latest Twisted twist was "numbers", so I've chosen to include them in my title. I'm not 100% convinced by this layout. I wanted to use these papers, but didn't have anything to really match them. So, I matched their name to the picture instead - Manhattan by American Leaves and used JFK alphas by American Crafts. See what I did there?!

I think the main problem seems to be taking photos of white backgrounds. They either come out far too bright or dark and grey.

Central Park

Old picture using new stash!

Updating the Blog - New York

I've been back through the last 100 posts adding on labels and I can now see how many layouts I've left off of here. I seem to have gone through phases of posting nothing but digital layouts and then nothing but challenges. However, my Photobucket is full of paper layouts that I've done and then not put up anywhere. Well, perhaps they're tucked away on my UKS gallery, but that fills up and has to be pruned. So. Now and again I'm going to do some posts of layouts from the past. Now I have labels enabled I can keep track of them.

So, I'm starting off with layouts about my trip to New York


Times Square and the Manhattan skyline.


A UKS weekly challenge. I think this might have been something to do with not using patterned paper and using stars.

Up the Empire State Building and looking out at the City all lit up.

Guggenheim

I used the inspiration on the Scrap Schemes blog to make the flowers - they were fun, but took AGES! I've never done so much stitching or button-stacking before.



Picture taken at the Guggenheim in New York where they had a mirror installation at the time (2004).

Here are some close-ups because I've finally figured out that setting on my camera!