Pencil Lines 174

Not done a Pencil Line for a while. Still not getting good shots of my layouts. :( There has to be a way round this... Anyway, this is Albuquerque, Old Town, featuring a bunch of chillis.

Christmas 2009

Just a couple of layouts from last Christmas to use up some more of the beautiful Pink Paislee Mistletoe & Co. paper


This one was for the current Weekly Challenge at UKS. Had to use ribbon, bling, journalling. To scrap a picture of something other than a person and use a sketch. I chose to use the latest Pencil Lines Sketch, #171. The photo is of our "preparation" table. It held all the overspill of food, napkins etc.

This next one has nothing to do with any challenge or any sketch, which is a bit rare for me as I love to work off a sketch. What I wanted to do was to use up the large die cut without cutting it up, but it looked a little odd set on a piece of 12x12 cardstock, so I cut the card to match the diecut.


Then I just threw layers at it until I came up with something I liked! So it's still a 12x12 and I even managed to gut the paper a bit so I have some scallop edges left over after all.

Home with the Parents!

Last time I went home my parents took me black berry picking and up "Glastonberry" Tor:

(wow, that picture hasn't come out well!)

The weather took a turn for the worst, and all my Tor pictures are dull and overcast, which was a shame as they'd look a lot better with blue skies!

(Both use Pencil Lines cyber crop weekend sketches)

The Palace Hotel

Just a paper layout for fun!

The Palace Hotel in Silver City, New Mexico. They had a very attractive lobby with this logo/artwork on the wall, which just had to have its photo taken. It's a rough take on Pencil Lines sketch #122.

Some American Holiday Digi's

Santa Fe


We stayed at the Canyon Motel & RV park in Williams. They had lots of old railway carriages dotted around the park that were fitted up to stay in, but we just stayed in a regular cabin.

Fall Splendour Kit by 1905 Designs
Font - Loosydings (to make an overlay on the paper)
Font - VKS Revolt

Albuquerque Old Town



Hearts and Flowers Kit by Vicki's Blog (plus Add-on)
Font - Font Garden Jayne


Grand Canyon - North Rim


Main picture was taken at Bright Angel and the sunset collage was taken at Point Imperial.

Pencil Lines #105.

Papers - Jenny's Scrapbook Place
Ribbon - Flower Scraps
Fonts - Laura & Dear Love

Vista & Kitty

{Loch Fyne, Scotland}

My take on the latest PencilLines sketch, #103. I really enjoyed this one as I got to use up so many bits and pieces that had been hanging around for ages - a random button, remnants of ribbon, Sassafrass scraps that I just can't bring myself to bin, the end of a white cotton reel (must buy more!), and finally alphas.

Alphas are darned tricky to use up towards the end of their lives, so I ran the letters than I had left through an anagram solver and one of the words it came up with was "Vista" - so I went with that. It also came up with "Tiramisu", which would, of course, have used up more letters, but as I had no Italian pudding pictures to hand I went with "Vista"!

As I was on a scrap-using roll, I made this from more bits of Sassafrass, odd buttons, old DCWV cardstock, and the same alpha set:


I think this is the last of my pictures of Nutmeg. Any others will be duplicates.

=^..^=

*hug*

Made this for Pencil Lines #102. My Dad and OH in the Cambridge Botanical Garden. Used bits of Doodlebug, Crate Paper, Bazzill and Prima flowers.

Pencil Lines #100

My take on this weeks Pencil Lines. Picture taken in Pensthorpe Nature Reserve and the quote is from Macbeth, "Where got thou that goose look?"

Shakespeare's Birthplace

Made this for PencilLines sketch #99.

States

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Some red brick buildings in Boston and New York. I've just ordered myself a whole bunch of new flowers, so I thought it might be an idea to use up some of my old flowers before starting in on the new stash. :)

Pencil Lines sketch #96.

Pencil Lines #92

Here is my version of Pencil Lines sketch #92. Picture taken last month on a bus tour of Glasgow. This was actually the best photo of all of them as they were taken on a grey and rainy day through the bus windows!

The Flight Home

Took this on the way home from either New York or Boston - I can't remember now. Based on PencilLines sketch #91.

I've been trying to use up some of my older papers rather than always using K&Co and mainly using their glorious Wild Saffron... *sigh*... Anyway, I used PaperMania for this. Not my favourite paper company, but not too bad after it's covered in blooms, buttons and ribbons!

Wet Day at Blenheim Palace

This is my take on PencilLines.com sketch #90.


I oversharpened this one when I saved it, which is a shame, but this was the first time I had ever added hand-stitching to a layout.