Cowboy!

Another Scrummy Stash Cafe challenge done. This one was to do a boy-themed layout, so I chose this "dead" Cowboy from Tombstone, Arizona. I've semi-scraplifted this layout by Scrap, Paper, Scissors.

I've tidied up all my stash over the past couple of days, so I'm trying to use up bits that I had tucked away and had pretty much forgotten about. So, ribbon, brads and random alphas.

Also made this over the weekend:



This is my Father in the City of Rocks looking out over the endless desert of New Mexico.

Is it a Card? Is it a Mini Book?

Well, I think it's a bit of both. When I started I thought it would be a fold-out, multi-photo holder to be stuck on a layout. Then I realised that if I gave it a front cover I could use it as a birthday card for my Dad, or maybe a Father's Day card, or maybe my Mother would like it. Anyway, it's sort of a mini-book to be given as a card!


The pictures aren't brilliant as the best light comes through the back of the house and that's been blocked off and is crawling with builders!






Made it for the latest Scrummy Stash Cafe challenge.

New City

Made for the lastest Scrummy Stash Cafe challenge with the theme of something New for New Year. I've gone with a new city, well, new to me, that is. This La Pedrera in Barcelona on my birthday last year. I've used a bunch of Crate Paper, LemonGrass for this, the colours don't look nearly so good as they do in real life. :(

Valley of Fire, Nevada

I've used some of my new Crate Paper to make this. It's nice when Santa brings scrapping goodies. He also brought me a couple of books on Doodling, so I've bravely bought myself a decent white gel pen and have started making some swirls of my own. Not too good on this layout - but practice will make perfect!

Made for the latest Scrummy Stash Cafe challenge, nice way to start the year with a bit of scrapping.

My Christmas Star

No tree this year as we're still building, but we do have this tiny tree - so I hung my Christmas Star on it!

Casa Battlo

Made this for the Scrummy Stash Cafe's latest challenge. The challenge was to come up with a different way to do journalling. Mine is written round the buttony-flowery things.

Odd

My entry for the Scrummy Stash Cafe this week. Had a class to follow this time, I didn't have all the bits, so a lot of this is making it up as I go along!



I've mainly used Crate Paper, with a little bit of Scenic Route and some lace cardstock.

Picture taken in Silver City, New Mexico. One of the oddest places I've ever been.

Carriage

The challenge this week at the Scrummy Stash Cafe was to scrap your favourite artist/band/song. I wanted to scrap Counting Crows and luckily I was able to do so by using their song Carriage! Yay! Still filling up my USA album and getting challenges done at the same time.

Picture taken in Tombstone, this was our carriage tour guide. I loved Tombstone, it was such fun and I wish we'd had longer there. We only went there as an afterthought.

Meteor Crater

Made for the latest Scrummy Stash Cafe challenge. I've been wanting to practice doodling, so this was a good chance to do that.

Used Crate Paper stuff and some Thickers.

Discover

My entry into the Scrummy Stash Cafe challenge this week. I've used more new travelling papers for this layout. Teresa Collins this time.

Hamlet

Another week, another entry for the Scrummy Stash Cafe! This was a challenge to use up your scraps - although, having cut scraps from scraps I now have even more scraps... ah well.

I'm well aware that this sculpture doesn't really scream "Hamlet!" I scrapped the Midsummer Night's Dream sculpture back in August and that was a bit more obvious. Just the Macbeth one to do now.

Whoops!

Made this for the current Scrummy Stash Cafe challenge - to use checks / grid.

Well, you can see that the ribbon has checks. The paper is Sassafrass Lass and has a grid on it - but the evening sun has pretty much washed it out. :( 'Tis there, though, you must trust me on that!

This was the day that John fell bottom-first into a rock pool on a cold day in Cornwall. Took a lot of begging to get him to turn round for the shot. He looked a lot wetter in real life.

The flourish is supposed to look like a splash, but has come out looking like a flower - meh!

Birthdays

This is my entry to the latest Scrummy Stash Cafe challenge - Birthday Bliss.

The journalling explains how my friends and I live in different parts of the country now so we celebrate our birthdays on whichever day we can. This birthday meeting was in January - someway between Martina's in November and Hannah's in March!

ZZZZzzzz

My take on Vanessa's class for the Scrummy Stash Cafe. I'm not completely happy with it as brackets and wiggly journalling aren't something I'd usually do, but it's good to shake it up a bit.

San Marco

This is for Vanessa's Multilingual Challenge at the Scrummy Stash Cafe. I've managed a bit of Italian journalling as well because I thought the title was a bit of a cop-out as it's just the name of a building!

Still using up my Crate Paper, Blue Hill.

Nutmeg - claws

I've made this one for Rachael's Class at the Scrummy Stash Cafe.

I'm sadly running out of new pictures of Nutmeg to scrap and scrapping her is still making me a bit sniffly, but I know I'm going to love having these LOs to look back on.

Nutmeg

Layout for the latest Samm's Sketch Challenge at the Scrummy Stash Cafe. I had to flip the sketch because it looked better with the way Nutmeg was facing!

Duxford

My take on Maria's Class at the Scrummy Stash Cafe Blog.

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I've used Crate Paper Blue Hill and my paints are acrylics rather than the watercolours that Maria used - so my clouds are a lot brighter!

Bridges

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Made this for Angie's Challenge on the Scrummy Stash Cafe Blog. The challenge was to use eyelets and I've never used this many eyelets on one layout before!

Me

Created for Maria's Challenge on the Scrummy Stash Cafe blog. The challenge was to create a project that described you in 5 words. I chose to do a LO and the words I have chosen are Geek, Bookworm, Student, Geology and Collector.

Used Crate Paper, Blue Hill and this is the first time that I have painted on chipboard. Messy!