Sketchy Thursdays 6.10

I've decided to try and combine some other challenges with the Weekly Challenge that is set on UKS and to not stress too much about getting the WC (as we call it) done fully each week. I usually try and cover all the bases to get the points for the Team, but I often end up with layouts that I'm not 100% happy with.

So this is the first of the combined efforts and I've combined with Sketchy Thursdays! I'm still not 100% happy with it as I decided to use my own handwriting on it (to make a difference, to not keep using up those darned pricey alphas...) and I've never liked my handwriting. Still, makes it unique!

I am happy with the background paper, however, which started off as an 8x8 piece of white that you get slipped into page protectors in new albums. I abused it with stamps, Distress Ink (and Reinker in a spray) and then some more Distress Ink. Then I covered it all up with the Crate Paper! Oh well, it was fun and very messy.

This is another photo from Duxford last month where Daddy and I were stood under the flight path with all of the other crazy fools who don't want to fork out the money to go to the display properly. This plane was so close its wingtips didn't fit in the shot...

Sketchy Thursdays - Blog Hop

The next Sketchy Thursdays sketch is for Spring Challenge Blog Hop.


Loved this sketch. Banners seem to be in at the moment, even though mine are a bit on the wonk!

I saw this pair of secateurs in the garden when we went on our retreat last month and took a random close up shot of them.

Sketchy Thursdays Second Chance

Couple of posts today for Sketchy Thursdays. This first one is a Second Chance challenge. It didn't come together exactly as I'd hoped. My pens bled a bit more than I was expecting them to and the doodling isn't that doodled. Ah well.


This is my 13th birthday party. I'm the one in the dodgy stripey jumper, Alice band and parrot ear-rings. You might not be able to make it out, but the cake was a butterfly - hence the butterfly paper and punched butterflies.

Have also included some hidden journalling for our inter-team mojo challenge this month.

Bonus embellishment! I took this picture outside and ended up with this lovely Ladybug. :)

Sketchy Thursdays 3.25

Here's my latest for Sketchy Thursdays, my Father with his first flavoured coffee. I think he secretly enjoyed the fact the cinnamon syrup made it so sweet and yummy! I wish I could remember where we are here... hmm... must phone the Parental Units and ask them.

Oh, and it may look like he's holding a bunch of twigs, but they're actually decoration the counter top behind him... didn't notice them when I took the picture.

Sketch Thursdays 3.11

This is my first attempt at creating a layout on fabric...


I've based it on a piece of fabric, which I inked a little and covered in green net, which doesn't show up! The photo is on fabric covered in grey net. I've also used ribbon and fabric flowers. Thanks to various Teamies for those!

Decided to add on some hard embellishments as well, especially after realising that pinning the photo layer on was easier than sewing!

The picture is me at our recent Retreat tucking into a Danish. The main elements of the layout are made from a Quirky Kit.

Sketchy Thursdays - 3.4

This is one of the layouts I made on the Retreat last weekend.

The photo was taken on a girls holiday to Ibiza in October 2001.

Gotta Craft Kit

I treated myself to the latest Gotta Craft Kit this month and as soon as it arrived I ripped right into it! Decided to scrap pictures of Melman as he deserves papers covered with hearts.

This one is Melman at Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight. I even gave in and used one of the big homemade buttons that my teamie Sue made. Oh, and the orange ribbon came from teamie Janet. So I am getting some hoarded stash used up.

I used a sketch for this, but as I'm currently playing catch-up I have no idea which one this was.

This one looks a whole lot better in real life and it even amused John. We had fun in Paris taking this picture. It really looked as if the statues were reacting to something down by their feet!

In used an old Sketchy Thursdays sketch for this.

Sketchy Thursdays 1.28

Spot the error with this? Oh yes, I took a picture of my shadow. That grey bit at the bottom is me taking the picture.

Anyway. These photos were taken in 2001 on a girly trip to Ibiza when we were still downing huge quantities of wine. Before the co-habitations, the weddings and the babies!

Crate Paper - Season

Last night I decided to attempt some layouts with the Season papers as they haven't been inspiring me. It's very unusual for me to use up a whole piece of paper as a background rather than the "normal" method of cutting the papers and putting them on cardstock. In this case I decided to be gratuitous with the patterned paper - and the flower, which is made of five flowers a brad and a pearl!

I wasn't totally happy with it, so I got out my trusty toothbrush and spattered it with paint! Then I added extra doodling and and bling to the flowers.

The picture was taken during Summer School last year at Hundale Point.

And then a detail:



These pictures are very dark, but I didn't take them in natural light and they've turned rather pixelly. Must try and take them again.

This was actually for a card sketch challenge over at Sketchy Thursdays, but they did say that the sketch is for inspiration and you could do a layout if you prefered. So that's what I did!

The photo was taken in downtown Toronto outside the Mill Street Micro Brewery.

Sketchy Thursdays 1.21

The journalling explains that I took the pictures of Winchester cathedral whilst I was at University in the days before digital cameras. My teeny camera couldn't handle the whole front elevation in one shot, so I had to attempt to piece it together when the pictures came back.

The photo has spent most of its life living in a clip frame with lots of my other pictures being shipped from place to place. I eventually decided that I was a bit too grown up for photo montages and since then it was just in a box. However, now I have scrapping to give those pictures a second life.

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.

Sketchy Thursdays 12.31

Just managed to get this done in time as it's Thursday again tomorrow!

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I bought myself some Pink Paislee Mistletoe & Co. for the sole purpose of scrapping photos from Christmas 2009. The idea being that they'll all match in the album.

Have also decided to take some of my layout photos using John's painting easel. This at least keeps them flat when I'm taking their pictures, especially in the awful light that we're getting at the moment.