Shimelle's Cyber Crop - Half Page

This was a fabulous excuse to not cut into this beautiful piece of Sassafrass!


This is Bob during the Open University 2009 Summer School to Durham. He's demonstrating scale. When taking a photo of a geological feature you should always include a scale so someone else knows the size of the feature they're looking at. Bob is showing that this also works with ice creams and kiosks.

Close up on one of the lovely seagulls that Susi cut for me.

It's going to go into my Geology Album as a 'companion piece' to this one:


For both of these layouts I've used the most recent Quirky Kit - The Milk Bar.

Meadow Brown 2

My butterfly layout won Challenge 4 at Creative Craft World!

I knew there was a reason for taking pictures of things even if I should have been thinking about rocks! :)

Meadow Brown

Couldn't come up with any decent title for this, so I didn't bother. There's no rules, right?! Besides, I did mention in the journalling that it's a Meadow Brown!

I took the picture at Summer School last year when I was supposed to be looking at rocks. But it landed right by me and I just had to take its picture.

Made for Creative Craft World - Challenge 4, to use primas, which all of these flowers are.

Just for Fun

Not made a layout for fun in a while. They're usually all UKS entries or part of a sketch challenge. This one is just me finally deciding to use up the last bits of the gorgeous Stomp.

Summer School 2009, tired out geology students at Hartley Bay looking at rocks.

Although I was using Stomp I had to add on the Archaic dinosaur that was one of the first things I embossed.

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.

UKS Cyber Crop

These are my favourites from the recent Cyber Crop on UKS.

One of the Summer school locations, Hundale Point. This was taken about twenty minutes after a massive rain storm.

My parents on Glastonbury Tor. The little felt cherries came from one of my Bijoux Belles! :)

Sunset at Grand Canyon, South Rim.