Twisted Sketches #53

Now I'm back from my hols I can finally get back into doing the Twists each week.

I;m trying to do more layouts at sizes other than the standard 12x12 and I have a shiny new 8x8 album to fill, so here's one in 8x8:

The Twist this week is 'acrylic' so I chose to use bits of acrylic paint.

I'm currently on a crazy stamping / inking kick, so the background paper is an piece of cardstock in a garish blue. At least, it was before I covered it in bits of old ripped up book paper and ink (then some more layers of book and ink). The rest of the papers are all October Afternoon: Thrift Shop, in fact, the paper with the title on used to be bright yellow, but I'm a Crazy Inker!

This is John (and Melman the Midget Giraffe) in Nottingham meeting Robin Hood.

Twisted Sketches #50

I loved this sketch and it worked really nicely with an 8.5 x 11 layout.


This is one of the Oldest Inns in Nottingham - the twist was for "old", so I hope 1240 is old enough!

I love October Afternoon. This Thrift Shop is so beautiful.

Twisted Sketches #46 & Gutter Girlz #36

I doubled up with this layout. It's partly Twisted #46 and partly Gutter Girlz #36. I started it with the Twist of "touch":

You see, I'm being touched by Max Grodenchik who plays Rom in Deep Space Nine. Eventually the character of Rom becomes Grand Nagus of Ferenginar and everyone knows that the Ferengi are motivated by profit. Max wrote something on the photo about profit, so I can only hope that the touch of the Grand Nagus does, indeed, help me to gain profit. Even though I'm not only a small-lobed female, but also a hew-man...

It was then that I realised that actually there was my Gutter Girlz entry - I'm a Geek and it's no secret, everyone knows and I don't care that they know it!

Twisted Sketches #44

Wow! I was finally able to take a decent picture of a layout because the sun came out and I could take it outside! Well, that's exciting for me anyway. This layout turned into a bit of a Cosmo Cricket Love Fest as I used parts from four different collections.


The Twist this week is "Orange" and there are bits of orange scattered over this layout.

I finally stopped stroking the ribbon I bought at Liberty's and used them both on this. I love the butterflies so much, although they are a bit of nuisance to stick down, wings everywhere and their antennae come off far too easily



This is actually layout number two. I thought that scrapping Halloween would be the easiest way to use orange, but it just didn't come together, so I ditched the glaringly obvious orange in favour of this more subtle approach.

Twisted Sketches #42

The Twist this week is Flight. I guess this is technically "landing", but we were just flying. I'm in the basket with my mother and I think this is the early 90s, but I'm not too sure about the date. We're at the Lorraine Balloon Fiesta in Metz, France which is held every two years.

As I've just discovered the joys of Distress Inking and embossing I'm doing it on every layout that crosses my desk. I just need some more inks now as distressing with one does look a little odd.

Twisted Sketches #40

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This week the Twist was "staples", so I have stapled netting to the screen print paper.

Castle Rising and Blaise Castle (balanced on my hand...)

Loads of new stuff for me on this layout. I've used my Quirky Kit - Resolutions for the first time. Never used net or strings of sequins before, so that was fun! The title I made using my shiny new Provence stamps by Technique Tuesday. I still totally blame Maria for making me buy them, but I think she was right. I've embossed them, which is a new technique for me. AND... the cardstock is Coredinations, something I've not used before. Much sanding fun.

After all that I still have to take wonky pictures on top of the living room radiator to get any daylight!

Twisted Sketches #38

The Twist this week was for "stripes", which I've done. I'm not happy with the way this came out. I wasn't fond of the huge expanses of patterned paper, so I doodled some swirls on in gold pen. Of course, you can't even see it in the picture and it's not very clear in real life either!


The picture is yet another from Road Trip 08 (they keep coming!). This is the cabin in the woods, the nice-on-paper Jacob Lake.

Twisted Sketches #37

The Twist this week is Wood - so here's a layout featuring some wood!

I took this picture last year on a walk through Stockhill woods. I'm still having a problem finding somewhere well lit to take photos, so I'm trying this... shining a light on the layout and taking it form a distance! That does involve showing up some of the highly attractive background that is my scrapping area, but heyho!

I'm using my new flower punch on everything I do at the moment, I love it.

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.

Twisted Sketches #33

This week the Twist was "envelope", so I made one and put my steam train tickets in it. Turns out I'm not good at making envelopes.

The main picture is our Third Class compartment before we were bumped up to First. See how how happy Melman is! Everyone should take a giraffe on their voyages.

Twisted Sketches #31

This time the challenge was "White", so it just had to be Frosty Mk 1. Although, at the time the photo was taken he was just "Frosty" as Mk2 had yet to be created. I've been thinking about experimenting with inking techniques and was under the impression that in order to get that splattery/inky effect you had to use inks in a mister.

Obviously I wasn't thinking it through, and my Teamies were quick to point out that paint on a toothbrush would achieve the same spattered result. This layout features my first attempt to toothbrush spatter acrylic onto a layout - just don't tell John that I stole some of his posh gold acrylic to do it with (and to paint the snowflakes and some of the paper edges...), really should get some of my own!

It doesn't show up terribly well as I was a bit nervous about really going for it and coating my entire crafting space in gold speckles, but text time it'll be more dramatic.

Christmas 2009

Took this picture during the December snows. Made for the lastest Twisted Sketches. The twist was "glitter", which doesn't show up here at all well, sadly. Still, I used a glitter button, some gems and the chipboard elements are all very glittery.

This week's UKS Challenge entry.

The challenge was to use the sketch, ribbon and a celebration theme. So I chose a photo of my Dad celebrating Christmas with some Leffe.