I Love Pablo

The current UKS weekly challenge involves Picasso and a "paint effect", so I just went for it and painted the whole thing!

OK, I'm no Picasso, but this was certainly easier on the mojo than trying to piece and paste bits of paper together. :)

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.

Mother & The Map

Just something I did for fun this weekend. I've been gazing at this sheet of chipboard for months and not used it. Then I thought I should just use up all the flowers in one go on a layout without any patterned papers. This is the result.

My mother, supposedly studying a map, when, in fact, she's standing guard so that walkers don't come wandering over while my Dad is peeing behind a hedge...

The chipboard was part of a kit and I can't remember what company made them.

Bijoux Belles Retreat Album

Basic Grey Luggage Tag Album featuring the Bijoux Belles on Retreat in early March 2010.

The Importance of choosing the Correct Wine Box...

Hugging Super Susi!

Kay and Sal and my early attempts at stamping and embossing.

Learning some metal work at Linda's on our first night together.

Food!

Jo and Little Ru.

Kay and Curly.


Lulu, Sal and the very odd Petrol Station in Olney.
"My" Bathroom! As opposed to the other bathroom or the toilet we failed to find...

Brian the Oddnidod! :)

Our Tally Chart.

Maria and one of her many glasses of wine!

Sketchy Thursdays - 2.18

No papers on this one, just a lot of paintwork. I love my little butterfly (even if I do say so myself!) it's very cute in real life.

Sarah's Cards - June Kit

The new kit arrived yesterday morning and rather than stroking it like I did last month, I cut into it as soon as I came home from work and made my first three layouts from it.

John and I took our Melman the Giraffe puppet to Paris in May - so I have loads of pictures of him "standing" in front of various landmarks. Luckily his fur matches the kit, so:


Finally I'm scrapping the picture of the brilliant Sam Adams bottles. Well, the bottles are just bottles, but their ex-contents were brilliant! I took the pic deliberately to scrap it at some point and even kept the caps for that purpose.


I'm not so convinced by this one, all the frames within frames and only using one paper and one sheet of Bazzill. Anyway, this is one of the pictures that John took in the Musee D'Orsay, his favourite painting by Manet.

Still have plenty of kit left!