It's good to be back

Happy New Year to you all. I'm so glad to be back to blogland after a long absence over the festive period. I won a class pass to Shimelle's journal your Christmas at the end of November and that took up much of my scrapbooking time but now I'm back

I've set myself the challenge this year to make 365 LOs again ( I did manage last year with time to spare) I'll post as many as I can in the right order but some are for my Design Teams so they can't be shown as I make them..

So this is no 1 of 365 a LO for Sarah's cards blog- one of my two favourite online shops. They had a sketch challenge this month and here is my effort.

This is the Sketch

So 1 down 364 to go.......

colour and sketches no 2

I started this Lo for Lets capture these sketches and then realised half way through that I was using the Design Dollies colour combination again

The challenge that went with the sketch was to use fall photos and I know these aren't fall photos but they were taken in the fall on our October holiday to Italy so they kinda count!

It's called is it a girl thing? because it's Arthur with his hair in a pony tail and then hiding when i tried to take a picture

I'm afraid I avoided the shabby element suggested by the sketch

twisted fun

I have been busy with a sketch for twisted Sketches this week

The sketch is below and the twist was "frame"

Anyway I started - got half way through with this LO and then decided it really didn't bear any resemblance to the sketch at all so I started again

I do like this LO though its another about our makeshift Bonfire Night- I used some of the SEI Christmas Paper for the moon and misted over a cut out of a hero arts stamp to make a night sky kind of feeling

This was my second effort- much more like the sketch- the frame element is obviously the title but it refers to the picture- My Nan took a photo of the flowers she received for her 80th birthday but the best bit for me now is the reminder of all those things she had on the walls in her living room. It's the ordinary things that we forget to photograph that can mean a lot later so it's a lovely reminder for me.

This was the sketch

inspired by

I was inspired by Lynnda Hosni to have a go at the Creative Scrappers sketch- I have ended up with a very simple version of the sketch using mostly Cosmo Cricket De Lovely bits with some other papers thrown in as well

I like nice and easy!

for the scrappiest and pencil lines

This one is for Pencil Lines sketch 217

but i have also used the nautical elements challenge from Design Dollies for my inspiration

The picture is the boys by Lake Como throwing stones into the water which is one of their favourite things to do - they can carry on for hours!

I used October Afternoon papers- the waves and the ships to add the nautical theme

And this is for the Scrappiest

I seem to have flipped the sketch although i didn't mean to when I started but it just looked better in the end.

This Is a LO with me and my Mum in my Nan's front garden in the summer of 1975- I don't mind the fact that my Mum's head has been cut off- digital cameras have removed the likelihood of that happening so its a nice reminder of times past!

colour and sketches no 1

The Design Dollies colour combo this week was black, silver and yellow so I used the combination with the sketch from Liz Chichester over at the Scrappiest for Sweet Peach crop shop- goodness that was a mouthful glad I didn't have to say it.

This is what I made- it's called dancing on Ice ( the title is tiny at the top)- It shows my three ice skating on Sunday- Two photos are black and white but the middle one is in colour because they fitted with the combo ( well the skates are orange but it's almost right)

This was the sketch- as you can see it had a wintry feel to it

Sketchy Thursday

At first I thought his sketch for sketchy Thursday was a bit difficult for me but i seem to have simplified it and it's turned out OK. I used two elements from my new diary which has lots of lovely paper things in it- the butterfly tag and the bird in the tree post it note both came from there

it does have a long title- when I grow up i want to be a teenager- refers to the fact that even at three Nancy loves to have a go on her daddy's DS