Twisted sketch 83

Sorry about the photo the misting buckled the paper so it looks all curled on the the photo

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This was the sketch

Sketchy Thursday( Guest designer challenge)

This challenge is for a spot as guest designer at Sketchy Thursdays. It shows me aged about 5 on holiday in Cornwall wearing the most enormous shades!

I know the photo is a little wonky but the sun barely gets into the garden at this time in the morning so I had to hold the LO up against the wall at above head height to try and caupture what might be the only few minutes of sun we get today.
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I was going to use the thickers below, they came out of a set with an album so they are not a full pack but I was expecting to get the whole alphabet, but when I came to write cool I found there were no Os - strange

This is the sketch

Christmas day- favourite scrapper number 3

This LO used an idea from one of my favourite scrappers- Shimelle Laine. One of her recent posts was about how to stretch your stash and in it was a LO she made using mister and a mask- I followed the same idea of misting over the background card and the paper on this LO- Shimelle's inspiration is here

This Lo has a photo from Christmas day of Nancy and me. Literally 5 minutes before dinner was served she fell asleep- so I took a photo of the pair of us- her dozing off and me wearing a ridiculous Christmas hat intended for Nancy

this is for the favourite Scrappers challenge over at favourite things

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My favourite Scrappers 2

Second effort for Favourite things is my effort to imitate Mahlin Wiggur I love her use of colour and misting, the way she uses so much colour yet leaves so much space. Anyway this is my effort to do a version of the LO you can find here- yes her blog is in Swedish but there are bits in English and her work just speaks for itself

The Lo is called in the Winkel van Sinkel ( a cafe previously a shop in Utrecht) It shows Arthur being silly hence the joker card. WE stopped in for a drink and cake on my birthday on Saturday and I couldn't resist a photo of Arthur in the red light!

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SEI challenge- how did I not know?

I have decided I live in the back of beyond scrapbooking wise. The nearest store to me drives me mental all year round at least 50% of their paper is Christmas paper and even then not new paper GRRRR.

Anyway SEI had a great sketch challenge on their blog this month so I thought I could now use some of that old Christmas paper from SEI that looks so pretty but so useless in July! I used old Meringue paper and some new Kris Kringle paper as well.

This LO is about me age about 3 sitting on my Dad's lap while he is dressed as Father Christmas. He used to play Santa at his works party for a few years and I can't believe I didn't notice at the time- hence the title.

Mind you in this picture we were at home so I must have twigged mustn't I ?

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one little Dutch word

Dutch Dares challenge is based on the One Little Word idea from Ali Edwards- I'm new to this idea but I choose the word LEARNOn the tag I have a list of things to learn this year they include

more Dutch!

to take better photos of myself

to be selective

to relax

to enjoy my freedom

i'll add more as i think of them

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My favourite scrappers 1

Inspired by the latest challenge over at These are a few of Mt Favourite things Which is to scrap you favourite scrapper I have decided to do a mini series of my favourites showing LOs I have made which have been inspired by the first up is Elizabeth Kartchner

I scraplifted her LO of her daughter which in her top Los of 2010 over on her blog at the moment