Simple Simon

This week I'm enjoying making some super quick, super simple LOs. Unfortunately I have now run out of ALL white card and kraft card ( apart from the printed kind)so I may have to wait a while until I can make some more like these.!

This first one is another for Creative Scrappers using the sketch i used here
This one is a lovely simple sketch from pencil Lines

On Tuesday when I went to Amsterdam they were just setting up the fair on Dam Square that is there for Easter ( and maybe Queen's day)- the title is the Dutch word for a fair- kermis- I think its a great word- in the background id the Queen's palace
the sketch

Easter

The latest challenge at journalling Junkie is Easter and what that might be for you and your family- last Easter Sunday we were at Keukenhof Gardens here in Holland- they are only open in the spring and are full of bulb plants- tulips and daffodils are everywhere

The Lo is about the boys and the Easter bunny- they weren't thrilled to be standing next to a man in a rabbit costume who had no chocolate eggs to give out
sorry about the strange shadow down the side of the page!

love these stamps!

I just bought two Jenni Bowlin Stamps and I love them- I can't stop using them.

On this first LO I used the large Butterfly stamp- I only decided to use it after i stuck everything down so there's a bit of missed stamping on one of the butterflies

Its for the challenge at Get Picky

It's called "Cake Beach"- named by my three and their cousins after they spent many a happy hour there making sand cakes
On this LO I used the receipt stamp again they were an afterthought- i stamped it twice over the patterned paper and once in the top corner.

This one is for Stuck sketches- it's called ready Steady Go- It's Nancy doing her sprint start at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam
both the sketches are here ( and the links)

Get Picky

Stuck

What shall I do with it?

I bought this book at the flea market in Amsterdam last week for two euros. Its called pick a dayInside there is a quote for each day of the year ( in Dutch)
Originally I thought I would pull the pages out of the book and use them on LOs as the date/ as embellishment or patterned paper

Now I'm thinking I might save it until next year and use it to make a book of the year- stick a small photo, a tiny bit of paper, an embellishment for each day to cover up the quote ( that I can't understand)

What i really wish is that I had two or more of these! then I could do both. What do you think?

Just like he was flying

This Lo is for the challenge at Scrapping the Music- Good Days by Alain Clark- the line i chose was " Daddy used to pick me up make me feel like I was flying"- well this line just went so well with a photo that is hanging on our wall at home.

For my first Mother's Day in 2003 James bought a photo shoot for us and this photo was one that we chose to buy- Its sealed really well into the frame so I took a photo of the photo through the glass hence the strange shadows but it's good enough I think.

I added the punched birds and the bird paper to go with the flying theme

Shh I cheated

This Lo is for Sketchy Thursday ( just in time) I took the photos yesterday especially for this LO and whipped it up this morning.

I took a stroll round the ring canals in Amsterdam and took pictures of the gable end of the canal houses- these shots are mainly from Herengracht, Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht

How did I cheat- well I ran out of kraft card so I used the back of two sheets of printed Kraft temporarily- at the moment nothing is stuck down onto the kraft card ( although I have stamped on it) I shall use those sheets of karft on the other side later and when my order of Kraft cadstock arrives I shall finally finish this LO by sticking onto the background!

301/365

This is the sketch

silly faces ( or forlorn hope)

I don 't know why I bother entering some challenges- the Crate Paper one is always so tempting but the winners Los are always so fab- so full of little details and ALL the embellishments that I never buy. My Los are maybe a little too simple

Anyway this sketch challenge caught my eye- my LO keeps the three photos across the page but shrinks it down and then layers it onto a 12x12 piece

Its Nancy pulling stupid faces last weekend- I used my Pogo to print the photos hence the slightly grainy feel to them

Edit-

well I didn't win but I was picked as one of the eyecatching LOs on the Crate Paper blog here