flowers in her hair

here's my take on the latest challenge at Sarah's cards. its from the sketch below. its a picture of Nancy at the park in the summer- she has her own sense of style for good or bad and I often have to coax her out of outfits that are impractical for the occasion or the weather- shorts and a vest in winter?

using scrap stealing ideas~2

This LO is based on a LO I saw on the Crate Paper blog this week- the LO on the blog used washi tape stickers to create a pattern. I used lots of small strips of patterned paper at the bottom of the page
the LO has a photo of my children running about in the multi storey car park- we were the only people parked on level

using scraps- stealing ideas

I love pootling about the internet finding inspiration- unfortunately with the laptop out of action I've been doing it less and less- sitting on a hard chair in the playroom doesn't have the same appeal

but I had a little wander last week and found loads of ideas using scraps of paper

I made these three LOs and  not one whole piece of patterned paper was harmed in the process

I apologise for not sharing ho I stole the ideas from- I always forget to record that important bit of info :(

this one uses half circles in a graduated colour effect

these two uses two inch squares cut in half diagonally in a patchwork effect

both exactly the same design just with different colours

this one the wild flower meadows at the Olympic Park in London

 this one a series of Instagrams from our trip to Belgium this summer

( I am pickleboys on Instagram if you want to take a look)

Tompouce

I made this for the challenge at Dutch Dares- I know I'm not living  there anymore but I still have tonnes of photos  from out time in Holland that I need to scrap so at least if I play along I may get some done.

the challenge is to use Patterned paper only- no card- i've got 8 on here
the photo is of Stanley eating a tompouce cream cake

not picture perfect

the latest challenge at Scrap it with a Song has an October Halloween theme to it- the song is Kelly Clarkson- Dark Side but as you can see from my LO I haven't gone for a dark halloween theme- there is a line in the song that says "nobody's picture perfect" so I used that as my title.
The photo of Nancy that I used makes her look like some strange cabbage patch kid with blotchy skin- slightly odd but quite cute

While I sit and watch

This LO is for the October challenge at FRom Scree To Scrap- the  inspiration comes from "a tree Grows in Brooklyn" you can see the poster below.

the challenge involved also using
a black and white photo
a tree
leaves

I used the a leaf punch to create a border and some old AC paper with trees on but I inked up the white trees so it fitted a bit better with the other colours

the photo is of my son playing on the huge earthwork mounds at Kenilworth Castle- its called "while I sit and Watch" because that'a exactly what I was doing

twister inspiration

The challenge recently at Child's Play was Twister as inspiration

I made the top LO based on the image of the board (see below) but used some subdued colours. While I was making it I was left with the offcuts of the shapes so I used those on a second LO about our holiday last October