Sketches

Get Your Sketch On/ Design Dollies

For this LO I used the sketch from get YOur sketch on and the Design Element from Design Dollies ( I hope no-one minds)

Its called "waiting" and its Nancy in the garden with her umbrella waiting to try and use it!

You can't tell from the picture very well but I cut out the cloud shapes from the card and then backed the holes with the patterned papers. I used a few squares of paper to make a border.
Here is the sketch

Sketchy Thursdays

Last week at the book and bake sale at school there was face painting. Now the mother that does the face painting is really good but by golly she is slow/ painstaking. Each kid takes a good 10 minutes if not longer- so when Arthur said he wanted his face done and I looked at the queue i thought- he's not going to wait for that long- but he did. I was working on a stall so I gave him the money and wrote his name down at about 2.30. he hung around and waited and waited until 4.00. Such patience from a 6 year old! This LO for Sketchy Thursday shows what he looked like. He had it done on Friday and I couldn't wash it off him until Sunday morning!
here is the sketch

not sketches

This one is for Scrap that poetry- they have two poems this month and one of them is Wordsworth's Daffodils ( i had to learn this off by heart at school)

I immediately thought of all the daffodil photos I took at the Botanical gardens a few weeks ago and I love this one of Arthur poking his head over the plants- I called it " when all at once I saw"

I hope you don't think the photo is in a weird place but the paper has a big chunk cut out of it so this and the bracket shape managed to cover it up and make it look like a large piece of paper!

I still have one more LO I am wanting to make for the challenge over there so keep looking!

HMITM

another intriguing challenge from the girls at HMITM. this time its called three ring circus

and you need 1 funny picture- look at that face

3 PPs- there's the brown , the green and the checked

3. circles- yes with buttons on

and three bullet points- well there's three per tag- you can see one of the tags in the top picture

each tag slots into a space and they are all labelled- one fro school, one for sport and one for home

it's called my MUm says I'm awesome therefore its true

Scrap it with a song-

the photo of this was taken in the early morning sunshine today hence the long shadows- Its my design team Lo for Scrap it with A Song- every other week there are two Songs to inspire you- this time my song was the Sign by Ace of Bass and i took part of the line "how could a person like you bring me joy?" and made a Lo called "you bring me joy" although the title does appear to read yuo bring me joy! I have changed it now have you tried the challenge at From Screen to Scrap this month? At the moment the movie inspiration is Singin' in the Rain and the challenge is to use rain in the title, an umbrella on your page and work in threes- why not go and check it out and if you decide to have a go tell Shazza I sent you!

Vintage sketches

I had some great finds at our school book and bake sale on Friday- a reprint of a sixties book called Nurse Nancy- I may have to scan in some of the pictures to use as embellishments, a french edition of Ali Baba with beautiful old pictures which I will be using on pages and a dictionary which has already made its appearance on my Los including both of the pages below- Its a Portuguese/ German dictionary so absolutely no for me but great for scrapbooking!

The first LO is for Sassy Lil' sketches although I'm tempted to enter it for Scrap that poetry as well ( i had picked out two other lines from the poems to use for LOs but I was inspired by Shazza to use this photo the line is "Screaming children" from the poem Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day by Delmore Schwartz ) As you can see I'm going rather vintage today- there's a scrap on thereand a journalling block from Crate Paper- I really want some more of those!

this was the sketch

And this one is for Pencil Lines

I cut the boy on the rocking horse out from the reverse of the yellow patterned paper and added a page from my new ( old ) dictionary- I used my bird punch sideways for a change!

And the sketch

Why don't you pop over to Scrapbookers Anonymous and check out their design team call-its a great team to be on and they have some really cool challenges lined up for the next few months- go on- I'm sure you'd enjoy it

all about the colour

I've moved away from sketches this weekend and thrown myself into colour challenges.

This one is my favourite- the colours= cream, teal and coral for the Crate Paper colour challenge.

This one- lime,white, orange and blue for the Design Dollies
This one is for Punky Scraps- orange, green and yellow but you can use only one patterned paper so I've used a paint chip ( passe? but I love these ones they are from a company that are based here and in Belgium so the names are in French and Dutch) I've also got a luggage label, stamped bike, tape, dictionary paper
And this one for the Colour Room- orange, beige, teal and navy

Do I love this sketch?

I think I might- it was just so so easy ( actually too easy- I whipped up four Los using this sketch today) the sketch is from the October Afternoon blog hence all the LOs have a touch of October Afternoon on them ( some more than others)

1 using the stuff I had selected for my Counterfeit kit. Nancy in the garden with her brothers- she was fixing her bike with a saw- her brothers are the blur in the background

2. Nancy at the zoo in the baby swing- she still insists on going in them even though she is too big
3. My girl- with a touch of Crate paper in there too- Nancy looking thoughtful at lake Como
4. Happy- me in the village hall probably at Markyate which is where my Grandad came from- love the flag in the background- quite apt for the upcoming wedding? Lots of different October Afternoon in this- Modern Homemaker, and thrift shop

THIS WAS THE SKETCH

Using my kit

Once I've made a Counterfeit kit I have to dig right in- even though they haven't given us any challenges yet

I made three LOs this weekend using my kit ( although I may have added a few other bits as well but who's going to complain?)

1. using a sketch from October Afternoon
2. She love cake mix too- this is Nancy hiding under the table with her face covered in cake mix- it has to be the best part of home made cake- don't you think? i added the Crate paper polka dot that wasn't in my kit But hey!
3. Using the same design but without the Crate Paper

This is Nancy last summer in her flip flops with socks- only a three year old can get away with a look like this!