My Freaky Family

Today is reveal day for the sketch group that I belong to on UKS.  Ali set us this lovely sketch from Pagemaps (October 2009) to use for our May challenge.

I adapted it so that I could use 3 large photographs and chose some from my niece's 21st horror themed birthday party.

I used a mixture of papers - Pebbles 'Downtown Collection', Bella Blvd 'Too Cute to Spook' and My Little Shoebox 'Trick or Treat' and punched out the circles using a variety of Woodware and Stampin' Up scalloped circle punches.  I used Creative Memories alphabet stickers for the title.

Xmas in April - a dusting of snowmen!!

Week 14 of the 52 card challenge  was to use this lovely sketch.

I made this Christmas card with a pre-prepared stamped image

and then decided to make a few more using the sketch with the rest of the snowmen I had previously coloured with promarkers and cut out.  I'm not sure what the collective noun for a bunch of snowmen is - though bunch sounds pretty good.  (Just googled this out of curiosity and found two answers - a dusting of snowmen and a melt of snowmen!!!!)

Thank you Natalie for a lovely sketch to use.

Monochrome cards

Both Penny Black Saturday Challenge and the 52 card challenge have monochromatic as their theme this week, so I have been able to get away with just making one card for both of them.

The cute hedgie stamp is from Penny Black T for transparent set 'Hello Friend' and the sentiment is a Lili of the Valley stamp.  The ribbon is seam binding from the Ribbon Girls and the butterfly was punched with an EK Success punch.  I haven't a clue where the paper came from as it came to me eons ago in a paper swap.

The image was coloured with promarkers.

Puppy Love

The monthly challenge on Sarah's Cards blog is to use this sketch.

I used some photographs taken in 2009 of my sister's then new puppy Toby.

The papers are a mixture of 3 bugs in a rug 'Ashtyn' and Pink Paislee 'Hometown Summer'.  The little badge in the bottom corner is an American Crafts Daydreams flair and the title is fabric thickers.

Yarn bombing

Last year I signed up to do Shimelle's Pretty Paper Party, but didn't have time to join in there and then, so I have saved all the prompts to do at my leisure.

The first prompt was to use paper strips, a great way to use up scraps.  I was also inspired by one of the layouts used in this Glitter Girl Adventure on using up your scraps.

Whilst in Iceland last year, we had some free time to wander around Reykjavik and we came across this tree that had been covered in pieces of knitting - no one that we spoke to had a clue what it was all about so I had to wait until I got home to google it and then I found out all about yarn bombing.

The patterned papers are mainly Bo Bunny scraps left over from one of my monthly classes and the orange spotted paper is American Crafts and leftover from a retreat class.  I used a mixture of AC Thickers and stickers for my title.  The butterflies are an EK Success punch.

Happy 18th Harry!!!

I always make a mini book for my niece's and nephew's 18th birthdays.  Harry has just celebrated his and this is the little book that I made for him using Echo Park 'Little Boy'

I made a little box to keep the book safe

And here is Harry engrossed in his book - I think he liked it!!

 He also liked the little light up cake that I shared in a blog post a couple of days ago!!

Recycled cards

The challenge this week at Penny Black Saturday Challenge is Recycling.

I made two little cards for the challenge.

The ribbon on this card is from gift packaging, the gemstones and flower came off of a shop bought card and the pink backing paper is from a shop bought card insert.

For my second card the embossed butterfly card is from the back of a shop bought card, the ribbon from a tag on a new pair of jeans and the gemstones prised off a shop bought card.

Both images were coloured with Promarkers and the sentiments are Wild Rose Studio, the oval punchouts are both Stampin' Up.