Twilight Addicts Weekend Away

Challenge 6 for last weekend's cybercrop at A Trip Down Memory Lane was to scraplift a layout by their design team from the May or June gallery.

This is my scraplift -

Papers - Jillibean Soup 'Apple Cheddar Soup' and MLS 'Destination'
EK Success and Martha Stewart butterfly punches
Echo Park alphabet stickers
Butteflies punched from various scraps

Inspired by this layout from Dawn Evans

Thanks ATDML for another lovely challenge.

There is still time to take part in the ATDML cybercrop - the challenges close at 6pm on Sunday but the classes are still open for another two weeks.

Flutterby Bracelet - June's Monthly Make

A bit of a late dash in with my entry for the Monthly Make.  I have had this bracelet kit from Spoilt Rotten Beads for ages and had attempted to make it ages ago - got to the end and didn't like the huge knot that you got from tying all three strands together as it was too large to hide in an adjacent bead.  I later found a triple hole metal bead that was just perfect for hiding the three knots in.

Even though the bead is larger than I would really like, when you are wearing it, it really doesn't notice on the underside of your wrist and actually looks like the bracelet has a clasp.

I can see myself making some more of these in different colourways!!

Quick & Easy Christmas Mini's

This week's challenge for the 52 card challenge is to make miniature card (smaller than 4x4).  I can't believe that we are now on week 26 - half way through the challenge already!!

As I am so behind with making my Christmas cards, I decided to make some quick Christmas cards.

I stamped directly onto the card blank and then coloured in with Promarkers, the sentiments are Personal Impressions.

Peek-a-boo

Challenge 4 in ATDML Cybercrop was a sketch challenge

I used some more photographs of Vern & Rodger from our Meadow Barn weekend, this time with Alun & Lisa and some Jillibean Soup papers which were leftovers from a retreat class.  The title is AC Thickers.

The large stars were diecut with Sizzix Framelits and the smaller stars are an EK Success star border punch

Read All About It!!

Challenge 4 in the ATDML cybercrop was to make journalling a feature of your page.  I tend to include a little journalling on most of my layouts but rarely do lots of writing on a page.

I found some photographs from our canal holiday in 2009 on the Mon' & Brec' canal in Wales.  We accidentally got our boat stuck trying to reach the southern end terminus of the canal - on their own these photographs are absolutely meaningless so they were perfect for a page with lots of room  left to tell the story of how we got stuck!!

I used papers from my January kit - Pebbles 'Fresh Goods', the ledger paper was perfect to journal on.  The title is AC Studio Calico Thickers coloured with a Berry Red Promarker.

A close up of the journalling

I really must start doing more pages like this with a lot more journalling on.

We Love Rodger & Vern

Class 5 for the ATDML cybercrop was this lovely layout by Karen Moss.

I adapted it slightly so that I could use two photographs from our March visit to Meadow Barn with The Twilight Addicts.  My friend Jessie always takes Vern on holidays with her and this year he was joined by his friend Rodger the monkey.  It is traditional that everyone has to have their photograph taken with Vern and of course Rodger joined in as well.  Keep an eye out for more layouts with these two little scamps as they appeared in a lot of photographs that weekend!!

I used leftover papers from a retreat class - I think they are Jillibean Soup.  I used a mixture of AC Thickers and Jillibean Soup alphabet stickers for my title.  I ended up doing straight line stitching around the edge of the layout as my OCDness would not allow me to do the lovely wonky stitching that Karen had done for her class layout.

Hang the flags out

The challenge this week at Penny Black Saturday Challenge is to Fly the Flags, as luck would have it Challenge 2 for the ATDML cybercrop was to use bunting so I have been able to do both challenges with just the one card.

I used Basic Grey Cupcake and some bunting stickers from Echo Park.  The sentiment is Personal Impressions and the sentiment frame is Stampin' Up.

The stamp is from T for transparent set Critter Party and was watercoloured using Derwent pencils.