Magnificent

Today over on The Studio we have a great challenge that really gets you thinking, create a layout with only 5 things! One of the items has to be chipboard as we are sponsored by the lovely chipboard company Memory Maze. A sheet of patterned paper counts as one so does washi tape etc but you can have your cardstock, pen and stitching for free!

Some of the DT found it really hard but I found this quite easy as I'm more than happy with some patterned paper and a pair of scissors! Here's the layout I came up with:

In the end I only used 4!! Some white paint, a sheet of patterned paper, a chipboard frame and lovely glittery Thickers. I chose some patterned paper that I could cut out some flower designs from to form the embellishments on the page. It's also a nice way to used both sides of a sheet of PP on a layout.

I've been lacking on the blogging front lately as I've had 2 brand new nephews with weeks of each other so they are keeping me busy!

Thanks for looking! xx

Sunday Service

The title of my layout is very apt for today as it's Sunday and there's another challenge up on The Studio challenge blog! We had another sketch to play with today, I found this one a bit of a challenge as it was not my style but it's good to be pushed to do something different so this is what I came up with:

The layout is about when I was staying at my uncles holiday cottage in Devon, the cottage looks out on to a village green and one morning lots of people started gathering, we had no idea why so kept watching and then the vicar and a keyboard player turned up and they had a full church service on the green with hymns too!!

This months sponsor at The Studio is the chipboard company Memory Maze, they are offering a $20 voucher for the winner of the challenges. So if that sounds good to you make sure to join in for a chance to win!

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Masks

Sunday's challenge at The Studio was about masks and stencils. I used a stencil for the background of my layout, I used green and blue paint on a sponge and it mixed itself a bit so it turned out quite a nice seaside colour which was nice as my layout is about something that happened on the beach! I also used another stencil to make the chevron shapes along the washi tape.

When we went on our family break away in February, we went to a great beach, it had lots of these balls of empty fish eggs. My sister also found a plank of wood so decided to play what she called 'fish brain cricket' with them!! It had to documented!

We have a great sponsor at The Studio this month which is the online shop Bellaboo so make sure you play along for a chance of winning a voucher!

Got more to show you so I'll be back shortly! 

Thanks for looking! xx

Whats in your pocket?

There's a new challenge up at The Studio today! This time we had a lovely colour pallet for inspiration. I've so busy creating lately that I am feeling a little bit uninspired, but luckily it came easy with this! I enjoyed making it and I'm even pleased with the results!!

When I went to my printer to print a photo to use, I found one of the cartridges was empty and it had to be the only one I didn't have! I did a quick order and waited! While waiting though I found this photo that I tried to scrap ages ago and never finished it, which is not like me! The colours in the photo worked great for the challenge though so it was meant to be!

The photo is of my nephew from a couple of years ago with his hand in his pocket, I had to scrap about when he used to love having things in his pocket and you never knew what's he was going to pull out! It could of been string, stones, elastic bands or anything!

It feels good to of scrapped it and it's now not laying around on my desk anymore!

We are lucky to have Bellaboo, the online scrapbooking store sponsoring us this month at The Studio, if you enter the challenges you could win a £15 voucher to spend there! Go and take a look at the challenge!

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More Canvases

I've stopped blogging so often don't really know why so thought I would make the effort and show you something!

Here's another couple of my mixed media canvases that I have made and sold recently.

There's no place like home, this one went off to America, I really like this one so I might have to make another one similar to this!

I stamped the all the flowers and painted them in.

My Rocket canvas went flying off to Slovakia, I had some lovely feedback from this one, the little boy who got it loves it :-)  I like the dark blue background with the bright reflective silver stars and mist.

I'm busy creating more for my shop now, I've just created a ballerina which I'm quite pleased with! So nice to go all pink and girly!

Back soon with another challenge from the Studio! 

Thanks for looking! xx

Simples

This Sunday's challenge at The Studio was another lovely sketch! I shrank it down a little the suit my style. 

I love these photos I took of the Meercats when we took my nephew to a zoo in September. For the scattered confetti on the sketch, I used my stamps to stamp the rings on the page and added a little paint. The title is of course a take on the UK advert!

You must go and check out the sketch and what the DT did with it, as all the layouts are so different from it!
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King of the Castle

Yesterday's challenge at The Studio was a recipe challenge, we had a list of ingredients to include in our layouts, they were: kraft cardstock, paint/mist, two types of alphas and at least one tag.

Here's what I came up with!

I really enjoyed making this one, it was easy to include the great products in it. I didn't use the kraft card stock as my background as most of the design team, I used it in a big tag and torn strip instead.

The photos is from my few days away last month. We visited a castle near where we are staying and my nephew loved it. He got the sword in the shop on the way in and carried it around the whole of the castle and then got a shield on the way out!

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