Crafty goodness and module results

I've a few crafty things to share with you today.

First of all, a birthday card. One of my friends turned 17 this week and this is the card I made for her.

She loves dogs, so, after persuading Mum to buy this cute dog digi stamp from Bee Crafty downloads, I suddenly realised a perfect use for it. I've coloured it using my Pastel pencils (it was great using them again after buying them for my Art GCSE and not using them since), wrapped brown and white bakers twine around the front of the card with a slit cut in the spine, and then stamped the greeting. She liked the card, which is the most important thing :)

Now, some more crafting. I've managed to do pencil lines sketch 228 this week, and used it not once but twice!! During the week I made a digi page using the sketch, here it is,

And today I have sat down and done the 'paper and scissors' scrapbook page I'd been planning in my head all week. I am really pleased with it, here it is

I have used Tim Holtz distress inks to stipple around a hiedi swapp bracket mask, and I now absolutely love the technique. I've seen so many people do this technique and use inks and paints on their pages, but I haven't tried up until now. I'm sure it's something you'll see more of now I've tried it though :)

For this page I've used the colour scheme that Emilie set on her blog last Sunday. I don't use challenge colour schemes very often but am very glad I have with this page as I wouldn't have combined these colours otherwise, but they look great together. Thanks Emilie

All of the flowers on this page have been handmade, both a mixture of crepe paper twisted flowers, layered felt and a new flower made using a fab tutorial I've just found here.

I've interpreted the pencil lines sketch by using one photo and leaving the space that should be for the second photo as blank paper. The twirled line of journalling under the photo lent itself to the trail of a butterfly brilliantly, so that's what I've done. The journalling reads :-

I took this photo to help with my Art exam. She was so well behaved as I took lots of photos.

The small butterfly trail reads :- Thanks Amy, you earn't me an A*

There is a real theme to both of my pages this week, they are both about my Art GCSE. The first is photos I took for a coursework piece and the journalling comments on the fact that I was willing to look stupid lying on the floor of a hairdressers taking photos. The second is a photo I took of a family friends baby, for my final exam piece, and as the journalling says, I got an A* for my Art so I owe a big thank you to the baby for all of the photos I was allowed to take.

On to some non crafty news. I had my AS module results back on Thursday. I'm so happy with them. For Biology I got 85/90, an A, and for my two maths modules I strangely managed to get the same score on both, 94/100, which is an A at the minute. I say at the minute because if I get over 90 in my next three A2 modules I can get one of the new A*, which is what I really really want. So as you can imagine, I'm rather chuffed with those, especially with Biology which I find quite a tough subject.

Anyway, that's it from me for today, I should hopefully be back tomorrow with some portrait photos to share :)

Thanks for looking,
Hannah :)