Sketchy Thursday's and Colour room

Hi all,

I have a LO to share today and pics of the lovely stash I bought at Alexandra Palace last weekend. :)

First up, the LO.
I really liked the look of this week's Sketchy Thursday's sketch, so had to have a go and use it. It's also been quite a while since I took part in a colour challenge, so thought I would this time. I really love colour challenges, and often look at the Colour Room's weekly palettes, so this week I decided to use their gorgeous current palette. The combination of the two challenges left me with this LO :)

Here's the sketch

And here's the colour palette

This sketch was such a great sketch to use, and I love that collection of colours, the deep red, white, pale yellow and pale brown looks great together :)

I hope you like the LO, here are a few close ups

 Seeing as the LO is all about my art, and the long summers spent drawing for my art GCSE (even on our family holidays!!) I decided to actually sketch a little on the LO. I have seen others do this, so thought I'd give it a go and quite like it. I have also stitched a grid behind the two focal areas with a sewing machine, and numbered it, to mimic the type of grid you draw in art when you are copying from a photo etc.

 This rose has been created following Sutty's most recent flower tutorial, I just had to try them :)

I have used lots of washi tape on this LO. I LOVE this stuff, it is absolutely super. On this LO I have used washi tape bought from John Lewis (the colours were such a great match) and also some of the new hambly screen print washi tape (bought at Ally Pally)

Edited to add : I have just had a lovely comment from Beth Moore telling me about The Kraft Journal challenges. I am so pleased she has introduced me to this challenge, I love Kraft so it's the perfect place for me :) I have linked up this LO to their current challenge, 'lavish layers' :)

So, now onto Ally Pally.

Mum and I had a great day, we really enjoyed it. It's a long time since we last went to the show, and it really made us realise how much our styles of crafting has changed. We were walking past stalls that once would have caught our attention for ages. 

Anyway, it was beautiful weather, so the walk up from the station was lovely. The building is so gorgeous.

Mum took this photo using her iPhone (love this app, I want an iPhone too now :)

We spent a good few hours at the show, and I spent most of the money I'd saved :) Here's what it was spent on

Do you see that moustache Hambly Screen Print? Yes...well I was extremely excited to see it there, so excited I bought 2 of them!! I have been looking for this for quite a while, I have photos that I've been waiting to scrap, just so I can use this once I had it. So pleased :D 

A lovely little collection of embellishments. I LOVE those little retro style appliances, I just had to have those. Also, do you see the scalloped calico ribbons? These are great, so versatile, I have used these in the LO above, spritzed with ink through a stencil :)

And lastly, this little collection of goodies :)

There were a great collection of stalls there, and I can't wait to get tucking into more of my new stash.

One of the highlights of the day for me though was helping out on the Scrap Revolution stall. I spent 2 hours helping out, restocking, working on the tills, and it was really good fun. It was also lovely to see my kit LO on display :) Speaking of which, the tutorial for the flower I created for the kit LO has been posted on the scrap revolution blog, so do take a look :)

Thanks for looking, sorry it has been such a picture heavy post, well done for surviving through it :)

Bye for now,

Hannah :)

P.S. Have you heard about the new UK scrap magazine, SCRAP365? It is amazing, I came across it a few days ago as some of the lovely people I follow are on the new fabby DT. Do check it out, I am so pleased to hear we will soon have a great UK scrap magazine, I've really missed not having a magazine since Scrapbook Inspirations stopped. I subscribed at Ally Pally, so can't wait for the first issue to arrive in November :)