Sad farewell to Sketchy Thursday's

Hi all,
I hope you are all well and have settled nicely into the new year. I've been working hard, desperate to do well in my A2 modules this January. I still have them all to come over the next 3 weeks, so don't have much time to spare for anything else.

I came on Blogger the other day to be greeted with the devastating news that Sketchy Thursday's will be no more. I absolutely LOVE that sketch blog, the sketches were so inspirational and easy to use and interpret, and the friendly community over there was so welcoming. It's a big shame to see them go, but on the other hand, with my work load as high as it is at the moment, I can fully appreciate how much work and other commitments can get in the way. I had to find a little pocket of time to create a scrapbook page using their final sketch, so over the weekend I slipped in a little scrapping here and a little there. Here's the finished page.

I have used a pad of paper sent to me from the lovely Suzanne as a thank you for being on the TPV design team. So this is a farewell page in many ways, a farewell to sketchy Thursdays, a farewell to being on the TPV DT, and a farewell to 2011.
The journalling reads :

A big year. The year I finish my A levels and go to university. The year I become more independent and begin to travel. Bring it on, I can't wait!!

Here are a few close ups. I hope you like it.

Thanks for popping by. I hope you are all keeping well, sorry for my absence, I'll be back after these exams as I will have Kirsty's Just One Sketch Class to catch up with and share :)

Bye for now, and farewell Sketchy Thursday's, thanks for all of those brilliant sketches.

Hannah

Non-stop crafting

This describes my Saturday and Sunday. I've created 3 She Art girls and 3 cards!!

First off, my cards. I originally just created one for the LIM challenge this week, which is a recipe to choose a section of a card and keep the majority of your design in this square. So here was my first card.

I was really pleased with it, it took a few attempts to get it to a card I liked, but I got there. I printed the sentiment on the front, and inside the card it reads  '... to say   Happy Birthday' in the same font. As I was just finishing, Mum shouted to me and told me that someone had just uploaded a card almost exactly the same for LIM.
Never mind, I then decided to make another. Well, actually I made two more as I came across a few quickutz dies that inspired me. So here are my other two entries.

 I really love the white on white layering that everyone is doing at the moment, so I thought I'd use it on this very simple congrats card, which could be used as either an engagement or wedding card.

Then this one, I really like this, lots of glitter, pretty girlie colours, I think this really suits it's 16 year old audience. Kraft again, it just looks lovely with pink and white on it :)

We had to choose one of the squares from this sketch to focus our image in.

I hope you like them. I'll be around to comment on other entries later :)

Now onto my She Art girls. I'll share them with you another day, but for now I thought I'd show you this close up of one of them :)



Thanks for visiting, bye for now, 

Card Challenge

Hi everyone,

Just a quick post from me this morning to share a card.

Mum (Jenny) really loves LIM and Cas-ual Friday's, so I decided to give it a go this week and play along. Both LIM and CAS-ual Friday's challenges this week go together so well, so I have, like many others, combined the two. LIM asks for butterflies, and CAS-ual Friday's asks for bling, so here is my contribution to both.

Yes, I've used Kraft again, for those who read my post yesterday you'll know just how much I love Kraft cardstock.
For this card I have used the MFT dynamics butterfly die, and then stamped the flowers onto the wings and added some stickles (although this doesn't show up brilliantly on this photo). At first I drew the line so it ran under the greeting and stopped at the butterfly, but decided to carry it on to the right edge and am really pleased I did.

I just want to say to those of you who have also played along, I am sorry if I don't get around to commenting on your cards, I shall nip around and comment on a few but am currently studying for AS exams tomorrow and Thursday, so I am short of time. :)

Thanks for stopping by to take a look :)

A colour challenge and prize

Hi everyone,

This week, not only has Emilie posted an interesting colour challenge, but there is also a prize up for grabs. Head over to her blog to see the lovely prize, and take part if you have time, we'd love to see your entries.

This week I have used Emilie's colour combination for a digi page. I am not overly pleased with it for some reason, I don't know why. I have used the sketch and theme over at the Creative Craft World blog as inspiration.

Here's the LO.

I've altered the sketch quite a bit, but the basis of the sketch is still there, the 4 photos (I've changed into 1 photo, a journalling block and 2 rectangle frame elements), the ribbons and the curved title. I loved the colours in the colour challenge, I found it quite challenging but I really love them. Head over to Emilie's blog, look at the challenge and get creating for your chance to win the prize :)

Bye for now,

Bold and layered

I've created another LO (not sure if scrapping was the best use of some of my study leave today but never mind, I've studied a fair bit too!!)

I really wanted to do this weeks Sketchy Thursday's sketch, it's a double but there are so many possibilities with it.
I also spotted that this weeks 'The Studio' scrap challenge is

'Add lots of dimension to your page.

Layers, chunky embellishments, you name it, build up those pages!'

So, a combination of the two gave me the inspiration for this layout :)

I am really pleased with it. I love all of the layers I managed to achieve, and I am glad I'm becoming a bit more adventurous as I am pleased with the paint and ripped, curled edges :)

Here's a close up, showing all of the layering

I used the right hand side of the Sketchy Thursday's sketch, swapping the position of the title but keeping everything else pretty much the same :)


Here's another close up

I hope you like it.

This is my 100th post :D Yipee. Thanks very much for your continued support and the amazing comments you leave me. It's very much appreciated :D

Bye for now,

A few challenges

This week I've combined two challenges onto one single layout. For this page I've used the pencil lines sketch 230 and the recent challenge on the better living through scrapbooking blog. I came across this blog the other day and like the sort of challenges that they give, so I shall have to keep an eye on this blog too and do some of the challenges :)

The sketch over at pencil lines this week is


The B.L.T.S challenge blog gives a guideline and a few other things to include in your LO. This weeks challenge is to use nothing more sophisticated than scissors and paper punches to create your page. I thought this would be easy as I was struggling to remember the last time I used the cricut or anything like that for a LO, but when actually doing the page I realised I use the sidekick and sizzix dies quite a bit, especially for titles. However, I managed it, with the most technical thing I used being punches.

I also had to use at least 2 of the given criteria (see here). So on my page I've used a page from a book to create both the flower and a circle scrap, I've made some paper people, and I've also made the flower using an online tutorial. The flower tutorial can be found here (I used the second tutorial), I've discovered that this works better with cardstock than paper as this flower hasn't got such a lovely shape as the other one I did on this page.

I hope you like my page,

Bye for now :)
Hannah

Some pages to show

Sorry it has been so long, I've been busy in a funny kind of way, I've constantly been finding things to do and never getting round to blogging.
It's been so hot here, the garden looks like a desert! It must have been 3 weeks or so since we last had rain!

I've had time to scrapbook and that's the main thing. I have done two pages of my mini book about James. Here they are.

The page that is a pull out tab is all about my oldest memory. James had to go into hospital when he was a toddler, and I have very clear memories of this which I have now documented on this page.
As this page shows, James used to have so many soft toys on his pillow that there was hardly any space for his head! I have stapled pleated ribbon to this page which is a technique I seem to be loving at the minute, you'll see it again in the next page.

Paper Proposals Challenge

If you want a weekly scrapping challenge and haven't found this site yet, head over there with this link.

I didn't do the first weeks challenge as I never found time, but I've attempted this weeks challenge, to use a card creatively. Here's my card used creatively.

It is a page to put into my Upper School book, a page all about my hilarious geography lessons (the text on the TV screen reads 'Dick Head, Executive Co-ordinator', that should explain some of it!!). This is the card as a card would stand.
I have shut the card and stuck it with a bit of cardstock sandwiched between to create two pockets for a certificate and tags.

I am so pleased I followed this challenge as I don't know how I would have fit so much information and memories into the same space.

I have done some scrapbooking shopping this week too, I have used some of my birthday money to increase all of my lovely stash, and concentrated my purchases on my plan to create a mini album about my Prom. I need to do a bit more of my other mini albums first though as once I've started too many I never seem to go back to the old ones.

I have set myself a challenge. If I'm going to take an AS level in English I need to read books. I don't though. I don't read enough at the minute so I have set myself the challenge to read at least 5 books over the weeks before I start sixth form. I have been out this morning and bought a few books that look really interesting, and I can't wait to get started through them.

The Jessica Sprague class I mentioned in my last post was postponed, so it started today :) I haven't completed the first task yet, but it won't be long. I shall post my progress as I complete the tasks.

I also just wanted to say thank you very much for everyone's lovely comments from my last post. I really enjoyed making the cake and hope you will see more in the future as I hope to get back into it and do them more often. I have been editing some of my prom photos and have a good collection, so watch this space for layouts in the future. Thanks again, all comments are really appreciated.

Hannah :)