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,

Second She Art

I'm back, with a second she art girl which I made earlier this week. At first I didn't like it, I felt I'd made it too grungy and covered up her dress too much, but it's been one of those craft projects that has grown on me and I now like it :)

I decided to use Emilie's colour challenge with this She Art girl, so I used the two shades of blue and the white in the background, then used the white and the brown for the dress. :)

Here are a few close ups

The photos don't really show it well, but this background is sooo textured, I can't help but keep running my hands over it!! I have created the texture by using some daler-rowney texture paste that I've bought from hobbycraft. It was fairly expensive but you don't use much on each canvas so it will stretch far and it was one of the best things I've bought for these so far, it's made so much of a difference to the backgrounds :)

I'm really pleased with her hair, I felt the colour and pen looked awful at first but with the addition of the hairband and flower I like it now.

I decided the other day to sit down and make just a few backgrounds as one of the things I don't like about the background of this girl is that the details have disappeared. At first, like I always do with everything, I tried to use too much on the backgrounds and went over the top, so I decided that doing a few canvas background at the same time would stop me doing this as I'd share the techniques between the two so they don't get overcrowded. I am really pleased I did it like this as I loveeee the two backgrounds I managed to make. Here they are

I shall show you some close ups of these background when I have done girls on them :)

On another note, I decided today, in the nice weather, I'd get mum to take a photo of me to set as my profile picture as the one I have at the minute is a few years old. It needed updating and you can't really get much more up to date than this, here is me, the photo taken this morning, and that is exactly what I look like as I sit and type this to you right now :)

I hope you're enjoying the lovely weather, well I say lovely, but being part of a family that's interested in the environment and my dad is an accountant for farmers, we are wishing for rain so that the crops don't fail!! I'm in my SHORTS today, that really isn't right for April !!!

P.S. for those of you who may have noticed, I've changed my watermark, and yes, it is now a dandelion, I really am obsessed with them, they look so beautiful at the minute, I keep seeing them everywhere at the minute and am resisting the urge to get the camera out. YOU HAVE ENOUGH PHOTOS OF THEM HANNAH!!!!

Anyway, bye for now. 

Jumping pillows

I don't know if any of you have ever seen these, but they're amazing. They're basically a huge trampoline/bouncy castle, that are like pillows in the ground, and they're so much fun. We found one when we were on holiday in Norfolk in 2009. It was surrounded by sand so you couldn't injure yourself if you slid off, and they could take lots of people.

This page shows how much fun we all had.

This page uses the sketch from pencil lines and the colour scheme from Emilie's blog (although I've added the yellow to the colour scheme, my page just seemed to need it!)

Here's the sketch

 

(I've broken the single photo into 3)



and here's the colour scheme.

I hope you like my page :)

Hannah

Happy Mother's Day

To all of the Mothers that are reading this, I hope you've had a great day :)

I'll start with a layout I think this evening (which is a lovely evening here may I add, Mum and Dad are just outside finishing off from their productive day gardening and it's still a lovely temperature outside).
For this LO I have used the Sketchy Thursdays sketch and Emilie's colour challenge #4. I seem to be doing only LO based on sketches at the mo, since Mum's been part of blog land we've both stumbled across loads of lovely challenges. I might have to take a break from sketches soon, as I'm worried that I wont be able to scrap without a sketch soon!!
Anyway, here is my LO.

I'm really pleased with it. I loved the colour combination Emilie gave us but was stuck as to which photos to use with it. I'm glad I settled with these, the colours suit a grungy masculine page. I've taken a lot of inspiration for this page from this blog. I absolutely love her work and realised that the reason I loved her most recent page was the black mat behind each piece of paper, so that's what I've attempted here and I think it's worked well :)
Here's a few close ups.

Here's the sketch and colour scheme I've used.

I hope you like it.

Now, onto Mother's day.

I had great fun making Mum's card earlier this week, I would've posted it earlier but I never know when she's peeking on here. I was really pleased with the card, and she loved it which is always the most important thing.

I stippled around two hearts with Tim Holtz distress inks (I love those inks :D), then tied some bakers twine around the card and added the sentiment and button. The templates/stencils I had used for the hearts looked too good to throw away once I'd finished this card, so I used them on another. I made this card into an Anniversary card as I don't send many valentine cards so thought it'd be more use as an Anniversary card.

At my Rangers group, we made marzipan fruits for Mothers day and decorated a glass bowl for them to go in. I ran the Marzipan fruits evening, as even though I haven't tried marzipan fruits before I've worked with marzipan. The evening went really well and I was very pleased with my results.

Even though the hour and a bit we spent making them wasn't enough to make many, those that I did make I was really pleased with. they looked great in their little bowl.

Here is a compilation of photos of the individual fruits. I was pleased with the clementine and apple the most :)

Hope you all have a great evening and thanks for popping by. It's our last week at school this week and then we are off for 2 and a bit weeks for Easter, which will be lovely :)

Bye for now, Hannah :)

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 :)