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

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

Pencil Lines sketch 229

Hi everyone.

Here is my LO for Pencil Lines sketch 229. I did have a page planned for my Prom scrapbook that would use this sketch but I didn't like it so I left that and did a digi page with it instead.

These photos are the sort where they're awful photos in quality but look good together and mean a lot to me so they were worth scrapping. This page was fun to do and I'm really pleased with it. I am pleased with my Digi Scrapping in general, and as you may have noticed I am doing quite a few at the moment. I am trying to develop my digi scrapping as when I go to uni it'll be a great way to keep scrapping and being creative :)

Here is the sketch

I hope you like my page :)

Thanks for looking :)

Bye for now,

Hannah

Scrapbook page

I've got a page to share with you today. I made this to enter into the Pencil Lines DT. They released their DT on Wednesday and unfortunately I wasn't successful (I'm not surprised, I didn't actually like the LO very much, I tried to cram too much on it and didn't like the end result). Take a look at their website for their new DT, they have picked some really fab people, I can't wait to see their work over the next year :)

So here is the LO I made and the sketch I followed.

I'm not keen on it but I thought I'd share it anyway.

I am planning to scrap with the current sketch sometime this weekend, so I'll be back with that once I've done it :)

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 :)

A sea view

I just have to post this.

I've done a digi scrapbook page this evening and am so pleased with it that it just has to go on here straight away :D

I bought a few new kits this weekend from Sweet Shoppe Designs and whilst downloading and sorting through my new stash I just had the urge to use it. So tonight, seen as I've spent my entire school day hard at work, I thought I'd let myself have the afternoon to scrap. I've used a few bits from my new stash on this page with a mixture of my existing stash collection, and I've used bits from too many people to name them all :D If you want to know any of the details of products I've used pop your question as a comment and I'll answer.

This page was one of the rare ones, it just fell together exactly how I'd imagined and hoped it to, which is always great. I have used the pencil lines sketch 227 with this page, I decided I needed to do a sketch challenge again. I'm just sooo pleased with it. This will definitely be a digi page I attempt to print out, and if that fails, I think I'll have to do a paper version of it.

I think that's all from me tonight, thanks for looking.

Bye :)