Sketchy Scrappers Challenge - May

Loved the sketch in May set by Jessie and set about using up some more of my SJ Crafts kit  - so sad she is closing just as I have discovered her kits.

This time I did a page and a bit :)  The left hand page  is based on the sketch with photos of me as a Brownie when we attended our Tawny Owl's wedding as the guard of honour!

I added some sequins from my own stash and played with my new pot of embossing paste for the first time (dd loved it so much she has stolen some for her Art GCSE work!) This paste isfrom Wndy Vecchi in white.  Jessie also set the added challenge of using a song title so I pinched some words from the song we open each meeting with...

The right hand page holds a couple more pics from the day together with a glassine bag in which I have pt my Big Brownie Birthday badges that I have earned this year for being a Brownie leader and helping organise a couple of events for the girls in our village.  I have also added a Brownie tab that fell off someone's uniform!

In the pocket there is also a tab with lots of journalling about how I find myself volunteering for Guiding 40 years after these photos were taken and how I love it!

Thanks for stopping by.  This kit is all used up now so on to using up my Gossamer Blue kits and catching up on sketches and the UKS Summer challenge.  What scrapping challenges are you taking part in this summer?

UKS July Challenge

The July challenge on UKS was to use a sketch. Sorry I can't post it from my iPad but it here if you want to use it

http://www.ukscrappers.co.uk/boards/showthread.php?t=348008

I wanted to use up the last of my SJ crafts kit and grabbed a last photo from Christmas 2013 that I had not yet scrapped. I like the fact I have scrapped Christmas using pastels - it's quite refreshing!

I added some washy tape from my stash, some letter stickers and some crystals and enamel dots along with a spatter of Mr Hueys. I'm really not sure about the journaling as it seems to have gone a bit north!  I'll live with it for a bit and see how I feel :)

This is my first attempt to blog from my iPad and it's OK but it's not got all the features on the app that there are on the PC.  If anyone has any tips I'm all ears!

& the award goes too...

Hello, hello!  Welcome to the bank holiday weekend (or as I like to call it a whole week off work for half term! yay!)

I did this layout for a UKS weekly challenge a few weeks back and realised I had not blogged it. The challenge was...

10 points to use the sketch 

10 points to scrap something you love (doesn't need to be a person) - love of my daughter's achievements and her great taste in friends!
5 points for stitching (machine, hand or faux) - machine stitched in pink yellow and aqua around the edge of the page
5 points for inking - splatters in Mr Huey's gold

And this is what I came up with using a new kit from SJ Crafts (which I loved) plus a few bits from my own stash...

My daughter was one of the few to get two awards at the school's annual awards night which was lovely but even better was that three of her closest friends also won awards and they could all celebrate together.

Loved this kit - it's just the right size for me to scrap a few pages through the month and use it all up. (I think - except this month has been a little fraught and busy).  Definitely one I will buy again :)