Mini Art Journal

Finally got round to uploading the last few weeks of Emily's challenge. I do keep up with the challenges but always put off uploading them. Here we go -

Week 37 Draw something. I can't draw!!! But did manage a flower :lol:

Week 38 I wonder:

Will my children be happy?

About the worlds future?

Whats old age like?

Whats next?

Just love this little owl stamp which came with this months scrapping angel kit.

Week 39 Someone Speshal - no pics but my friend Sharon is spesh-al. She is always so positive so this card is dedicated to her.

Week 40 - not anymore

The scroll reads ' they used to tell me that I'm not creative but I'm not listening anymore!' I just rolled it up and popped it inside the hollow bead.

And week 41 - magic carpet take me to...outer space...what an adventure that would be?

More uploaded layouts

Thought I would put up some unseen layouts...all the ones I entered the SI scrapbooker of the year with! Never really thought I could win but nevertheless, it was a great challenge and I am a firm believer of 'you gotta be in it to win it'. Having said that I greatly respect the ladies who won and would seriously like to congratulate them!

Have been heavily involved in the birthday celebrations over on UKS. They have been holding a cybercrop over three weekends and for the first two I have had lots of time to commit so have had a lot of fun doing the classes. Here are a few of the layouts completed so far. With thanks to everyone for providing the classes and challenges...'kissing the stone' was a challenge from my fave scrapbooker...Jen Hall...in which she provided a download of doodles for us to use. I got out my chalks and coloured them in plus made a few more of my own doodles to match...great fun!

Plus I notice I have been tagged by Cleo, which is problem cos I don't really know many people who blog. So if anyone fancies being tagged - let me know!

Back from my hols...

Had a lovely time in Skiathos over the past two weeks...plenty of sunshine to recharge the batteries before winter. We went on a boat trip one day and the ocean was full of jelly fish. I also got some good shots of the sunset at Agios Eleni Beach.

Think I may just have to scrap these cos I really like them.

On another note I went to Ally Pally on Sunday for the craft and stamp show...a first for me but definately not a last...just need to make sure we go earlier next time...and take more money!!!!!

Emily's Prompts

Week 36 - can't believe I am still doing this - Life is Beautiful...

Havn't updated here for a while cos life has been so busy. Two children to get back to Uni and a holiday to get organised for. Not to mention builders in and the time involved in sorting out the admin stuff for another son who had a road accident. It bugs me that even though the accident wasn't his fault...we have to be put out by it and ultimately lose money for it. His car was a little ten year old Arosa, worth more to us on the road than off it. Its been written off so ultimately we have to go buy another car which is going to be difficult on the money the insurance will pay out...feeling really annoyed about it.

On another note, I still have Emily's card to do and hope to get that done before my holiday on Friday (Greece...two weeks...yesssssssssssss). The photography course is going well. Here are some recent shots for this weeks assignment about texture.

Priceless

I am so pleased with the flowers on this layout that I just had to post it. Unfortunately I can't find the link to the site where I got them from so I apologise for not crediting anyone with them. If I should come across it I will definately put it up.

Meanwhile why don't you try some? You simply cut by freehand different sized circles, screw them up in a ball, ink the edges while they are screwed up that way you get random ink in the middle of the circles and then unfold and layer them. I added in bits of tissue paper and netting to give more texture. I also stapled the ribbon to give a sort of ruched effect. Really pleased with how it all turned out.