number two....

...is for Sarah's Cards sketch challenge. 

I have used the same collection of papers as below.

Number 1...

....of what will be four layouts using the same photo. One for each of the cousins. I have taken this from Sarah's retreat layouts as I loved the version that was taught there. I think it was Tracy's class. I have used some French papers and a photo taken in Liverpool just before my niece left to go and work in Japan. 

inky

Ok so Merly Challenge wants inky  this month so that's what I've done. I've used one of the Pickled Pear papers as my background and sponged ink sprayed onto a messy mat through a Prima mask. Then I used the matching stamp with the same ink pressing the stamp into it. This didn't work too well and made a bit of a mess so I used the sponge to ink the stamp. I inked  the matt -another Pickled Pear paper to make it the right colour. 
The girl stamp is another Prima stamp and I picked up brown distress stain with a paintbrush for the hair and the same green ink as before for the matching shoes. Her dress is also from the Pickled Pear collection. The flowers were white but I matched them with the afore-mentioned ink.
The photo is of my gorgeous niece-the only chance I get to scrap a girl and use a bit of bling.

I hope this is inky enough!!

So delicious

Love a bit of Sodalicious. It would be so nice to win their candy.

kaiser BTP

Kaisercraft do lots of lovely Beyond The page items for altering and I finally managed to get my hands on the 10 x 10 frame. This project is from one of the Kaisercraft workshop mags and I loved the fresh green colour  as soon as I saw it. It is more or less the same as the original but not entirely. the butterflies are different ones and I have used 2 sayings where they use only one. Now all i do is have to find an inch or 12 of wall space.

merly challenge

I quite like having a sketch to follow or adapt and even more so when it's a challenge as is this one. I have quite a few pics from the weekend spent with my niece and youngest son. Here is one of them using Kaiser's Pickled Pear.

Having used this photo last time I did this challenge I've used it again for my niece's album.

Please go and partake in the challenge. The more of us the merrier and the prize up for grabs is fabulous for those of us who like a bit of stash.

St. Petersburg

My cousin's son has gone off to spend some months in St. Petersburg as part of his degree course. When I heard he was going I immediately got the album out to show them the photos we took when we were there to give them an idea of what he would encounter. I was quite surprised to see how few I had scrapped so set about to remedy that. Then I realised that most of the photos we took were of the Hermitage gallery anyway. Nevertheless they had to be scrapped so here is the first.