SLYMI week 32

Write in white is Shimelle's latest Scrap Like You Mean It challenge on UKScrappers.

Here's my LO. Photo of my youngest sister after we'd been to the Rainbow vegetarian restaurant for her birthday.

The large swirl and thought bubble were templates from UKS members Lucille and Dan and cut on my ROBO. The writing in the thought bubble is "doesn't she realise she's getting wet too?"

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SLYMI week 31 and Michelle's sketch challenge on SATC

Yep, one LO, 2 challenges. Shimelle's Scrap Like You Mean It on UKS this week is to scrap "something old, something new, something borrowed or something blue". She said to use one or all and we could ignore the wedding connection if we wanted.

So, after realising that the photo I had wasn't quite what I'd remembered, I decided to scrap a copy of a school photo of my nan aged 11.

old ~ photo

new ~ flock paper which I've inked to make it a darker shade of blue

borrowed ~ the original photo so I could scan it

blue ~ Lo is blue and white

Michelle's sketch challenge on Scrap Around The Clock for July-August was provided by Pagemaps and I've turned it for my LO.

The brackets and swirls were cut on my ROBO which is now working with the Vista on my laptop :) I also got ROBO to cut the title out of the blue paper to allow the white to show through.

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SLYMI week 30

Scrap Your Independence was the challenge for this week on Shimelle's Scrap Like You Mean It on UKScrappers. I bought the kit for it and lolved working with it.

Journalling down the right side of the photo reads:

"Independent before marriage, learning to be independent again"

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SLYMI Week 29

Gosh, the year's going too fast! Scrap Like You Mean It on UKScrappers is on week 29. Shimelle has challenged us to 'scrap with 3'. She says "Three photos, three big accents, the number three, three patterned papers, three colours...whatever you want to pick, we better find 3 of it!"

How many 3's could I get on my LO without it looking wrong? Here they are:

3 PPs (Basic Grey)

3 Blooms (Green Tara)

3 Rub-Ons (Basic Grey)

3 chipboard letters/number (no idea what make as they were a present)

3 colours (red, green, brown)

3 in the title

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SLYMI week 28

Stitching was Shimelle's challenge on UKScrappers this last week. I decided to stitch both the fabric and photo onto my backing paper. Photo is of the entrance to Warwick Castle in January 2001.

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SLYMI week 27

Wow, we're in to the second half of this and I'm still keeping up. Here's my entry for week 27 ~ scrap a happy story.

I've chosen to use photos from a month ago when Jo and I were in Cambridge. Journalling reads "There we were; in the middle of Kings Street Cambridge, waiting to go to the ADC theatre, re-touching our make-up. We'd just been for a meal at the Rainbow Cafe and were having such a laugh. I love times we spend together like this and thanks to photography, have pictures too."

I've used Scrap Sketch's #103 sketch for this LO

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SLYMI week 26 and Scrapsketch-challenges #4

Shimelle's current challenge on UKS for her Scrap Like You Mean It, is to scrap with stickers. Everything apart from the PP, photo and journalling is done by using stickers. The one on the top left "Warning, giggles are contagious. May cause bellyache", top right corner "Life is about sharing smiles", top right of photo "Uncontrollable laughter" and bottom right "Finding fun in simple ways makes the happiest of days". Photo is of my brother-in-law and our niece when he was dared to sit on her!!

I've also used scrapsketch-challenges sketch #4, which I've rotated.

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Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

SLYMI - blue and green

My nan was one of those who said "blue and green should never be seen". Sorry Nan, but on this occasion it should most definitely be seen.

UKScrappers latest Scrap Like You Mean It challenge is to scrap in; yep, blue and green! I chose to scrap a photo taken on a Norfolk Broads boating holiday in 2001.

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Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

SLYMI week 24

UKScrappers Scrap Like You Mean It week 24, was to scrap with felt. I have some gorgeous felt flowers and leaves I was given in the UKS Advent Swap last Christmas, so I've used some of the purple flowers with some of the leaves. The large flower in the top right came from material rescued from a bed base.

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Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

SLYMI - self-portrait

Last week's SLYMI on UKScrappers was to scrap a self-portrait. I chose to wait until after my birthday and scrapped a photo that was taken in Cambridge on my night out with my youngest sister.

Papers are from Basic Grey's Sultry range. Journalling reads "I've realised this week that I have all I need to be happy ... life, love, family, friends"

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Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Scrap Like You Mean It Week 19

On UKScrappers Shimelle challenged us to scraplift one of the many LOs already done in the previous 18 weeks of her Scrap Like You Mean It challenges. I had to flip the page I'd chosen as I cut the green PP the wrong way!!

The original

My LO

Another one done for Jo's wedding album. I designed the title, cut it out four times on my ROBO and layered them. The swirl was done on a friend's Big Shot and inked in brown. I haven't worried about journalling as such, I've just listed who's who in the photo.

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Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Lace and Layers

The Scrap Like You Mean It challenge on UKScrappers for the last week (which I only just managed to complete in time tonight) is to scrap using lace and layers. Caroline from Bubblyfunk had put together a fantastic kit for this that I treat myself to the other week. I also took great inspiration from her LO to complete mine.

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Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Living On The Edge with Shimelle

On UKScrappers, Shimelle challenged us last time to 'live on the edge' by using the edge of our LO in some way. Either by cutting it fancy, putting something right at the edge, overhanging something or ......... The choice was ours.

So, I decided to cut the edge of my green card, put ribbon at the edge on 2 sides and use blooms on one corner.

It's a fairly simple LO, but hopefully one that draws your eye to the yellow rose in the centre. Apologies for the flash, but the photo was taken at night.

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Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Cut Up A Photo - aargh ..........

Shimelle challenged us to cut up a photo for her weekly Scrap Like You Mean It challenge on UKScrappers this week. After thinking about it for a few minutes and searching through the photos for a suitable one, I decided to cut up my eldest nephew. He's been cut up before, so he's ok with it by now LOL I tore and inked some PP and die-cut the letters on my Xyron Personal Cutting System. All I had to do then was assemble it all, add a teeny button in the shape of sunglasses and do some doodling. Simple, but I like it.


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Take care, love and hugs
Sarah C xoxoxo

SLYMI week 7

Shimelle's Scrap Like You Mean It on UKScrappers, is on week 7 already. The challenge was to scrap at least one old photo. Here's mine using the DaVinci Class from the Whodunnit CyberCrop last week-end.

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Take care, Love and hugs
Sarah C xoxo

Another catch-up - UKS and 'just because'

I seem to be playing catch-up on here. So, if you're sitting comfortably, I'll show you my latest craft makes.

Shimelle' Scrap Like You Mean It (on UKScrappers)

Week 2 - stars or hearts
(Also done for UKScrappers week 2 team challenge)

Week 3 - chipboard

Week 4 - sketch

UKScrappers - January week 2 team challenge

Just because I can LO.
I followed a Pagemaps Basic Grey sketch and used images from

Crafty Muse's downloads 'Once Upon A Time/Fairytale collection'

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Take care. Love and hugs,