Sometimes ...

If you're a scrapper or card maker and doing something 'just because', which usually comes first with you? The papers? The images? The wording? Or something else?

Wednesday evening I was sorting out some of my photos and saw one of me! Yes, it was scary, but all of a sudden a word popped into my head followed by a sentence which became the title and first line of the journalling for the LO I then did.

Sometimes ... You've just have to step into the beauty parlour of Jo-Jo's and let her do her stuff.

My friend Jo-Jo always wanted to be a beautician, but for one reason and another never persued her dream, so I'm her very willing volunteer. Well, who'd say no to freebie pampering? We haven't done that in ages which is a shame as we have such a laugh at the same time. This is one of the photos she took after one of those sessions last year. By the end of it, we couldnt stop laughing especially as her son got in on the act in front of the camera.

So, here's the LO and another for the 'book of me'.

I used white Bazzill for the base and the patterned papers are from My Mind's Eye Bohemian paper pack. Hand doodling on the left, Green Tara blooms and a Third Coast stamp mounted on foam pads completes the simple LO. Lettering is done using Ellison's Chunkidelic alphabet. The doodling took the longest as it's easy to over-doodle which I hope I've managed to avoid.

Thank you for looking.

Love and hugs to you all

xxx

Another Challenge LO

The weekly challenge over on UKS was set today and I managed to complete it in record time.

Set by the scattyscrappers, they challenged us to use:

4 of something-5points

Something blue -5 points

Time-5 points

Ribbon-5 points

Doodling-10 points

4 white photo corners on Bazzill

Blue Bazzill and blue pen

Take TIME

White ric-rac

Doodled scallops around the photo

Full points for my team the Ruby Snippers

Wording under the photo says:

to see the beauty that surrounds you

The wording near the ric-rac says:

View from Warwick Castle - January 2001

Thanks for looking. Love and hugs

xxx

And Now For Something a Little Different

My friend Shell on 3C's set the members challenges for us and gave us these last 4 weeks to complete them in.

Here's what she came up with:

Part 1

My challenge to you all is to make a bag out of felt. It can be any size you want ickle or big thats up to you as long as it's made from felt, it also has to be handstitched and have a ribbon handle..........

Extras to include...

Buttons........one or more

one or more felt flowers ( and not a ready made one such as the K&Co kind you can get now )

Also a little pocket on the front of the bag.

POINTS FOR THIS CHALLENGE:

COMPLETING THE CHALLENGE: 25 POINTS

INCLUDING BUTTONS AND FELT FLOWERS: 5 POINTS

FRONT POCKET: 10 POINTS

HANDSTITCHED AND RIBBON HANDLE: 10 POINTS

TOTAL POINTS AVAILABLE FOR THIS CHALLENGE: 50 POINTS

Here's my bag and how I made it:

I designed it to hold my photos that I aim to scrap next as they were previously shoved in a drawer that wasn't really big enough for the large ones.

It's made from 2 pieces of purple felt and one piece of white. I hand-cut the flowers and stitched them on adding a button to the centre of each. The handle is made by using white velvet ribbon and is held by buttons. Once it was all ready I hand-sewed three sides of the bag. Last but not least, I sewed on velcro for a fastening.

Part 2

Seen as how we are all doing 2 challenges my second challenge for you is to make a card. Again it must include felt, a flower which could be the felt part if you wish, buttons and hand stitching.

POINTS FOR THIS CHALLENGE:

COMPLETING THE CHALLENGE: 30 POINTS

ADDING SHELL'S EXTRAS: 10 POINTS

TOTAL AVAILABLE FOR THIS CHALLENGE: 40 POINTS

Here's my card and how it was made:

It's A6 size and was strange working in such a small area as I can't remember the last time I made a card this small.

I've hand-cut the felt flower and hand-stitched on 2 buttons. I doodled the stem and flowers. I hand-cut an H and a B from felt and hand-stitched the detail on them, before glueing down and hand-writing the rest of the words.

Full marks to me I think. Just gotta remember to add them to my total which is growing nicely.

Somerset Hols

The weekly challenge on UKS this week is:

In April 1581, the first circumnavigation of the globe was completed – although sadly, Ferdinand Magellan, the man who planned and led the expedition, never saw his goal.

* So … use a map or plan of some kind on your LO = 10pts

* The sailors must have sailed a lot of seas, so for using the colour blue = 5pts

* Use a hand-made embellishment = 5pts

* Use ink on your LO (eg stamped image, inked edges etc) = 5pts

* Use eyelets and/or brads - 5pts

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I Googled and printed out a map of the area of Somerset that mum and I travelled while on our hols. I had to print it on 3 pieces of paper and jigsaw it together to get the whole area big enough to see the tiny villages (such as Mark) that we went to and drove through. I then printed out some small photos that I'd taken and grouped them round the map which has hand-drawn scallops round.

As for the challenge:

* Map ~ Somerset = 10 points

* Blue ~ Blue Bazzill card for the background = 5 points

* Handmade embellishments ~ the arrows are hand-cut, doodled on with black brush marker and have stickles (diamond and black) added = 5 points

* Ink ~ a black brush marker which contains ink = 5 points

* Eyelets and/or brads ~ top left corner embellishments are white eyelets = 5 points

Full marks (of 30 points) for my team The Ruby Snippers