Winner

Curse the bloomin' weather we are having....hot and overcast and completely rubbish for taking photos of white layouts!! Wish I liked colour, life would be so much easier!!

Enough of that, I have found two lovely challenges today that I have incorporated into one layout, using my gorgeous CKC kit :0)

1. About a Girl have a June challenge to use doilies on your layout.

2. The Studio Challenges are doing a Lift Chain Blog Hop...which is genius in itself. I chose to lift Amanda's layout.....a real beaut :0)

Here is my take:

Our local zoo is 50 years old and held a competition to colour in a giraffe.The winning entries were painted on a lifesize model. DGD's Nursery were one of the winners and their giraffe is in the entryway to a large supermarket.

title cut on the Silhouette. I used watered down acrylic paints to splatter as I didn't have the right colour mists.

I have been having a massive clearout in my craft room....pictures soon....and have discovered so many things that I have never used....like this little die :0)

lovely ring stain stamp from a set I won from Skissedilla ...yay!

sorry for the hideous photos...such a shame as this layout is so pretty in real life!! Perhaps I should have waited to share it ;0)

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x 

Laugh Out Loud

I love a sketch....you don't say!!! I rarely do a lo without first seeing a sketch and when I saw the challenge over at The Studio Challenges to use stitching on a layout I scrolled back a bit and found a lovely sketch to play with too :0) (the sketch challenge is finished, but that's no reason to pass it by!)

using my CKC kit....lots of washi in this one!

you will note that there is a slight mist of peach spray .... I left this one to one side for the Perfect Pearls to dry and started misting another lo....ooops!!

putting the Silhouette to good use....again!

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x 

Friendly Love

Hello, hello!!

I had a couple of spare hours today and was desperate to play along with ScrapFriends' latest sketch (they are, quite simply, the best!)and I also spotted The Studio Challenge's latest challenge was to use masks......brilliant!

So without further ado, here is my take with a photo of DGD and her bestie as Rapunzel and Flynn Ryder at her Tangled themed birthday party :0)

I love this sketch...sigh

washi tape, texture paste, a mask and the Silhouette....plus Heidi Swap Color Shine (definitely my new fave!) stamp is MME

papers are Simple Stories Vintage Bliss, the button is an old Pink Paislee one

and here is the sensational sketch:



go and have a play with either or both challenges :0)

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x 

3/100 a new place to play!

As you know scrapping time is few and far between at the mo, most of the recent posts were done on the same day but have been scheduled so as not to bombard you, LOL.

so I have been looking around for inspiration and came across The Studio Challenges blog lots of lovely bits and bobs over there to peruse :0)

My layout for their recent challenge is for DGD's December page, one of those gloriously crisp sunny winter days that we spent at the beach.

I got to use a bit more of my CKC kit...it's going to last way beyond March I think!!

MME, Maya Road and Ali Edwards stamps, PP label, adhesive pearls, the journal tag pulls out from behind the photo

American Crafts flair button, arrows cut on Silhouette and stamps from Scraptastic Kit Club. I stamped the I love you stamp in pink, then black and then applied glass bead paste and some glitter ....I couldn't find my glossy accents anywhere!!!

Here is the lovely sketch, you can see that I condensed it to fulfil my passion for white space!!

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x