My altered punched flowers

I thought I would just add a close-up and a few details about my inked metal flowers. I was pretty chuffed how they turned out   :D

I punched out the flowers from the pie cases you get little cakes in (or bought quiche, that sort of thing!!) - it's slightly thicker than cooking foil then I coloured them with Ranger Alcohol inks. This is the first time I've used these inks so I got quite excited about the results!!
I left some of them plain but added some more flowers punched from acetate to give a bit of dimension.
I now need more colours of ink........... :lol:

UKS weekly challenge - May wk 4

Here is my page for this week's challenge -

This is my friend sneaking a go on the kid's toys at the local nursery - she said to me "Is anyone looking - I've always wanted to have a go on one of these? "  :D

The challenge (set by the Crafty Magpies) asked for~

M -  Metal

A - Alphas

G - Got (a) sketch

P- punch, paint or pearls

I - Inspiration (from a quote) and
E - for Embellishments !!

My metal flowers - punched from foil pie cases , counted for the metal, punching and embellishments. I coloured them using alcohol inks (my first time using these - what fun !!!)  :D

I inked and double embossed the chipboard letters for the word 'PLAY'. And, I used their sketch and used a quote ~ " Life must be lived as play"  - Plato.  I added a few other embellishments as well !!!!!! :D

Just a little something

................I created last night at our monthly Scrap Angels kit night  :)

There seems to be a bit of a food and drink thing going on !!! lol

 With a close up of the books - it was a random selection exactly as they are on the bookshelf!!
There's chick-lit, crime thrillers and a couple of my Open University textbooks - oh yeah and a Pandora bracelet catalogue!!
Any budding phsychologists - go figure !!

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And then this one is William on his annual skiing trip to Colorado.

I used some leaves from the garden as a mask and spritzed over them. On the acetate at the top I stamped using an Xmas tree stamp which I then decorated with glitter glue at random,  I also dabbed some green alcohol Ink on the reverse then after I atttached it with the eyelets I tucked in some fake leaves that I inked green to match the LO

I went a-cropping !!!

On Saturday I went to a Scrap Angels class and these are 2 of the pages I completed ...

First is James and Will when Will was just a few months old - weren't they cute then?

And 2nd is all 3 boys on the beach at Perranporth. James and Will were showing Nick how to fly a kite!! One of the few times when they weren't all fighting  !!


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And then this is another of my black/white and yellow pages. I liked the one I did a couple of weeks ago and thought at the time I have a perfect photo for the same colour scheme.
Photo is Will (and friends) in the 2009 Lawrence Thanksgiving Day 5k run - in case you hadn't noticed ...dressed as bananas.

For the big clock I used my Tim Holtz mask and some kids' yellow and black acrylic paint

Scrap map Saturday at Creative Craft World

This week's challenge was to create a layout inspired by an album sleeve - in this case Enya's "Paint the sky with stars"

This is my result.....

This is my ex's niece Jessica photographed by her grandpa in Australia where she lives

Creative scrappers sketch # 156

Here is a LO I created using the Creative Scrappers sketch # 156. I really liked this sketch and did not change very much

I love this photo of DS3 - don't get many nice ones these days - why do boys hate having their photos taken??

I used lots of odds and ends of PP. I also cut some cogs using Tim Holtz gears die - spritzed them with antique copper shimmer mist then heat embossed them. I misted the background paper with antique copper and teal.

UK Scrappers weekly challenge - May wk 3

This weeks LO for UK Scrappers

The challenge this week was top scrap something or someone special to you (my mum), use green in the LO (green rik-rak and green button) and only use 1 of every element - a stash diet Ali called it !! (I used 1 piece patterned paper, 1 doily which I spritzed then moved (i.e. I used it as a stencil), 1 die cut heart with 1 pearl, 1 flower, 1 button, 1 brad, 1 piece glittery wool and a small piece of embroidery thread oh yes and one embossed pink flourish!!)

I chose to scrap this photo as my mum sadly died in April 1992, aged only 53, but she will always be special to me :)

Miss you every day Mum XOXO