Dt and Sketchy Thursday LO

SBS also gave me these bright Bo Bunny papers this month to play with. I had them sitting on my desk wondering what to do with them , especially after doing several vintage LO's with Webster's and Graphic45!
Then last night a friend from the States emailed a photo of his daughter proudly displaying her athletic medals. She has had such a successful season! When we go up there later this year, hopefully I will met this young lady in person!
This weeks sketch from Sketchy Thursdays was perfect to help hide unwanted background. I hope she likes her LO!

Alittle bit of vintage

This months kit from Scrapbook Studio included Graphic 45 papers, A Proper Gentlemen range. A good excuse to scrap some of the cool photos that I have of Grandfather. His passion was photography and he always had his camera with him. He also had a great sense of humour. Unfortunately he was only 60years old when he died and I was still very young. I am lucky enough though to have a large collection of his wonderful photos.
The bracket shape in this LO I cut from the Wild Card cricut cartridge.



I just love this photo of Grandfather and his mates playing the fool! Check out the beer bottles hanging on the sign post!

This LO is of my Nana. Another of Grandfather's photos. Lots of fussy cutting of Webster's Pages. I'm in love with my new Martha Stewart pansy punch that I made the frame with!

More Webster's pages and a photo of Mum and her friend Pat who later became her chief-bridesmaid and then my Godmother. I'm really into making my own flowers at the moment and quite like these vintagey ones I have been making.

LO for Sketchy Thursdays

My LO for this week's challenge over at Sketchy Thursdays. The background star pattern I made by welding together star designs from the Cricut cartridge, Wild Card.

We are having a gorgeous, gorgeous autumn day, today. I love the autumn sunshine!! Off to watch the netball.
Cheers!

May DT Lo's

The rain has finally come after months of dry, but the tanks are now full, the garden watered, the dust is off the autumn leaves and so it can stop raining! Please! At least we are still reasonably warm up north. The poor South Island is experiencing awful floods, with snow expected to follow. It must be miserable! I hope it has improved by the time Em and I head to Queenstown beginning of July. In this months DT kit from Scapbook Studio, I was given lots of variety of My Mind's Eye and Graphic 45 papers. I was kindly given some of the beautiful Le Romantique range (supporting the wedding album drive!!) which is so suited to heritage. I converted the photo to sepia to match, fussy cut the roses, butterflies and bride, added lots of beads, some lace and paper roses etc. I really love that background swirly paper! The circle doily diecut is My Mind's Eye. The frame is cut from Cricut cart Home Accents and brushed with gold ink.

I love an autumn morning when the mist rolls up from the river and then the sun pokes through! So beautiful! The paper is My Mind's Eye, the bead tree is Prima, the word 'AUTUMN' is Heidi Swapp Invisibles (love these!) inked with Tim Holtz Distress inks and the frame is 4 welded icons from Cricut cart, Indie Art and an Indie Atr bird.

Kinda enjoyed using these My Mind's Eye papers to do a bright LO that was a complete change from wedding photos!! I had to go into the achives, tho', to find this photo of Jeff, taken about 25 years ago!! He was soooo cute and had the wickest smile. Such the charmer!!

3 more wedding LO's

Well, my wedding album is filling up! Yay!
In this first LO, for the lacy backgeound, I welded together flowers, in 2 sizes, using the Cricut Home decor cartridge. The flower is comprised of gathered wedding fabric, punched daisies and a stamped flower (on acetate, back sprayed with watered down lumiere paint, then heated with heat gun to gently curl). Lots of bling and Kindy glitz here and there.
This next one is fairly simple with a Prima pearl swirl and cricut cut flourishes. I added a lime green Prima lace under the photo and gathered a piece of lime green organza under the flower. This was the first LO I did, but I missed putting it on the blog! Gorgeous Websters Pages papers, Prima flowers and a Cricut cut frame (can't remember which cartridge).

Off now to do a couple of NON-wedding LO's with this month's DT kit from Scrapbook Studio!

Cheers

Wow!

Wow! I am so amazed and honoured! I submitted the LO below to the Sketchy Thursday challenge and was chosen as a fav! Thanks, girls!
I copied the html thingy to my blog, but it came out as a double! Not sure why. I need more practice attaching things.
Meanwhile I am all smiles and inspired to do this Thursdays challenge!
Cheers!

Getting inspired!

I was lacking a little inspiration today, probably nothing to do with the rain and howling gales outside, or maybe needing a break from wedding photos and these colours! So, after a little blog hopping I came across the Sketchy Thurdays sketch on Beverley Cunningham's blog. So here it is! I used the daisy chain that I had already created using the George Cricut cartridge. Maybe, I'll have a go at entering it...if I can work out how to link things! It is about time I learned how!