Challenge Yourself stencils

 I've made this layout for Challenge yourself where we are asked to use stencils.

I've only used one which looks like an old fashioned doiley. It gave a nice lacy effect to this layout of Mum and myself. She was in hospital with Pneumonia towards the end of her life. I was thankful she was recovering and she probably was too. 

I used cyan coloured ink to match the roses on the paper in the background.

Soul scrappers Tic tac toe for August.

 

I chose to use one photo and sewing and paint on this layout. I started by cutting the diagonals and curling the edges.  After painting around that in green, i then used white paint over the top in thick strokes. 

I stitched around the border in brown then added ecru lace in a square. I stitched antique buttons in the corners and added my title.

Sketches in Thyme and Scrap the boys

 

This is the sketch at Sketches in Thyme. Also Scrap the boys wants us to use flowers on a layout. I'm combining the 2 challenges.

Here's my final layout.

I named it These sweet days since Hendrix is only 3 so very innocent.

As well as the green daisies I used wattle branches that I bought from Autumn Lane. The ribbon and ric rac are from my stash and everything else is in my Counterfeit kit.

Paper funday challenge.

 This is for Paper Funday challenge.

They want 4 legged animals so I went with my favourite, giraffes.

I used a scrap of hessian I had plus a black and fawn patterned paper scrap. The giraffe and button are chipboard.

Sketch and scrap sketch layout.

 

Here's the first sketch for the month at Sketch 'n' scrap.

I turned it sideways as my 3 photos are landscape.

Everything on here is from my Counterfeit kit.

Yesterday I also made a double layout for The scraproom group.

And here's the double. Despite the ribbons matching up perfectly in reality, they scanned wrongly.

The scraproom letters in a word challenge

 Here's another layout I made for The Scraproom.

We had to use letters in the word,summer.

S=stripes U=under (photos under other things M=measure (washi tape measure under the title M=magic E= enamel stars R= ric rac at the bottom (cut off in the scanner)

Love those pretty papers challenge.

 Love those pretty papers is another card site I have found.

I've made this card using an offcut from my kit, of striped paper. The smaller card is made from another patterned paper, then I cut and added the 3 red triangles. I added blue ribbon across the bottom plus my sentiment.