Freshly made sketches and Try it on Tuesday

 

I'm making cards for the next couple of days. This one is for Freshly made sketches.

I thought this is a good motivational one for somebody doing exams or just doubting themselves. I added some tiny Autumn lane yellow buds.

Next card is for Try it on Tuesday.

I used scraps from my Counterfeit kit to make this "feminine" card as per the website. With my challenge site, Archiscraps, I often send out random prizes. This card can accompany one of those.

Scrap the boys.

 This is the last of my forgeries papers. I've done this layout for "Scrap the boys" where we had to use a quote. 

I copied this next part from my Facebook description.

I used paint and zig pen to create my own background. Then I found a card that said "Find beauty in the ordinary and you'll find joy in unexpected places". The men on our cruise all "came out of the woodwork" to watch the transit through the canal. Many of them stood at the railings and quoted dimensions and depths like seasoned engineers (maybe they were!). The pens might allude to the structural engineers who first drew up the plans for the canal.

Make my Monday

 Make My Monday Challenge Blog want us to use twine or ribbon for their theme "All tied up".

I decided to make a male card for someone turning 50. I used both pretend keys and real ones.

I threaded the twine through them to make a banner.

Challenge YOUrself

 The theme at Challenge YOUrself is friends

I've done this challenge most years, so this year I thought about work friends. I spent 7 years teaching at a particularly tough school. This was over 20 years ago. The 3 people in the photo were very helpful and friendly. I'm wearing a white blouse in this photo. 

The paper had the plants on it, but I fussy cut the dragonflies and added them as part of the background. The 3 green and black tabs added contrast and matched Betty's top. 

Scrapbooking at The scraproom.

 

This is the throwback sketch at the Scraproom. I used photos of frigate birds we saw on the Panama cruise.

I used the branches paper as my background plus a white corrugated card for my matting.

My journal space was cut from a larger rectangular card. I used washi tape for my strips plus a marching heart. Where there are branches on the sketch I used seaweed from a Jolees creations set of fish.

sunset layout

 This layout is another one of my forgeries. I kept it reasonably simple to make the photo stand out. It was the last sunset on my cruise and how special it was!

Lasting Memories

 This layout is for Lasting Memories where they want us to use the letters in the word, charm.

My list is C=circles, H=hearts A=anchor R=ricrac M=made background.

I used another forged paper from my Counterfeit Kit. One of my mats is another forged paper offcut. The anchor picture is from St Tropez by Prima.

The photos are from our arrival in Costa Rica. I was very excited to be there.