Black magic sketches

 

Here's the sketch for black magic sketches.

I used a bone paper from my kit plus the black cardstock. I added a brown strip of card that I had. Then added washi tape in navy and a scalloped edge border sticker. I tied twine around all this.

Next, I glued 2 flowers with a black daisy underneath as my floral arrangement. I put coffee coloured bling as enamel dots around that cluster. I also added a black daisy at the top of my photo with 2 strips of off-white paper. then I matted my photo in white.

My friend and I were sharing a joke while taking selfies.You can see we are both giggling, hence the title.

Counterfeit kit for July.

 "Crescendo" Deluxe Theme Kit – {Not} Just for Boys Kit Club

Here is the CKC kit for July.

Since I'm no longer on the design team I can please myself to a certain extent what I do. I had a couple of gaudy papers I put in my kit plus I knew I had music papers.

 Here's what I came up with!

The alphas are brown but I will make them work.

Even more junk journal

 My junk journal is now scanning crooked because of all the pages and their thickness.

Hopefully you can continue to enjoy them.

This one used more of the Art Stacks papers, in this case the white with crosses and black with spots. I used a glittery cupcake I had in my scraps and more of the smocking instructions.

On this one I used a chandelier cut from a 12x12 paper and a chair and dressmakers model cut from a birthday card.

This one used some ribbon I had plus old postage stamps and butterflies.

On this one I used 3 altered playing card and on one card , I attached a black tassel

I'm having fun with this and do a page or two each day as a warm up before starting other projects.

Make my Monday

 At Make my Monday they ask us to blend 2 or more colours.

On this layout I used yellowish cream and pale brown/tan blended together as my background. To contrast I painted the 2 circles in sky blue then overstitched them on using blue thread. Overall it gave a soft palette for the vibrant dancer's clothes.

Paper Issues sketch

 

This sketch at Paper issues got me working on another layout. 

I started with the rainbow paper from art stacks as my background. To one side I put book paper and cut a piece of a doiley. Next, I painted with pink and ochre, yellow to match the sunset.

When that was dry, I matted my 2 sunset photos on Kaisercraft Charlotte's dream collection paper. I assembled those on to my background and used a strip of orange toned floral paper under the photos.

I found my title amongst the Art Stack quotes. I added a few stickers from Simple stories Hello Summer collection. These included some sun related words.

CSI

 

This is one of the challenges at CSI this month. I still have 2 cruise pages to make and it suits my photo.

I started with painting a sunburst through a mask using yellow ochre. I have no lemon paint.

My background paper has bicycles, one of the suggestions in evidence column.

My writing format=I used the title taken from the testimony suggestion "today's bright spot". I also used several small word stickers that describe summer such as squeeze the day, oh happy day, dive in, vitamin sea. They also match the fact I was on a ship looking at a sunset.

I've used a pineapple and a sandcastle. I made a tag using a cold tea wash background puffy fish and bubbles stickers and put another mini word sticker as my heading. I journalled on it as well.

I hope you like this layout which I had fun making.

Cardz for Galz

 

Cardz for Galz want a seaside themed card. I've made this for 2 friends who are going to Western Australia's coast very soon on a trip. They will be visiting several beaches on their trip.

I used paper piecing for my yacht abd fussy cut the waves paper. The sentiment came from a set of seaside papers I had and the sun is a sticker.

Ive made this one for no particular challenge but can always use birthday cards. I had a small boy in my mind, but it would work for anyone.