I made this card for Little red wagon where the theme is dream.
My daughter dreams of becoming a costume designer so I added the corset and the vintage coat picture. I used a collage technique with lots of small offcuts.
At the male room they want a tag (on a card).
I've made this tag using 2 smaller scraps of paper plus a slice of gold ribbon across the middle. The sentiment says LIFE and could work for a variety of purposes. A birthday, a graduation or even a death.
At Challenge YOUrself the want One word for 2026.
I looked back and here are words I have used for previous years.
Healthy, Freedom, travel, boost, heal.
This year I have chosen "FUN"
I had 2 photos of myself in Puerto Vallarta in front of a mural of Frida Kahlo.
The colour scheme is bright and cheerful so I went with that. I used turquoise base with a matching turquoise hexagon patterned paper. Next I used the word fun as my title and added a few hearts plus a bow to match Frida's hat.
I was then inspired to add butterflies so added 2 rather large bright ones. Before gluing them down I thought of the netting which came from some Christmas chocolates. I used that behind the butterflies to add depth. I'll add my journalling in the right-hand corner.
I've completed using my kit this morning. Last layout was for Sketches in Thyme.
This is the original sketch
As the challenge involved a doiley I decided to use the biggest one I had. It is a white oval.
The above sketch meant that I had straight lines to follow. I used a strip of brown across the bottom mainly because it was a kit offcut. Then I used 2 different washi tapes as my thinner strips.
I've just come home from a nice lunch out with a friend.
I found a card challenge at Time out challenges.
They want glitter. I had a chipboard fairy on an ATC. I tizzied her up by using liquid pearls on her top and sprinkled glitter for her skirt. I mounted all that on another layer then used Li'l Davis metallic paint in rose on the background. It shimmers in the light. Finally, I added a row of rhinestones and the number 4.
This layout is for black magic sketches. We had to use black background.
I decided to scrap some photos of the food on the cruise. I wound the remaining string around the top of the vertical paper then used old map paper as my horizontal. Most of it was covered with the photo strip. The bon voyage was cut from the map paper prior to sticking it down.
I randomly painted through a negative frame from some words I had already used. This became my background. One of the words was sunshine. I had a small piece of tissue paper with the word "times" at the top. I angled it beside the sunshine and both became my title.
I then added the clock face which had been aged with a tea bag as well as the 2 tags with string wound around them. The tags were made years ago using washi tape.
I added a few enamel dots as my final touch.
The whole mood of the Malecon in Puerto Vallarta was fiesta so they suited that theme. I used journal cards to document each statue so I will remember in the future.
I'm slowly using up alphas I have had for years.
I made this layout as an example page for my challenge group, Archiscraps. Here's the link. Archi-scraps
The bell tower in the photo is our picture and the challenge is to use a crown. I chose papers with earthy tones to match the walls on the church.. The embellishments are from Cocoa Vanilla.
At Sketches in Thyme there is this sketch
I used 3 photos from Puerto Vallarta.
I used wet teabags to age some lighter neutral papers.
These will make good backgrounds or pieces to layer on my work.
At the end of my recent cruise, we had chaos at the disembarkation terminal in Los Angeles.
Apparently, there was a car outside full of drugs. This left 2 people to process our passports and scan the luggage. It took 4 hours for 3,500 people to get through!
I took a couple of photos of the crowd and was helped by a man to manoeuvre my bags.
Here's the sketch challenge we had to base it on.
Our kit this month is 49 and Market - Vicki Boutin - Curiosities In Willow Grove Collection - 12 x 12 Starters Collection Pack
I've kept it simple this month and will add other embellishments as needed. I'm trying to use more flowers from my stash and as my recent cruise was tropical, I can do that.
A big welcome to our guest designer Melinda Barkman
Here's the blog hop.
