Twisted Sketches #112

Well who would have thought - today is my last post as a Twisted Sister, those six months went quicker than a I would have thought.

It has been an amazing time working with Anam and the rest of the team and I cannot wait to see what the new team will create.

So, here is my last sketch, with the twist "fun".

Come join us over at Twisted Sketches

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Papers, Stickers: Sassafras Lass

Alpha Stickers: Rusty Pickle

Other: Paint, Alphabeads

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Today I would like to share a layout created with a combination of papers used from The Crafty Chronicle, Antiquities and Spring in Bloom. Donna's paperlines mix and match so well that combining them in one project is so much fun!

This month we embrace independence and artistic expression, something Donna teaches with passion and inspiration and hopefully some of her talent may rub off on me during my term as one of her DT members.

I love getting messy and work with different techniques and textures, so the starting point for my layout was the background. Using a stamp inked with the Watermark Inkpad from Clearsnap, I sprinkled some of the white Top Boss Embossing Powder onto the stamped area, tapped off the surplus powder and used my heat gun to set the embossed area.

After the embossing powder was dry to the touch, I sprayed a combination of Smooch Spritz in Mixed Berries and Caramel Latte over the whole background. Once this dried I used a damp cloth to remove the mist from the embossed area to enhance the whiteness of the lines - it really makes them stand out from the light background.

 

I also love colouring areas with the help of markers, and Donna's  Artistic Papers for each of her collections, are perfect to let your creative juices flow.

For my layout I chose the Spring in Bloom 6x6 paper and after colouring two of the images, I carefully cut them out individually, added a generous helping of Fairy Dust Glitter in Pralines & Cream and Mixed Berries and adhered them to the background with the aid of adhesive foam squares.

All I needed to complete the layout was to ink the edges of the papers with some Fluid Chalk Ink in Chestnut Roan, after I worked on some edges with the help of a distressing tool such as the Distrezz-it-All.

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This layout was also inspired by this week's sketch #110 over at {{Twisted Sketches}} with the added twist of "Ribbon"

Products used

• Papers: Donna Salazar for GCD Studios - Spring in Bloom 6x6 Artistic Paper, Artistic Journal Cards, One Sheet Wonderful - Antiquities, One Sheet Wonderful - Spring in Bloom, Crafty Chronicle
• Mists: Donna Salazar for Clearsnap - Smooch Spritz in Mixed Berries, Caramel Latte
• Inks: Clearsnap Cat's Eye Chalk - Chestnut Roan, Deep Grape
• Glitter: Donna Salazar for Clearsnap - Faisy Dust Glitter in Mixed Berries, Pralines & Cream

Other products: 
Border Punch - Fiskars
Cardstock - Poundland
Pens - Uniball Signo in white, Zig Millenium in black

Stickers - Making Memories, Rusty Pickle
Lace - unknown

Twisted Sketches #108

Another week and another sketch over at {{Twisted Sketches}}.

I have to admit that this week's twist "water" did give me a little headache as I don't really have any pictures that focus on water. So I was thinking along the route of maybe doing something with watercolours, but then realised that I don't have any watercolours....so, what's a girl to do?

When I flicked through my photo's I found one depicting the Needles, the famous Isle of Wight landmark and as they are sticking out of the water, I had my connection to the twist :)

 

Product used above, sponsored by Papermaze:

Papers: October Afternoon - "Lemon Drops", "Rock Candy"

Journaling Cards: Crate Paper - "Accent Cuts Emma's Shoppe"

Stickers: October Afternoon - "5 & Dime Playtime"

If you want to check out what the other Sister's created, have a look see {{here}}

Twisted Sketches #106

Finally, I am back playing along with {{Twisted Sketches}} again - yay! Even though I only missed one sketch, it feels like a lifetime that I posted a layout for the challenges here.

I really loved this weeks sketch and the twist "shine" was used within my title...clever, hu?

Papers: Donna Salazar for GCD Studios

Stickers: Rusty Pickle, Sassafras Lass

Check out the sketch and the other Sister's take {{here}}

Twisted Sketches #102

Another fun week over at {{Twisted Sketches}}. Join us this week for the twist "play"

Here is my take on it, featuring my all time faves {{Def Leppard}}, who have a new CD coming out and I am counting down the days until it becomes available in the UK on 20 June 2011...*sigh*

Until then I just have to listen over and over to their new single {{Undefeated}}

Papers: Sassafras Lass, Scribble Scrabble, My Minds Eye, My Little Shoebox

Rub Ons: Kaisercraft

Stickers: Rusty Pickle, Dymo

Twisted Sketches #100

WOWZERS, can you believe it? {{Twisted Sketches}} is celebrating the big 1-0-0 today. 

Yeah man!!!! 

100 sketches down the line and still going strong.

Needles to say that we are celebrating in style today. Hop on over {{here}} and join us with our sketch and twist.

Wanna see what I created? Well, no matter what your answer - I show you anyway :)

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 Papers: Donna Salazar for GCD Studios - Time For Tea * One Sheet Wonderful Antiques * Tales of Travel
Ink: Clearsnap Cat's Eye Chalk Ink in Dune, Cocoa, Brown, Chestnit Roan, Dark Brown
Glitter: Donna Salazar for Clearsnap - Fairydust Glitter in Sugar Shimmer
Other: Punchinella, Staples, Edge Distresser

{{Twisted Sketches}} is celebrating the big 1-0-0 by holding a wee blog hop. The Twisted Sisters are showcasing their favourite layouts created over the last months and here are my top three

{{Sketch #82}}

{{Sketch #87}}

{{Sketch #93}}

Twisted Sketches #99

Come and play along with us at {{Twisted Sketches}} where we have another sketch with twist (straight) for you.

For my layout I went down the really difficult route to keep all the lines straight , which was NOT easy and I also tried to keep as straight to the original sketch as possible.

I also combined my DT Challenge for {{Upsy Daisey Designs}} with the sketch. This month we took inspiration from a song/music.

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Papers: #BLO012. Freshly Picked, #VO016. Strike a Pose ,#UDD0136. Sweet

Brads: #BRD313. Vogue

Twisted Sketches #97

Come and play along with us at {{Twisted Sketches}} where we have another sketch with twist (medium) for you.

Of course I had to go wild with my mists, right :) and I dipped into my Kit for {{April}} - you know just how fun it is to use up some so-called "old" papers to scrap with? I have had this particular Scenic Route paper for years and it almost feels like anew discovery :)

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 Want to re-create this layout? You can purchase most of the ingredients directly from Papermaze
Cardstock - Bazzill "Sandbox"
Paper - Scenic Route "Salem - Boardman Street"
Mist - Cosmic Shimmer in "Ancient Copper", "Golden Mint", "Meadow Lush"
Scalloped Circle - Pink Paislee "Artisan Elements"
Stickers - Rusty Pickle "Merry Grinchmas Alpha"
Punch - Woodware "Star Regular"
Distress Ink - Ranger "Peeled Paint", "Walnut Stain", "Black Soot"

Twisted Sketches #95

Join us over at {{Twisted Sketches}} for the latest sketch and twist (paper). I would love to see you all play along.

Here is my take and as for the twist, I created my flower embellishments from patterned paper :)

Papers:  #BLO016. Spring is in the Air,  #UDD0167. Nouveau, #HSH015. Midland Ave, #AVA015. Summit ** Brads: #EMB007. Walk in the Park 

The layout also doubles as my second project for {{Upsy Daisy Designs}} this month, where the DT were challenged to create anything with a Spring/Easter theme.
I think you cannot get more Spring feel then to have two flower clusters on your layout, right?

By the way, I created the background by placing the precut flower shapes onto the background paper and then started misting in three different colours. I then used my black Uniball Signo and doodled the outline of the flowers directly onto the background. I love the effect this gave to the overall design.

Twisted Sketches #93

And we are live with another fun sketch and twist (swirl), which you can check out {{here}}.

This is my take on it.

Cardstock: Bazzill ** Papers: Scribble Scrabble, My Minds Eye, Cosmo Cricket ** Stickers: Sassafras Lass, Rusty Pickle ** Other: Embroidery Floss, Pearls, Buttons, Alphabeads

This is another layout created with the contents of my {{March Kit}}, which brings my total to a respectable 3 for the moment

Twisted Sketches #91

The most recent challenge and sketch are up over at {{Twisted Sketches}}.

Come and play along with us and tackle the twist of: Chipboard

I have combined my {{Upsy Daisy}}  DT layout for the month with the sketch.
Our assignments this month was a multi-photo layout.
Man, I do struggle with those and even plonking two photo's on one page gave me a real headache...

Cardstock: Bazzill ** Papers, Rub Ons: Upsy Daisy Designs ** Chipboard heart: Maya Road ** Other: Embroidery Floss, Alphabeads, Paint, Cosmic Shimmer, Pearls

Upsy Daisy Designs - DT March PT I

I love the month of March - no only because it is my birthday in March but also because it is the start of Spring. 

I ♥ Spring - the scents, the brighter days, the first blooms....*sigh*

So, for my first reveal of the month for {{Upsy Daisy Designs}} I wanted to include flowers to celebrate the impending beginning of Spring.

Card - Happy Birthday

Cardstock: Bazzill ** Papers: Upsy Daisy Designs - #AVA016. Wipeout, #AVA015. Summit, #VO012. Chic ** Other: Cosmic Shimmer, Embroidery Floss, Uniball Signo Pen

Inspired by Twisted Sketches #47

Card - Thank You

Cardstock: Papermill** Papers: Upsy Daisy Designs - #AVA016. Wipeout,  #VO012. Chic , #SYLA013. Everglades, #SYLA004. Expedition** Other: Embroidery Floss, Zig Millenium Pen

Inspired by Twisted Sketches #48

Twisted Sketches #89

Another week and another sketch over at {{Twisted Sketches}}. As per usual, if you want to work with us from the sketch, please go over {{here}} to see Anam's blueprint and the reveal of the rest of the DT.

The twist for this week is: Pins - one of my favourite items to work with!
I tried being a right clever dick this time around and used a safety pin (ha!) to attach my date tag and some beads from it. I made use of my {{February Kit}} for this layout.

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Papers: My Minds Eye, Rusty Pickle ** Stickers: Rusty Pickle ** Decorative Tape: Retro Nana ** Mist: Cosmic Shimmer ** Other: Alphabeads, Masking Tape, Punchinella, Embroidery Floss

Twisted Sketches #87

Woooohoooo, I am so excited to be back with {{Twisted Sketches}} - I missed working to sketches and I was over the moon when Anam invited me back to become a Twisted Sister :)))

So, today is my first reveal for Team A - you will need to go over {{here}} to see the recent sketch with twist and hopefully play along with us. And check out what the other sisters cooked up - divine!

Carrying on with my recent Sass ♥ I created this 8.5 x 11 layout 

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Paper: Sassafras Lass ** Stickers: Sassafras Lass, American Crafts, Making Memories ** Pearls: Quixotic Papiere ** Bling: Kaisercraft, Quixotic Papiere

Twisted Sketches #86

Today is reveal day for sketch #86 over at {{Twisted Sketches}}.

Whilst it is not "my week" (Team A will go live next Tuesday) this week, I thought I share my submission layout with you, seeing that I used my {{January Kit}} to create it and therefore achieved my goal of four layouts and one card with the Kit...woot woot

You can see the sketch and twist to go with this layout {{here}}

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Papers: My Minds Eye ** Tag:Bazzill (hand cut) ** Chipboard: Cosmo Cricket ** Stickers: Rusty Pickle ** Pens: Uniball Signo (white) ** Mist: Cosmic Shimmer

Sketch Love

Crafting is really a funny old world - I used to love creating to sketches and for many years I thrived on being part of DT's making use of weekly sketches. I started with {{Pencil Lines}} which also gave me the chance to get to know {{Anam}} very well and we have formed a fabulous online friendship over the years. Which led me to becoming part of her first {{Twisted Sketches}} DT, which I adored. There also was {{2 Sketches 4 You}} - which really got me totally into making cards again.

Somewhere along the line I started to become intimated by sketches - and I stopped looking to them for inspiration. I carried on being the sketch artist for {{Upsy Daisy Designs}} but that was different because I drafted the sketches after I created my layout. 

A couple of weeks ago, I re-discovered Twisted Sketches and I am TOTALLY and UTTERLY into creating from sketches again. So, you will see quite a few cards and layouts popping up over the coming months, using sketches from challenges.

Let's start with the recent layout and card sketches from {{Twisted Sketches}}.

The twist for {{Sketch #083}} was to use the word "Time" which in my case is incorporated in the title..I scare myself sometimes being so clever *giggles*

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Layout - Times Square

Papers: My Minds Eye,My Little Shoebox ** Stickers: American Crafts, Rusty Pickle ** Chipboard: Cosmo Cricket

I also enter the layout in the recent {{ ScrapFIT #035}} challenge, asking to make use of your scraps and do a mixed alpha title.

And then there is the Twisted Sketches {{Card Challenge #041}}, with the twist of using "ribbon". Now, I am not too hot on ribbons anymore, so I am declaring the twine used as being my ribbon :)). I also used one of my older {{Some Odd Girl}} images. Generally I am not too much of a people stamp person - but who can resist {{Toby and Buddie}}??

Card - For You

Cardstock: Bazzill * Papers: 3ndypapir, Imaginisce * Digi Stamp: Some Odd Girl

But there is more....

The recent {{My Minds Eye challenge}} for layouts. 

Would you believe that the papers I have used here are from the {{Holly Jolly}} line? Nah, me either - they really do not look like Xmas papers at all, do they? That is what I love about MME - the flipside of the papers is generally totally generic and can be used for any theme *heart*

Layout - Mom

Papers, Die Cuts, Chipboard, Brads: My Minds Eye * Stickers: Rusty Pickle

Create Your Own Kit - January 2011

Oh yes, just because we have a new year doesn't mean that I stop creating my own Kits from my old stash...that is definitely an ongoing thing for the time being.

I am going back to basics though as I did on my first two kits, i.e. I only select the papers and card stock but do not match embellishments to it. I found that I am much more creative, when I can delve in the abyss that is a plethora of embellishments in all colours of the rainbow (holy cow...where did that sentence come from?!???).

When I chose the embellies for my {{November}} and {{December}} Kit, I found that I was less creative. So let's see how I fare with my first Kit for this year

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3 sheets of 12 x 12 cardstock from Bazzill

2 sheets of 12 x 12 double sided paper from My Minds Eye

2 sheets of 12 x 12 double sided paper from Cosmo Cricket

Attempted Goal:

4 Layouts
'London Rocks' ** 'Thankful' ** 'Watch out' ** 'Wembley'

1 Card
'Thank You'
Achieved


Well - I actually already achieved the above goal because I pretty much used up the Kit and have 4 layouts and 1 card completed since yesterday....but some have been done for challenges, so I cannot show them all just yet.
But these two I can:

Card - Thank You
Created for the recent challenges at:

• Allsorts {{Challenge #84 - Thank You}}
• 365 Cards {{Challenge #308 - Sketch}}

I used one of the brand new images from {{Some Odd Girl}} which was part of the brand new release...yummo!

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Ingredients:

Cardstock: Bazzill ** Papers: American Crafts, Cosmo Cricket ** Rub Ons: Upsy Daisy Designs ** Other: ProMarkers; Stampin' Up punch; Uniball Signo; Sheared scissors

Layout - London Rocks

Create for the recent challenge at:

• Twisted Sketches {{#82}}

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Ingredients:
Cardstock: Bazzill ** Papers: My Minds Eye; American Crafts; Cosmo Cricket ** Stickers: American Crafts ** Chipboard, Die Cuts: Cosmo Cricket ** Other: Bakers Twine; Alpha beads; Buttons; Decorative Tape; Paint: Cosmic Shimmer **