Another 'The Studio' challenge

No sooner had I caught up with the 1st January challenge piece on 'The Studio' than the 16th January one was posted, and boy is it a challenge! Check out the DT LOs here.

The challenge was to:
1. Take your alphas and alter them. Maybe you have a font you love but in the wrong colour – well change them! Show us what you can do!
2. Use a symmetrical page design – everything on one side should balance what’s on the other.
3. Use fabric of some kind on your page!

I used some chipboard alphas that I bought when I was in Felixstowe in the summer. All I did with them was to ink them. I had ideas about adding glitter or glossy accents but in the end I liked the mottled affect of the ink and left it at that. These two photos are when Connor put out his letter on the bird table for Robin to take to Father Christmas. To encourage Robin to come we left some bird food too. And would you believe it, Robin had whisked it off to the North Pole by the next morning AND left some food for the other birds too.

Materials:

Bo bunny 'Holiday Magic Letters'

Kaisercraft rub ons

MM glitter rub ons mini christmas combo 1

Chipboard letters

Staz on black

embroidery thread

Jenni bowlin mini alphas

October Afternoon cardstock labels and stickers 'Farm Fresh'

Green Vellum

Sacking cloth

Green ink

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52 Walks with my camera 2/52

I forgot to post my photos on Friday but I did get out and have a walk this week. We just went to Dinton Pastures in Berkshire. I like to walk along the river Loddon there, but we couldn't get that far. I had to carry Connor and the buggy for great stretches as it was. I had a bit of a play with my macro though. Here are a few shots from the day:

Chinese Whispers CJ

And we're off. On 15th January I received two LOs for the Chinese Whispers CJ. This one is Debbie's lovely 'Happiness is...' LO. And here is my lift of it. I've tried to keep the key elements and also thought about 'Happiness is...', which this month was Connor playing in the snow.

The Studio Challenge

I found 'The Studio' some time ago but with so many other sites to visit, I kept forgetting to check the blog for the challenges each month. Now I have them as my home page and it's well worth doing that. If you've missed the 1st January challenge why not have a look?

You need to;
Make a page that includes a lot of “white space”.
The subject of your page should be something that scares you; scrap your fears
Use 3 photos in the design of your page – but don’t forget that white space
To see the original post and the DTs designs have a looksie here. You have until the 31st to upload your image for a chance to win a yummy kit from this month's sponsors.

My LO is this one:

Materials:

Sassafrass Lass patterned paper, flowers, cloud

Basic Grey red paper

Hobby craft Lace

Heidi Swapp word definitions

KI Memories Lave

Fontwerks red label

American Crafts Thickers

American Crafts 'Remarks' Script alphabet

UKS Weekly Challenge

This time last year I started Lighter Life. My mission was to lose 6 stone as quickly as possible. Soups and shakes seemed like the only way to go. I had four 'food packs', which were a soup a shake or occasionally a bar, a day for 6 months without cheating once and lost 6 stone in those 6 months. I didn't really get around to scrapping that achievement, apart from the odd photo on my monthly LO like this one from February when I'd lost 25lb.

So when this week's challenge on UKS popped up I thought it was time that I rectified the situation. The challenge was set by the Twilight Addicts. I know nothing about twilight except that I think it's about vampires and therefore I don't want to know anything. I hate vampires! But anyway their challenge was based on someone called Bella's forbidden fruits (good looking men, I think ;) ).

The points were awarded in this way:
10 points for a theme of Forbidden Fruit
10 points for using ribbon
10 points for using either blossoms or bling.

And here is my LO.

I'm so excited

At the end of last year there were lots of lots of DT calls. In the end I only applied for one, and it was 'The Studio'. If you've not looked at the website, please do. It's full of inspiration, challenges and prizes :) I'm very excited to reveal that I am going to be a part of it. Thank you to Amanda for choosing me to be part of her Design Team for the next six months. I'm very much looking forward to this.

So for those of you who've not found 'The Studio' yet, it's a challenge website with challenges every Sunday (from February). On the website Amanda says 'The philosophy behind The Studio is really to have inspiring challenges that people of all abilities will find challenging and fun, and we encourage scrappers to take an idea and push the limits.' There is also a forum where you can upload your LOs and chat to people. It's very friendly and inspirational. I look forward to seeing you over there sometime soon :)

A new year, a new CJ

Well, it's not quite a CJ actually. It was going to be and then we decided to do it unofficially. But anyway, it's a scraplift challenge called 'Chinese Whispers' so you start with a LO, lift it and email your version to the next person on the list. You get to keep your LO, and have a go at something you might not have thought of doing yourself. Genius!! I'm in two groups so I have two LOs that I started with, both being sent off today. The first is Group One and I send to Hev, the CJ organiser. My original is one from the UKS gallery by Wingus and you can see it here but only if you're not playing Chinese Whispers :) I loved this LO and the photos are wonderful. I've shared my lift of this LO before but in case you missed it it's this one;In the other group I'm sending to blah blah and I chose the Megan Klausen original (see it here!), which inspired 'my turkey lurkey layout'. I'm looking forward to seeing what the ladies do with their lifts :)