Monopoly Cybercrop: Vine Street

The 8pm Challenge was 'Vine Street'. I didn't get around to it until after I'd done Angie's class so I chose a photo and papers that would compliment the LO I did for her class. The challenge was to include a vine of some sort. Leigh's Mum very kindly gave me some of her bluebell vine lace (from Capture the Magic) to complete this LO. Thanks Paddy!!

Monopoly Cybercrop- Angie's Angel Islington

My second class of the Monopoly Cybercrop was Angie's 'Angel Islington'. This is her LO 'Innocent Eyes'. Angie is one of those people that I would say has a definite style. You can recognise her bold and strong LOs a mile off.

I liked the techniques that she included in her class but the multiple frames were a bit heavy for me so I reduced the size. Initially I did have multiple frames but they still didn't look right so in the end I went for using one frame cut from a pizza box and doodled on. Bit of a cop out, but I don't see the point in creating a LO if it's never going to go in my album and this LO will got in my album :)

Monopoly Cybercrop: Bow Street

Kicking off the Monopoly Cybercrop on Friday was Gertie (Sarah Palmer) with her LO 'Love you to the moon and back'. I didn't get to Leigh's until 7.30pm so I was behind before I started but soon caught up and created my LO 'Double Trouble'. I wouldn't usually mix my fonts for a title, or use acrylic but I do really like the effect so might well use it again :)

Monopoly Cybercrop: Mystery Kit

Each cybercrop the sponsors offer each team a mystery kit. This year, being a car, mine was from Lyn at Craft Emporium. I ordered it fairly late on (thanks to Tony for being it for me :) ) and it had to come by sea as the planes were still grounded from the Isle of Mann then and when I got it I didn't have an inspiration at all so wasn't sure I'd make the deadline. I had a quick look in the Two Peas gallery and found a LO to lift. They'd made a frame from cardstock but I wanted to give my LO even more depth so I used the pizza box instead and painted it with black acrylic. I inked the edges of my paper and painted one corner where I wanted the rub ons to show up well.
Rather than leaving it at that though, I decided to create a hinged photo to put a another photo and more rub ons underneath.The flowers were a bit girly for this LO so I made an origami windmill out of some patterned paper and added a button for the centre.

I ended up with a LO I love to commerorate Connor's first week at preschool :)

Monopoly Cybercrop: Pre-crop challenge

So this weekend saw the Monopoly cybercrop get underway. Sadly I was traipsing through the Oxfordshire countryside with a DofE group so was only able to join in on Friday night but there were a couple of things I got involved in before the CC got underway. The first was the precrop challenge 'Officer Mallory'. Fi said 'this challenge is to scrap your own 'Officer Mallory', that person that has either been a constant in you or your families life, or who has had a profound effect or brought about a huge change (for the better of course ).'





I decided to scrap a photo of my Nan. My family is something that I need to scrap more of, especially the old photos I have of them. Nan was seamstress to the queen and loved making fancy dress costumes for us and made wedding dresses for my four older cousins too. I was upset when Nan had a stroke that left her hands weaker and she wasn't able to make my dress too, but I think I did pretty well up until that point with a Victoria Plum, Queen of Hearts, Wonderwoman and various other fancy dress costumes. Nan was also a true matriarch. You could trust her to know everything about every member of our family. It was to her house that we went for big get togethers and events. She was def a constant in our lives. So my LO 'Queen of thimbles' is testament to all that.

I printed the photo of my Nan at 21 years old on to some white denim and was pleased with the result. I used cosmo cricket 'Material Girl' papers and the Bazzil In Stitch'z Template: Silly Stitches from Indigo Mill. I didn't like how the stiching looked on the corrugated card though so I covered it with a second row of tape measure twill to cover it. Then it was a case of tearing, inking, rubbing on and stamping various things on to the page and adding embellishments and hey presto- a LO that I think really does my Nan justice.

I fell back on the pagemaps sketch that I loved for this one too.

Five things to scrap

I wish that I'd had more time this weekend to join in with Shimelle's great online crop weekend but sadly I had loads of marking to do before coming back to work today :( Shimelle's final challenge of the weekend was to think about the five things that I haven't scrapped but feel I should have. There are so many things that I don't have photos of that I wish I could scrap. This weekend's 'The Studio' challenge focuses on that so I've had a go at scrapping some things that I don't have photos to scrap with and it's not as hard as you might think. Watch this space and I'll show you some tomorrow.

But anyway, my list of things I feel I should scrap:

1. I'm planning on scrapping my family tree this year. I need to have more LOs of my extended family and their achievements.

2. I was really proud to be made god daughter to Abbie and as yet I've not scrapped these photos so that's def a photo I will be doing soon!

3. I spent a year in America between my A-levels and Uni and although I don't have very many photos I should really record this year as it was an important one for me and changed me quite a lot.

4. I've been scrapping my life in its entirity as you'll probably notice. The good, the bad and the ugly in no particular order. I've scrapped my wedding, my divorce, and the hen night but not the honeymoon so to really close that chapterI need to do that one.

5. Finally, I would like to do a LO that recognises the career part of me in my role as a teacher. I've been teaching for 7 years and have never do a LO about my job.

Thanks for getting me to think about these Shimelle. I now have a 'to do' list!

The Studio Challenge

The Studio has moved to a new home here but the weekly challenge continue :) This week Amanda challenges you to scrap an event that you don't have a photo of. I'm sure that you all have lots of those. The first thing that I thought of was my first Robbie Williams concert. I have a ticket so I used that as the 'photo' and got happy with the glimmer mist again!

I also wanted to record my experience of being diagnosed with precancerous changes in my cells last Easter and again this year and the subsequent removal of them in the LLETZ procedure so that worked for this challenge too with a ton of journalling (although I wanted to write more and ran out of space).

Enjoyed this challenge though. It got me thinking :)