SDC52: Oodles of Doodles

I created this tag for the Stampotique Challenge here, set by Kaz Boughton that asked for oodles of doodles. I have been experimenting with creating a wood distress finish for another finish and on this tage used layers of distress stains and titan buff acrylic paint for the background. I stamped Smushasha onto the tag and then coloured her with watercolour promarkers. I doodled the title "Sometimes life's a beach" with gel pens and posca white and then doodled the seaweed over the stamped image.

I then added some of my large collection of sea glass and beach finds and some seam binding. To hang the tag I threaded ribbon through a holey shell.

My imac is having memory problems at the moment as I have too much stuff on it and even though Lens Guy set up a hard drive for me I haven't quite got round to moving stuff onto it. There is always something more interesting to do...

Getting my scrap on at the crop

I had a very productive time at the monthly EK Craft and Crop  and completed the pirate and circle lo  and them came home and completed the Beach Babe lo. These are all using photographs that used to be part of photo montages in clip frames. This was before I had ever heard of scrapping. The frames eventually fell apart and I had a pile of very random photos - none of which have dates or places on them and I have been racking my brain to remember exact details about them.
The Beach Babe lo used the UKS February Simple Recipe of citrus orange, fuschia pink, turquoise and red with mists and buttons. I misted a TH Resist page with orange/pink dylusions and then used blue/green on white to make the central panel. I punched flowers from the waste and added bling to their centres. The ribbon, flowers and button continue the colour theme.

The second page was made up of the blue/green card stock and then a page from my stash that was just too bright to use all together so I cut it up and used Heather's circle dies.

 The last page was for the weekly challenge and had to include red and black, stamping (Dylusions fab skull) and movement courtesy of a movable journalling tab. I borrowed the bunting punch and in a charity sale to raise money for Help the Heroes bought the scrabble tiles.

At the crop the lovely Heather made me think about journalling on los as she pointed out that in 100 years time (or less) people could look at the photos and have no idea about who, what, why, place etc so I am going to try and remember to include journalling on all my los in the future.

Where does the time go - flies by perhaps?

This month has vanished in a flurry of stuff but I am just not sure where all my time went... anyone else feel like that? I finish for the holidays tomorrow and I can't wait. We took a group of pupils to see Hansel and Gretel today and I am beginning to feel a little festive but I am usually full of Christmas spirit at this time of year but the bottle of spirit seems to be empty. The tree is now up and I have posted some presents and perhaps when I finish tomorrow the spirit of fun and freedom will creep up on me. Aprat from working and making Christmas cards I have not been very inky. I made a batch of felt birds and created a hanging for my niece and experimented with envelope fold cushions from my son's old Tshirts (I found the tutorial for this on Joanne Wardle's blog here). These are versions of birds I have made before with slightly different decorations and colours of felt.

I sewed them onto velvet ribbons and added bells from an unwanted Christmas decoration and then then added these to more ribbon. It was originally going to hang vertically but I realised my niece had low ceilings in her room and it would be better hanging horizontally.

It was late and dark and I needed to post the birds when I took this picture but you get the idea.

The envelope fold cushions from old Tshirts are so simple even a novice like me can make them. I have a pile of old Tshirts the boys were throwing out so am going to make some more. I plan to embroider the bottom one to make it a bit more funky.