The Sad End Of A Very Good Thing

I received the last Sarah's cards kit yesterday morning and it is beautiful. This picture really does not do it justice as the B sides are made just for me. Love them so much.

I really am sad to see the kits come to an end but I totally understand why Sarah has made the decision to stop them.  I'd like to thank Sarah, Lianne and all the DT for these wonderful kits and all the inspiration you have given me over the 2 1/2 years of my subscription.

Now I come to hard point.  I am so undecided about what to do with this kit.  Do I rip into the kit and scrap away or do I keep it and wait?

Decisions, decisions!

In My Heart

I seem to have gone a little mad about online scrap challenges lately.  I don't think I have entered as many over all the time I have been scrapping as I have over the past month.  I am finding it really good motivation to reach my 100 LO challenge.  This LO is number 19 that I have made since the beginning of June.  At this rate it will take me until the end of the year to get to 100.  A long time but I really am hoping to put a dent in my stash. 

This weekend I have been looking at the My Minds Eye website and saw their current scrap challenge.  There are two challenges each month and the first challenge for July is to use their papers and scrap in monotone.  I first pulled out all MME papers I had.  I usually buy a complete range of papers and embellishments and store them all together for each collection.  This system seems to work for me but having said that I very rarely mix ranges let alone manufacturers.

In my stash I have the complete collections of:

Stella & Rose

Good Day

Miss Caroline

Follow Your Heart

Lost and Found

This was a good range from which to choose from.  I then picked a photo and decided to use pink.  Then I disgarded the none pink collections.  Then tries to match them up to have the same tone of pink.  It is amazing how many shades of pink there are.  Some were totally wrong, like Follow your heart.  The pink was so wishy washy with the other collections, yet on its own its a lovely pink colour.  I was then left with Stella & Rose and Good Day.  Then I tried to pick out scraps to use I up.  I was so surprised how small some of these scraps were!  These are the papers and embellishments I choose:

Although I was looking for scraps to use up I did pick the doilly paper on the left to use as my base paper.  As everything was pink I picked up some cream cardstock as a neutral base and layered and matted each element.  In addition to MME papers and cream cardstock I also used some twine, pearls and alphas. 

This is the LO I came up with the help of this sketch:

This LO is very personal and there is some hidden journalling. I found it quite difficult to express how I felt but I think I have achieved what I intended to do and have written about and expressed what "I need to tell you (Liam & Freya) what's in my heart".

Thanks for looking and if you have time pop on over to the MME blog to take a look at their new releases.  Just love love love The Sweetest Thing range which was obviously made especially for me!

Sarah's Cards July Sketch Challenge

This months sketch is quite simple and yet very effective.  Like alot of the DT I have rotated the sketch to suit my landscape photo which I have cropped down a little.  I have used Sarah's Cards February 2012 kit with the addition of some twine, pearls, wood shapes and washi tape from my stash along with a little sprinkling of Mr Hueys.

A very rare photo of all 3 of us outside the childhood home of Paul McCartney that we visited last month as part of the Magical Mystery Tour.

Say Cheese

There is a new challenge site started this month called The Cupboard Trilogy.  Their first challenge is based on this colour pallette:

Sage Green, Peppermint, Soft Coral, Warm Beige, Warm Pink & Raspberry.

 The challenge was to use at least 3 of these colours in your LO.  I have used the peppermint, warm beige, warm pink and a splash of raspberry. 

Made using the second Dear Lizzie release and some Studio Calico wooden hearts and washi tape from Amy Tangerine (people), a Studio Calico kit (peppermint) and I'm not sure where the raspberry one was from.

Each month there will be a new challenge set on the 1st and you have until 6pm on the last day of the month to enter.  Then comes the twist; there are 3 categories - a card challenge, a scapbook challenge and a digi challenge.  You can enter each catorgory every month.  I think it will be interesting to see of the different mediums interpret the same challenge.

Be sure to head on over and take a look at the blog as there are some lovely DT work and entrants work already entered.

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday? (11 July 2012)

It has been a long long time since I have joined in but I have tried to pop in and have a look at some desks each week even though I have failed miserably at commenting on all that I looked at.  This week I am taking the time to share my desk and will pop in and comment on some of yours, can't guarantee how many as the list is now so long but I will comment on some.

This is my desk as it looks this morning:

This is the wall my desk is against.  I have added another Ikea kitchen bar at the top with 2 baskets which has raised my Mr Huey's up off the desk and given me lots more space.  It has also given space to store some more punches.  This is the very messy desk:

And here is a close up of the LO; Diamond Jubilee Celebrations:

Thanks for visiting.  Don't forget to pop over to Julia to have a look at some more desks or join in and show the world your crafting space.

I am also entering this LO in to the current challenge at SJ Crafts.