The Paper Variety Sketch Challenge!

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Well, I have ONE HOUR and 32 minutes to link this up before Mr Linky shuts the window.  

(Sooo... Don't ramble)

 The Paper Variety have an AWESOME sketch on at the moment... (well, only for one more hour...) and 

TTRUSTTT me... you can't pump this out in an hour. 

It was Cricut Cutting Whimsy frenzy.

(ummm... 1 hour 27 mins...stop rambling)

So here's my layout... 

Lol. Not my most photogenic hour ever.

You'll be pleased to know I don't drink much these days. 

I'm crazy enough sober. 

Here's the cute sketch:

Love that tree.

 Used i-gem and i-rock for my tree.

My poem is a re-write of 3 little monkeys, obviously...  mixed in with a little bit of Jill tumbling down breaking her crown. Except in this story, her nickname is DILL! 

Me! 

A skimpy is a barmaid who wears limited clothing and serves drinks to the men. They are common in outback towns. I worked in the middle of Western Australia for 3 years. It is 300km from the nearest big town and 600 km north east of Perth.  There is about 1000 gold miners out there, a few skimpies and us teachers! ... and that's really about all! 

Loved every minute. 

Apart from falling off the bar of course. lol.

I'll distract you from that statement with cute owls.

I used the koala Peachy Keens out of ABC animals.

Here are my images you can TRACE IMAGE into SCAL if you are interested.

One hour seven minutes!!!! Wait for me MR LINKY!!! 

 Ironically, this little jewel crown was given to me by my gorgeous friend Karin as a key ring, and it really did break. So this is a nice way to preserve what is left. 

 Thanks for an awesome challenge The Paper Variety. 

Loved that sketch!

Snowflake Challenges Galore!

Thanks to Fantabulous Cricut blog for their Challenge me Monday! I also found The Paper Variety,  Jitterbuggin Challenges,  Cooking with Cricut and Made by Momo doing similar challenges so I'm entering all of them! I love the theme/sketch challenges because it keeps my layouts rolling!  I am making a calendar for 2011 as a gift for my mum, my in laws and one for home. I got stuck for ideas on July and then I saw this challenge. 

I've never played in snow. I have only seen it from an aeroplane so making a page with snowflakes appealed!

I used Everyday Paperdolls for the cute people. The Snowman comes from Stretch Your Imagination and I designed the template on Sure Cuts a lot2.  


LOVE looking into my crazy fonts on my computer when I am in the Sure Cuts a Lot program... The snow splats and balls are hidden in a font called Smudge and the font for the title was Chiller. 


The snowflake I stickles-ed with Waterfall is from Accent Essentials. The hills are from Everyday Paperdolls too. 


Of course Distress Inks, I used LOTS of colours.

Mini Tutorial on stamp masking:

This cute stamp was from Print Blocks. I wanted to use it in the snowflake layout but I didn't obviously want the  writing or border, just the cute snowflake in the middle. So here is what I did...



  

Apply the stamp to some unwanted cardstock.

 Cut out JUST the part you want to stamp. I cut the snowflake out carefully.

  

Then place your cardstock over desired area and apply stamp again ensuring you line it up correctly with your previous stamped image.

All you will be left with underneath is the part of the stamp you wanted. 

 

Makes you want to look through all those forgotten stamps and look at parts you can use! 

So there is a sneak peak at my Calendar! Can not wait to show you the rest. I only have to finish the cover! 

See you tomorrow!