Sketch challenge......

Feeling a bit twitchy, and wanting to use my Echo park papers again, I had a go at the March sketch challenge on the Scrap365 sketch blog here , which is open till the 15th march. 

The great thing I like about following a sketch is that the hard work of planning the look of the layout is already done ...so it leaves you free to pick and choose your papers to fit. 

I did stick to my 8.5 x 11 size so it looks quite different from the 12 x12 sketch, but it was nice being "Told" to use a small photo !

I'm also very bad at story telling/journaling , so  I gave it a go and found it wasn't as hard as I

thought :) Might be trying that again.....

Thanks for stopping by

Karen x

Crop day.....

It was the Monthly Papermaze crop yesterday in Otley Village Hall in Suffolk....and although it was packed out  (lots of chatting and catching up to do, you understand...) I did manage to finish 2 layouts.

The first one with Fay on her Uncle Jesse's lawn-mower in Oklahoma, uses the adorable Basic grey Lucille collection.

The second shows Fay and Amy taking a small break at the Universal Studios in Orlando and uses mostly Echo Park - Take note papers. 

I did spend quite some time cutting all the elements from the patterned papers..no ready-made embellishments here! 

Except of course for the totally gorgeous American Crafts Thickers :)

Thanks for stopping by

Karen x