Scrap The Boys

I discovered a fab challenge blog this week called Scrap The Boys

This month the challenge is to use tape and the word Play.

Here is my take on it - I used masking tape in two corners of the photo.

and my skywatch photo for this week which is the camera man from the races we went to.

Punky Scraps Blog Hop

Welcome if you have headed this way from Jolanda and hello to anybody who has stepped in from another source :)

Today is an exciting day in the Punky Scraps calendar. We are having a blog hop to celebrate the launch of the new team and also to say a fond farewell to retiring team members.

I consider myself extremely lucky to be staying on and am looking forward to punking it up over the coming months.

The blog hop is based around this amazing sketch





and this is my take on it

You next stop on the hop is Nina.

Bye for now.  I'll be back tomorrow with more from the June 30 Day Challenge

Clouds WIPS and A June Photo Challenge

I've started a new blog for anybody who is interested in clouds and skies etc.  I will be posting skywatch skies over there in future and probably use this blog for my personal and craft stuff.

The Craft Garden June challenge is up.  I made this flower but forgot that hubby is away camping with the boys until later today and he has the camera so had to use my phone which is why it is a crappity crap piccie.

The challenge is from the traditional wedding rhyme - something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.  I left out the something borrowed bit as I thought that once you have something on a layout or card etc then you ain't going to want to give it back.

My old is the fabric, new is the blue lace and blue is obviously the lace but also the navy blue button.

At the weekend I had a really good think about my knitting and where I was going with all the works in progress I had.  It was getting out of hand. I admitted to myself that I am a serial starter of projects.  There was only one thing for it. I needed a fresh start so I frogged the bloody lot of them.  There were about a dozen things - socks, shawls, scarves all of which would never have been finished.  My head is a lot clearer and I really wanted to get started on a granny stripe blanket as a throw for the living room.  We all know that the little voices will say "start me" over and over whenever I see a new project and yes I probably will start them and rebuild a new pile of WIPs but for now I am focusing on this

For more WIPs please see TamisAmis

I found this via a friend yesterday.  I am going to try and take part as the list looks quite do-able.

Craft Garden May Challenge

This month the challenge is to take inspiration from this picture

Despite setting the challenge myself I ended up with a serious mojo loss when it came to actually doing the challenge.  I had intended to set myself doing something with knitting or crochet but when my son came back from Paris with a similar angled shot of the Eiffel Tower then I knew I just had to use that photograph.

Punky Scraps Challenge

This week the challenge is this picture

I took the music and the stripes from it and made this. My scanner is playing up so the picture is cak sorry.

Basic Grey Challenge

This week I decided to take part in the Basic Grey Challenge.  

I have had this picture lying on the kitchen table for a while and I couldn't quite decide what to do with it in terms of colours etc.  I saw the basic grey challenge was paper piecing so decided to do some flowers with a couple of petals blowing away to replicate my little man blowing the dandelion.  The butterfly is paper pieced too. The paper line is Origins, I used sweets alphabet and flurries & filligree stamps.

My Turn

This week it is my turn to set the challenge on Scrap Weekly In 2010.

My challenge is to use fabric.  I've just got some Basic Grey Blush so I used that on this layout

I also did this for Shimelle's class - Something From Almost Nothing.  The challenge was to use those metals that have been lying in your stash pile for years.  I used this chipboard tree from a kit I got a long long time ago.  I painted it pink and then used up some of my stash of metal eyelets.  I also used a metal rimmed tag.  I actually quite enjoyed getting my Cropodile back out and setting the eyelets.  Took a while to get back into the swing of it and some of the eyelets are much more squashed than I would like.  I plan using eyelets more regularly in future so I have decided to leave the imperfect ones as a reminder that I need to practice using them.

A New Month

and it is one of my favourites.  March usually sees a change for the better in the weather, lighter nights, buds on trees and my absolute favourite - blossom trees are in bloom.

I've used a blossom tree picture as inspiration over on the shop challenge blog.  Couldn't resist really.

The first of the month brings with it a new mystery sock challenge.  To be honest with you I am getting a bit bored of knitting socks at the moment BUT I like the mystery challenges because it is a part of the pattern released each week and isn't too overwhelming.  Plus the local yarn shop is closing down and I found some 4ply yarn in a lovely green shade for only £2 which will be ideal for this lace and cable pattern.  Well that's what it looks like anyway from the first clue.

The other thing the first of the month brought was a new part of the My Little Heart SAL (sew along).  I was trying to guess what it would be yesterday and I was thinking maybe flowers and a lamb and we actually have a ladybird and some flowers which is very nice.  My guess for april is either a chick or bunny.

Anyway better go as it is 'fat club' this afternoon and I need to go and see how much weight I have put on.  I swear I don't know what is happening.  I have switched a lot of products to lower fat versions and have tried doing more exercise but nothing ever seems to change on the weight front.  Maybe it is the willpower to resist takeaways that is lacking.

February Challenges

There are a number of challenges I am a part of for February.

First up my shop challenge

 

BY2010 - if you want to take part in February visit here for further details

Scrap Weekly in 2010