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PL Sketch 41

Pencil Lines is celebrating four years of inspiring us. To celebrate, each design team member picked a past sketch and created a layout based on that sketch. And we were all invited to participate, too! Here's my take on sketch 41.

This layout is a collection of photos of my children feeding a baby alpaca at Mike's Maze last October. I was kinda shocked at how much fun they had feeding a $1 cup of food to the little guy. He was wicked cute and apparently tickled your hand as he nibbled at the food.


I used all Cosmo Cricket papers and rub-ons, except the black cardstock. I colored the flourishes with my black zig and orange glaze pen to mimic the CC flower rub-on. The title was suggested by 2 out of 3 surveyed so how could I not use it!

Quick new layout

STM #155 This is Home and PL Anniversary Sketch 145.

I Can Go For Miles

Here's a layout for this week's Scrapping the Music 151 Get This Party Started and a challenge over at scrapbook.com.

This is Zach as I found him 2 minutes after we got home from this year's Relay for Life. He walked 52.5 miles over 22 hours. He fell asleep on the couch until I urged him to bed a few hours later and then he slept until the next morning... and he really needed it! And even after so much pain and exhaustion, when he woke he was ready to aim for the 24 hour walk at next years fundraiser :o)

OK, I took a photo in the daylight and it's a little better. It's overcast today so I still had to use the flash and just couldn't find that perfect angle for no glare so there is a spot on Zach's arm :o)

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Couple new layouts

One of Gwen playing in the woods. She is a forest fairy at heart. She can spend days on end playing with rocks, sticks, leaves and some dirt. I love her inquisitive outlook on life and how ready she is to explore the world around her.

And one of me when I was 18 and living in Germany. That was my rebellious time in life, though I still wasn't very rebellious :o) I would skip school to go to the local pool hall with friends and we would drink our afternoon away.

Funky!

Here's a layout using this weeks Scrapping the Music #149 Love Shack and Pencil Lines Sketch 202.

This is a photo of Zach this summer juggling with a fleece contraption he made out of scraps of fabric. He's so creative and once he gets an idea in his head he just goes for it. I love that view on life.

The red frames are the negatives from my iron fence border punch. I doodled anywhere I felt was too bland :o)

Art Journaling Week at Balzer Designs

Last week was Art Journaling week at Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's blog. I took this opportunity to once again try out art journaling.

My first attempt was this page:

I made this after reading Linda Tieu's post. The background was made by first dripping aquamarine and sage green paint all over the page and then brushing it out. I then filled in the white bits with orange and blue watercolor pencils. I'm not pleased with the black crackle sticker. But it is what it is. I started to jot down random thoughts similar to Julie's example and Judy Wise's style (so love her blog)! I'll be honest, I'm not terribly confident in this style. I think more practice is in order.

I made this second page at work on Friday:

I haven't been sleeping well (thus the My mind conspires against me) and Friday morning I woke after an unusual dream; I started randomly writing my thoughts. I then just outlined the string of text... I liked it before the lines. Again, I will need to try this again sometime. I like to just write whatever comes to mind in any random way. I do that often... just never in an "art journal".

This last page is what I made this morning:

This was made after reading this post by Julie. I had the most fun with this style. This William Butler Yeats poem was made into a song by one of my fave magical groups, Elvendrums. We love the song and my daughter gave me the idea to use it on the page. I saw the photo in a magazine and thought he needed wings... that was as far as I had planned the page. Next time I think I need to blend the photo edges into the page more... especially at the bottom.

All in all, this was fun and I'll be making moar (yes, moar, not more! gaming has ruined me and I give up trying to fix this) pages in the future. I won a spot in Marit's Let It Loose workshop and I can't wait to learn moar techniques. Once I've got the technique to apply what goes on in my brain I'll be all set :o)