Pencil lines 162

At last I've managed to complete a Pencil Lines Challenge again. I love doing these challenges and try to do a page for each week but sadly over the last couple of weeks I've missed them. They were really good sketches as well 8-(. I've saved them to catch up with later. Initially I started scrapbooking to try and document all my travels, this has then diverted to a scrapbook for my brother and a scrapbook of me, so I went back to my original mission and got out travel pictures. The photos of this page are a bit pinky/yellowy, this is due to the synthetic lights the pages are actually white. You can get the idea though. I've realised that I have made three pages from my trip to Greece and each one I have used white bazzil as the background, I think its because it represents how bright everything was when I was there.

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Menu choices & Lift off

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Its coming up to Christmas party season. Our company very generously pays for a lovely dinner for all its employees and their partners. By the time the event comes round everybody has forgotten what they ordered, so each year everybody gets a little card with their choices printed on it. I was asked to do them this year and this is what I have come up with. They are about 2" x 3" and open like a standard card with the menu selection inside, i thought they were really cute. I love this stamp it's Stampin Up's Compliments to the Chef and stamps beautifully.

Simples!

Here's another of my simple cards that I've made for Christmas, I am planning to sit and write them all this weekend because I have a pile that need to go abroad and I am in London the following weekend. This little card makes me smile, I love the image on it and it stamps beautifully every time. A few dabs from the copics and a bit of glitter glue and it's done. Lovely!

Craft Haven Crop

Last Thursday I went to my monthly crop at Craft Haven in Sheffield. This months theme was winter, so I sorted through my travel photos and found the gorgeous view from Andorra. We'd gone on a skiing trip, which I hated. It was the first (and last) time I had a go at skiing, and I have to say its not for me. The scenery was beautiful but if you see on the photo there wasn't enough snow. All the seasoned skiers were disappointed and tried to convince me the reason I wasn't enjoying it was that the conditions weren't suitable. My partner also managed to fall on the second day(he was a seasoned skier) and damaged his hand so skiing was off. The country itself was just beautiful so we went for lots of walks, and I made a mental note that holidays were too precious and expensive to spend miserable and cold!

I've also noticed I've had exactly 4,000 visits to my blog, I'm well chuffed. Hello visitors!

Advent Calendars

The weekly challenge over on Bubbly Scrumptious this week is advent calendars. I made this one a couple of week s ago. One of the boys at work asked me to make one for his girlfriend so this is another version in pinks and purples.

I also found this picture of one I made a few years ago, believe me making all those boxes drove me mad, especially when I got an order for five more! The photo doesn't really do it justice its much brighter in real life.

Pencil Lines Sketch 161

I've missed out on the Pencil Lines challenges for a couple of weeks, so today I've made this page based on sketch 161. There have been some lovely sketches and I intend to catch up with all of them. I recently won a couple of prizes on the Pencil Lines birthday celebrations, one of the prizes has arrived and I'm delighted with the fabulous Cosmo Cricket Early Bird pack.

Wild Animals Spotted

The weekly challenge over on the Bubbly Scrumptious blog is to Go Wild, make something with a wild animal on it. I loved this cute sticker that I bought recently and thought it fitted perfectly, it's too cute to be wild really!