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Another Twisted Sketches challenge. I've really been enjoying using sketches recently. This LO is based on Twisted Sketch no. 96. The twist was "card".

The big box in the photo was from the running machine we bought a couple of years ago - it has been at least as much entertainment as the running machine itself! I know it is a cliche but my children really do enjoy boxes probably even more than any expensive toy.

Cardboard Box

Materials used

Echo Park Little Boy Alpha stickers, Awesome dots paper and Journalling Card

Crate Paper Orbit Collection Maze paper

Martha Stewart punch anywhere star punch

Core'dinations cardstock

Just Us

I created this LO using Twisted Sketch no. 95. This twist this week was "paper".

The word paper first makes me think of lined paper, like that in school exercise books (I had a teacher at secondary school who insisted on calling it stripy paper rather than lined). I've used some lined paper for the two little hearts and the journalling spot and then spritzed them with inkadoos ink.

The photos are from last summer and it's been such a lovely day today that it inspired me to go for lovely bright summer colours.

I didn't have time to put the journalling on this one as I wanted to photograph the LO while it was still light but it's going to be a message for my son about how much I love him and being with him. Most of my LOs tend to be about some sort of event and so the journalling is usually taken up describing what happened. I love seeing other's pages which have messages to their loved ones and so am going to keep challenging myself to try and do that every once in a while.

All the materials for this LO were things I've had in my stash for quite some time so it was nice to use them finally. Thanks for looking!

All the scraps together

I've been so busy over the last month. Now we can finally get out in the garden we needed to clear it all up from the snow damage last November and we've also started tackling some of the larger plants that we really should have been pruning regularly over the last 4 years but just haven't got done. My youngest son has also had chicken pox and so needed lots of tlc. I have managed to work on the odd LO but it really has been scraps of time snatched here and there and I haven't had time to photograph any of them until now so here's all the scraps together!

Snow Much Fun

Thought I'd start with this one given I've already mentioned the snow. It brought some great times despite the damage to the garden.

I was really excited to win a copy of Sketches for Scrapbooking (published by Scrapbook Generation) from Allison Davis' blog during a recent Sketch Support blog hop and have used one of the sketches in it for this LO. Have just realised that I've taken the photo before adding the journalling - I'd left it off as I wanted to check what the date was. The journalling is going to be about how my eldest son enjoyed sledging this year more than last but both sons managed to spray snow into their faces while coming down which they didn't enjoy and/or about how much I enjoyed sledging with them both (depends on what will fit on).

Materials

The papers and journalling card are from the Echo Park wintertime collection. The title is Making Memories alpha stickers. The snowflakes were die-cut using my bigshot and their centres are actually card candi from Craftwork Cards. I've inked the edges of the photos using a Tim Holz distress ink.

First sports day

I've recently been admiring rosette type flowers on other scrapper's LOs and wanted to have a go myself. I've had some trouble with finding a glue that will hold the end of the strip together - glue dots haven't done the trick.

Materials

Basic Grey basics papers plus the bunting and rosette were made with some very old scraps of paper I had in my stash.

Martha Stewart punch

Tim Holz distress ink

QuickKutz die for the journalling card

Autumn Leaves stampology "Ticketed" clear stamp set

MLS alpha stickers

So not camera shy

Some fun photos of my oldest son that I've been wanting to scrap for a while.

Materials

I've used a Bo Bunny paper for the circles (think it was called Jamboree)

Some Echo Park sticker phrases from the "All boy" range

Doodlebug stickers and Cosmo Cricket tiny type alpha stickers for the title

The tabs are from My Mind's Eye 12x12 die cut sheet bloom and grow range