UKS challenges

It's been one of those weeks so I haven't managed any scrapping but I hadn't got round to uploading the last couple of UKS weekly challenges:

The first one is April week 5 - use the sketch as inspiration, scrap a first, use old or new paper and bunting.

The sketch was lovely, and perfect for these smaller passport photos.  The first is us preparing for our first holiday abroad with the boys, and having to renew/apply for passports.  I used the This & That papers that I bought recently and of course the bunting which was on the sketch provided.

 
This one is for last week's challenge, May week 1.  The criteria was to use cord/twine/ribbon, some bling, the colours green and white, and stamping.  The stamping is a bit of a cop out really as I don't like stamping, I always seem to mess it up.  So if you get a magnifying glass out, you'll be able to spot a little row of stamped hearts on the top pink strip.

It was so hot that day, and by the time we had climbed to the top of the hill we were exhausted.  Thank goodness for the conveniently parked ice cream van in the car park up there lol.

April crop sketch

Had fun playing with paint this afternoon and did this LO using the April crop sketch.... the challenge was to use water - I watered down some paint to make the splatters and needed to use some to wash out the tyre of the monster truck I used to make the chevrons :-)

Now to do May's - I seem to be in a permanent state of catching up with stuff!

Finishing off

This week I have finally got round to finishing off the LOs that I started at the crops last month....  this first one is using my UKS team's March sketch, and the final scraps from my Christmas Total Papercrafts kit.  I found this photo while clearing out the archived holiday forms at work - strange place to find it!  It was taken at our go karting Christmas party in (I think) 2003.  I'm the only one still working there now.....

A LO from our visit to Falkirk Wheel using a sketch from The Crumblies retreat and the crop kit we all had from the lovely Sandra at Gottacraft

And a LO using a January Total Papercrafts kit.  Love the glittered paper in this kit and it's a shame we didn't have more snowy pictures from this winter as they would have looked great.  I've used photos of Joe at his friend's ice skating party.... he really enjoyed it once he finally let go of the side lol.