Little Book of Sketches

You know when you're just not feeling the love for the card you're working on and you spend FOREVER shuffling things around?? Well tonight I worked on a little project to help me avoid those moments..hopefully!

I love to play around with sketch challenges. It stops me procrastinating over layout but gives me the flexiblity to add my own style. As a result I spend ages flicking from site to site and I never get anything done! It also stops me from enjoying my TV shows on the  computer, which is something I love to do when I'm stamping (a girl can never get enough Grey's, True Blood, Gossip Girl...I could go on and on LOL!)

So today I solved the problem and created my own little sketch book.

I decorated a small notebook I picked up at Picture2Page, (my favourite local scrapbook store in Lilydale) with some DSP, created a little embellishment and added some ribbon to tie it all together.  Inside I stuck a sketch on each page from Mojo Monday.  So hopefully now instead of procrastinating, or spending hours surfing the net, I can pick a sketch from the book and start creating..oh and just maybe keep an eye on the TV to see how Chuck and Blair are travelling!

hugs

Home again!

We're  back from our holiday and I'm ready to get back into my cards again!  We had a fantastic week in Queensland and were fortunate to have 8 days of perfect sunshine which was such a nice change from the gail force winds and freezing temperatures of Melbourne!

If you haven't been there and are thinking about visiting Queensland you must visit Australia Zoo...it was amazing.  It's so family friendly and well thought out and the kids had a ball.  From the mintue you walk in the door there are keepers walking around with animals for you to touch and have your photo taken with.  Our seven year old, who has watched and adored Steve Irwin since she was a tiny tot, was so excited.  Here is a little photo of Kira feeding the elephants.



But unfortunately it's back to reality and I'm back to work tomorrow:( so for the next few hours at least, I'm going to ignore all the chores and boring stuff that I should be doing and just make some cards!

Visit again soon to check them out!

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Welcome to Dark Arts, my little place to share my cards and creations.  I'm a wife and mum and part time web administrator who loves music, paper crafts and all things black! (now the name makes sense..yeah??)  Check back often as I hope to add more and more creations over time.

Kirsty