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 This is a digi LO for the UKS cybercrop.  We were given the template and told to have fun - so I did.  The kit I used is Dawn Inskip's Rif-Raf.

 This one was a class on using spray inks.  The original class used ink sprayed randomly, but I decided to play with some masks instead.  The photos are really old.  That cute baby is now 46 (it's my elder daughter).  It's my parents and my sister holding her. 

 Another old photo of Sam and Mum.  It's not a poleroid snap, just a frame I made.  The class technique was patchwork and I followed the LO exactly - to make sure it all fitted together.  Used some 6x6 papers from Stampin'  Up - though it's a great way to use up scraps.

 Messy technique again here.  Spreading gesso - a bit hard to see in the photo.  I'm not the most patient of people so, when it wouldn't dry fast enough - I took a paper towel and dabbed it.  Liked the textured look it left, then attacked it with some really old coloured walnut ink I have in old olive.  The papers were a bargain kit from TK Maxx, cost about a fiver for a whole pack of papers, a box of chipboard elements and an 8x8 albumn.

These are what I made with the cybercrop mystery kit for the Romantics team.  Basically, you buy the kit and have to make something with it.  Until it arrives you don't have a clue what will be in it.  Luckily I loved the kit.  The birdcage is based on one in last month's Craft Stamper.  Not difficult, but fiddly.  That's why it's a wee bit wonky - I needed a third hand to keep it straight.  Still pleased with it though.  Most of the flowers are from a sheet of spiral diecuts.  Easy to make and rather effective.  The butterflies are cut using a new Nestabilities die I bought at a craft show in Leeds last week.  Some of the flowers, and the leaves, use Tim Holtz' pine cones die.  I made the box because I had loads of the kit left and I have, in fact, used more of it on the Hi Beautiful LO above.  Still got more to use up.