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More pre-crop challenges for the UKS cybercrop today.  Plus some ATCs for swaps on MixedMediaATCs on Yahoo groups.

These are two LOs for the cybercrop.  The first is based on a provided sketch.  The challenge was using a LO with lots of white space, not my best style, but I'm quite pleased with the result.  The photo is of my daughter Sam and myself in Florida in 2010.  The papers I used are the leftovers from Basic Grey's Marrakesh - I've had the kit for ages and I'm still using the bits and pieces.  One of my favourite kits of all time.

The second LO is digi and uses a kit called Spontaneous Delight by C Stephens.  I love the rich colours.  The challenge was to do a LO based on a class in one of UKS' previous cybercrops.  This one was from the Harry Potter cybercrop in 2006 - one my daughter and I took part in.  This is one of my favourite photos of Clare, who hated having her photo taken.  I'm so glad I insisted despite her complaints as we lost her to cancer three years ago.  Having so many photos of her is a comfort - as is all the artwork, mixed media and scrapbooking, that she did.  We were scrapping and crafting buddies for a long time.

These are the ATCs for my latest swap.  For sewing box I used old pattern paper (never throw anything away) and stamped it with Tim Holtz stamps (rather hard to see in the photo).  The dress form is from a set I've had for years.  I made the cotton reel from card and bakers twine and the tape was given to me by a friend.  It looks quite realistic but is, in fact, a reel of self adhesive tape.  I love the little wooden letters and coloured them with copics.

The Trees ATC was fun to do.  The background is a bit hard to pick out but it's my first attempt at using pan pastels.  They are lovely to use, so I bought several more at a craft show in Leeds yesterday.  I can see me using them a lot.  The stamps are from Stampin' Up sets (love their stuff) - Lovely as a Tree (which I use a LOT) and Autumn Days (also one of my go to sets).  A bit of glitter on the tree for snow and I was done. 

I'm quite impressed by how much I've managed to get done this week as the new update to my favourite game - Lord of the Rings online - came out last Monday.  All the crafting has been squeezed into the gaps between running around in Rohan.