Gelatos in this weather ?!

Over on UKS I belong to a team where we use sketches to help us scrap all those photos we have waiting.These were from a family holiday in Corfu in 2010. I try & play along when I can & the other weekend I managed to use Januarys sketch to create this page.

I used Gelato paints over a gesso base then added circles cut using my Silhouette. I'm quite pleased with the result & will certainly be using Gelatos again.

This was the starting sketch so as you can see I've stayed pretty close to it.

Thanks for looking x

Sheena x

70 years on...

Today is National Holocaust Day, marking 70 years since Auschwitz was liberated. This is not what I would typically blog about but whilst in Poland visiting friends in 2012 my family & I visited Auschwitz and saw for ourselves the vivid reminders of the atrocities the prisoners endured. Seeing these  camps with our own eyes had a profound effect on us all.

 The train tracks at Birkenau.

So today survivors & families gather to honour the victims and remember...

If you ever find yourself near Krakow I would recommend you visit so these atrocious are never forgotten. There is a recommended lower age limit for children due to the images & collections within the museum.

Sheena x

Using your Dies x

Last week over on the Hey Little Magpie blog I shared the pages I'd made for my January post so I thought I'd share them here with you too.

I concentrated on using dies & all the details of the dies used can be found in my post here.

Lovely.

Created using the AC Shimelle & Crate Maggie Holmes open book ranges.

Love L.A.

Created using 5 different dies & the AC Amy Tan - Stitched paper range.

Hop on over to the blog for all the details x

Sheena x