the circus is in town!!

well with 4 kids the circus is ALWAYS in town at my place 

with the little monkeys and acrobats and clowns we have here lol

at a recent inklings retreat 

i was able to sit quietly for a couple of hours and 

concentrate and make something intricate and time consuming.

our challenge was to use a whole heap of colours and i immediately thought of the circus!

 this layout originally started as a card which got too big and got turned into a scrapbooking page which then, because of the lumpy bumpy-ness (yes that is a real word!!)

is now a picture to be framed on a wall!!

 the lion was made using the following punches

a 1"circle (face)

1/2"circles (ears)

word windows (arms, feet)

bird (legs, tail)

owl (ears, tummy, nose)

his mane was made from some exciting new dsp coming out in september 

(which i can't tell you because it is secret squirrel lol) which i have sponged

 the clown was made with the following punches

scallop circle (hair)

xl oval (tummy, pants, straps)

bird (arms, shoes)

1/2" circle (eyes, nose)

 the flag at the top has words from a new secret squirrel dsp 

and the tent is also made from the same secret squirrel new dsp lol

the flags at the side are from a new punch-woohoo!

balloons are from party this way and i have put crystal effects over them and tied twine to them

 the opening at the front was made by gluing together two peices of dsp 

and letting them dry with that fold in them

i have also added a spare peice of card under the tent top to help push it out to 

make it more standy-outy (another real word haahaha)

and you know the coolest thing about this?

i won a prize for it!

<<blush>>

thanks to the inklings who voted for me :>

my daughter (the one in the photo) just loves it and now i have a grumpy little brother who is also wanting one...sigh....maybe some time soon when mummy gets the same luxury again :>

cheers ears