For week 32 of the ukstampers challenge the prompt is sport:

• are you sporty? love it or hate it? have a favourite sport?
• what sport if any would you love to try?
• stamp some circles/rings on your page

I kind of went over sport a bit when I did my hobbies page so for this page I have chosen Martial arts as the sport I would love to try.  I did dabble in judo for a very short while but that all came to a halt when my pal hurt her knee very badly then the classes stopped, then I moved home etc etc.  If my circumstances were different I would love to try out different martial arts as there are quite a few out there.  It would be a fantastic way to keep fit with discipline and self defence.

Inks/paint:  Black document ink, red, gold, white and moss acrylic paints
Card:  white card, copy paper, Yuzen Chiyogami paper
Stamps:  Calligraphy (Ying-courage), Elusive images Dragon, Non-sequitur Oriental love letters, English stamp Co. Oriental set3, Paperbag studios Scrap journal
Other:  Copic pens green and red, Pearl ex-press watercolours metallic, embossing pen, Moss and gold embossing powder, gold and white pens, coin
The pearl ex-press watercolours give a nice shimmer to the dragon and the sprinkled embossing powders give a nice texture to the page.

E.G. Boring’s optical illusion

The young lady’s chin is the old hag’s nose, the old hag’s mouth is the young lady’s choker, and the old hag’s chin is the area under the young lady’s choker.

The ukstampers weekly challenge number 30 is about smell:

• have you got a favourite smell?  is there a smell that reminds you of something – if so, what?
• add something smelly to your background
• use a nose image on your page

I have used E.G. Boring’s optical illusion image as my image of a nose.  You either see a young lady looking away or an old hag.   I traced around the image to make 2 pages with one page being not quite a mirror image but almost.  I splodged the paint on with a baby wipe roughly where the dark areas should be then rubbed over the tracing paper to show roughly where to draw the black outlines.  I then went over the darker areas with a grey copic pen to give then a bit more definition.
Smells can bring back memories or people, places, holidays and happy times.  My grandad used to buy blocks of tobacco which he would tease out and rub then dry in front of the fire.  I loved the smell of his tobacco pouch so the smell of tobacco reminds me of him.  The smell of cigars bring back memories of Christmas as my dad would always get cigars as a gift.  Mincemeat, mulled wine and Christmas pudding also remind me of cosy family Christmases.  Some things I just simply like the smell of, like: ferrets, stables, my dog, old books, leather, churches, hippy shops and incense (not the smoke of the incense), open fires especially peat and wood fire, the forest in the rain, coffee, fresh bread, flowers (but not lilies), the pits at motor racing, harbours when they are painting the boats with anti-fouling paint, dewy mornings when camping  and many, many more besides.  Perfumes on the other hand I am pretty fussy about.  I find that a lot of perfumes smell like fly spray and I don’t like perfumes with too much vanilla in them.  My everyday perfume is Paloma Picasso and my good perfume is Chanel No. 19.

Paints:  acrylic paints yellow, purple, red, grey
Card:  watercolour card
Stamps:  Scrollwork stamps Netting
Other:  stickles Starry night, incense sticks Sandalwood and lavender. grey copic pen, black and white pen