Sizzlin' Summer Sketch #2

Welcome back! It's Scrapbook Challenges' Sizzlin' Summer sketch#2 today and I like this one...well I've liked all of the sketches so far this summer but this one got me thinking of all the 3x4 journalling and Project Life style cards that I have and so I wanted to try to incorporate one in the layout...as it turned out I used two!

I needed to move some of the design elements around a bit to work with this photo but I'd like to try this sketch again another day with a different photo as I really like the layout of it. 

My girlfriend and I were at a 'Use Your Own Product' workshop where we powered through making 20 layouts over 10 hours...we got a lunch and dinner break and I was almost able to complete all of them! I'm getting so much better at Jennifer's UYOP classes...this is my 4th time taking it!

I've grabbed some more of My Mind's Eye 'find your wings and fly' papers and stickers...this time I've trimmed a handful of the tickets from a 12x12 piece of paper from this collection...I thought it made a good embellishment and you know I'm all about using what I have!

I just picked up another Tim Holtz stamp set...was planning on using it with my Art Journal but pulled a couple thread spool stamps and added it to this layout...I think I'm going to get a lot of use out of that set!

The title was cut from my new CTMH Cricut cartridge 'Artbooking' which is exclusive to Close To My Heart and order-able through me if you LOVE it like I do! Only took a minute and I had a title ready to go...lovin' this new cartridge for scrapbooking, card making and mini-albums...just sayin'

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop in today!

Nostalgia

Good Morning!

I have been enjoying the My Mind's Eye 'Nostalgia' collection lately and a couple of great sketches I thought I'd share with you this morning!

First up is Scrapbook Challenges sketch from Monday and some older photos from my childhood, these are slides that I have scanned and then tweaked on iPhoto and printed. There aren't that many of me as a younger child as we didn't take that many photos back in the day of 35mm film...

This paper collection is aptly named Nostalgia as it really worked well with these old photos...

I still need to journal on these layouts but I will need to talk to my parents and see if they remember where these photos were taken and the approximate year etc.

Not sure if you can make out what we are eating in this photo, but we were camping with my Dad and he figured that a cold can of pork and beans was good enough for dinner with some bread and butter!

I'm loving my Silhouette machine and these cut arrows, so cute!

Here's the single and double sketch from Scrapbook Challenges

Now moving onto today's Let's Scrap sketch I wasn't quite finished with the 'Nostalgia' papers and stickers yet and this was literally a ten minute layout, easy peasy....I just used the RHS of the sketch as it worked with my photos :)

Now the great thing about getting paper packs is that they usually include a sticker sheet and a die cut sheet, so when you are working with these paper packs, your layouts can always come together nice and quick...

I simply raised my 'memory' die cut with 3D foam tape for added dimension and found some pre-made tags from another paper collection (Pink Paislee's new 'Portfolio') and that was that! Still need to journal on this one too...gonna need to bring these over to my parents house and have a coffee and some conversation!

the pink scalloped strip was from the border sticker sheet that came with theses papers, did I say this one was fast and easy?!

This is today's sketch from Let's Scrap...

Thanks so much for stopping in today and I hope you have a chance to play along with these great sketches!

Hexagons rock!

Good Morning!

I wanted to share with you todays card sketch from Let's Scrap...except when I saw it I knew I had just the paper and it had to be a layout!

Here's the sketch:

and this is what I did!

This paper by My Mind's Eye is fantastic, great colours, great papers and great accessories!

The chipboard sheet and button package that coordinates makes really short work of putting a cute layouts together quickly! Especially when you have a great sketch! and some twine!!!

I hope you have a great Wednesday and thanks for stopping by today!!!

Here to Cheer!

Hi there!

So glad to stopped in today because I've got a fun sketch from Scrapbook Challenges that'll have you playing with paper layers on a single page or even a double page for those of you that don't stray from your doubles :)

I've used some My Mind's Eye papers and coordinating chipboard embellishments

...these natural wooden buttons from Close To My Heart are great and go really nicely with our Kraft card stock!

If you love double pagers, here's the sketch:

Enjoy and have a great week!

Finishing things up...

I've used the last couple days to put some finishing touches on some of the layouts I've been working on from my '20 Layouts Class' that Jennifer Edwardson taught back on May 5th as one of the satellite fundraisiing events for BC Scrapbooking Crops for Kids.

I'm happy to say that I've almost finished all of them! So seeing as I've taken Jennifer's power layout classes three times...I've created a total of 65 layouts with the help of Jennifers great classes!

Here's a couple that are ready for the album...

Simple Stories paper line, if you weren't aware, is an awesome newer paper company and if you are lucky enough to get your hands on it...make sure that you grab a handful of papers and for sure grab their sticker sheet. The sticker sheet usually contains alphabet stickers, like I've used in the title, and lots of fun images. One cloud was on the sheet along with the umbrella, I've put them on some card stock and then cut them out so I could pop them up with 3D foam tape for some extra dimension.

The Washi tape that I have been collecting forever was put to good use here under my pom-pom ribbon and  I needed to outline my title 'games' with my CTMH fineliner to make it stand out a little..I love these sticker sheets :)

This 'Follow Your Heart' line from My Mind's Eye was a must have even if I haven't really gotten into it before this layout. I always LOVE buying these papers with all the detail already on them, however, they are sometimes difficult to use...mostly because you often don't want to cover up the details...

here I decided to use my exacto knife and then tucked the paper underneath and added some fantastic canvas flowers, inked and layered with some of their decorative brads...love that their embellishments are so gorgeous and versatile :)

I love my niece...she's adorable, I had fun playing with all these papers, Studio Calico, My Mind's Eye, Jillibean Soup...some of my favourites all on one page :)

Although the colour isn't so great in this photo...I am loving this mint'y coloured American Crafts foam thickers...one of my new favs :)

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your Sunday :)