another sketch from Scrapbook Challenges...

Hello and welcome to my scrappy space! I've got another sketch from Scrapbook Challenges here for you today. Remember that every Monday we release another great sketch and this week you are in for a treat as we've got a double-page sketch! 

I had some photos that were screaming my name yesterday...photos from a recent baseball tournament down in Tacoma Washington. 

My son is a true baseball fan and player and he loves to steal...whenever he can...but unfortunately for the other team he is FAST! So it's not very often that he gets caught out on a steal or on his lead-offs from the bag...

One of the things I LOVE about Close o My Heart's cardstock is that it's white core...so when I want to sand it or distress it I can see this awesome contrast!

Now if you've been with me for long you would know that I love all manufacturers of Scrappy stuff...I've been getting the Studio Calico Project Life kits for quite a few months now and in one of my recent kits I got these awesome cork adhesive asterisks! Aren't they fantastic?!!

You can also see in the photo above that I have sanded the edges of the photos, which makes them stand out against the black CS base nicely and adds a little roughness to them for this baseball layout ;)

Love mixing up my title with various alpha fonts and stickers...adds a great connection of colours to this page and it's a great way to add some interest too! My arrows are an assortment from CTMH, Studio Calico and Freckled Fawn...like I said, I love to mix it up!

Here's the sketch:

Thanks so much for stoppin' by today!

Sizzlin' Summer Sketch #6

Oh Yeah! I'm back...missed a couple sketches...did you notice? I hope you clicked on over to Scrapbook Challenges and got a look at them even though I've missed them here! 

Gah, my weekend and week are just speeding by and as life tends to interrupt our creative intentions...such was the case for me!!!

I seem to be doing some really late night scrappin' but at least I'm getting a chance to play along with all these fun sketches...this one started with an idea in my head around the sketch and then kinda went a little North East from there!!! LOL

Isn't she cute?!!! It's pretty much just me in this household that thinks so...she is when she's taking one of her many daily naps...when she's awake she's not quite as cute and friendly...her teeny tiny size, a whopping 2.5 lbs, means she is quite nervous around short people (AKA. kids!) and so she tends to growl and snap at them! Ooops!

Ok so do you totally love these papers? This is the new Babycakes collection from Close To My Heart and the Babycakes Asst. which are these lovely canvas adhesive backed embellishments! So fun! The tiny type I've used for 'Lucy' is included in our My Crush Besties Asst. pack...a great little package of goodies that you can use with our new My Crush albums for fast/on the go scrapbooking...or to incorporate into your layouts, mini-albums or Project Life pages!

It just so happened that there was a great title already on my Babycakes Asst. sheet...which happened to fit in with this photo of Lucy having her nap :)

These great arrows were cut using the Sizzix 'Note to Self' Thinlits which coordinate with the Echo Park paper 'Note to Self'...it was super fast running these arrows through my Big Shot.

Here's the sketch!

 

Thanks for stoppin' in today! I hope you have some fun with these sketches...stay tuned for tomorrow sketch#7 and perhaps I'll even have a chance to get caught up with the last couple I missed! Fingers crossed ;)

Double-pager anyone?

Happy Monday! 

It's a double-pager here from Scrapbook Challenges! We don't always have double page sketches so this one's a treat...and the design is both simple and super versatile!

Got scraps??!!! well pull them out and get busy! You don't even need to cut your photos...slap it all down and move onto the next project :)

Here's mine:

As you can see, the photos I've used of my daughter's recent trip to Thailand didn't work exactly as the sketch was laid out but it still all flows well enough...

I have so many great small stamps with arrows that I wanted to use them here. My main reason was I wanted to add more black to the layout...the black strips in the tiger's coat needed more black to be added to this page...instead of using paper, I've added it with my stamps and ink.

The title 'explore' was cut from my Cricut using our new CTMH Artbooking cartridge! There are so many fantastic images in this little cartridge that you are going to be seeing plenty more creations with it in weeks to come ;)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

2 photos...1 sketch

Happy Monday! Ha you say...well with it being Exam week here for my High School kids, it has been a rather laid back day :)

Every Monday we release a new sketch from Scrapbook Challenges and of course I have created a couple layouts with today's sketch to share as well!

If you didn't already know that I have a great love of Kraft paper! I DO! but now with the pending release of our newest Close To My Heart catalog (February 1st) we also have LOADS OF NEW PRODUCTS!!!! One of which I've used here...Kraft tiny type alphabet stickers!!! What an awesome product!

Hopefully you'll also notice these adorable tiny type epoxy letters and numbers (I've created the date with the numbers) also available in our newest Spring/Summer 2103 catalog...let me know if you need your own copy!

I had so much fun with this sketch I decided to create another with the same papers and slightly different embellies...These layouts will go into different albums so I'm not the least bit concerned that they are the same looking :)

I really enjoyed working with all my assorted tiny type alphabet stickers, a definite staple for scrapbooking!

Now in case you only do double-pagers...you know who you are!!!...here's our double sketch design...I hope you get crafty this week, even if only for a short time...cause this sketch is super simple and everyone has two photos that they want to scrap! Thanks for stopping in today!

Spring BREAK adventure

Good morning!

I am almost seeing the light at the end of the tunnel at Casa Ponte...the deck renovations are pretty much complete, Halloween party-done, Olivia's weekend return from UNBC and family dinner-done...now it's time to put things back and tidy up the house after the weeks and weeks of different contractors have been in and out of the house!

In addition to that, it's time to get back to some preserving of memories and recording them here on my Blog!

I am never short of sketches with the two Design Teams that I am on and this week at Let's Scrap we are featuring a sketch by the wonderfully talented Enikö DeLisle! Please take a moment in your BlogHopping to look at her wonderful blog! Enikö always has helpful tutorials and tips and shows you the process she takes with creating her beautiful artwork...something you don't always see here!

As you know I love the small details, in life and in scrapbooking! this little zipper pull seemed like a frivolous purchase, most of my scrapbooking purchases really are! but I just HAD to get them...wasn't sure what on earth I'd actually do with them but Prima's new collection called 'Junkyard Findings' are just awesome!

I was so surprised to see that Bazzill Basics had a patterned paper line! It has a great texture of course and a lot of the papers in this collection were pre-printed like you see below...I've just added the pink pieces across the layout!

Now some of you might say, 'Who needs another cutting machine?' and I said to myself that I certainly don't! BUT I've been eyeing the 'Cut It Up' class over at Studio Calico and I have also been admiring the cut title and embellie work throughout the Web and over at Lets Scrap...so I thought...'What the Heck!' right!?? because for those that know me, know that I LOVE to make my own embellies from papers/fabric/felt that coordinate with my layouts and as much as I get sucked into really cool embellies like those Prima zipper pulls...I love the feeling of creating an embellishment instead of paying for one!

After signing up for the class at Studio Calico AND ordering the Silhouette Machine from them as well...I have to say that I am 200% happy with my decision! The fact that I can design my own titles, with the fonts I already have on my computer, download designs instantly to use right away! SOLD...if you didn't already know, I'm an extremely Impatient person and if I want something, I wanted it yesterday!!! Finding the right colours for my title was as easy as looking through my cardstock! and so much cheaper!!!

I love this photo of my hubby giving my eldest daughter a hug (kinda fake, like he's worried, which he wasn't I might add) before we took her to the airport on her first ever trip without her family! Her French Immersion class went to Quebec, Canada in her Grade 8 year of Middle School, super fun for her, super scary for Mom having her fly without me at 13 years old! Don't you just love those arrows! I cut those out !!!

I couldn't completely break from my alphabets so I just cut the 'Spring' out from a handwriting font on my computer...took all of two minutes to type it, size it and cut it!!! LOVE my new Silhouette!!!

Here's this weeks sketch before I forget!

Have a great day and I hope you have a chance to play along this week!