Sketch Reveal Today!

Hello my creative friends...I hope September has been kind to you!

I've got another fun sketch this week from Let's Scrap Sketches :) 

I wanted to play with some left over bits from my Cherry Lane Page Club kit. I've already finished a couple layouts with these papers but I'm working towards using it all up...one kit at a time! Baby steps, right?!!!

Lots of possibilities here...and lots of photos...

Pretty fun paper from Carta Bella called Beach Day and some photos from my recent trip to Australia with my son and the Travel Club at his High School.

The polaroids were perforated on a 12x12 sheet from Jillibean Soup...perfect size.

I love, love, love the 3x4 and 4x6 cut apart journal sheets...a MUST have when picking up papers for this girlie! 'Good Times and Tan Lines' was a 3x4 card I cut down to fit.

I can use up all the left over bits with some of my pocket pages and get all the photos I want for this event, in the books!

Head on over to the Let's Scrap blog to see what the other DT lovelies have created this week.

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Products Used:

Carta Bella Beach Day paper
Carta Bella Beach Day Chipboard Accents
Simple Stories 'Carpe Diem' stickers
AC alphabet

a little Spritz crazy ;)

I had fun with this Sketch 304 from Scrapbook Challenges this week! I used some photos from Marissa's 16th Birthday day out shopping...we went into Cloverdale to find some cowboy boots and of course we found some other goodies as well...

She used some of her Birthday money to buy this hat...because you know, she just had to have it!!!

I loved working with these papers from Crate Paper's 'Pretty Party & Portrait' collections...I went a little crazy with my spritzers...I wanted to distress it a bit with ink, I think I did ;)

The calendar was cut from a full sheet of patterned paper and the embellies are popped out of a die cut sheet that was available with the 'Pretty Party' paper collection.

Thanks for taking time out of your day to visit me here, I hope you can find something to scrap with this sketch...I've added the double paged sketch below too...enjoy!!!

I think I might even get busy with this double page sketch too!

Let's Scrap with this new sketch!!!

Good Morning and I'm so glad you're taking a minute today to check out this fantastic sketch from Let's Scrap...as I'm now into my Design Team term by a couple weeks...I've been enjoying every minute of it and I'm having a grand time meeting some new lovely ladies in the process as well!

Here's this weeks sketch, I really hope you take some time this week to play with it :)

and this is what I did:

My Dad taking a ride down the mini-Zipline when we were 

in the Maya Riviera in December!

I've pulled out my older Kraft border strips from Close To My Heart, so simple, just peel the backing off and stick'er down!

All of the sticker embellishments are the cardstock stickers that coordinate with this Pemberley paper line from Close To My Heart. The wooden starburst piece is also from CTMH and it can be found in the Wooden Garden Shapes pkg., I carefully cut this flower in half with my scissors and inked it in Honey ink.

You can see slightly that I've also sanded the edges of my photos to have them stand off the page a little, almost gives them the look like they are finely matted.

Thanks for stopping by, and good luck creating with this week's sketch!

Happy St.Patrick's Day!!!

I know I should be posting something 'green' today, but I did post three cards and a layout in festive St. Patty's Day colours yesterday and now I'm all green'd out!

So I'm moving onto one of my favorite things...my niece!

As I'm sure you've gathered if you follow any of my posts, I am spending a lot of time creating layouts using photos from our Christmas/New Year's holiday to Mexico...

I have a habit of taking oodles of photos of any kinda event because, you know, it's digital!!! and of course the progression of my nieces hair braiding is no exception :)

In the creation of this layout, featuring a wonderful sketch from Let's Scrap, I was rummaging through my never-ending STASH for some pink papers. I actually do not have a ton of 'pinks' because my girls are no longer 'pink lovers' and I find that I scrap them in some of their favorite colours...anyways, I'm getting off topic :) I stumbled across 4 or 5 sheets of this Crate Paper 'Pink Plum' collection and luckily I also found the coordinating chipboard sheets I bought a very long time ago! 

I have to say if I was to instill any scrapbooking wisdom your way...when you purchase papers of a certain line, make sure you also get at least one coordinating embellishment...whether it is a  package of decorative brads or a sheet of chipboard bits, because when you do, it sure does make for a FAST layout...you don't need to labour over what matches what because the manufacturers have already done that for you!

I took a 4X6" piece of coordinating patterned paper and after typing up a quick journalling bit, ran it through my printer and I was done! Super fast, simple design using TEN photos! Take some time this week to do this sketch too!

Easy Peasy, lemon squeezy!!!

Well with the start of Baseball season in my household, comes the effort to try to get some of the past Baseball events scrapped! I've created three layouts already this month and have another one today...I've used the RHS of a Let's Scrap sketch and some left over bits from the papers I've been trying to use up! Seeing as I am trying to use up these papers, I've been working to get my son's 2009 baseball year scrapped with all of the same papers...and I am going to literally use up every last scrap!

Easy Peasy, lemon squeezy!!! That's what I say about this one...using bits and pieces from this left over paper...and an old alphabet that didn't have enough letters to spell 'Champions' like I had originally planned so I can up with NO.1 instead...but that was a problem too because I didn't have anymore N's...so I just flipped a U over to make a lowercase looking N instead :)

Now if you look carefully, you'll see a super cool effect going on in these letters, but as you'll see from the photo below, they didn't start out that way...by means of an accident, I tried inking the glossy red letters with my CTMH black ink and then quickly figured out that the ink was going to just rub off! So I wiped it off with my finger because that was close and after a minute discovered that my ink has somehow seeped through some hair thin cracks I guess in these letters...so, taking that look and continuing to rub ink into these letters gave me this really cool crackled effect! Just going to show you that there are no mistakes in scrapbooking just undiscovered coolness!!!

Thanks for stopping in today and Happy Scrappin' !!!