Disney on Parade - The Memory Nest sketch challenge

I stumbled upon The Memory Nest this morning and found a sketch that I instantly fell in love with and was inspired by! Here's the sketch:



and here's what I was inspired to do:







I'm FINALLY getting these parade pics scrapped from our Disney trip in 2009. The sketch at The Memory Nest immediately inspired me to scrap these pics. I knew I wanted all of them on a page but wanted a nice way to showcase them without it looking too cluttered. So that's why I kept the embellishments to a minimum and stayed away from PP on this layout.

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Mr & Mrs - Stuck?! sketch challenge

I started scrapbooking 6 years ago when I started making a wedding album for our 5 year anniversary that year. I had never before done a scrapbook like this, only collecting souvenirs from trips and pasting them down on some paper before. So I bought a couple paper packs and went to town and made a wedding album. Then my grandmother started sending me some of her picture albums and this picture was in it. A picture I had NEVER seen before nor knew existed. I love the candidness of it, a snapshot of us getting out of the truck at the reception. And it shows how things looked, and us just being casual, and I love that! I STILL have those paper packs that I started with 6 years ago, and when I found a color challenge over at A Cherry on Top, combined with this sketch from Stuck?!, I knew it would be a perfect picture to use!

Here's the sketch from Stuck?!



and here's the layout I created, using items from that original paper pack so it still coordinates with my wedding album (though the style definitely is different than the rest of the layouts!)





I had a bit of a mishap with the Heidi Swap misting inks, but in the end the result is acceptable, tho I do need to learn a bit more about using them! lol.

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Best Friends - Let's Get Sketchy

This is a layout I created using last week's sketch from Let's Get Sketchy. I used it to create a layout based on a challenge over at A Cherry on Top - to use colors from the Olympic Rings - either black/red/blue or yellow/green, and to use gold/silver/bronze as accents. These are my daughter's besties from her old daycare pre-k class on her last day of pre-k before we moved across the state. I knew I had to snap a picture, she and the little boy have been inseparable since she was 6 months old! (Removed faces of children for privacy.)







And here's the sketch from Let's Get Sketchy:



I used papers from Colorbok primarily with some Simple Stories and a touch of MME mixed in the banners. And the silver "Friends" piece has been in my stash for well over 4 years. This was a perfect page and challenge for it!

Happy Girls are the Prettiest - Let's Get Sketchy Feb week 2

Happy girls are the prettiest. I love this quote! And it was the perfect piece to go along with some new pics I got of my Olivia at her first pageant last month. I did this layout for a sketch challenge over at Let's Get Sketchy, while also combining it with a couple challenges over at A Cherry On Top (single photo of a single person, and a challenge to use hearts in the title work).

Here's the layout I created:







And here's the sketch from Let's Get Sketchy:



I rotated the sketch and used the papers to stand in for some of the layering in the sketch, and used some washi in place of doilies (which I've never used). I just got a new stash of goodies from ACOT AND some new pics, so I was more than happy to scrap this morning! I used a mixture of new products from Echo Park (background ombre paper), Glitz (pink quatrefoil I got in a pack from HL last month), Chickaniddy (brad with flowers, enamel hearts, 3x4 cutaparts 2 tags), and Doodlebug (pink diagonal washi) along with some new sequins I bought, my first sequins purchase. With these papers, it wasn't hard to highlight this beautiful girl who lights up my life!

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Through the Years - Use Your Stuff challenge

My husband and I have been together 15 years, and in May we will celebrate 11 years of being married. We have been through a lot together over the years. In an album of pics my grandmother sent me, she had these two pics next to each other and I just loved how they were there together. SO I was inspired to scrap them, and I kept thinking "Through the years." Then I remembered the song by Kenny Rogers "Through the years" and well, the lyrics sum up a lot of what we've been through! So what a better song to be inspired by than this! This is my submission for the February challenge over at Use Your Stuff, which is to use a song as inspiration.

Here's the layout:





I'm also combining this with 2 challenges over at A Cherry on Top. The first is a music challenge, which is to use a love song as inspiration. The second is a 3 in a Row challenge, to pick 3 items in a row horizontally, diagonally, or vertically and use them on a layout. The line I chose is: flowers, stamping (words stamps) and pearls. And I used a sketch for this layout for a challenge over at www.scrapbooksteals.com

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I've been published!

Hello everyone, welcome to February! Hopefully Spring is right around the corner and we can start to thaw out and enjoy the nice temperatures outside!

With February comes a new online magazine release from the team at Let's Get Sketchy. I entered their cover girl search contest, and while I wasn't selected to appear on their cover, I AM featured within the magazine! Check out page 15 to see my layout. Although the title isn't correct, it doesn't really matter - I am just so excited that I have been published!!!

LGS February Issue

This layout is the one that is featured.