Just add Water (Topaz #3)

I love guest sketcher week at ScrapbookSteals! It's always so exciting to find out who the next guest will be and see what their sketch looks like! And having become pretty good friends with most of the girls makes it that much more fun!

Here's the sketch Kristina came up with for Topaz #3:

I immediately found these pictures from one of our visits to the pool this summer and wanted to use them! What better papers than Echo Park's Splash collection! I finished the left hand page, and decided I wanted to make it a two page layout, so I made some slight changes and added the right side page. It feels a little flat and I wish I could think of a way to add more dimension. I love the colors though and am happy with it!

we love Swoop! (MWM 52)

I can't believe it's been a year of ScrapbookSteals' Midweek Mojo! I've completed all 52 layouts (and then some)! I love that they started this weekly sketch challenge, and am so happy about the amount of finished pages I have becuase of the inspiration!

This sketch was done by Erin Colby! Her layout was so so cute!

Here's my take on it! I used a mix of Echo Park Country Drive, Echo Park Playground, & Echo Park For the Record! And I found those Thickers with "stitching" around the edges of them a couple months ago and am in love with them! So much fun!

celebrating our independence (MWM 49)

Here is yet another awesome Kristy Lee sketch. I love small pictures! I can't believe I used to be afraid to cut my pictures! Sometimes it just needs to be done! lol

We had such a fun 4th of July this year - it made doing this layout that much more fun! I mixed some Echo Park Metro Dots & Stripes with Piggy Tales Yankee Doodle papers, and love how well the worked together! I think I've used bakers twine on nearly every layout since I first got it - and I love it every time!

Take time to smell the flowers

A friend posted this sketch on her blog - and I decided to do it! You can check out Carrie's blog here: http://carrieoncrafts.com/

Such a cute sketch! I used a mix of Echo Park Little Girl & My Mind's Eye Fine & Dandy/Tickled Pink. Those two are definitely my favorite paper manufacturers! I have a hard time resiting any of their stuff!

Another day in Paradise - MWM 50

Here is ScrapbookSteals' mid week mojo 50. Such a great sketch (as usual!)

I used some kraft cardstock, Echo Park Splash papers & stickers, along with some Thickers and pebbles chips! It isn't my favorite finished layout - but at least it's another page done!

Sweet Spring - Pencil Lines sketch 240

I was in a scrappy mood this weekend! I love this sketch from Pencil Lines, and decided to scrap this picture of June that is almost 2 years old!

I love Echo Park Springtime! The colors are so cheery, and matched so well with this picture! I used my Rock Princess cricut cartridge for the first time to make the butterfly - so glad I finally broke it out (although I think I over-iRock'd the butterfly a little bit... :))! This was a fun and quick sketch to follow!

Swing, batter batter batter... (MWM 43)

 Here is ScrapbookSteals' Midweek mojo sketch #42!

  

These pictures were taken at the Copper Hills Cal Ripkin baseball fund raiser last weekend - and they came out so well (loving my new camera!)! I could hardly wait to scrap them! I used Echo Park Little Boy papers and cut the bat, mit, and ball with my cricut, and I used Thickers for the title! This layout came together so quickly and with such little effort!

party animals (pencil lines sketch 231)

I am so glad I discovered pencil lines sketches a few weeks back! I really love some of the sketches they come up with! 

For this sketch, I took some pictures from last New Year's Eve that have been sitting in my "to scrap" pile for several months! I used my We R Memory Keepers Heart Attack distressing tool to distress my Echo Park Summertime papers, sprayed the yellow Thickers with "brick" colored glimmer mist, and added some pebbles chips!

birthday babe (midweek mojo 40)

I can't believe midweek mojo @ ScrapbookSteals.com has been going on for 40 weeks! I'm sad I can't play for the Saphire Club - but I still consider myself a member! Here is yet another great Kristy Lee sketch:

I had these nearly two year old pictured that were calling for me to scrap them - and they matched up perfectly with Echo Park's Springtime papers! I feel like it's a little plain, but don't want to over due the embellishments, either.

my booboo

This might just be my favorite layout I've ever done! I followed a sketch from Pencil Lines Sketches (just found them last week).

The papers are all from Echo Park's Be Mine collection. The pink flower ribbon across the middle of the page is Bo Bunny. The flowers are from Imaginisce. I used my iRock to add flourishes by the flowers, added rub-ons to the thickers, and I edited the photo, making June's car seat black and white (instead of it's real tan/blue colors), and left just her in color (totally stole the idea from a scrapbooking friend - Chloe).

I.LOVE.THIS.PAGE!

Funny Girl

I didn't follow a sketch for this layout, but had seen some pages that included a film strip element, and I was dying to try adding one to a page of my own! I had all these cute pictures of June, just being funny. I googled images for film strips, pulled one I liked into photoshop, added a bunch of the pictures into the film strip, and then had it printed out at Costco.  The great thing about Costco photo center is that they print 8x12 pictures for the same price as an 8x10, and I wanted the strip to go across the entire page - this way, it did!

I used plain black cardstock for the background, but sprayed it with Tattered Angels' Glimmer Mist to give it some sparkle! The blue patterned papers are from Echo Park's A Walk In The Park, and I used some plain blue cardstock. I added some rub-ons to the Thickers to give them a custom finish, and I used my iRock (from imaginisce) to add rhinestone trails to the butterflies.  I think they turned out really cute! I love this page! 

MWM 37

Midweek Mojo 37 brought another guest sketcher! Another Utah friend, Staci Jones, came up with this sketch:

My layout:

I used papers from two Echo Park collections - Sweet Summertime & A Walk In The Park! I really LOVE Echo Park! The title, journaling block, and ticket on the far left side are all also from EP AWITP.

MWM 27

The papers are from Echo Park's Be Mine collection. One of my favorites!

MWM 26

 The sketch:

My layout.

I used Echo Park's Be Mine papers & thickers for the title. I really like this layout! My love with Echo Park Paper continues!

MWM 25

What a fun sketch! I love two pagers...

 My layout:
This is the first time I've used Echo Park paper, and I.LOVE.IT! Everything they have put out is gorgeous.  I'm pretty sure they're my new favorite manufacturer!