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!

Ride, beautiful

So, I'm really not in love with the title on this page... but nothing was coming to me. I was in a crafty mood and this sketch layout sitting on my table. I don't remember where I got it, but I decided to use it! I've had these Three Bugs in a Rug papers for quite some time and had not touched a single one of the papers. I still think this feels like it is missing something, but for the life of me, I can't figure out any way to make it look better. I love the pictures and this memory!

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!

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Here is the mid week mojo 48 sketch! Another fabulous creation by Kristy Lee! Every layout I've seen done from this sketch is totally amazing! It speaks to what a great sketch it is!

I had just gotten the My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy/Tickled Pink collection from ScrapbookSteals, and couldn't wait to use it! This background paper normally really scares me, but it was perfect for this sketch! And it took so much work out of creating an amazing layout! I couldn't be more happy with how it turned out! This picture was taken the day of June's third birthday party (just a couple of days after her birthday). I love her smile! :)

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! 

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The sketch:

My layout:

The paper, rub-ons, buttons, and journaling block are all from Fancy Pants' Dancing Girl collection! I admired these papers for months before breaking down and buying them, and they were perfect for this sketch! It was very different from any layout I've completed before. It was really fun, and I like how it turned out!

MWM 32... Guest Sketcher: ME!

In early February, the fabulous Kristy Lee from ScrapbookSteals.com contacted me, asking if I would like to be a guest sketcher for them! I was SO excited. Honored. Nervous! All the guest sketchers before me had done such amazing work - not to mention Kristy's sketches every week! And then, I found out what papers I'd get to use for the sketch... Imaginisce's Enchanted collection! PERFECT for so many of my pictures of June! I was SO SO EXCITED! And, the timing couldn't have been better - this mid-week mojo came out the day before my birthday! :) It was so much fun!

Here is the sketch I came up with:

And here is the layout I created to go with my sketch, to showcase the awesome papers!:
All the die-cuts came with the collection, which made it so easy to complete this layout!

I made a few extra projects with this collection - because it is just so cute!
I made this card for my niece's birthday:

This was just another layout I made... because the theme seemed to fit!

And, I wanted to challenge myself to make a boy layout using this ultra girly paper collection:

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

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 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!

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the sketch:

my layout:

I cut the background shape on my circut, and used thickers for the title. The papers are by Close To My Heart!

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 Another week, another guest sketcher! This one was by the lovely, talented Chloe Salerno! And she actually did two sketches! I only completed one of them, though.

Sketch:

My Layout:

Papers are Close To My Heart

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the sketch:

 my layout: 

I love how this one turned out! It was also my first time leaving a page as a one page layout! I think I could get used to it!

Most of the papers are from Die Cuts With A View's Sweet Stack!

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Sketch:

Layout

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Sketch:

My layout:

These papers are from Die Cuts With A View's The Sweet Stack!

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Here's the sketch:

And my layout:

Papers by Close to my Heart

Midweek Mojo 1

Back at  it!  Here is my first scrapbook layout in about four years!

The sketch from ScrapbookSteals.com:

My layout:

The papers and embellishments are from My Mind's Eye! I don't remember which collection, though!