Summer Vibes - Sketch N Scrap's May Challenge #1

Hello, hello! Happy Thursday to you! I hope that you are having a good day. 

 If you haven't heard - Sketch N Scrap is turning 12 this month and we are celebrating all month long. Every Tuesday and Thursday of the month, the design team will be providing a challenge for you to try over in our private Facebook group, and today is the first one! I was tasked with the first challenge. My challenge to you is to use the following sketch to create your layout - AND - you must add at least one heart to your layout. Here is the sketch that I chose:

This sketch is from May 2018 and it is one of my favorites! Here is my layout:

For this layout, I have used photos of Miss Ada when they went to Florida a couple of years ago and my Lisa & Lori's Great Stash Bash kit for May. The colors in my kit were a good match to the colors in Ada's swimsuit. I didn't have any beachy-themed items in my kit, but I didn't worry about that and I just used what I did have in my kit that would work. These pictures will be documented elsewhere and I can use all the beach things then.

Here are a couple of close-ups:

I am so glad that our focus item this month for Lisa & Lori's Great Stash Bash was flowers, and I am so glad that I found these paper flowers from Close To My Heart in my stash. I probably would have never thought to use flowers on this layout otherwise. I thought the yellow flowers were giving out a sunshine vibe.

My challenge was to use at least one heart on your layout and I added a few stamped hearts around my layout. The heart stamp is from the Simple Stories Life Captured stamp set. It's always scary to stamp directly on your layout, and I did have a little oopsie, but I just added a couple more flowers to cover it up!

For part of my title, I used the alpha stickers that I had in my kit. I wanted to use different font styles for the two words so I dug in my stash and found the perfect smaller black alphas. It always feels good to show some of those older supplies some love.

Head on over to the Sketch N Scrap Monthly Challenges group on Facebook to check out all of the fun that is going on this month.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! Have a great day!

Sketch N Scrap November Pop-up Challenge #1

Hello, everyone! Happy Saturday to you! I hope that your weekend is off to a good start!

Today I am hosting a Pop-up Challenge over in the Sketch N Scrap Monthly Challenges Facebook group and I would love it if you played along! All you have to do is use the sketch that I have chosen and create a layout based on it. Here is the sketch from Sketch N Scrap from November 15, 2017 :

And this is what I came up with:

I had two smaller photos that I wanted to use so I printed them at 2x2 and added them in place of the one smaller photo that is shown on the sketch. I added a cluster on the other side of the large photo. I kinda feel like this is a little left-side heavy...I may see if I can move the cluster and the photos to the right just a bit. 

This layout is of my daughter and son-in-law's birthday party from this year. Their birthdays are only 11 days apart and we tend to celebrate them at the same time. This year we ordered their favorite pizzas from Mazzio's, had their favorite chocolate mayonnaise cake, and then after that, we went out and everyone tried their hand at hitting golf balls down in the field.

Here are a couple of close-ups:

I die-cut the numbers 3 and 1 from one of the patterned papers and then again from white cardstock three times to make them have a faux chipboard look. I added a few a few puffy dots around the layout to finish it off.

I made a cluster using the die-cuts from the Happy Cake Day collection and cutting the 'make a wish' embellishment from the 2x2 squares from one of the papers. The die-cuts had a thick white border around them so I trimmed them down so there was not so much showing. I stamped a label in green to pull that color down to the bottom of the layout. This is a mega cluster but I kinda like it!

For this layout, I used this page kit that I put together for my Lisa & Lori's Great Stash Bash Kit for November:

I am offering up a prize over in the Sketch N Scrap Monthly Challenges Facebook group - PinkFresh Studio's - The Best Day - paper pack, stickers, and enamel dots:

I hope you get a chance to play along with my challenge!

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! I hope you have a fantastic day!