Sketch N Scrap Birthday Challenge #4 - Delightful Mini Donuts

Hello, everyone! Happy Saturday to you all! I hope you are having a good weekend. We had all the kids over last night for a Mother's Day BBQ since Matthew has to work Sunday and we had such a good time. I always enjoy when we all can be together. 

Today I am sharing the layout that I created for Sketch N Scrap's Birthday Challenge #4 over in the Monthly Challenges Facebook group. If you haven't joined in the fun - then what are you waiting for?! Four challenges have already been posted and we have four more to go.

I chose the sketch and challenge for today and it is to use the following sketch (#101) and add a least one tag:

Here is what I came up with:

I stuck to the sketch only switching my journaling to one of the tags instead of adding it to the bottom of the layout. I used my Lisa & Lori's Great Stash Bash May kit for this layout. All of the papers - except the donut paper and black cardstock - were in my kit. For embellishments, I fussy cut some of the donuts out of the paper and I had a few red puffy hearts from Bella Blvd that I added around my layout. All of the patterns on this layout makes it a little busy so I kept my embellishing to a minimum. 

Here are a few close-ups:

I love this photo of Shawn kissing Ada on the head. I had picked up the Bella Blvd Word Salad sticker book a while back and some of the phrases were perfect for this layout - like the one above says 'making memories' - the one on the second photo where Ada is sprinkling on the cinnamon/sugar mixture says 'spread the love' - and the last photo of the donuts has two word stickers, one says 'gimme sugar' and the other one says 'delish'. I thought they were all quite fitting!

Here's a photo of the tag with the journaling on it - tucked behind the photos:

I hope you have a chance to play along with us this month.We have a lot of great prizes up for grabs!

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

Sketch N Scrap #122 - Daddy & Ada

Hello scrappy friends! Welcome to my blog! I am so happy that you are here! It's the first of the month and that means I have a few projects to share with you today, so let's get started.

We have the first sketch of the month posted at Sketch N Scrap today. Lisa has created a fun sketch for us, and I already have plans to use it again!

I have used Bella Blvd's Valentina collection for this layout. All of the papers are so cute and I had a hard time cutting into them - I just want to hoard them a little longer! - but the urge to use them won over and I love the results! The "adorable" envelope was fussy cut from one of the papers - I thought it was a cute embellishment to add to the layout! The enamel hearts are from Target's $1 spot. I was lucky enough to pick up a couple of packages of these cute hearts.

These photos are of Ada and her Daddy when she was almost 7 months old. They were sitting on the couch spending some quality time together, and Ada was just looking too cute!

Head on over to Sketch N Scrap to see the beautiful layouts from the rest of the design team. You'll have until the end of the month to play along with us!

Don't forget - we are getting ready for our "Love Is In The Air" Facebook Online Crop. Be sure to stop by our Facebook Events page and check it out. While you're there, go ahead and join us!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I will be back soon with another project to share with you!