Scrap Our Stash - July Blend a Sketch Challenge

Hello, everyone! Happy Friday to you!

Today is my day to share my take on the Scrap Our Stash July Blend - A - Sketch challenge. Along with blending the two sketches, you are to add some sequins to your layout. Here's a look at the sketches:

Here is what I came up with. I used the overall layout of the second sketch and from the first sketch, I took inspiration from the big banner journaling box and the placement of it.

This is a layout of my daughter and son-in-law's house and yard. She told me that they'd had a little bit of excitement. They had gone to the store and when they returned, there was a note under Ada's soccer ball by their front door. It said that their yard had been chosen for "Yard of the Month" for July! The garden club came and took pictures of it and did a little interview for a story for the paper and for their Facebook page. They made sure to include what a good helper that Ada is with watering the flowers!

Abby and Shawn were so excited and so were we when they told us!

I made sure to add my sequins into my embellishment clusters. Here are a couple of close-ups:

All papers and embellishments are from the latest Simple Stories - I Am collection.

Be sure to stop by Scrap Our Stash for more design team inspiration. I would love to see your take on this fun challenge!

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

LM #401 - Paper Stash

Hello, everyone! Happy Sunday to you! I hope you are having a good weekend. It's been a nice relaxing weekend for us - those are always nice!

We have a new challenge up today at Lasting Memories. I can't believe it is already the last challenge of the month - June is going by so fast! Our theme this month is "Stash Busting" and today our challenge is to use at least 5 different patterned papers on our layout.

I just love these photos of Miss Ada from this spring. She just looks so darn cute and she's getting so big!

For this layout, I used Fancy Pants' - Millie and June - collection. I did manage to use 5 different patterned papers - 4 of them are easy to see - the other paper was the cut apart sheet and I used bits of it for the pink circles and the gold and white heart paper for my date tab.

I also used this month's Blend - A - Sketch at Scrap Our Stash. 

You are to take inspiration from both of the sketches to create your layout. I took quite a bit of inspiration from both. From the left sketch, I used the big paper panel at the bottom of the page and from the right sketch, I used the two photos, the page split in half and the title and embellishment placement.

You also needed to add star embellishments and/or star patterned paper, so I punched out some gold metallic stars (to match the gold metallic hearts in this collection) and scattered them around like I would have enamel dots or sequins.

Since the gold metallic is hard to see in the photo, here are a couple of close-ups:

Be sure to stop by Lasting Memories to see the layouts from the rest of the design team using 5 or more patterned papers. We would love it if you played along with us!

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