Sketches In Thyme #373

Hello, hello! Happy Friday to you! I hope you have had a good week and are ready for the weekend. We have had so much going on the last couple of weeks and I hope we can have a nice quiet weekend at home!

Today is my day to be featured over on the Sketches In Thyme blog with my take on this week's sketch. Sketch #373 is courtesy of Brenshevia and I can see myself using it again.

Here's the sketch:

I finally dug into my new Cocoa Vanilla Studio - Happiness - collection. I feel in love with this collection the first time I saw it and had to get it. It was so hard to cut into that pretty paper but I am so glad that I did! The colors in the paper are perfect for this photo of me and Ada from last November.

It's been a while since I used twine on a layout and when I saw the bow element on the sketch I pulled out some navy twine and added it to my layout.

Here's a close-up of the embellishments:

Head on over to Sketches In Thyme for more inspiration every single day of the week! I would love to see what you create with the sketch!

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

Let's Get Sketchy May Sketch & Mood Board

Hello again! I am back with my second post of the day. If you are looking for my Counterfeit Kit Challenge Kit reveal and blog hop, please scroll on down. 

It's time for a new sketch at Let's Get Sketchy! Not only do we have a fabulous new sketch, but we also have a mood board for you to work with:

Aren't those colors pretty?! I love them! I focused on the right-hand row of colors for my layout:

I have used my May Counterfeit Kit (you can read all about it here) for this layout. The colors were a great match to the colors in the mood board. Everything is from my kit with the exception of the "XOXO" stickers - which are from last month's kit.

I used a lot of the scrap pieces of paper that I included in my kit for the layers behind the photo. It always feels good to use that last scrap of a paper!

I stamped several flowers, a heart, and some labels for my embellishments. I stamped them all in yellow since Miss Ada is holding a daffodil.

I will add my little bit of journaling to the above label (and straighten it!) when I figure what I want to say in that amount of space.

I also added some Stampin' Up candy dots in yellow around my layout.

This is such a fun sketch to work with - I hope you give it a try, too!

Head on over to Let's Get Sketchy to see the beautiful layouts from the rest of the design team.

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

Scrapbook Challenges Sketch #484

Hello everyone! I hope that you had a good weekend! We finally had some sunshine and warm temperatures, so it's finally starting to feel like summer break. 

We have a new sketch up today over at Scrapbook Challenges. This is a great sketch for one bigger sized photo, or do like I did and use 2 smaller photos. 

I have the hardest time photographing layouts with a white background! No matter how good (or bad) the lighting is, it always seems to look washed out...one of these days I will learn how to take a better photo, or use a different color background! 

I've had these photos of Ada and Matthew out on my desk for a while now, and I am so glad that I finally got them scrapped. These are from when we went to the pool last summer. #1 Ada thought it was pretty cool that Matthew hung out with us in the kiddie pool for a while, but when he started catching water in his hands and then throwing it on her, well, she just that was the greatest. Everything he does just amazes her!

For this layout I used some more scraps from Echo Park's Splash collection, and the little bits of pink are from Doodlebug - I do believe it is some of their first collections! I found a bunch more of it in my stash this weekend and decided to use on it while I can!

Stop by Scrapbook Challenges to see the beautiful layouts from the rest of the design team. I hope you can find some time to play along with us!

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