Sketch N Scrap's 6th Birthday Bash Sketch #1

Hello, scrappy friends! Happy Saturday to you! Are you ready for the weekend? It's looking like it's going to be nice and hot for us - we're talking 90's on Sunday. What?! It is only May...I don't mind, the pool is ready - although the water needs to warm up a bit more before I get in it!

We have the first exclusive Sixth Birthday Bash sketch for you today at Sketch N Scrap. Lisa has created a fabulous two-photo sketch for us and it could easily be turned into a double page spread!

I created a layout of Miss Ada and her big girl braids. She has never liked her hair messed with much - just the occasional ponytail in the summer - but she actually let Abby braid it and kept it in all day long! She looks so cute, but she also looks so big!

I plan on adding some journaling - basically what I just wrote - but I would like to do it in brown and I do not have a brown pen, so that will come later after I have had a chance to get one.

Head on over to Sketch N Scrap to see the beautiful layouts from the rest of the design team. We would love to see you playing along with us!

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

LM #394 - Hearts

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

It's time for a new challenge at Lasting Memories! Our theme for May is "Variety of Shapes" and this week we are wanting to see you use one or more hearts on your layout.

So, Ada had been seeing commercials (and watching Youtube videos) for Num-Noms Snackable Cereal and thought that she might "need" them. The next time we went to town we found them and I asked her if she would like to get one, to which she replied - yes! She knew all about how to do them (thanks to the Youtube videos) so we filled the little bowl with water and waited for the "special one" to dissolve out of the little fizzy ball. She thought they were really cute and had quite a bit of fun playing with them - at least for that day. They are currently still sitting on the edge of the bathroom sink where she left them and it is now three months later! Thank goodness she wasn't too taken with them - at $8.88 they were a little pricey!

For this layout, I used a sketch from Scrapbook Generations latest class - 6x6 Paper Pads 2 with Allison Davis. I love this ebook! It is a fantastic resource to have - 86 total sketches all using 6x6 papers - and I am so excited to work my way through each one!

Head on over to Lasting Memories to see the beautiful - heart filled - layouts from the rest of the design team. We would love to see you playing along with us!

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

CKC May Mini Kit Reveal

Hello, everyone! Happy Sunday to you! Did you enjoy National Scrapbooking Day yesterday? There were so many fun challenges posted, it was hard to keep up!

Today is the mini kit reveal over at Counterfeit Kit Challenge. Since I knew I had a lot going on this month, I signed up to make a mini kit. Here's a look at the inspiration kit Leslie has chosen for us this month from Mind The Scrap.

As Leslie pointed out in the "Just The Gist Of It" post - the top row of papers in the photo above are very rich in color, while the bottom row of papers is more playful.

I have gone more with the bottom row for my mini kit:

Here's a look at the papers I picked. When I saw the black and white stripe floral paper I immediately thought of the pink and white floral stripe paper from Shimelle's - Little By Little - collection which I have in my stash and barely used! All of these papers are from that collection with the exception of the black and white dot paper, which is from Illustrated Faith's - CHRISTmas collection.

I probably could have stuck with just the stripe, the green, and the black and white, but I went ahead and pulled the circle paper and the paper with all of the hearts on it in case I wanted to fussy cut from them.

For my embellishments, I pulled some of the die cuts and the 6x6 paper pad from the Little By Little collection, along with the big Shimelle sticker book - just in case! I had some Heidi Swapp gold glitter tiny alpha stickers and some gold phrases that I also pulled.

Here is my layout of Miss Ada when she first came home from the hospital:

Here are a couple of close-ups of the title area and the embellishment cluster:

I didn't end up using any of the circle or heart paper on my layout, or too many of my embellishments, so I am hopeful that I will be able to make a few cards for her first-year project life style album made with what is left.

Be sure to stop by Counterfeit Kit Challenge to see the mini kit that Susan has put together based off of the inspiration kit. We would love to see your kit - whether it's a full kit or a mini kit, so be sure to link up!

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

Sketch N Scrap Card Sketch #121

Hello, scrappy friends! Are you enjoying all of the fun on this National Scrapbooking Day? I sure am!

Sketch N Scrap's first card sketch of the month is posted today. Heather has created a fun sketch for us to work with. How will you interpret it?

I thought that since we are celebrating our 6th birthday at Sketch N Scrap this month that a birthday card was in order.

I knew when I saw the sketch that I would be using a plaid paper for my main panel, so I went in search of one in my stash and found this one from an older Simple Stories collection - Homespun - one of my most favorite collections!

The sentiment is from a Close To My Heart stamp set (B1537) - one of my favorite birthday stamps right now.

Head on over to Sketch N Scrap to see how the rest of the design team has interpreted this fun sketch. We would love to see your take on the sketch, so be sure to play along with us!

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

Sketch N Scrap 6th Birthday Bash Crop - Pre-Crop Challenge

Hello, hello! Happy Friday! Tomorrow is the day that we scrappers have been waiting - National Scrapbooking Day! There are so many challenges that have already been posted today and more to come tomorrow. Are you going to be playing along with any? I know I am going to try! I've already told my husband that I plan to stay in my scrap room and scrap all day - and he even offered to make supper tomorrow - can't beat that!

Not only is it National Scrapbooking Day tomorrow, but we are also kicking off Sketch N Scrap's 6th Birthday Bash over on our Facebook events page. In fact, we kicked off things a little early and posted a challenge for you today!

The challenge is to use the card sketch below and create a BIRTHDAY card using it - in honor of this being our birthday month, of course!

For my card, I have used We R Memory Keepers - Notables - 6x6 paper pad. The "1 year older" stamp is from Close To My Heart (S1803) and the "hip! hip! Hooray!" stamp is from Elle's Studio's "Happy Birthday" stamp set. Both were stamped using Close To My Heart's - outdoor denim - ink pad.

I was going for a more masculine card and I think I accomplished that. What do you think?

Be sure to check out our 6th Birthday Bash Crop over on our Facebook events page. We would love to have you join in the fun with us! You can find out all about it here.

Don't forget - we will have an exclusive "NSD" sketch posted on the Sketch N Scrap blog tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. CST. Stop by and check it out!

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

Thinking Of You - Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #262

Hi, guys! I am back with one more project today - my card for this week's sketch challenge at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge. Here is this week's sketch:

For my card, I have used Crate Paper's - Wonder - 6x6 paper pad. I just love this corally pink color! I made a set of lollipop flowers - which I think may be my favorite to make. They are just too cute! The sentiment is from a Hero Arts stamp set and it fits perfectly in the space.

This card came together really quickly once I got the little flowers made.

The full design team reveals will be up on the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge blog tomorrow, along with last week's Top 3, so be sure to stop back by and see the beautiful cards that have been created using this sketch.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!

Scribbles Designs Challenge #64 - Midway Post - Favoring the Feminine

Hello again! I am back with my 4th post of the day. If you are looking for my Sketch N Scrap reveal or my reveals for LTSCB and LTCCB, please scroll on down a bit.

It's time for the midway post at Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog. Our challenge this time around has been - Favoring on the Feminine - we want to see your "girly" projects.

When I think of feminine projects, the color pink and flowers come to mind, so that is what I went with for my card.

I used one of the free digital images from the store - #F23 - Flower 1. I repeated the image to get my row of flowers and then cut around the bottom edge to get a scalloped feel to it. The front panel was cut just a smidge shorter so that the strip of pink dot paper could show. I also printed the same image a little larger and fussy cut it for the focal point of my card. I colored the flowers with colored pencils and it's a little hard to tell in the photo, but the center of each of the flowers have a bit of Wink Of Stella added to them to get a bit of a sparkle.

Be sure to check out all of the beautiful girly projects from the rest of the design team over on the Scribbles Designs blog. We can't wait to see what you create!

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

LTCCB #22 - May Anything Goes

I am back with my third project of the day! If you are looking for my Sketch N Scrap reveal or my LTSCB reveal, please scroll on down.

Love To Craft Challenge Blog has a new "Anything Goes" challenge posted today. You can enter any type of craft project that you would like!

I have created a card for my project today:

I had these three papers from Maggie Holmes' - Gather - 6x6 paper pad on my desk and I thought they would work well together for my card. I also had picked up her big sticker book at Hobby Lobby right after Christmas and this butterfly was the perfect fit for my card. I stamped the "hello" sentiment from an older Bo Bunny stamp set, I believe.

I based my card off of this sketch from March from Laurel Seabrook Designs Sketch Saturday series - such a fun sketch!

Be sure to stop by Love To Craft Challenge Blog and see all of the fun projects from the rest of the design team. We hope to see you playing along with us!

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

LTSCB #109 - Anything Goes

Hello again! I am back with my second post of the day. If you are looking for my Sketch N Scrap reveal, please scroll on down.

It's time for a new challenge at LTSCB and this month it is "Anything Goes"! Our sponsor this month is DRS Designs and I had the pleasure of working with the Birthday Flower Circle Stamp. This is such a fun little stamp and I know I will get a lot of use out of it!

I used Lawn Fawn's - Really Rainbow - 6x6 paper pad. I colored the little flowers and dots with colored pencils and I love how this turned out.

I'm a little sad because this will be my last reveal day for both Love to Scrap and Love To Craft. Things have just gotten a bit crazy in my life to keep up with everything. Leslie has been a pleasure to work with and I will definitely miss my time on her teams. I will explain more about what is going on and what my plans are in a future post - hopefully, this week.

Be sure to stop by LTSCB and see the fabulous projects using DRS Designs stamps from the rest of the design team.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I will be right back with my LTCCB reveal!

Such a Cutie - Sketch N Scrap #152

Hello and Happy May 1st! Finally, the weather is starting warm up and we are having more sunny days than cloudy this week. Spring may finally be here! It has been so nice to have all of the windows open in the house.

Sketch N Scrap has their first layout sketch of the month posted today and I love it! Lisa has created a super fun sketch for us to work with and I know I will be using it again!

I changed things up a bit with this sketch - first I flipped it to work with my photo, and then I only used one 6x4 photo instead of the two 3x4's. 

I love this photo of Matthew -when he was so little - sitting in his sister's inflatable purple chair. He was (and of course still is!) such a cutie! 

You can't tell it very well in this photo, but he has on a blue jacket with red writing - and along with the purple chair, that decided my color combo. I couldn't wait to use the Elle's Studio "Noteworthy" papers and I think I even used a piece or two from their "Family Fun" collection.

Be sure to stop by Sketch N Scrap to see the fun layouts from the rest of the design team. Don't forget - we have lots of fun things planned this month (you can read all about them here) and we would love it if you played along with us this month!

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