Another Scraptivations sketch!

I was honored to provide another sketch for our Scraptivations challenge this week! I am loving the tag trend lately and wanted to include it on one of my sketches. Go check out what the other ladies did using the sketch HERE! For my layout I used pictures of my nephew on his four wheeler he got for his first birthday! This boy is going to be a race car driver when he grows up, he is a natural! Papers are by Echo Park Little boy collection with white foam Thickers for the letters. Embellishments are from K and company (interstate sticker), Echo Park (boys will be boys) and journal spot that I mounted the interstate sticker on is from Jillibean Soup. Hope you will find time to use the sketch, and if you do, don't forget to link it up on the Scraptivations blog so you can be entered into this month's prize drawing for an awesome prize from Punky Sprouts!!

Fun with color!

It's another fun challenge at Scraptivations this week! This week's challenge is brought to you by Amy! The challenge is to create a layout using a split complementary color scheme...sound complicated? It's not! In fact, it can make your scrapbooking much easier, by helping you choose what colors will complement each other when creating your layout! Basically what you do is pick your base color (in my case red), then you use the TWO colors adjacent to your base color's complement (in this case green)...in this case blue green(kind of a turquoise blue) and yellow green (more of a lime green). Remember the complement of a color is the color directly across from it on the color wheel. So for my layout I used the colors lime green, red and turquoise blue with a bit of brown and navy blue thrown in as well...The papers I used here are from Jillibean Soup (lime green dot) and Echo Park (plaid). Letter stickers from Hobby Lobby (Paper Studio) with embellishments from Jillibean Soup, American Crafts (flair badge), Queen and Company (pearls and big brad) and Bazzill (flower). Pictures of my nephew feeding himself for the first time! Sweet huh? I hope you can play along with us this month at Scraptivations, the prize up for grabs is from Punky Sprouts and it is AWESOME...so what are you waiting for? Get scrappin'!

Scrapbook Bingo!

Time for another fun challenge over at Scraptivations! This is my week to host the challenge and I have come up with a fun game of scrapbook Bingo! I love Bingo and decided to combine two of my fav things: scrapbooking and bingo for this challenge! For this challenge you will create a layout or project using the four items in your "bingo" i.e. across, up and down or diagonally. You can use more then these 4 items but you must use at least those four items on your layout or project. On my layout I scored my bingo diagonally and used: one photo, twine, season and punch(used my wave border punch)! With Scrapbook bingo everyone's a winner! My layout uses papers and embellishments by October Aftenoon, their Seaside collection. I also had fun with some twine I picked up online awhile back, love the look of twine, it's all the rage now and you see it everywhere, in fact, I need to get some more to play with! Don't forget to link up your layout for this week's challenge HERE by July 5th for a chance at a very cool prize! Can't wait to see what you Bingo!

The inanimate object challenge

Our next challenge at Scraptivations is up today! Not only was this a very challenging challenge (lol!) but a fun one as well. Carly's challenge for us was to scrap an inanimate object. I had been wanting to document my advancement into the 21st century world of technology in my mid 40's but hadn't done so yet, so this challenge was a perfect opportunity to do. I even went out and bought some fun pinkish papers to use specifically for this layout, something I don't usually do. I wanted to document my first smartphone, a Tmobile My Touch, cuz I know how much things will end up changing and in 10 years this phone will most likely be pretty lame, even though I find that hard to imagine! However, it was about 20 years ago I got my first cell phone which was HUGE, I had a bag much like a purse to carry it in and just thought it was SOOOOOOOO wonderfully advanced, in fact, I never could have imagined a smart phone and all I could do on it! Guess, I'm not very imaginative and I am thankful there are those that are so that they can develop wonderful technology for us to use! The papers I used for this layout are Echo Park Life is Good. Echo Park has the most yummy papers! Letters are Thickers and the journal box is from Making Memmories. Hope you can play along with us at Scraptivations, cuz the prize up for grabs is a gift card to your fav scrapp store! WOW! To participate just link your layout on your inanimate object up HERE! Can't wait to see what you create! Blessings,

Handmade sketchy fun!

It's time for another Scraptivatingly fun challenge! This week's challenge is brought to us by Amy who is challenging us to make our own handmade embellishments! What fun huh? There are so many techniques to try, but I decided to make my own flowers out of tissue paper. I didn't have any pink tissue paper, so I stamped my white tissue with the By Definition background stamp from Stampin' Up in Pretty in Pink ink to give my flowers just a hint of color, and I love how they turned out. For the larger flower I used my Stampin Up scallop circle punch to punch out the shape for the flower- just a hint: fold the tissue paper into several layers (I did 5) to make it thicker and easier to punch through. The smaller flower I just hand cut, using 5 layers for this one as well. Both are held together with a brad. For this layout I used the May sketch I created for our May sketch challenge over at Personalscrapper. I love how this sketch turned out and plan to use it again on a birthday layout with stars soon as well. The pictures for my flower girl layout are of my niece taken on a recent outing we had to Hobby Lobby, she had a great time trying on all the fun headpieces/bows etc! We ended up buying a big pink flower for her hair instead of this flower headband. The papers here are from Personalscrapper's February kit featuring We R Memory Keepers Be My Valentine papers (don't you just love that little cuckoo card I cut out from the papers!) The circle is handcut from pink felt as are the circles in the upper right hand corner. Letters are Thickers from American Crafts and the brads in the flower center are from American Crafts as well- LOVE these glittery brads! All of these things except the tissue paper and felt were in the February Personalscrapper kit! I hope you can play along with us at Scraptivations this month, the prize is AWESOME a $10 gift card to your fav scrappy store...now how can you beat that? I can't wait to see what fun embellishments you come up with, I just know I am gonna have to copy some of your ideas! Don't forget to check out the other DT's layouts HERE, they came up with some AWESOME ideas that you won't want to miss!

Scraptivatingly fun challenge!

You all know how much I love sketches and this one by Tina as our third Scraptivations challenge,is super awesome and I was so excited to see it as a challenge, but then there was a TWIST...the layout had to be about YOU! Gasp! I have done a bunch of layouts about me, about my likes, dislikes, job, graduation etc...so I was at a loss of what to do. I mean I am very boring, my likes haven't really changed since I scrapped them back in 2009...that is how boring I am...just a routine sort of gal, so I thought maybe that was a layout (about how boring I am lol!) But then as I normally do when stumped I move on to another project, which was the next 52 week Personalscrapper challenge and it was ANIMAL. And there is was, my AHA moment, I was like I'll do a page about how I love animals! I have since I was a wee tot, and thus, decided to use these pictures of myself from 1970 (I won't tell you how old I am in these pics but I think you can kinda estimate! LOL!) I decided to use my newest fav line Echo Park's, For the Record...LOVE LOVE LOVE this line and it is the featured line in April's Personalscrapper kit (lucky me!) I absolutely love how this layout turned out and I really like it that I have another page scrapped just for me and my personal album. I hope you will play along, don't let the YOU twist put you off, it can be interpreted in so many ways, just think outside the box if you are stumped. I do plan on using this sketch again, as it is super fun and an easy sketch to work with! Can't wait to see what you gals come up wit for this challenge! Don't forget to visit Scraptivations and link up your layout for a chance to win an awesome prize from the Paper Trail!

Chloe's Challenge

This is our second challenge over at Scraptivations challenge blog! This one was brought to us by Chloe who chose to challenge us to create something crafty based on this lovely picture! Who wouldn't love a room as fresh, bright (and clean!) as this? I know I would love sleeping or creating in such a place! What inspired me most about this picture was of course, the colors which were so bright and center stage, but secondly the clean crisp lines and then the minimalist feel to the room itself. So for my layout I tried to stick with primarily the lime green and yellow color theme but ended up throwing in a bit of orange/red. I used papers by Echo Park (green dot-Little Boy line) and Sassafrass Lass. I chose to keep the layout simple with clean lines like the pic, thus the more linear, color blocking design to the layout. I also stuck with minimal embellies (pear feltie and small flower from Sassafrass Lass) and a small title for which I used an Echo Park little Boy journal box with letters cut from my cricut for the "you" and "me" and small sticker letters from Making Memories, all keeping with the minimalist vibe I got from this picture. I was also inspired by that adorable rug in the pic, so I based by title on the word "you" found in the rug. The picture is of my niece and nephew from Easter 2009, aren't they adorable and dressed so sweetly in green to go with my color scheme (love it when that happens!) Now it's your turn, hop on over the Scraptivations and play along for a chance to win an AWESOME prize from the Paper Trail! Can't wait to see how you are inspired by this picture!

My first Scraptivations Challenge!

Today is our first "official" challenge over at Scraptivations! I was honored to get to go first. This sketch is our first challenge, all you need to do to be entered into a random drawing for an awesome prize from The Paper Trail is to complete a layout based on this sketch and upload it to Scraptivations. For my layout I used papers and title block from My Minds Eye's newest line Stella Rose. To give the title block a bit more dimension I cut out the center title and raised it up by mounting it on a crocheted flower and mounting the title on brown cardstock to accent it more. The felt circle with heart embellie is from American Crafts. I love everyone's take on the sketch, all so unique even though they sprang from the same sketch! So hop on over to check out the DT's take on the sketch and for your chance to win an awesome prize for this month's sponsor! So excited for tomorrow, its the first day of class at Club Got Sketch! Can't wait to see what Valerie has in store for us tomorrow! It's not to late to join, just go HERE to join us, see you in class!

Exciting News

I am so excited to share with you that I have been selected to be on the Design Team at Scraptivations! This is a fun new challenge blog that I am sure you will love as much as I do. Our first challenge is going to be up on March 20th, so I hope you will stop by and play along with us. I am looking forward to being part of this super fun site that will offer a great challenge twice a month. In the mean time I have been hard at work on our first challenge as well as my 52 week challenges and I will have more to share with you this weekend, so enjoy your Ash Wednesday and check back soon!

Scraptivated by this fun challenge!

Just popping in to share a fun challenge completed for the first ever Scraptivations official challenge! Carly is a lot of fun, and I know this is going to be fun, motivating and inspirational challenge site! This was a fun challenge for me...the challenge was:
Would you rather...
*use a die-cut/punch or fussy cut something?
*scrap something hard to scrap about or hardly ever scrapped about?
*use a music title or a movie/TV title?
So for #1 I of course picked punches...cuz I'm as you know a basically lazy scrapper, cutting stuff out is work to me, but I ADORE my punches...so here we have punched hearts to meet the first criteria....#2: Scrap something hardly scrapped about: now that would be ME...like most scrappers I rarely scrapped about me, so for this layout I decided to do a page about how my niece and nephews call me Aunt WeWe...of course, this turns heads when we are out in public, since wewe is another term for a bodily function...but they are growing up so fast and the oldest one now just calls me Lisa, so I wanted to capture this memory before I forget it.....#3:I used Music title: for my subtitle around my circle I printed the title to Kesha's song We R Who We R...now I really don't listen to Kesha (really only heard this song on a blog playlist), but I have heard this song title before and really thought it was a great quote/title to use at some future point, just didn't know I was gonna use it so soon! LOL!
These papers are from my February Personalscrapper kit, featuring We R Memory Keepers Be My Valentine's line, which is really cute, I just adore this die cut paper! Had to use it up first! And that ribbon, it is already pleated for you, just beautiful if you are a ribbon lover! So glad I was able to get this kit as they are now sold out, but I am sure the March kit will be just as great, in fact, can't wait for the reveal next week!
So go challenge yourself and hop on over the Scraptivations and play along, its sure to get you out of your comfort zone and saving those precious memories!

Fun New Challenge Blog

What a better way to start out the New Year with a fun new challenge blog! My blogging buddy and one of my Personalscrapper cyber friends, Carly, has started her own challenge blog. Through the end of January she is doing a practice run, getting things ready to run smoothly for her grand opening on February 1st! I love a challenge and if its a sketchy challenge I love it even more, so I knew this was one challenge I was going to take on! Now, mind you this challenge was fun, but for some reason my mojo wasn't with me yesterday when I had time to work on this fun sketch, so I ended up setting it aside and coming back to it today and guess what? I ended up finishing it up surprisingly quickly considering how slow and uninspired I was yesterday! LOL! I ended up using up some more of my May Scraptacular kit featuring papers by Bella Blvd's Man of the House line (my fav line by Bella so far!). Tied it together with some Basic Grey Chipboard letters and Crate Paper and Bella chipboard embellies, and I think it turned out great, although it may go down in the record books as my longest layout ever, and as you can see, that is really silly considering I used a sketch! LOL! Don't forget to hop over and check out Carly's new venture, Scraptivations, and maybe even try your hand at this fun challenge!