Sketch Inspiration

Don't you think baby photos are the most fun to scrap? I sure do, and of course, it is made super easy when the baby is so adorable! LOL! Not that I am biased or anything, but this little guy is way cute! Can't wait to meet him in person in March, and of course, by then he will be even cuter I am sure. Papers for this layout are from October Afternoon and Pink Paislee. The letters are Thickers. This layout is based on sketch #108 at the fun and oh so inpsiring sketch community called Sketch Inspirations. Go check it out, everyone there is super friendly and the sketches are fun too! Check back in tomorrow, cuz my first sketch for The Scrappiest will be posted, so excited about my first DT reveal, it will make Monday almost fun! LOL! You are gonna love this sketch!

Exciting News!

I am excited to announce I have been picked to be on the Design Team at THE SCRAPPIEST! I have loved Liz's sketches for a long while now and am so pleased to be part of the awesome creative team at the Scrappiest! Please join me in congratulating all the new and returning design team members:
Arlene Camacho
Gail Knowles
Grace Lauer
Kim Tupponce
Kylie Symons
Laurel Seabrook
ME- Lisa Hidy
Minique Liedtke
Pearl Liu
Susan Bourgeois
You really have to check out their blogs, some VERY creative ladies with lots and lots of talent.. hope you will play along with the sketch for this week and the upcoming ones, I can't wait to see your creations!

Sketchy Fun

Ok, seriously, drawing these sketches is addictive! I am constantly jotting them down, at work, at my son's basketball game, just about anyplace..I am going to have to start carrying a sketch book with me. Here is my latest sketch and my layout based on it. The papers are Scenic Route (Garden Grove and Surprise) and the letters are Thickers and Paper Trunk. These pics are of my son and his friend trying out the $2 pogo stick they found at a garage sale in our neighborhood. My son's friend bought it and they both played and played with it, which prompted my son to ask for one for Christmas. He did get one and is really getting very good at this (I see another layout). This sketch is very simple, but I love the contrast of the one large and two smaller photos...very eye catching. Give it a try, I am sure you can use it to create a layout in less than 30 minutes like me! Enjoy and make sure and link your layouts made with this sketch in the comments I'd love to see your take on it!

Flash Back Friday

Seeing the pics of my new little nephew yesterday got me to thinking of my son when he was little. I have scrapped a lot of those pictures but some are still lying around waiting..(poor things) I made this layout for the 12 Days of Christmas Crop but never shared it on the blog and thought now was a good time. When I received the September 2009 kit from Personalscrapper and saw this veggie paper I immediately thought of these pics of my son when he was 5 mos old and then of course, thought "I knew I didn't scrap these for a reason"....yeah, that's right I had to wait TWELVE years for the right paper to come along! LOL! So here we have it. This layout made for the challenge at Personalscrapper to use a lot of white space on your page (I NEVER DO THAT) and this was a BIG challenge for me. I like the way it turned out even though its not my usual style. Papers are from the Farm Fresh and Report Card lines from October Afternoon. Journal stickers from American Crafts and Jenni Bowlin and alphas from Jillibean Soup (love these BTW). Layout is a lift of Lisa Dickinson's you can see her AWESOME work here. Looking forward to a good weekend of basketball and scrappin' two of my favorite things! TGIF!

Special Delivery

Here he is my littlest nephew, Wyatt James. He arrived at 11:22 pm on January 20th,2010. Seven pounds and 19.5 inches. Isn't he adorable? Can't wait to meet him in person. Mom, Dad, and baby doing well. Happy birthday little Wyatt!

Gotta Love the Boyfriend & Cosmo Cricket!

Howdy Cosmo Cricket fans! My all time fav Cosmo line (so far that is) is the Boyfriend line. Personalscrapper had a challenge to use at least NINE squares on a layout for one of the Winter Wonderland Crop challenges and this is the layout I came up with using the Cosmo Cricket Boyfriend line. I am so happy with how it turned out. I usually don't like layout with only small pics, but I think this one is one of my all time fav layouts I have made. I just love these pics of my son from last Labor Day. And now we have a sneaky peaky of the new lines Cosmo Cricket is releasing soon, and they are spectacular! My fav is JOY RIDE, but I really like them all! Plus they are introducing this awesome lush embossed cardstock as well as some yummy chipboard letters and the thing I am most excited about BUTTONS! You can check them out here....just a warning before you click though...it may be detrimental to your wallet! Happy Hump Day everyone!

Another sketch

I can't believe it has been a week since my last post, I have been busy creating, just not uploading..so gotta get on that. Check back all week, as I have lots to share. Here is my second sketch, I am hoping to make this a weekly post on Tuesday's. I find sketches make my layouts come together much quicker. As usual, if you make a layout based on the sketch, link it to the comments section so we can all see. For my layout based on this sketch I used Dream Street Sam papers from my October 2009 Personalscrapper kit. I was so sad to hear Dream Street is going out of business...I loved this line and was looking forward to getting more stuff from them. This pic is of my brother, SIL and son at our annual Vala's pumpkin patch trip last year, love that place! It was so cold this year we had to go on a weekday with all the school field trips, so it was a "different" experience, but it was still a lot of fun! This layout was also inspired by one of the Personalscrapper challenges for the Winter Wonderland crop which was to use buttons, flowers, and ribbon on your page. I picked this challenge to do as I have hard time using ribbon and flowers, so I was proud of myself for doing so on this layout! Now buttons, no prob for me, in fact I am always trying to stick buttons on my layout! LOL! Have a fabulous week folks!