Love Park

The second sketch for September is up at Sketch N Scrap!  I was so floored by all the lovely work using this sketch!  You have got to go check out what the DT did with this sketch!  Lots of eye candy!

I was so excited to finally get to play with my July Personalscrapper kit featuring Simple Stories' Summer Fresh line!  This has got to be one of my all time favorite lines!  It is so versatile! This picture is of me and my son at Love Park in Philadelphia this last June.  I was so grateful someone offered to take a picture of the two of us, we just don't get that many of us together anymore!

Supplies Used:  Patterned Paper: Simple Stories Summer Fresh line; punch: heart by McGill; Letter stickers:
 American Crafts Thickers; Cardstock:  Stampin Up; Bling:  kaisercrafts;  Buttons: unknown source

I hope you will hop on over to the Sketch N Scrap blog and check out all the wonderful work done by the Sketch N Scrap Design Team as well as the Paper Secrets Design Team and our Guest Designer Martine!  There is still plenty of time to play along for a chance to win a prize pack from Paper Secrets!  You have until September 30th at midnight PST to upload your layout!  Good luck and hope you will play along!

Wanna be a Guest Designer?

Can you believe it is time to pick our Guest Designer for October already over at Sketch N Scrap?  I know I have SOOOO many talented followers and bloggy friends, so I wanted to share this contest with you!  If you are interested in working with our two October sketches and sharing your talent with the blogosphere, then please hop on over to Sketch N Scrap and complete a layout based on this sketch:

Make sure and link up in the post there by September 20th for a chance at a Guest Designer spot for October!  Winner will be announced on September 21st!  Good luck! Can't wait to see your layouts!

Fall is Near!

Can you believe it is already September?  Here the kids have been back at school now for a week, it is still very hot here, so it really doesn't feel like fall is near, but we did go to our first high school football game of the year and have been watching NFL pre-season games, which are all indicators that Fall is fast approaching.  We have a lot of fun things planned for this Fall at Sketch N Scrap and I was delighted to release another sketch today over at Sketch N Scrap and hope that with the kids back in school you might have time to join in the fun and play along with us this month!  Here is September's first sketch:

And here is my take on the sketch:

Supplies Used:  Cardstock: Basic Grey & Black by Stampin Up; Patterned Paper- My Mind's Eye; Embellishments-  journaling box, stickers,

 buttons & candy dots My Mind's Eye;  Letter Stickers: Doodlebug (small black) & American Crafts Thickers.

I took the first picture while stopped at a red light on our way home from the mall and the second one after getting home.  My niece took here My Little Ponies to the Mall in her Easter basket and then talked to them the whole way home!  She was singing and talking to them about everything under the sun and also telling them about her new "princess crown" I bought her at Claires!  It was so cute.  So I just had to snap a few pics to remember this night!  So glad it was a long enough stop light and I had my camera handy!   I hope you will visit the Sketch N Scrap blog and see all the GREAT inspiration we have there this month, our sponsor this month is Paper Secrets and they have donated some awesome My Mind's Eyes goodies for our prize this month and their DT was kind enough to inspire us with their creativity based on this sketch, you won't want to miss it!  Not to mention the Sketch N Scrap team and our FIRST EVER Guest Designer Martine!  You will be so inspired you might just create more then one layout with the sketch!  Can't wait to see your creations, so please share by linking them up in the sidebar HERE!

Red, White and Blue!

It's time for our second sketch of the month at Sketch N Scrap!  That means the month is half over and its time to get your scrap on so you can get entered to win a $25 gift certificate from Your Scrapbook Stash!  Right now they have an awesome sale going on, some new products I know you are dying to get your hands on are up to 50% off!  So hop on over before the sale ends or the good stuff is gone! Enough enabling, how about some sketch inspiration?  Here is the sketch:

And here is my layout, using pictures from our Summer trip to Philly.  My son at the Liberty Bell!

Supplies Used:  Patterned Paper- Authentique Glory & Pink Paislee Declaration; Cardstock: Stampin Up; stickers-

Authentique Glory; Letter stickers: October Afternoon & Heidi Swapp Chipboard; Bling- Bo Bunny; Punches- Stampin Up

I just love the Authentique Glory collection, I bought it even before I went on vacation knowing that it would be perfect for my trip pics!  I love the Liberty Bell stamp sticker!  Hop on over to the Sketch N Scrap blog and check out the other DT member's layouts, they are fab as usual!  I hope you will find time to play along, remember you have until August 31st to upload your layouts!

Guest Desginer contest!

I know that so many of my followers are such talented scrappers, and I wanted to let you all know that Sketch N Scrap is having their first ever Guest Designer contest for September.  If you would like to be considered, just complete a layout based on this sketch and link it up in THIS POST by August 20th at 5pm PST!   Our winner will be asked to create two layouts for the month of September based on our September sketches which will be emailed to you no later then August 21st.  I hope you can play along!

Sketch Inspiration

I love all the inspiration available on the internet in the form of challenge blogs.  Working on and starting up Sketch N Scrap has taken a lot of my time recently, so I haven't had time to participate lately at some of my favs.  So I was glad to find a little extra time to work with one of Trish's sketch at Sketch Inspiration!  Her sketches are so easy to use, I found that I created my layout in no time flat! 

Supplies Used:  Patterned Papers~ My Mind's Eye; Cardstock~ Stampin Up; Letter stickers~ American Crafts;

chipboard embellishments~ Maya Road (flower), Scenic Route (date dot) and other quote unkown.

I love these two pics of my son and his cousin.  They love each other so much that they fight just like brothers!  I loved that my sister captured the expressions on their faces, so totally THEM!  They crack each other up all the time (almost more then they fight).  They are about 6 years apart in age, but my nephew so adores my son, he tries to be EXACTLY like him, so cute!  I love the circle accent used in this sketch, I think it really ties the pics together, I may just end up using this sketch again real soon.  Sketch Inspiration has a new sketch up this week, I don't know if I will have time to play, but I have saved it to my Pinterest board for when I do have time!  Hope you will find time to hop on over to Sketch Inspiration and check it out, and maybe have a go! 

Sketch N Scrap 14

Happy August!  What a great way to start off the month with another fun challenge from Sketch N Scrap!

Supplies Used:  Patterned Paper- Bo Bunny, Simple Stories Destination line; Alpha stickers- Simple Stories Destination line &

American Craft vinyl Thickers; Stickers- Simple Stories Destination line; buttons- source unknown

I love this picture I took of Philadelphia from the Camden NJ side.  We visited a battleship as well as an Aquarium in Camden during our summer vacation and I was able to snap this shot from the battleship.  I actually sketched out this sketch while riding back to Philly on the ferry from Camden.  I just knew I needed to highlight this pic in a 5 x 7 format.  So glad it looked as good when I printed it as it did on my camera, cuz I only took the one shot (what was I thinking?)  I hope you will all find time to play along with the sketch at Sketch N Scrap this month, remember the new deadline for this sketch is now August 31st at midnight PST, so you have plenty of time.  And the prize for August is great, you are playing for a $25 gift certificate to Your Scrapbook Stash, our awesome sponsor for this month ! Can't wait to share more of my Philly pics with you on August 15th when we unveil the next sketch at Sketch N Scrap!  I am hoping to post another layout I did for another challenge tomorrow, so check back soon!