My Little Sketch Book fun

Have had a great weekend so far, gonna be sad to see it come to an end....but I did get a chance to play along with another fun sketch over at My Little Sketch Book. This sketch is by Liz Qualman, and I thought it was perfect for this picture of my son from last year! Just love this pic of him! I used Pink Paislee Cupid punch outs, Making Memories Lovestruck papers, and alphabets by Making Memories and October Afternoon. Everything but the October Afternoon letters were from the February Personalscrapper kit. Hope you were able to find some creative time for yourself this weekend as well! Have a great Sunday everyone!

Sketchy Saturday

Now I know a lot of you are snowed in this weekend, so I thought I would share another sketch by yours truly for some inspiration! This is a sketch I designed for February's crop at Personalscrapper, and there were some fabulous layouts made from it! This is my first attempt at a two pager (which I rarely do) so it was a bit more difficult for me, but I liked how it turned out. I was able to scrap some recent pics of my son playing basketball. This is his last year at Upward basketball and today is his last game. We are both a bit bummed about it, cuz he has played since second grade and just LOVES it! I loved the colors of the teams this year, as orange and blue are really my two fav colors to scrapbook with. I was able to use some older Stampin' Up papers from my stash as well as a REALLY old piece of Bo Bunny blue paper that I got when I first started scrapping. The stamped images are from two retired STampin Up sets that I use all the time for scrapbooking and boys birthday cards....have so gotten my money's worth on these two sets! Hope you will find this sketch useful when you create next time and if you use it please share it with us all, I'd love to see your work...post a link in the comment section and share the love bebe!!! Have a great weekend everyone!

Sketch 98

Here is another one of the layouts I did for Personalscrapper's online crop last week. It is based on sketch 98 on the GOT SKETCH blog by Valerie Salmon. This sketch is super easy to work with and was able to make this layout in under 30 minutes! I have so many 5x7 pictures I need to scrap and this one was perfect for this sketch. The challenge I created this layout for was the "OLYMPIC" challenge where we were to use 5 or more circles on our layout. I used Scenic Route papers and chipboard..in fact I think this line (Grafton) is now 50% off now if you don't have it or want more! I love a sale but hate it that Scenic Route is closing. If you have used this sketch or decide to please leave a link in the comments, I'd love to see your take on the sketch!

Keep on Croppin'

Even though it is a weekday I am still cropping. The Personalscrapper crop is still going on until today, and I am chugging away at all 10 challenges trying to complete them...so far I have done six and started on the seventh. I wanted to complete all 10 but it ain't gonna happen unless for some reason my boss calls and gives me the day off! LOL! I did want to share two layouts I did using my September 2009Personalscrapper kit The first one is of my son after his recent band solo and ensemble performace earlier in the month. This was his first competition and he sailed through it earning a ONE PLUS...the funny thing is we didn't know what the scoring was and if one was good or bad...until the teacher told us. Kind of funny, we were in the hall with his rating trying to decide if he did good or bad...he told me "Mom, I know I didn't suck that bad so a one must be good" (the ratings were 1-4) then we find out that a ONE PLUS is the best you can get! YEAH! I was so proud of him. The other pic is a scan of the rating sheet from the judge. This layout was done for the challenge to scraplift Erica's layout you can see here. The second layout was done for the alphabet challenge for which you were to use two or more alphas in your title...I used Scenic Route chipboard, Jillibean Soup letters (word- zone) and then the small black fabric thickers. This layout is using sketch one from Got Sketch 105..it started Monday...loving this class! It's not to late to join..check it out here. These photos are of my son and nephew Christmas day "zoning" out playin their new DS lites...can you tell they were in the "DS zone"? Thanks for stopping by to check out my layouts..gotta go to work so I can come home and crop some more!

Sketch 53

Its Monday and what is my favorite part of Monday's??? The reveal of the new sketch at The Scrappiest! This week's sketch was fun, it is an easy one to rotate or flip as can see I totally flipped it on it's head! The other fun thing was I was able to use this sketch to use up some of those papers by My Minds Eye that I have been hoarding! These are from my first ever Personalscrapper kit from way back in 2007!!! I loved that kit so much I was hoarding my scraps, but decided that I could deem them scrapworthy enough for this fun sketch LOL! I am sure Liz is honored! The rub ons for the word SUMMER are also My Mind's Eye and the letters are Thickers the font is GIGGLES (love that font). The popsicle is from Cosmo Cricket and the popsicle stick is from Basic Grey (now this is an oldie got in back when I started scrappin'!) So fun to use older stash and still like your layout! And don't forget to play along with us at The Scrappiest to be entered to win a great prize pack from Scrap for a Cure! Can't wait to see your layouts!

Sketch 52 from The Scrappiest!

Another fun week with a great sketch over at The Scrappiest! My layout is title 1972 and has some old pics of me and my sister from that year...these were really starting to show their age (unlike me LOL!) and I wanted to get them scanned and scrapped. My new Epson scanner restored the color pretty well I thought, as the originals were super faded! LOVE technology don't you? I used my February kit from Personalscrapper for this layout, loving the new Pink Paislee Cupid line! The sticker are from 7 Gypsies (S is for Sister) and the numbers are the Jewerly box Thickers, my favorite font right now! Hope you will play along with this sketch, it is very easy to work with, in fact, I am planning another layout with it, is is SO versatile! Don't forget to link up your layout based on this sketch here for a chance to win a great prize package from Scrap for a Cure!

Blog Candy Fun

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