Monthly Sketch!

Don't forget that tomorrow is the last day to use the February sketch and link it to my blog! If you have a beautiful 5"x7" photo (or even two 5" x 3.5"ers) that is begging for its own page, this could be the sketch for you! I've been able to use it twice this month, once as it and once rotated upside down. Click on the sketch in my sidebar to go to the sketch challenge linkup.

Stash Busters February Week 4 - Orlando Pool Fun

Another Stash Busters Challenge coming your way! Click on the link below to play!

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This month, I am challenging you to use up certain items from your stash and then link your completed layout at Splitcoast Stampers so we can all get excited over it! I'll post a new list each Thursday this month, and you have until March 5th to scrap your layout using the products. if you complete all four layouts, you will get an honorable mention for the month.

Please use:
• 2 patterned papers that are at least one year old
• Ribbon
• Ribbon slide
• Tag

This layout was chosen as Inspiration of the Week over at Let's Scrap - woohoo!

Recipe:
Framework Alphabet stamp set
Loves Me patterned papers (SU)
Whisper cardstock
Ocean & Whisper ink
Ocean marker
Lagoon satin ribbon
White Daisy ribbon slides, metal tags & brads
Blue embossed vellum (from my stash, source unknown)
Pattern: Let's Scrap 2-26-14

SCS Variety Challenge 201 - Supersize Me

Time for another variety challenge for Splitcoast Stampers, and this one may throw you off balance a little! Play along using the link below.

SBVC201 - Daring Diagonals
I’ve gotta confess, most of my scrapbooking marches straight across the page, but I love the look of those tilted pages. For this week’s variety challenge, create a page in which your photo and papers follow a diagonal rather than a horizontal line!

For my layout, I didn't have any patterned papers that quite fit the look I wanted, so I created my own using cardstock and stamps. The french fry box was cut on my Cricut, and it's normally 3-d, but I cut down the sides so it would lay flatter in my album. The journaling is all about the biggest McDonald's my family had ever visited, but we still got to eat our favorite foods!

Recipe:
Alphabet Solos "L" & "M" stamp sets
Bamboo, Cranberry, Honey, Desert Sand & White Daisy cardstock
Cranberry, Honey, Black & Desert Sand ink
Black marker
Yellow grosgrain ribbon (Offray)
3-D foam tape
Cricut Artiste catridge: french fry box
Cricut Artiste cartrdige: title
Cuttlebug embossing folder: Swiss Dot
Pattern: On With the Show from Magic
Challenges: Lasting Memories Food & Beverage Guilty Pleasures; Heart 2 Heart Hearts Galore

Stash Buster February Week 3

Another Stash Busters Challenge coming your way! Click on the link below to play!

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This month, I am challenging you to use up certain items from your stash and then link your completed layout at Splitcoast Stampers so we can all get excited over it! I'll post a new list each Thursday this month, and you have until March 5th to scrap your layout using the products. if you complete all four layouts, you will get an honorable mention for the month.

Please use:
• 3 patterned papers that are at least one year old
• Butterflies or buttons
• Chipboard
• Ribbon or Baker’s twine

Recipe:

Chantilly Level 2 papers and My Complements chipboard

Twlight & Buttercup cardstock

Ruby, Twilight, Cotton Candy & Buttercup ink

Just Blooms Flutter (butterflies)

Baby Pink organdy ribbon

3-D foam tape

Cricut Artbooking cartridge: title, banners

Pattern: EMS Sketch 53

Challenges: 4 Crafty Chicks Things with Wings; Frosted Designs Love Is challenge (hidden journaling is all about my lovely friend Lela + inspired by the color palette; Lasting Memories Love Is in the Air (used the word love in lovely ) + wings

Stash Busters February Week 2

Another Stash Busters challenge coming your way. Click on the link below to play!

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This month, I am challenging you to use up certain items from your stash and then link your completed layout at Splitcoast Stampers so we can all get excited over it! I'll post a new list each Thursday this month, and you have until March 5th to scrap your layout using the products. if you complete all four layouts, you will get an honorable mention for the month. In honor of Valentine's Day, you have two options this week. Pick the one you love.

Option 1
Please use:
• 4 red or pink items from your stash

Option 2
• 4 patterned papers that are at least one year old
• Pre-printed journaling spot
• 2 stickers
• 3 buttons

I went with option 2 for my layout!

Recipe:
Stardust Level 2 papers & My Stickease
Bamboo cardstock
Moonstruck & Desert Sand ink
My Crush Best Day Ever Journaling spot
Craft buttons
Adornments blue fibers assortments (EK Success)
Rhinestones (The Paper Studio)
Vellum (The Paper Company)
Pattern: Duplicate Patterns from Jeanette Lynton's Cherish
Challenges: 1~2~3 Get Scrappy board (I chose the row with polka dots, fibers & vellum); Southern Girls Bling It challenge (I used blue rhinestones)

Disney Adventure Layout

Splitcoast Stampers is having a Virtual Scrapbooking Night (kind of like an online crop), and the first challenge was to use "one little word" as inspiration for your layout. I chose the word "Adventure" since the pictures were taken at Adventureland at Disney's Magic Kingdom, plus our time in Florida was a bit of an adventure due to all the rain.

Recipe:
Dreaming & Caboodle Level 2 papers
Pacifica & Colonial White cardstock
Pacifica ink
Pacifica, Chocolate & Goldrush markers
Colonial White Designer Brads
Pacifica brads
Natural Hemp
Liquid Glass
Pattern: Sideline Surprise from Imagine
Cricut Artbooking cartridge: title
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: flowers, photo corners
Challenge: 4 Crafty Chicks Flags / Banners challenge

Ivy Lane Cards Part 2

Finished up my cards for my Ivy Lane workshop, so I thought I'd share! For the butterfly on the first card, I stamped a butterfly on the cardstock square, then stamped it again on a cardstock scrap, cut it out, and sponged the edges with Desert Sand ink. I adhered it by the body but left the wings free, and then added some Stickles to the body. One cool thing I accomplished by doing it this way: I didn't have to cut out the antenna, since they were already on the cardstock square, so it saved me a lot of time and energy!

 Pattern: Sketch 192 from Sunday Sketch and Stamp

For this one, I got the placement of the flowers correct by stamping and cutting out the flower pots, laying them on the tag, and marking a light pencil line across the top of each. I then removed the pots and had a guideline for where to place the flowers!

Pattern: Let's Scrap 1-22-14 card sketch

Recipe:
Find Your Style, Card Chatter - Sympathy & Flower Pot stamp sets
Ivy Lane Level 2 papers
Desert Sand, Hollyhock, Olive & White Daisy cardstock
Hollyhock, Blush, Olive & Cocoa ink
White Daisy organdy ribbon
Color-Ready seam binding ribbon
Diamond Stickles (ranger)
Liquid Glass
Art Philosophy cartridge: dragonfly, tag

Ivy Lane Cards

Tonight is my Ivy Lane card workshop, and I'm so excited to use these beautiful papers from the new Close to My Heart idea book! Here are three of the cards I designed. The first one uses sketch 136 from Deconstructed Sketches. Love Jen's sketches!

This card uses Make It From Your Heart Volume 2, pattern 28 from CTMH (slightly modified).

This card is based on a card I made using random scraps left over from another workshop. I just combined some things until I liked the look, and I enjoyed the result so much that I decided to recreate it using Ivy Lane.

Recipe:

Buzz & Bumble, Geometric Backgrounds, Cherish the Moment & Joyful Birthday stamp sets

Ivy Lane Level 2 papers

Hollyhock, Blush, Desert Sand, Olive, Ivy Lane Purple & White Daisy cardstock

Hollyhock, Blush, Olive & Cocoa ink

White Daisy grograin ribbon

Pearl Opaques

Olive craft button

White Daisy embroidery floss

Cuttlebug embossing folders: Swiss Dot, Wicker Weave

Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: flower, banner, butterfly, shaped square, scalloped circle

Cricut Artiste cartridge: decorative border

Stash Busters February Week 1

If you have tons more scrapbooking supplies than you could use in the next ten years, I have a Stash Busters challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers just for you. Just create a layout using the listed items and then link up at SCS using the link below.

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This month, I am challenging you to use up certain items from your stash and then link your completed layout using the link above so we can all get excited over it! I'll post a new list each Thursday this month, and you have until March 5th to scrap your layouts using the products. If you complete all four layouts, you will get an honorable mention for the month! Sound fun? Let's get started.

Please use:
• 3 patterned papers that are at least one year old
• Ribbon or ric-rac
• 2 flowers
• 3 brads

You can use additional products, but you must use at least one of each of the items listed. If you don't have an item in your stash, please don't rush out and buy it! Just substitute a similar item from your stash. Happy hunting!

Recipe:

Distressed Backgrounds & Whooo's Your Valentine stamp sets

Surf's Up Level 2 papers

Crystal Blue, Kraft, Sorbet & White Daisy cardstock

Crystal Blue, Sorbet, Desert Sand, Ruby & Bamboo ink

Just Blooms Floret & Paradise

Antiqued Copper Designer Brads

Cricut Artbooking: title, heart borders, small hearts

Cricut Art Philosophy: large heart

Pattern: Paper Secrets February sketch with a twist (K = kraft paper, I = ink, S = stamps, S = Surf's Up papers)

Challenges: Clear It Out karaoke challenge (I was inspired by It's A Small World); Heart 2 Heart & Lil' Red Wagon love challenges (after all, isn't love what Small World is all about?!); Scrap It Girl hearts challenge

Magic Kingdom Layout

I'm catching up on the January Stash Busters challenges over at Splitcoast Stampers, and Lela asked us during week 3 to use the items that come in a kit. Gotta confess, ever since I discovered stamps, I don't really buy kits anymore, so this was very challenging for me. The closest I could come was a paper pack with matching stickers, and then I added some items that color coordinated. Hopefully that counts! I cut the title letters on my Cricut, and they were looking a bit lost on the busy yellow paper, so I added a coat of Liquid Glass to give them shine and dimension.

Recipe:
Dream stamp set
Giggles & Grins Level 2 papers
Cranberry, Black & Sunkiss Yellow, White Daisy cardstock
Cranberry & Black ink
Black grosgrain ribbon
Cranberry spiral clips
Liquid Glass
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: title
Pattern: Sketch Saavy 2 Page Sketch #18

EMS Sketch Challenge 53 - Fantasy Land

Welcome to my February sketch challenge! For those of you who are familiar with my sketches, you've probably noticed that I don't churn out very many single photo sketches, but for this month's challenge, I decided to do just that. If you're a single photo scrapper, or even a multi-photo gal looking for some variety, feel free to play along. You have until February 28th to create a layout based on the sketch, post it online, and then link to this post. I will choose one scrapper's layout to be featured on my blog on March 5th, and that person will be invited to be a guest designer for the following month's sketch. Let's see what you can do!

My layout!

Recipe:

Friendship Alphabet Small, Dreams & Distressed Backgrounds stamp sets
Pemberly Level 2 papers
Bamboo, Indian Corn Blue, Dessert Sand & Colonial White cardstock
Indian Corn Blue, Outdoor Denim, Desert Sand, Bamboo & Honey ink
Colonial White grosgrain ribbon
White Daisy & Spring Blossom Just Blooms
Wood & Outdoor Denim craft buttons
Brown Sparkles
Indian Corn Blue embroidery floss
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: banners
Challenges: Clear It Out Lots of Blue challenge; 4 Crafty Chicks Anything Goes; Stampin' Royalty Anything But a Card

Please link your completed layout here by 2/28/14 at 11:59 pm PST!