Celebrate 16 Layout

After scrapping mostly Christmas layouts for the month of December and using pre-made embellishments, I seem to have lost the knack of  creating my own. This layout celebrating my son's 16th birthday certainly didn't come out as cute as I envisioned, but I guess it is finished and I will not worry about it!

Recipe:
Good Times papers & My Stickease
Buttercup, Sweet Leaf, Chocolate, Twilight & White Daisy cardstock
Buttercup, Sweet Leaf, Chocolate & Twilight ink
Brown fineliner pen (iBayam)
Garden Green brad
Starry Night stencil (Simple Stories)
Cricut Artistry cartridge: celebrate title
Pattern: EMS Sketch Challenge #31

EMS Sketch Challenge #117 + Christmas Layout

There are many fun ways to start the new year, so I am hoping you will enjoy my special treat for you: a brand new double-page sketch! If you are anything like me, you take a ton of photos at special events like Christmas, and then you have to decide which ones to scrap. Well, this sketch can hold a whopping nine photos, and if you have more, you can do what I did and place the extras in a photo storage page. Of course, if you are not a multi-photo scrapper, I invite you to check out any of the other sketches here on my blog; they are made to be shared and used. Just click on the label in this post that says EMS Sketch challenges, and it will show you all my sketches.

Here's the sketch:

And here's my layout, staying pretty faithful to the sketch:

Recipe:
The Holiday Life papers (Simple Stories)
Almond & Fern cardstock
Ruby, Fern, New England Ivy & Black ink
Black marker
Ho Ho Ho puffy stickers (American Crafts)
Pear & Partridge PML card
The Holiday Life Journal Bits & Page Pieces (Simple Stories)
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: hearts