Adrian's 12th Birthday Layout

I was invited to be the December guest designer on Stick It Down sketch challenge blog, and the sketch they sent me was a doozy! I had several ideas about how to use this sketch, but I finally settled on scrapping the tons of photos we had taken at my son's 12th birthday party. With the big heart in the center of the sketch, this seemed like a great way to create a photo montage and use lots of pictures.

• I cut a heart on my Cricut using the "fit to page" function, and then used the negative space as a frame for the photo montage.
• I replaced the banner with more photos, and shifted my title to the empty space on the other page.
• On the right side of the page, I added a rectangular photo and journaling mat to balance out the rectangular photos on the left hand page.
• I had to piece together the blue sections of the background because of the heart cut-out in the middle of the layout, so that's why I allowed a piece of the background to show through on my right hand page. Plus it accents the matted photos of my son quite well, don't you think?
• I used no patterned paper on this layout because I didn't want anything competing with all those photos, but I did use a random dot stamp set to add a little texture to the Lagoon cardstock.

The sketch challenge is open until December 31, so be sure to check it out and play along!

The sketch:

My layout:

Recipe:
Itty Bitty Backgrounds stamp set (SU)
Lagoon, Goldrush, Autumn Terracotta, Tulip & White Daisy cardstock
Lagoon, Goldrush & Autumn Terracotta ink
Black marker
Aqua Dots
SIlver bitty brad
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: hearts
Cricut Artiste: title, bow

Thanks Pastors Layout

This layout exercised my creativity big time! I wanted to re-create the Las Vegas sign using die-cuts, but it took me a while to find the right cut. I settled on a shape from page 33 of the Cricut Artiste booklet, and even though it doesn't look exactly like the original sign, it was the closest I could come. If anyone is wondering why our church had a Vegas theme for our Pastor Appreciation celebration, it's not because we won big at the slots! Our head pastor suffers from debilitating migraines and has to travel to Vegas every other week to go to a headache clinic there, so we thought we'd remind him of his favorite place - not!

Recipe:

Zippidee Level 2 papers

Black, Honey, Cranberry, Indian Corn Blue & White Daisy cardstock

Indian Corn Blue ink

Cranberry marker

Cricut Artiste cartridge: oval shape, title letters

Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: stars

Pattern: Let's Scrap 1-12-11

LOAD #19 - USS Midway

We took a ton of photos during our trip to the USS Midway, and I didn't want to do 5 layouts of it, so I tried to cram as many pictures as I could onto this layout. I used the pattern Stars Above from Imagine for the design, and I replaced some of the large photo spaces with multiple smaller photos. Hopefully, you get the picture of our trip!



Recipe:
Hero's Pride stamp set
Majestic Blue Level 2 papers
Bamboo, Indian Corn Blue & Chocolate cardstock
Chocolate & Desert Sand ink
Indian Corn Blue marker
Plantain cartridge (Cricut)