A layout... why not!

I think I'll just share a layout today that's not for any challenges (except for the Club Creating Keepsakes One Hour Challenge last week). I have another layout I need to post, but I haven't taken a picture of it yet and uploaded it to my compter. So, I might double post today...

The challenge was to use a card on your layout. So, I got this gingerbread Christmas card and got to work!

I'm so proud of myself- I came up with the design of this layout all on my own. I had been thinking about it for a while, and I just hadn't gotten it on a layout yet. I used some of my awesome October Afternoon "Holiday Style" papers and Flower Sack (what OA calls a pack of diecuts). I love this line-- and the better part is that I got the rest of the line for Christmas from my parents! Yippee! I only had 3 papers that I received from my October Afternoon Santa Sack before then. (When I was making this layout, I only had the 3 pages and my diecuts to use)

I'm really into bordering my layouts with twine- I am getting tired of sewing on every single layout. When I flip back through my albums, all that I see is stitching everywhere.
(Now, I'll see twine, right?!)

To incorporate my card into the layout, I cut a couple of the gingerbread men out with my Cricut and flowed them in with the diecuts.

Hope you have a GREAT Thursday!! We're going to Oklahoma and Missouri tomorrow to be with family out there for Christmas, so I guess I'll see you in 2012!

Using Up Some Old Stash... and Memorbelia

Howdy! I FINALLY got to scrapbook today! Woo hoo! Haven't done hardly anything scrappy all week, and my scrappy side was really calling to me!

This layout is from some pics that I've had printed for a while from our trip to the fair this September. I wanted to somehow include the ribbons I won at the fair (I entered some of my photography and crafty items into the fair). When I saw this week's Sketchy Thursdays sketch, I thought it'd be perfect to include the ribbons and tickets into!
I used a piece of My Mind's Eye paper that I've had for a loooong time and so it made me happy to finally use it up!

And I also did this for ErikaH's challenge (on ClubCK) to use a shape to journal in!  

I have some more things to share with you so stay tuned!!

Welcome to the Sketch Blog Hop!

Woo hoo! Welcome to my stop on the blog hop! If you haven't come here from Shanon's blog, then go back to Amanda's blog and start hoppin' from there.

Ok- now that we've gotten that part out of the way, I get to show you my layout I made from Amanda's awesome sketch! My little sister, Laura, and I love to dress up, and we hadn't done it for a while so we did it and had a little mini photo shoot. You can totally tell Laura is more photogenic than me! Haha! (Well, I think she is anyway...) Laura's the one with the pink flowers.

For this layout, I just got some papers that I thought coordinated together, and used them! I rarely do that, so I'm very proud of myself for stretching my creativity and NOT being OCD about all the papers matching "exact!" :D Enjoy my page--

Supplies: Patterned Paper: American Crafts, Teresa Collins, Cosmo Cricket, My Mind's Eye; Mist: Tattered Angels; Letter Stickers: BoBunny; Pen: American Crafts; Other: pom pom trim, flowers, brad

And of course, this wouldn't be complete without a giveaway! I have a special CK magazine, 2 sets of AWESOME American Crafts Thickers (one chipboard, the other foam) and then a Cosmo Cricket Blackboard album. All you have to do is leave a comment and for an extra entry, become a follower of my blog! If you are already a follower, leave a comment telling me that too! :) I will draw a winner on Sunday morning August 21, 2011 and post the winner here.

And now you need to head on to Mandi's blog! I'm sure she has some awesomeness ready to show you!



Sassy Lil' Sketches August 2nd Layout

I made another page from a Sassy Lil Sketch! I had my BoBunny Barefoot&Bliss papers all out for my mini album I was doing, so I just left it out and made a layout with the scraps!


Supplies: Patterned Paper: BoBunny; Flowers: Sassafras, Prima; Letter Stickers: Doodlebug, My Little Shoebox; Rub-on Stitches: DCWV; Mist: Tattered Angels; Pen: American Crafts

Grid Layouts

In this past Creating Keepsakes magazine, there was a whole article on using grids on your layouts. Well, I really didn’t think about actually USING grids till this week when CK came out with a challenge to use a grid on your layout over at Club CK! (for premium members only) So I did one. And another one. And I found out that grids are really fun to use!!  It’s a lot easier to use grids if you draw one on your page first so then you can tell where to put your pictures and elements!

By the way, can I just say I LOVE My Mind's Eye's Stella & Rose line? I love the colors and they're really fun to use. Come back tomorrow for another layout made with this gorgamous paper!

For this next layout, I used my PJ pants for inspiration! I used the navy as a background, just like my pants, and then added spots of different colors!

 

 

 

 

 



Happy Birthday Card

The card challenge for this week on Club Creating Keepsakes is to use chipboard some way on your card! I love the look of raw chipboard, so I decided to use all of the rest of my random chipboard flowers on my card! I stamped them with a script stamp from Stampin' Up from a few years ago, added a few brads to a couple of the flowers, and ta-do! You're done! Twine is from hobbiesfromtheheart off Etsy. Love it to death. :)

Supplies: Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye; Chipboard: K&Company and JoAnn's; Stamps: Stampin' Up, American Crafts; Ink: Colorbox; Brads: American Crafts, Hobby Lobby; Twine: Etsy; Stickles: Ranger; Glue: Glossy Accents