Sassy Lil' Sketches 4.7 Reveal

I love the 7th of every month! It's another challenge & reveal day at Sassy Lil' Sketches :) Hop on over there to see what the wonderful DT did with this week's sketch. Here it is:



Here is what I came up with. My "lil' ham" :)



Cardmakers, don't forget that Sassy Lil' Card Sketches
has a reveal today, too.


Sassy Lil' Sketches April Sponsors:

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Crop Stop is hosting a Spellbinders event at Crop Stop Challenge Blog starting today!
Be sure to check the details of their weekly challenges to find out how you can win an amazing Spellbinders prize package.

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Layouts must be uploaded by May 5th, 11:59 P.M. EST
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Sketchy Thursdays 3.31 & Bubble Wrap

I had some time this weekend to work on a few pages, and I did this one from Sketchy Thursdays. I love bright colors :)

Here is the sketch:


And here is my layout. Reese wasn't too happy about wearing her 100 glasses, can't you tell? Haha! I made her wear them for 5 seconds while I snapped a pic. I misted the background paper, although it's hard to tell in the picture. I used a few different border punches, and I stitched through the pleated yellow paper. Those butterflies were cut from patterned paper...I love them!


I used a bottle lid to stamp these circles everywhere. So easy and cheap!


Another layout I did this weekend. I was in a paint & bubble wrap mood. LOVE how this background turned out. I took my inspiration from the little worm that Paige is holding and decided to make a rainbow background. I couldn't resist scrapping these pictures of her spitting!


Bubble wrap is AWESOME!

Guest Designing at Scrap-A-Little

I'm so honored to be guest designing at Scrap-A-Little this month with Helen Croft! She creates beautiful sketches and layouts, and she is truly the master at making handmade flowers. You must check out her many tutorials! She provided me with a sketch, and I created two layouts based on it.

Here are my two layouts:



A close-up of this cute little flower :)




Click HERE to see more of my layouts and Helen's sketches!

ScrapFIT #41 Stop & See the Flowers!

Happy April, everybody! It's the 1st, so that means it's ScrapFIT workout day! Yeah! This workout is all about flowers. Flowers can be made out of paper, ribbon, chipboard, punches, fabric or anything!!!! Create a layout with a wonderful handmade flower (or more) on it made by you!

Here is what I made:


I absolutely LOVE these handmade flowers. They're not hard to make, either. Here is a wonderful tutorial on how to create them...the color combination possibilities are endless! And the look amazing...


These are a bit simpler to make...you just punch 6 circles, lightly spritz 5 of them with water, and then pleat those 5. Spread some quick-dry glue on the sixth circle and adhere the five circles. I like to ink the edges once it's dry. Super duper easy! You can make small ones or large ones...it all just depends on the size of your circles.


Check out the AMAZING prize and sponsor for this month!!! Sweet Peach Crop Shop!! They are an incredible kit club that is celebrating their one year anniversary! Sweet Peach Crop Shop has generously donated 2 of their specialty Anniversary Kits to us this month!

What a kit they're offering our winner...it's packed with awesome scrappy goodness! You do not want to miss a chance to win it!

Be sure to head over Sweet Peach Crop Shop NOW to be a follower because they are offering awesome Anniversary deals and excitement all month long!

You will have until April 30th to join in on the Workout. Simply add your creation to our Mr. Linky on the ScrapFIT blog. Winners will be announced on May 1st!

3 New Layouts :)

I have been swamped lately! I feel like it has been forever since I posted a layout. I've been working on several things that I can't reveal yet...but I'll be able to post some of them on Friday.

Some great news to share...I am now a member of the Paper Issues Design Team! My friend Sara from ScrapFIT is also a member there, so I'm so excited to be working even more with her and our wonderful leader, Cassie. There are so many amazing scrappers there...I hope I can keep up with them!

I stumbled upon a few new blogs recently, and one of them was having a Design Team call. I figured, what the heck? I created the required layouts and sent them. Who knows if I'll make it, but I'm super happy with my work that came out of the application process! They're all from different sources of inspiration.

The first layout was based on this color palette. This was my first time staying within a certain color boundary. It was intimidating at first, but as I got into it, I loved it!


I used lots of Smooch Spritz (LOVE that stuff!) and created my background. I would never have thought to use these colors together, but I love the look! I'm usually into brighter colors, and this was so out of my comfort zone, BUT...I'm glad it forced me to try something new. And look at the awesome results! I love how it turned out! (I lifted this layout from one that Sarah Mullinax created...she is so talented!)


I keep seeing all of these cool transparency-type patterned circles in different layouts, and I have none...so I made my own. I simply found some patterns in the Clip Art of Microsoft Word and printed them onto transparency paper...so easy!


The next layout was based on this sketch:


I used red, yellow & purple since those are the base colors in the layout...or at least the colors that pop out to me.


I embossed the red circles...love my Cuttlebug :) I also did a lot of zig-zag stitching at the top & bottom.


The last layout is based on this magazine ad:


Here is what I came up with...I'm happy with the end result. I wasn't too sure about the titles all over the page, but I think they're perfect for this!


I punched some little circles, sprinkled them all over the page, and misted everywhere to create the background. Such a fun & easy way to make patterned paper! I already had this frog made, and I had to use it since it matches the one on Reese's pajama top. I also went to town with my doodling pen...it's amazing what some scribbles can do to a page!


Thanks for stopping by for a vist! Stay tuned for more pages coming up in a few days :)

Once Upon a....Sketch

I just stumbled upon a great new challenge blog! Once Upon a....Sketch just picked its design team and will be starting up new challenges & sketches twice a month.


It looks like it's going to be a LOT of fun! I just wanted to help spread the word. Check out this awesome giveaway they're already having!!!! I'd love to win it :)



Be sure to go check it out...I can't wait for the first sketch!

Horses & Trees...

Here are a few quick pages I feel like I threw together. Sometimes pages take forever and sometimes they don't. I am not really happy with either of them. I had the ideas of how I wanted them to look and they just didn't turn out like I'd hoped.

These pictures of Reese horseback riding at school were so cute, and I wanted to put a lot of them onto one page. I knew I wanted to use a cute little horse from the Create a Critter cartridge (because they're just too cute to pass up!)...and while the horsie is adorable, the rest of the page is just....ahhhh...okay. Definitely not my favorite. It's kind of plain...but I didn't want to overshadow the pictures because they're pretty busy.


I cut my title with my Cricut and then embossed them. I also tied some "hay" around a few of the letters. That part I think is really cute :)


Again...another "blah" page. I had this cute idea of doing a tree layout, since Paige is falling over in the pictures...and I wanted to use "Timber" as my title. But the colors just didn't gel and the landscape scene just didn't go like I'd hoped. It looks rather elementary to me, and I'm not happy with it. But, it's done, and the pictures are the most important part, anyway.


I've been working on several other pages for Design Teams, and also my Guest Design spot at Scrap-A-Little on April 1st. Hopefully my "mojo" will return and I'll bust out some great layouts!