Nuts About Sketches #229

My term on the Nuts About Sketches design team is over, but I played along this week because the sketch worked quite well with the stack of birth announcements I had laying on my desk waiting to be scrapped.

I modified the sketch quite a bit to fit everything on.  I eliminated the large journaling area because I didn't have much to say and just made a smaller one under the title.  I moved over the photo on the right and added another.  I played a bit with the confetti concept suggested by the sketch.   I started by splattering mist on the cardstock, followed by a couple of spritzes to soften the splatters. I kept the pieces that punched out of the holes on the orange scallop paper.  Then I added some stickers and fussy cut a couple of animals from a sheet of Karen Foster patterned paper.

Materials-

Cardstock- American Crafts

Patterned Paper- Crate, My Mind's Eye, Paper Adventures, Echo Park, Karen Foster Designs

Specialty Paper- Making Memories

Felt Accents- Pebbles

Stickers- Me and My Big Ideas

Journal Spot- Jillibean Soup

Ink- Tattered Angels

Pen- Tsukineko

Font- Chubby Cheeks

Die Cutter- Provo Craft

Software- Sure Cuts A Lot

Recess!

My Scraps and More is have a Back to School Crop this week!  There are challenges for each "class".  I decided to start with "Recess" (not sure what that says about me, but that's what inspired me first!).  The challenge was to create a page using outdoors photos.  I had these photos of Ellie playing at the park from two years ago.  I also did this for Day 5 of the Big Idea Festival at Big Picture Classes.  The challenge there was to "Craft Happy" and just enjoy the process.  While this layout ended up being for 2 challenges, I was working with no parameters in terms of supplies, sketch, etc.  I just pulled papers and embellishments and played!  

I gave my Cricut a workout cutting out the title and the little girl on the second page.  I was realizing that I haven't used my Cricut much lately for my scrapbook pages, so I decided it was time.  It also made my title a breeze!  For the title, I used the "Live Simply" Cartridge and one of the phrases included.  It didn't quite fit as is, so I cut the words apart to make it fit better on the page.  The little girls is from the "Playtime" cartridge. The other thing that I played with that I haven't in a while is some adhesive rub ons and glitter. I usually skip these because of the mess, but I wanted the sparkle to add a little something to this page and they really weren't that bad!

Materials
Cardstock- Bazzill
Patterned Paper- Bo Bunny Press, Imagination Project, Provo Craft, Basic Grey, My Mind's Eye, Flair Designs, and Crate Paper
Transparency- Anna Griffin
Adhesive Rub ons and Glitter- K and Co.
Rub ons- Hambly Screen Prints
Stickers- American Crafts, Little Yellow Bicycle, Fiskars
Chipboard- American Crafts
Pen- Sharpie, Tsukineko, Creative Memories
Punches- EK Success, Martha Stewart Carfts
Die Cutter- Provo Craft
Cartridges- Playtime, Live Simply

Cards!

I've made a couple of cards in the last few days; a baby card for a friend who just had a baby and a birthday card for my niece whose birthday was Tuesday and I totally missed (oops!).

I'll start with the baby card. I did this one for a couple of challenge. I used the current sketch at Mojo Monday. I also made this for the Day 1 challenge for the Big Idea Festival at Big Picture Classes. The challenge was to send someone a handmade note. I made this card and hand delivered it today, along with a gift and dinner. Making dinner for new moms is something that I have come to really enjoy doing. When my son was born two years ago I had so many people come forward to bring us meals, it was such a blessing.  Since then, I have tried to do the same for as many people as possible.

This morning I glanced at the calendar to see if we had any birthdays coming up and realized that our niece's birthday was Tuesday and I had totally missed it!  So I set to work with the card sketch from Let's Capture These Sketches.

I hand cut the circles, but they were pretty rough, so I covered that up by distressing the edges.  For the center circle, I punched it with my scalloped circle punch and then stamped the flower on another piece of paper and fussy cut it.  I curled the petals a bit to give it some dimension and pop dotted the whole circle.  

Scavenger Hunt Sunday: 9-2-12

Well, it's been a while, but I got the photo scavenger hunt done this week! I've been taking lots of photos the last couple of days so I figured I should be able to fill the prompts this week! I also followed the tutorial Ashley linked this week in "Tutorial Tuesday" on how to make a watermark, so now my photos have a watermark! Here are my shots for the week.

Candid
Here is my busy 2-year-old climbing the rope ladder at the park earlier this week. He got all the way to the top and then needed help getting down.

Toys
Kids don't need fancy toys to have fun! My kids love playing with old empty containers in the water, sand, etc.

Any of the 5 Senses
We went to the zoo yesterday and finally got back to the butterfly garden. We were there early in the summer, but my camera had no battery... grrr. Anyway, I had a great time taking photos of the butterflies yesterday. The butterfly garden is very much a sensory experience with all of the beautiful butterflies, flowers and instrumental music playing.

Batteries
One of the other special exhibits at the zoo are these animatronic dinosaurs.  I don't know if they are really on batteries, but they get the power to move from somewhere!

Half
Today we went to the Renaissance Festival as a family.  Everyone but me went on this swinging boat ( I sometimes get a little nauseated on swings and being pregnant I didn't want to push it!).  Anyway, this was half of the boat, the half with my daughters in it- they LOVED it!

September Calendar Page- ScrapFit #74

I have my September calendar layout done, with a couple days to spare! For this one, I went to ScrapFIT for inspiration. Workout #74 is a sketch challenge with a sketch by the awesome Diana Fisher. It is a one page sketch, but I made it work for my two page spread by rotating it 90 degrees and extending it.

I also used the "play" challenge from 8/16 at My Scraps and More. This was a bingo challenge and we had to select a row, column or diagonal and use those elements on a layout. I ended up using the bottom row: mask, ribbon, brads, and glitter.

I had fun playing with mists on here.  I started by spraying white mist on the layout.  I was going to leave it alone, but decided I wanted to add some more interest so I used a Crafter's Workshop mask and did a couple of spritzes of yellow mist.

I also played with clustering embellishments.  I used some more rub ons for the base layer and then added some die cuts.  I finished off with a gromlet flower.  I accented the center of some of the flowers on my layout and the stars with some Stickles for the glitter.

Materials:

Cardstock- Bazzill, American Crafts

Patterned Paper and Die Cuts- My Mind's Eye

Die cut letters- Creative Memories

Tape and Ribbon- Target

Yarn- The Robin's Nest

Ink- Ranger, EK Success, Studio Calico

Mask-The Crafter's Workshop

Transparency- Little Yellow Bicycle

Rub ons- We R Memory Keepers, Fancy Pants Designs

Stickers- Fiskars

Brad- Basic Grey

Gromlet- We R Memory Keepers

Pen- Creative Memories

Glitter Glue- Hampton Arts, Ranger

Nuts About Sketches #228- August calendar page

Hi all! I hope you are having a good Monday! Today is my last reveal at Nuts About Sketches. I have had a great time working with Shawn's sketches and being a part of this team and I look forward to continuing to work with the sketches in the future!

 Well, some of you may have noticed that I never shared my calendar layout for this month. That was because I used this sketch and had to wait for the reveal! I really enjoyed this sketch because there were so many places for photos. I also liked that some of the spots were for larger photos, which makes them easy to split to squeeze even more photos on! I am currently using the left hand page for my calendar.

Materials:

Cardstock- Bazzill

Patterned Paper- American Crafts, The Robin's Nest

Die Cuts- K and Company, Crate Paper

Buttons- Pink Paislee

Chipboard- Pink Paislee

Rub Ons- We R Memory Keepers

Font- CK Carefree

Rubber Charm-October Afternoon

Ribbon- The Robin's Nest

Die Cutter- Provo Craft

Cartridge- Live Simply

Transparency- Hambly Screen Prints

Ink- Clearsnap, Tsukineko

Lovely Pics

I have a quick layout to share today. I didn't do this one for any challenges, just did it to get the photos scrapped. I used Crate Paper's "Sweet Branch" Collection which is several years old.  I have found I really like working with collection packs lately because it makes the mixing and matching of papers so easy!  After completing this layout, I had no whole sheets of paper left of this collection, so it is now a "card kit."  I can grab it when I need to make a card and there are bits and pieces of matching papers to make creating a card quick and easy!  For this layout I used some of the die cuts in the kit, punched some scalloped circles from some of the paper, and fussy cut some flowers  and then used pop dots to give the page some dimension.  The page when together quite quickly!

Materials
Patterned Paper, Rub ons, and Die Cuts- Crate Paper
Foam Letters- Pink Paislee
Pen and Ink- Tsukineko
Tape- Target
Flower- Prima