Some Layout Sketch Fun!

I had some fun this month working with the 2 Broke Girls Scraps Sketches and I thought I would share those with you today!  

Sketch 14

Sketch 15

Sketch 16

p.s.This is a pretty new site with great sketch inspiration! You should come play along too! 

A Card Sketch for this Wacky Wednesday!

WOWZAH!  The design team at Practical Scrappers has done it again! Some Amazing cards inspired by a sketch created by little old me! Why not create a card of your own inspired by the sketch and upload it to the Practical Scrappers Facebook page? 

Here is my take on the sketch

Have fun with it!  Hope you'll share your creative take on this sketch!  

p.s. try to create a card sketch of your own! It is amazing how easy it is!

Time to Go Out of My Comfort Zone!

Hi! If you are a regular reader, you will have noticed that I have been participating in a lot of new challenge sites and I think this trend is going to continue!

There are so many challenges out there from color challenges, sketches, page recipes...Keeps it exiting! I find that these challenges really encourage me to get more pages done and they help foster ideas that I may not have come up with on my own!  Even more than getting more layouts done, they encourage me to go out of my comfort zone and try some great new techniques and ideas and products!  Today's layout uses the #15 Sketch from My Scraps and More Sketches as inspiration and the Paper Girl's Challenge is Twine so there are lots of little Twine goodies on this page!  I surprised myself with the final product on this layout because it is not really my "style" but I LOVE IT!

Washi Tape is my new Best Friend!!

I hand sewed the buttons on, then wrapped the twine around them!

I love the Chevron pattern on the journaling block.  I followed the lines with my writing.

I secured the twine along the top banner by tying it around a straight pin and inserting it into the paper.

And a little twine bow!

Hope this inspires you to get a page done!

Come join the fun at the Paper Girls Challenge

 and

My Scraps and More Sketches

You might be amazed at how inspiring it can be!

My First Card Sketch

One of the ways scrappers come up with inspiration for projects is by taking a sketch designed by another scrapper and making it their own.  I have never attempted a sketch of my own until now.  I have always wondered how hard it would be to create a sketch for a layout or card and was surprised at how quickly it came together.  I used Microsoft PowerPoint and it was very simple.

Here is the card that I created using this sketch.

and some close ups of the details

We used this Sketch for a Post on the design team over at Practical Scrappers.  Make sure to check out what the other designers came up with!!  It was very exciting see my card translated into several different cards!  Beautiful job ladies!!