look! making memories asked me to be a guest designer for their blog!!! sooo exciting! here's what i did - i couldn't decide on one...

you can go over to the making memories blog to get descriptions of products used and some tips.

thanks for looking, and letting me toot my own horn... ;)

reminiscing...

i was recently purging some cabinets and found some old pictures of my hubby and i with our (now 15 year old) daughter. i got rid of the picture frames they were in, but was inspired by this sketch from pagemaps to create this layout...


picture of love i had fun with this! the black background rubon i've had in my stash FOREVER - it's dee's designs distressed effects (circa 2005!) and the papers are a mix of basic grey and fancy pants. i just love how it turned out. i have a big clipboard that i'm using to display this layout, i love it that much!

as always, thanks for checking my stuff out. keep an eye out for next month's scrappy chic kit - i'm hard at work on it! i've already got one project done - using something found from around the house that quit working, and i'm wrapping up my second layout... i'm not sure i'm done! :)

feeling sketchy

i've forgotten how much fun it is to play along with sketch inspiration... she's got some awesome sketches over there, and this one just fit the photo i wanted to work with. this is sketch #231.

i dribbled liquid watercolor on the cs, but it was taking too long to dry, so i blew on it a bit. i like the effect. for a bit of dimension, i glued on some baker's twine around the edges of the shaped pp.

thanks for looking...

scrappy chics * august 2011

here it is...

Scrappy Chic's august kit!

it's stuffed with everything you need to document your summer activities! i love how the october afternoon and pink paislee products mix it up. as usual, miss melinda does an amazing job choosing product for her kit! thanks, melinda...







here's what i did with my kit...





bittersweet for this layout, i used a piece of white cs from my stash, along with some mists to coordinate with the sea-green patterned paper from the kit. i hand cut a wave and temporarily adhered it to the cs before misting, for a stand-out title accent. for the word sweet, i traced the pink paislee alpha onto the cs, then hand cut it out with my trusty exacto knife, and layered the lace fabric from the kit under it with green cs... i hand cut some of the wave paper & layered that at the bottom, using pop dots for dimension, to mimic the picture. doodling, stitching, and handwritten journaling finish this layout.

10 things i love about summer what a fun little mini! i used red smooch spray ink to color the chipboard, and some green smooch ink for the rind. stazon black ink was used for the seeds - i took all the seeds and the rind out before coloring, then when dry, i put them back in with a little glue to keep them in place. everything is from the kit, except for the green and yellow ribbon i used.

her smile hand cut title, lace fabric background, liz qualman sketch, photo altered at befunky.com = one of my new favorite layouts... :)

go this picture was taken with my phone, using an app called vignette demo. layout based on a mishmash of pagemaps sketches...

can you believe it's august already? sighhhhh... back to work in just 10 short days. to tell you the truth, though, i'm almost ready for it. :)

be back later with a layout based on a weekly sketch inspirations sketch...

thanks for looking!