Love layout – Pagemaps sketch contest entry

Earlier this month, Becky Fleck posted a wonderful sketch to the PageMaps blog for a contest to win a $20 gift certificate towards any scrapbooking kit from Freehand Scraps. After working several sketches over at Scrapbook Challenges, I finally got to create my layout based on this sketch last night. My poor neglected blog…since SC does not have you post your take on the sketches on your blog and link to it from their site, I have forgotten to post 6 layouts or so this month, so I’ll have to do that later this weekend!

Back to the Pagemaps layout…after months of frequenting the Cosmo Cricket blog, I finally discovered that they have challenges too! I never knew that! Rather than running them on their blog, however, they have chosen to host their challenges on Scrapbook.com. What a fun discovery for me! I was really excited when I read that on their blog and quickly headed over to the forum to see what the current challenge entails. This month’s challenge was quite simple really. Use at least 90% CC product and use either handmade or punched border! Pretty simple right? Lucky for me, the fab Pagemaps sketch easily facilitated the punched border I had in mind. Here’s what I came up with combining the two challenges:

Materials:

Cosmo Cricket Odds and Ends Papers
CC Odds and Ends cardstock stickers
CC Odds and Ends 6×6 paper pad
American Crafts blue cardstock
Ranger Liquid Pearls

Adhesives:

Helmar Adhesive Runner
Helmar Acid Free Glue
Helmar 450 Quick Dry
Helmar Zapdots

Tools:

Epiphany punch (heart and circle)
Making Memories circle punches
Fiskars border/edge punch

The sketch I used for this layout:

TFL!

Footloose layout – Sketchy Thursdays challenge entry

For this layout, I used the MME Hazel range for a boy layout. πŸ˜€ It’s based on the 2.24 sketch at Sketchy Thursdays posted below. Here’s what I came up with:

Here’s the sketch I used:

Materials:

My Mind’s Eye Hazel “Fancy” papers
American Crafts white cardstock
MME Hazel “Fancy” title
MME Hazel “Fancy” buttons
white thread
Ranger Distress Ink

Adhesives:

Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro PermaTac
Helmar 450 Quick Dry

If you’d like to enter a challenge at Sketchy Thursdays too, CLICK HERE.

Howdy Cowboy card – The Paper Variety sketch challenge entry

The Paper Variety has a great card sketch for this week’s challenge. This first card is my entry:

But while I was at it, I figured I might as well make a second card since I already had the trim and materials out. Here’s the one I made just for fun:

As you can see, I just used a mirror image of the sketch for the coordinating second card. πŸ˜€ TFL!

Materials:

DCWV All About Boys 6.5″ x 4.5″ stack
American Crafts cream cardstock base
Making Memories trim

Adhesives:

Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro PermaTac
Helmar 450 Quick Dry Liquid
American Crafts This to That foam dots

If you’d like to see the sketch I used for these cards or if you’d like to enter the challenge too (ends this Tuesday, 2/22/11), CLICK HERE.

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