29 Jul 2011
by dlwidder
in Scrapbook Layouts
Tags: 12x12 single page, baby, border punch, boys, circle punch, circles, Cosmo Cricket, epiphany punch, epoxy, fussy cutting, handmade embellishments, hearts, layout, multi-photo, siblings
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!
23 Jul 2011
by dlwidder
in Scrapbook Layouts
Tags: 12×12 layout, blue, boy, brads, charm, doilies, doily, fussy cutting, Hattie, layered, masculine, MME, multi-photo, My Mind’s Eye, paint, photo strip, single page, splatter, Stella and Rose
This week at Let’s Capture These Sketches, we had another gorgeous sketch by Ness to work with. I loved working with it and felt that a photo strip would be perfect for the layout. I chose a strip with Larry holding Christian. He was so fascinated by their image on the screen that he kept pointing to it and saying excitedly, “Look, Dada”! 😀
Here’s my take on the sketch:
Materials:
American Crafts cardstock
My Mind’s Eye Stella & Rose Hattie papers
MME Stella & Rose Hattie frame
MME Stella & Rose Hattie brads
MME Stella & Rose Hattie charm
Little Yellow Bicycle doilies
Maya Road chipboard alphas
Folk Art Acrylic Paint
Adhesives:
Helmar Adhesive Runner
Helmar Acid Free Glue
Helmar Zapdots
Helmar Liquid Scrapdots
Sketch by Ness:
If you’d like to enter your take on sketch #92, CLICK HERE. TFL!
01 Jul 2011
by dlwidder
in Cards and Projects, Scrapbook Layouts
Tags: 12×12 layout, 1st bath, alpha stickers, Barefoot and Bliss, blue, Bo Bunny, chipboard stickers, circles, distressing, fussy cut, journaling, layering, multi-photo, orange, pink paislee, single page
About a month ago or so I won some of Bo Bunny’s new Barefoot and Bliss papers and their layered chipboard embellies. We’ve never taken the kids to the beach and I don’t have a single beach photo. However on the day we gave Christian his first sponge bath at home, he happened to be wearing a little romper that said “Beach Bum” on it and the colors seemed fairly appropriate, so I decided to use the BB for this layout. There was even a page that reminded me of bubbles, so I fussy cut and punched out some of the circles.
This layout is an example for the Paper Secrets July Sketch challenge. I rotated the sketch to better suit what I had in mind and here’s what I came up with:
Materials:
Bo Bunny Barefoot and Bliss 12×12 cardstock papers
BB Barefoot and Bliss layered chipboard stickers
Pink Paislee alpha stickers
Adhesives:
Helmar adhesive runner
Helmar ZapDots
Then I used the scraps to create a card for my example for the PS July Card Sketch with a twist (the twist is that you must use a border punch). Here’s my take on the sketch:
Materials:
BB Barefoot and Bliss 12×12 cardstock papers
Twine from the Twinery
Adhesives:
Helmar adhesive runner
Helmar 450 Quick Dry
Tool:
Martha Stewart doily lace punch
TFL!
01 Jul 2011
by dlwidder
in Scrapbook Layouts
Tags: 12×12 layout, blue, chipboard, diecut, glitter, journaling, layered papers, miscellany, moon, multi-photo, October Afternoon, red, Rocket Age, single page, sketch, space, stickles, white
For this layout I combined the July color challenge (with a twist) on Paper Secrets with a gorgeous sketch#88 by Ness on Let’s Capture These Sketches.
Be sure to stop by these great sites for some fun and inspiring challenges! Let’s Capture These Sketches features a new card and layout sketch each week. Card sketches are usually posted on Fridays and Layout sketches are posted on Saturday. Hope you stop by and play along! Paper Secrets features 4 new monthly challenges which are posted on the 1st of every month and all entries are due by the end of the month. This month, we have a color challenge, a manufacturer challenge, a card sketch and a layout sketch! Each completed project that is posted to the gallery gives you one entry for the monthly prize…a $25 gift certificate to the PS store!
These photos are from when Matthew was 2 and Madison was 3. They were pretending that the Earth was melting and they built a rocket ship to the moon. Surrounded by these toys…their space craft…they urgently yelled for me to hop on before it’s too late! I teasingly told them that there wasn’t any room, so Matthew frantically tried to grab and shift some objects to make room, not realizing that all he was doing was making it more cramped. He soon gave up. If you look closely at their faces, you can tell Madison didn’t find my teasing so amusing especially when Matthew gives up his expansion efforts and I tell them, well, I guess I have to stay here and fry. lol
Materials:
October Afternoon Rocket Age 12×12 cardstock papers
OA Rocket Age chipboard sticker
OA Rocket Age Miscellany
OA Rocket Age diecut stickers
Stickles
Webster’s Pages Storytellers Alphas
Inkssentials White opaque pen
Adhesives:
Helmar Adhesive runner
TFL!
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