My Scraps and More - sketch #29

It's been a little while since I played along with the sketch challenges at My Scraps and More, but I made time this weekend to use their latest sketch.  (you can see it here!)

I'm playing along with the scrap your stash challenge this month at My Scraps and More, and my stash I'm trying to use up is the Basic Grey Knee Highs collection, so that's what I used for this page, along with some stickers from Echo Park, a Project Life journaling card, and stamp from Unity.
This photo of my grandson is from November, when he was just barely starting to crawl; he'll be one next month and just started walking - time sure does fly!

Love to Scrap - Challenge #6 - pastels or primaries?

We have a new challenge up at Love to Scrap and you have your choice of color palettes; either pastel colors or primary colors.    Pastels are always hard for me to work with, so I took the easy way out and used primary colors on this card.  :)

 

Washi tape stamps from A. Jillian Vance Designs; sentiment stamp from Simon Says Stamp;

 patterned paper from Basic Grey

 

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Merry & Bright - with Jingle Belles

There are a couple of days left to join in the challenge @ Jingle Belles - create a "merry and bright" card.  I used some bright colors, glitter markers, and a little bit of gold Stickles to create this cheery Christmas tree card. (and you now, it's only seven more months til Christmas!) 

 

 

another 10 minute craft dash from Pretty Pink Posh

The current 10 minute craft dash challenge over at Pretty Pink Posh is to create a card in 10 minutes or less, using the color scheme above of light green, yellow and lavender.  This was a double challenge for me - creating something in 10 minutes and using lavender!  But, I managed to come up with this card in 9 minutes and 24 seconds.

 

The hexagon flower border is only four blocks long, so I stamped it four times to get the two rows.  I used Copics to color the flowers, alternating lavender and yellow, and then outlined the border of each hexagon with light green.  The butterfly was stamped on the white cardstock, then stamped again, colored and cut out and adhered for a little dimension.  I added some black glitter pen to the butterfly body and some clear glitter pen to the flower centers. 

Inspired by storefronts

One thing I really love about Debbie Hodge's Get It Scrapped site is that she has some really creative ideas for drawing inspiration from everyday things.   Today's article is about drawing inspiration from storefronts.

I was inspired by this photo from (Burnsland Photos) of some of the stores along Main Street in Disney World.  I loved the pastel colors, the white trim, and the way they were lined up so close together.    Here's my scrapbook page inspired by the photo:

Sweet Kids by Brenda Becknell | Supplies: Cardstock: American Crafts; Patterned Paper: American Crafts & Jillibean Soup; Sentiment sticker: Pink Paislee; Pearls: Queen & Co.; Stamp: Technique Tuesday: Border punch: Martha Stewart “Lattice Arch”: Twine: The Twinery: Markers: Copic

 

Check out today's article to see how all the other DT members were inspired!

Seriously?

One of the posts this week at Get It Scrapped focuses on the asymmetrical cross layout design, with one strong horizontal band and one strong vertical band across the page.

For this layout of my granddaughter, I used the photos as my vertical band, and patterned paper along with flower stamps as the horizontal band.  Now that she's almost four, she has a real aversion to having her picture taken; she either makes a silly face or hides, LOL!

Check  out the article at Get It Scrapped to see examples of this layout design from all the other designers!

Time for a new Frosted Designs challenge!

This week's challenge at Frosted Designs is to create a project using black, white, and just one other color.  I chose yellow as my accent color because I love the way it brightens up the page!

The background paper already had portions cut out, so the yellow cardstock showed through.  I layered black cardstock and a black newsprint paper behind my photo, which was matted on white cardstock, and then added stitching around the page and two rows of stitching around the photo and mats.  I inked a chipboard scallop piece and stamped the title on it, then added a metal sun brad and some little yellow glass dots to some of the background flowers.  Usually I match the colors in my papers and cardstock to the colors in the photo, but since there wasn't much color in this photo of DD and DGD at the pool, I thought the yellow captured the feeling of a sunny summer swimming day.

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