Sassy Lil Sketches - Feb 7th

Today is the official start of the Sassy Lil Sketches blog. Hope you'll check out their page sketch this week!

Here's my page based on the sketch. Sweet Christmas dreams, Gracie!

Project 12 - January 2010

Scrapbook & Cards Today has come up with a project to capture the year in photos/scrapbook pages, one month at a time. It's called Project 12, and the idea is to create a two-page layout each month to show what happened during the month. Granted, some months might be a bit humdrum, but don't we still want to capture those everyday moments? And to make it easier, Becky Fleck is providing a page sketch each month for inspiration.

Here's my page spread for January. No special events this month, just photos of everyday moments with family and friends. Those times are too often overlooked.

Building Pages class

We just finished week one of Debbie Hodges' online class "Building Pages". The lessons this week had to do with blocked designs, utilizing the golden rectangle theory, and using white space on your pages. It's really interesting to see how these graphic design concepts work in scrapbooking.

Here are the pages I've done for the class this week:

New ScrapSketch posted this week!

Stephanie posted three new sketches over at Scrapsketch.com. I chose to work with sketch #5, which worked perfectly for these photos of Gracie when she was a little over two weeks old. If she follows in her parents' footsteps and goes to UC, she should be a member of the Class of 2030 (or thereabouts, anyway). Wonder what tuition will be by then?

Sassy Lil Sketches startup

Before the site starts up "for real" in February, Cherie & Kate have posted a couple of sketches to get everyone warmed up! This page is based on one of those sketches, and it also went along with one of the challenges over at Scrap Attack Scrapbooking.

This photo of my niece just made me realize how quickly she's growing up (sigh!)

Sassy Lil Sketches

There's a new sketch blog on the web - SassyLilSketches.blogspot.com - run by Cheri & Katie, two very creative ladies - and I was lucky enough to be chosen for their card DT! They will offer one card sketch and three page sketches each month, so hopefully you'll check out their site. Here are a couple of pages based on their first two sketches:

A few more January pages

A couple of pages using some of the hundred (or two) photos I took in November and December. Gotta love digital cameras 'cause I sure couldn't afford to buy film and developing for all these!

The first page is based on a sketch from Valarie Salmon, and was done as part of the Sketchfest over at Scrap-Friendzy.com The second page was based on the January ad challenge at Scrap Attack. If you're looking for friendly scrappy sites with lots of fun and challenges, you can't miss with both of these sites!