Lucky...OUAS September 34

Hi there! Hope you are having a great week! It's time for a new sketch to play with at Once Upon A Sketch. This month, we ask you to focus on the journaling theme: "Lucky".

Here's the fun sketch we will be playing with:

I scrapped a trio of photos of Meredith as she was saddling up and riding her horse. These photos were taken nearly 10 years ago! 

I layered the photos on distressed patterned paper, stitched in place then embellished with a pretty white washed Imaginarium Designs chipboard dragonfly: 

I randomly stamped the chicken wire image from Distressed Background Blocks:

I framed Meredith riding her horse with a pretty white washed  Imaginarium Designs chipboard frame:

For the title, I stamped a sentiment from MFT Complimentary Greetings then framed it with a fancy white washed Imaginarium Designs chipboard frame and embellished it with an Imaginarium Designs chipboard heart:

Thanks so much for visiting ~ I hope you liked my layout. Please be sure to visit the Once Upon A Sketch site to see what the participating DT members have created.
Be Sweet ;)

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love 32

Hi there! I hope you all had a great weekend and wonderful Mother's Day celebration if you observed :) Unfortunately Scott had to work today so he was not able to join Jerry, April, April's Mom and myself for Mother's Day brunch. We had a great time and the food was yummy. April gave her Mom the framed layout that she made the other day and her Mom really loved it :) I made an extra copy of one of the photos and made a canvas for April using her favorite colors: purple and yellow.

I covered the canvas with tissue paper then added lots of texture using fiber paste and the MFT MPD Square Motif stencil. 

After randomly spritzing on purple and yellow mists, I used white acrylic paint with the MPD Graduated Dots stencil to add random polka dots.

 All the chipboard pieces are all the way from Imaginarium Designs located in Australia.

Thanks so much for visiting ~ I hope you have a great evening / day!

Be Sweet ;)

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Friends...OUAS 29

Hi there! It's time for a new sketch to play with at Once Upon A Sketch. This month, we ask you to include a number, ANY number, on your layout. It has to be VISIBLE and it can be in your title or part of your journalling. It can be a date, an age, a house number, an anniversary, the number of children you have, the number of pets .... anything you like. But please make sure that there is some explanation through your journalling, somewhere on your page or blog about what this number means to you.

I made a layout featuring a photo of Emily, Connor and Meredith prior to the Homecoming dance. After creating the background with various sprays, molding paste and gesso, I was ready to embellish the page with various chipboard pieces from Imaginarium Designs that I altered as well. The beautiful frame around the photo is an Imaginarium Designs Anna Frame. The tag was made using a Die-namics Traditional Tag STAX die which features my journaling along with ID chipboard altered numbers.

Shown below are a few manufactured blossoms along with fancy ID flourishes. 

and all three butterflies on the page are from ID as well. I cut a doily in two that was made using a Die-namics Dizzy Doily Duo die and adhered those pretty little chipboard butterflies. 

Thanks so much for visiting ~ I hope you liked my layout. Please be sure to visit the Once Upon A Sketch site to see what the participating DT members have created.
Be Sweet ;)

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Time flies...OUAS March 41

Hi there! Since it is the beginning of a new month, that means it is time for an all new Once Upon A Sketch Challenge. Shown below is the fun sketch that we will be playing with all month and the theme is "It's the Weekend". 

Almost Happy March in the US! It is currently March 1st here in Sydney where I am actually this weekend and will be for the next 5 days! Scott and I will be visting Australia and New Zealand until March 18th. 

Nearly every other weekend, on Saturdays, Meredith has a horse riding lesson so I scrapped a photo of Meredith riding Dallas one Saturday morning. 

I combined a variety of store bought flowers with various chipboard pieces that I had on hand. The scalloped circle on the right hand side is from the Blue Fern Studios Nested Circles Set.

I applied a layer to of embossing enamel to all the chip board pieces. Shown below is a beautiful butterfly large from Imaginarium Designs 

The sentiment is another beautiful piece from Imaginarium Designs with a coating of pink enamel.

Thanks so much for visiting!  For some AMAZING International inspiration and complete details, please refer to the Once Upon A Sketch Challenge blog.

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