January LOAD Challenge

Well, it is January again, and I'm participating in the LOAD challenge at Let's Scrap.  The challenge is to complete a "LayOut A Day", or at least a page a day.  Because I do mostly 2-page layouts, it means finishing about 15 layouts in the moth of January. 
I started out the month by making a layout for the 12-26-12 sketch at Let's Scrap.  I got the idea from several others who used this sketch for "details" layouts.  Here is my layout:

I used a few photos of the little details from my daughter's wedding that otherwise might not have been scrapped.  The glitter paper is hard to work with because nothing really wants to stick to it, but I love the results.

I then worked on a couple of graduation layouts:

My son-in-law graduated from college in December.  I made these two layouts for him.  The first one was from an old CTMH kit. The bottom one is made with a sketch from one of Valerie Salmon's Got Sketch? classes, I think Got Sketch? 101. It is hard to see in the photo, but the gold is a metallic paper.  I love the little something extra it adds.

I also finished a layout of Zack's Thanksgiving Program at School.  I included one of the poems they recited, "Five Little Turkeys".  This layout is one of the November "Super Saver Sketch Club" layouts from Scrapbook Generation.  The layout is straight, but my photo is pretty crooked.

Scrap Camp Layouts

After a long summer with almost no scrapping, I am happy to report that I am back in my scraproom.  Warning, this post is photo heavy!!!

Went to the fall "Scrap and Stamp Camp" hosted by my CTMH consultant  in Okemos MI last weekend.  I think I have 20 finished pages to share.  (I also made a few layouts that don't have photos on them yet).

These first few are for Megan's wedding album:

 This one is from a GSE3 sketch by Valerie Salmon.  I made the flowers with my cricut and the Art Philosophy cartridge. 

 Another Valerie Salmon sketch.  This one from GSE4.  I liked the way the long photo worked with this sketch.

 This is a Let's Scrap sketch from 12-8-10.  It is one of my favorites.  I think this is the 3rd layout I have used the sketch for. 

 Another Valerie Salmon sketch.  This one is from GSE4 also.  The banner is made from circles I punched and folded over twine.

And finally, this sketch is from Scrapbook Generation.  I liked all the squares where  I could showcase some of the beautiful Kaisercraft Chapter One papers I have used throughout the album.  More of the cricut flowers. 


These next 2 layouts are from kits by A Page 4 all Seasons:

Next are 2 Halloween layouts.  They are both from Scrapbook Generation Sketches.  The first one is from their Halloween ebook which also has several Halloween themed embellishments to make (the pumpkins here) as well as titles, quotes and sketches for Halloween themed layouts.

This second one uses BoBunny papers and stickers.

This is a layout I made several years ago with a special kit from CTMH.  I was waiting for the right photos to put on it.  These photos from Megan and Caleb's first anniversary were perfect.  The layout is actually quite sparkly IRL, I used a lot of prisma glitter on it as well as rhinestones.

And lastly, this is a layout from the June Super Saver Sketch Club from Scrapbook Generation.  I put all three of the layouts together, but only had photos for this one.  These papers are from Simple Stories.

Thanks for looking.  I will try not to wait so long for my next post:)

International Scrapbook Month

Well, it is May 1 and that means the big celebration for Scrapbook month has begun at Let's Scrap. Since we like to do things big, instead of just celebrating National Scrapbook day on Saturday May 5, we will be celebrating all month.  And because we have members from more than 100 countries, we are calling it [Inter]national Scrapbooking Month. There will be games, challenges and prizes all month.  Come on over and check it out here.

Got Sketch 107 layouts

Since Blogger changed their format, I've been having a little trouble posting my layouts.  Thought I would give it another try today.  I wanted to share the rest of my Got Sketch? 107 layouts with you.

This first layout is for sketch #5.  I can see that I need to work on my photographing of layouts LOL!  I prefer to work with 2-page layouts, so I am always excited to see the double layout sketches that Val does for her classes.  For this one, I used a couple of different sports themed papers, Teresa Collins "Sports Edition II" and American Crafts "Junior".  I started by selecting all the papers and photos, then had lots of fun adding all the little tags and things.  The stickers were leftover from the other Karate layout I did and are from Recollections (Michael's).

Karate

This one is for sketch #6.  It is very similar to another one I did last year with the same line of papers from Fancy Pants: "Father and Son".  Zack likes to dress like his dad and "help" him. I went out and bought the Tim Holtz gear die as I just really love the layouts I see with gears on them, and wanted to use them for this one.  I added some "screw" brads to the centers. I love it!

Tough Guy

For Sketch #7 I decided to do a birthday layout for my oldest son, Luke.  The photos I had were not great, but I don't do many layouts of him as we don't see him as much as I would like.  Can you believe he is 28 years old?  Hard to believe since I am only 37 (at least that is what I have taught my kids to tell everyone)  LOL!!!!  This layout uses "quilt circles".  I used a few double sided papers I was able to find in my scraps.  The little embellies are from a prize I won at Let's Scrap  Various papers from my stash, Happy Birthday punch: Martha Stewart Crafts, stars Fiskars, I cut the blue frame with my cricut Art Philosophy cartridge,

Happy Birthday

Sketch #8 is another double.  For this one I used CTMH's Sophie collection.  Photos are from Megan's shower last May.  She just gave me a few more photos from this event, and since I hadn't scrapped it yet, I decided to use them now.  I really like the way the folded circle border came out.I used the cricut Alphalicious (still my fav font cart) cartridge to cut the title.  Papers, stamps, buttons are all CTMH.

Zing went the Strings of my Heart

Valerie is going to be having another class in May. Got Sketch? Express 3. If you have never taken a class with her, I highly recommend that you check it out here.

Thanks for looking.

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Let's Scrap Weekly Sketch

Here is the layout I did for the 4-4-12 sketch at Let's Scrap:

 And here is the sketch:

The layout really did start with the sketch. This is what I ended up with. I started with the row of "quilt" circles.  I planned to use the left side of the sketch and flip it for the right side as I had 2 5"x7" photos I wanted to use.  I wanted to use a scalloped border for my photo mats, and then I got the idea to use more of the quilt circles to make the mats.  As a result, they ended up being fairly large which meant moving the row of circles to the bottom.  There was not much room left for the title, so I was thrilled to find these (old) alpha buttons in my stash that I put in the centers of the row of circles to spell out "family".  I have always loved quilts, and did a lot of quilting before I started scrapbooking. This layout was fun to create because, just like a scrap quilt, I was able to use different patterns, cut them up in little pieces, and put them back into a fun new design.  Hope you like it. 

This layout is another one for Megan's wedding album.  In case you are interested, the photo on the left is my family, and the one on the right  is her father (my ex-husband's) family.  Most of the patterned papers are Kaisercraft Chapter One collection. Thanks for looking.



A couple more Got Sketch? 107 layouts

Here are a couple more layouts I have done for Valerie Salmon's GotSketch? 107 class I am currently taking. 

Sketch 3: Tae Kwon Do

This layout features chevrons that were cut from 2" strips of paper with a 1 1/2" square punch.  The photos are of Zachary practicing his karate positions in his new "gi". I was in Michaels to get some beads for a project for my daughter and looked for some blue alpha stickers to use on this and found these Tae Kwon Do stickers perfect. 

Sketch 4: Brothers

This photo is one that was taken at my daughter's wedding rehearsal dinner of my 2 sons.  They are 21 years apart, and could easily pass for father and son.  In fact, when we are all together we sometimes tease them and pretend we are the grandparents in public just to see how people react (especially Luke's friends/coworkers). This layout has a paper pieced sunburst design.  All the papers came from my scraps.  The star was laying on my work table (left over from the layout above) and I laid it on here to check the size, and decided to use it as it went beautifully with the other papers.  I wasn't sure I was going to add the banners that were on the sketch, but I cut a few to see if I liked them, and I'm glad I did.  I think they really do add something to the layout.  The brads are Queen and Co from my stash, buttons stash, and the title is American Crafts Thickers .