Sunday Sketch January 29th

It's time for another sketch!  If you have a lot of little journal cards or ticket cards lying around, this is the sketch for you.  However, you can use any kind of patterned paper to create the same effect.

This is a page I created with Little Yellow Bicycle's Saturdays Collection.  The mix of Denim, Red and Cream is soooooooo cool.  It makes a great collection for both male a female pages.  This is my husband driving a boat on a lake near our home.  We had a great time and yes, it was a Saturday.

The title is a combination of Wonder & Wishes corrugated letters, My Little Shoebox Mini Alphabet Stickers and Saturdays Chipboard Pieces.

Like most of the Little Yellow Bicycle Collections, there is a Paper Flower Kit with this one.  The detailing on the flowers is really pretty and they even look good on a masculine page.

The Tear Out Tickets make a great layer of "patterned paper."  I layered an embossed Fresh Verse Sticker over them for extra journaling.

Hope you find some creativity from this sketch and please drop me a link so I can come by and admire.

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Little Yellow Bicycle NEW Swoon Collection

Did you know that Little Yellow Bicycle has released a GORGEOUS wedding collection?  It is called Swoon and I am smitten with it.  I know black and white collections can seem like a challenge, but this one has so many shade of gray, that it will easily capture all of you memories with beauty and ease.

I love all of the little stickers and chipboard pieces that come with this collection.  Makes it easy to add a sentiment to your page design.

I used some of my Martha Stewart butterfly punches to add to the theme of butterflies in the collection.  Love how this collection hits all the shades of black, white, cream and gray.  Makes my little butterfly stand out in this cluster.

It rained just a bit on our wedding day, but it made for beautiful photos and some good luck at the beginning of our marriage that still continues to thrive.

I also created a Swoon mini album to go with this page, but I will share the rest of this little album a bit later, just wanted you to see some more of the gorgeous papers and the paper flower kit.  Both of these projects will be in the Little Yellow Bicycle booth at CHA.  Hope you will stop by and say hello to our team.

I'll be back tomorrow with a new sketch and some more Little Yellow Bicycle.

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BRAND New Awesome Collection from Simple Stories

Yesterday was all about Fabulous and today is all about AWESOME, the new all boy collection from Simple Stories.  What more could you want than awesome green, browns and oranges, awesome stars and awesome motorcycles and guitars???  It's just so... well - awesome.   I think it is perfect for my "awesome" son and will probably make a cool page of my "awesome" guitar-playing husband.  It's going to be an awesome year at Simple Stories if you KWIM - LOL,

The sentiments in this collection on the cardstock sticker sheets totally crack me up.  This one was so perfect for my little guy.

Thought it would be fun to make a little flag out of the cardstock sticker sentiments to ride on the back of the motorcycle.  A little twine finishes off the look - even though I know the twine does not look "tough."

 

I am becoming addicted to flag trios.  I plan to share a few more CHA projects this week with lots of flags, I think I have run out of my toothpick stash, but I really love these "sandwich" toothpicks because they have flat sides and the tops are rounded and perfect for scrapbooking.

Please visit the Simple Stories blog for a chance to win this colleciton. 

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BRAND New Fabulous Collection from Simple Stories

Simple Stories has a brand new collection called Fabulous and it is for all the girls in your lives.  Can you say fabulous gingham, fabulous pink and fabulous flowers, because that is what this collection is all about!  I couldn't be happier with a collection so fun to create pages about my "fabulous" daughter.  Might even make a "fabulous" page about myself...you get the point - LOL.

You can't really have fabulous without a bit of twine and miniature clothespins.  These are such fun colors to create with.  Please visit the Simple Stories blog for a look at the entire collection and a chance to win this collection in a drawing.

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Sunday Sketch January 22nd

Is it hectic around your house?  I just finished off the last of my CHA projects today and will be popping them in the mail tomorrow, headed for Anaheim.  And...because the trade show is just around the corner, I thought it would be fun to make a sketch with one of my projects for Little Yellow Bicycle's Paradise Collection.  I like the idea of color blocking and using as many patterned papers as you can while still keeping the design relatively simple.  So take a look in your stash to find at least three or four different patterned papers that compliment each other perfectly.

I created this page of a visit with some of my girlfriends to San Diego.  I thought the sentiments of the cardstock stickers perfectly captured the occasion.  I also highlighted the Flower Kit and dressed it up with LYB Jewel Stickers.

I just love how adding a few pop dots to the cardstock stickers makes them jump off the page.  The "free" sentiment paired with the bird sticker shows how my friends and I "left" our families at home so we could enjoy a girls weekend out.

Thank you for stopping by and let me know what you think or do with this one!