Sunday Sketch, Guest Designers & Challenge Winner

I am really liking all of the multi-photo layouts I see out there, so I designed this sketch to give the guest designers some options. They could either include all the photos or break them up with patterned paper and journaling cards. Take a look at what they created this week.

Asuncion Housset is both French and Spanish and currently resides in the South of France. She likes to be called Asun, is married, and has been scrapbooking since 2002. Her little 3 year old daughter is the main source of her inspiration. She designs for a Spanish kit club called Kits de Somni and also designs for Sketches by Tamara. She doesn't have a specific style and prefers to freestyle.
Here is what Asun had to say about the sketch, " I knew immediately that I wanted to use these photos of my niece because of her intense eyes and I thought the Rusty Pickle Princess Pirate papers were a perfect choice for the layout."

Please visit Asun's blog Scrapasun for more information about her and details about her work.

Lynn Biermann is back with us again this week and working her magic. I love how her style shines through all of her layouts no matter what kind of sketch I send her way. Here is what she had to say about working with it this week, "I was very inspired by two main aspects of Liz’s Sunday May 09 sketch - the center 6 squares & her “turned up” corner in the lower right side of sketch. I have had this great photo of my hubby, me, sister & brother in law for some time. It is an unusual size photo- yet the minute I seen the center 6 squares, I knew that I was going to use the area designated for the top 3 squares for this special photo! It was instant inspiration!!! I also was very drawn to the turned up corner & had to toss it in! I think it really added a bit of whimsy to the layout! It was a fantastic sketch to work with & I am very happy the way it turned out! Thanks Liz!"Please visit Lynn's blog Pretty Paper Swirls for more information about her and details about her work.

Krystal Herbert is another fresh face and she did the cutest darn interpretation of my sketch this week. I am loving the kites! Here is what she had to say about working with the sketch. "This layout was great to work with. I was able to combine the large amount of pictures that I had with the new "Fly a Kite" paper line from October Afternoon. I really love how this layout turned out, it has a fresh and crisp look. "
Please visit Krystal's blog Addicting Paper for more information about her and details about her work.

April Challenge Winner

Let's give a big congrats to the April Challenge Winner Julie Rainbolt. She entered two of her layouts using sketches and increased her odds for winning the random drawing, which looks like it paid off for her. Julie - please email me your information and I will put a RAK in the mail to you.
Check out Julie's lovely layout that she created with the April 18th Sketch. You can learn more about her by visiting her blog Mi Vida Loca.

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More Paper Poppy

It has been such a pleasure to design with the May kit from The Paper Poppy Kit Co. and I am just floored by the creativity of my fellow designers Julie, Aphra and Frances. This is such a wonderful niche in the Scrapbook world to be a part of and I am sure that you will all agree that the kits are really AMAZING. As many of you know from my sketches, I really enjoy creating round layouts, because they frame a one photo layout so well. This is a photo of my daughter taken last fall. I recycled the Prima flower packaging again this month since it was a perfect match to the green in the Jillibean Soup papers and the packaging already had a fancy border cut into it. Why recreate the wheel....
I seriously loved the kit this month and I think I have become a doodad kind of girl, because Aphra has put so many fun elements in the kit that the creative possibilities just flow. I adore the pearl capped pins and the different sized buttons this month.I LOVE working with RED and especially these two patterned papers from Jillibean Soup. When I was trying to figure out how to pair them together, it occurred to me that one would make a good title, so I used my Cricut Blackletter cartridge and the shadow feature to make the letters for GIRL.
I used the adhesive pearls that Aphra included in the kit for the butterfly body and then I grabbed a little bit of craft wire I had in my stash to make the antennae. The Prima flowers were a beautiful choice to go with all the papers and they have really fun shapes and sizes.

I had fun mixing the GCD butterflies with the Jillibean Soup papers. The color schemes worked really well together. I used one of my circle punches to reduce the size of the Jillibean Soup journal cards and then back the Love and Laugh carstock stickers to make them stand out a bit more. I also mixed the cardstock stickers with the button to create the sentiment.
Card close up
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Totally Twitterpated

This layout was created with the Brand NEW Twitterpated collection from Pebbles. This line is such a nice balance of bright and soft. At first sight it seems like this collection is super bright, but it is grounded in brown and cream and there is a subtle softness to the papers. I am in love with the paper flowers, because they have some very unique shapes and textures. The different sizes allow you to add a candy dot as a flower center and call it good. There are also plenty of journal cards and stickers, alphabet stickers and glitter candy dots to compliment the collection.
My daughter has the best time dressing up as her American Girl, so I wanted to capture this time in her life and thought the You and Me sentiment from the Twitterpated collection was the perfect match. I cannot believe what a phenomenon the American Girl products are for little girls. We went to the grand opening of the Denver store and waited in line for 2 hours to get into the store. My daughter was in heaven and my son mostly had a melt down. LOL!

BTW - you can purchase this collection right HERE.

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Tuesday Mornings

How many of you really like to shop??? I sure do and am always happy when I find a new online store that has good deals, good service and fast delivery. That's what I experienced recently when I ordered some product from A Cherry On Top. My order was quickly packed and shipped and the prices were very reasonable. It sure makes living in the mountains (2 hours from any civilized scrapbook stores) a lot easier knowing I can depend on online stores like A Cherry On Top.What did I buy you might ask....a whole lot of Nikki Sivils, which I was having a hard time finding anywhere else. This is the layout I made for National Scrapbook Day using her Will He B the 1 collection. My daughter took this photo of me on a recent trip to Moab, Utah. This is what I look like after camping for a few days, with no shower and no make up... Life is grand.I made the title using my Cricut Blackletter cartridge and used the shadow feature to cut slightly larger letters as the background to make the printed letters stand out more. I also pop dotted the letters to get them off the page a bit, so they would create a nice little groove to slide the Doodlebug Loopy Lou letters in. Don't the green My Little Shoebox min alphas make the perfect contrast to the Will He B the 1 papers? So much fun to play with this collectionI completely adore the little craft flags and used this one to convey that instead of life, liberty and property, my Pursuit of Scrappiness includes Paper, Embellishment and Adhesive. Hee, hee. I love to play with titles.

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