Done challenges!!!

I cropped with my peeps on Saturday! and oh-my-goodness, I did a bunch of challenges!

I wanted to use some inspiration to get me going, so I hit up a few websites for sketches and challenges, and that's mostly what I worked on all day!  The first one I have above is the Stuck On U Sketches blog sketch challenge found here. I had the Echo Park mini theme and used that for several pages including this one.

This layout was completed for the Sketch N Scrap sketch challenge found here.  Again, used the EP mini theme papers. But for this one, I had some white seam binding ribbon, and I wanted it to be navy instead. I didn't have navy ink or even navy mist. I had two blues that were more shades of cobalt, and a charcoal color mist.  So I scrunched the seam binding ribbon into a zip baggie, dampened it with water from my mini mister, then misted it with the two blues and the charcoal mist. That was sufficient to make my own "navy" colored ribbon, that actually looks a little like it's been tie-dyed. Pretty neat.

Here's the last layout I did for a challenge, and also the last layout I did with the EP mini theme. I used up some of the remaining ribbon that I misted as well. This was inspired by the My Creative Sketches blog sketch challenge found here. The little arrow is pointing at a beaver we saw swimming, and rather than put a big picture with a tiny tiny subject on the layout, I decided to use the beaver picture as an embellishment instead. :)

My last challenge project is for Stuck on U Sketches all new card sketch challenge found here! I used a kraft cardstock base and stamped it with a Hero Arts stamp I've never used before. Then I threw some scraps on there. ha! the center element is a chalkboard sticker from American Crafts. My chalk writing stinks. I wish I could have written that better. lol

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Ostara 2011

Stuck On U Sketches has a great sketch this week, check it out! I love sketches, they really inspire me!

The papers and embellishments for this page are from a Cocoa Daisy kit, including the birds on a wire stamp.  I love that stamp! I hope I can come up with other uses for it! The background shape is from a cricut cartridge but I have no idea which one! sorry. :)

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Boot Camp layout

Yep, me again, this time I'm in the Air Force boot camp in 1984.  Yikes!

Another layout using the July Scrappinista Scrapbook Club papers, American Made by My Mind's Eye. I used a sketch from one of Scrapbook Generation's sketch books, which Scrapaganza carries. Love these sketch books! This particular sketch is awesome in that you can get a taste of several different printed papers without using up a lot of them.

I also pulled in some Air Force stickers that Scrapaganza had in stock, and that really filled out the page the way I wanted.

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fun layout and sketch

This layout was done for a challenge over at Scrap The Boys and a couple challenges at Scrapbook Dreamer.

I've been experimenting with doing my own sketches. I've done a few on scratch paper but now I've done two on my computer. Doing a sketch as I plan a layout has sure sped up my planning and assembly time, at least for the ones I use sketches for (my own or other sketches).

Here's the sketch I did last night. If it inspires you, feel free to use it but I'd sure love to see what you do with it if you do use it, so please let me see!

And here's the layout I did with the sketch.

Thanks for looking!