The Scrappiest layout sketch 28

A new week of sketch inspo over at

The Scrappiest.

Here's my layout for the sketch

Using AC Blue Skies, MME Ooh La La pps , CC Earth Love Elements,

Maya Road trim, ribbon & pearl pin , Prima vine , Glimmer Mists

I used an old MM scalloped heart chipboard as a mask

here with Glimmer Mists and then traced around

the heart shape with black marker when dry.

Check out the Next Step Challenge Blog for more misting ideas

These little square ideas are a great way to mix up several brands & patterns

& check out the shimmer from the GM

( click for a larger pic )

I love adding stickles to masked shapes sometimes.

If you try the sketch, email your LOs to thescrappiest@frontiernet.net.
All emails recieved throught Tuesday morning will be entered in to win the gift certificate from Memorable Seasons. All LOs emailed after that will get their chance at the prize from our next sponsor.

Little Shop of Sketches - sketch 45

The latest weekly sketch is up over at the Little Shop of Sketches .

This sketch prompts the use of strips ,

not something I think about often

so it was fun to have a go at .

I layered in some Hambly transparency strips as well.

Gotta love those Foo Fa La glittered vintage buttons .

Sketchy Thursdays by Diana

Diana's latest sketch was great to try out

these Webster's Page's Nature's Poetry pps.

The color palette is just so different .

Couldn't resist doing another dreamy themed layout with these pps .

"I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue. "

52sketches52weeks #34

Another quick one -

to try out the new Sassafras Lass Amplify papers

the alphabet border prompted me to use

the ABCs of Friendship as journaling .

ics #31

A quick card using

Webster's Pages Petite Papers- Holiday + Winter

May Arts ribbon

My first Christmas card made for the year .

My first Waterfall album

I love making handmade albums -

my top fave so far is the Flip Flop or Flap album .

I just discovered this Waterfall album tutorial

( which you can find on Youtube )

and had to try it out since I can't even use half of this

DCWV Animal Crackers 12x12 stack.

I loved it so much I made 3 at one go ( shown here are 2 )

& that still didn't make a dent at all on that stack !

The Scrappiest DT reveal & Sketch 27

The Scrappiest has a new sketch layout DT !!!

Aphra Boyler

Arlene Camacho

Jodi Wilton

Laurel Seasbrook

Susan Bourgeois

& me !

Thrilled to be creating along with these awesome designers for the next 6 months.

We start off with Sketch 27 .

Come & play along

&

be entered in to the chance to win the gift certificate for Memorable Seasons.

Email your LOs to thescrappiest@frontiernet.net

Using a combination here of New Scribble Scrabble Birdland pps

with Lily Bee French Couture die cut & pp .

I also attempted a misting tutorial below .

My first ever ! lol

I did get several requests before so here goes !

I also tried out more faux stitching here - using markers & a paper piercer

Misting Tutorial with a paper doily

Here's how to have some fun

with a few bottles of Spray Ink, Glimmer Mists & a paper doily !

I'm always terrified of larger circular elements on a layout

so using a paper lace doily as a mask with Glimmer Mist

just eases me right into it ! ;-)

These colors were chosen to pick out the colors in my Lily Bee background pp & photos

This is the "backside " of a doily where I've used Candy Cane Red GM on other occasions.

You can definitely reuse a paper doily many times !

I start with my darkest color first and work my way up

We are using 3 shades of brown here today to get some depth & variation of the same color

Seafoam seems to match the leaves on this background paper

Khaki is very light so I had to give a few more sprays than the other colors .

But it really is all up to you !

I don't usually use a kitchen towel to blend colors or remove the little dots after misting

but you certainly can if you like

I needed at least 3 quarters of the lace doily pattern to show up

& this is the final result .

My spritzing was all quite random really .

Anything you have on hand can be a mask -

try geometric shapes - rectangles , squares ,strips of paper

chipboard shapes , punched paper strips etc

& you only need just one bottle of Mist to get going

& add some Masking oomph to any project !

Get Sketchy #2

The 2nd card sketch challenge over at Get Sketchy is up !

Background pp here is WRMK Tiffany 6x6 paper pad,

ATB paper lace , & other old stash - like the loopy brads .

Di Hickman's Aug Card Sketch #3

This sketch prompted the use of 4 buttons -

The Nikki Sivils ' Sweet as Cherry Pie papers went well

with some of my August Such Sweet Tierney buttons in our DT kit .

Buttons are always great as flower centers too

especially these which have handrawn details.

I left them intentionally unadorned here.

Celebrate the Little Stuff - Little Shop of Sketches #44

My first sketch DT layout for the Little Shop of Sketches .

A great sketch to pile on the layers .

Do Get your layout for this sketch into the gallery

and you could win some Tanya Leigh Designs products.

Supplies : Papers by K&CO , Prima Camelot roses, mulberry leaves & vine,

G45 alphas , 7 Gypsies stickers , Prima felt , lace : MM Metal embossed butterfly ,

Tim Holtz metal key , Kaiser pearls , May Arts organza ribbon

Get Sketchy GS#1

Another new card sketch blog discovery - Get Sketchy !

This one is for their launch challenge.

Using new AC Blue Skies pp ,

Cosmo Cricket Earth Love Elements for the Sentiment

New Maya Road Stitched Velvet

And while I was at it , I couldn't resist making a few more cards

with the few papers I had of the Blue Skies line -

these were inspired by Dawn McVey -

love her color style & use of border punches

52sketches52weeks #33

Using up more Bo Bunny Flutter Butter- pps , stickers - with this sketch .

Tried misting with a rectangle shape as a mask here

so as not to cover up the pretty background .

ICS #30

Supplies : CI pps & stickers , Coredinations white washed cs

cps 129 - Thank heaven for little girls

Using a few of my fave things :

Anna Griffin pps , Fiskars Effervescence Border punch ,

Crafty Little Secrets cardstock sticker

ICS #29

Wow have I missed making cards for a while now

it almost feels like I am card mojoless ! lol .

This week's sketch at ICS by Tricia

was a good one to use

to quickly make this simple baby card .

Papers are Party It Up by GCD Studio .

I think I will make a couple cards more in fact with this sketch

Di Hickman's card sketches - Aug #2

Supplies: Nikki Sivils' Sweet as cherry pie 8x8 paper pad, Core'dinations cardstock,

Making Memorie's kraft word stickers, stick pin & mini alphas ,

My Little Shoebox mini alphas. Foo Fa La button , May Arts ribbon

Little Shop of Sketches DT

Little Shop of sketches has added on to their DT team

& I'm joining them for the next 6 months !!!

The first DT sketch layout reveal will be next week

& there'll be weekly sketches from now on with

weekly prizes from Tanya Leigh Designs.

So do Get uploading to the gallery to be entered to win.

Life is a journey

I've just realised I tend to use Bo Bunny for boy layouts !

I usually love using Bo Bunny for cards

but this Flutter Butter line simply spoke to me

for layouts ( and maybe mini albums )

Only the Paper Salon owl & brads aren't Bo Bunny here .;-)

Sketch by Shanna Vineyard.

& o! a few spritzes of GM Chocolate De Creme too.

& this lil dude here is the youngest boy amongst the cousins .

Pink Ninjas Prompt #11 - Dudes

Another fun prompt from the Pink Ninjas -

we saw you and your chicks,,, now lets see some dudes!!!!

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The perfect prompt to use up some new

Cosmo Cricket The Boyfriend pps , rub ons , chipboard shapes .

I also used Twisted Sketch #10

Our littlest dude here is one of the youngest male cousins in the fam.