sketch support | january

 

It’s two page week at Sketch Support! Hop on over to check out the sketch I used for this layout, and to see what everyone else did as well.

This month I decided to use the sketch for my month in review layout:

Supplies – patterned paper: Authentique, Lime Rickey by My Mind’s Eye; brads: Bo Bunny; paper flowers: unknown (in GTKC’s January kit); letter stickers: Thickers by American Crafts; ribbon: Lush by My Mind’s Eye; spray mist: Studio Calico Mister Huey; other: embroidery floss, foam dots

Variation #1: I used ribbon for my scalloped strip (instead of paper).

Variation #2: I popped up the journaling strips so that they wouldn’t bump up over the velvet ribbon.

Variation #3: I misted my plain flowers with Mister Huey “Clay” to just tint them. Then I added some fun brads for the centers.

project 12 | august 2012

 

More Project 12 from last year…

Lots of fun supplies from my January GTKC.

I stuck pretty much exactly to the sketch this month.

My kit included this journaling tag from My Mind’s Eye. I added a few snips of Lush ribbon and a butterfly (attached with my new Tiny Attacher…seriously, how did I live without that for so long? Seriously, I *love* it!).

I didn’t like how the tag blended in with the neutral background, so I misted it with Mister Huey. My local Beverly’s carries that now…uh oh!

I also spritzed the other page (and masked out some clouds & butterflies) to help ground my butterflies a little better. I think I had too much fun!

Another butterfly here. The scalloped edge came cut like that, also from MME.

And lastly my date bracket. I cut the edge off of a journaling tag and stitched it in place.

project 12 | june 2011

 

More Project 12 from last year…

A few pics from June & fun papers & stickers from Jillibean Soup’s Watermelon Gazpacho line (love these colors!)

I added a fun little strip that I punched to look like torn notebook paper, and then stitched it on with some pink embroidery floss.

I clustered some journaling stickers, tags, etc. up on the upper right page.

And a few more in the lower right hand corner.

project 12 | november 2011

 

For the last two years I’ve had fun playing along with Project 12 from Scrapbook & Cards Today. I just read that they’re changing things up a bit for 2012 & won’t be providing new sketches this year. That’s okay. One, I’m still catching up on 2011(shocker, I know!), and two, I have so many great sketches in my collection from both Sketch Support and Sketches for Scrapbooking that I’ll think I’ll be fine.

So here is my layout for this last November. I didn’t use the Nov ‘11 sketch because it just didn’t work. But I love this sketch from Nov ‘10 so I re-used it.

Supplies (all from my November GTKC) – patterned paper: American Crafts, Bella Blvd., Simple Stories, My Mind’s Eye, Anthologie; layered stickers: Amy Tan for American Crafts; dots: unknown (in my kit); letter stickers: Lush by My Mind’s Eye; paper edger punch: EK Success

The first change I made (which I made when I used this sketch last Nov as well) was to increase the number of photos by adding a second row. I do this a lot.

I also lifted a technique from Davinie Fiero that I’ve used a few times: mix up the bottom layers of paper by using two different patterns. It adds a definite punch of color & some whimsy. Love that.

Another quick change I made was to use the camera & typewriter elements instead of birds & leaves. I actually had birds & leaves in my kit to use, but I love that camera & the typewriter fits the theme as well: photography & document.

The “delightful goodness” sticker is probably supposed to be a brad or button or something, but I liked the extra bit of color it added over here.

december 2011 | project 12

 

Okay, it’s from almost a year ago, but I got it done before THIS December!

I created this layout using this sketch for Project 12 at Scrapbook & Cards Today. It was my first layout as part of the Green Tangerines Design Team.

My challenge was to use lots of fun products from the Basic Grey Jovial line.

Supplies – patterned paper, journaling sheet & overlay, rub-ons: Basic Grey Jovial; letter stickers: Basic Grey Jovial & Lush by My Mind’s Eye; ink: Tsukineko; word stickers: Authentique

 

1) I used this fun journaling block/overlay for the title block. I put the smaller Basic Grey letters directly on the journaling block, covered it with the overlay, and then added the flocked letter stickers on top. I like how it slightly muted the black letter stickers. I also inked the chipboard edges of the letter stickers to help the stand out a bit more.

 

2) You can see how I inked the letters here too.

 

3) I added some word stickers around the page. I didn’t do any journaling this time; could’ve. Probably should’ve. But couldn’t find a good way to add it in. And sometimes, frankly, I just don’t want to write, lol!

project 12 | september 2011

 

I’ve been creating “month in review” style layouts since I was making first year albums for my kids. While making their albums, I found it took the stress off of feeling like I had to create a layout for every. single. event. in our lives. If that works for you, fantastic! But I don’t have the time, and I want scrapbooking to be my happy creative outlet, not a chore :) So that’s why I was thrilled when I discovered Project 12, even though I’m usually a few months behind. But this month, I actually finished September’s layout before October was over!

Here’s the sketch:

And here’s my take:

Supplies – patterned paper: My Mind’s Eye, Crate Paper, Fancy Pants; letter stickers: October Afternoon & American Crafts Thickers; stickers: October Afternoon; chipboard flowers: Pebbles; ink: Tsukineko; circle punches: Stampin’ Up!; ribbon: unknown (from Green Tangerine’s Kit Club, September); other: staples

1) I didn’t vary from the sketch too much. I did not include the stitching across the top of the page purely because I didn’t feel like it, LOL! I added this word sticker from October AFternoon in my upper embellishment circle because I didn’t like how the flower I was using seemed to be “floating”. The sticker helped bring it all together, IMO.

 

2) I had fun adding extra pops of color with the embellishment circles. I didn’t use any scalloped circles because I realized (at 11pm when I just wanted to finish) that no, I do not have the pink Marvy scalloped circle punch. I always think I do, until I need it. (Note: add that to my to-buy list pronto!)

 

3) I used a stretchy gray lace ribbon for the scalloped edge here along the striped paper. It did add a bit more bulk that I had bargained on (since it goes under the circle embellishments), but the staples helped hold everything down.

july | project 12

 

supplies: patterned paper: October Afternoon, Crate Paper, Pink Paislee, Bo Bunny; letter stickers: Lush by My Mind’s Eye; border & word stickers: Echo Park; star pin: unknown; all items from my June Green Tangerine’s kit club.

I really had fun as this layout came together. I started out with one idea, and then after looking at a few of Davinie Fiero’s layouts, I decided on something completely different. I love how she has used two different sheets of patterned paper behind kraft cardstock so she could get more patterned paper onto her layout without making it too busy. So hopefully that’s the effect I got as well Enjoy!

april (project 12)

Here is the sketch from Scrapbook & Cards today:

And here is my take on it:

I stayed pretty true to the sketch (again) and used my May GTKC.

Originally I had planned on using my April kit, because it has the corrugated butterflies from Jillibean Soup. But I’ve used that kit a lot recently & was excited to use my May goodies. So I used three buttons (from Crate Paper, in my May kit) in place of each butterfly. I glued them done with Tombo Mono Adhesive.

I used a border punch on the strip of orange paper here and then stitched it down to my page & journaling block. Unfortunately I thought I had enough thread in my bobbin…and I did not! Of course I started stitching under where the photo went, so I had to rip out all of the stitching, which left me with holes on my layout. Ugh. I was sure if I could get my stitches in the same spots so I then handstitched the strip.

I used some mini number stickers here in the journaling block to coordinate to each picture. I wish I’d typed up my journaling because it was really hard to write on the textured cardstock. Oh well. Live & learn :)

I pulled out my border punches again for the top of the page. This time I did one with a scalloped edge & one with the notebook edge.  I stitched them too.

february 2011

 

Here is the February sketch from Scrapbook & Cards Today:

And here is my interpretation:

I stuck pretty close to the original sketch, really only changing up the embellishments. I had fun mixing & matching patterned papers from the February GTKC.

I just found out this fun strip of paper is called a “bar code strip.” I call it, “that edge you usually cut off & throw away, but fancy”. Sassafras always has some funky ones, and I knew I wanted to use this strip at some point. When I realized the sketch had a strip of ribbon/paper, I knew this banner edge would be perfect!

On the lower left hand side, I clustered a few embellishments in the corner. I love the 1940’s feel to the patterned Cosmo Cricket paper & didn’t want to cover it up.

january 2011

I finally finished my layout for January! Yay me! (Do you watch Suite Life too? Thanks to London I say this all. the. time.)

I had a lot of fun putting this page together using some Jillibean products from my stash & my January GTKC. Of course I based my layout on this sketch for Project 12.

I decided to type up my journaling, and I numbered each memory with the date it happened. Then I added these cute little number stickers from My Little Shoebox to each photo to correspond with the date it happened.

The “buttons” on here are from the Jillibean cardstock sticker sheet. They were originally 1” circles, but they looked too big. So I punched them out with my handy 3/4” punch & they fit much better. The coolest part was that I had a nice open circle sticker left over! They could look cool on a different layout, but I used them to help hold the thread down on the back of the page.

march (project 12)

 

Since getting over the flu, I’ve been so full of energy. Mostly I’ve been cleaning & de-cluttering, but the other day I finally got around to scrapping again.

Using this sketch from Project 12, I came up with this layout:

 

I finally broke into my April Kit Club stash that’s been very neglected until now, and it’s got such fun stuff in it…lots of Jillibean Soup and these adorable pre-cut clouds.

 

I punched the butterflies out of the butterfly print paper from Jillibean…crazy, I know. But I’m pretty rotten at cutting them out by hand, and I wasn’t sure how I was going to snip the antennae. I still didn’t have any antennae, but all I had to do was squeeze a punch to get this butterflies. I stitched them on with one big stitch in brown to complement the body.

 

I added three butterflies total, because I always add embellishments in threes (well, usually). I’m not going to pretend to be a design guru, but I like how everything is (mostly) balanced to my eyes when I use three.

project 12 november

The sketch for this month can be found here.

More goodness from the January kit club at Green Tangerines! I’m so glad the kit club is back! I had papers in mind for this layout from my stash, but I really wasn’t loving them. Once I opened my box & saw the turquoise & gold, ooohhh…sigh.

Fortunately for me, I live near Green Tangerines so I was able to drive over there & use their die-cutting machine for the scalloped crest & bracket on the right hand page.

The flower here was part of the kit. I used an extra dot from some gold thickers in my stash for the center of the flower here (and brown dots for the other flowers). I love the color on this turquoise paper!

You can see the bracket & crest below. I added a brown brad on the point of the bracket…it’s from Crate Paper & is actually from my May Green Tangerines kit!

february in review

It felt so good to get my February 2010 month in review done! Again, I used a sketch (here) from Project 12 with Scrapbook & Cards Today.

I had so much fun making this layout. I’ve had the pictures printed for over a month, but I just hadn’t found the right papers & embellishments. Then I picked up my January kit at Green Tangerines & I knew I finally had something to make it work!

I also had some Jillibean Soup printed canvas flowers that I’d picked up a while back, so I added those to the layout too. The center of the flower is one of the “dots” from the red corrugated alphabet in my kit.

Another canvas flower, along my journaling strip. I used a scallop border punch here (and on the other side too).

The center here is a sticker from the Pasta Fagioli cardstock stickers. I popped it up on top of the flower. The mini letter stickers are from that line as well.