Creative Scrappers: Sketch 268 Reveal

It's reveal day over at Creative Scrappers!  We got to work with this really fun sketch by Jenny Evans...

 

Here's my take on the sketch.  I really stuck right with it...  just added some stitching and embellies around the edge.  I used lots of goodies from Simple Stories including elements from the new Sn@p! Cat collection and some papers from the Daily Grind Collection. The arrow sprinkles are from Doodlebug.

 



 

 

 

The thing I liked most about this sketch is that it begged for embellishment clusters!  I used some goodies from the Sn@p! Cat 3x4 cards, Insta squares and pieces and stickers and added in some fun goodies from my stash.

 

 

The & clip is from Maya Road.  I've had them for a while now...so happy to be able to use one!

 

I found this cute little badge button from Evalicious in my stash...the color was perfect!  Make sure to head on over to the Creative Scrapper's blog to see what the rest of the Design Team created!  Also, be sure to link up your take on this sketch and you could win a prize from our May Sponsor My Creative Scrapbook!  That's it for me today, thanks for stopping by!

Creative Scrappers - Birthday Bash!!!

Hi Everyone!  Welcome to the Creative Scrappers Blog Hop! We are celebrating 6 years of Creating with Sketches and we’re so excited to share 12 new sketches for you today and some inspiring layouts as well.

We’ll be giving away a few prizes so be sure to play along and check back on Saturday night April 26th to see if you’re the lucky winner!

Here are the different ways you can play along – 

1. Like Creative Scrappers on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CreativeScrappers

2. Giveaways will be done on our Facebook page all day today!

3. Help spread the news!

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You should have arrived here from Jody Roger's Blog....

Here is a copy of my sketch - created by Ashley Horton

 

and....here's my take on her fun sketch!

 

 

For the most part, I stuck to Ashley's sketch...it was a fun one!  I did add some strips along the top and bottom and moved the title.  These pictures are from our vacation last summer in Chatham, MA...my husband and daughter had a blast sailing along on the catamaran!  I used lots of goodies from Lawn Fawn including paper, flair and sequins from their Hello Sunshine Collection & the Spring Showers Dies.

 

 

The clip is from Freckled Fawn and the cute tag is from Evalicious. 

Make sure to check out all of the new sketches and layouts! Here is the blog hop order:

Amanda Johnson

Ashley Horton

Danielle de Konink

Jenny Evans

Jody Rogers

Kathy Skou < you are here!

Kristine Davidson

Michelle Whorwood

Missy Whidden

Sherri Funk

Stephanie Hart

Tara Elias

 

Also, make sure to head on over to the Creative Scrapper's Blog to download all of the

sketches from today's Birthday Blog Hop!!  You'll also want to head on over to our

 Facebook page to check out all of our giveaways today!  We have some AWESOME

Sponsors including Let's Capture our Memories, Paper Camellia, Creative Embellishments,

 My Scraps & More, Scrapbook & Cards Today, Simple Stories, Jillibean Soup,

Pinkfresh Studio, Davida Stafford -CTMH, Paper Issues, My Creative Scrapbook and more!!!

Thanks so much for playing along with Creative Scrappers!!!Make sure to check out Kristine's blog next on the hop! 

Using some Left-overs

Hi Everyone...just a quick post today to show you a project I created using some of the left-over goodies I had from the Paper Issues/Chic Tags Happy Place Issue.  Chic Tags sent us a huge amount of goodies to work with on this issue, and I couldn't let it go to waste!  Here's what I came up with:

 

I've been dying to scrap this picture of my daughter from the first day of school...just hadn't gotten to it yet!  Instead of a page, I decided to create a shadow box frame using a Lori Whitlock file from the Silhouette Store.

 

 

I made the shadow box from some Limba paper I got in the Paper Issues Store...If you've never seen it...it's awesome.  It has a great wood grain texture and it's really heavy and thick. 

To decorate the shadow box, I first covered the front and inside with the Science Lab paper from ChicTags's School House Collection.  I then added a bunch of tags from both the School House and Happy Place collections.

I fussy-cut the 10 from the Arithmetic Paper and used the "Proud Nerd" Rub-on to embellish it.

Some more tags and a fun badge from Evalicious to finish it off.  Love how this turned out!  Thanks for stopping by... I'll be back next week with a bunch of new projects!

My Happy Place at Paper Issues

Hi Everyone...it's time for a new Issue over at Paper Issues today...."My Happy Place!"  Of course this is a title near and dear to me since it's the name of my blog so I just had to be a part of it!  We got to play with some goodies from our sponsor Chic Tags for this issue...I mixed up some papers and embellies from the School House and Happy Place collections.  Take a peek:

My happy place is my new craft room!  I took some pictures of the newly redone room to show some of my favorite things!  It's not 100% done yet...I have fabric for curtains and some goodies for the walls still, but it's a fun place to hang out!

My most favorite thing in my craft room is the desk...it is 5'square and seats 4!  Of course I still find a way to take up all that space!  The love this right here tag is from Chic Tags School House collection...the puffy stickers are from Evalicious.

Since we still needed room for overnight guests...we got a new sleeper sofa for the room as well.  You can see who uses it most!

More tags, from both collections... one of my favorite things about Chic Tags papers is the manufacturer strip along the bottom of the paper.  They all have one side that you can use as tags!!  The "love this" tag is from one of those strips. 

So what is your Happy Place?  Make sure to link up your projects featuring your favorite places to the current issue!  You could win a fab prize pack from Chic Tags!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Snapshots from CHA!

Hi Everyone...it's been a slow blog week!  I've been busy working on a lot of projects...just not ones I can post right now!  I do have a fun Bella Blvd. layout to share...one of my entries for their DT call.  I didn't make the team, but I'm loving the layouts!  Take a peek at my first one...

 

I went to my first CHA this past summer with the girls from Right at Home Scrapbooking.  One of my FAVORITE parts of CHA was meeting some of the ladies I've been FB friends with, in real life!  These are some of the Instagram pictures I took.  Appropriately...I used Bella Blvd.'s new Snapshots collection.  It's full of fun patterns, colors and embellies.

 

 

Here I am with Aimee Maddern, my fellow designer from Paper Issues.  We were at the Doodlebug booth.  The stamp is from Evalicious and the fun CHA Flair is from PandaEight.

 

And here's another Paper Issues Girl...Leah L'Orange.

And with Suzanna Lee... we both were on the Creative Scrappers Team together last winter.  The pictures I do not have close-ups of are of me with Lisa and Holly from Right at Home, Me with Kristy Dalman from Paper Issues and me with Stephanie Smokovich owner of Bella Blvd.  It was really a great time!  That's all for today...I'm hoping to be back Thursday with a fun layout to celebrate my 21st wedding anniversary!!!  Thanks for stopping by.

Twine Madness Challenge at The Twinery

(If you're looking for Paper Issues post click here)

Hi Everyone... I'm here today with a mini album I created to hold my Instagram shots from a recent trip to Key West with my hubby!  I created it for the Twine Madness Challenge we currently have running  at The Twinery!

 

 

As soon as I saw this adorable Camera Mini Album file over at Lori Whitlock, I knew it would be perfect for our funny photos. I used mostly Amy Tangerine's Yes Please collection...the colors and the patterns were perfect! The camera shape also reminded me a lot of the cameras in the collection.   I created a twine "camera strap" by braiding some Solid Strawberry Twine (a new favorite for sure!!) and looping it through the ring holding the album together. 

 

 

  Here are some shots of the pages:

 

 

The speech bubble is from Evalicious' Escape Tag collection. 

 

 

First stop...of course... was Margaritaville.  I used an Evalicious badge button and a VERY Old margarita stamp for this page.  I also sprinkled lots of Studio Calico wood pieces throughout the album.

 

We got a two-day trolley pass on the Old Towne Trolley... it was perfect, brought us all around Key West.  The nice part is you can get off and on at will.

 

The flair here is right from the Yes Please Collection...so many goodies in this line! 

 

We had a friendly iguana who visited us while we sat by the pool...

 

Most memorable.. going to the roof of the La Concha hotel to watch the sun set.  Just Gorgeous!

 

 

We really were sad to leave!!! Perfect weather, perfect vacation!  It was such a fun trip and the Solid Strawberry Twine was the perfect accent for my album!

Remember to link up your project to our Twine Madness Challenge...you could win a fabulous prize pack!!!  You can find all the details and the link-up here.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by ... I appreciate your comments!

Paper Issues: Fruit Stand Issue

Welcome to Paper Issues “Fruit Stand”, sponsored by Doodlebug Designs!

 

I'm so excited for my first "Paper Issue", and was even more excited that it was with Doodlebug!  They are one of my all-time favorite manufacturers!!  I am the first blog on the blog hop.  You should have arrived here from the Paper Issues Blog. If you landed here by accident, be sure to head over to Paper Issues to start at the beginning and see what the Issue is all about and what fabulous prizes we have up for grabs!

The blog hop order for today is:

Kathy (you are here!)

Kristine

Leah

Lesley

Lisa
Mary Jo
 I was very excited to receive my Doodlebug Fruit Stand goodies in the mail.  I knew exactly what I was going to scrap!   

My daughter and her friends are always taking funny selfies.  My phone is full of them!  This picture is a typical one!

I LOVED all of the little fruit stickers that come with the Fruit Stand line...they're absolutely adorable.  The rainbow striped washi tape is also awesome.  I thought it helped tie in the rainbow letters in my title.

 

I had so much paper left, I decided to use it to create a cute little aniversary card.  I was inspired by  the sticker in the picture above.  I created the card using a pear Silhouette file that I duplicated, flipped then welded together to form the card base.  I then added the other layers and some great Doodlebug Alphas from my stash.

 

That's it for me today...next up on the hop is the fabulous Kristine!

Thanks for hopping with us today and we'd love to have you play along to be entered to win one of two Doodlebug Prize packs!  To get a chance to win:

1.      Like DoodleBug on Facebook {tell them we sent you}

2.      Like Paper Issues on Facebook

3.      Leave a comment on my blog

As a bonus, you can link up any "Fruity" or Doodlebug project over on the Paper Issues Blog!  This Issue runs until June 15th.  Thanks for stopping by!

I have Issues!

I can think of at least 5 friends who will have a snarky comment to my title...sorry to disappoint, but I mean Paper Issues!  Today is my intro post over on the PI blog.  Words can't express how excited I am to be part of such a fun and talented group!  As part of our post we were asked to give 5 random facts about ourselves.  I never scrap about me, so I thought it would be fun to make a layout featuring these facts.  Take a peek...

I had a lot of fun putting this layout together...I used Allison Kreft's new Composition and Color collection for Webster's Pages as my back drop and then sprinkled in lots of fun embellies.

Fact 1 - I am a crazy cat lady.  I know this will NOT be a surprise to most.  I decorated my photo with the cute kitty clip from Studio Calico, some fun Queen and Co. washi and of course the perfect flair from PandaEight.

Fact 2 - I'm secretly jealous of my daughter's ability to take awesome selfies...true story.  My selfies are very scary.  I decorated this photo with some painted corrugated words from Jillibean and some wood veneers from Studio Calico.

Fact 3 - I am addicted to coffee.  So true. I used a cute little coffee .studio file cut with my Cameo.

Fact 4 - My husband and I are huge Jimmy Buffett Fans and go see him every year...grass skirts and all.  I highly recommend this activity.  The tailgating is phenomenal and the people watching is pure amusement.  The stamps I used have been in my stash for years...and I love the little Instagram frame from Studio Calico!

 

Finally...Fact 5 - I have been friends with my husband since we were 15.  I do want to point out that we did not start dating until we were seniors in college.  I do know where all the skeletons are buried.  This pic is from our recent trip to Key West to celebrate our 20th anniversary.   I embellished it with more words from Jillibean and a SC wood hash tag.

Make sure to check out the Paper Issues Blog and Etsy Store.  If you use my code KATHYS you'll get a 20% discount!!!

Thanks for stopping by... I appreciate your comments and would love to have you as a follower!

Scrapbook and Cards Today Spring Issue!

I'm so excited to be part of the spring issue of Scrapbook and Cards Today!

I created a layout based on a sketch by Becky Fleck and the twist was to have some creative journaling.  Here's my layout...

 

I used October Afternoon's Midway collection...such a fun line!  Lots of great embellies like the chipboard camera and Polaroid frame.  The pie charts were cut using my Silhouette.

 I covered the chipboard pieces with some of the papers from Midway.

 And here's my hidden journaling...if you pull the ribbon (stamped with a stamp from Evalicious) the journaling tag pops out of the camera!

It was a fun layout to create!  Make sure to get your copy of the spring issue of Scrapbook and Cards Today here.  You can download a copy for free!  It's full of great inspiration!  Thanks for stopping by!