Lasting Memories #50 Sketch w a Twist and DT call

Good morning scrapbookers and friends

today is another Sunday filled with Lasting Memories.  Not only is there a new challenge, but Karen is also looking for new Design Team members.  So if you are interested in getting on the DT, all you have to do is play along EVERY week in August.  That's how I got on the DT and I've been having a blast doing it.  Karen and the other ladies are so inspirational and encouraging.  So, if you have thought about it, get that layout done and join in the fun.

Today I am showing you a layout we needed to do following a sketch.  I am actually getting better at these types of challenges.  In fact, I think these are my best layouts now.  Our challenge this week was not only to follow a sketch but to also add buttons...well that's no problem for me until I finished my layout and forgot to use them...hahaha.  

Here is the sketch

 and here is what I did

 The title was cut with my E-Craft out of butterfly pattern paper to match my background.  It was great having the challenge as the "title" two weeks ago, now I incorporated that into this week also.  I also inked around the edges to soften it a bit.

 We were supposed to "cluster" the bottom with embellishments and ribbon and buttons... 

Yes, they are there now, I had to trade them out with the rhinestones I originally had in the center of the flowers...LOL  The rattle, ducky and bottle were wood cut outs I had gotten at the dollar store.  I used my sharpies to color them and then used my blending pen to pull the color off the main part and highlight the background.  The flowers were from my stash and were completely white.  I added some homemade glimmer mist and turned them a soft pink.  The ribbon was from my "baby" stash and I layered it??? to form the ripple affect...each piece shows the c and 3, hidden secret, C3 of us???  LOL  my bad.  I also used the same ribbon on the left edge of my layout to tie it all together.  I didn't quite like my two mats of green and pink because they were so bold, but I edged them with ink and then distressed a bit over the top.  I also used my white gel pen to "stitch" around both the papers and added some butterflies and flowers to the pink and it works beautifully now.

Now I hope I've inspired you to use this sketch and some buttons, don't forget the buttons and head on over to Lasting Memories and join in the fun.  Remember also, if you want to get on the DT all you need to do is enter each week in August to be eligible.  Have fun and enjoy!!!

Lasting Memories Challenge #41 "Sketch and Bling"

Good morning

Today is another Lasting Memories challenge.  Thank you so much for joining me on my scrapbooking adventure.  This has been so much fun for me because I am actually getting alot of pages done.  Somehow I really do think Karen is in my head over at Lasting Memories.  I've had this set of pictures printed out for some time now and I've been just waiting for the perfect layout and I think this sketch captured it all.  Here is the sketch we were suppose to use and also bling. 

I backed the pictures with black card stock out of my stash.  Then adding some blue ring paper as the background to the straight blue cardstock really makes it pop.  I tore the edge and inked both side and added the strip to the other side for emphasis.  I also used the blue ring paper to cut out the background for Dam that I cut in SCAL using the Berlin Sans FB font and the style was shadow blackout at 5 points.  Then I cut the letters out in white cardstock and inked the edges.  I sure love that I can use many different fonts with my SCAL program.  I added rhinestones, some colored by me, some already colored and some black doodling to the individual letters.

I added rhinestones here and there around the layout and also at each corner of the small pictures.  The glass globs were leftovers from my mosaic work and fit nicely.  I do not usually journal and even more not so much directly on the layout, but this was fun.  I love that I am learning alot of new techniques but now I really just need to get into using more pattern paper...

I hope you enjoyed my layout for Lasting Memories and I hope I've inspired you to use this sketch and some bling.  Create a layout, head over there and link up.  Remember, each week you could become on of the Top 3 so get scrapping.