Be Yourself - Let's Get Sketchy 5th week

Hello scrappy friends! Since there is 5 Mondays this month in September, Let's Get Sketchy is having a 5th week challenge for the month. The challenge is to do a selfie page.... ugh! lol  I don't normally do pages with me as the main subject so this really was a challenge for me. This is what I came up with....
I added some paint in with some Modeling paste and a stencil to get the blue dots on the background and also used the plain white modeling paste to get the white chevron texture on the background. Sprayed some mists to get the drips and layered a bunch of Fancy Pants Meology papers up.

Product List:

Cardstock: American Craft, Core'dinations

Patterned paper: Fancy Pants Meology
Embellishments: Fancy Pants, Studio Calico, Cloud 9

Stickers: Studio Calico

Multimedia: Molding Paste, water paints, tattered angels

Ribbon/fibers: thread

Challenge Site: Let's Get Sketchy

This page was published in the Let's Get Inspired Issue 5 Magazine!

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Lovin' it - Let's Get Inspired

Let's Get Inspired has a sketch challenge up for a chance to be published in their Issue 5 Magazine. Loved this sketch!! For the circle elements of the sketch I used some Gesso on a baby wipe and some squeezed orange dylusions. Then I sewed some vellum circles over it.

This is the sketch I used.

Product List

Patterned paper: Fancy Pants True Friends, My Mind's Eye Jubilee

Embellishments: Prima, Fancy Pants

Stickers: Fancy Pants, Washi Tape

Ink, embossing powder, paint: Gesso, Dylusions

Ribbon/fibers: Thread

Miscellaneous: My Mind's Eye, Vellum

Sketch Designer: Jenessa Franco

This page was published in the Let's Get Inspired Issue 5 Magazine!

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"Hello Fall" Let's Get Sketchy Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the Let's Get Sketchy "Hello Fall" blog hop! If you have arrived here from Brenshevia's blog welcome to the hop!! If you have stumbled across this by chance and want to play along then you can head back to the Let's Get Sketchy site to start at the beginning.

The girls here at LGS are excited about the change in the season and thusly we are celebrating with a “Hello Fall” blog hop and giving away lots of daily prizes and a grand prize of a $25.00 gift voucher to Creative Embellishments. To be eligible to win any of our hop prizes you will need to
1. visit each designer’s blog
2. leave some love on each of our design team’s blog’s and
3. follow each of their blogs.
Each member of the DT will be sharing a Fall themed project for your inspiration. To find out how to win our Grand Prize as well as lots of other giveaways, make sure you visit the LGS blog!

For your Fall inspiration I have created this layout from a picture of Lake Tahoe. I feel so very grateful to of been able to grow up in my opinion, one of the most beautiful places in the world... Incline Village, Nevada. It is beautiful there all year, but I especially love when the aspen trees change colors.

The grand prize that you could win!!!

and here is the RAK that I am contributing to one lucky winner! :)

Due to shipping cost, I will only be shipping to the US.

Thank you for looking and joining our LGS blog hop!

I also used the mood board at Let's Get Inspired for one of the challenges to get published in their upcoming magazine release. There is still time to get your entries in!

****Next up on the hop is Melinda G.****

Product List:

Cardstock: Bazzill

Patterned paper: Bo-Bunny Beautiful Life, Basic Grey

Embellishments: Kaiser Craft. Petaloo

Stickers:

Alpha: Little Yellow Bicycle

Mixed Media: Smooch Spritz

Ribbon/fibers: Twine

Miscellaneous: Little Yellow Bicycle

Challenge Site: Let's Get Sketchy & Let's Get Inspired

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Eggs To Dye For - Let's Get Sketchy

I decided to be a rebel and do a Easter page for the Let's Get Sketchy challenge that is up today, since so many challenges out there right now all want fall themes and colors. Plus, I have been on a mission lately to use up some of this old stash that I have. It always seems like I get new stuff and use that and keep ignoring all the old. Guess we all kinda do that, huh? lol

Product List:

Patterned paper: Imaginisce For Peep's  Sake, We R Memory Keepers Hippity Hoppity

Embellishments: WRMK

Stickers: WRMK, Sandylion

Alpha: Paper Trunk

Mixed Media: Dylusions Lemon Zest, Water Paints

Writing Tools: Zig

Sketch Designer: Bev Code

Challenge Site: Let's Get Sketchy

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Ready, Aim, Splat! - Red Carpet Studio

Today I have a page that I created for Red Carpet Studio, the challenge is to use any Robin Williams movie as your inspiration. So I used some pictures of my son and hubby paintballing with the movie "Good Morning Vietnam" as my inspiration for it. I did some major grunge work on the background of this page. I used lots of mists, distressed stamps, modeling paste, crackle paint and crinkled, wrinkled, ripped and distressed it to death. The poor paper went through a major battle! lol
I cut the crosshairs, grenade and title all out on my Cameo. Pop dotted up the picture block and used bits and pieces of some cork. I wasn't so sure about this page at 1st but it actually ended up being a rather fun page to create.

Product List:

Cardstock: Core'dinations

Patterned paper: Scrap Within Reach The District 406

Stamps: Unknown

Mixed Media: Modeling Paste, Ranger Crackle Paint, Tattered Angels Mists, Ranger Distress Ink

Ribbon/fibers: Twine

Miscellaneous: Silhouette Cameo, TCW Stencil, Cork, Pop Dots

Challenge Site: Red Carpet Studio

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Red Belt - My Scraps & More Sketch #91

Yay, it's Friday! Not only is it Friday but there's also a brand new sketch up on the My Scraps & More Sketches blog today and the sketch is one that I designed. :) I am the featured sketch designer on the blog today, you can find more out about me by going to the post here.
The pictures I used are of my daughter the day she became a red belt from a brown belt in karate. One more testing and if she passes she will be a black belt, which is quite a huge accomplishment at the age of 8!
I decided to go with a black, white and red theme to go with her red belt and found this lace cardstock hidden in my stash. Remember when that stuff used to be really popular? I've never really been good at figuring out what to do with them. I cut this one into a circle and I really like how it looks. I also used some super old papers from 7 Gypsies. I'm happy to finally of found a use for those papers and to also use up more of my stash.

I cut the title out on my Cameo, I'm really loving making my own titles lately.

Product List:

Cardstock: American Crafts, Lace CS unknown

Patterned paper: 7 Gypsies Savannah & Gypsy Market Papers

Embellishments: Queen & Co. Pearls, Prima Flowers, 

Mixed Media: Water Paints, Heidi Swapp Color Shine Black

Ribbon/fibers: Thread

Miscellaneous: Cameo

Sketch Designer: Nadine (Me)

Challenge Site: My Scraps & More Sketches

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Guy Birthday Card - CCC Digi Creations & Turtle Soup

I love the digital images over at Bugaboo Digi Stamps! The humor in them are great or maybe it's just my warped sense of humor...lol  Either way, they have best images for so many different occasions to make you smile and also serious ones too.
I created this card using Gus the Golfer digi image and colored him with Copic Markers.

Product List:

Cardstock: Bazzil

Patterned paper: WRMK White Out Collection

Stickers: EK Success

Ribbon/fibers: Twine

Digital elements: Bugaboo Digi Stamps

Miscellaneous: Copic Markers, Brads, Sizzix Embossing Folder

Challenge Site: CCC Digi Creations & Turtle Soup

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Picture Perfect - Colorful Creations

Today I have a sketch from Colorful Creations to share with ya all. Colorful Creations is also having a design team call, so if you love to scrap and also love to work with sketches then you will love this team. So what are you waiting for, the call ends on Sept. 23!!
On the background I sprayed some mists and also used a brick stencil with some modeling paste and then after it dried I painted the paste with some watercolors to give the rustic brick look. This picture of my kids was about 7.5 years ago on our cruise to Alaska. Since it was a formal picture I went a little more formal with my papers and embellies then I normally do. I always love the looks of Webster's Pages but for my scrappy style I am normally at a loss as to what to do with them. I do though like how this came out with the bricks on the background.

Product List:

Patterned paper: Webster's Pages Nature's Storybook

Embellishments: Prima

Stickers: Webster's Pages

Alpha: Webster's Pages

Mixed Media: Modeling Paste, Water Paints, Perfect Pearls Mist and Tattered Angels

Ribbon/fibers: Unknown

Miscellaneous: Studio 490 Stencil

Sketch Designer: Brenshevia Baker

Challenge Site: Colorful Creations

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Autumn Wreath

Just wanted to share the 1st wreath I have ever made. Very time consuming and lots of blisters on the fingers later from the hot glue gun but kinda of a fun project. Think I might make some more! But Christmas ones since autumn colors really are not my favorite.

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Day of Beauty - Let's Get Sketchy

Another girly page! They still are not as easy for me to do as the guy pages but I keep trying. :) I also used glitter this time and now I remember why I don't like using glitter. Its been a week and am still seeing sparkles everywhere from it...lol All the glitter and pink just seemed to go with the beauty salon theme I was trying to create for these pictures of my daughter of me highlighting her hair and then color the ends a bright pink. It was the 1st time she had ever had her hair colored. I used the Let's Get Sketchy sketch that is up on their blog today.

Product List:

Cardstock: American Crafts

Patterned paper: Echo Park Splendid Sunshine, American Crafts Plus One

Embellishments: Prima Flower, Teresa Collins Gems, Misc. chipboard pieces

Stickers: Washi Tape

Alpha: Thickers

Mixed Media: Wow Glitter Cotton Candy, Water paints

Sketch Designer: Laura Whitaker

Challenge Site: Lets's Get Sketchy

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My Sunshine - GD Frosted Designs

So excited! Today I am up on the Frosted Designs blog as a Guest Designer! I love their challenges and also their monthly kits. Stop on by and visit them if you haven't already! 

I made this layout for my reveal of my daughter with some pictures of her when we were in Belize this summer. She found this pretty yellow flower and wanted to wear it behind her ear for a picture but the wind kept blowing it off before I got a picture. It was one of those moments that you just have to laugh. 

I like to mix things up and very rarely will use all of the same collection on one page. On this page I used 2 collections from Studio Calico - Brighton Pier and Lemon Lush and the background paper is Heidi Swapp Dreamy. I used a sunburst stencil on the background with a darker color yellow mist in the center and a lighter yellow towards the end of the rays. Did some sewing around the edges and lots of paper layers. Then added a bunch of random embellies I had laying around. 

Product List:

Patterned paper: Studio Calico - Brighton Pier and Lemon Lush, Heidi Swapp Dreamy

Embellishments: Paper House, Pebbles Inc. American Craft Flair

Alpha: Thickers

Mixed Media: Dylusions Lemon Zest, Tattered Angels Iridescent Gold

Ribbon/fibers: Thread

Miscellaneous: Heidi Swapp Sunburst Stencil

Challenge Site: Frosted Designs

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Totally Random - My Scraps & More Sketch #90

The 1st sketch of September is up over at My Scraps & More, sketch #90.  Lots of circle on this sketch! So I made a mat by cutting circles out on a white cardstock with my Cameo. I used rectangle pictures instead of the circle pictures, I just couldn't bring myself to cut the pictures up that much. I found some Little Yellow Bicycle papers I have been hoarding to use for my sons pictures.
I hope you all join us at MSAM, I would love to see your take on the sketch!

MSAM Sketch #90

Product List:

Cardstock: American Crafts

Patterned paper: Little Yellow Bicycle Zacks Life

Embellishments: Little Yellow Bicycle

Stickers: Little Yellow Bicycle, Washi Tape

Mixed Media: Dylusions, Tattered Angels

Ribbon/fibers: Twine

Miscellaneous: Studio Calico Rub Ons

Sketch Designer: Audrey Yeager

Challenge Site: My Scraps & More Sketches

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