Layout Share: Sketch Challenge

Sharing a layout I worked on at our last Just Scrappin' weekend crop. This was a sketch challenge and although I'm not eligible for the contest, I like to participate and attempt all the challenges that I put out for the girls. Sketch used for the challenge was a Pagemaps.com sketch...my favorite sketches btw.

I followed it almost to the T except I used pictures instead embellishments. Love how I can showcase EIGHT photos of my mother-in-law's visit with us in Sacramento. Yes those little munchkins in the photo are my boys circa 2004.

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Still on that California album...Jori's first ever baseball game. We bought tickets through our Mom's group and off we went to Sacramento for a game.Not sure if he knew what was going on but he had a great time at the game.

I wanted to cut out the Sacramento River Cats logo on my Silhouette and in hindsight should have cut the black as an overlay. Instead I cut out all the little tiny pieces, glued them on and realized I was missing a few. Instead of re-cutting, it was pretty late at night, I just drew in the "pieces" using a black sharpie. Another tip for you...sometimes it's ok to cheat and just draw it in ;)

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I bought these laser cut embellishments way back in 2004 when we lived in California and I had a scrapbooking store within walking distance to our apartment. The boys were little, hubby worked long crazy hours and I only managed to squeeze in a few quick visits to shop. I never got around to using them in the boys' scrapbooks and just last year, I decided to start a California album and pulled these treasures out to use.

I finally got around to the right photos and they look awesome. They're designed by Scrap Avenue and dates back to 2002!!! I'm thinking this year will be the year I complete this album as well as use up my stash...especially the parts that I bought back in 2004 for my California photos.

Stay tuned for more California album layouts! Do you have any layouts you would like to share that you acquired products for way back when and just recently discovered?

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Trying to play catch up with layout shares from my personal albums. Here is a one page layout that I pulled together for a sketch challenge at our September Just Scrappin crop.

I flipped the sketch to make it fit my photos. I tried to cut out Humpty Dumpty on my silhouette and was unsuccessful so I printed him out (way easier), fussy cut and colored him in.  And if you're wondering, I am working on our 14 months in California album, 2004-2005...way back when the boys were little!!!

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This obviously isn't the best photo but I really wanted to share it. I'll try to take a better photo when I get back from Cool Crops Warwick. My layout looked really plain when I initially put it together so I decided to use some texture paste on it, it was a challenge for our Just Scrappin' crop. Armed with a stencil, a spatula and some texture paste, I went to town and love how it came out.

As you can see from this second pic, it's the imperfect circles that make it look so cool. The paste can be applied very thinly and takes very little time to dry. I will have to try this technique with colored paste (just add ink or distress paint) or even some of Heidi Swapp's really cool metallic paste!

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This time we have same photos, same papers, same title design and slightly different stickers. Papers are an older line from Creative Imaginations that I've been saving for their Lego creations as well as the stickers. I made the title...double matting them...on the silhouette. Can you tell I'm completely enamored by my Cameo?

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Project Life is revolutionizing the scrapbook industry and as much as I want to convert to it, I still love the 12x12 pages. However it doesn't mean I can't use it as a basic template for my layouts. At our last crop, I challenged the girls to make a layout following a project life template and came up with this for myself. The layout came together quickly and easily.

Next, I gave them a sketch using the same concept but without the actual page protectors. The girls agreed it made for faster scrapping but then sketches always do. This is the sketch we used, designed by Scrapbook Generations, and below it is my interpretation of the sketch.

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Similar layouts again...one for each boy...same layout different photos. The hearts were cut using a free cut file from Scrapbook & Cards Today and I designed the title myself on the Silhouette Cameo.

Share a Layout or Two

As I've mentioned before I make the same layout for each of my boys since they have their own albums. I may change up the photos a little but mostly keep the layouts the same. For these layouts, it looks like I printed the photos at different times, one layout has 4x6's and the other 3x4's. I just switched things around a little and kept the same title and papers.

Paper is from an older DCWV paper pad. I traced the ringmaster, typed the title out and welded everything together using my Silhouette Cameo for the title.

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Pinterest is my go-to when I'm stuck for ideas and it didn't fail  me this time around either. I used to tear out pages from magazines, now I pin and screen shot sketches/layouts that I want to use for inspiration. This time around I used this layout as a jumping off point...turning it sideways and taking some liberties with it for a layout of D and his digestive system project.

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A sports layout using Moxxie's grid iron paper line. Photos are from a few years back...it's so much fun to look back and my boys were so little!

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It's about time I shared some layouts on here, right? Here are two layouts I put together that I think the ink splotches are what makes the layout. It seems to be trending right now...splashes of ink or mist on layouts. On this first layout, assembled it and realized that a bigger circle would've worked better. Scrounging around, I was at a crop, I saw a friend's (hi Jen!) stamp set and borrowed them. It totally helped, don't you think?

 

 This second layout, was a sketch I followed and since it had splotches on the sketch, I followed it. I love how the layout came together. It was so much easier using stamps (Stampin Up's Gorgeous Grunge) and ink instead of mists. Have you tried this technique? Did you like it?

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I posted about the Mama Elephant Lunar Animals stamp set way back in February and finally got them in a few weeks ago. Unpacking from a crop, I came across a Chinese New Year layout I had created and decided the dragon would be the perfect addition to the layout. 

 

Not quite sure about it now that it's on my layout but I love how cute he is and so he's staying. I'll keep it out and let it simmer until I figure out if there's anything else I can add to it. Suggestions?

 

And while I had my supplies out, I decided to make a birthday card for my mom...shhh don't tell her...with the lunar animals. These guys represent the 4 of us, aren't they just too cute???

 

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Another in my series of duplicate layouts. It definitely makes things easier when a paper pack has duplicates. I didn't have the same tags or buttons but no matter. It was even easier since I used the same photos for both layouts. Kiddo #3 belongs to a friend that came with us.

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Another week another layout share. A super quick and easy layout to document Jori's Eleventh birthday party. The journaling will get added eventually and I do think it needs more embellishing. Opinions? Suggestions?

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One of my favorite photos taken at the most fun still talked about Mom n Me crop hosted by Cool Crops at the Bayside. I actually broke out the sewing machine for this layout and stitched the circles together for a cool banner. Love the tickets and distressed wood background paper. Just a simple fun layout of the coolest kid on the block!

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This is one of my favorite layouts done to date. My parents were visiting us and we took the opportunity to play tourist in Boston. I wanted to use washi tape and wood veneers in a layout...scraplifted a layout found on pinterest and done! Two pages - one for each boys' album. Can you tell which is for whom?

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I managed to get a few pages done over the weekend as always, I try to participate in the challenges I put out to my scrappers. This layout fits the criteria for our Friday sketch challenge as well as challenge #1: use different fonts in your title with a bonus challenge of using a song title/lyric as the title.

Red Sox paper from Joann's - I am an equal opportunity shopper, Sox die-cut from Amelia & Me, the rest of the patterned paper is Moxxie's baseball line and all cardstock is, of course, Bazzill. And here is the sketch we used from pagemaps.com.

Bella Blvd's Rover Collection

Another layout share instead of a Nailed It post. My Riley and Rover collections came in and I just had to play with the Rover line. The industry seems to go through phases of what theme comes out and right now it's all about pets. It seems every manufacturer has a pet line out right now and Time2Scrap has quite a few of them in stock. I had taken these pictures of Diego's head tilts and just had to scrap them. Isn't he adorable?

Moxxie's All Star Baseball paper line

I don't think I would specifically call this a Nailed It blog post but since there is a lack of "Nailed It" projects in my craft space, I thought I'd share how I used this paper line for my own scrapbooks. I do have these papers in stock...no stickers, just the papers with matched cardstock.

I had pictures from a Fenway Tour we took with my parents when they visited back in 2011. If you don't know this yet, I scrap chronologically for each of my boys. When I scrap an event that involves the both of them, I scrap both layouts at the same time. Basically making two of the same layouts and using similar pictures...pictures that highlight them. Here are my two layouts...one for each kid.

The stars are cut using a thin die I had on hand, adhered to the pages and painted over with clear Wink of Stella to give them a little shine. I added some Red Sox paper and embellishments, picked up at my local Joann's. If you were scrapping a different team, you could use other baseball embellishments as well as some washi tape. Quick and easy!