March 2021 Guest Designer at Lasting Memories

 Happy Birthday

I'm guest designer this month over at Lasting Memories

 

This month's challenges are a series of sketches.  The first sketch up is pictured above.  

I went with some birthday pictures of my youngest.  I used mostly Simple Stories on this one.  I added some stenciling with Vicki Boutin paste on the background.  Thanks for looking and be sure to join the challenges over at Lasting Memories. 

March Single Page Sketch at Stick It Down

 Googly Eyes

Here is my take on the sketch for this month over at Stick It Down

 

 I used mostly Pinkfresh on this one with some misting.  I thought these pics of the kids playing Googly Eyes game was hilarious!

Here is the sketch:

Be sure to play along this month over at Stick it Down!

March Challenge at Scrap Our Stash

Adventure Time

Here's my take on the March first of the month challenge over at Scrap Our Stash

 

 

 

 

I looked to my photo for inspiration on this one.  I knew I wanted to use purples to highlight my photo.  I used most of the papers from Paige Evans Bloom Street.  The peach paper is Illustrated Faith.  

I printed the Adventure Time characters and punched them out.  Thanks for looking and be sure to join us over at Scrap Our Stash.

Here and Now

 February Mid Month Sketch Challenge at Scrap Our Stash

I decided to use Vicki Boutin's Wildflower and Honey collection to scrap a photo of my husband assembling IKEA furniture.  It's not a small task and I was so elated that he tackled it head on with zero complaints.  I love that man!

I started off with some Vicki Boutin Foundations paper.  I added some wet distress oxides, dried them.  Then I stenciled over that with a Vicki Boutin stencil.  I had those black shapes cut out previously and never used them.  I thought it worked well against the bright colors.  I'm working with mostly scraps from this collection but I made it work!  

Oxide colors used:  Abandoned Coral, Pine Needles and Wild Honey 

Thanks for looking and hope you play along with the mid month sketch challenge over at Scrap Our Stash!

Zoo Adventure

 Stick It Down February Double Page Sketch

Here is my take on the February Double Page Sketch over at Stick It Down.  

 

These photos are from when my youngest had a "camp out" at the local zoo.  They had a lot of fun and got a personal tour of the zoo.

I used Echo Park Jungle Safari papers.  I cut the palm leaves, giraffe silhouettes and title with my Cricut.  All were from Design Space.  I didn't like the look of plain cardstock so I lined the green palms with clear Nuvo drops, stamped a Kaisercraft grid stamp on the kraft colored palms and lined the title in various colors.  I also added some stenciled distressed type lines with some matte paste.

Thanks for looking and be sure to play along at Stickitdown.blogspot.com!