Scrap Our Stash September 2016 Book Inspired Stash Challenge #42 Reveal

Hello, everyone! Today's the day I reveal my recent design work for Scrap Our Stash's September 2016 Book Inspired Stash Challenge #42. Here's SOS' inspiration piece:

And here's what I came up with:

Inspired by the outdoor and back-to-school theme, I opted for a fall layout featuring my two munchkins having fun in the leaves last year. Backed by a piece of My Mind's Eye patterned paper, I layered elements from one of my all-time favourite Basic Grey collections - Indian Summer c. 2009 (patterned papers, cut pieces from the card kit, and rubons). I was also very much inspired by the white picket fence on the inspiration piece which reminded me of that fence embellishment I've been hoarding for that one special project. This layout was perfect for it! The BG leaf motives rubons embellish the three Prima leaves I stuffed under my patterned papers. For my book or dictionary paper as per this month's challenge, I used a piece of Stampin' Up book paper I've had in my stash forever. The titling is a mix of BG rubons and a Heidi Swapp title sticker. Finally, I added a Maya Road camera clip, three buttons (one is from Jillibean Soup), a Crate Paper chipboard sticker, a few basic BG alphas, three small strips of Stampin' Up cardstock for my journaling, some Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze splats, and some good ol' stitching using a Crafter's Workshop stitching template and some DMC floss. Sketch by Laura Whitaker. Photo by Philippe Dumas.

Hope you're inspired to dig through your stash and use your favorite things you've hoarding for that one special project. And if you upload your own layout inspired by this challenge over on the SOS blog, you'll get a chance to win some sweet, scrappy loot! For more information about this challenge, please hop along right over here.

Happy scrapping!

Stuck?! Sketches: Anniversary Bash Part 1

Hello, hello!

For the month of September, Stuck?! Sketches has so much to celebrate! Like... 3 years of fun challenges with Laura Whitaker's sketches, the Stuck?! Sketches community (YOU), the joy we all share over the craft of scrapbooking, and the inspiration we gain from each other month after month! 

What better way is there to start commemorating our common love of creativity and storytelling than with an inspirational blog hop?! Join our design team and our sponsors, Clique Kits, as we show off our interpretations of the September 1, 2016 sketch.

Stuck?! Sketches is fortunate to be able to offer extra prizes for both of our challenges this month!
For the September 1st sketch, we are also thrilled to be able to offer prizes from the following sponsors, so play along with our sketch challenge for our chance to win!

Accent Scrapbooking Prize = $50.00 gift certificate to their online store! 

A2Z Scraplets Prize = $25.00 Gift certificate to their online store (including shipping)!

Lawn Fawn is a 6x6 paper pad and stamp set of the winners choice!

AND... (insert drumroll, please)... Clique Kits is offering a prize for our hoppers specifically!! So be sure to hop to all of the links that follow and leave some love on each blog along the way. One winner will be chosen from the commenters to receive a September Clique Kits kit! Half of our team and some of the DT from Clique Kits are supplying gorgeous inspiration for you, as you hop! Thank you to Clique Kits for sending our team members a September kit to play with!

Now lets get this party started!  Here is the sketch:

And here is your hop order:

Stuck Sketches http://stucksketches.blogspot.com/

Aliza Deutsch - http://peopleofthescrapbook.blogspot.com/...

Janice Daquila-Pardo http://www.theconstantscrapper.com/

Caroli Schulz - http://www.carolinaschulz.com/

Monique Liedtke http://moniquesscrapbook.blogspot.ca/...

Jenessa Frank Franco http://www.jenessafranco.blogspot.com/...

Leeann Pearce http://thepaintbrushgoesspottie.blogspot.com.au/...

Kerryn Fry http://www.harrysscrappinmum.blogspot.com.au/...

Maryam Perez http://maryamperez.blogspot.com/

Danie Ramirez Diakun http://scrappydanie.blogspot.ca/

Nicole Martel http://nicolemartel.blogspot.com/

Vivian Lake http://www.viviansdesk.blogspot.com/...

Clique Kits https://cliquekits.wordpress.com/

Please link up your layouts over in the Stuck?! Sketches sidebar right here by September 29, 2016, at midnight EST to be in the running for one of our prizes! All prizes will be drawn randomly using Random.org to pick a number.

Happy scrapping!

Stuck?! Sketches: September 1, 2016 Sketch and Reveal

Hello, again! Today, I get to share what I designed for Stuck?! Sketches' September 2016 sketch by the ever-so-amazing Laura Whitaker. Wanna see the sketch? Here it is:

And here's what I designed:

I just love this photo I took of my two kids a few years back. Éloïse had just sat by herself for the first time and Louis-Olivier was so excited to have seen her do it! Cuteness, right there! That's one of the reasons why I love scrapbooking so much - it gives me the chance to record the stories behind the photos.

For this sketch, the Stuck?! Sketches design team was given some awesome flair pieces from Accent Scrapbooking to be incorporated onto our pages. See where I put one of those I received? Yup! That's right! Between the reddish camera and the title. It was a perfect match for the Basic Grey Kelly Purkey's Mon ami collection I used for this layout. Set on what I believe is an old piece of My Mind's Eye patterned paper, I layered BG Mon ami patterned papers (both 12X12 and 6X6) as well as a piece of Imaginisce patterned paper. I also added some texture to the layering by stuffing in some bits of Bella Blvd transparencies and Magenta mesh in there. I grounded the layering by stitching a few circles using a Bazzill Basics stitching template with some DMC floss and then sprinkling some Studio Calico wood veneer stars with a few Creative Embellishments chipboard die-cut triangles. The title is a Heidi Swapp wood veneer piece that I jazzed up a bit using a Wink of Stella marker. Besides the Accent Scrapbooking flair, I also added a few Basic Grey Mon Ami alphas and stickers. Can't forget those Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze paint splatters. I just love the look they create to an almost finished page.

Now, Stuck?! Sketches is celebrating the whole month of September (stay tuned for more details!) and is fortunate to be able to offer extra prizes for both of its challenges this month! For the September 1st sketch, here's what's up for grabs:

Accent Scrapbooking Prize = $50.00 gift certificate to their online store! 

A2Z Scraplets Prize = $25.00 Gift certificate to their online store (including shipping)!

Lawn Fawn is a 6X6 paper pad and stamp set of the winner's choice!

Please link up your layouts over in the Stuck?! Sketches sidebar right here by September 29, 2016, at midnight EST to be in the running for one of these prizes!

Happy scrapping!

Scrap Our Stash August 2016 Sketch + 3 Challenge #41 Reveal

Hello, scrappy friends! Today's the day I reveal my take on Scrap Our Stash's August 2016 Sketch + 3 Challenge #41. Here's the Brenda Ragsdale sketch:

And here's what I came up with:

I went to a crop a month or so ago and brought this sweet pic of Éloïse and her Pépére (my father) and the Basic Grey J'adore collection. However, I never got to start a layout for this photo while I was there and the collection along with the pic were lingering on my scrappy table ever since. When I saw, Brenda's sketch, I thought to myself, there you go. I just had to wait for the right starting piece of inspiration! Thanks, Brenda! ;)

Set on a piece of Carta Bella's Rustic Elegance patterned paper, I layered a ton of elements from the Basic Grey J'adore collection - 12X12 and 6X6 patterned papers, die-cut cardstock and transparency pieces, chipboard stickers, stickers and alphas. I also added some Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze, a hand-stitched title using an American Crafts stitching template and some DMC floss, Queen & Co. washi tape, Stampin' Up vellum, a Prima tag, and finally random brads and a clothespin I found in my stash. See the three items from each challenge list provided? You got it - vellum, washi tape and the letter X (stitched one and on one of those brads!).

Hope you're inspired to start those layouts you've been telling yourselves you'd get to one day. And if you upload your own layout inspired by this challenge over on the SOS blog, you'll get a chance to win some sweet, scrappy loot! For more information about this challenge, please hop along right over here.

Happy scrapping!

Stuck?! Sketches: August 15th 2016 Sketch and Reveal

Hello, again! It's Stuck?! Sketches second monthly reveal today and I am SO excited to tell you all about it. Now, we can always count on Laura Whitaker for some great sketchy inspiration, but I am particularly in love with today's sketch. Here it is:

This is such a versatile sketch, it's not even funny! Hee!Hee! No, but seriously, isn't it amazing? L-O-V-E it! Here's what I created:

And OMG! Not one piece of Basic Grey on this layout! I know! It's a scrappy miracle for me! Hee!Hee! Set on a piece of Crate Paper's Storybook collection patterned paper, I then layered patterned paper pieces of Echo Park's Paper & Glue and Little Boy collections under one of my most recent pics of my son during his most recent science fair experiments. I also layered a piece of Bella Blvd alpha transparency to tone down the orange paper piece as well as some Magenta mesh and some random industrial mesh I received from a scrappy friend - thanks Isabelle E... or was it Cecile.. ;) In any case, I do believe we all have some of it in our stashes. Hee!Hee! There's also some pieces of random cardboard boxes I saved for a scrappy day, some splats of Heidi Swapp mist, Studio Calico wood veneer stars, a Heidi Swapp sentiment sticker, alphas by American Crafts and Echo Park, Echo Park stickers, a Maya Road arrow clip, stamping using a Close to My Heart stamp and Versamark ink, and of course, come stitching using a Bazzill Basics circular stitching template and some DMC floss. Just love how this all turned out. So scientific if I do say so myself. Hee!Hee!

Want to see what the other design team members came up with? Hop along right over here and be prepared to be inspired! And when you link your own design based on today's sketch over on the Stuck? Sketches blog, you'll get the chance to win some fabulous scrappy loot from these amazing sponsors: Lindy's and Evalicious. YAY!

Happy scrapping!

Scrap Our Stash August 2016 Book Inspired Stash Challenge #41 Reveal

Hello, hello! Today's the day I reveal my take on Scrap our Stash's August 2016 Book Inspired Stash Challenge #41. Here's the challenge:

And here's my interpretation:

As soon as I saw the book cover in this challenge, it immediately made me think of Basic Grey's Out of Print collection, c. 2011. The color scheme, the fonts included in the background - it's all there. Set on a Bazzill Basics piece of cardstock, I created a grid with nine different patterned papers. I then layered this sweet pic of my sister's sweet dog on some Magic Mesh and Fancy Pants' flocked transparency pieces. Then, the real fun began. I began layering embellishments around the photo. You'll find some stickers and alphas from the collection along with some label pieces and that super sweet glittered bow paper clip (stapled on with some Making Memories staples) all by Heidi Swapp, Basic Grey rubons, a Studio Calico wood veneer arrow, an Amy Tangerine by American Crafts metal flair, splats of Glimmer Glaze by Tattered Angels, and some random buttons. However, what really brings this layout together is that stitched square around the perimeter of the page using a Crafter's Workshop stitching template and some DMC floss. On it, I stitched some punched hearts using a few Stampin' Up punches and a piece of coordinating My Mind's Eye patterned paper and a piece from the mentioned BG collection. Sketch by Becky Fleck over at PageMaps.

Hope I inspired you to see those products you've had in your stages for ages now in a totally new light. Head over to SOS' blog right here for tons more inspiration for this awesome challenge. And if you upload your own layout inspired by this challenge over on the SOS blog, you'll get a chance to win some sweet, scrappy loot! For more information about this layout, please hop along right over here.

Happy scrapping!

Stuck?! Sketches: August 1st 2016 Sketch and Reveal

Hello, everyone! It's reveal day over at Stuck?! Sketches where the amazing Laura Whitaker has done it again - designed a brand new, fabulous sketch for us all! Here it is:

Isn't it fantastic? I just love it! Here's my take on it:

I don't know what's going on, but ever since Basic Grey announced that they wouldn't be releasing any new scrapbooking products, that's practically all I've been scrapping with! Weird! Anyway, this layout is no different. Set on a BG Little Black Dress piece of patterned paper, I then orbited most of my attention on incorporating items from BG's Serenade collection on it - patterned papers (both 12X12 and 6X6), a chiffon flower, an eclectic button, stickers, alphas, and garland. I also added BG metal studs, a Maya Road clip, a Freckled Fawn wood veneer word arrow, American Craft alphas (isn't that L-O-V-E so perfect for the color scheme?), Magic Mesh, and some hand stitching using a Close to My Heart stitching template and some DMC floss. Oh! And that leaf button stuck between the chiffon flower and the eclectic button? A gift from a scrappy friend - thanks, Stampy Pam! ;) Photo by Philippe Dumas.

Want to see what the other design team members came up with? Hop along right over here and be prepared to be inspired! And when you link your own design based on today's sketch over on the Stuck? Sketches blog, you'll get the chance to win some fabulous scrappy loot from these amazing sponsors: Scrapmatts and Scrapbook Circle. YAY!

Happy scrapping!