Last Ella Friday sketch, 2 Peas color challenge and More

Yeah! I managed to finish layouts using all six of the Ella Friday sketches. I don't remember when I have finished so many layouts, I seem to focus more on cards.

I have had fun going back over the tons of photos I have taken of our youngest grandson and to document events or occasions and this layout focuses on these adorable little teeth. You can't always capture them in photos and they really show off with these smiles.

I used the bottom portion of the red, side piece and gave it some interest. I embossed it with a Sizzix embossing folder. Because I used Core'dinations cardstock, I then sanded the embossed areas and that really shows off the design. That was further accented with some brads to match my colors.

I also wanted to use the color challenge that is the weekly challenge at 2 Peas in a Bucket.

These are typically colors that fit with Christmas themes but these papers made it a fun color scheme for about any occasion.

Did you take note of these amazing, green, embossed background cardstock that I used? It is brand new from Jillibean Soup and Core'dinations. All that was needed was a little sanding and the numbers stand out. I paired that with these great Jillibean Soup patterned papers. Since I had mostly scraps, all I needed was some squares from the prints to make a cute accent.

And now for my card using Unscripted sketch #43. I don't always have time to participate with their sketch but when I can, I love the added inspiration that comes with working with a sketch.
They added to the sketch challenge for this week by adding in a color challenge. This piece of patterned paper with the "boy" words on it was sitting right there on my desk and I knew it had to be the foundation for my card.

I pulled out this totally adorable, Kim Hughes stamp by Cornish Heritage Farms. It is really part of an Easter set but seemed just right for a baby card. I stamped the lamb with black ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder. Next I cut out another little lamb from copier paper to use as a mask. I placed that over the stamped lamb and gave my circle a spritz or two of a blue Glimmer Mist. I added further accents with Copic markers and Glitter 3-D Fashion paint by Tulip.

I used a piece of Vintage Core'dinations cardstock. Notice the edges of the card that were sanded. I love what the sanded edge brings to the card.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SHOW OFF THOSE TOOFERS layout
Materials: Cardstock – Core Essential/Core’dinations

Patterned paper – Darling Dots/29th Street Market/My Mind’s Eye
Sizzix embossing folder
Brads – Creative Impressions
Foam letters – Thickers/American Crafts
Machine sewing
Sandpaper
Fiskars corner rounder punch

I CAN DRAW layout

Materials:
Cardstock – Jillibean Soup embossed cardstock/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Jillibean Soup
Martha Stewart border punch

Title letters – Thickers/American Crafts

Powder Puff Chalk stamp pads – Quick Quotes

Sandpaper

BABY - LAMB card
Materials:
Cardstock – Vintage and Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – My Mind’s Eye

Little lamb stamp – Cornish Heritage Farms

Black Versafine stamp pad

Clear embossing powder – Stamp ‘n Stuff

Copic markers

Glimmer Mist – Tattered Angels

Glitter 3-D Fashion paint – Tulip

Circle punches – Papershapers

Sandpaper

Foam tape – 3M

Machine sewing

Sticker letters – My Little Shoebox

Ella Friday sketch, Unscripted sketch

Yeah, I am five for five using the Ella Friday sketches. And, I have kept to my commitment to use these sketches to do some catching up on our youngest grandsons photos.

The sketch is actually meant to be used on a 2 page layout but I only wanted to do a one page so I included almost all of the photos on my one page.

Notice the amazing embossed cardstock used for the background of the layout. This is new cardstock by Core'dinations and Cosmo Cricket. Since I used so many photos, I wanted to keep everything else very simple and I also wanted the cardstock to be able to shine.

The letters for the title are punch out letters by Cosmo Cricket. I like just adding the black and white elements to go with the photos and the green cardstock.

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And, I also used the Unscripted Sketch #42 for this week. I usually think of these kinds of sketch sites as being for cards but I usually seem to see the possibilities of a layout in their sketches.

I followed the sketch for the photos, the title and the patterned paper and then placed that on a larger piece of cardstock with the accent of that great red print. The cardstocks are Core Essentials by Core'dinations. All of their shades of colors are so great and every piece takes to being sanded really well. All of the patterned papers and stickers are October Afternoon.

Notice the one strip on here that I ran through the Cuttlebug machine with an embossing folder. I love to do this with Core'dinations cardstock because embossing and sanding just makes the core stand out plus this embossing folder has a "boy" look to me.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

DISCOVER layout

Materials:
Cardstock – Cosmo Cricket embossed collection/Core’dinations
Punch out letters for title – Cosmo Cricket
Sandpaper
Machine sewing

HOTWHEEL RACES layout

Materials: Cardstock – Core Essential/Core’dinations

Patterned paper and stickers – Farm Fresh: Farmhouse and Road Map: Skyline Motor Inn/October Afternoon

Cuttlebug embossing folder

Sandpaper

Fiskars Corner rounder punch

Some Nikki Sivils LOVE and an Ella Friday sketch

This last week, an amazing package arrived at my door filled with Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker goodness. SOOOOO...I wanted to share some of that with you in a couple creations.

Of course, first on the bill was a card fitting for Valentines Day. Is this U R My Favorite collection of papers and stamps just perfect for that?

The little "reserved" tag piece is a stamp and so it the crown. I cut out the crown, colored it with Copic markers and then added some Aleene's Paper Glaze for an epoxy or glass look and some rhinestones for some necessary BLING.

The flourish was stamped with black ink and then I sprayed on some Memories Mist color and rubbed it with some Fluid chalk stamp pads.

And for my Ella Friday Sketch #4 using this adorable Willow Bee collection by Nikki Sivils.

I am trying to keep with my resolve to get some of our youngest grandsons earlier photos on layouts for him. The sketch calls for three photos but I have a digital camera! Do you understand what that means? I take 50 photos of one occasion. Sometimes there is only one good photo, sometimes most of the 50 are great and I just had to use some of the other poses because this face is too cute. BUT, that is what a sketch is about. You make it you own, you just use it for a launching pad.

And added bonus is that this little label is on the back of the packaging for the burlap buttons so I cut it out and used it for my journaling. I cut the scallop circle paper in half and that let me stretch it above and below my grouping of photos and you can't see the cut line.

Notice the amazing embossed cardstock that is my background piece? This is new from Core'dinations from a new Jenni Bowlin collection. I thought it was the perfect "boy" accent and all I needed to do was sand it a little. Notice the cute burlap buttons too. These are self adhesive and come with the thread look on them already. SOOOO fast and easy.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

BE TOAD card
Materials:
Cardstock – Vintage collection/Core’dinations
Patterned papers and stamps – U R My Favorite collection/Nikki Sivils
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Memories Mist spray color/Stewart Superior
Fluid chalk stamp pad – Clearsnap
Copic markers
Corner rounder punch – Round It All
Border punch – Martha Stewart
Sandpaper
Rhinestones – Queen & Co.
Clear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s®

CUDDLY layout
Materials:
Cardstock – Jenni Bowlin embossed collection/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – A Good Place to B/Willow Bee collection/Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker
Burlap buttons – Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker
Sticker letters – Thickers/American Crafts and mini stickers/My Little Shoebox
Sandpaper
3M foam tape

Moxie Fab, Ella publishing and Starbucks

You wonder how those three go together, right? Read on...

I love the Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab this week and so I of course had to play along. If you know me, you know I love a challenge. I choose to create a patchwork design for my background. I have wanted to do something like this for awhile and so I took from the look of the hearts in the trigger being from different patterns of papers. I wanted my hearts to be white then so that I was using the opposite look from the trigger but the white hearts didn't show up well against the background so I punched my hearts with my new Martha Stewart heart punch and that gave my hearts a scallop edge and I cut red felt hearts that were slightly smaller.

I thought that the felt and the sewn on buttons fit well with the patchwork look. I cut my squares at 1". I sure wished that I had had a 1" square punch but I didn't so I just cut them all. I love this collection from We R Memory Keepers so it was easy to create a coordinated look from these.

And, here is sketch #3 from the Ella Friday Challenge.

I changed the number of photos a little since I needed to print mine out in some different sizes. I wanted my layout to be very simple. I printed the title on the white background cardstock and then added a little color to my outline font with a Copic marker. The other accents are then sprayed on with a couple colors of Memories Mist by Stewart Superior.

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And, my photos to share which brings Starbucks into this post.

I did a double take when I was driving past this building and I just had to get out of the car and walk in to see if it was a Wells Fargo - a bank, or a Starbucks. Guess what - never before seen - it was BOTH!!! You read that right, BOTH! I walked in the door and they created an entire, real Starbucks in one corner of a fully operating bank. Do wonders never cease!

This Starbucks was on an opposite corner.

I just loved the facade of this building making it actually look a whole lot like the original Starbucks in Seattle.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

PATCHWORK - LOVE card

Materials:

Cardstock –Core Essentials/Core’dinations

Patterned paper – We R Memory Keepers

Heart punch – Martha Stewart

Buttons – PaperTrey Inc.

Machine sewing

Felt

Rub-on sentiment – Making Memories

ONCE UPON A TIME… layout

Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Spray color – Memories Mist
Font for title – Zapped Sticks
Circle punch – Papershapers
Brads – Making Memories
Fluid chalk stamp pad - Clearsnap

It is SKETCH time!

I have mentioned this before but I will say it again, sketches just inspire me. This first layout wasn't created with a sketch but the next too were.

What inspired this layout was this adorable photo and a layout that Ali Edwards posted at Two Peas in a Bucket. She used one large photo and I so love that look so I figured it would work good with this cutie. Notice the two tiny photos. I love to use one large photo and then accent with a couple smaller ones to tell more of the story.

Do you know what the totally yummy cardstock on this layout is? NEW Core'dinations, from the new Cosmo Cricket collection. I just sanded it and it is amazing. The layout was created with the Unscripted Sketch #39 for this week. I am so far behind on having a complete album for our youngest grandson so I have been trying to pull out some of those photos and getting them scrapped.

For this layout I used the Ella Friday sketch #2. If I do all six, I be six layouts ahead of where I was before! That works!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

IT IS REALLY DATHAN… layout

Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper, sticker label and sticker letters – October Afternoon
Fine black pen
Circle punches for the Mickey head

XOXO layout

Materials:
Cardstock – Vintage/Core’dinations
Shaped Patterned paper, mini sticker letters and Tickets – Jenni Bowlin
Other patterned papers – We R Memory Keepers
Circle template – Coluzzle
Chipboard heart/circle shapes – Maya Road
Mod Podge/Plaid
Calendar date stamp – Technique Tuesday
Versafine black stamp pad
Letter stickers – October Afternoon
Sandpaper

BUDS-COUSINS layout

Materials:
Cardstock – Whitewash and Cosmo Cricket Collection/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Cosmo Cricket
Letters – Thickers
Tiny sticker letters
Sandpaper

Ella Friday Sketches #1

You might have noticed the little square on the side of my blog about the Ella Friday Sketches. The sketch for this last week was just so simple and it had so many possibilities so I took this opportunity to try to get some layouts finished. LOVE inspiration in sketches and I have tons of photos just waiting.

I thought this Jenni Bowlin shaped paper was the perfect place to start. LOVE the contrast with this orange colored Vintage Core'dinations cardstock. That brings out the orange in his new shirt. The sketch called for 4" x 6" photos but I wanted mine a little bigger so I printed them out 5" x 7" and cut them down so they are 4 1/2" wide.

These pieces of chipboard are by Maya Road. I left out one of the shapes and covered these two with We R Memory Keepers patterned papers as well as the strip across the layout. I thought these papers furthered the "blowing kisses" in the photo.

This is a Technique Tuesday stamp. Is this something you could use on about every layout or what??? LOVE that it is so easy to add the correct date.

And, my subtitle is added with these tiny Jenni Bowlin circle letter stickers.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

XOXO layout
Materials:
Cardstock – Vintage/Core’dinations
Shaped Patterned paper, mini sticker letters and Tickets – Jenni Bowlin
Other patterned papers – We R Memory Keepers
Circle template – Coluzzle
Chipboard heart/circle shapes – Maya Road
Mod Podge/Plaid
Calendar date stamp – Technique Tuesday
Versafine black stamp pad
Letter stickers – October Afternoon
Sandpaper