Ready for school

I wanted to share this layout.  The pictures show my grandson's first day of school experience from last year.  These two pages were published in Northridge Publishing's Sketch book.  The sketch I used was actually for just the first page but I went ahead and created a two page layout so I could use more pictures.

 Most of the elements were from a digital kit at Design House Digital.  I thought this kit was so fun with some great papers in it.  The different patterns made it easy to use one of the sketches in the book. The black chevron patterned accents are a stamp from Hero Arts.

 He was so excited and so proud of his new uniform and his adorable backpack. Same for this year with more pictures to scrap.

Here is the book the layout is published in. I love sketches so books like this are always so fun to have on hand for inspiration.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Playful and Elegant

Let's start off with a playful card.

 I just bought this digital paper kit from Design House Digital and had to put it to use. My lauching pad is the Card Patterns sketch and the color combo at Colour Q.

 I opened four pieces of the papers in the kit to fit on one page along with a portion of another piece with the banners in it. I could then cut these pieces to fit the sketch.  I love kits where the prints coordinate so nicely.  Do you totally love that little bike! It is a stamp from a set by Hero Arts. The label is cut with my Cricut Expression. 

 This banner portion is cut from the top portion of a patterned paper piece.

 Here is the Card Patterns sketch.

 And the Colour Q combo. I did miss getting that kraft color in my card, I just couldn't seem to make it fit.

 Next I wanted to play along with the Lawnscaping challenge to use heat embossing or dry embossing plus this set of stamps has a playful look to them. Since I love both kinds of embossing, this was a challenge I had to give a try.

 I pulled out this numbers embossing folder, I thought it had a kid like look to it to go along with the cute paper airplane. I added color by rubbing with a Distress stamp pad and sprayed it with some Chalkboard spray.

 Now for a more elegant look, I wanted to play along with the Moxie Fab challenge to use a damask design.

 I cut the two piece damask shape with my Cricut Expression.  The background piece is a digital paper printed on white textured paper.

Remember that funny passion fruit flower I showed you the other day? Well, glory be, we finally have some fruit setting. We were so excited to find several of these cuties!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)