Secret Garden Sketch with ACOT

I have another layout using the ACOT sketch challenge this week. Find my process video on my YouTube channel!

This is the original sketch: 

I translated it to fit a 6x8 page in my vacation album about the garden at Middelton Place. Secret Garden was my favorite book (and movie) growing up! This reminded me of it.

Thanks for looking!

xoxo, Natalie

You 2 Light up My Life!

Hey Friends!

I have a new layout to share today! There is a process video as well!

This layout was created using a fun May 2019 sketch from Page Maps.

Thanks for looking friends, and Happy Mother's Day!

Life behind bars

Hey y'all!

 I used the awesome sketch challenge in the A Cherry on Top gallery this month to create this fun, boy, jeep page.

Here's the original sketch:

I used torn paper windows instead of tags.

I had cut these "chicken wire" bits on my cricut ages ago, and this page seemed perfect to finally use them.

I added texture with some ranger texture paste, my new fave polka dot stencil and some black watercolor.

These Heidi Swapp chipboard stickers from my stash were perfect for this boyish page. Love these Kaisercraft papers too, they're textured and fab!

Hope you'll play along with this sketch challenge in the Cherry gallery!

Swanderful Besties

Happy Monday, friends!

Today I am bringing you a fun  layout I threw together using the Stuck?! sketches November 1 sketch.

Here's the original sketch:

I have had these photos of me and my besties for a min, but the color cast of the photos is very purple, so I was struggling with how to scrap them.

This navy Swan paper from the Amy Tan On A Whim collection was perfect!

I toned it down around the photos with some gesso then used a cross stencil to apply aqua HS shine texture paste.

I have a severe addiction to stamps apparently, especially The Ink Road stamps, and cannot seem to complete a page without them! Really though, the Swan paper had to have the Swan stamps!

I embossed in hot pink and glitter and fussy cut 3 swans, one for each of us.

I grabbed a couple fun die cuts from a Studio Calico kit to add to the whimsy.

The popsicles were perfect to add color, and because we had paletas this evening!

I used my circle punch to create this faux scallop border to match my photo backing paper.

I love these Dear Lizzy puffy alphas & I don't use them often b/c PINK. I stamped the swanderful sentiment from IRS, and the small pink alphas are from Illustrated Faith.

It's been a minute since I created a non-assignment page! It felt good. And I'm hoping to get back on my crafty track now that my boys' birthday party is over - maybe life will slow down a bit!

I love working with Laura's sketch & this was no different.

Thanks for looking!

My Angel - a Stuck?! sketch

Happy hump day, friends!

Today I'm bringing you a layout I was able to create fairly quickly with a sketch from the Stuck?! blog & I LOVE it!

Here's the original sketch:

I just can't get enough of this baby's angel face! I snapped this pic in the doctor's office a while ago, and it's one of my favorites. You know how they're all extra snuggly and sweet when they're sick?

I combined some of my favorite wood grain paper with bright yellow which I fringed. I also used a sage green and tied in some cork color to compliment the wood grain.

 I love this tiny paper clip bow from Illustrated Faith - who says bows don't go on boy pages?

I cut the title from my Cricut. The font is a free one - Daydreamer.

I made a visual triangle with green bits of ephemera and cork bits.

I stamped the "you are lovely" sentiment from my Ink Road stamps. It is a single line, but since that would not fit on my label, I masked the bits I wanted separate, stamped the part I wanted, and unmasked before stamping, then did the opposite again! This is a great way to make a stamp fit where you need it.

Supplies:
Gray heart paper - Project Life
Yellow paper - Chickndiddy
Green paper - Heidi Swapp
Wood paper - Chickndiddy
Green leaf ephemera and green tag - My Minds Eye
Gray tag - Studio Calico
Cork geotag - Studio Calico
Cork banners - the Paper Studio
Bow - Illustrated Faith
lovely stamp - Ink Road Stamps

I had so much fun creating this page. Thanks for looking!

Scrappy Besties - A Stuck?! sketch & a Sketch in Thyme PL sketch

Well it's been a min, huh?!

Seriously getting into my family's busiest season, but I've got to stay on track with my scrapbooking!

Today I'm bringing a fun layout I created with the most recent Stuck?! sketch.

Here's the original sketch:

I must've been waiting for the exact perfect STAMPS to create this layout. I used my new Beautiful Mess set from The Ink Road stamps shop.

Cheryl is someone I was paired up for a pocket pals Disney swap. Well, we sure hit it off over our love of Disney and scrapbooking, and not having anyon in real life who "gets" our type of scrapbooking! We talk almost every day! I was super excited to meet her and her family on our last Disney trip, and these are the pages documenting it.

I used some of the fun sentiments from this crafty set about my Scrappy  Bestie! I popped them up with foam dots around a cute Minnie frame.

I started out trying to do a red and white page, but I couldn't find enough red with the bright white. So I made my own background paper by embossing Minnie's bow in white on red paper, and I used my clearsnap smooch to color some white flower yellow to bring that bit of added color throughout the page.

We both agreed we do not love the photo, but we are memory keepers, and we realize it is important to tell the story anyway! We will just have to go to WDW again and take another!!

I used the little pushpin stamp to tab my hidden journaling card behind the photo.

I found this one final perfect blue flower to help bring that color to the bottom of the page!

I embossed the texture pasted castles with iridescent glitter, and I also stamped an iridescent glitter Minnie bow to math the background paper, but it apparently doesn't photograph well.

I love it!

So I also completed the corresponding pocket pages where I included photos of the boys playing together at Disney Springs.

I used a fun sketch from Sketches in Thyme Project Life to create a card for this layout.

It says "Dis BFF" as our boys took to each other well and quickly! So sweet!

Here's the original sketch:

Here is the card within the entire PL page:

And here's the backside, which includes my 4 year old's photog skills!

I"m still plowing through and playing catch up on my Pocket Palooza 100 days project. This was part of it. Not giving up!

Thanks for checking out my layouts today!

S'more Please! - a SID sketch

Well, nothing like waiting until the last minute, but I have a layout for the August single page sketch over at Stick It Down.

Here's the original sketch:

I just had to! I finally broke into the precious Pink Paislee Outfitters paper I've been hoarding.

I also used my new stencil from Clearsnap that I received as a prize in the mail the other day!

I picked out some gold, coral and navy sequins to compliment the Pink Paislee paper. I also tied the ephemera title together with the page with the turquoise texture paste.

Usually all my camping pages end up with wood grain and cork - I just feel like it adds to outdoorsy feel a bit!

Legit, this kid will make us build a campfire in the rain because you just cant't go camping without a fire!

I love this fun loving kid! I had a lot of fun getting a little messy with this layout, and I knocked out some hoarded pieces from Outfitters and that title piece I've been keeping for just the right photo!

Supplies:
Gray background paper - Studio Calico
Mountain Paper - Pink Paislee
texture paste - Heidi Swapp Shine
Wood veneer - Heidi Swapp
Smores ephemera - Pebbles
Cork - DCWV
Hexagon stamp - Ink Road Stamps
Hexagon stencil - Clearsnap
photo layers - Crate paper

Thanks for looking!

Summer YOLO - a Stuck?! sketch

Happy Fri-yay, y'all!

I'm bringing another layout created with a Stuck?! sketch today.

I loved this fun diagonal sketch!

I stash busted some old, favorite ribbon on the diagonal, and used one of my favorite papers from the Simple Stories Summer Vibes collection.

No joke, ice cream was life on this cruise ship! Haha!

I used these pebbles ice cream pieces to layer around my photo and scraps from Crate Paper and a card from MAMBI, and the colors worked pretty well with the Simple Story collection - I love when that works out.

As usual, I had so much fun creating with a Stuck?! sketch!

Supplies:
Paper, YOLO card, stickers - Simple Stories
Ribbon - American Crafts
Ice cream - Pebbles
Green layering card - MAMBI
red and yellow layering papers - Crate Paper

Thanks for looking!