More Skyline Friends

Here is another layout of some of the girls at Skyline. Cyndi and Shelbi organize the retreat and wonderful at it. Candy and I alway ride together and room together while we are there. I'll be doing more in the future, so keep checking back!

Sketch by Jayne Jones. Digital Kit Autumn Afternoon by Mad Genius Designs

Check back tomorrow, I should have my quick page freebies up for you from Tracy's 2 Kool 4 Skool kit!

Skyline Friends

Here is my first layout I did for my Skyline Retreat. It's also a sketch by Jayne Jones over on Feeling Scrappy. She gave us this sketch as a challenge on the blog. I'll have some more layouts from the retreat as I do them. I love all the ladies that were at the retreat and enjoy spending time with them. They are all so much fun and creative. I learn something new every time I go.

Anyway here is the layout:

Credits: Digital Kit called Autumn Afternoon by Mad Genius Design. Sketch by Jayne Jones. The stitching is mine.

Page Map Challenge and another

In the page map blog, Becky Fleck is holding a challenge. I don't usually see these in time to get in on them, but this one I did. It ends tonight, but I was able to begin this layout earlier this week. I had to wait until today to get the picture off my parent's computer. This is actually the second layout I did, the first one wasn't quite what I was looking for. I'm still tweeting that one.

Anyway, here is the layout I came up with us. Of course the picture is of Jesse during a 4th of July picnic at Mom & Dad's house. She was eating BBQ ribs for the first time and decided that she loves them! (My mom makes the best homemade BBQ sauce!)

Credits: Sketch by Becky Fleck, Digital Kit by Laurie's Scrap called Summer Garden. (The word Fun and the dots around the circles are mine, and I recolored the stitching around the picture.)

I also did this layout yesterday. It uses the Allstate slogan, You're in Good Hands. It was for the Motto/Slogan challenge at Stuff to Scrap. The pictures are of my parents with half of their grandchildren/great grandchildren. I'm going to finish it off as a 2 page spread with the other half of the kids.

Credits: Digital Kit by CW Picket & Co called Afternoon Hush.

I'm on a roll, hope it last a while.

Well, I got off early today thinking I had a lot to do in order to be ready for church tonight. What I needed to accomplish was done quickly, so I decided I would do some scrapbooking while I was waiting. Here is what I did.


The sketch is by Stacey Lokovic. The digital kit I used is called Sundance and is on sale now at Stuff to Scrap for $2.00. Here is the preview of the kit. I love it, there is so much it can be used for. It's by Every Everafter Moment Design.

Challenges!

I have been killing two birds with one stone lately. I'm using my Sketchapalooza class to do some challenges on Stuff to Scrap (STS). Works out well. Here are some that I have done.

This is my sister's family. I am going to use this for the title page of their section of my album. It was also for a color challenge on STS. The colors were orange, blue and green. I used all but the green.

Sketch by Jayne Jones - Digital Kit called Fyre and Iyce by Dream Big Designs

This is my sister's middle son, Brodie. He is so funny and all boy. This was for a Use it or Lose it challenge on STS. They give you a mini sample kit and you have to use all the pieces in the kit. I had finished all my sketches from the class, so I went over to Feeling Scrappy's blog site and looked for sketches there. I found a good one!

Sketch by Stacey Curry - Digital Kit called In My Little Boys Pocket by Mad Genius Designs

This last one is of a friend of mine. This was during a National Meeting with out company and they gave us a fun evening one night. Here she is being a true cowgirl!

Sketch by Jayne Jones - Digital Kit called Sexy Vampiro by TotallyD Designs

End of class is upon me!

I really hate to see the see in the end of the Sketchapalooza class, but they say all good things must come to an end! I still have a few more sketches to do, but having to wait for the pictures I want to use.

Anyway, while I wait for pictures, I will share what I have done.

This is of my sister two oldest boys cutting up the tree that fell in Mom & Dad's yard earlier this year.

Sketch by Stacey Lokovic. The Digital Kit called Happy as a Lark by Scraps by Andrea.

Here is one I did of my two granddaughters. I bought them matching dresses and thought they looked so cute.Sketch by Stacey Curry, and theDigital Kit is called Dandelion Dream by Dream Big Design (the red is one I recolored)

This last one is a Speed Scrap challenge that I did on Stuff to Scrap. This was the first one I have ever done and it was fun. I hope to do more in the future. The give you instructions every 10 minutes for an hour, and everyone comes up with their own layout. It reminded me of the Mystery Challenge we used to do on ScrapShare. Anyway, here is my version. It's my hubby and the granddaughters.MommyScraps's Backyard kit was used for the paper; Scrappin' Kim's Country Road kit used for flowers and brads; the mask/cut photos was made by Mara Wegner.

My First Template

I'm doing a challenge on Stuff to Scrap that has been a great learning experience for me. They have a template challenge every month where you are given a template and you can do your layout from that. Well, this month she had us make our own template. She gave us some of the pieces to use and then we had to add our own. Here is what I came up with mine. I guess it's almost like my first sketch too.


Here is the layout I did using the template. It is of my nephew Logan. The digital kit is by Amy Sumrall called Childrens Day.

Layouts, Layouts and more Layouts!

I am so glad I signed up for this class. I've been able to get so much done. Today is a free day, no new sketch and I'm all caught up. I'm going to work on another layout using one of the sketches I've already done!

Here are some of my layouts:

These are from a photo shoot with Lovelace Photography. She does beautiful work! The sketches are from the Sketchapalooza class I'm taking on Feeling Scrappy.


Kit by Flower Scraps called Surf City. Photo's by Lovelace Photography. Sketch by Stacey Lokovic and Stacey Curry.

Here is another one I did. My sister and I took the kids to McDonald's and I took my camera along. Her middle one Brodie loved it, but he didn't want to go through the tubes. After about an hour, we were cleaning up and we hear him start fussing. We looked around and he was gone! Lost in the tubes! Jesse and Joey found him and led him out. As soon as he was out, back in he went. Now he loves it!
Sketch by Tracy Kosofsky


Here is one of my favorites. This is Xandra wearing the dog's reindeer antlers. She looked so cute. I thought the pictures were taken in December, I laughed out loud when I saw they were actually taken in February!

Kit by Andrea called You Better Not Pout. Sketch by Stacey Lokovic.

Feeling Scrappy Sketch

Here is my first sketch in the Sketchapalooza class. It's of my granddaughters at the beach. We had a great time that day, but it sure was hot! The sketch is by Stacey Curry. The paper and elements are from a collabration kit; Hot Fun in the Summertime from Funky Time by Amber and one of the paper is from Summer Fun by The Scappy Kat. I really like the way it sets the pictures off.

I'll have more later.

New Sketch class starts Monday!

I'm so excited. I signed up for Feeling Scrappy's Sketchapalooza 4 class. I have taken 2 of them in the past (misssed the third one and hated every minute of it!), so I just couldn't pass this one up. They have great sketches and give tips on how to do them and how to change them to match your style/pictures. If you have never taken one of their classes, this is a great place to start.



Anyway, I may not be able to be as active in the class as I want, but I don't want to miss any of it. I can always finish what I don't complete in the class later, but I'm going to strive to complete it during the class. I need to make sure I don't have the girls on graduation weekend!

Challenges

I love doing challenges for scrapbooking. Unfortuately I haven't had a lot to time lately to do any. But I saw some on Sisterhood of Scrap, and decided it was time to pick it back up. They have a November Online Crop going on and there were quite a few challenges. I was able to get 5 of them done. Hope you enjoy them.

Here is Challenge 1. The challenge was a sketch designed by Sarah Slade. I used a digital kit by Raspberry Road Design called Big Boy. This is my granddaughter riding on a car.

This is Challenge 2. Use the word believe in the title. I used a sketch by Jayne Jones from the Sketchapalooza 2 class from Feeling Scrappy (they have Sketchapalooza Class 3 schedule, so check it out.) The digital kit is from Kim's Scrappin' called Christmas Morning. These are my sister three boys with Santa (my dad) on Thanksgiving. He made a special appearance that day for the kids.

The next challenge I did was challenge 6. The challenge was to use an embellishment as a letter. I haven't done this before, but liked the way it turned out. I used another sketch from the Sketchapalooza Class by Amy Bell. The digital kit is by Kim's Scrappin' Fall Splendor.

The last challenge was Challenge 9. I had to use the word "fun" in the title. My first thoughts were of the pictures here. I used a sketch by Jayne Jones for the Sketchapalooza Class. The digital kit is by Tracy's Design called Big Bounce Fun Zone.