Let another month begin! YAY! I’m really excited for all the fun family plans we have coming up! But to start us off, let’s look at the sketch from Stick It Down!
This is another unique and fun one! I love sketches that stretch my imagination and design ideas! I had these fun fall photos of my daughter and our family visiting an orchard last year and I thought they would be fun to use with Simple Stories’ Boho Sunshine collection.
Here’s some up close photos:
Such a fun sketch to work with! I hope you take the time and try it out! Thanks for swinging by my blog!
Welcome in spring! Let’s get rid of this snow and make way for some sunshine and flowers! To usher in a new season, let’s check out our double page sketch from Stick It Down!
I used this sketch to create a farm layout! We have a fantastic kid-centered farm experience near our hometown, so we try to take my daughter to it a few times a year! Lots of fun animals and things to see!
I shifted a few things around so that I could create an embellishment cluster, and I moved the journaling to a better spot for this specific layout. Overall, I like the fun colors and how it turned out!
I hope you get a chance to play along with us this month! We love seeing your take on our sketches!
The arrival of March always makes me so hopeful for warmer weather—although its typically a long shot here in Minnesota 😉 But I love that scrapbooking is something that can be done year round no matter the weather! So let’s get to the fun!
Here’s our double page sketch from Stick It Down for the month!
How fun is the movement of this sketch! I absolutely loved it! I had some paper with fun curves (Simple Stories) that I chose to cut up and create a similar movement feel. Then I added some spring photos of my little sweetheart in her cute rain jacket!
I’m not going to lie these curves challenged me because I tend to scrapbook very symmetrically, but it’s always good to try something new! Here’s some close up photos:
I hope you get to try something new this month and challenge yourself with these curves like I did! Join us on Stick It Down’s Facebook page so we can see your creations! 🙂
It took me a while to find time to try out Scrap With Stacy’s Challenge this month, but I finally got to it! She has a fabulous Tic-Tac-Toe board that challenged me to use up some embellishments that I’ve had in my stash for far too long. Here’s her board!
I used the middle row: Puffy Stickers (the word “coast”), Triangle (the gold arrow/triangle) and Journaling Card (behind my title I used a recipe card).
I have been scrapbooking photos from our trip out to California in 2022 (I’m almost done! Hurray!), and this was a fun stop at Wilder Ranch State Park on the beautiful western coast. If you’d like to hear more about my trip to California and the beautiful places we visited, check out my Globe Trotting page!
Here we go! Moving on into February! Since I’ve recently traveled to Florida I’m already thinking summer 😉
This sketch from Stick It Down was perfect to help me document some random summer memories that I wanted to scrap but didn’t want to dedicate an entire layout to. It’s hard to pick and choose sometimes!
Here’s what the sketch looks like!
And this is what I came up with! I liked the linear features of this sketch but I wanted to angle it for a fun twist! I love the Happy Days collection from Cocoa Vanilla and was able to use lots of it up with this page! I can’t help but smile as I look at it! Fun, fun, FUN!
And here’s a few close ups of each page so you can catch some details!
Thanks for swinging by my blog! I hope you get a chance to try your hand at this sketch this month!
When it’s below zero in Minnesota—-it’s a good idea to have a hobby. Thankfully I’ve found mine! I’m loving scrapbooking my photos from our trip to California in 2022. Our national park tour was one I will remember forever. We were blessed to visit Yosemite, Sequoia, Kings Canyon and Pinnacles! If you’re a travel enthusiast check out the details of my trip to Kings Canyon here!
Alright, enough about travel! Let’s chat about scrapbooking!
I loved Rochelle Spear’s sketch challenge this month and partnered it with Challenge YOUrself’s “One Little Word” challenge. My word is “Explore” which is definitely one of my favorite words because its usually partnered with a new destination or adventure 🙂
Here’s what I came up with:
I hope you enjoyed my layout! Thanks for taking the time to come and look at my blog!
Ahhh a new year! Here we go! Welcome to 2024! I have feeling this is going be a fabulous year!
To kick off our year with Stick It Down, let’s look at a new double page sketch! I love how this sketch incorporates so many picture opportunities! You have so many options to create fun things with it!
Since it’s January, I’m already thinking of warm sunshine and spring temperatures! I didn’t have a ton of pictures for this event so I modified the sketch to include some flowers and the title on the bottom. I love learning new techniques from Paige Taylor Evans and I saw these adorable heart flowers on one of her layouts! I knew it would be perfect for these pictures—so I tried it out!
Turned out pretty cute don’t you think? Here’s some of the detail shots for each page:
I hope this inspires you to try out a new technique and maybe even create those heart flowers for yourself!
I’m working my way through our California national park photos from 2022 and here’s another fun layout featuring Pinnacles National Park! We love visiting national parks all around the US because each one is so different!
I’m entering this layout in Challenge YOUrself’s “Anything Goes” challenge. You’ll spot me living my best life, hands in the air, on that first page 😉 Hiking and exploring are my absolute favorite things!
I fell in love with Simple Stories’ “Trail Mix” collection and decided to fussy cut one of the fun papers to make this cool wavy–movement feel that carries throughout the two pages. I love how it turned out because it’s such a unique page! Here’s a few up close shots of each side:
Scrapbook Customs had these great Pinnacles-specific stickers that I loved adding to the layout. It’s always fun to have those custom touches.
Traveling, writing and scrapbooking are my three favorite things so you can see how all those interests tie together as you explore my website a bit! Thanks for stopping by!
Deck the halls with boughs of holly, fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-LA!
December is HERE! YAY! I’ve been looking forward to it because we have a wonderful addition coming any day! Come on baby!! 🙂
To kick off our fun month, let’s check out the fun sketch that our designer Laura cooked up for us! Remember you can find all of our sketch challenges on our Facebook Page now!
For years I’ve been wanting to head to the Bentleyville Lights display in Duluth, MN and last year we finally made it happen! It was a VERY chilly December day but the light show was spectacular! I used a light string cut file from Paige Evans and her Sugar Plum Wishes collection to add some pizzaz to this layout! Now the memory gets to be preserved forever!
I hope you get to join in on our sketch challenge this month! It’s a great way to document those fun Christmas memories! Thanks for joining me!
Hi friends! I’m waiting patiently for my baby girl’s arrival (38 weeks pregnant right now!) and so to keep myself occupied, I’ve been scrapbooking! I have a HUGE trip that I need to get working on from two summers ago, so I’m trying to crank out layouts as fast as I can before baby makes her arrival.
Thankfully the Scrappy Friends challenge is helping me out 😉 Rochelle Spears and Stacy always have fun inspiration to follow along with. Here’s the sketch and Tic-Tac-Toe grid that they provided this month:
Here’s the layout I came up with based off the sketch and Tic Tac Toe Challenge! I used the left vertical column (stickers, ink/paint and enamel shapes–my red dots) to finish off the layout!
Like, I said I have ALOT more work to do on this beautiful National Parks tour that we took in California in 2022, but it feels good to get the first page documented!
