March Single Page Sketch from Stick It Down

Here we are, well into the third month of 2023! I’m excited to get some scrapbooking done this month while watching NCAA college basketball’s “March Madness”! As a basketball fan, it’s a very fun time of year!

But it’s always a great time of year to be scrapbooking and Brandi from Stick It Down created a fabulous sketch for us to follow this month:

I was especially inspired by the diamond-shaped background, so I used some 3×3 squares of patterned paper, folded the tips in towards the center, and created my own diamond shapes. I absolutely love how it turned out! Some ink, embellishments, and a bit of faux stitching finished it off!

This page is documenting some of the wonderful food that we enjoyed while in Hawaii! Smoothies, pineapples, fish, shrimp, and a stop at Ken’s House of Pancakes were some of our favorites! If you’re curious about our trip to Hawaii, I have lots of photos and info that you can check out here!

As always, thanks for swinging by to look at my scrapbooking! 🙂

March Double Page Layout from Stick It Down

Snow. Snow. Go Away. Come Again Another Day.

It’s tough to love snow in March, here in Minnesota, but at least the days are getting longer and the sun is shining brighter! Bring on spring!

To ease us into the month we have a fun sketch from our designer at Stick It Down, Lauren!

I feel like I’m never scrapbooking the same season that we’re experiencing haha! So here’s a layout from Christmas of 2021! I loved having our family back together after COVID. We got to share laughs, good food, fun memories and watch our two little sweethearts tear open presents with joy!

I used Vicki Boutin’s “Warm Wishes” collection to finish this layout. I loved the mixed media feel that her papers have! Such a fun collection!

I hope you get a chance to play along with our sketch challenge this month! Happy Scrapbooking!

February Single Page Sketch from Stick It Down

It’s time to show you our single page sketch! I like to mix it up and do both double and single page layouts!

Here’s our sketch that we’re following for this month:

I’m working on some Christmas layouts from 2021, so the second I saw this huge circle, I instantly thought of Christmas Cookies! My grandma, mom, daughter, and I had a really fun baking day that year! I fell in love with Simple Stories “Baking Spirits Bright” paper line, so this layout contains all sorts of goodies from them!

Thanks for swinging by my blog today! I hope you get a chance to join us at Stick It Down this month!

February Scrapbook Challenges:

I love getting a chance to spread my crafty wings and try out a few scrapbook challenges from various blogs. One of my favorite blogs to peruse is Rochelle Spears’ because she does amazing work and always has great sketches to follow. Check out her blog here!

Here’s what I came up with:

I also had time to play with Scrap Our Stash’s sketch challenge and I love how this adorable layout turned out! Both of these layouts were created with Paige Evans’ “Wonders” Collection.

Thanks so much for taking the time to swing over to my blog! If your are curious about my trip to Hawaii click here to read more about our time soaking up the sunshine! I love hearing your comments so be sure to leave me a message below! Have a fantastic day!

February Double Page Sketch from Stick It Down

Why hello February! You snuck up on me! Good thing Lauren Mullarkey, from Stick It Down, was ready with our sketch for the month ahead of time! Here it is—isn’t it charming?!

Here’s my take on the sketch! I chose to use this sketch to document my daughter’s 1st birthday party. I loved this cake cut file from Paige Evans and thought it fit into this sketch perfectly!

I just love these photos because she has grown up so much and looks so different now! That’s the fun of scrapbooking, documenting memories forever! 🙂

Thank you so much for swinging by my blog and taking a peek at my layout! Have a wonderful February!

January Single Page Sketch Challenge

Soooo it’s a new year — and I’m on a new design team! Whoooo! I decided last fall that. I would like to try my hand at designing single page layouts again, so I jumped on Stick It Down’s single page team in addition to being on the double page team—let’s hope I can keep up!

Scrapbooking is one of those hobbies that’s just for me. It’s my selfish “me time” where I get to hide in my basement and play around with photos and pretty paper — and I don’t feel bad about it at all! Hah!

To kick off my year of single page fun, let me show you the sketch that Laura Rumble designed:

This sketch has so much potential and I love that it contains multiple photos! Here’s what I ended up designing with it.

My brother and sis-in-law graduated with their Ph.D’s this past summer! YAY! I had to make sure to document such a huge milestone and remind ourselves why we weren’t there cheering them on in person—thanks COVID limitations…..lame! At least we got to watch them celebrate online.

Thanks for swinging by and looking at my layouts! Have a fantastic rest of your day!

January Double Page Sketch from Stick It Down

2023 is here! I believe it will be a great year full of blessing for you and your family.

Here is our first double-page sketch from Stick It Down to get you going!

I chose to use this sketch to document a fun Christmas baking day from last year! I had some great helpers and we had a tremendous amount of FUN!

I found this fun Christmas-baking-themed paper from Simple Stories and it worked absolutely perfectly with these photos. I hope to get a few more layouts out of the packet!

Thanks for swinging by and looking at my latest creation! I hope you have a blessed January!

December Challenge:

Happy Holidays! I’m back today showing you a fun layout that I whipped up using Rochelle Spears’ sketch challenge! Take a look at her sketch:

I loved all the paper piecing this layout included. So fun! Here’s what I came up with!

I made this little onsie for my daughter because we are HUGE fans of the movie “Lampoons Christmas Vacation” We even found a little “Uncle Eddy” hat for her to wear. I just had to scrapbook this because I want to make sure that I always remember it! It’s the little things!

I pray you have a wonderful Christmas with your family!

December Double Page Sketch Challenge

“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas—Everywhere you go…”

Yes Christmastime is here! The best time of the year AND the best time of the year to play along with a fun sketch challenge from Stick It Down! Our doubles designer, Lauren, cooked up a good one for us this month:

I loved that it had a fun circle to play around with! I’ve been trying to be better about stash busting, so I found this old circle paper and knew it would be perfect to add some pizzaz to this layout! I also grabbed some of my old Basic Grey paper (25th & Pine and Evergreen collections) and used it to finish off the simple but fun layout.

Here’s some of my family celebrating Christmas 2021!

I hope you get time during this busy month to play along with our fun challenge!

Thanks for swinging by my blog!

November Single Page Challenges

Gratitude. Thankfulness. Gratefulness. All the appreciation words are coming to my mind today–especially when I’m scrapbooking layouts about my family! Like this one!

I try to play along with Rochelle and Stacy’s fun blog challenges each month–plus I love the inspiration that their blogs cultivate 😉

Here’s the sketch Rochelle provided:

Here’s the Tic Tac Toe board that Stacy added and I used the middle column (Mixed Alpha Title, Square and Flowers).

And here’s the layout I designed based off of the sketch and Tic Tac Toe board!

Thanks for taking the time to swing by my blog and take a look at my creation! I love scrapbooking and hope my layout inspires you too!