Hello and welcome to MARCH! Yay! Spring is right around the corner!
This month I have some special layouts planned! I was graciously asked to Guest Design for the Lasting Memories blog and their theme of the month just happens to be sketches….which is like my favorite thing ever! So for the next 5 weeks, I get to share with you a new layout based off of 5 different sketches!
Let’s get started with Week 1’s design:
This fun snowman sketch had me reminiscing our first time with taking Andie out on the lake this winter. She had the cutest little polar bear suit to keep her warm, and I wanted to make sure to get pictures of it!
Here she is with my dad (her grandpa) enjoying some sunshine out on the lake.
Thanks for swinging by! Come back next week to see the next challenge!
Welcome to February! I’ve always loved this month because of the emphasis on love 🙂 Cue the Hallmark movies! But today I get to show you a neat sketch from Stick It Down that I hope you’ll try out yourself!
Isn’t this such a fun one? My eye was instantly drawn to those diamonds in the background! Here’s what. I ended creating based off the sketch:
I think it turned out pretty great! I loved One Canoe Two’s Saturday Afternoon line and decided to use that fun rainbow paper up! Love seeing some of my older lines get used 🙂
I hope you get a chance to swing by Stick It Down’s website and try your hand at this sketch! It was a fun one! As always, thanks for swinging by my blog!
Welcome to December! A month filled with hope, joy and giving! I love this month for so many reasons! We have a fantastic Christmas-y sketch at Stick It Down this month that I think you’re going to LOVE!
Here’s what it looks like:
I loved the circular wreath on the second page! Here’s how my take turned out:
I love it when sketches allow me to combine lots of photos into a single layout. I take way too many pictures and want to scrap as many as I can…so double page layouts are my favorite!
I hope you have a terrific Christmas season spent with family and friends! Merry Christmas!
Wow! October really flew by! Ready or not, welcome to November!
Here’s our new sketch challenge for the month of November from Stick It Down:
Here’s what I created based off the sketch:
I loved our time spent in Zagreb, Croatia last summer and I wanted to use some fun bright colors for this layout! Hopefully, we can go back to Croatia soon and explore the coastal parts!
If your curious about my trip through Europe, click here! I love chatting about traveling and scrapbooking my adventures too! Traveling makes our lives so much richer doesn’t it?
Thanks so much for swinging by my website! I hope you have a wonderful day!
I’ve had a few extra days to scrap since I’m quarantining at home awaiting Baby Roisland’s arrival! There have been some really fun challenge’s that have caught my eye, so I figured I’d play along with a few!
First off I’m entering this layout in Rochelle Spears’ challenge and Scrap with Stacy’s challenge (along with the Bonus Friends challenge!). You can view Rochelle’s sketch challenge here and Stacy’s challenge here. I followed Rochelle’s sketch and used GOLD (part of my pink paper had gold lines in it and the polaroid camera is gold), HEARTS, and created an EMBELLISHMENT CLUSTER (the 2020 part in the top left corner) to complete Stacy’s criteria.
Here’s what I came up with:
Secondly, I loved The ScrapRoom’s sketch and figured I’d use it to highlight some cross-country skiing photos from last winter. I no longer have Facebook to post it in their challenge album (needed a mental health break from it!) so I figured I’d just post it here for fun! 🙂
Thanks so much for the fun challenges, ladies! And thanks to YOU for swinging by my blog this month!
Welcome to October! A glorious month filled with pumpkin spice chai latte’s and all things fall. I’m so excited for this month too because we will be welcoming our new beautiful little blessing by the end of the month! I can’t wait to meet him or her!
Alright onto the fun from Stick It Down! Here’s our latest sketch for the month:
I’m still working on scrapbooking my Europe trip from last summer, so this layout is capturing the beautiful palace, Schonbrunn, just outside of Vienna, Austria. The palace and ground were absolutely stunning and I can see why it’s known as Vienna’s jewel.
I again decided to use my FUSE tool in order to layer more pictures to remember this beautiful place.
If you are unfamiliar with what a FUSE tool does, check out my video here:
If you are interested in seeing more of my scrapbooking, you can visit my Scrapbook.com gallery or click “Scrapbooking” at the top.
Thank you so much for swinging by my blog this month! We would love to have you join us in Stick It Down’s double page challenge too! Time for another pumpkin spice chai!
Ahhh….my soul feels refreshed when I’m able to carve out a full day to devote to scrapbooking. I once heard someone say, “if you’re a creative soul and you’re not able to be creative…you will be miserable.” So true!
Anyway, I came across Rochelle’s sketch challengefor the month and thought I would give it a shot. Here’s what the sketch looks like in case you want to play along too!
Here’s how my page turned out:
This page is the last page in my Europe album and I’m thrilled to finally be finished scrapbooking this trip! YAY! It only took me a year haha! But I know that it’s something I’ll treasure for years to come.
Now onto my other normal projects! Thanks for swinging by my blog! 🙂
Welcome to the beginning of another school year! This school year will be a little strange for me because it’s the first one that I won’t be teaching in the last 9 years. I know that I will miss my students and co-workers so much, BUT I’m very excited for the bundle of joy that our family will be adding in October! Enough about me! Let’s get to our challenge this month from Stick It Down!
Doesn’t this one look so FUN?! I loved it and I decided to get creative on this one and use my FUSE and some waterfall pages. Because I have so many pictures from this trip, using my FUSE has allowed me to layer some photos to save time. Check it out:
I apologize that my pictures look glossy, but its due to them being taken inside their page protectors, so here’s a picture of the layer of photos on the bottom.
Ok so here’s an action shot of how my flaps of photos work. I decided which photos I wanted as the top layer, middle layer, bottom layer and then I cut up a page protector to the size of my pictures (6X4) and then used my FUSE to melt the cut up page protector, to the final page protector. If you’re curious about the FUSE and what it can do, check out this video or watch my overview of some pages I’ve created with the FUSE below.
I love the layers that this created for my scrapbook page! It turned out amazing!
If your curious in where all these amazing foods were from, check out my “Globetrotting” page and click on one of the countries that I’ve visited to learn more! Traveling is a HUGE passion of mine and I use the beautiful art of scrapbooking to remember my travels!
That’s all for now! I hope you have a wonderful day!
Our final month of summer is here! We’ve had a beautiful summer here in Minnesota and thankfully my husband and I have had some serious “Lake Time” lately. 🙂
We have a beautiful new sketch to show off this month! I absolutely love being on the double page team at Stick It Down because it motivates me to get more things done!
Check out our sketch this month:
Here’s my take on it!
I apologize for the “glossy” picture but I’ve been using my FUSE tool (which I’m totally in love with by the way!) and because of that I have to take pictures of the page in the page protector, so you get the full effect! Here’s the bottom layer of the page:
So, with my FUSE tool, I added a layer of 4×4 photos and using the Waterfall Photo Sleeves, I fused them to the page protector. If you’re unfamiliar with the FUSE and how it works, check out this video for a product tutorial or watch my video below for an overview of this page.
Hope you liked my page! If you’re interested in learning more about my trip to Budapest, Hungary click on this link! As always, thanks for swinging by my blog!
