YPP Sketch Challenge #2

Here’s the sketch …

Here’s what I came up with …

Part of the challenge was to use Lindy’s Stamp Gang products … so, I used a couple of colours to colour the white Thickers and to create the accent paper behind the picture (along with my very first set of Nestabilities).  I also used them to colour a paper flower and to add a bit of shimmer to some seam binding and a bit of Webster’s Pages trim.  Then I added a bit of journaling on a piece of vellum to the corner with a few grey pearls.  I’m enjoying doing these challenges as I’m finding that I’m getting a lot more layouts done.

Materials used:

• card stock and vellum: Stampin’ Up!
• seam binding: from Fini Ribbon
• pearls: Prima E line
• trim: Webster’s Pages Bloomers
• LSG: Voodoo Violet Blue, Golden Lump of Coal & Creme Brulee Cream
• Thickers: American Crafts ‘Platforms’
• flower: Recollections'
• Spellbinders Nestabilities: Curved Rectangles

Thanks for stopping by.

I’m on a roll!

Wow … I think I’ve posted more this month than I did all last year.  Yay me!

For today’s post I wanted to share another layout I did … but this time I had used a sketch from Beggahuna to help me design the layout.

I really had a lot of fun creating a layout with a sketch … I found it was easier for me to complete my layout, so I’ll definitely be trying this again.

I decided to use a couple of pictures from my trip to New York City the other Christmas for the layout … mostly because I knew the journaling would be easy.  I rarely do journaling on my layouts, so I wanted to make it as easy as possible for myself.  I also used a Christmas ornament on the layout (instead of the flower on the sketch) and I really think it worked well.

Materials used:

• patterned paper: Chatter Box & Invisibles by Heidi Swapp
• Thickers: American Crafts (roller rink & bliss)
• bling & lace: Prima
• Distress Ink: Ranger (chipped sapphire, bundled sage, peeled paint, tumbled glass)
• Tokens charms: Blue Moon
• journal card: Colorbok

Thanks for stopping by.

I have a bone to pick with you …

pretty much sums up the look my little fur-babies give me every Halloween when I dress them up and attempt to take their picture.  So, when I decided to create a layout of the pictures from this past Halloween the Haunted paper collection from Cosmo Cricket seemed to be the perfect choice – I loved the colours and distressed look, but the little skeleton dude was just too perfect. 

Martha Stewart spider web punch add a nice detail

 a dew drop highlights the ‘31’

I used crackle accents on this little guy

Materials used:

• cardstock – Stampin’ Up!
• patterned paper – Cosmo Cricket
• Tattered Angels Bingo Board – Halloween
• Glimmer mist – Haunted Shadow & Raven
• Lindy’s Stamp Gang Starburst Stains – Frosty Forest Green, Golden Lump of Coal, Black Orchid Silver & Crème Brulee Cream
• Frames – Recollections
• Bling – Me and My Big Ideas
• Crackle Accents - Ranger
• punch – Martha Stewart

Thanks for stopping by.