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Good morning! I have another installment of Sketch~N~Scrap sketch challenge for you today.  This is an extra for me this month and I had a lot of fun creating with it.  It's been a long time since I've thrown a page together in only about 1 hour.  I really love the way it turned out.  Make sure to check out more below as I have a second page that goes along with it that I made for a scrap challenge on National Scrapbooking Day (May 5th)

Here is the sketch for you to play along with

Here is my take on the sketch. My son's middle school had a fun sports day and he couldn't wait to go.  He got to play so many different games and everyone was thrilled to have him there.

And here is the first page I did.  

Mother's Day cards...a bit late!

I totally forgot that I took pictures of the two Mother's Day cards I created until I uploaded my son's birthday photos!  I made these using Kiwi Lane templates and they came together super fast, since I made them the morning of (nothing like waiting till the last minute).

I didn't do much embellishing to these cards. I was just about finished with them and then I got called into work.  I'm so happy that both my Mother and Mother-In-Law don't really require flashy or dressed up things.  They loved them just the way they were.

I Miss You

I love using these templates from Kiwi Lanes Designs (which I'm sure you've figured out lol).  It makes creating so much easier and a lot of fun.  There was quite a while lately that I just didn't want to scrap or create cards.  I couldn't get in the groove.  These templates, and their sketches) have really helped jump start my creative brain.  I've gotten so much more done the last few weeks than I have in months!

 

 

I created this card for a current sketch challenge they are having on their blog.  I still don't have all the templates so I improvised for the stem and used chevron patterned paper instead.

 



Supplies: Tiny Wildflower 1T, 4T, chalkboard paper (my minds eye), bakers twine (stampin up), say it in style stampset (close to my heart), antique ink (tim holtz)

 

 

I also created this card for the same challenge just because I love playing with these templates lol.  They are really just to much fun!!

 

Supplies: tiny wildflower 2T & 5T, tiny accents 1T, 1/2" strip and Chevrons 3B, stampin up dsp, button and green bakers twine.



Two Card Designs

Here are two cards I created to show how to use the Kiwi Designs templates for scrapbooks when you don't have any card templates to use (hoping to add these soon lol).  I'm pretty happy with the way they turned out.  I've never used templates on cards before and they came together quite fast.

 

The templates I used are:

Baby card: chestnut drive 1B & 2 B, Adventure 1, 4, 6

Happy Birthday card: cascade trails 1A & 1B, Madison Avenue 3A, Tiny Bracket 1T

Autism Awareness Zoo trip

We love the zoo.  We go many times a year if possible and for any reason.  When we found out that The Brookfield Zoo was doing an Autism Awareness Day we couldn't wait to go.  We have two children that have be diagnosed with it so we support it fully.

I took so many photos this day that I still have a full container! I may add more layouts to this later but for now I'm done.  This first layout gave me a lot of trouble.  No matter what I did with it, it just didn't look right.  I finally just put everything down and glued.  I wasn't sure about it but now that its done, its a keeper.

I decided that this layout would only feature the pictures with my son in them.  I wanted to showcase how proud he was to be participating in the Awareness day and how happy he was to be there.  I think this will always be a place we can take him that will instantly calm him down and make him happy.

 

For both layouts I used Kiwi Lane Designs templates.  I have fallen in love with the look these create and how they help you use up patterned paper that you never thought you'd use.

Backyard Golf

This is the first layout I made using my new templates form Kiwi Lanes.  These were so fun to use and made the layout come together so fast.  I'm loving how polished the layout looks and it barely needs any embellishments. 

The pictures themselves are the greatest but I couldn't pass up scrapping these.  My son got a kids golf set for his birthday and couldn't wait to use it the first nice day.  He had a blast playing and I was able to get some fun pictures. 

Cross Over Challenge layout

I am so happy to be scrapbooking again!  I can't even tell you how much I've missed it.  My husband gave me a wonderful weekend retreat as part of my birthday present and it has ignited my creativity again.  I was able to get 16 full layouts done (pictures to come soon) and with my craft supplies now nicely tucked downstairs, where I'll use them more, I can't wait to pull out my supplies and get busy!


I decided to create this layout using a sketch from Kiwi Lanes.  I've heard of there wonderful templates before but just never took the leap into buying any.  At my weekend crop one of my table mates was using them and I just fell in love. When I got home I purchased my first few sets.  I love them.  They help make scrapbooking easier as well as helping to make nice clean looking layouts.

This is the challenge for this week.  It ends tomorrow (3/27/2016) so I got this in at the last minute.

 

Here is my two page spread.  I love how all the patterned papers work together.  This is the first layout that I've ever done and not added embelishments.  I just really don't think they are needed.

 

 

 

Supplies:

Paper: cranberry and chocolate cardstock, patterned paper

INK: tim holts distress ink vintage photo

Templates: clara lane, elements, adventure