Create: Sketches -- Sketch #3

Well, I had the day off today, so I decided to work on a card and a layout for Sketch #3 from Create: Sketches.

Here's the sketch:

And I'll start with the card, since I made it first. I used all Papertrey Ink products. I diecut and stamped the largest Friends Til The End bloom & the leaves with Versamark onto vellum cardstock and then heat embossed it with white embossing powder. Then I took ink and Q-tips and coloured in the images, for this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: Coloured Vellum Flowers. I layered these onto some white cardstock that I impressed with my hexagon cover plate and inked with my Tim Holtz blending tool. I added a sentiment from Boutique Borders: Birthday, stamped onto a die cut double ended banner. I added some buttons and twine to finish it off (& to cover a bit of extra embossing powder. ;)  )

(Sorry for the blurry sentiment-- it looks much better in real life!)

And here's my layout, which I made using Fancy Pants patterned paper, diecuts and stickers.

For my title, I used the hello banner and added it to a wooden skewer to make a flag. I also added another banner that I cut with my PTI Get A Handle On It banner and my Modern Uppercase Alphabet dies. The skewer was quite thick, so I doubled-up my dimensional adhesive on the houndstooth patterned paper below it.

I was going to add the PTI Pedal Pusher bike, but it was bigger than mine in the photo, so I decided to use this Flair instead, along with a Fancy Pants sticker.

And I added two stickers to a round sticker on the sheet that said Happy Day.  And here's a close up of my journaling.

Thanks for looking!

Some quick layouts

I love scrapbooking one or two photos per layout. This is definitely my favourite number of photos. However, sometimes I'll want to scrapbook events that have many photos that I want to include. When this happens, what I like to do is create some photo collages in Picasa and then print out my photos as an 8x10. I find this a very quick way to scrapbook, since the grouping of the photos has already been figured out.

Also, when scrapbooking so many photos in one layout, then I like to keep the rest of the layout fairly simple, so as not to overwhelm my photos.

Here are several examples of layouts that I scrapbooked this week using photo collages...

For my first layout, I chose nine photos from our recent taekwondo tournament to make the collage. Picasa has the option of including lines between the photos, so I did this, and then I just matted the whole photo on a piece of white cardstock.

I used Echo Park patterned paper (parquet & journaling card), Fancy Pants patterned paper (blue) and a Papertrey Ink stamp (from Shutterbug Special-- it's in the upper right hand corner of the bottom right hand photo) and my PTI Headline Alphabet & Number dies for the title.

For my next layout, I had my photo printed out as a 8x12" collage. I layered it over some Studio Calico patterned paper, which had that great stripe along the bottom already, so I just trimmed 1/2" off the top of the paper.

I cut a snowbank by hand and adhered it to my layout and sewed it in place. I stamped three little sledders from PTI's In the Meadow stamp set, in three colours that featured prominent in my photo. I overlapped them a bit, for this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: Overlapping Ombre.

For the title, I diecut the letters from Winter Wisteria and stamped them with the coordinating Headline Alphabets stamp. Sage chose the title. :)

I bought some new typewriter ribbon for my Royal Typewriter, and used it to type out my journaling, which I layered over the photo.

I'm linking up this layout for this week's Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Transport. A sled can be a form of transportation, right? ;)

Since I was scrapbooking my kids' cousins visit when my FIL passed away, I decided to scrapbook the other collage that I made of those photos right away, too.

I used some Bazzill and American Crafts cardstock and some My Mind's Eye patterned paper. I used my Headline Alphabet dies (again!) in the same cardstock as the border (I just cut a piece from the middle of the layout, where the white hides the hole).

The journaling card is an old one by Pink Paislee. It had some wheat in the bottom right hand corner, which I covered with the camera (this is a AC Dear Lizzy stamp that I stamped and cut out by hand.)

I also stamped the sentiment (from Shutterbug Special) three times (in black, dark grey and then the stamped off dark grey) for this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: Overlapping Ombre.

And lastly, I made a layout using two 8x10" photo collages, using photos that I took last summer on our trip to Vancouver Island. I placed these side by side on the left hand side of my layout and then trimmed the second photo in two and adhered the rest to the right hand side.

I used Bazzill kraft cardstock, Crate Paper patterned paper (the cream woodgrain that runs across both pages) and Simple Stories patterned paper (it's their latest travel line.) I trimmed the banners on the left hand side by hand, to match the banners that were printed on the right hand side patterned paper.

I also stamped the ticket stamp from PTI's Destinations stamp set three times, again for this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: Overlapping Ombre. I layered my title (again, cut with my Headline Alphabets dies cuts) over top.

And here's a close-up of my journaling, along with the Simple Stories decorative brad and diecut I added.

So, I'm pretty pleased that I got all of these layouts made this week. I have a few more 8x10s from our trip last summer, so I might work on these tomorrow, since the coordinating patterned paper is still on my table.

Thanks for looking!

Golf Lesson

Today I have a sketch and layout to share for Pages With Papertrey.

This month, I chose this sketch from the June 2013 Page Maps:

And here's my layout... I used AC cardstock and Crate Paper patterned paper (woodgrain, herringbone) and Basic Grey (lines.) I stuck fairly closely to the sketch, but used some larger photos (these are 5.5x4").

I used my PTI Headline Alphabet dies to diecut my title from the woodgrain patterned paper that I used as my background mat. I used Edgers#5 to diecut my tab along the top, which I stamped with a stamp from Fabulous Frames. I also added a Freckled Fawn wooden word, because I love the photos of my brothers watching Austin so intently. I used my PTI pinking border die to diecut the strip of patterned paper that runs below my title.

I hand wrote my journaling. Under that, though, I stamped a star from PTI's Star Prints three times in Summer Sunrise, Harvest Gold and Lemon Tart and overlapped them for this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: Overlapping Ombre.

If you create a layout using this sketch, please link it here in the comments on my blog or here on the Papertrey Ink forum so I can check it out.

Thanks for looking!

Overlapping ombre

I have two projects to share today for this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: Overlapping Ombre.
The first is a layout that I made for Austin's junior black belt test, 1.5 years ago. I had to laugh in looking at these photos because of how little Austin looks here. He's now taller than me!

I made a collage in Picasa and had my photo printed out as an 8x10, which made this layout quick to come together. I used some Pink Paislee patterned paper as my background paper and diecut my letters from true black cardstock using my Headline Alphabet dies from PTI.

In the top right hand corner, I added a few banners (cut using my double-ended banner and get a handle on it banner dies). On one of the banners, I stamped my overlapping ombre star (from Framed Out #1) with aqua mist, ocean tides and black ink.

While I had the Pink Paislee patterned paper out on my desk, I decided to piece one of the sheets together to make a card. I mounted it on a sheet of Fancy Pants patterned paper. I added a couple of banners (cut using the same banners as on my layout). I stamped the "congrats to" from All About You in Dark Chocolate ink. On the pure poppy cardstock banner, I stamped an image from Mama Elephant's On Target set.

For the MIM challenge, I stamped the "You" from PTI's Simply You stamp set in Fine Linen, Classic Kraft & Dark Chocolate ink.

Thanks for looking!

Just Golden

Today, I want to share a card that I made using my new Clearly Besotted Fancy Feathers stamp set. I'm linking this up for the Clearly Besotted Challenge #1: Anything Goes.

I used some Papertrey Ink cardstock and Crate Paper patterned paper (The Pier, again). I stamped a sentiment from PTI's Happy Trails on my patterned paper strip. I stamped the solid feather stamp in yellow and then topped it with the lined feather stamp in versamark, which I heat embossed it with gold embossing powder. I cut it out by hand and adhered it to my card using dimensional adhesive.

I added some PTI buttons and twine. To finish it off, I stamped some small circles (from Rosie Posie and Text Boxed) in different colours of ink and heat embossed three of them with gold embossing powder.

Thanks for looking!

Some card kit cards

I have three cards to share today for the Crafty Peeps Card Kit Club. This month, our kits were prepared and sent out by Jennifer Ellefson. She chose some masculine colours and elements, so I made three masculine cards.

My first card uses all elements from the kit, with the exception of the wooden word embellishment and the blue button (those were from my stash.)

I asked my kids if any of them wanted me to make a father's day card for them to give to their dad. Austin said I could, so I used the orange elements from the kit, along with the stamped frame, which I added some twine and button to, before adhering it with dimensional adhesive.

And last.y, I made this card, using the medallion die Jen included, as well as the pretty stamped herringbone background she sent. The craft cardstock was mine, as well as the Crate Paper journaling card. The sentiment was a sticker that Jen has put on my bag of goodies. I peeled it off carefully and added it to the medallion she sent.

This kit club has been so fun! Thanks again, Jen, for the wonderful kit you put together!

I'm also linking up these cards for this week's Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Masculine/Father's Day cards.

Thanks for looking!

A couple more flagged borders

I have a couple more projects that I made using this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: Flagged Borders that I want to share today.

The first is a layout that I made using this Page Maps sketch:

I looked through my photos, but couldn't find any the right size that were vertical, so I decided to rotate the sketch 90 degrees. I used some American Crafts cardstock and Crate Paper patterned paper and slide frames. 

I loved how perfectly the first photo of Jonah & Sage fit in the little slide frame! You can also see my journaling here, which I decided to just have on the one side.

For my title, I diecut some Lemon Tart cardstock using my Papertrey Ink Modern Alphabet dies. It's hard to tell in the photo, but I stamped the letters using the sunset image from my new WMS My Island set.

I stamped the same WMS image on another piece of Lemon Tart cardstock and then stamped over it with this image from Mama Elephant's Wanderlust stamp set.

I created my flagged border along the side of my photos by diecutting the Crate Paper patterned paper with my Double-ended Banner die and my Get a Handle On It banner die. I stamped the confetti image from PTI's Birthday Style set twice, in lemon tart and classic kraft.

I repeated the confetti stamp near my title, which I created using Fancy Pants alphabet stickers.

Next, I made a card for the 10 minute craft dash #19:

The challenge was the colour combination on the photo's flagged banners, Here's the card I made, using some Crate Paper patterned paper (again, I know.)

I used the same dies as on my layout to created my banners and a stamp from PTI's Birthday Style. And the best news.... I succeeded in making it it less than 10 minutes-- on my first try! Woohoo!

Here's my time:

Thanks for looking!