Sweet Sunshine, Sweet Memories, Sweet Friends

Good Evening! Here are a few los I made between yesterday and today. The first is using the latest sketch from Sketch Inspiration, along with some Vancouver photos and the Scarlet Lime March kit. Love this Cosmo Cricket "Material Girl" line!

Next up, I pulled out my new "Dear Lizzy" papers and embellies and got to work! This line screams FUN to me, so I grabbed a photo of Joan and I and had some fun! It just so happened that this month's Studio Calico went very well with the "Dear Lizzy" and featured some of the line as well. I used a sketch from The Scrappiest for the lo. The cloud in the upper corner says "Sweet Sunshine", so I went with the title "Sweet Sunshine, Sweet Memories, Sweet Friend".

Here is a close-up of the embellie card, which features a SU! stamp (the scooter), a Dear Lizzy chipboard fence, and Dear Lizzy sticker.

And lastly, I made these flower out of ribbon, by stitching up the side of the ribbon and pulling the threads together and tying them. I put a Dear Lizzy brad in the center, and then ruffled the flower around it.

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Love Ya!

I made this lo tonight using my October Scarlet Lime kit, and some photos from this fall. I have been really into the idea of hybrid scrapping lately (combining elements of digital scrapping into traditional paper scrapping). I purchased Photoshop Elements a few weeks ago, and I've been scouring the internet for tutorials and ideas. This week Ali Edwards is featuring some hybrid scrapping tips on her blog. Today, she has a free download of this digital element, which I added onto my photo and then printed out on my new printer (oh boy do I love that thing, lol!)

I thought it'd be fun to add an abbreviation title, because it's such a sign of the ages! LYLS stands for Love you like a sister, and Joan has truly become like a sister to me over the span of our friendship! I also based my lo on a sketch from Julie's blog (she used to design the sketches for 52 Sketches 52 Weeks).

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Scarlet Lime college LOs

Hi all! I spent the day yesterday girl talking with Sara and scrapping alll daaay! I made these 4 los from my college graduation using almost entirely products from my September Scarlet Lime kit.

My kit is almost all gone, but I'm pretty happy with my los! Thanks for stopping by!

Go Giants!

I made this lo using the 52 Sketches #34 sketch for last week. These pictures are from a Giants game last year. I went to the pre-season game last night, and sadly we lost. I can't remember the results of the game from this lo, but it was a fun memory! I used mostly supplies from the August Scarlet Lime kit, and added the letter stickers and journaling tag from Jenni Bowlin, and some dp by Melissa Frances. For the circle surrounding the #1, I wrapped ribbon around a chipboard circle. It looks pretty neat!

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Home Sweet Home!

Hi everyone! I'm finally home this week. I spent the last 10 days in Vancouver and Alaska, on a wonderful cruise! Yesterday, I was able to catch up a bit on my scrapping and all those sketch challenges I've missed. I made this layout following #33 on 52 Sketches...52 Weeks. This features a photo from Key West, FL. This is the Southernmost point of the United States, and if you were to travel 90 miles West, you'd reach Cuba. In fact, from here we were closer to Cuba than we were to Miami! I used almost entirely supplies from my August Scarlet Lime kit. The only thing I added was the letters that spell "Cuba", some crackle paint and cardstock. The letters are by KI Memories, and they were originally bright colors. I pulled out some Tim Holtz distress crackle paint and added a THICK layer on top of the chipboard letters. I let it dry for about an hour, and these awesome cracks appeared. I used the same technique for the fun flower stem (which came in the kit).

Here are 2 close ups of the title, and of the flower embellishments:

The second half of this layout doesn't follow a sketch, but uses the same supplies as the first. I used the distress crackle paint on the photo corners.

Thanks for stopping by today...hopefully I'll have more for you to see soon!