It's July...

It's July and that means it's time to share a new sketch from the wonderfully talented Lucy Chesna of My Sketch World!  This month brings a great sketch and I had some fun playing with some brand new Echo Park goodies, too!

Here's my take on it:

Here's a close up of the photo and the title work.  This title incorporates two things I love to do:  mixing my alphas and running the title onto a photo.  I just love the effect!

Here's the sketch that this layout is based on.  You can see that I focused on the four strips and incorporated the journaling strips, the large flower and the title placement.  One of the things I love about using sketches is how you can pick and choose what inspires you and make it your own. Lucy's sketches are particularly perfect for that!

You can go HERE to see what the rest of the team did with the sketch!  There are some fantastic layouts there!  Way to go, ladies!!

Thanks for stopping by today!  I'll be back soon with more good stuff to share!

Beautiful Girl

Hey, there everyone!  Today I'm sharing a project that was featured on the AWDML blog last week!

Today I want to share a fun sketch from our Pinterest board and the layout that I created with it. First of all here’s the sketch by the fabulously talented Pamela Young from Pamela’s World of Scrap.

And, here’s my layout featuring the new Lily Bee collection called Sweet Shoppe. It’s a great collection full of wonderful colors and super cute patterns! It’s going to be one of my go-to summer collections, for sure!

One of the things that I love about sketches is how you can use it exactly, or not. I often start using the sketch pretty exactly, and then make small changes along the way. You can see that I stuck pretty close to the sketch here, but made a few adjustments to make it work for me. I moved the title and the journaling. I chose to use a large pleated flower in place of the butterflies from the sketch. I also added the date into the upper right hand corner. Lastly, you can see that I created a large (yellow) mat for the layout elements to sit on. For me, it helped to pop everything off the page.


Here’s a close-up of the cardstock alpha stickers that are a part of the collection, and the pleated flower that I made. I just love the pop of pink!

And, here’s a peek at the journaling:

Thank you so much for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed the sketch and my layout!
Have a wonderful day!

A New Layout and a New Sketch to start off 2013!

Happy New Year, everyone!  I hope 2013 is off to a rockin' start for everyone!

Today I want to share a new sketch from My Sketch World and a new layout (based on the sketch) using the January 2013 kit from Birds of a Feather!

First of all, the sketch!  The sketch is by Lucy Chesna and is the January sketch at My Sketch World!

Lucy makes wonderful sketches and has a fantastic online scrappy community.  AND, it just so happens that there's a DT call going on right now!  Just pop over to the MSW Forum or Blog to see the details!

And, my layout based on the sketch uses the fantastic January 2013 kit from Birds of a Feather!

 

Here's a closeup so you can see some of the details:

Stop by the BOAF Blog for a tip on how I printed the journaling on the small piece of yellow paper!  And, check out the kit HERE-- there are still only a few left, so don't wait!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope 2013 is a fantastic year for us all!

It's Sketch Time!!

During this busy (ok...totally INSANE) week, I almost forgot to share the October Card Sketch from My Sketch World!  The fabulously talented Lucy Chesna has done it again and designed a beautiful sketch for us to play...ahem... I mean WORK with!

 

And, here's the card I came up with....

 

 

All of the papers, ribbon, chipboard and brads came from the October Birds of a Feather kit!

Thanks for stopping by!  Be sure to swing by the MSW Blog to see what the rest of the design team did with the sketch.  And, be sure to stop back here tomorrow.  I've been a blogging slacker and have quite a few projects to share with you!

A new sketch...

It's the 15th of the month and that means a fun new card sketch from Lucy Chesna at My Sketch world!!  Check it out!!

 

And, here's my card based on the sketch!  I used Simple Stories Elementary Collection and rotated the sketch.  It will be the perfect card for when we have the opportunity to tell one of the kids' teachers how much we appreciate them!

Be sure to check out what the rest of the design team did with the sketch on the MSW Blog, or come check out the FORUM and see the sketch and all of the fun monthly challenges, as well!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I have lots to get caught up on, so I hope you'll stop by again soon!

Flying High

We are on vacation here in Maine this week and the weather has been AMAZING! It feels very summerlike, but we still have eight LONG weeks of school before it will really be summer. Both of my kids got new kites for Easter this year and have been dying to take them for a spin. We finally got the chance this past Sunday- it was a gorgeous, sunny, breezy day when there was nothing else on the calendar! So, we went down the road to a park about 5 minutes from home where there is plenty of open space to fly their kites. It was really the first time that they could fly them without a lot of help from mom or dad.

Here's Elizabeth and her kite! I had a fun time using the "Title Sports" collection from Scrappin' Sports & More for this layout. The bright colors are so fun for summer-day activities!

Here's a close up of the fun pattern of squares:

And, here's a close up of the cute diecut kite!

This layout is based on a sketch from the fabulous Heather Landry! Thanks, Heather, for letting me share it!

Products Used:

#1381- Title Sports: Tennis (yellow)
#1371- Title Sports: Dance (purple)
#1378- Title Sports: Prom (blue)
#1373- Title Sports: Golf (green)

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you were inspired!

Getting Wordy with Momenta!

Hey, everyone!  I'm on the Momenta blog today sharing a fun"boy" layout based on a sketch by Heather Landry! First of all, here's the sketch:

I was totally inspired by the hexagons on the sketch- which seem to be all the rage these days. Heather even provides an SVG file on her blog to cut these little babies out! Since I am not very techno-savvy when it comes to SVG files, I printed out the image and adhered it to the back of my patterned paper. Then, I just cut out the hexagons, flipped my paper back over and BAM- there they are! I cut about 40 of them to complete this layout- that includes a few extra to pop with foam tape to create some dimension.

So, I MIGHT have got a little carried away with the stickers... I started out having a hard time deciding which of them to use-- they all describe my boy! So, I ended up creating a word collage! The colors of the stickers match the paper really well and I love how it came out!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you were inspired!

~Nicole

**Photo by Patricia Takacs of Kivalo Photography

Momenta Products Used:
PA-2390: Black & White Embossed Cardstock Pad
PA-2389: Vacation Pyramid Pad
ST-2128: Boys Will Be Boys Puffy Title Stickers
ST-3204: Black Uppercase Mini Glitter Alpha

My Sketch World Blog Hop!

Welcome to My Sketch World's Blog Hop!

Sketches, sketches oh I love sketches. Well let me tell you how excited I am that today we are showing off our incredibly talented designers for our next term.
Join us now on our blog hop!

Here’s the skinny on how it works. Stop by each designers blog to see what fantabulous creations they’ve made using My Sketch World April 15th sketch and get to know them. Be sure to leave a comment at each stop along the way, we are going to draw at random from all the comments left on all 9 blogs (this includes this MSW blog posting), will receive a $20 GC to Scrapbook.com!

All comments must be made by midnight PST on April 16th. Tune into this blog on April 17th to see if you are one of the lucky winners.

So without further adieu here’s the line up:

MSW BLog

Nicole Wise (You are Here!)
Suzann Jones

Jan Tatomir

Majo Wybranietz

Lisa Moen

Karen Zabuska

Scarlett Salamone

Stacey Wright

Lucy Chesna
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Hello my name is Nicole. I am so excited to part of the team as a Card Designer and Design Team Coordinator. I live in Southern Maine with my husband, two kids (8 & 9) and my two dogs. By day, I am a middle school music teacher and am enjoying my 14th year! Once my kids are in bed, I love to lock myself into my basement scraproom, crank up some tunes and scrap the night away. I’ve been scrapping for about six years now and I love to create layouts about my family- especially my kids. I also love to make cards and am getting more and more into altering projects! Thanks to my scrapbooking hobby, I am also very much enjoying learning about photography. I almost always have my camera with me — you just never know when the perfect photo-op will present itself!

Here is the April 15th sketch from My Sketch World :

Here is my example using the sketch:

Thanks for being here and now its time to head to Suzann's Blog to check out her creation! Have fun!