Thursday, March 7, 2013

Once Upon A Sketch

Good Morning!

The March sketch is up over at Once Upon A Sketch!

The sketch...
I made a card and a layout with this sketch.  The card didn't follow it exactly, but it was my inspiration for it.  The layout followed it more closely, including doing something new for me.  While I usually ink my edges, I haven't used a stencil before for inking.

The card...



The layout...


Detailed photos...




Wednesday, March 6, 2013

So Berry Thankful

Good Morning!

This past weekend, SOUS had an awesome blog hop!  They also put up the sketch that they used so everyone could play along.  I have to give the ladies at StuckOnUSketches a hand, they do amazing work!

The sketch...
I used the sketch to make a card, but I also saved it so I can do a layout with it later.  The ladies at SOUS gave me so many inspirational ideas!  :)  It's hard to see in this picture, but on the bottom it says "So berry thankful"


and the inside...

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Mojo Monday!

Good Morning!

Yesterday morning Mojo Monday posted it's weekly sketch...
My take on it...

Monday, March 4, 2013

Mini Gate album

Good Morning!

Today is my day to post over at TheBugBytes!  I wanted to make something for my Mom-in-law, but I wanted to do something different.  I looked around the web and checked out you-tube and decided on a mini gate album.  One of the video's I looked at can be found here.  It's taken me 4 days to complete my album, but only because I didn't add all the stickles and liquid pearls until after I put the book together.  (Next time I won't make that mistake!)   A quick picture of the cover before I start explaining how I made this.

{You can click on the picture to see in greater detail}

I started out with my front cover, and cut two pieces of chip board cut at 4.5 X 6.
I cut my back cover at 6 X 9.  For my inside page, I just used the back 12 X 12 pieces of my DCWV paper packs, I didn't need the inside pages to be any thicker than that.

I cut a total of 6 pieces of 4.5 X 6 (2 were for the front cover!)
I cut 4 pieces of 6 X 8 for long pages.

I did mine a little differently, I used 2 4.5 X 6 pages for my cover, then layered 2 6 X 8 pages (one on the right and one on the left), then 2 4/5 X 6 pages,  2 more 6 X 8 pages and 2 more 4.5 X 6 pages and then the back cover.  Except for the covers, every page has pockets, either from patterned paper or vellum on the 6 X 8 pages.  





(I put blank placers in for my MIL, so she can add her own pictures or whatever she wants.  She  turned 89 on Feb. 28th, so I wanted to make it as easy as possible for her!)













And finally the back page!
Have an awesome day!

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Butterfly card

Good Morning!

My Scraps & More Sketches has an awesome new sketch up!  It was one of those sketches where I took one look at it and knew exactly what I wanted to do with it.  It took me maybe 5 minutes to make this card.  I have a few ideas for a scrapbook page using this sketch also, I just don't have any pictures printed up yet.

The sketch...

My card with this sketch...

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Assorted cards

Good Morning!

I've been  in a card making mood lately.  It helps that I picked up some awesome Graphic45 papers last week!








Almost done....just my favorite two left! :)



Have a great day!!