Practical Scrappers Sketch

This was the first month in a long time that I had a chance to play along with the sketch for Practical Scrappers!  That is another one of my goals for this year - to play along with my site a little more.  If you haven't been by there lately, you should!  We are on a different schedule now and I think you will love it!  Today you can see all the different interpretations of this fabulous sketch from Liz Chidester.

For my interpretation I used more of the pieces from that gorgeous We R Family line from Lily Bee Design!  Kind of a coincidence that they both ended up on my blog two days in a row!  I managed to incorporate lots of my stash into this one too!  Tip: Have a  big stash of embellishments??? Sort your embellishments by type and you will get more use out of them.  I have mine sorted by clear, chipboard, words, tags, metals, etc....now when I am looking for a chipboard I don't have to dig thru tons and tons I just go for that container.  

Do you have a great organization tip? I'd love to hear it!

Supplies Used:

Patterned Paper: Lily Bee Design

Wood: Studio Calico, Lawn Fawn

Chipboard: Bo Bunny & My Mind's Eye

Stickers: Bella Blvd

Enamel Dots: Lily Bee Design

Brad: My Mind's Eye

Doilies: Jillibean Soup

Cork: Fancy Pants

My First Sketch Interpretation!

Last week we went on a roadtrip to Nebraska.  I have been playing more and more with sketches and decided to try my hand at creating some!  If you look at the tabs underneath the title of my blog you can find all that I have created so far there!  Last night I actually used a couple of them and created layouts.  Here's my very first one!  I created this sketch with patterned paper in mind....I often come across collections that I adore the paper on and want to include as much of it as I can!  This sketch is perfect for that.

The fun thing about sketches is that they give you a jumping off point...but if you start and then stray that is okay.  Even I don't follow my own sketch exactly!

One of my goals for this year is to do several layouts about myself, just myself.  I do lots on family and obviously lots on kids.  But there are some things about me that will be fun to remember down the road.  Today's layout features journaling about some of my dreams that came true in the scrapbooking industry this year!  

I absolutely love the line "We R Family" by Lilybee Design.  It incorporates some of my favorite colors and has fabulous patterns.  My squares for this layout are 1 3/4" and with that they didn't fill the whole page, so I trimmed it down and matted it on a turquoise cardstock.

Supplies Used:

Patterned Paper Lilybee Design

Wood: Studio Calico

Stickers: Bella Blvd, Cosmo Cricket

Washi Tape: My Mind's Eye

Stapler: Tim Holtz