Field Flower

Such pretty colors this week at CSI!  Loved them; so romantic.

For my evidence I used wet mediums (Gesso and gel medium) and ruffles.  I sanded a bit on the chipboard flowers to rough them up too.

For my testimony, I wrote a haiku.  I haven't done that in a 100 years!  Thanks, it was fun.  It reads:
Flower of the field
Full of beauty and of life
Buzz, buzz goes the bee

There is a small be on the flower, but it is kinda hard to see.

The layout

The case

Church in the Park

The Challenge:
Use gray, yellow and white as your color combo.

I am usually not a huge fan of color combos, but I loved these colors together!  So pretty.  And the gray paper does a lot to help the photos stand out and looks so pretty with the yellow.  I decided to add bead to my stitching to add a bit of elegance and I love how it turned out!  I will be doing that one again.  I have lots of seed beads.  For this layout I used the sketch that my Chinese Whispers group used, but it looked nothing like the sketch by the time I got a hold of it, so I wanted to use this super cute sketch.

The layout

The sketch

Love At First Sight

This is a layout I did for the February round of Chinese Whispers at Club CK.  It's where you are placed in a group and the first person gets a sketch emailed to them.  They create a layout based off the sketch and email a photo of the layout to the next person, but not the sketch, the next person makes a layout and sends it to the next person and so on.  By the end of the round you can see how close or just how far you are from the original sketch.  It is loads of fun!

Here is my layout

The sketch that stared everyone out.  I was about halfway down the list.  It changed a lot!

Church in the Park

Frosted Designs Fab Friday challenge was to us a banner.  I love banners!  There is something so fun about a banner waving on your page.  I picked the photos of our church's Church in the Park because, well, it's like a celebration to hold service out in the sun in a beautiful park!  We also hold baptisms and that is a reason to celebrate too.  And then there is the fun and games afterward, so this layout definitely deserved banners!

I also used this layout for the weekly challenge at Club CK.  She posted an adorable sketch to use.  And it had a banner in it too!   Providence.

The layout

The sketch

We Are Family

The Challenge:
Scrap about babies.

Well, the baby in my life right now is my nephew, so this just fit right in with making his first year album!  I also incorporated Ashley Horton's April sketch into the design.

I've had this piece of SEI paper since around my beginning scrapping days.  It was time to use it.  I pulled it out thinking that the circles would be nice for the left hand side of the sketch, but the photos covered up too much of them and the right side just had this boring space staring back at me, so I put it away and searched on.  Nothing really was jumping out at me, so I pulled this piece back out again and thought the circles don't have to be on the left, they can be on the right, so I flipped it and it spoke louder to me, but was still flat and boring, so I pulled out some spray mist and gave it a good misting.  I was getting more excited about then!  I looked at those circles and still thought they were missing something, so I pulled out a black pen and doodled on one of them.  I figured I could cover it up if I didn't like it, but I did so I kept going.  I loved the circles then, so I decided to doodle the edge strip on the left side of the sketch, and I had planned on matting the photos, but decided I would doodle frames for them.  I then pulled out this cute lettering stencil I had and penned in the title.  I was looking at the blank spaces and thought they would look cool colored in so I got out my watercolors and colored them in.  I liked it a lot so I started coloring in the other doodles.  I decided to leave the circles alone since the circle was already colored.  As it turned out, a layout I was so not excited about turned into something that I love!  And I don't consider myself a doodler!

The layout

The sketch

Paddle

I have a new layout for this week's CSI challenge.  You should check out their site.

The colors this week were all different shades of teal and I have been loving using teal lately!  I loved all these different shades. I was worried about having any paper left with some on, but not to worry, because CSI now has coordinates!  I love these.  The theme fit my photo perfectly and I loved all the little elements included.  A big thumbs up from me!

For my evidence, I used balloons, stars, cloud, and fluffy batting inside the clouds.  For my testimony, I journaled about what it takes for my husband to train for racing.  Working out no matter the weather be it sun, wind, snow, rain or cold, he is out there training.  It was actually really cold this day he went to the lake, but he looked so cool in the setting sun.  One of my new fave photos!  I also wrapped the tag in twine.

The layout

The case file

Thankful For This Girl

I am doing a year's worth of layouts on the things I am thankful for over at Club CK for the Thanks Living challenge.  It is all about getting you to see that you have so much to be thankful for while learning new design principals.

This month I chose to do a layout expressing my thankfulness for my beautiful daughter.  She brings so much joy into my life.  She is so pretty, funny, smart and just plain fun!  I am so very blessed to have her as a daughter.  This month we worked on layering and clustering.  I thought this would go beautifully with the photos I had of her.  I loved all the pretty flowers that came with this paper line and they were easy to layer with the fun photo frames and cute butterflies.  I used an 8.5x11" sketch from Page Maps.

The layout