A Sister

Isn't it great when someone joins your family who you really connect with. That is the case with my sister-in-law. She's such a sweetheart and I thought this picture of the two of us on her wedding day was too perfect not to dedicate a layout to our new sisterhood!

This layout started out with the background paper which I was saving for this picture because the colors were perfect.  From there I just keep pulling things out of my stash to go with it.  I started out with the chipboard flower and it grew from there.  I love the resin flowers by Prima so that go added and then I had the cutest crocheted flower that needed to be included.  I also wanted to add the blue flower but need a center for it so I took a piece of ribbon and loosely tied it into a big knot and used that as the center.  I think they turned out awesome!

Supplies: Patterned Paper: Tinkering Ink - Beloved Collection; Embellishments: My Mind's Eye Sister Die Cute, Various Prima Flowers, Prima Resin Flower, Ribbon Glossy Accents, Beads, Pearls; Tools: CuttleBug, Nestabilities Oval Die .

Sketch It To Me Blog Hop Winner!

First off I wanted to say thank you to everyone who left such wonderful comments on my blog this past weekend!  I had so much fun participating in this blog hop and really enjoyed working with the sketch to make my layout and card.  I'm sure you are all wonder who won the giveaway so without further ado I would like to annouce the winner of the Echo Park Paper is:

Congratulations Beth!  Please send your mailing info to jenniferdewolfe (at) gmail (dot) com and I will get it into the mail this week!

Sketch It To Me Blog Hop - Part 2

I feel like such a bone head! I was checking out the other blog hoppers Sketch It To Me posts when I realized I never posted the card I made from the sketch with my post yesterday! Seriously ... what a bone head! So I apologize for missing it and here it is!

For this card I basically used the photo mat section of the sketch to make my card. Instead of photos, I used pieces of left over Echo Park paper from the layout I posted yesterday. I loved this paper so much that I couldn't bare to throw any of it out! See that adorable little house, I made it out of pieces of felt! I'm sure my wonderful neighbours will love this card when I give it to them!

Have a great weekend and don't forget to read yesterday's post for how you can win a paper pack from Echo Park!

Supplies: Patterned Paper: Echo Park - Walk In the Park; Cardstock: Bazzils; Embellishments: Felt, Embroidery Floss, and Basic Grey - Bling Crystals; Sketch: Amanda Sherman; Tools: Dymo Embossing Label Maker.

Sketch It To Me Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the Sketch It To Me blog hop. I am so excited to participate and would like to Thank Amanda for letting me join! I am the last stop on the blog hop and you should of arrived here from Dana's Blog, but if you didn't you can go back to the beginning and start at Amanda's Blog .

Amanda gave us this great one page sketch to work with.  We were allowed to interpret it how ever we please so I hope you enjoy my interpretation!

This layout is about my dog Angus. He loves to go to the dog park and play with the big dogs. I personally think it because he thinks he is one too! I cho0se this paper by Echo Park because I love all those trees and thought it fit my dog park theme very well.

So in case you didn't notice, I did do some changes to the sketch.  The biggest change I made was to the photo block.  I rotated it 90 degrees clockwise as it fit my photos much better.  I also shifted everything up slightly so that you could see a row of trees on the bottom of the layout.

I also switched up the border strips a little.  Because my background paper was so busy I wanted my strips to have a calming presence so I used brown cardstock and ribbon.  To give my cardstock a little texture and to make it fit better with the park theme, I ran it through my Cuttlebug with a Tim Holtz embossing folder.  I tried the title above the border strips, as in the sketch, but it got lost up there.  So I moved them down slightly onto the border strip where they had a better chance of standing out.  I also added a little bit of ink onto the foam letters to tone down the yellow slightly.

The sketch also had some die cut circles which I replace with these cute little rings that I have had in my stash for as long as I can remember.  I think they were made by Making Memories many, many moon ago!  On top of them I added some gummie embellishments by Love Elsie.  So cool aren't they?!

And that concludes my portion of this hop.  I sure hope you enjoyed my post and all the posts by my fellow hoppers!  On behalf of us all thank-you for joining us!  In fact, as a thank-you, I would like offer a giveaway!

That's right a giveaway!!!

Simply comment on this post and become a follower of my blog and I will randomly draw a name to win an Echo Park paper pack on Monday!  I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Supplies: Patterned Paper: Echo Park - Walk In The Park Collection; Cardstock: Bazzils; Alphabet Stickers: American Crafts Thinckers; Embellishments: Ribbon, Making Memories Rings, Love Elsie Gummie Embellishments; Inks: Chalk Box; Sketch: Amanda Sherman; Tools: CuttleBug, Tim Holtz Woodgrain Embossing Folder.

A Beautiful Day for a Walk Down the Aisle

I guess I have been MIA lately. It seems as though time is flying by ... is it really June already!?! It happens around this time of year, I loose my scrapbooking mojo. I think it has to do with the fact that nice weather has finally shown up and I have been busy planting my garden, camping, having BBQs, and generally enjoying the great outdoors! You see, winter here is way too long and summer flies by so fast so I try to enjoy every minute of it! So please excuse me if my posting seems a little sporadic in the next little while but I just can't miss my 2-3 months of nice weather!

This is yet another layout about my brother's wedding. I know you must be getting tired of them, I know I am and can't wait to finish this album. It's not that I don't enjoy these pictures but I have some other photos I have promised myself I won't start until I finish this album. I am almost done, the end is within sight! I am finding the last couple of layouts hard to do though. It could be because I have used all my cool ideas already ... who knows. Do you find that when you are doing an album dedicated to a single event that is always hard to finish those last couple of layouts?

A while back I was big into those Bling It On Crystals by Basic Grey.  I think I have every color imaginable!  Lately they have fallen out of favor on my layouts but I decided to bring them back for this layout.  I used them up pretty up the flowers and to add some whimsy to the journalling spot.  I guess I can scratch another use an older item on my layouts off my list!

Supplies: Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye - Quite Contrary Collection; Alphabet Stickers: American Crafts Thickers; Embellishments: Ribbon, Basic Grey Bling It On Crystals, and My Mind's Eye - Quite Contrary Accessory Sheet; Tools: Dymo Label Maker.