Design Dollies, Sketchy Thursdays and Who's That Girl

Whew, long title there. This is also layout #23 in my quest to complete 120 layouts this year. Hmmm, I might be a bit behind...

So Sketchy Thursdays has a sketch this week that I sort of followed, plus they joined up with Who's That Girl this week, and their challenge is a theme: "Right Now". Then there's Design Dollies, who wanted to see the colours Brown, Orange, and Teal. Let me say, I wouldn't have chosen those colours on my own, but I love the results, especially the turquoise. I think it adds quite a pop! I also had a hard time mixing and matching all kinds of stuff from my stash! It's hard to read my journaling, but I wrote that I'm into reading, coffee, Sirius Iceberg 85, organizing, and night time snuggles with Brenna.

Supplies (all CTMH): patterned paper (orange) from You Rock Level 2 paper pack, Exclusive Inks pen in Cocoa

Other: Doodlebug Designs teal paper, Beary Patch brown paper, Making Memories trim (I think), Cosmo Cricket rub-on, Hot Off The Press "5", Colorbok "I", Magenta gold letter stickers

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JUGS and Sweet Stop Card

Finally I get to take part in a challenge! Feels like it's been forever! The challenge at Just Us Girls this week was to use pink, green, and lavender to make a birthday card. I also used the sketch from Sweet Stop, and a button and bow to complete the challenge. What do you think? I love the rhinestone square, and the butterfly inside is actually cut from a girl's clothing tag. The button and bow combo are inspired by Deanne at Three Trees (paper) Creations. If you haven't seen her cards, they are awesome, and nobody does the bow/button thing like her! It took me forever to do it, so hopefully it stays together!

Supplies (all CTMH): White Daisy cardstock, patterned paper from Life's Delights Level 2 paper pack, White Daisy embossing powder, Say it in Style and For Every Occasion My Acrylix stamp sets, White Daisy organdy ribbon

Other: unknown button, Basic Grey fibre, butterfly cut from clothing tag

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Hot Little Momma (Layout #21)

When Jason took these photos of me last summer, I was really self-conscious. I was only in the first trimester, and I thought I looked fat, not pregnant. Now I would love to have this bod back! So, this layout serves to remind me of how cute I looked with my little baby bump!

I LOVE the hot pink and purple on this page, but I didn't have enough purple to make the wide strip behind the photos, so I trimmed some scraps and stuck them down so that you can't even tell. I had these Making Memories monogram stickers and kept the backing (for 5 years, can you believe it!) and used the backing as a stencil for these letters. I've recently been going through my scrap space, trying to organize and purge, so maybe now that I've finally used this stencil, I can finally let it go! Or maybe I should keep it, you never know when it might come in handy...

Supplies (all CTMH): White Daisy cardstock, patterned paper from Whoops-a-Daisy Level 2 paper pack

Other: Making Memories letter stickers (as stencil), Creative Memories pens

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Topstitch Thank You Cards

Everyone has been so kind in sending gifts for Brenna! We even had a group of women from my husband's office bringing dinners to us, complete with salads and desserts - it was fantastic! What a nice thing for anyone to do for parents of a new baby! So I decided to make some homemade thank you cards to give out. I think the Topstitch paper pack looks just lovely, don't you? I used a workshop from Wishes, the newer card-making book from Close To My Heart, which made 16 cards from 2 sheets of cardstock and 1 sheet of patterned paper, plus card bases. Pretty cool, eh?

Supplies (all CTMH): Colonial White card bases, Topstitch Level 2 paper pack, Exclusive Inks stamp pad in Chocolate, Dainty Thoughts, Say It in Style, A Little Everything, and For Every Occasion My Acrylix stamp sets, pewter brads

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Layout #18

Here's a layout I made very quickly using a Reflections pattern called Sidebar-Mainframe and some old Cosmo Cricket papers. I loved these papers when I bought them, so much I used the colour palette in my old house, but the papers themselves have been in my stash forever. I'm glad I was able to use the title strip, as that saved a bunch of time. The ribbons are old hair ribbons from when I was a kid.

Supplies: White Daisy cardstock from Close to My Heart, Cosmo Cricket patterned paper, journaling spot from Little Yellow Bicycle, Creative Memories pen, hair ribbons.

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Layout #17

Yay, another Brenna page done! This is how we spend our evenings from about 8 or 9 until 10:30 or so. It's pretty nice, I must say! For this layout, I used the Reflections pattern book from Close to My Heart, and it came together in no time. The hardest part was getting some of those rub-ons transferred properly. Felt like my arms were getting a workout! Oh well, they can use it!

Supplies (all CTMH): cardstock and patterned paper from Sweet Home level 2 paper pack, Exclusive Inks stamp pads in Garnet and Indian Corn Blue

Other: rub-ons from Heidi Swapp and Colorbok, pen from Creative Memories

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Layout #16

I just placed my order to Close to My Heart, and I decided to get a 12x12 calendar for Brenna, you know, to record all her special moments. This will be the first page! I'm totally digging the black and white photos lately - they make it so easy to use any colour paper, and the patterned paper here is one I've had forever. I've been slowly and steadily cleaning up my scrap space, and I keep finding old stuff that I want to use. I also used a sketch I found at a cool site called 4 x 6 photo sketch blog. I think I will be using this site more often now - no cropping!

Supplies (all CTMH): The Works Alphabet My Acrylix stamp set, Exclusive Inks stamp pads in Tulip and Black, cardstock (for hand cut flower) in Tulip

Other: American Crafts patterned paper, Bazzill trim, Prima journaling spot, Creative Memories pen, date stamp

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