DESIGN TEAM CALL!

Attention ALL Scrappers! Child's Play Challenges is having a design team call!! I am currently on this Design Team (but my term will be ending) and I LOVE IT. It is a ton of fun and everyone should apply! Who doesn't love grabbing their scrap inspiration from childhood toys/games/books/crafts?! I know I do!

Here are the requirements: 

1-Have an active blog and be on facebook (so you can be part of our CPC DT group)
2-Create a new layout based on any of our July Challenges. No cards please, layouts only.

3-Post about our DT call on your blog, FB, Twitter, along with your take on our challenge.
4-Link up your blog post our July Linky, putting "DT" after your name.

4-Leave a comment on the Child's Play Challenges blog by July 30th telling us that you would like to be considered for the DT. Be sure to include your email address so we can get in touch with you!!

JULY 30th IS THE DEADLINE! APPLY APPLY APPLY!

A Few New Ones

I have been scrapping away this weekend! I keep a list of layouts I need to get done, and that list was growing and growing. I ran across a few DT calls this week, Sketchabilities and Simple Sketches and decided to give them a try as well. If you haven't done so, head over to these blogs and give them a try as well! Anyway, let's get to the pages!

First up is a page a made using Sketch #94 from Sketchabilities.

Here is the sketch:

and here is my spin on it!

Seriously, how adorable is that lifejacket?!

Next up is based on a sketch from Simple Sketches. 

I love that is has 3 photos on the sketch because I typically only scrap 1 or 2 pics on a page. So it was nice to try to put 3 on the page!

Kylee was the funniest little thing at her first Easter Egg hunt. She didn't understand that you had to walk over to the egg and pick it up at first. She just stood there starting at it! ha! 

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TPB Sketch #7

Ok, so it is not huge surprise that I am obsessed with The Paper Bakery 's monthly scrapbook kits. I mean, I have 2 subscriptions (scrapbook and mixed media)! Sarah is just simply amazing and talented with the mixing and matching of papers, embellies, mists, and so on. They are worth every shiny penny. Anyway, the very talented Juliana creates some awesome sketches, and of course #7 did not disappoint!

And here is my layout! 

and here a few of the close ups of the page. This one came together rather quickly as well, but that is just how awesome Juliana's sketches are!

Seriously, how cute is that pink bow? I love it! Also, I am normally scared of vellum. What to do with it? How to adhere it to a page? But I decided to cut a cute little arrow out of the striped vellum page (from the May kit at TPB) with my Cameo and I think it gives the title a nice little touch! Vellum is actually pretty awesome!

No layout is complete without a little piece of TPB flair!

I was loving this fringe cut from the Silhouette store. It actually looked a lot better on the page than I envisioned! A few little tears, crumples and ink and voila! 

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Baby Curls

My Scraps & More Sketches  has an amazing sketch on their blog this week! Sketch #36 was perfect and exactly what I was looking for! I had this picture of Kylee that I couldn't wait to scrap, I just didn't know what I really wanted to do with it. I knew I wanted to use The Paper Bakery Kit  from June, but no real idea how to attack the picture with the supplies. Then, I saw it..Sketch #36 and I thought "ah ha!" I knew it was the perfect sketch when it only took me about 2 hours from start to finish! I didn't sit around 2nd guessing my  placement of embellies/etc like I usually do. It just all came together nicely and quickly!

I am obsessed with those arrows! I want more! 

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Horseshoe challenge

It is another challenge over at Child's Play Challenges! This week it is a classic game challenge. The classic game is horseshoes. My family used to play horseshoes outside during family gatherings, such as holidays or pool parties a looong time ago! It was mostly an adult game of horseshoes because the children were usually swimming or playing. Anyway, when I think of horseshoes, I think of cowboys! I used a sketch and kit from The Paper Bakery!

Here is the inspiration:

and here is my layout:

I used one of the wooden chevrons as a stamp, and stamped it around the page, as well as painting the chevrons with my gold stamp pad. I think they turned out pretty cute!

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Neon!

Who doesn't love loud neon colors? I know I do! Let's Get Trendy is hosting a challenge, and the day 1 is NEON! That is such a weird little word! Anyway, I just happened to have a collection by Amy Tan that is full of neon colors! Sketchbook collection!

Now, I must say that I had no idea how to even begin this layout. It took me a few days to actually begin, and a few days of just staring at a picture and paper. Then, I had a HORRIBLE day. Today! Everything was going wrong! Of course something just HAD to happen to my layout just as the juices were flowing...I spilled a bottle of orange mist all over it. Of course it had to cover my last piece of neon pink paper. I managed to save it by placing the bright orange spot with my picture! ha! It is not where I planned on placing the picture, but I guess the orange mist wanted to help me out! Luckily, the majority of the mist splattered on the white paper, which we all know are so easily accessible. You can see a few of the orange spots on the pink paper. Let's just pretend that I meant to put them there. ;) 

Not my favorite layout, but hey it is different than my usual style which is always nice! Thanks for stopping by!

Stitching!

I have signed up and joined the Let's Get Trendy challenge! Day 4 of the challenge was stitching. I was amazed at all of the different ways people incorporate stitching on their projects! I chose to hand stitch on my layout! I also stitched on the chevrons under the picture. :) I struggled with this page because I wanted to use this picture with the Bo Bunny Key Lime collection but it was not coming together for me! After about 3 days or so, it finally came together.

For this one, I cut a sun with my cameo and used it as a template to create this stitched sun! It turned out better than I expected!

I really hate sewing with my machine because I can't get the tension right and it always looks like this! Boo! But this one was a very small piece so I wasn't too worried about it. I need to figure out the tension for paper so I can have a pretty stitched line! 

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