Follow a Sketch February // Day 2

Welcome to Day 2 of Follow a Sketch February!

Today's sketch comes from the book Layout Blueprints. This is an older spiral bound book that I purchased many years ago.

I chose to do a double page layout for this sketch. Now, sometimes my double pages have a LOT of embellishing and fun little bits and sometimes they do not. This is one of those times it does not.

I changed this sketch up a bit by using 12 x 12 papers instead of the 8.5 x 11 that is pictured.

Yes, this is another Christmas layout. Tomorrow will be the last Christmas themed layout. I promise.

Supplies I used to create this layout:

• Winter Wonderland Paper, Merry & Bright - Fancy Pants
• Paper Pad, Cranberry Christmas - DCWV
• Thickers, Happy - American Crafts
• Art print, Sugar Plum - MME
• Stickers, Sugar Plum - MME
• Ephemera, Merry & Bright - Fancy Pants
• Stickers, Classic Christmas - Simple Stories
• Brad, Recollections - Michaels

You can check out the process video on my YouTube Channel:

#FASFEB2018

Follow a Sketch February // Day 1

Today's sketch comes from Scrapbook & Cards Today Magazine.

I really liked the florals along the bottom edge of that box of paper. I had every intention of actually scrapbooking with flowers, but that did not happen. I had Christmas photos I had to scrap!

Instead, I went with a mixture of stickers, chipboard,  die cuts, and wood veneer to create a festive bottom border. 

All of that comes together to form a really fun, yet traditional colored Christmas scrapbook layout. Yes, I know it is February. Yes, I am still scrapping Christmas photos. Be on the lookout for just two more Christmas layouts during this month. And I get them out of the way quickly for you! 

This layout was created with:

• Black Cardstock - Creative Memories
• Stickers - The Story of Christmas, Echo Park
• 3x4 Journaling Cards, The Story of Christmas, Echo Park
• Paper Pad, Christmas Magic - Shimelle / American Crafts
• Paper Pad, Christmas - Tim Holtz / Idea-ology
• Thickers, Fitzgerald - American Crafts
• Stickers & Chipboard Stickers, Very Merry - Simple Stories
• Stickers, Classic Christmas - Simple Stories
• Chipboard Buttons, Cozy Christmas - MME
• Labels, Elle's Studio
• Glitter Tape, Recollections / Michaels
• Twine, Recollections / Michaels

You can check out the process video on my YouTube Channel:

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Follow a Sketch February Begins Tomorrow!

Hey scrappy friends!

It looks like I kind of abandoned the blog for a little bit. I hope to make up for it by posting every single day in February!

I have turned my Follow a Sketch Friday series on YouTube in Follow a Sketch February.

Join me as I scour the web (and my scraproom) for sketches to use every day of the month.

Scrapbook Process: So Fun // Follow a Sketch Friday

Do you ever have a page where you just love it? Yeah. That's me with this bad boy.

Glitter paste, distress ink, mulberry paper, vellum. That's a good time, y'all.

I used the November 1, 2017 sketch from Stuck?! Sketches. 

Check out the process video below:

Scrapbook Process: Mermaid Fun

Today I am working on the Disney Girls Trip Album. This album is mainly blue, pink, and the neutrals with other pops of color thrown in.

Usually, I work a Disney album until it is completed, but for this one, I am mixing it up and scrapping it while I am scrapping other things.

I do have a kit that I have put together from my stash, but I am still pulling things that are not in the kit. I hope that will make a really well rounded album that still feels cohesive.

The kit lives in a basket on my table

Funny how the title is Mermaid fun, yet there are no photos of mermaids on this layout. We all know Ariel is a mermaid, though, right?

Where is her tail?

This layout was created with:

• Across the Waves Patterned Paper - Hustle & Heart, Amy Tangerine / American Crafts
• Make a Wish Patterned Paper - Stargazer, Dear Lizzy / American Crafts
• Pinwheel Afternoon Patterned Paper - I Love Sunshine, Lori Whitlock / Echo Park
• Picked Raspberry Ink Pad - Distress Ink, Tim Holtz / Ranger
• Chipped Sapphire Ink Pad -  Distress Ink, Tim Holtz / Ranger
• Hot Pink Puffy Alpha - Flutter, Fancy Pants
• Die Cuts - Joy Parade, Fancy Pants
• Bits & Pieces - Little Moments, Elle's Studio
• Word Stickers - Small Talk, Tim Holtz / Idea-ology
• Die Cuts - Crush, Authentique
• Stickers - Capture Life, Allison Kreft / Echo Park
• Stickers - Everyday Eclectic, Allison Kreft / Echo Park
• Bakers Twine, Recollections / Michael's
• Puffy Hearts, Recollections / Michaels's

Check out the process video on my YouTube Channel:

They Love Summer // Follow a Sketch Friday

Oops. Forgot to post this last Friday.

I used a sketch by Khristina Sorge, who is the force behind The Secret Not Secret Kit Club. This was a challenge in the private Facebook Group for those of us who receive kits. Each time you receive a kit, it is personally curated just for you! You can check it out here.

On to the pretty stuff.

This is the FINAL, yes FINAL layout for the 2 Seconds of Summer concert I took my girls to last year. HOORAY!

I had explicit instructions to NOT scrapbook either ticket that belonged to the girls, but "Could (I) please make sure to scrapbook (my) ticket so it makes it into an album?" Of course, I would. I definitely didn't need or want to memorialize this ticket any other way.

This page was a lot of fun to create. I used gelatos and glitter paste. Anytime I can do those kind of things, it is a win!


Heres's the process video for it:

Sweet Moments // Citrus Twist Oct 2017

The kit arrived! The kit arrived! Hooray! In case you were not aware, I decided to continue with this subscription. I even upped it to 6 months!


And now to get down to business with it! So far loving this kit more than last month's. And that really isn't fair. I LOVED about half of last month's kit.The parts I didn't love? Well, they are in a new "Great things other people might love" pile for the next crop/retreat I go to. I love when there is a swap table like that!

Okay, on to the kit:

And get this! I actually used the stamp set that came with the kit! This is the 4th stamp set and the very first time I have used it! I had an epiphany why I don't use a lot of my stamps as well. I mostly have Distress Ink. You and I both know they do not give the clearest stamped image-that isn't really their purpose anyway.

"sweet" was stamped with the CT stamp set

This page was created for the Disney Girls Trip in 2016. That album is going to be teal, pink, black, gray, and white with tiny pops of color thrown in for fun. I pulled plenty of supplies from my kit and added a few things from my stash.

This layout included:

Citrus Twist Kit:

• White Cardstock (American Crafts)
• Patterned Paper - Help Clear the Table, Mind Your Manners (Bella Blvd)
• Patterned Paper - Summertime, Carousel (Crate Paper) August 2017 Kit
• Patterned Paper - Dazzle, Carousel (Crate Paper)
• Stickers - Carousel (Crate Paper)
• Ephemera Pack - Turn the Page (Pink Paislee)
• Stamp Set (Citrus Twist Exclusive)
• Cut Apart Sheet (Citrus Twist Exclusive)
• Epoxy Stickers (Citrus Twist Exclusive)

From My Stash:

• Self Adhesive Pearls (Want to Scrap)
• Puffy Stickers - Life's Sweet V2 (Evalicious)
• Twine (Lawn Fawn)
• Distress Ink - Picked Raspberry (Ranger)
• Distress Ink - Peacock Feathers (Ranger)

Want to see this page come together? Check out the video below: