"First Day of School" Layout

Good morning everyone!

Today I am sharing the layout I created inspired by the  

October Sketch/Color Challenge at Scrap Our Stash

The Challenge:   

Create a layout inspired by the sketch, AND...

(4) or more colors for the 2014 Fall color palette provided.

The only other colors you can use are Black, White and Kraft!

Here is the sketch:

 And here is the color palette:

Here's my take on the challenge:

I was inspired by the colors:

 Royal Blue, Cypress Aurora Red, Misted Yellow and Aluminum

 I combined Bo Bunny's "Pop Quiz" Collection with:

 Simple Stories "Smarty Pants" Collection

(Cypress graph paper, brads, tennis shoe and push pin sticker)

Fancy Pants "Off To School" Collection

(Eyeglasses and Star)

Echo Park " Paper & Glue" 6 x 6 Pad

Numbered patterned paper

Lawn Fawn

Twine

I am also entering this layout in the following challenges:

Clique Tags ~ Anything Goes

"Shh! Off Duty" Layout ~ Paper Secrets DT Reveal

Happy New Years Everyone!!!

Today Paper Secrets is revealing their first sketch for 2014 and they are changing things up a bit and adding a word to each sketch challenge.  

The word this month is PARTY and the challenge is to create a layout inspired by the sketch, and...add an item or items to your page that start with each of the letters in the given word.

I used this challenge to create a companion page to a layout I created in December and here is a list of the items I used for the challenge:

P - Polaroid 

(frames cut from patterned paper)

A - Alphas

R - Red

T~ Tag

Y - Yellow

Supplies:

Lawn Fawn ~" Peace, Joy Love" Collection

Studio Calico ~ Wood Veneers

AC Thickers & LilyBee Alphas

Recollections ~ Flair Button

Misc - Twine

And...here is the sketch by Kelly Holifield

Make sure you visit the Paper Secrets Blog for the full reveal on this sketch!   The design team has created some wonderful layouts inspired by this challenge!   You have until Jan 14th, to complete your layout and link up for a chance to enter into the prize drawing!

Also entering this layout in the following challenges:
Back Porch Memories ~ Recycle Challenge
(fussy cut name of collection from the bottom retail strip of my patterned paper
Peace Joy Love and embellished tag at the top of my layout)
Sketches 4 All ~ Let It Snow
(use white on you page)

Enjoy the rest of your day!!!

"Who's Your Santa?" Layout

Hello and Welcome!!!!

I hope that your week is going well and that you're Christmas "To Do" list is getting smaller instead of growing!

I am a little late posting this layout, but wanted to share it because, one of my favorite collections right now is the Peace Joy Love collection from Fawn Lawn.  I love how well it matched up with this photo of my youngest grandson, Andre!

I created this layout for the December GDT Contest at

Back Porch Memories

Products:

Patterned Paper ~ Lawn Fawn "Peace Joy Love"

Flair Button ~ Lawn Fawn "Peace Joy Love"

Large Enamel Alphas ~ Heidi Swapp

Small Alphas ~ Lilybee Designs

Twine ~ The Twinery

 And...here is the Page Maps sketch we were given for inspiration:

And by the way, this layout won me the GDT spot for December at Back Porch Memories.... YEAH!!!!

Make sure you stop by tomorrow when I will reveal the projects I created using 

BPM's December Medley Kit!