Graffiti Layout (Sketchy Thursday)

Woo...hoo...  loving this website Sketchy Thursdays ... not only do they have great sketches & artists...they also have awesome prizes.  Can you say Copics?

Here is their sketch this week, which is basically a card sketch....

But since I don't really do cards very much, I really wanted to do something simple with my new graffiti pictures I took of Joseph last Friday.  So, I just took some paint and ran some brush strokes on the page, outlined them with black & white pens (see I NEED those Copics!!).  Added the little green brads to "bring out" the alien in the photo.  Painted the thickers red (they were white) and added a little white "smooch" and some black "stickles" to bring out the letters a little.   Love the simplicity of this since it really keeps the focus on the photo. 

How Tall is that Clown (My Sketch World - Nov Sketch)

Here is a layout I did using a sketch from My Sketch World (November).  PP is Sassafras.  Photo from Circus last summer, but I also used this as an oppotunity to document Joseph & Daddy's heights.  TFL.

Graffiti Wall Photos

Friday night as we're walking to the Glendale Glitters event, I see this wall of Graffiti and remember that Meg Beauchamp (click here to see her post) had taken some awesome graffiti wall photos recently and posted on her blog. So, I make Joseph "pose" on the wall for me.  Ok, so he doesn't "pose" nicely for me without some serious bribery, so this is what we ended up with.  Somehow he just wanted to be silly and "ninja" the wall.  It's all good.  These are just a few of the shots.... watch for them on upcoming layouts (if Ican possibly do the photos justice)!!

2 layouts for Frosted Designs November sketch

Well, this sketch from Frosted Designs:

This must've really struck a chord with me since I ended up doing 2 layouts with it.  Today as I'm posting them, I find irony in the fact that one is SUMMER & the other is WINTER. 

Here they are:

Student of the Month (Sketch challenge at Practical Scrappers)

I completed this Student of the month layout from our weekend challenge at Practical Scrappers which was
using this sketch:

Slide (Sketchy Thursday 11/19 sketch)

This sketch was a little challenging for me since I didn't really have any recent "smaller" photos.  I went back to summer and found some slide pictures that worked just fine.  I used Sasafrass Monstrosity line (exclusively, now that I look at it).   TFL!

SOS Contest -- Fun times!!

Contest going on at Scrap Our Stash Blog  -- a fun little game.  Each Design Team member, (yes that fortunately includes myself) had taken a picture of their "stash".  Then each DT member has left a clue somewhere on their blog.  So, you just need to check out the photos & the blogs ... make the matches and enter.  (see details on the SOS blog...linked above)


So without further ado:  Here's my clue


You know, I'm a pretty messy scrapper. My table is always messy, I have so many supplies that I can't keep everything organized. So this also filters down to my "scraps"... my "extra" paper just gets shoved into a bin. Every once in a while when I clean off my table, I just toss all the extra embellies into another bin. Works for me, I guess.....  My photo is literally a picture of my SCRAPS!!!

K - (stitching layout - Design Team - Practical Scrappers)

This week at Practical Scrappers our challenge is to STITCH on your layout.  Machine stitch, hand stitch...even "faux" stitching is ok. 

For this layout, I first adhered the photo to the white cardstock. I then stitched the 2 large rectangles...having them go on and off the photo.  I then stitched the small rectangle around my son.  I was actually thrilled with how straight I got the rectangles.  Then, honestly....I got a mind block.  This layout sat for 2-3 days and I just looked at it.  Then I grabbed my Scrapbook Circle kit from Aug or Sept...(sorry don't remember which one...they are all so awesome).  PP is Jillibean soup & Cosmo Boyfriend.  That "bus" journal card is out of a Little Yellow Bicycle journal book (the coolest things in the world). 

TFL!!

Lil' Swinger (Frosted Designs Guest Designer layout featuring "tearing")

Honored to be the Guest Designer again this week at Frosted Designs since my "Icky Cool" layout won their color challenge last week!   This week's challenge is "tearing".

I used a sketch from 4x6 photo sketch blog and some Cosmo Cricket Nutmeg (red) & Ledger paper is Creative Imaginations.  I tore the right edge of all papers & inked them, and "notebook" punched (then tore) the left edge of the large ledger paper.  Added a few Bo Bunny chipboard pieces, arrow is from the CC Nutmeg line and alphas are Thickers.  I little ribbon and wa-la.  Oh, I "scratched" the frames around the photos (a fave technique of mine).  I also had a "happy accident" with my title...it went a little longer than I had planned and the last R didn't show very well since it was dark on dark...so I added that little swatch of ledger paper (that was torn from the bottom of the large piece)...  Love happy accidents!!  TFL!

Flying Free (Sketchy Thursday 11.12 sketch)

This is the first time I've done a sketch for a site called Sketchy Thursday...but I think it won't be my last.  The sketches are awesome.  So go check them out here.

I used my Scrapbook Circle Nov kit (check that out here.)

This is older photos of Joseph, but when I was just going through some older photos, I knew I had to grab them and do this.  TFL.