Sketchabilities B-day Celebration

The celebration is underway! Sketchabilities is turning ONE!! The site will be filled with amazing sketches, prizes, and inspiration galore so be sure to check it out! Today, Karan has invited an amazing digital scrapper to be the guest designer. You won't believe what she did with this sketch. It is just awesome so click on over and check it out.

In the meantime, here is my take on the sketch. My daughter was in the Camp Show last month which was all about dogs and cats learning to get along. The Basic Grey papers couldn't have been more perfect!






Sketchabilities will be hosting a blog hop on the 15th with RAKs along the way. If you would like to get a jump on my giveaway, with extra entries, sign up as a follower to my blog right here on the sidebar. You will receive one entry for my giveaway per blog comment (one per day) from now until the 15th, and another entry just for signing up as a follower. I promise it will be worth it!

On a Mission

When my youngest rides her bike, she does so with such determination. She wants to go fast (and course wants me to take her picture) just like her brother and sister. I snapped these pixs a few weeks ago and couldn't resist using them on The Color Room's latest sketch. I wasn't quite happy with the layout using only this week's color scheme so I ended up adding a bunch of yellow to the mix. I also finally opened a digital template I bought at CKC in July for my journaling -- so much easier than me guesstimating my end stops to make a circle!!



This yellow paper is the last of my stash -- it is my absolute favorite from BG's June Bug line. I think I may have had 6 pieces of this at one time. I just ADORE it!! I also threw in some Echo Park stickers, a LilyBee rub-on, and that cute little scooter from BG's Wander collection.

91/100

As you may know, my scrapbooking goal for the summer was to complete 100 pages between Memorial Day and Labor Day. It was a lofty goal, I admit, but one that I had no problems achieving last summer. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like I will quite make it this year. I stand at 91/100 and technically speaking, a number of those 91 are not really layouts, rather crafty projects. #91 is this duvet cover that I made for my son. He wanted a baseball cover but we had yet to find anything in the stores that we were happy with...so instead I went in search of fabric and my good friend Cheryl was kind enough to share instructions. It was very simple to make -- it took me more time running to the store for the heavy duty snaps and then back again for the attaching tool than it did to actually sew it all together (although I did have to piece together the fabric since it was only 44 in wide and I needed it to be 78 in wide).



Looks nice doesn't it? Too bad I didn't make my son clean his room before I took the picture!!

Don't forget to stop back in a few days for the beginning of the Sketchabilities Celebration!!! (see post below for details)

Hard at Work

I have been VERY busy getting ready for the SKETCHABILITIES 1st Birthday Celebration! I have a stack of layouts here that I am just dying to share with you....but can't do, not until at least September 7 when the festivities get under way. So, get your scrap on and get ready to come party with us. There is sure to be lots of inspiration, sketches, and there may even be some prizes involved!

In the meantime, I will share another of the many, many layouts I created while I was at CKC in July. While I have used these Pink Paislee papers before, I had yet to actually use them for their intended July 4th purpose. They do work wonderfully for sports pixs as well!



Before you go, and I will post this again, if you have a moment, please stop by Helmar's Flip Video Contest and vote for my friend Jing-Jing's scrap video. She did an amazing clip for Helmar's and is in the running to win the grand prize. Be sure to check it out, and vote for #1 Jing-Jing Nickel. You can vote once a day until September 9th I believe.