My Favorite Things / PageMaps May Sketch

It's the final month of our collaboration with PageMaps.  So you have one more bonus sketch/change to win some cash to spend in the MFT store.

Here's how I interpreted the sketch:



This one was lots of fun.  I pulled out my Pierced Star STAX and a really old 6x6 pad.  The steel gray panel is actually popped up with foam tape, here's a detail shot:



OK, head over to the blog and check out what the rest of the team made and get all the details on how to enter.

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My Favorite Things / PageMaps April Sketch

It's time for another My Favorite Things/PageMaps team up sketch.

Here's a sneak of my card.



Be sure to head over to the PageMaps blog and MFT Challenge/Inspiration blog to check out all the great cards and get the details on how to play along.

My Favorites Things/PageMaps Mash Up

For the next few months, MFT and PageMaps are collaborating!  We'll have a bonus sketch each month for you to play along with, and of course there are prizes.

Here's a sneak peak at my take on the sketch.



Head over to the blog to see the whole thing and get the details!

Ellie & Da Ayi

Another vacation photo and layout using Studio Calico's Central High kit.  This one uses the current PageMaps sketch.

Ellie and my older sister have a special relationship.  She's the aunt who spoils, and Ellie is fiercely protective of her.  She'll take up her side in any conversation where someone might say something she even perceives as critical of her Da Ayi.  She has on a number of occasions corrected my Dad, which is rather amusing.



Anyway, I supplemented the kit a bit in the area of embellishments.  That great orange ricrac is Webster's Pages, and I used some CTMH sparkles and Twinery twine.  I also pulled out my Amy Tangerine Sketchbook stamps too.



OK - off to bed.  My parents/sister kept the girls another night so we were able to go to dinner today.  I also got all the Christmas stuff out, took a bunch of clothes up to the attic, did filing, I'm ready for some sleep!

Have a great evening!

Supplies Used
Studio Calico Central High Kit
Other:  American Crafts - Amy Tangerine Sketchbook Clear Stamps; Webster's Pages - Halloween Ribbon & Trim; The Twinery - Marigold Twine; Memento - Tuxedo Black ink; CTMH - Blue & Green Sparkles, Dimensional Foam Tape; 3L - Large and Small Dodz adhesive; Tombow - Mono Adhesive; Sewing Machine

Pagemaps Card Sketch

One more card for tonight.

This is a really CAS take on the current Pagemaps card sketch.



I'm using Lawn Fawn's Check This Out stamps set.

Instead of using patterned paper, I stamped the library card three times.

Then some fussy cutting/dimensional tape to create the four window elements.

That great coral seam binding was actually used to package some products that I received a while back It's just the right zing of color, don't you think?



Anyway, that's it for me. Big week ahead. Carina turns TWO tomorrow, we have back to school nights for both girls this week, a five year old check-up, hockey playoffs for my roller team, you get the idea.

Hope you had a great weekend!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock: CTMH - Colonial White and chocolate cardstock
Stamps: Lawn Fawn - Check This Out
Ink: CTMH - Chocolate
Other: CTMH - Dimensional Foam Tape, Kraft Buttons, Cocoa Grosgrain Ribbon; Tombow - Mono Adhesive; Misc Coral Seam Binding; 3L - Small Dodz Adhesive

Not Snow, Not Ice, SNICE

A quick layout I pulled together for the current PageMaps sketch. Here's what the sketch looks like, as you can see, I rotated it counter clockwise 90 degrees.



This was the extent of the 'snow' we got this year. Kind of pitiful, but Ellie insisted she wanted to go out and 'shovel', so out we went. Ellie actually 'shoveled' for a while, although Carina quickly got bored and started to wander around.

This layout uses Bella Blvd's Winter Wonder collection exclusively. I'm a big fan of Bella Blvd. I love their papers, I think the motifs and combinations are great, and they always translate well into kid layouts. This collection is near and dear to my heart since it's the first Bella collection I owned. While I love being able to spread out and mix and match collections on layouts, sometimes it's nice to just pull out a collection and put together a layout in just a couple hours.

I did some stitching on this layout - the bottom blue snowflake piece and pink piece are zigzag stitched together, and I also stitched the trees on along their trunks.



I also took advantage of the sticker sheet, using a bunch of the stickers, including those long border strips.

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock: Bella Blvd - Winter Wonder collection; CTMH - White Daisy cardstock
Other: Bella Blvd - Winter Wonder collection stickers; Tombow Mono Adhesive; Creative Memories Photo Spilts; EK Success Black Zig Marker; Sewing Machine