Sweet Sketch #17

Ready for another sketch?



Here's my card for this week's sketch:

I used one of the cute snowmen from The Angel Company's new Merriest Wishes set. I just love these little guys! Be sure to hop on over to the Sweet Sketch Wednesday blog and check out the other DT members' cards!

Fall into Fabulous

The Angel Company has some great deals that start October 1st, including a terrific price on sets of COPIC markers!


www.theangelcompany.net

For details, please email me at lisajtmo@yahoo.com

DigiStamp Boutique

If you haven't visited the store lately, be sure to check out the newest releases at DigiStamp Boutique. Among the new images for September are the adorable Poppets and an adorable Halloween witch, Izzy.

My fellow design team members have been turning out some gorgeous sample cards. Be sure to visit the DigiStamp Boutique blog to check them out!

The value of sketches

I feel bad that I've been neglecting my blog - I have just had NO time to stamp these past few weeks! Ugh. In another week things should calm down...

Any minute now I'm leaving to go to a weekend scrapbooking retreat with some friends. I cannot wait!! I recently bought the Page Maps sketch book because I am trying to make pages with a more modern look. (I've noticed that bunching your photos is the current trend, rather than our careful, balanced arrangements of the past. And embellishments and lots of patterned paper are key.) To prepare for the crop, I chose my photos and papers and made a sketch of every layout. My sketches are rough - just a square with a diagram of where the photos will go. It gives me leeway to play around with the paper and embellishments but, by having the "bones" of the pages preplanned, I can get a lot more pages finished. Since scrapping time is harder to come by than stamping time, this is really helpful.

I just love sketches for cards, too. Be sure to check back on Wednesday for my Sweet Sketch Wednesday card and a link to the new sketch challenge. They are always fun!

And now, off to scrap!! :)

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - #16

It's that time - here's this week's sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesday:

I have two cards based on this sketch. For my first card, I used this cute Bella from my image swap stash:

Here's my second card, using a digital stamp from our sponsor, Dustin Pike.

Be sure to visit the Sweet Sketch Wednesday blog to see all the other DT members' great cards!

Eek!

No, that's not the cute little mice on Ali's birthday card saying "Eek!" - it's me!

(Sorry for the fuzzy picture - not sure why my photos came out fuzzy last night.)

Keeping up with Jessica's volleyball and social schedule this year has kept me on my toes. Then it was time for Ali's birthday last Friday, so I added cleaning, shopping and cake ordering to my "to do" list. Eek!

Here's the birthday girl and her cake:

That's her friend Devin next to her. They are funny together - they have a sort of brother/sister relationship. He was the only boy at the party but he seemed to revel in all the girls' attention, despite his occasional "protest". ;-)

A Quick Little Gift

It's craft show season, so I've started working on projects that I can sell. This cute little gift card holder was something I found on Cambria Turnbow's blog a while back.

These things are totally addicting! Quick to put together and then oh so fun to decorate! And a great way to use up small scraps.

For my image, I used Becky from DigiStamp Boutique. That's one of the benefits of digital stamps - you can resize your image to fit your project. For this project, I used a much smaller Becky than I would use on a card.