Paper Secrets May 15th Challenge

Wow what a busy weekend! I found some time Saturday morning to photograph a pile of layouts that I completed last week, but then I had no additional time to get them uploaded here. So over the next few days I will probably be posting them one by one.

This layout was done for the current challenge at Paper Secrets, which is to use the below sketch with lots of bling.

I rotated the sketch and came up with this...

I used a photo from our trip to St. Louis in July 2009 for a family reunion. Santiago was only 14 months old at the time. I used lots of Bo Bunny's Mamarazzi2...what an awesome collection!  For bling I added Prima Say it in Crystals and Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (although that just doesn't show up in the picture!). Thanks for looking!

Let's Get Sketchy May Week 4 Challenge

Happy Memorial Day everyone! Our family has been on a long & busy four-day weekend. My husband's birthday is May 25th, so it always falls very close (if not exactly on) to Memorial Day every year. So on Saturday we took him to Dave & Buster's to celebrate, and yesterday we had a dinner at his parents' house with his family as well as my parents. Later this afteroon, after doing a few household chores that have fallen by the wayside with all this activity, we're headed to some friends' house for a pool BBQ. How are you celebrating and commemorating this day?

Today is also another sketch challenge for Let's Get Sketchy. It's the last sketch of the month, so make sure you get yours uploaded so you have a chance for the randomly chosen prize!

Here's the sketch...

And my take on it...

I used a card from Paolina's first birthday. I'm determined to finish my kids "First Birthday" albums this year , as they are now 5 and almost 3 years old!

Let's Get Sketchy

Since I can't seem to complete a layout without having a sketch in front of me...whether it be one of mine or someone else's. And since Let's Get Sketchy always has such awesome sketches, you would think I would use all of theirs every week...unfortunately life tends to get in the way and sometimes I'm lucky to get my required Design Team completed on time! In the last month I've really been making an effort to work ahead as much as possible though because once Santiago is out of school for the summer I honestly don't know when I will find the time to scrapbook. I did enroll both kids in a morning VBS the second week of June, so I suppose I will be working frantically those five days at least! Anyhow, somehow or another I managed to take the time to make a layout using this week's Let's Get Sketchy sketch. Here's the sketch...

I flipped it and came up with this...

It's actually the adjoining page in an album using a layout I previously created for Sketches With Color so it will look like this put together...

Obviously the pictures were taken in different lighting and I did a horrible job of editing lol!

May 15th Challenges

It's the 15th of MAy which means it's time for some new challenges!  First up is for About a Boy. The challenge is to create a layout using only white and ONE other color. I am not ashamed to admit that this was a formidable task for me. I love lots of color so it was difficult for me to limit my choices to a single one besides white. But I will also admit that I am very pleased with the end result. It certainly makes the photo pop!

I used a sketch from Scrap Friends

And created this page...

I used photos of Santiago when he was 4 months old. I always loved getting close-up shots of him...I mean check out those big brown eyes! Wish he would stop moving long enough these days to get photos like this still...

Anyhow, I encourage you to head over to the About a Boy blog to see what the rest of our Design Team created. I am sure their layouts will inspire you to try this challenge as well!

There's also another new challenge at Sketches With Color. If you have been following then you know that for the month of May the color aspect of our challenges has been changed up a bit. You are to choose THREE colors from the following 14 colors. I chose Lemon Zest, Grayed Jade and African Violet.

And for our second challenge this month you are to use the following sketch:

I decided to rotate the sketch and create a card to give to my mom for Mother's Day.

Once again, it was super cool to see how much variety there was in our Design Team's layouts simply because they were free to choose which three colors they used. Hope you will join in as well!

Colorful Creations Sketch a thon

Colorful Creations is celebrating its third birthday with a Sketch a thon throughout the month of May. I love having a new sketch every day! I was able to get three done on National Scrapbooking Day. One I used for the About a Girl challenge, and these are the other two I completed...

For this layout I used photos of Santiago getting his gifts when we celebrated his first el Dia de los Tres Reyes. He wasn't walking yet which meant he didn't have any shoes, so I had to buy him a pair specifically to leave at the front door. He was way more fascinated with the shoes than the actual gifts!

I adapted the sketch for a two-pager and came up with this...

I've been wanting to scrap these photos for awhile! I love Paolina's expression as she intently attempts to clip her own toenails.