Help... I can't decide!

Becky Fleck is having an awesome sketch/ card contest that I would lovvvvvveeeee to win! Here's the prize pack & the sketch:

Anyhow, I have 2 different layouts I have done using this sketch as inspiration, but I don't know if I want to use either of them to enter, or if I should try a different one entirely.

Here they are:

Please let me know what you think:

Buzz Lightyear

Hunny Bear

or Try Again

in my comments...

Thanks!

Let them eat cake!

This is an awseome giveaway! Melissa at Creating from the Heart is giving away, yes, I said GIVING AWAY, a Cricut Cake machine in honor of the anniversary of her blog and her son's upcoming birth (Congrats, by the way!) So, hop on over there and enter... I did!

PageMaps & Sassafras Card Contest

I know... I'm crazily entering contests today, but, really, since I am on a spending freeze, this is the only way for me to use up my product I have and get some new stuff. PageMaps is giving away a wee bundle of Sassafras Nerdy Bird, and since we all know that I am absolutely addicted to Sassafras, I have to enter! I went Sass crazy here, too...
Here's the sketch:

And my interpretation of it:

(P.S. Manda, this is the card you are getting for your birthday, so don't look if you want to be surprised! *wink*)

PageMaps February Contest

And the prize pack for this one is full of goodies!
Here's the sketch:

And my version... I went a little Sassafras crazy on this one, but, really, this is the only paper I could imagine doing this page with. The letters are from Miss Elizabeth's.

Wishes Come True

Serendipity Scrapbooks is having a Wishes come true contest... register for the forum & say Jill sent you :) Also, there is a Project Runway crop happening soon, so check it out!

Pagemaps End of the Year Contest

I haven't done one of these in a while, so I figured that I should do one now... and there's a sweet prize involved :)

Here's the sketch & the prize up for grabs:

I rotated it and used one large photo with little squares... for some reason, the butterflies made me think of falling leaves, so that's why I did this one how I did. I used papers & chipboard from WeRMemory Keepers. The leaves are some that I bought at Walmart that came pre-glittered & the felt is Blu Eye Dezines.

Holy Cow this is Cool!

Hop on over to Urban Swank & win yourself some yummy-licious Urban Lily papers... You can find all the delightful details here: http://urbanswank.blogspot.com/2009/11/who-wants-paper.html.

Have fun!

BoBunny Love

BoBunny has a rockin' sketch challenge going on over at their blog, so I thought I would give it a go with some of the Delilah papers I picked up.

Here's their sketch:

And here's my interpretation:

In addition to the Delilah papers, I also used a small piece of their Love Shack cut-outs, a BoBunny rub-on, and lace & bling from Michaels.

And the winner is...

Finally picked the winner for the contest! Michaela did this page based on Sketch #3. I love how she used the snowboards in place of the brackets and the colors on this are just awesome! Make sure you email me your address at jroriente@gmail.com so I can get your goodies out soon!

And now on to this week's sketch...

I had originally intended this sketch to be for pictures from around the campfire from our camping trip this weekend to Westport, however, we we

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rarely all around the fire at the same time, so I didn't get them. I even had the idea of having Chlow draw some fire on some white cardstock so I could use it for this page because she draws amazing flames!

Since I didn't get to take the desired photos, I started looking around in my already printed stack so I could use the sketch anyways. I like it that much. What it ended up looking like is a far cry from the actual sketch... mostly because I was trying some new techniques (like making vines out of tissue paper) but also because I was

using up some old embellishments as part of a challenge at the House of Paper. It still somewhat resembles the sketch, I think, but I guess that's why they call it "Inspiration" ;)

The materials I used for this one are:

The journal spot is from a pack of "frames" I got years ago from colorbok
The "Cherish" is from one of those DIY kits from a while ago that I bought for the album
the butterflies are appliques that I bought and forgot about as are the metal charms & hat pin. Everything else is new! pp: DCWAV
Flowers & Page Pebble: Prima

To make the tissue paper vines, I cut some green tissue paper into a strip twice as long as the area I wanted it for, then crumpled it, uncrumpled it and twisted it, then I inked it wit

h a black ink pad very lightly. I cut the leaves by crumpling and uncrumpling more tissue paper and folding it in half and cur a few half-leave shapes. After I unfolded each leaf, I gently touched them to the ink pad so it would pick up some of the texture and then I used Helmar Acid

Free Glue to attach them all to my page.

So much summer fun!

I know I kinda skimped on the sketches last week... mostly due to time constraints and because of my contest, but I hope this one makes up or it! :) Don't forget, you have until July 15th to post a layout to the comments section (or email me) of this post. This week's layout is one I did for the June Contest on Scrap-Tastic. It started out looking a little funky as a sketch and it took me about 4 sketches to finally map it out well enough to use, but I love the end result! For this one, the challenge was to use at least: 3 patterned papers (I used Daisy Ds, LilyBee from the French Couture Collection, and Die Cuts With a View from last year's Fall Stack), 3 cardstocks (which I used to mat the photos as well as the background for everything), 3 stamps (my butterflies, which I stamped on white crdstock and then colored in using chalk pastel pencils, and also the "Live well, laugh often, love much" on the border), and 3 DIFFERENT embellishments (I used Chipboard for the title, brads, die cut flowers from Daisy Ds and even added some dimensional flowers and butterflies from Studio 18, some ricrac, and finally a cardstock journal sticker from Sassafras). An exhausting list, but a very worthwhile layout!

My Little Shoebox Yumminess... Pagemaps Blog Contest

The Pagemaps blog has an awesome contest and the prize is some awesome stuff from My Little SHoebox, so, naturally I have to enter :) And, I have to say, I love this month's sketch for this! It really got me out of my groove a
nd doing some different techniques! For my take on it, I stretched it into a two-page layout with 4 photos. In this case, it's actually 2 8x8 pages. I used papers from K&Co. and Rita Marie. The journal spot is from My Mind's Eye. The big ribbon is Making Memories (I believe), as are the glitter alphas in the title. I didn't like how the title was looking, as it was originally a bright silver, so I inked them in with a Prismacolor marker to match the colors in the layout. One of the other new techniques I used was in making the pearl swirls. I stamped the swirl design on the page and traced it with Helmar Craft Glue. After letting the glue set for a few seconds, I used strands of beading (like you would sew on a dress) cut to size and set them in the glue. In a couple minutes they were perfectly dry!

Another Page Maps contest

Becky has another AMAZING contest on the PageMaps Blog... so of course, I am wayyyyy drawn to it, or I should say, the prize... a ton of the new Basic Gray papers... these papers are so yummy, I can't even imagine getting my hands on them (and believe me, I've tried... LSS doesn't have them yet). Anyhow, here's the sketch for this one...












And here's the Layout I did for it... I used pretty much exclusively Sassafras papers on this one again, with a colorbok chipboard butterfly and banner and some felt from Blu Eye Dezines. I got the rikrak and ribbon on clearance at walmart and I think I may need to see if I can find more because I can see myself running out really quickly.

Voted Out

Well, I didn't make it to Round 5 of the American Idol Contest, but will I let it stop me? Not at all! There is a really Schweeeeeeet contest on Becky Fleck's Pagemaps Blog & I am going for that one :). Here is the sketch...
The theme of this one is "What's on my mind"... in this case, what happened to be on my mind is that I should be burning a CD of these birthday pics of my niece Kylee to a CD for my sis in law because hers didn't turn out... I will most likely do it tomorrow...



Here's my take on it! This is a digital layout, although I did use some elements from Sassafras that I scanned just for this project (It will become a reality, I am just waiting for my actual photo to come... it's on it way here, though)

Bringing on the bling

That is what the theme of this week's challenge at Scrap-Tastic is... as well as using some stamping. So I thought I would share my layout and my sketch. And I have to say, the more Sassafrass I am using, the more I want!I do have the Anthem & Bungle Jungle Collections coming to me from House of Paper...
In this layout, I blinged out my Primas with some iridescent paint, and used the same paint for the swirly stamps. The rest is just self-stick rhinestones (I don't go designer... it's all the cheap ones from Darcies that you can get insanely cheap at Michael's), as well as iridescent glitter glue (again, I could get stickles & glimmer mist, but this is more my budget).
Here's my Layout...
And here's the sketch that goes with it...

Pagemaps Friday Free For All

Becky is having an awesome contest over at the PageMaps blog! This really goes along with everything that I am doing at the moment, so I LOVE this sketch!













Here's my take on it...

Pagemaps contest entry

Pagemaps is having a contest based on a sketch & there's some yummy prizes! Here's my take on their sketch... I did this as a digital page because A) This photo was super fuzzy when it was printed and B) My card reader is still not working properly. I love how it turned out!