Magical Messes: November 2013

Creative Scrappers Sketch

7:13 PM

Whenever I need a little extra inspiration I like to play along with challenges. I saw this sketch at Creative Scrappers and knew I had to use it! It was a tough one for me, which is why I wanted to do it. I am pretty happy with the way it turned out!

There you have it! Thanks for stopping by!

Chic Tags Sketch

11:30 PM

My fellow LPS DT member, Ashley Horton, is fabulously talented and on many design teams! I saw she had a sketch on the Chic Tags blog and wanted to play along. Here is her sketch:

And my interpretation. Somehow I ended up with a very literal layout, but I'm pretty happy with it.

And that's it! Short and sweet today :)

Life.Paper.Scrapbook. November Color Challenge

3:23 PM

I love this fresh and fun color combo used for the Life.Paper.Scrapbook. color challenge!

I love Amy Tan's new Cut & Paste collection, and thought it would be perfect for this fun color combo.

Want to play along with us? This month's sponsor is Big Picture Classes!

Another 31 Festive Days of Photography with Tracey Clark

Spend this December taking inspired, artful photographs of the world around you, during the most wonderful time of the year. Picture the Holidays has been reframed and refreshed for 2013, with new prompts and new pictures to help you creatively and mindfully celebrate this season of joy!

This 31-day workshop, from photographer and author Tracey Clark, is the perfect remedy for the holiday hustle. And it's a great companion workshop to keep you inspired throughout any holiday scrapbooking challenge, such as Ali Edwards' December Daily project or the Big Picture Classes workshop, Twelve Days of Christmas: December Duos.

For details on how to enter the challenge, visit the Life.Paper.Scrapbook. website. Be sure to check out the other gorgeous projects from the incredibly talented design team! I'm not the only one who used Cut & Paste :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Life.Paper.Scrapbook. November Sketch Challenge

1:18 PM

A new month is here already! I'm so excited that Life.Paper.Scrapbook.'s November Sketch Challenge is sponsored by Scrapbook Generation! SG is owned and operated by some truly lovely ladies and I am a very big fan! Here is this month's sketch:

Normally my sketch interpretations look very little like the actual sketch. This month, however, I decided to interpret it very literally.

I hope you'll join us for the November sketch challenge! Scrapbook Generation is giving a Sketch eBook to the winner of this sketch challenge!!

Scrapbook Generation is a Springfield, Missouri retail store started in 2004 by two sets of sisters: Debbie Sanders and Karin Rush, and Debbie's daughters Stacey Atchley and Allison Davis. In 2010, the family business grew to include Scrapbook Generation Publishing, which sells and distributes a line of 15 sketch books for scrapbooking and cardmaking. In addition, a wide variety of sketch products ranging from single sketch to books can be purchased as downloads at scrapbookgeneration.com. Each month, SG also produces six kit clubs and Allison Davis hosts Sketch Week on her blog. At the start of 2014, SG will launch an expanded online store.

If you'd like details on how to participate in the sketch challenge, please visit the Life.Paper.Scrapbook. website! Be sure to check out the other interpretations of this sketch by the other incredibly talented ladies on the design team!

I just really love triangles.

1:00 PM

I have a habit of arriving on the late train when it comes to scrapbooking trends. Well, my train finally came for triangles! I can't get enough of using this shape, and there are so many cute products from Summer CHA to feed my addiction!

Here are a few of my favorites: