If these strings could talk

I used the sketch from Stuck?! for a layout of the guitar display at the museum in Indianapolis. I was going to use the title Let's Rock until I found the pamphlet from the museum. Since the colors matched, I fussy cut the guitar and words from the front of the pamphlet and used that instead.

Don't know what happened to my thinking while making this. Instead of putting the top and bottom strip of green on the layout, I glued them under the patterned paper. Which would have been fine if I had remembered to cut an inch off the paper first. I finished the layout and went to put it into the vacation album and surprise - it doesn't fit. Fortunately there was enough room to cut down the paper and add the green strip and embellie at the top.

A smile...

This is one of those layouts that kind of takes off on it's own and just keeps going. ScrapStuffz is a new "inspired by" challenge blog and  showed three squares to be inspired by. Once I saw the pink with stars block I knew that was what I wanted to use for my  layout.

Then I saw About a Girl's challenge to use a sunburst. I have never made one before, only used pre-made patterned paper, so I drew some lines on the back of the pink paper, numbered the pieces, cut them out and used only the even numbers on white paper. 



Scrap The Girls challenged to use the saying "A smile is the best makeup a girl can wear" so that became the title/sub-title. Then Use It Tuesday's challenge "You Can't Touch This" is to use something you have been hoarding. I found the large flower from Maya Road that I won last year, the sprig of flowers/leaves that I got at a yard sale and was saving for the "right" time to use, the left over pearls and small flowers hiding in a drawer and the charm that I bought because it was cool but never opened the package.

Added a picture of my daughter smiling (I'm pretty sure her sophomore year) and now I have one of those layouts that I think I'll frame for awhile before adding to the album.

You can do it

The sketch is from Pamela's World of Scrap, the challenge, white plus one color, from About a Boy. The photos are from the pie eating contest at the National Cherry Festival so I used red as the second color.

Kids have to eat a piece of pie as fast as they can without using their hands. When finished they stand up, have to swallow and show an empty mouth.  My son won 1st when he was 4, 3rd when he was 5. He really wanted to be 2nd when he was 6 so he would have all the ribbons. I don't know how, but he won 2nd that year.

It's On

When I saw the sketch at The Paper Bakery with the arrows I knew it was perfect for the layout of my daughter and grandson playing air hockey while waiting for tour time at Diamond Caverns. I used sequin waste (or honeycomb ribbon) in shiny gold. Also tried to glimmer mist the letters in orange, but it wiped right off.

Paul Bunyan

The challenge at Frosted Designs is to use black and white and one other color. I picked a shade of light blue for my third color. The pictures are from 1965 when my brother and I visited the Paul Bunyan museum in Rhinelander, WI.

DT Call

Let's Get Sketchy is looking to add 2-4 more members to their already fabulous Design Team. The DT term will run from June 1 through Sept 1.  You will be responsible for at least 2 layouts a month as well as commenting on entries each week.  For more information visit their blog.  

Above is the sketch for the call and below is the layout I made of my daughters (from 1976 - I'm only a little behind). Paper is from DCWV, flowers, bling and embellies are from my stash.

 

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I used the sketch from Sketch N Scrap for the right side of the double layout for Charlie's 15th. I love when I can use two different sketches and tie them together with the same papers and embellies.