Hands on - 3/11

Every year the Sea Lab puts on an all day event for children during the summer. It's a special program to help teach them about our local Gulf waters. They offer it several times during the summer cause it fills up quick. The girls have been going for years and love it! I think I learn something new every time I go. lol. They even get to go out into the water and try to find some of the wildlife they learned about.

These are from part of the day with Lilybug. She got to look at all the cool animals that live in our waters. I also used the Midweek Mojo over at ScrapbookSteals! I love shopping their deals as well! Great prices on just about anything scrappy!!!

The Sketch:

The great thing about this sketch is that there is so much more that can be added to it!!! 

I love sketches that allow my mind to wonder into creativity land!!

My Page:

Close-ups: 

Border sticker along with chipboard tiki guys

Sticker with pop ups and Petaloo flower

Life's a beach Cricut cart starfish border

Chipboard arrow with Cosmo Cricket mini alphas

Hope y'all come play along or even shop!!!

Just Beachy - 3/6

Over at My Scraps & More, they are having a Sketch-A-Thon this whole month!!!! I love finding inspiration! So the first sketch was a fun one. I was able to get it done a few days ago. This was a great first sketch! Can't wait to play along with the other ones!

The Sketch:

My Page:

Close-ups:

Burlap ribbon and dew drops

Dew drops, Thickers, punchinella, and scraps

Come play along with the Sketch-A-Thon!

Mom & me - 3/5

Colorful Creations is a fun place to find inspiration along with a great bunch ladies to keep you company! Well every month they have a fun challenge. It's called Twisted Blueprints. It's a sketch with a twist. This definitely helps getting the creative juices flowing. Well last month the twist was to us ribbon and stickles/glitter.

The Sketch:

This was a great sketch! Definitely has lots of potential to making it your own!

My Page:

Sorry for the bad pic. The wind was blowing, a storm was coming in, and I couldn't get it to cooperate!

We've all had those kind of days.

Close-ups:

Added Trendy Twine around Prima bling.

Leaf pin under flowers.

Punchinella under chipboard heart covered in paper.

Thickers!

Border punch with liquid pearls.

Come join in the fun!!!

Our Tree - 3/4

It's another week at Let's Get Sketchy!!! The blog hop was fabulous this weekend!!! Welcome to all of my new followers! I hope that everyone is playing along for this month's awesome prizes!!! This week's sketch also involves a color challenge as well. It happens to be a Christmas inspired color palette. I tried thinking outside the box, but I kept coming back to my Christmas pics.

This year, the girls decided they wanted a better tree. We don't do real trees cause of all the mess to clean up and mommy's allergies can't handle them. lol. We bought a gorgeous 7.5 ft pre-lit flocked tree. This is the pic before we put ornaments up on it. It was like this for a few days. Just gorgeous without ornaments!

The Sketch & Color Palette:

My Page:

Materials:

Recollections Kraft Christmas

Prima holly

Stickles & Smooch Spritz

Close-ups:

Added stickles to "Merry" and "Family."

Border punch folded with ribbon on top.

Stickles used to outline holly. 

Added twine as well.

Distress stickles on corner.

3 shades of Smooch Spritz on background paper.

Thanks for stopping by! 

Don't forget to play along with us at LGS!

LGS Birthday Bash Blog Hop!!!!

Let's Get Sketchy is turning ONE and to celebrate we are having a Birthday Bash Blog Hop!

As you make your way along our hop to visit each of our DT member's blogs you will find lots of birthday inspired projects. If you have arrived here from Stephanie's blog welcome to the LGS Blog Hop!!! If you have stumbled across this by chance and want to play along then hop on over to the Let's Get Sketchy blog to get started at the beginning to start collecting your birthday challenge words. These words should be Bolded on each DT member's blog.

Well this weekend is Dr. Seuss's Birthday also! Last year my daughter's class spent the whole day celebrating his 100th birthday. So I got to thinking.... Why couldn't I use those pics for this birthday challenge? Well I can! The rules just say a birthday inspired project! Well this page was inspired by the birthday celebration of Dr. Seuss! We love his books.The girls enjoy reading them. My favorite book is The Foot Book! What is your favorite Dr. Seuss book?

My Paige:

Materials: 

EP Little Boy paper

AC Thickers red glitter (2 fonts)

Sassafrass felties

Stickles, twine, glossy accents

This is an 8x8 page for her school album.

I printed the quote on photo paper. Found the pic on google images.

Close-ups: 

Added stickles and twine to the felties.

Added Glossy Accents to Thickers.

Added pop-ups behind photo mat.

Birthday Bash Challenge - To create any birthday inspired project from the examples you see along the DT Blog Hop and upload them at LGS. 

The winner of the hop will be randomly selected and will win a nice bag of scrappy goodies from Let's Get Sketchy! As always there are rules for playing!

Here are the rules for playing and winning:

1. You MUST be a followed of each LGS team member blog and leave a comment on each blog

2. You MUST also be a follower of the LGS blog.

3. Leave a comment telling me what your favorite Dr. Seuss book is!!!

Please make sure you visit the entire team today as some members are hosting additional blog challenges during the hop and offering their own extra goodies for you so the more you play the more chances you could win!

All blog hop entries are due by midnight, March 8th, 2013 CST.

Now hop on over to the Let's Get Sketchy blog to let us know you've visited everyone's blog!

Don't forget to email the quote to LGS as well!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!!!

Ponder.... 2/25

Yesterday evening some bad weather was coming our way. I decided what better way to spend the evening than to SCRAP! I have been enjoying my new printer and love being able to pick out the photos I want to use for certain pages. Now I don't have a stack of photos lying around or managing to get shuffled out of order by the girls. I was playing along with My Scraps & More Sketches. This week's sketch had me thinking a little. I decided to not use the circle, but rather keep a more sharp, clean look to my page. After I got my papers down, I realized it was missing something. So scrappy friends came to the rescue to help! Bev helped alot as well with some ideas. So here is my final result....... I am very happy with how it turned out!

The Sketch:

My Page:

Materials:

Bazzill cardstock

Authentique papers

Momenta stickers

Fiskars border punch

Petaloo flowers

AC vinyl thickers

Punchinella, twine, white gel pen

Close-ups:

Petaloo flowers and Momenta sticker

Twine and Fiskars border punch

AC vinyl Thickers and twine wrapped around mats and pic

Punchinella and Momenta sticker

I love how this turned out! 

Hope y'all play along too!!!

Cypress Stump - 2/24

Well the time is almost here. Creative Scrappers is coming to a temporary stop. They are taking a leave of absence, but will keep the site up from what I read. I enjoy playing along with their sketches even if sometimes I don't make the deadline. They are great for inspiration especially when you get stuck. Well I got stuck with this page. I knew what papers I wanted to use but just couldn't get the page to come together. After fooling with it for 2 days and rearranging it 4 times..... I finally got it. This sketch also helped as well and I'm still able to enter it!

The Sketch:

My Page:

Materials:

MME Miss Caroline Paper

Kreaxions punch 905

Petaloo flowers

AC Thickers green

Close-ups:

Petaloo flowers

Keaxions punch & recollections ribbon

AC Thickers & journal strips

Thanks for stopping by!!!