Tea Party

I'm back with a new layout and this one is for January's Scrap Friend's challenge.  For those of you that have never seen it, they are four blogging buddies who host a monthly challenge.  Each poses their own separate challenge and you can make one layout, one for each, or if you are feeling super froggy you can make one layout that combines them all.  I decided to be super ambitious and jump right in and try THAT.  Details of the challenge, how I followed them and links to each is just below.

First up is the sketch Brenda shared.  As you can see I went my own way with it, but I did stick pretty close I think.  The biggest change was I went with only one photo and used the other spots for journaling and bigger embellishments.

Rochelle's challenge was one of my favorites.  A tic tac toe board!  I went up and down on the far left.  My title is made from corrugated cardboard that was painted white.  My arrows are along the top strip, far bottom strip and just to the right of the photo...all made from patterned paper.  The mist is harder to see, but if you click to enlarge my layout you should be able to see it.  I used green Glimmer Mist across the entire layout before adding my photo.  While it's hard to see in the pic (except maybe on the white piece just left of the photo), in person it adds an awesome shimmer.

Kelly's addition was a color challenge.  That was a little tougher, but I found one of my Echo Park lines a pretty close match.

Last up was the title challenge posed by Kristi.  She posted a word cloud with lots of New Years and Wintery words and asked that you use at least ONE in your title.  My title is "Tea Party Fun" so the word I picked is "FUN".  

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Fun With Echo Park and CS259

Bare with me on my layouts in the short term.  I'm trying to clear out what's left of lines I'd already used once or twice to make room for all the new CHA stuff and so a lot of my layouts are mish-mash.  Most of this layout is Echo Park Sisters, but I did dig through my scrap bin and pull out a few other EP lines and even some MME that happened to be the same color family.

This layout was inspired by Kristine Davidson's AHHHH-mazing sketch posted over at Creative Scrappers this week.  Click on over to play along.  I was so intimidated by the sketch at first because I really struggle with grid style layouts, but I challenged myself to just jump in and really pour over all the DT inspiration every time I got stuck.  In the end, I'm pretty in love with how this layout of my son and his grandma turned out.  ♥

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Easter Egg Hunt

Hey all, back again with another layout.  Look at me keeping up with my goals and stuff!  This layout is mostly Doodlebug papers, but the background was a spare piece of Reminisce that I had leftover from a kit.  I was able to dig through my super fun stash of buttons that had been a little neglected lately and found all these fun spring colors in a wide variety.  The big letters are Thickers and the gems are Recollections..as well as the flowers.  The sketch I followed is below and links back to the now dormant Sketches in Thyme blog.  It's years old, but was hiding a few dozen scrolls down my sketches pinterest board so luckily I'm still able to give credit to the original sketcher and share with all my fellow sketch lovers.  :)

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