Sketches in Thyme Guest Designer

Hi Everyone! I am excited to announce I am a guest designer for Sketches in Thyme this month.  My first sketch to work from was so cute.  I made this layout based on it.  It is slightly different because my first attempt at it didn't go so well, but I actually like how this one turned out much better.  The paper was from a kit I bought years ago at Wal-mart and the letters are Pink Paislee.  I would love if you joined in the fun over at Sketches in Thyme and next week I will have another adorable sketch and layout for you.

Sketches in Thyme Challenge #57

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Over at Sketches in Thyme they had a sketch challenge for this sketch.  I thought it was perfect for this set of pictures I recently got from a friend.  I didn't want it to be too girly, but I think it turned out.

All the papers were from an Oriental Trading, the bling was from my stash and the letters were cut from Plantin Schoolbook.  I had cut the stars, added a little glitter and it was done. 

Have a great day!

Link up with Love Party with K Andrew

I love how these pages turned out.  I have mention my weird sized scrapbook, so have been trying to make more pages for it.  These pages started out for a design team project, but the whole thing got cancelled so I am sharing them here.

The halloween paper was crumbled up for the one mat and the background of the other, it was a piece I picked up at Joanns, a long time ago.  The purple sparkly paper is also from joanns, I believe it is coredinations, but I am not positive. The orange, and purple mats for the stamps are bazill paper from Eye-lets Etc.  Both of the super adorable stamps are from Mel Jens Designs.  I colored them with prismacolor markers.  The glitter on the spider was a light purple from Studio G.   The ribbon I pulled out of my enormous ribbon stash :)  A few eyelets from Eye-lets Etc and it was done.

Have a great day.  I will be linking with up for the K Andrews Link up with Love party.  Here are all the details I got them all from her site. :)

Link Up Love Party: How it Works

*Link Up Party runs from Tuesday 10/18 to Tuesday 10/25. Winners announced 10/31
*Grab my blinkie and post on your blog's sidebar
*Be a follower of this blog( www.gettingcricky.com)
*Create a new blog post that is titled Link Up Love Party with K Andrew. In your post, you must mention that the link up love party is a way to get to know each other and find new blog inspiration, mention my blog, with a link back to my blog .
*Post your favorite project that you've done in your blog post THAT HAS TO DO WITH HALLOWEEN!! That could be a card, layout, treat holder or decoration, anything halloween related.
*Copy and paste the link up code into your blog post so the Inlinkz will show up on your blog
*Spread the word so everyone can join in!
*You must visit, follow, and comment on the 5 people before you AND the 5 people after you in the Inlinkz. It would be fantastic if you would visit as many as you can--maybe everyone? If you are one of the first 5 then you will need to blog the ones before you and a few more after--as long as it's a minimum of 10 near you in the link up tool/gadget)
If you do not do the above your link will be deleted, because it's just not fair to those who work so hard linking up and showing love to the ones on the list. I have two moderators who will be checking this out to keep it awesome and fun!

Link Up Party: Giveaway! A FULL year subscription to the best scrappy magazine out there: Creating Keepsakes for TWO lucky followers who Link up and play correctly. Winner will be announced October 3'rd so make sure you come back to see if you won!!!! Remember, if you dont' claim your prize within ONE week, it goes back in to the pot!

  I couldn't figure out the html thing, so her blog is www.gettingcricky.com

Have a great day everyone.

Moldy Cheese Day

Sunday was Moldy Cheese day.  So over at the Eye-lets Etc blog our design team project was to make something for this occasion.

I love how this turned out.  I used green bazill cardstock for the base, the strip on the side is stained walnut, and the mat is lilac plaid.

Have a great day!

Stampin Daisies Challange

I was looking through the blogs I follow and I happened to see this challenge at Stampin Daisies.  I really liked the sketch and I thought it was perfect for a layout.  I kept it simple, but I really like how it turned out.  I plan on adding an adorable picture of Princess Buttercup after I figure out which one of the thousands I have of her.  I cut the pink to 8x8, the black mat is 6.5x4.5.  The fiber was from my stash and then the flowers are Bloom-lets from Eye-lets Etc.  I used a yellow/gold gelly roll pen for the dashes.  The letters are from my stash too and they were out of the package.  Sorry about the picture I couldn't get it cropped. Both of my photo programs kept freezing on me when I tried to crop it.

Hope you enjoy your day!

Welcome Baby!

I am so beyond excited!! My best friend(BFFFFFFF) just told everyone she is pregnant!!!!!

I am so happy for her, and can't wait until she has this precious baby.  I told her I would do lots of stuff for the baby's room, and make her scrapbook. So this is the first page that I have made.  I am not sure what order the pages will go in yet, but we will see what develops.  Since they don't know yet what they are having, I tried to keep it neutral and her favorite color is green. She will put the pictures on the colored cardstock, I couldn't add pictures since the baby is still cooking. :)


I used a kit that I had by Colorbok.  It is just called pastel.  The patterned paper, stickers and the 2 bottom embellishments.  The color cardstock is from  Eye-lets Etc, and the flower is one of their bloom-lets.  The baby was from my stash, I can't remember what they are.  I used the Artful Delights September sketch for the layout.

I hope you all like it!  I love you Shawna and I hope you like it too!

Happy Halloween!

I know it is slightly early for this years Halloween, but I made this for a Halloween Picture from last year.  I was lucky last year and able to help a lot in my daughters class. So I took some pictures at their party.  I don't have the pictures on the layout yet, but I love how the layout turned out.  I used this for my Eye-lets Etc  design team project.  Absolutely everything except the stickers and marker are from Eye-lets Etc!   I hope you have a fantastic day!

close up of the bloom-let and witch eyelet. :)

Chillin with my daddy!

I think this turned out Super Cute.  I did this for a scraplift challenge over at TallyScrapper.  I love how simple it is, but still cute. The letters are my favorite, they were white punch out ones, i dabbed them with green ink, and then dashed them.  i dashed the edges of everything.

Have a great day!  I am soaking it up in the Texas sun right now.

My first fall layout

I am not totally done with this layout.  It still needs a title, but I am not sure what I want to do yet.  I think I am going to put pictures of our first time at the pumpkin patch, but I just don't know what to call it.  It requires some thinking, maybe after I get the pics on it...
Anyway, I used a plain background it came in a pack from Oriental trading.  The mats are from my scrap bin, and the fantastic images are from Faith at Designed2delight.  I went outside comfort area, and used my machine for some stitching.  I have never done it before.  I am not quite sure how I feel about it yet, so I don't know if I will keep doing it on stuff.  I colored the images and glittered them.  I also embossed the mats using a fiskars texture plate and my cuttlebug.

I am entering this at Designed2delight, a challenge at TallyScrappers, andhttp://kcclayoutchallenges.blogspot.com/.

Hope you all have a fabulous day!