My Creative Sketches June Sketch

Hello scrappy friends!  I am happy to share the June Sketch for My Creative Sketches.  It was a fun sketch to scrap with and Liz Chidester always designs a fabulous one.

Here is the layout I created

Triangles are a challenge for me but it was nice to work out of my comfort zone.  I decided to create a stencil from a digital cut file and cut it out with my Silhouette Cameo.  I used several distress inks and some stamps for texture.  I had a chipboard embellishment that I added for some more depth and interest as well as some wood shapes,  pearls, stickers and a flair button.

The ocean brings me peace.  I love going to Vancouver Island.  It reminds me so much of Hawaii in beauty.  Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a chance to play and link up your layout for a chance and an amazing prize from My Creative Scrapbook.  The kits are outstanding and there are at least four every month to choose from.  One for every scrapbooker's style as well as Project Life.  

Stuck?! Sketches April 1 Sketch

Happy April Fool's Day!  Today there is a new sketch to play with at Stuck?! Sketches.

I really had fun with this sketch and created a layout of my son and husband.

 I really enjoyed making a grungy, masculine layout with some really great papers from the Garage Days Collection from Kaisercraft.

  I added some Tim Holtz Distress Paint in Weathered Wood to a stamp and also made some splats with some Tim Holtz Distress Stain in Rusty Hinge.

Have fun with the sketch and play along and upload to Stuck?! Sketches for a chance to win a great prize.  Also, check out what the team created with the sketch.  Have a great day!

Happier At Home Art Journal - November

Hello friends!  Today I wanted to share my art journal page for November.  It is created inside the actual book "Happier At Home"which is a very thought provoking book.  Every month this year I post an art journal page.  For this month, it is about parenthood.

For this entry, I used the Ranger Adirondacks Color Wash Mist in Lettuce and Espresso to create the background and also some Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Gathered Twigs and Walnut Stain as well as the Tim Holtz Gathered Twigs Distress Stain around the edges of the background.  I also used several stamps, and various embellishments to complete the pages.

Left Page

Right Page

These photos were taken last winter when my hubby, teenage son and I were heading up to the mountains in Canmore for a nice weekend and my older two kids and their spouses met up with us for lunch on their way back from  a getaway inBritish Columbia.  That's how we roll with everyone living in different places.  I love this photo because we are all in our casual clothes and I love it because it's so natural and not really rehearsed.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great Friday!

Happier At Home Art Journal - October

Hello friends!  Today I wanted to share an art journal page I created in the Happier At Home book for October.  This is a monthly class that I have been taking this year by the talented shabby chic artist Lynn Thune.

Left Page

Right Page

I applied some Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass Distress Stain as the base of the pages and then some Tim Holtz Brushed Corduroy Distress Stain and spritzed it with some water.  I tinted the ribbon with the same colours and also added some modeling paste, stamps, washi tape,  old book pages for flowers, some ribbon and lace and cut some word strips from words in the chapter of the book.

The chapter for October is about marriage. The photo is of my husband and I on our 14th wedding anniversary this past September.  The handwriting says "I need to be happy with myself so that I can be happy at home".  I truly believe in order to love we have to love ourselves first.  I know as a mother, we put all our family's needs before our own and we have to take time for ourselves. Art journaling is my way of nurturing myself as well as scrapbooking, mixed media and photography. It's just been the past two years or so that I'm not afraid to take time for myself, whether that is creating or getting a pedicure, a manicure or a little vacation alone.

I hope you enjoyed my art journal and thanks for stopping by my blog.  I always appreciate your visits and really love and welcome your comments.  Have a great day!