My Heart (at least one of them!)

Pencil Lines Sketch #153
The papers are Webster's Pages and Dream Street,...there is a leather Prima flower in the layered flower and some Jenni Bowlin,...the milk cap button & crepe paper. Thanks for popping by,...have a marvelous rest of the day! Oh, & here's a close up of the flower:

Sometimes Less Can be More

...especially when your talking about wheels on a bicycle to a youth. I used a sketch from a The Scraproom challenge, and adjusted it quite a bit. The papers are Jillibean, Making Memories and Gin-X.

It's Hip to be Square

Journaling reads, "It took nine years to earn my BS in Accounting, (with many distractions). After another nine years, I earned a Masters of Science in Taxation & a Masters of BA."
Papers are mostly PP and CC.

I, then, took one inch squares, and a couple paper strips to alter this:

and decoupaging it, to create this fun piece, which is now sitting on a shelf in my powder room.


Have a marvelous weekend! Happy creating!

Pencillines Sketch #151 :Goin Buggy

Pencil Lines Sketch #151

I would like to encourage you to check out the Pencillines guest designer's blog, Scrapperlicious. I have been watching her blog for a long time. She has unique ideas and is amazing with acrylics!

Anyway, here is my interpretation...I felt like I cheated, (pun was not intended ;) ) with all my premade embellishments,...but I am so happy with the result. The papers are MME, Crate and Chatterbox.

Hang your Sneaks & Stay Awhile!

It's another Willow Traders Blog Hop Weekend!

I have been on a sketch kick lately.....oh, speaking of kicks, I would love to share this layout. The sneakers were made with a stamp. I stamped four of them and used foam adhesive between two to add dimesion. I haven't used my stamps nearly enough,...so I was pleased to fit this one in. I tried to hang them like ballet shoes, as I used this quote,"Soccer is the ballet of the masses",...except I added an if, then....suggesting that Kurt ought to then stick to jazz. Kurt is my athletic one but, soccer just didn't do it for him! :) My favorite recollection is when he insisted to wear his shin guards to protect his knees! This layout was one that I really struggled with. I just could not figure out how to arrange the photographs and I almost changed it to a two pager,...I was glad when this arrangement finally fell into place as I was experimenting. I, also liked my paper combo,...Pink Paislee Sweet Cakes orange dot, Prima Dude diamond paper and Fancy Pants Delight for the Stripe. The journal box is from the WRMK MVP line.

Thanks for popping by,...looking forward to visiting your place soon!

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Another Sketch

Creative Scrappers, this time (#67):
Papers are mostly MME & LYB, then I used a couple pieces from the SL kit, (the butterfly paper is going a looong way)

Also, I picked a winner from my followers & will be sending my own little kit. Shelly is the winner, and this is what I will be sending:
Congrats!

Have a marvelous rest of the looong weekend! ;)

Beauty and the Swine

Pencil Line sketch #149:


Good morning! Time for a weekend Blog Hop with Willow Traders.

Using mostly, Pink Paislee products,.... the pictures, in this layout, were taken at The Pennsylvania Rennaissance Faire. We LOVE to go there every Fall! The boys especially love to watch The Joust competition and all of the fun foods.
Being a fair, it should have rides, right!?! Well, it does, just right for the sixteenth century....run by sheer manpower. This "amusement" involves a large wooden swine that the boys sat in, powered by a man giving the large boar some strong pushes, with a few twists and turns. The boys love it!! Last year, the boys were in Halloween costume, and they Trick or Treated in the shire!

The second layout uses a Page Map sketch. Usually, my sketch interpretations tend to be very literal; but, this one is not. I took this sketch:

and rotated it once clockwise and used four pictures. I preferred them split, ...on the top, I am in my twenties, and the bottom,...my thirties. This made the sketch take on a different look.

I used the following:

SR Charlotte Martha Road Zig Zag and Shirley Floral, FP DELIGHT - Strips, and Prima Dude Playful (backside) papers. The journal pieces are: FP Delight Journaling Notebook Page, MR Sheer (I think) and a MM Delaney Spiral Journaling Page. Other products used are PP & other rub-on from stash, CM Pens, Gelly Roll White pen, Chatterbox Chipboard tag and dimensional sticker
Various alphabets, including CM and Cbx, a journal box and, dew drops from my stash.

I penned in the bottom part of the spyrograph from the FP DELIGHT - Strip used, and punched the flowers from the SR Charlotte Shirley Floral patterned paper to have the centers with print: The sub-title reads, "Joy, peace & contentment"

I included two hidden journaling spots. One includes, bible reference verses that I consider God's promises and the other says, "what I learned: God gives you the desires of your heart when you seek them through Him." There is so much to say on this topic, for me. But, it will be revealed in a progression of layouts that will tell my story. I am the survivor of a life threatening accident and clearly here living an abundant life through God's grace.

Thanks for spending some time with me! Many abundant blessings for you!