2 sketchsupport layouts..

Here are 2 sketches and the layouts I made from sketchsupport! 
Following sketch by: Allison Davis

This 1st one I followed with a 2 page Layout and here's the details:
"Backyard Fun in the Sun" by Amy Roller
Supplies - Patterned paper: Bo Bunny, Two Busy Moms; Cardstock: Close to my Heart, Stampin Up!;
Stickers: Karen Foster designs, Creative Memories; water droplets: Hobby Lobby; Liquid glass: Close To My Heart; Cuttlebug, Emboss folder: Provo Craft; Markers: Zig, Stampin Up!; Blending pen: Stampin Up!; Journling Spot: My Little Yellow Bicycle

The main variations for my layout are that I changed the picture sizes and have a total of 13 photos on this page! I also changed the "waves" along the bottom and turned it into grass and a water hose instead. I left off the fish elements along the bottom because I didn't have anything that really fit my changed theme. Instead, I added more detail and texture to the hose.

I started the layout by arranging my pictures on the left side and it just worked out that I could fill the bottom area of the page that only has three small photos in the sketch.

I cut the large sun out of my pattern paper and used it to ground my title. I added in small water sprinkles with 3 -D "droplets" and crystal effects to create a "wet" look.

Next I decided to use leftover grass from my cropped photos and cut it to look more like actual grass blades and then placed it along the bottom. This is where the waves in the sketch are.

I then put down my pattern strip that is in place of the stripe in the sketch. I would have preferred the stripe but I didn't have one so I improvised with something close that pulled in all my colors.

For the right side, I had a ton of small photos so I made a collage with them in the place of the three large photos and decided to leave some background paper showing to help break up the photos because there was so much green throughout them.

Next I hand cut a hose and ran the pieces through an embossing folder with my cuttlebug for the texture of a real hose. Then I covered it with liquid glass which makes it shiny and more 3-D. For the end of the hose I hand drew and cut out a shape like the metal end of a hose and then added a silver gel pen over the whole piece.

Next, I added a large swirl rhinestone and more liquid glass coming off in "splashes". I added more water "droplets" throughout as well as water stickers. Last I traced the flow of water with 3 different colored markers and blended them out with a blender pen to give it a more lifelike see-through look of water.The second layout, I made a 1 page with the same sketch..sorry pics are a little yellow!

"Busted" by Amy Roller
Supplies - Patterned paper: Creative Imaginations; Cardstock: Close to my Heart; Stickers: Creative Imaginations, Bella Blvd; Flocking: Enchanted Creations

On this layout, I used the left side of the two-page sketch. I flipped the pictures to have the three on top and one on the bottom to leave room for the bottle of baby powder and mess. I sort of kept the swirl element from the right side of the sketch as well and incorporated it into the bottom left corner.

To make the spill of powder, I used my finger to dab glue all over and then applied flocking over the top. Then I added in little embellishments across the page. Some are stickers, some are hand cut from the pattern paper.

This was a real quick layout and I love these pictures even though I wasn't very fond of the mess!

A week of 1 pagers and a giveaway!

This past week was full of 1 pagers on Sketchsupport!  Here are the 2 layouts I made, you can check out all the details about them and the supply lists on the site as well as see what all the other Design Team members have done with the sketch. I am normally a 2 page girl but have really been enjoying these 1 pagers.  Be sure to scroll down and check out the rest of my blog and hopefully come back soon! Thanks for stopping by!

As for the giveaway, Allison has generously provided us with the new...

So leave a comment here telling me if you are a 2 page scrapper or a 1-pager.  You have until Thurs. evening and I will announce the winner on Friday! Thanks and have a great week!

going good so far...

Well, today is going good so far and I want to thank all of my friends that have helped lift me up with your comments and support/prayers this week.  I truly am blessed to have each of you to listen and be there for me.  It does the heart good! I am still struggling with a few things, as I will probably always be, but it is certainly easier to walk this journey with all of you beside me! Love you all...

Here is a layout I did of Caden awhile back that I really love because it takes me back to the days when it was just he and I and I realize just how much has changed and how blessed I am to have had this time in their lives to look back on and smile.

I Love how you make me smile...I never know what I'm going to find with these two.  Weather it's shoes, hats, glasses or whatever else you fashion into your wardrobe, you always seem to get a smile or giggle out of me.  Even when your suppose to be in trouble. ;- )

New layout pics and a winner

First off today I am going to share a few of my pages and then I will announce the giveaway winner at the end.  These are a few of my layouts I wanted to share and as you can see, I don't scrap in order anymore.  I used to but find I enjoy it much more to go with what I feel at that time..and work with pics/papers that I have at that time that work good together.  The first one is of my oldest son...I know, I know, it's pink and girly but when you have all boys, you get creative on ways to use pink,flowers,bling etc! Thankfully my hospital gown was pink and he just had that fresh newborn pink glow...oh how time flies.

Some of these pages look crooked, but trust me..if you know me you know they aren't.  It just the way I had to take some of the pics!  I am known for needing things "straight with the world" as my father says.  : )

I absolutely LOVE these little hat brads..I added them to the squirrel and title block

Last but not least, here's the giveaway winner....Christine Rantz
(Winner randomly picked by outside source)

Contact me by email..kroller@centurytel.net to set up prize info!
Be sure to check back in for more inspiration and giveaways...there may be a blog hop in the distant future and I am already putting together my next giveaway box!!( Yes, I did say box!)