Two pages with one sketch :)

My dear friend Chris is hosting the Saturday Scrapbook Challenges over at Inspired Crafters blog. She even has some give away for those who complete all the four sketches in the month of April. So, please stop by at the IC blog to play. She has chosen a very versatile sketch from Sketchy Thursdays and I loved it so much that I ended up creating two pages. I had also played along with this sketch on Sketchy Thursday as well and you can see that page here.

The Photo in this page was taken at a crop at my home..:) I chose the title to say Passion, Fun..which describes this hobby for me :)



Here is the travel page I did. These are photos of my husband and his parents when they visited him here before our marriage. These pictures are from their trip to Grand Canyon. These photos are very precious since my father-in-law is no longer alive. So instead of using the original photos, I made color copies and used them..hence the not so good quality of the images.



Supplies:
Stamp - None
Paper - Bazzill CS, Patterned Paper from Stash
Ink - Chai Inking Cube from PTI
Other - Border Punches, Felt, PTI Beautiful Blooms Dies, PTI Vintage Button, BG Brads, Prima Flowers

Saturday Scrapbook Challenge #12

Happy Saturday. The saturday scrapbook challenge over at Inspired Crafters blog is about top 10. I created this layout of our trip to Paris and did a top 10 qualifiers for Paris..:) I used this tag from 7 Gypsies 97% Complete series. I used a few pictures of Eiffel tower as it is the most popular monument of Paris.

I used the Sketch from Sketchy Thursday for this layout :) Kept it simple. I kind of like the open space at the top of the page.

Here is my page,


The patterned paper is Elise Travel Collection from KI Memories. I have been hoarding this paper for a while now. :)Feels good to use up supplies.

Here is the Sketch,


Supplies:
Stamp - None
Paper - KI Memories Elise Travel collection PP, Coredinations Blue CS, PTI White CS
Ink - Chai Inking Cube from PTI
Other - AC Thickers, Curvy Circle Cutter, AC chipboard flowers, Generic Brad, Offray Gingham ribbon

Saturday Scrapbook Challenge #11

I wanted to share the layout that I created using the Saturday Scrapbook Challenge Sketch.

These are photos from our recent trip to a park here in Plano. The wind and weather was so beautiful that we flew kites. :)



Here is the Sketch,


Supplies:
Stamp - Verve Up Up and Away
Paper - KI Memories Paper and lots of other from my stash
Ink - PTI dark Chocolate
Other - Curvy Circle Cutter, alphabets from some designer paper pack..

Saturday Scrapbook Challenge #10

It is time for another Scrapbook Page Challenge over at Inspired Crafters Blog. Please do check them out.

I created a layout for the IC Sketch #10 using the photos from my brother's wedding last year. This is a photo of a few of my cousins just hanging out together and we requested DH to take a picture of our painted hands. We had put Henna on our hands the previous day as part of the wedding ceremonies. It was really fun and definitely a moment to remember.

Here is my Layout,


I used these beautiful papers from Luxe Designs called Sarong. I had bought a bunch of these from the Great American Scrapbook Convention (Grapevine, TX) last year and had not used them yet. They have similar patterns that were normally used in Henna designs. The LO is much more beautiful in IRL. The papers and the photos go very well together.

Here is a closeup of the patterned paper,



Here is the Sketch from IC Blog,




Supplies:
Stamp - None
Paper - Luxe Designs and PTI White CS
Ink - None
Other - Heart Punch, PTI Vintage Buttons, Silhouette leaf/branch cutout, scallop circle punch, curvy circle cutter, American crafts thickers and American Crafts Journalling Stickers.

Saturday Scrapbook Challenge #9 using Justrite Stamps

I found these real nice pictures from my Birthday of Last year. I was in India for my brother's wedding and we had a family get together at a restaurant there. It was really amazing. Since that day is also our wedding anniversary, it is always extra special :)

I used the Inspired Crafters Sketch #9 for this LO and this LO was also done for the Justrite Stampers Scrappy Pages Challenge - to use Justrite stamps on your LO. I used the Just a Note Borders & Centers 1 5/8" from Justrite stamps for my LO and created a border out of it :) I am quite happy how this LO turned out.



Here is the Sketch,



Supplies:
Stamp - Love in Return from {ippity}, Just a Note Borders & Centers 1 5/8" from Justrite stamps
Paper - K&Company, PTI Smokey Shadow, Pure Poppy, Enchanted Evening and White CS
Ink - PTI Pure Poppy, Ranger Distress Ink - Faded Jeans and Walnut Stain
Other - SU Scallop Punch, SU Circle Punch

Saturday Scrapbook challenge #5 from Inspired Crafters

Happy Friday Everyone. I wanted to share this layout that I did for the Saturday Scrapbook Challenge #5 from the Inspired Crafters Blog.



Here is the sketch,



Thanks for looking :)

{ippity} Blog Hop - 2/22

Howdy Friends...Good to see you stopping by here on {ippity} Blog Hop day. Please visit the {ippity} Blog for the complete list of participants.

Please Click here to buy some {ippity} stamps for your self. To celebrate the new stamp releases - For a limited time you will get 4 sheets of 4x6 Double sided Designer Patterned Paper and 2 yards of Ribbon free with each stamp set. Free Priority Shipping with Purchase of 4 stamp sets or more.

I have two layouts to share with you as part of this hop.

The first one is a picture that we took on my birthday two years back. I just loved this picture and have been wanting to scrap it since then. So, here is the LO. I used the stamp sets - Alphabetically Adorable, Devoted and Love in Return.



It is kind of hard to see, but I stamped the alphabets and then colored with Sakura Clear Glitter Pen. I have also stamped the flourish image from Love In Return on the patterned paper as well as the Birthday Title :). Heart from the Devoted and the Original stamp from Love in Return completed the page.

Here are two close up pictures of the Glittered Alphabets and the Flourish,



I have another layout to share with you that uses Love in Return Stamp set. This layout was also done for Inspired Crafters Saturday Scrapbook Challenge #7.



I use the Flourish, the journalling block and the Life is measured stamps from the Love in Return stamp set. I have colored the flourish with white gel pen.

Saturday Scrapook Sketch Challenge #4

This is my entry for the Saturday Scrapbook challenge #4 at IC Blog. This two page layout sketch worked out perfect for me. These were some of the pictures that we took in KSU Campus in Lawrence, KS. We were visiting my cousin with my parents and few of dad's cousins and their families were there as well. So were a big gang and had tons of fun :)

Please stop by at Inspired Crafters Blog and play along with the challenges.

Here is the LO,



Here is the Sketch,

Trip to Cliff Resort

It is time to present my interpretation of this week's inspiration over at Inspired Crafters. You have to check it out. Jen has awesome inspiration for us to work with. I went with her catalog and how the photos were stacked together. I also took some of the colors in there for inspiration.

These are the pictures we took at Cliff Resort, here in Texas near Possum Kingdom Lake. It was just beautiful. This golf resort sits on a cliff facing the lake and is just gorgeous. Great Spa, Sunsets, Walks and wading in the lake. It was way too nice. I had fun reliving the memories of this trip while doing this LO.

Supplies:
Stamp - Studio G Stamp from Michaels
Paper - Coredinations CS, SU PP
Ink - Memento Black and Copics

Saturday Scrapook Sketch Challenge #2

At Inspired Crafters, we are working towards creating more scrapbook pages in the year 2010 :) So as part of that every Saturday we have some inspiration to create a scrapbook page. This time it was a sketch from 52 sketches 52 weeks.

I used a picture of my niece that I took during my brother's wedding. She had just finished eating Watermelon and this pose caught my eye. :) It was so much to scrap this photo...:)

Here is my layout,


Sorry for the photo quality. I used to scan my LO's before but was not too happy with it, so trying my hand at photography :)

Also I noticed some spelling mistakes in my journaling.Oh well :)

I cut out the title from Silhouette :) Inspired by Susan and Amy to use more of my Silhouette and Cricut in my LO's.

I used the flowers and pearls to kind of mimic what she is wearing in the photo :)

Here is the Sketch,


Supplies:
Stamp - None
Paper - PTI and SU DSP, Coredination CS, PTI and SU CS
Ink - None
Other - Nestabilities, Prima flowers, Silhouette,

Inspired Crafters - Saturday Scrapbook Sketch Challenge

I wanted to create more scrapbook pages this year. So this page was done for the Inspired Crafters Saturday Scrapbook Sketch Challenge. The sketch this time is from Page Maps.

Here is my page,



Here is the Sketch,



Sorry for the picture quality :(

Supplies:
Stamp - None
Paper - Travel Collection from American Crafts, My Minds Eye and Making Memories DP, Georgia Pacific White CS
Ink - None
Other - Chipboard Title from Making Memories, Cricut, Cricut Home Accents Cartridge, American Crafts Rubons