Zeno

Zeno is the German Shepherd dog of my husband's family in India. I did this layout with the pictures that we took during our trip to India during November 2010. He is so hard to photograph as he is always moving and running.

Of course, I jumped at the chance of using Tim Holtz Rosette die. I am entering this layout for two challenges,

1) Sketchy Thursdays 1-5 Sketch Challenge. Here is the sketch,

2)By the Numbers challenge on Scrapbook Challenges Forum. The challenge was to use,

1. 1 title
2. 2 photos
3. 3 stamped images (I used the stamps from PTI Journaling Lines - Lines, Sentiment and the star shaped stamp)
4. 4 circles - (2 for journaling circle and two circles from the brads)
5. 5 papers (3 patterened papers and 2 cardstock)
6. 6 buttons

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Journaling Lines
Ink - Ranger DI Barn Door, Memento Black
Paper - Reminisce Dog Pattern paper, Coredinations cardstock
Other - Tim Holtz Rosette Die, Assorted brads

Lake Grapevine Fun!!!

I have another layout of Bella having fun at Grapevine Lake and yet again for the BasicGrey Challenge :). I used the latest Sketchy Thursday Sketch for this layout.

I am entering this layout for,
1) BasicGrey Challenge #50 - Anything Goes
2) BasicGrey Product Challenge on TwoPeasInABucket.com
3) Sketchy Thursday 8-18 Sketch

I used mainly BasicGrey Oxford Collection for my layout as the Product Challenge on TwoPeasInABucket was to use products from the Oxford Collection. I am in love with the plaid papers that are in the oxford collection.

Here is the sketch,

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - None
Paper - Bazzill Kraft Card stock, BasicGrey Oxford Collection Patterned Paper, PTI White Cardstock
Ink - PTI Chai Inking Cube
Other - BG Oxford Collection Buttons and Stitched brads, chipboard alphabets

Cute Butterfly

This is my entry for this week's Sketchy Thursday 8-11 Sketch Challenge.

These are pictures of my friend's daughter Shikha when she had dressed as the most beautiful Butterfly for last year's Halloween. I just loved her outfit and how gorgeous she looks. My layout is slightly different from the Sketchy Thursday Sketch as I could not crop these photos any more. But I am very very happy how this turned out.

Here is the sketch,

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - None
Paper - Bazzill Cardstock, PTI Raspberry Fizz Cardstock, DCVW Cafe Latte Stack
Ink - None
Other - Girls Paperie embellishments, My Minds Eye Notes, SU Scallop Border Punch

Happy Diwali

Hi Friends, I know it is not Diwali yet. But I wanted to create a LO using pictures of Shikha (My friend's daughter)- from last year's Diwali Celebration.

 1) As soon as I saw the Sketchy Thursday 6-23 Sketch, I knew these pictures were perfect for that layout.

2) I am entering this LO in the My Unity Place - Scrapbook challenge - To use Banners on your page.

3) I am also submitting this LO for Nichol Magouirk's challenge on Two Peas in a Bucket - to Use paint/ink/etc. to customize your own embellishments on your next layout!


These are the pictures of my friend's daughter Shikha - when she was all dressed up for the last year Diwali Festival. I had to create a LO with these pictures.

I used the Happy Banner image from the June 2009 Unity KOTM - Perfect in Every Way for the title along with some American Crafts Thickers. I colored the banner image with some copic markers to keep it within my color theme.

The border at the bottom is Tim Holtz Grunge board that I cut with the edgers die and then inked it with some Ranger Acrylic Paint. I also colored the brads with copic markers to get a matching color for my LO.

The layout is simple, but I liked how it turned out. Here is the Sketchy Thursday sketch,

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - Unity June 2009 KOTM - Perfect in Every Way
Paper - Coredinations Cardstock, PTI White and Dark chocolate CS, Stampin Up Patterned Papers
Ink - Chalk Ink Brown, Memento Black, Copics
Other - Fiskars Border Punch, Tim Holtz Grunge Board, Ranger Acrylic Paint - Sunset Orange, Prima Flowers, Brads from Stash, American Crafts Thickers

Puppy Love - for Sketchy Thursday

This is my entry for the Sketchy Thursday - 5-26 Sketch.

These are pictures of my DH playing in the backyard with Bella - our 3 month old Lab Puppy (She is 5 months now though). I loved these pictures and they were perfect for this sketch.

Here is the sketch,

I love these kind of clean and simple sketches, where you can either keep it simple or embellish it more if you felt like.

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - None
Paper - Core-dinations CS, Luxe Designs and SU Patterned Paper
Ink - None
Other - Photo Corner Punch, Felt Punch out, Dog Tags, Pet Brads

Playtime - Sketchy Thursday Challenge

My friend's daughter Shikha loves her Gymboree time and I loved these pictures of her. I used this pictures to create this layout for the Sketchy Thursday Sketch Challenge.

I kept the layout simple and chose the papers based on the colors in the photo. I love how this layout turned out.

Here is the sketch,

Thanks for stopping by,

Supplies:
Stamp - None
Paper - Core-dinations Cardstock, Luxe Designs Jotters
Ink - None
Other - MS Butterfly Punch, Nestabilities, MM brads and metal flowers, American Crafts Thickers

July 12th Monday {ippity} Blog Hop

It is time for Monday {ippity} Hop. I have a scrapbook page to share with you today. I used two {ippity} sets on this page - A Moment In Time and Life's Little Moments. These two sets are just perfect for scrapbooking.

Please click here if you want to buy some {ippity} stamps.



These are some old family pictures that my Mom recently scanned and sent to me, so I was excited to do something with these pictures. I used Sketchy Thursday Sketch for this layout.

I cut out the family tag with Nestabilities. I also used the heart frame and the Grateful sentiment from A Moment in Life. The title Family is from Life's Little Moments set. I used some of the rectangle panels from A Moment in Time at the bottom of the page to add some accent. I am really happy how this page turned out. I want to apologize for the quality of my picture of the layout, somehow I was not able to get a good picture of it. The layout looks really good IRL.

Here is the sketch,

Please visit {ippity} Blog for the complete list of participants and thanks for stopping by.

Supplies:
Stamp - {ippity} A Moment In Time & Life's Little Moments
Paper - SU Patterned Paper, Bazzil Kraft CS
Ink - Ranger Distress Ink - Walnut Stain, Memento black, Memento Lady Bug
Other - Prima Flowers, Tim Holtz Small Attacher, Fiskars Border Punch

Sketchy Thursday on a Wednesday

I wanted to Share this Layout that I did for the 6.17 Sketchy Thursday Sketch. These are pictures of Dallas Downtown when my friend Deepthi was visiting us. We had tons of fun taking impromptu pictures all over the downtown. It was beautiful day and not too hot either. We visited Pioneer Plaza, 6th floor museum, Dealy Plaza and just walked the downtown streets.

I also did this layout for the Camp Friendzy Challenge Week 3 over at Scrap Friendzy.

Here is the sketch from Sketchy Thursday,

Thanks for stopping by.

Supplies:
Stamp - Journaling Lines from PTI
Paper - Bazzill Kraft CS, AC Green CS, Luxe Designs Patterned Paper
Ink - Ranger Distress Ink - Antique Linen, Memento Black
Other- MS Butterfly Punch, Prima Flowers, Felt, PTI Flower Dies, PTI Vintage Buttons, PTI Rustic Twine

Sketchy Thursday on a Wednesday

I am cutting it quite close. I was so busy and could not create anything earlier for the Sketchy Thursday challenge.

Here it is,



These are pictures from our trip to Las Vegas --- ages ago..:D This was in Caesar's Palace. I used a tag from 7 Gypsies and sponged some Tea Dye DI all over it. I added a few stickers to that tag and that made up the title.

Here is the sketch,



Supplies:
Stamp - None
Paper - Stampin Up Designer Paper and Die Cut Paper from Jenni Bowlin Collection
Ink - Ranger DI - Tea Dye
Other - PTI Vintage Button, Border Punch

Sketchy Thursday 2nd chance Challenge

I used the 2nd Chance Challenge Sketch from Sketchy Thursday for these photos that we had taken during my parents trip here. This was taken in a mall here. My parents enjoyed walking through the mall along with Shopping. They had lot of greenery in the mall when we were there, which is what prompted me to use this green PP from SU.



I used SU Patterned Papers and some flowers :) I cut out the accent from Cricut Home Decor Cartridge. Title is done using AC Thickers. In Retrospect, I should have used some other color and not Green for Title, but I am happy how the LO turned out.

Here is the Sketch,



Supplies:
Stamp - None
Paper - SU Patterned Paper, Generic White Mat
Ink - PTI Chai Inking Cube
Other - Prima Flowers, Button from stash

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

March 15th - {ippity} Blog Hop

Hello Friends, It is time for another {ippity} Blog Hop. Please stop by at the {ippity} blog to see the complete list of participants.

Please Click here if you want to buy some of these awesome {ippity} stamps :)

I have an LO to share for this blog hop. I used the Sketchy Thursday sketch for this LO.

I used the the branch image and the butterfly from the Devoted set to add some accent to the page. I used the Original Stamp from the Love In Return stamp set to accent the title.

Instead of using a big photo in the sketch, I used this status collage from my face book account. At the end of year 2009, I created this collage of all my past status from face book :) Here are two close up's of the butterfly and the original stamped images. I have put some subtle glitter on the butterfly and branches, but it was kind of hard to capture it on film.



Here is the Sketch that I used,


Supplies:
Stamp - {ippity} Devoted and Love In Return Sets
Paper - Provocraft Vintage Collection, Generic Blue and Kraft CS
Ink - Ranger Distress Inks
Other - AC Felt Thickers, Nestabilities, Felt Flower Ribbon

Sketchy Thursday LO

Hello Friends, I am back to share my Sketchy Thursday LO with you all. These are photos of my mom and my Aunt at my Aunt's home in Connecticut. They have a huge backyard and grow all kind of beautiful flowers and vegetables and what not. So as soon as I saw these photos, I knew I wanted to use some bold flowers Patterned Paper and the Sketchy Thursday Sketch was perfect for it.

Here is my LO,


I love these jotters journaling sheets from Luxe Designs. They are so easy to use and so versatile.

Here is the Sketch,


Supplies:
Stamp - None
Paper - I think Piggy Tales collection (not sure which one though), Jotters from Luxe Designs (this is the journaling tab), Coredinations CS
Ink - None
Other - PTI Scarlett Jewel Vintage Buttons, SU Scallop Punch

Sketchy Thursday and American Crafts Heat Wave Challenge

2nd Post of the day. Please scroll down for the Digital Card Swap Post.

I used the Sketchy Thursday Sketch along with the American Crafts Heat Wave challenge to create a love themed layout using AC Papers.

This is a photo that was take a few years ago on my birthday at my friend's home. I just loved how this photo has turned out and was prefect for this layout.

Here is my LO,


Here is the Sketch,


Supplies:
Stamp - None
Paper - AC Paper from a La Carte Collection, Raspberry Fizz CS from PTI
Ink - None
Other - SU Scalloped Border Punch, Prima Flower, Nestabilities, Chipboard Love Sentiment from Michaels Dollar Section

2-18 Sketchy Thursday LO

Howdy Friends, I wanted to share this layout that I did for Sketchy Thursday. It was a very nice and clean layout. I used these pictures from our Jamaica trip. Kept it simple and easy. :)

Here is the LO,


Here is the Sketch,


Supplies:
Paper - Travel Paper from Cloud 9 and Sandylion
Other - Vacation Rubon from Luxe Designs, buttons from Elise Collection

My LO For Sketchy Thursday

I wanted to share this CAS LO that I did for Sketchy Thursday Challenge. I used some left over paper from my Stash and Coredinations CS for this LO.

Here it is,


These are the pictures we took when we visited Normal Rockwell Museum in MA. It was really fun and I have lot of good memories. These were not the best pictures to scrap..but I wanted to have a page of these photos. :)

Here is the Sketch,


Supplies:
Paper - Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses PP, Coredinations CS
Other - Prima Flower, Fiskars Border Punch.

Family in Orange Orchard

I did this layout for the Sketchy Thursday Sketch Challenge. I used this photo that we had taken in an Orange Orchard near Three Rivers, California. My Parents loved this whole concept of open Orchards and the long neat row of Orange Trees :) I used mostly My Minds Eye Papers for this Layout and some generic CS. I cut out the shaped image from Cricut Storybook Cartridge. It feels nice to be using Cricut again - I guess it is because I am doing lot more LO's now a days. I used felt thickers for the title. I took inspiration from the colors in the photo - Orange, green and browns for the colors of my layout.

Here is the sketch,



Supplies:
Stamp - None
Paper - My Minds Eye DP, Generic CS
Ink - None
Other - Prima Flowers, SU Large Oval Punch, Cricut Storybook Cartridge

{ippity} Blog Hop Time!!

It is Monday and that means {ippity} blog hop time. I was quite excited about today's blog hop and ended up making three sets of cards. So please have some patience to go through my post :). Check out {ippity} blog for the list of all the other participants in this blog hop.

1) I did the first card for the Sketchy Thursday Second Chance Card Sketch. It was so much fun doing this card. I used the Ranger Acrylic Paint Daubers in Metallic colors and drew the lines...I used the Gold, Silver and Copper. I used the white paint dauber on the edge of the kraft paper. The image from Because of you set completed the card,


Here is the Sketch,


2) The second card was done for the Just Us Girls Challenge #16 - Which is a color challenge. I used Scarlett Jewel, Sweet Blush and Vintage Cream CS from PTI and Grey from SU. Kept it simple, but loved how this card turned out.


Here is their Color Challenge,


3) Last but not least, I cut out the Flower Image from the Because Of You set and Paper Pierced it :)



Thanks for taking time to stop by and checking out my cards :)

Supplies:
Stamp - {ippity} Because of You Set
Other - Nestabilities, Cuttlebug

Sketchy Thursday - Card Sketch Challenge

I found a link to Sketchy Thursday from my friend Chris' Blog. I really liked their Second Chance Card Sketch and who can resist the prize of copics.

So without further ado, here is my card,



Here is the sketch,

Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Friends 'Till End, PTI Christmas Friends
Paper - PTI White, PTI Pure Poppy
Ink - PTI Pure Poppy
Other - Stickles