Guest Design Work for My Little Sketch Blook & Some Exciting News From Cri-Kits!!!

Happy Sunday everyone! I hope you are enjoying a peaceful, relaxing weekend! I know I sure am! I have been chillin', scrappin', and catching up on laundry. I am excited about the week ahead...I'm not sure why though. I just feel happy!!! :) Yay! That's always a good thing! Anywho, I have some news to share. I am doing a little guest design team work for a fabulous blog called 'My Little Sketch Blook'. This blog is ran by a lady named Liz and her sketches are phenominal!!!! If you haven't checked it out, please do so. I know I get in a rut every now and then and I love to turn to sketches to help me out. The sketches that Liz creates are some of my fave!!! For today's layout, Liz sent me this sketch to work with...isn't it awesome?! I love how versatile it is! I also really loved how it has 3 pix on it, but it is not too busy. As an artist, I find that I have the hardest time adding more than 1-2 photos on a layout because I fear it will look too busy. But this sketch relieved that fear!!


Here is my layout, "Beach Boy," that I created using the sketch. For this sketch, I followed it pretty closely. I added some cutwork owls (cut from some American Crafts patterned paper) instead of flowers since this page was of my nephew. Although I have used flowers on boy pages before, I just wanted to use the owls on this one. I love these owls! They look so funky and make me smile. The bottom decorative edge on the sketch had my Martha Stewart Loop Border Punch calling my name, so I had to pull it out and use it. I used my sewing machine for the zig zag rectangle as well to secure my decorative ribbon. I used some Helmar Zap Dots to pop some of the owls up for dimension. I also used the Helmar Adhesive Runner for the layout. All patterned paper that you see is American Crafts, as well as the alpha's. The die cut is from Collage Press.
He was so funny at the beach! His hair went all wild and some of the faces he made just cracks me up! Such a silly little boy!

Here is a up close pic to show some of the dimension of the 3-D Zap Dots and ribbon....

Be sure to hop on over to My Little Sketch Blook to check out the other guest designers take on the sketch and for lots of scrappy inspo!!!

Also, I have some awesome news for my fellow Cricut lovers! Cri-Kits, the makers of the fabulosu Cri-Kit Gelly Pens I've been telling yall about, have a FABULOUS new product out....A Cri-Kits Embosser. This new product will allow you to emboss using your Cricut machine! Isn't that just the bees knees?!!! Tee Hee! This new product is going to be so awesome! I cannot wait to get my hands on one and try it out!! These are available for pre-order soon! So keep an eye out!! Oooh, and they have another very special product that they will be announcing soon!!! Yippee! I'll be sure to clue you guys in as soon as they put it up! :)

As always, thanks for stoppin' by my blog! I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend! Happy Scrappin'!