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Hell Night LO- Studio Calico 12/26 Sunday Sketch

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This Sunday Sketch from Studio Calico is going to be one that I refer to time and time again. I love how it allows you to include so many photos, or journaling spots, or just accents with patterned paper.

I used this sketch for a layout that documented our Mystery Meet #7 experience at Hell Night at East Coast Grill. Because it was a food event I was focused on the food, more than that people there. I don’t think they minded any way since we all looked like we were in agony of that heat that the ghost chili oil gave off.

Crate Paper made a line of stickers for Studio Calico that I love. This sticker sheet came in the Candy Shop kit. I used the yellow horizontal sticker and the label from that set. I’ve already used up about 90% of that sheet.

For some reason the red alphas made it their damn mission not to stick to the paper. Typically I encounter that situation on textured paper, but this paper was not textured. Very strange. Hoping it’s just this layout being difficult, and not an issue with the stickers.

Snowloko 2 LO- Studio Calico 1/23 Sunday Sketch

1/23 Sunday Sketch

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This winter has been horrible in Boston. Actually January was the worst. We were pounded with snow storm after snow storm. So I have plenty of photos of snow, snow drifts, being bundled up, etc. As much as I would love to forget this winter it is definitely memorable.

This layout is a dead ringer for this sketch. It worked out perfectly. I wanted to emphasize Price bundled up while showing the snow. Of course the snow is important, but it is rather plan to showcase. So I had my main photo established and the rest were small ones (9 in a 4×6 photo) that told the overall story.

I added more embellishments to use up my stash, as well as create a visual triangle. I had a bunch of Stampin’ Up! rub-ons that I transfered to colored paper so they would pop off the black. I wanted to use the black paper so the white of the snow would stand out against it.

Supplies: Studio Calico’s Solid black sheet of paper, Stampin’ Up! solid color paper, rub-on’s, and glittered brads

Tattoo 3 LO- Studio Calico 1/9 Sunday Sketch



The whole point of a Sunday Sketch from the Studio Calico blog is that is inspires you to be creative. The sketch is to get your juices flowing and get to work. I used the structure and organization of the sketch to assemble my layout. The photos are where the journaling is in the sketch, and the photo and the color block is now the journaling and the photo below it. But if you take a look the essence of the page is still there. 

I’m kinda in love with tags again. I finished up my pack with these 3 that I used for journaling. I have them on my list of “must haves” again. Not high on my list is textured paper, which stickers, in this case alpha stickers, don’t stick well to.

Cara’s First Christmas LO- Studio Calico 2/7 Sunday Sketch

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Years ago, if you would have asked me if I ever would have done pages with 1 photo I would have laughed at you. My pages were filled with pictures because I wanted to be able to look back and see all the pictures we took documenting the event. It’s funny to see how things have changed. I definitely think this is for the better since I have distilled my pages to feature the best pictures, not all pictures.

This page features my niece, who was about 2mo at the time. Cara is such a sweet baby that I wanted to do a page showing her off, showing her first Christmas off. We had plenty of photos of me holding her, which I could have included, but I wanted the feature to be Cara, and not me. I captured my moments with Cara in my journaling, but let the picture I selected show what I was most interested in… Cara.

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Every Year LO- Studio Calico 12/12 Sunday Sketch

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I’ve realized that I have the tendency to rotate sketches. I have no idea why since I do it all the time. It’s not like I only take portait photos or landscape photos, so I need to sketch to adapt to it. I just rotate them. Which is exactly what I did with this sketch.And then I took some design liberties with this, exactly what to do with a sketch!

I have been trying to do more ‘every day’ scrapbooking. I used to just take photos on birthdays, holidays, vacations, etc. But now I take them just because. I even take a photo every day… Project 365! The trick for me is to scrapbook the ones that have a real story to them since there is no way I can scrapbook a LO for every day. I picked this picture from last year because I wanted to note how much I enjoy award show season. I make the experience into a ritual. I truly enjoy watching all the award shows, esp the pre-show, red carpet, show, and any post show recap.

I have been loving my Studio Calico kits that I receive. They often have things I would not typically purchase myself but this has been forcing me to break out of my box and try new things. For one thing, I have never been a big butterfly fan. ( I think Mariah Carey has ruined that for me) but I get them in kits so I have to get over it and appreciate them for what they are… pretty patterned accents.

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Birthday 24 LO- Studio Calico 11/28 Sunday Sketch

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I really struggled with this sketch. Part of the reason that I am just getting to it now, while it was posted at the end of November, errr. I was not sure what to use for photos. I don’t really like to use mini photos, but I have been trying really hard to this past year. So when i recently was unloading my camera I noticed I had photos that would work small and I had enough of them for a LO.

This layout is from my friend Emily’s 24th Birthday from early December. We had a fantastic dinner out at Post 390. We could not decide on what to order to we ordered a lot of little things to share. Dinners out like that are fantastic since we laugh the whole night while enjoying drinks and making amazing plans for our next adventures.

While I struggled with this layout I enjoyed the completed LO because I got so many photos in one layout. I was able to capture everything that we enjoyed for Emily’s birthday. Plus, I really added dimension to my layout with the ribbon and the star pins (from Studio Calico kit) that hold the rolled portion in place.

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Pat’s or Geno’s? LO- Studio Calico 12/19 Sunday Sketch

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Whenever I feel bad about how far behind I am with scrapbooking the latest and greatest events I remind myself that I have done more scrapbooking in the time I have been out of school than all the years (6) that I was in school. So I will do the Studio Calico Sunday Sketches whenever I have the time, I can’t beat myself up that I am like 3 weeks behind. But, damn it, I will catch up one day! ha

This layout is about my first Philly cheese steak in Philly while I was visiting my friend Dawn. I used the orangy patterned paper because it matched the tile on the wall and the french fry container. Then I used some Sassafras stickers and some washi tape to embellish the page.

Garden Girl LO- Studio Calico 12/5 Sunday Sketch

I’m playing catch up with the Studio Calico Sunday Sketches. At this point I just want to do them because they are so cute and inspiring. So I don’t want to brush them aside and move on, which is why I am posting from a layout from a few weeks back.

This layout is of a picture I took of Bunny when I had her outside this past spring. I knew this would be a good layout for this picture because I wanted the picture to stand on its own without a lot of journaling. And in the end it didn’t have any!

The embellishments I used are Entwined Blooms from Sassafras. They, along with the patterned paper, and letter stickers, arrived in my monthly Studio Calico kit. The piece where I put the title is a piece of packaging from Sassafras. I just love their packaging because they actually design it instead of leaving it blank.

Stomp! LO- Studio Calico 11/21 Sunday Sketch

Blog post take 2…

My first post was lost when my internet crapped out when there was a Comcast glitch on Sunday night. And then I spent Monday night doing blog edits hoping that some fairy god mother would jsut gift me a new customized blog. No luck there.

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Anyway, I have finally posted my interpretation of Studio Calico’s Sunday sketch from last week. As usual, I like the blog’s Sunday Sketches since it is fun form of self imposed homework. How can I not like crafty homework? Completing it makes me feel like I am getting things done- 1) the sketch activity 2) another layout in my scrapbook.

I liked this sketch because it emphasized the journaling portion of the page. Since taking Elizabeth Kartchner’s recent online class I have been trying to focus more on capturing the story behind the photos.

All supplies from the October and November Studio Calico Main Kits.

Little Miss Bunny Butt LO- Studio Calico 11/14 Sunday Sketch

I’ve been a little off this week. Very off on my routine of blog posting. Price and I switched our Bedroom with the Office. It was like a mini moving experience, which of course took longer than I expected. Overall, I love the change and I’m glad that made me realize that I have a lot of scrapbooking stuff. So I will be doing a series of giveways in the next few weeks. woo hoo!

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Okay, getting back on track… I did this scrapbooking layout for last week’s Studio Calico Sunday Sketch, but I’m just getting around to posting it now. whoops!

So I had these photos laying around from the summer. Price was brushing Bunny and at some point she accepted she was defeated and let her little tail went down in defeat. Sad on her part, but really adorable. When I saw the sketch I knew this would be perfect for these photos. It’s actaully one snap shot printed 3 times. I’m finally accepting that 1 picture printed multiple times is okay. I actaully really enjoy seeing LO’s with that.

There is a lot going on with this layout, while still being pretty simple. Simple design and implementation but there are a lot of different products used. I used Stampin’ Up! card stock, canvas pieces, butterfly punch, and rhinestone brads; American Crafts Thickers and rub-ons; Tattered Angles Mist; Mister Huey Mist; and some lace that came with Amy Tangerine’s class.

Hipster’s Paradise LO and Studio Calico Weekly Challenge

Scrapbooking and Food… 2 of my favorite things.

 During my March visit to Philadelphia, I had the most incredible breakfast. I went to Philly to see my friend Dawn, who was my neighbor a few years back in Boston. She took me around the city to see some of the typical sights and to have some fantastic food. You can’t go to Philly without having some cheese steaks! But more importantly we went to Darling’s Diner in the complex she lives in on my last day and I had the most amazing French Toast breakfast called “Hipster’s Paradise”. Clearly I would need to document this breakfast bliss.

I’m hooked on my Studio Calico kits. My Oct and Nov kits are spread out all over the living room floor. (Really surprised Price has not flipped out on my yet from it. Yet…) I was really enjoying playing around with the different possibilities for the background paper. I knew it would be a simple layout with 1 picture so I wanted something fun and bright. I matted the photo on a neutral piece of paper so it would stand apart from the bright background. I painted a chipboard accent with Tim Holtz’s crackle paint and then put the page title on that using white Thickers. The crackle looks much better in person than in my photos/scan, trust me.

   

In addition to using Studio Calico kit supplies, I decided I would participate in this week’s challenge posted on the SC blog. The challenge was to use Use any packaging material on your layout. I used the packaging from Sassafras’ Paper Whimsies for my journaling spot.

I’m a Muggle- Studio Calico 11/7 Sunday Sketch

I’m kinda hooked on Studio Calico and everything related to it. I was hesitant to join since I generally think kits are limiting but looking through the past kits and all the fantastic layouts in the member and design team galleries made me see that the kits were a fan way of 1) getting new supplies 2) being involved in a large online scrapbooking community 3) keeping on top of all the scrapbooking I want/need to do.

11/8 Sunday Sketch

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With a monthly kit arriving I would have access to patterned and solid papers, clear rubber stamps, alphabet letters, and embelishments, including chipboard pieces, die cut accents, washi tape, etc. The themes and variety is a lot of fun. But, that is just the main kit! There are add-on kits that you can pick from as well. My budget is not including them right now but I’m still having a blast with the main kit. Plus I have discovered their Sunday Sketch on the Studio Calico blog.

I had fun with this week’s sketch. I had soooo much fun pulling things from the kit and my overall stash. I loved the creamy colored paper from the October “On The Easel” kit so I used that as my background and I pulled the striped paper from the kit as well. I loved the paper’s colors since they went well with the colors in my glasses. The white alphabet letter were also from the kit and I chose them since the white matched the ‘Muggle’ on my shirt. Then the rest is a mix of random trimmings and other things, such as the Indie Girl Flag Banner Stickers and some papers from the Count Me in Wee Bundle I got from Torendi. I sprayed my test strips with some Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist. I’m not sure where the pink letters were picked up from, but the rest was from Stampin’ Up!