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Happy Birthday Jason LO- Studio Calico 10/17 Sunday Sketch

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Okay, so don’t judge so much… This Studio Calico Sunday Sketch is from October. Aye Aye aye! Well, here it is anyway. 🙂 I did a lot of flipping and flopping when it came to this sketch because I wanted different photos to hold more importance than others, also I wanted the page to feel balanced. I really enjoyed getting to work with photos from our friend Jason’s recent birthday. I have been trying to keep up with my layouts, just maybe not the sketches 😛

I have to admit that since I have been ‘forced’ to use Tickers (alphabet sticker sets) since subscribing to Studio Calico kits, that I have been enjoying them. Alphabet stickers are still not my favorite things because I always run out of the letters I need and I end up with so many damn J, K, Q, X Y, Z, etc left behind. For a long time I only used my Cricut for my tiles so I could get the exact letter, size, paper/ color that I wanted. I now have been embracing the different brands of alphabet stickers, while still going back to my Cricut for some titles.

Supplies (off the top of my head): Cosmo Cricket Pattered paper, American Crafts Thickers, Stampin’ Up Solid Paper, Studio Calico Solid Paper, October Afternoon Shape Stickers

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Fondue Feast LO- Studio Calico 1/16 Sunday Sketch

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I was a bit put off with this sketch because it used such small images. It made sense for the inspirational layout that generated this sketch. But how would I use photos with it. They would be so small and, umm, what the hell is the point then? no? I got over the fear because I realized that this layout would end up being more about the story (journaling) and less about the pictures. So I picked my photos and got to work!

While I made a mini book of our trip to Montreal I decided to do whole page layouts for a few things. I like to document vacations in layouts, as well as mini books, so I pick a few key things to focus a layout on. In this case, I wanted to document our factastic lunch/dinner on 1.1.11. We headed into Crepe Suzette and had some fondue, a dessert crepe, and some VERY strong after dinner coffee drinks. Nothing entirely special about lunch, but I wanted to document it. I wanted to look back and remember how the bloody mary I had was horrible, that it was raining, and we got really buzzed on spikes coffee’s. I just want to remember how we started the new year.

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.