March's First Challenge

Hello!
Let's Get Sketchy's March Week 1 sketch designed by Brenshevia was one of my inspirations for this layout.  
Triangles are going to be used in some form all month long over at LGS.   
What fun! 
The other inspiration was over at Scrap Our Stash 's March  Book Challenge. 
      The Challenge:

Create a layout inspired by the BOOK COVER.. 

You are allowed to use anything from the cover that inspires you,

for instance, the banner, the colors, title, etc.

AND...you must include GOLD embellishments and/or GOLD alphas
on your layout!

The photo on the layout is of my daughter, Ashley,  on our family vacation to Bald Head Island.  
A very beautiful place!

Brenshevia Sketch

Scrap Our Stash Book Inspiration

Beautiful Memories by Lisa

Here are some close-ups

Embellished the butterflies with BoBunny gold jewels

Added gold stars for some bling!

Layering of  pattern paper (The Paper Studio: Beach House) triangles (banner)

Added some gold hearts and a banner

Materials

Thank you for dropping by and for all your lovely comments!

Looking forward to seeing everyone else's take on Brenshevia's sketch and Scrap Our Stash Book Challenge!

All You Need is Love & a Dog

Hello!

This week's layout was inspired by Let's Get Sketchy February Week 5's Challenge designed by Brenshevia .   
I  also was inspired by the  ARTastic  Challenge for March.  They are featuring a really quirky artwork on wood veneer by                           Mia Taninaka called,  "Oh The Wise One".  
These two challenges were really a lot of fun!  Thank you for all your inspiration!

Brenshevia Sketch

Mia Taninaka   "Oh The Wise One"

Inspired by Mia's use of colors, feathers, and the wooden background.

Also the bone (doggy).

Love and A Dog By Lisa

Close-ups

KaiserCraft card stock,  Base Coat Collection,   for the wood inspiration.

Used Graphic 45's "Olde Curiosity Shoppe Collection" Bazaar Of Wonders.  

Inspired by the feathers in Mia's Owl artwork.

Used wood embellishments; hearts, birds, and mason jar

Fussy cut and layered Graphic 45's "Time To Flourish Collection"  June Flourish

Thank you for dropping by and for all the wonderful comments you have been leaving!  

Happy fourth Birthday to Let's Get Sketchy!  Looking forward to all your inspiring sketches!

February Week 4 Challenge

Hi!
Here comes my second layout of the year using a photo that friends sent as their Christmas card.  The picture is of our neighbors Ken and Suzanne's 3 beautiful daughters, Katie, Erin and Ashlyn in 2008.  Over at ScrapMuch?  they are having a February Color Challenge which helped bring about the colors I used in my layout.  I was also inspired by Let's Get Sketchy 's February Week 4's challenge designed by Sarah King.  Loved all the layering!  But the first thing that popped out about this sketch was the circles!  So I went looking for everything circles.  Circle and polk a dot papers, circle stickers and circle die cuts.  
Even the border around the photo had circles!  
It was a lot of fun going around in circles!

Sarah King's Sketch                                                    ScrapMuch?

                                                                                                                         

Cuties by Lisa

Some Close-ups

Tip:  To make stickers more prominent, layer them with some background paper.

Materials

Thank you so much for dropping by.  I always look forward to reading your lovely comments and going over to everyone else's blogs to see their take on the sketch.

February's Second Challenge

Hello again!  
Love this week's Let's Get Sketchy  challenge designed by Bev Code .  I also combined it with  the
Lasting Memories #279 " The Blues" Challenge.   
One of our family summer vacations was to Lake Tahoe.  A very beautiful place where you feel like you can touch the clouds!  We all went on a boat ride one day where my son, Sky and my daughter, Ashley did parasailing.  This layout is of Sky's turn. 
 Hence the title "Sky High"  
 A very fun day I will always remember!

Bev Code's Sketch

Sky High by Lisa

                               
It looked like there were fingerprints on the background of the sketch so I used my fingers with different color inks to make clouds.

     Here are some close-ups

Tip:  I did not have enough letters of one brand for the title so I used a combination of three different brands. 

 I actually think it made the title more interesting. 

Loved using Jolee's boutique 3D boat and Vellum Waves to add dimension 

Materials

Thank you for stopping by and for all the lovely comments!

February's First Challenges

Hi!

Been having a tough week and so I am a little behind. This week's layout was inspired by

Let's Get Sketchy Week 1 challenge that was designed by Brenshevia.  I am also doing the

Challenge YourSelf #26 : "One Little Word".  My one little word for 2016 is Memories.  I plan to scrapbook old and new memories all year long! Another challenge is at DoubleClickSkittles #41 "Use a Heart" On the layout I used a laser cut heart from BoBunny and a clear stamp of tiny hearts from Stampabilities "Our Wedding". 

The photo on my layout is of mother (me) and daughter (Ashley) strolling hand and hand on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade.      Which is right by the Brooklyn Bridge with views of Lower Manhattan and the New York Harbor.                                                                                   A lovely place for a afternoon walk.

Brenshevia's Sketch

Memories by Lisa

Here are some close-ups

Materials

Thank you for dropping by and for all your lovely comments you have left on my other posts!  I really appreciate all of them.  

January Week 3 Challenges

Hello!

Hope everyone is keeping warm!  Winter is here!  January is just flying by and it's already time for week 3 challenges.  My layout is inspired by Let's Get Sketchy 's January Week 3 Challenge designed by Jesse and 

The Studio Challenges -Pattern Background Paper.  Also Challenge YourSelf #25 "Anything Goes" 

 In this layout the photo is of myself holding my daughter, Ashley. She is wearing the cutest winter hat!  (That I still have)  on a snowy night in New Hampshire.   I really miss those days! 

Jesse's Sketch

Baby It's Cold Outside by Lisa

Some Close-Ups

 Materials

Thank you for dropping by and for all the lovely comments everyone leaves!  

Happy New Year! 2016

Hello! 

Hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday and are looking forward to the New Year!  My very first layout of the year is inspired by   Let's Get Sketchy's January Week 1 challenge designed by  Sarah King.   And also by  The Studio Challenges  "Hopes And Dreams" .  
When it came to the sketch I decided to flip it.  For the Hopes of 2016 I am hoping to do layouts with photos that my family and friends have sent to me over the years.  This first layout has two photos from two different Christmases that my brother, Michael and my sister-in-law, JoAnn sent to me of their dog, Daisy.  I hope they are going to like it!

Sarah King's Sketch

Daisy by Lisa

Some Close-ups

Thank you so much for dropping by and Happy New Year again!

Let's have a very creative year!