More Praise for my 'Soulful Lady' layout...

I can't believe I won the drawing again over at Purple Pumpkin! So glad I entered their monthly sketch challenge at the last minute. I haven't played over there in a while and this will be the 3rd time I have won something! It's great to get free Purple Pumpkin goodies isn't it? Here's the complete post from their blog, check it out( the other layouts are stunning as well!)

Hello ladies!

Thank you ALL so much for playing along with us and inspire us with your beautiful work!!!

We had a lot of awesome entries!!!

So.......

The design team has voted and our winner is.......................

 10. Stephanie

We loved your take on the sketch, the scattered leaves and arrows!
So simple and beautiful!! Great work!!

Huge congrats! You have won $25 to spend in the Purple Pumpkin shop. 
Just place your order as normal and put "August Winner" in the comments. (The amount won't come off your order automatically, but just take the $25 off your total :)) 

Please send an email to "vartig12(at)yahoo.com" if you wish to be our guest designer for next month's sketch!!! In the subject line write "PP Sketch winner"! Thank you!!xx

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 14. Katie Holli

Now, our Random Winner is this gorgeous layout by Katie. Congrats!!! You have won $15 to spend in the Purple Pumpkin shop. Just place your order as normal and put "August Random Winner" in the comments. (The amount won't come off your order automatically, but just take the $15 off your total :))

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Featured layouts!!

And as always, we are featuring a few layouts that have caught our eye!!!!

 8. lydia

 19. ioanna 


 18. Christina Lampropoulou

Thanks again to everyone who entered the August Sketch Challenge. For more chances to win, make sure you enter the September challenge too!...and remember......may the best entry win!!!

Have a nice creative day!!xx

CSI Case File #85 + PP August Sketch Challenge

Hi lovelies! I am popping by today to show you a non-DT related layout that I finished last night. I have really been trying to get alot of creative things done so I was able to do 2 pages on 2 different nights, which isn't that bad considering I had a lot else to do. I cleaned the whole house back to front, and had a few errands to run. The only thing that's left for hubby to finish today is laundry (which is my least favorite house chore). I am hoping I can keep the creative juices following this weekend as I have all late work shifts so I can stay up later and sleep in later the next day. Then I have Monday/Tuesday off with hubby and we have a fun pizza pub/ bingo date planned for Monday night. I'm excited!! Ok, enough blabber, on with the pictures!

I used the color palette and inspiration from CSI Case File #85. For my evidence I used labels/tags/something clear/decorative buttons/string/frame and for Testimony I used journal on a tag/ handwrite a story.

I also used this month's sketch from Purple Pumpkin. I rotated the sketch and used twine and some buttons from PP.

Here is what I came up with: 

I apologize for the not so great photos. I took these this morning on our coffee table cause the light was pretty bright in there but they turned out kinda weird once I tried to edit them. Only light on half of the photo! So sorry about that!

 Here are some close ups of my clusters. 

 This one is my favorite!

I have to get going, back to work for a few days...I will be back later to add my supply list and stuff. Hope you enjoyed my share today! Have a good one! ~VV