'rocketman' :ASC#13 sketch challenge

Good evening everyone! well yes I'm super proud of myself because this will be my SECOND post of the week. I had some extra time on my hands since I came home early from work Tues, and took a sick day today :( According to the Dr it was a 48 HR bug and could have been triggered by stress (gee you THINK?!) or something I ate, plus it's my time of the month...well all that rolled into one basically just made me feel like POOH the last 48hrs, and I finally started feeling more like myself late this afternoon. So I decided to go ahead and get my LO going for the October Sketch Challenge at Artful Delight. I discovered this blog a few weeks back, and have been DROOLING over their monthly kits... especially the October one that just came out. Looks like all the latest products and lines, and I may just have to break down and buy it if I don't win this challenge! LOL! Anyway, here is the inspiration 

sketch by the lovely Ms. Debbie Burns:

As you can see below, I mostly followed the sketch but made my background square smaller, as well as put my journaling on one of the smaller squares. Other than that I stayed pretty true to the sketch. I tried to add some circles around my squares but of course I needed more embellishment near the 'shooting star' part. Here are some pictures:

Here are a few closies of the glittering, stickering, and journaling I did on this page. I really like the way this turned out and it's one of my favorite pictures of my nephew, man he is getting so much bigger than this now!! 

I hope everyone enjoys their weekend.. I know I sure will now that I'm feeling like myself again, and we have Jimmy's /BIG DAY on Friday! Can't wait!!! Should be a very fun weekend :) even though I have to go back to work Sunday, I am hoping to stay inspired this week and get the rest of my little 'house projects' done and another LO or two ;) Until next time my scrappy frandz ~VV

Supplies List:

Paper- Basic Grey Collection 'Lime Rickey' and stickers

Colorbox Chalk Inks in Seafoam, Chestnut, and Chestnut Roan

The Robin's Nest Dew Drops- emerald, pale blue, yellow

Sticko Classic Stickers 'Planets and Stars'

Liquid Glass (used as glue in this case)

Glitter- pale green, emerald, royal blue

Large jewel brad- turquoise from Oriental Trading Co.

white letter stickers- K&Company

Adhesive-tape runner and pop dots

123 challenge: one sweet love

Good evening, everyone! I know it's getting pretty late here and it's probably past my bedtime, but I've spent quite a bit of time lately blog-hopping. I'm really starting to get to know what is out there and what I love the most about the scrapbooking blog community is that is seems we're all sharers, scrap-lifters, inspirational women alike and most of all story tellers. I love all the inspiration I have been getting, and one day I aspire to be as great as some of those other more seasoned scrapbooking ladies out there! Here's to you gals ;)

So I decided that I would try out one of these challenges that I keep reading about everywhere. Since I am currently obsessed with The Purple Pumpkin, I figured I would try their September 123 Challenge. The rules were simple enough, use 1 Lollipop or Flower, 2 Doilies, and 3 Buttons. Easy enough, right? Well this is what I came up with tonight:

 I used my last full sheet and scraps from Basic Grey's "lemonade" line. I absolutely love this line, I bought it last year at a weekend long crop and I have used every single scrap of it!! For the rest of the paper scraps layered under the photo, I used one aqua colored photo mat from the My Mind's Eye 'Home' photo mat collection and then a scrap of craft colored card-stock that I cut into a journaling block. All of the papers I inked with a colorbox chalk in dark brown. I used my creative memories tear tool to tear the long strip of paper and for the aqua paper I tore it by hand on all edges, ripping it in one place which I then wrapped around the barrell of a pencil to make it curl up. I inked all the torn edges really really well to give it that vintage look. 

For the embellishments around the photo, I used 2 doilies and 5 paper flowers all from Prima, the 'love note' and 'sweet taffy brown' collections. On the flower centers I used some  vintage buttons from my stash, as well as 2 pearl brads. To add another element of texture, I added a scrap of pink fuzzy ribbon from my stash as well as 2 brown metal brads to the 'sweet' part of the title. For the bottle cap embellie, that was from an experiment a while back when I was trying to make some kind of necklace. It went awry and I decided not so much for a necklace, but maybe a scrapbook page. It's a regular bottle cap that I put patterned paper in, added some beads, and filled with liquid glass. I decided to use it on this page cause the colors kind of go. The last thing I did to add depth is go over the sticker letters in the title with liquid glass to make them pop. I think it turned out really well overall and only took me about 45 mins to do! That must be a record for me! LOL! Anyway, I am submitting this to the 123 September Challenge over at Purple Pumpkin. It ends September 30th, so you still have a few days if you want to submit something and win a fabulous goodie! 

Until next time my lovely ladies~ VV