Heart 2 Heart Challenge, Week 19

This week the Heart 2 Heart Challenge is a sketch challenge.  We have to take this sketch and make it our own.  Be sure to check out the other projects here. 

I decide to make a scrapbook page so here it is:

And since I tend to make double layouts, I came up with a page to go with it.

The second page is very similar to the sketch as well.  It looks like I just turned it upside down and added another circle.  Complete accident, I assure you. 

I used the blue patterned paper from our Moon Doggie paper pack and the striped paper is from a retired pack called Free Spirit.
I kept the pages fairly simple so that the pictures could shine through.  I took these pictures the day we visited the Myall Sand Dunes.  What an incredible place.
I sanded all the Indian Corn Blue cardstock and the edges of the striped paper.  I also lightly sanded the edges of the pictures. 

I made the little title tags by covering CTMH dimensional elements with Indian Corn Blue cardstock.  I used a couple of the book plate DEs for the tags.  I stamped the "Life is good" with ICB ink.  The stamp is from the Treetops stamp set.  I hand wrote on the other tag with an ICB marker. 

 
Thanks for looking!

2009 is finished!

I have finished my 2009 albums. This is huge for me! Granted, I am nowhere near caught up. Nothing before 2009 is finished, but at least 2009 is!
2009 fills two 2 inch albums.



There are just too many layouts to share, but I thought I would share my all-time favorite 2009 traditional layout and my favorite 2009 Studio J layout.

My favorite traditional 2009 layout:

It's a hard choice, but for some reason, I just really love this layout. It features my middle son Tom and our chickens. I used the Twitterpated paper and our Posterboard alphabet.

For 2009, all the Studio J layouts that I completed are from our trip to Australia. I just needed to get these done and Studio J was a great way to get them all done!

It's almost impossible to tell that the Studio J layout was not a layout that I pieced together by hand, but one that I created on a computer. Love it!