Pocket pages 1970's Steve's Book Feb sketch

I have a new Sketches In Thyme Project Life/Pocket page to share. A thought came to me when I joined a few PL groups on FB that what I am doing is not really considered  "Project Life". But I like how the pocket pages have transformed the pictures with the help of little bits here and there I'm proud of the books I've made. And screw the 5 Groh boys if they don't like them. I found this system to be the easiest way for me to put these photos in albums. 

Here's my page for today. I really liked the sketch of the card, which you can see below. My card using the sketch in the middle row right side card. I like that it's crooked and suppose to be that way. The patterned papers are by Making Memories (green, yellow, orange pattern) and Creative Memories (Red paper.)

 Then I had some fun using the Small Talk and Frames Cricut cartridge for the center card. I added some arrows and circles to spice up the pictures. The numbers that are a bold font are by Stampin Up and any other ABC's are by Lawn Fawn.

Thanks for looking.

Sketches In Thyme Project Life Family albums layout

Hello. It's my turn at the Sketches in Thyme Project Life blog (It ended in 2018 but the blog is still up for examples). It's great to get another LO in the books. For my card, I used patterned paper and letter stickers by Making Memories. A border-like stamp, ink, and circle punch by Stampin Up. The edges are outlined with an Autumn Leaves rub-on.

Here's the sketch:

Here's the full layout. Other than the card, I didn't do much but add some corners to a few boxes and labeling with Lawn Fawn stamps. I find that when I pile on a bunch of embellishments it looks too busy, in my opinion. I've seen these grown men look at their book and they are looking at the pictures and not the embellishments. 

I'm going with the plain and simple route so I don't: 

a.) Over obsess the little stuff that nobody is looking at

and

b.) Waste a ton of time doing letter-a.

Have a great day and thanks for looking.

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Sketches in Thyme Project Life

Sorry no Manly Monday this week because it's my day at Sketches in Thyme Project Life. I followed this sketch:

I had these arrow heads from Cricut's Bits and Pieces cartridge left over from a background I made with all arrows. I layered them on top of each other as shown:

I stamped the border stamp from TPC Studio with black Hero Arts ink. The patterned paper is by Creative Memories.

The number stamps are by Lawn Fawn with Hero Arts charcoal ink. The die cuts the numbers are on are also a negative to a Cricut.

Here is the whole page. The small stamps are by Lawn Fawn and the 1971 stamp is by Stampin Up. The white arrows are from the same Cricut backkground as above and the black are from an unknown punch.

Thanks for looking.

Sketches in Thyme Project Life

It's my turn on the Sketches in Thyme Project Life blog using the following sketch:

I'm working on these pocket page (We R Memory Keepers) books for my brothers-in-law. Each boy will gets a book with pictures from their childhood. There are 5 boys. Yes 5. (Ugh!) Therefore, my layouts for these books aren't like uber detailed for two reasons: 

First - I have a deadline and I really want to meet that goal-I'm not sure if it's really possible to get them all done by Christmas but I'll try. 

Second - They're boys and according to my husband, when he looks at a page he doesn't see the same things as I do. He sees the pictures and the memories that go with them not the embellishments. He doesn't like the pages when they're too busy so I keep them plain and simple.

The grid patterned paper is by October Afternoon and the green is by Making Memories. I stamped the train and stars (The Paper Company) and the numbers and letters (Lawn Fawn) with Hero Arts black ink. The arrow and the number 6 are Cricut cuts.

All the different patterned papers on this page are by Making Memories. I circle cut a photo and added some birthday stickers to the right upper card.

Thanks for looking.

Sketches in Thyme Project Life

It's my day to post on the Sketches in Thyme Project Life blog with this weeks sketch.

I followed the sketch almost exactly with some circles that have been stamped with various Tim Holtz, The Paper Company and Inkadinkado stamps. The green ink is by Tsukineko and the blue by Stampin Up.

The layout consists of patterned paper by Making Memories, Little Yellow Bicycle and Die Cuts with a View. The border punch is by EK Success and brown cardstock by Coredinations.

The squares above and below the center picture were made like this:

I pulled out some old CM stickers where the color on the outside square matched my patterned paper but the center did not. There are two sets of squares in the pictures below. One where the dark center comes out as an individual sticker and the other is one whole sticker.

 I cut the square in half

I stamped the blue cardstock 

Punched out a circle 

Covered up the dark orange square with the stamped circles 

And here it is from left to right how I changed something that I had on hand to fit my colors/layout 

Here's a close up the final product on my layout

Thanks for looking

Sketches in Thyme Project Life June

It's my turn to share a layout on the Sketches in Thyme Project Life blog. Since I haven't been able to do much pocket scrapbooking, so I've been using the sketches for small cards on my regular scrapbook layouts. Here is the sketch:

And here is my card:

Here's a rundown of the products I used since I'm low on time today:
Green cardstock by Stampin Up
The border stamp along the sides are stamped  with green Memento ink and the boarder stamp is by The Paper Company
Some of the word stickers are by Little Yellow Bicycle and some are unknown
The epoxy stickers on the border come from Sticko/EK Success

The supplies for the above layout include:
Title by Cricut with cartridge Creative Memories Holiday Frames and Tags

Red cardstock by Recollections

White cardstock unknown

Pre-made border sticker by K and Co

Rub-ons by American Crafts

Snowflake foam stamp by Imaginisce with red paint by Making Memories and red ink by Simon Says Stamp

 Stars and angels unknown

Epoxy stickers by Sticko/EK Success

And here is the left side of the layout:

Thanks for stopping by to take a look.

Sketches in Thyme Project Life May

I here today with my Sketches in Thyme Project Life design team card. The layout is another example of how to use the card sketches for something other than a pocket scrapbooking page. I really struggled with this layout and ended up moving it to the pile of I'm not sure where I'm going with this one. I like how it turned out. I followed the sketch really well.

The cardstock used in the layout: blue by Stampin Up, teal by Provo Craft, cream background paper by Scrapworks, and off white by Recollections. The patterned paper is a 6x6 pad by Studio G that I found at Meijer for a dollar. I've used that and the other pads with different colors and designs on a lot of projects.

The title letter stamps by Stampibilities/The Paper Studio and adventure stamp by Fiskars stamped have been stamped with paint by Making Memories. Both the small letter stamps and Bermuda ink are by Stampin Up. The die cuts are Cricut cuts: the stars are by Art Philosophy, tag by Life's a Beach, and arrow by Bits and Pieces. I used an embossing folder by Fiskars that has been inked with Peacock Feathers distress ink (Ranger). The brad in the tag comes from Close to my Heart.

Thanks for looking.

Sketches in Thyme Project Life

It's my turn at Sketches in Thyme Project Life challenge blog. Here is the sketch and what I did with it:

For my card I started with off white cardstock by Recollections and stamped a dotted square stamp by Fiskars with brown SU ink. I die cut the Die Cuts with a View patterned paper with a Spellbinders rectangle die. I used a Cloud 9 Designs quote stamp for the sentiment and added brown cardstock (Coredinations) corners to the edges. Those edges have been stamped with a Weathered Wall Deep Red Stamps background stamp with brown ink. I added a Jenny Bowlin banner to the card with the baby's name on it. 

 For the rest of the pocket page I used patterned paper by Crate Paper and Die Cuts with a View. I stamped labels on some of the cards with a small alphabet stamp and brown ink both by Stampin Up. I continued to add the brown Weathered Wall stamped image around some of the squares by way of the corners or I used a strip of it on two photos. In the bottom right corner besides the baby's name I stamped Holy Baptism (Mark's Finest Papers) and then the cross (Clear Dollar Stamps) with the same ink and on the same paper.

Thanks for looking.

March Sketches in Thyme Project Life

This month at Sketches in Thyme Project Like our sketch was this one by Emma Pescott.

I did a regular LO with the card in it. The white of the card is sprayed with blue and then red Smooches Spritz by Clearsnap. I used the negative of star die cuts from CM and moved the template a little with each color. I added some Perfect Pearls powder on top of the white cardstock after the spritz dried. I used a very old "Good Times" die cut that I don't know the company but it fit the color theme of my layout. The red and blue stars are chipboard that I painted. The yellow die cuts are by Quickutz on the bottom and then a Circut star on foam tape above. I wrote the journaling with a Copic Multi-liner in black. I hate my handwriting but it's much quicker than using stamps.

 The transparency is by Daisy D's that I attached with Making Memories eyelets. The "2" is a Cricut cut using the Micky font cartridge. The "nd" is a stamp by The Paper Studio with red ink by SU. Finally the star patterned paper is by Die Cuts with a View.

Thanks so much for looking.

Sketches in Thyme Project Life Feb

This week at Sketches in Thyme Project Life we were to follow this sketch:

I followed the sketch loosely starting a Becky Higgins Project Life card. I stamped the letters on the white part of the card are by Lawn Fawn, the other letters are Stampin Up and the postage stamp is by Rubber Stamps of America (That's an old one). I used different colored Stampin Up inks. The journaling at the bottom is written with a green gel pen by CM. It talks about how these cards were left over from the card drive and to use in 2016. 

Then instead of using the tag on a layout or a pocket page I used it on the basket the cards are in. That way come next November I will know what these cards and not have to guess. They say if you tell yourself you will remember such things, you more then likely won't. So here it is on my wire basket. 

It goes to show that these sketches can be used for other things then what they were intended for.

Thanks for looking.