Early Spring Fever & Flooding

   When I saw this sketch from My Creative Scrapbook I knew what photo I was going to use. 

   Here is my take on the layout. I kept the embellishments to the minimum. 

Supplies: pattern paper (American Crafts and Photo Play Paper), stickers (Fancy Pants Designs and A Beautiful Mess), sequins (SpiegelMom Scraps), journaling card (Becky Higgins and Simple Stories), stitching template ( American Crafts), typewriter (We R Memory Keepers), and embroidery floss

   I love the look of the imperfection of the typewriter has, no matter how many times I strike the wrong key I keep on typing and don't worry over the misspellings. 

   I love the sequin stars raining from the clouds. 

Be Happy A New Range

   Since cooking is a big part of my life and is something that I truly enjoy I thought it was time to document the new oven range we upgraded to two years ago. I used a Let's Get Sketchy March 15 sketch. 

   

   Here is my take on it. I used some old paper scraps on this page. I still love the first collection I ever got from Cosmo Cricket. 

 Supplies: cardstock The Paper Studi), pattern paper (Cosmo Cricket and My Mind's Eye), stickers (Basic Grey, American Crafts, MAMBI and ?), brads (eyelet company and Crate Paper), frame (?), doily (Doodlebug Designs), embroidery floss (We R Memory Keepers), tools (We R Memory Keepers)

   

   I used a bunch of different pattern paper strips to create the diagonal design. 

   I am loving the frame punch board so I can't seem to make a layout without using a frame of some sort. 

Sunday's Best

      The layout I am about to share today originally was going to be about our worst rain in Feb. of 2018 but the papers I decided to use dictated a different path so I had to change photos. I used the Stuck? Sketches Mar. 1 challenge 

   Here is my take, as you can see a rain/flooding picture wouldn't have worked that well with all the colors I chose.

Supplies: cardstock (Bazzill Basics), pattern paper (Fancy Pants Designs and Crate Paper), die cuts (Heidi Swapp, Pretty Little Studio, and Chic Tags), embroidery floss (We R Memory Keepers),  foam squares, foil (Heidi Swapp), tools (Minc), stickers (Fancy Pants Designs and A Beautiful Mess), doily (DoodleBug Designs), and mist (Tattered Angels) 

   The layers here just make me my heart happy. I hand cut the circles and flowers and add some foam adhesive to give it a little dimension. I add a stitched circle to ground the design. 

   The foil butterfly was done with the Minc. I love that machine but wished it didn't draw so much energy, it also causes my lights to flicker. Now I either run during the day so that is the only thing on or a night with a flashlight, aka tablet light. 

Lemon & Custard

   Last month was the yearly making of Packzi, baked filled doughnuts.  I try to document this baking treat every year. It is the only time of the year there are doughnuts in the house. 

Supplies: pattern paper (Crate Paper and American Crafts), stickers (Fancy Pants Designs, Pink Paislee, A Beautiful Mess and Pink Fresh), ephemera (Canvas Corps.), doily (DoodleBug Designs), flair (Clique Kits), die cuts (Pretty Little Studio), frames (Crate Paper and Heidi Swapp), tools sewing machine and Minc) and sequins (SpiegelMom Scraps)

   Here is a closer look. I am loving the mirror stickers.

   I love the splatter, sequins scatter and the mix sewing machine stitching.