Sketches in Thyme Design Team Post!!

Hello All! I am so very excited to be able to announce that I was chosen to be a part of the talented Sketches in Thyme design team!! I have always wanted to design for a sketch challenge blog, so this is very fun for me. Sketches in Thyme has some wonderful sketches that you will LOVE! Be sure to head over and check out what the rest of the talented design team has cooked up for you and play along! Today we are working with sketch # 92 and here is my project:

 Here is the sketch I had to work with- a really fun one this week:

I used the new American Crafts Pumpkin Patch line. I have had a hard time finding good autumn/fall themed papers that I liked this year, so I was happy when I found this line. I think it went with my cute photo of my nephew Sevyn perfectly. I cut a gear shape from the Elegant Edges cart (instead of a circle) because I thought it was more 'boy'. Kept the gear theme with the smaller circle and the border. One thing that I love about American Crafts is they have those matching border strips on all of their papers. I used one over my border piece- it also covered up some background in the photo that I didn't really like :)

I used two different font cartridges (Opposites Attract and Alphalicious) along with some letter stickers from Echo Park to make my title. I like that this sketch allows for a longer title if you need one.

I had a lot of fun layering some little clusters around the page using the coordinating stickers from the line. I absolutely LOVE this burlap ticket- I need 20 more of these!

Some more layering and a better look at the border strip that I added...

My last cluster- when you have coordinating products like this it makes quick and easy work of embellishing a layout.

I hope you have enjoyed my project today, and thank you for stopping by! Be sure to stop by Sketches in Thyme as well and join in on the fun!!

Also linking up with the November Linky Party at Everyday is an Occasion!

Bark in the Park

Good morning crafty friends! I created this layout as an application for the Patches of Pink design team. I hope they like it! My husband and I had some photos taken in a park with our fur-kids last fall. I wanted to do a project with some of the photos of our boxers, Cash and June. Here is my layout:

 All of the paper (including the kraft) is from American Crafts. I fussy cut some of the borders from patterned papers. I had been wanting to do a project with kraft paper and misting with white opaque paint, but I couldn't find any. I decided to create my own with a mini mister and some acrylic paint mixed with water. Not sure how successful I was, lol, but I did get some paint on the paper! I kept adding water until the mister would spray, but it still came out more in glops, then mist, but it worked! I might have to keep experimenting with that one! As for the rest, the flowers are American Crafts, the title is cut from Alphalicious, and the buttons are from my local craft store with twine from We R. I think that covers it! I hope you enjoy my project, and wish me luck!!

Cooking with Cricut challenge #57: Scarecrows, Hay, Crows and Sketches

It's time for another Cooking with Cricut challenge! This was a fun one! As you all know I LOVE Fall and I just acquired the Simply Scarecrow cart (this one is a must-have! So many cute cuts...) and I'm happy anytime I get to use it! This week we were provided another cute sketch to utilize. I switched this one up just a bit- I had a 4x6 vertical photo I wanted to use so I flipped the mat up and down. And I added a big pumpkin (also cut with the Simply Scarecrow cart) for the background. All the paper on the project is from the Bo Bunny Forever Fall line. I think I have made 3 projects from this line so far- such great Fall colors and images. After cutting the images out, I inked the corn stalk with some Tim Holtz distress ink, placed buttons for eyes on my scarecrow guy and added some raffia to give that feel of real hay. I've attached a closeup of my scarecrow so you can see. I cut the title using Alphalicious. One last thing- I was having a real hard time coming up with a title for this page. I wanted something cute that matched the picture of my hubby and our boxer, Cash. Well, I hopped on over to Scrapbook Eden and found the perfect title! There are a lot of great resources and tutorials on this site- you should definitely check it out!
Here is the sketch we were provided to use for this week's project:

Here is my finished project:

Here is a closeup of the scarecrow:

Thanks for visiting! Can't wait to see the fun Fall goodies you all will cook up!