Sale-a-bration Scrapping

More scrapbooking fun ... when time is pinched this really is a time saver for me!

Also really enjoying the Sale-a-bration downloads ... these pages match the previous sets!

This page is inspired from the Valerie Salmons Got Sketch blog. Thank you Valerie!

This sketch is inspired by one on the Julie Bonner blog - thank you Julie!

ScrapSketch17

This week I was inspired to use my FREE Sale-a-bration CD for My Digital Studio ... which has all the wonderful downloads from the Sale-a-bration catalog ... over at the My Digital Studio site to rise to the Scrapsketch17 challenge.

Here is Alesha's Challenge ...

And here is my inspiration ... featuring the Sale-a-bration DSP Ice Cream Parlor and coordinating ribbon and buttons. Also the wonderful beautiful Bliss stamp brush set! which co-ordinates nicely with the Boho Blossom punch set flower to give layering to the flower in the Bliss stamp set.

And of course a little bling with some Pearl accents.

Colour Q 70

Colour Q challenge this week as so pretty - however since I did not have the colours in traditional papers I opted for my trust MDS option!

I was a week behind in getting out my Mojo Monday - however still wanted to play along so the lay out inspired by Challenge 175.
So with the background layer Cameo Coral I layered it with the Poppy Parade and the Love Impressions Folder textured brush stamp in Vanilla with an opacity to help create the illusion of the actual emboss folder.

I than created a 2 1/2 inch circle punch and filled it with Botanical Garden DSP and than applied the Greeting Card Kids with a little heart punch in the Poppy Parada.

The banner in the background was created with the Heart to Heart punch and overlapped hearts filled with a variety of Early Espresso DSP set to a lower opacity so that the Poppy Parade shines through!

Sentiments are from the Filled With Love brush set download!

Sketchy Thursday 1.

This week I tried a different scrapbook challenge over on Sketchy Thursdays which offers up both traditional scrapbooking AND digital scrapbooking inspirations which I thought was neat!

This layout features my Grandpa's 90th birthday party ... he has since passed on to peaceful adventures on other plains and is greatly missed! This layout allowed me to trying out the new Botanical Gardens Designer series Paper and the Build a Cupcake punch... which are currently available in the Occasions mini for traditional paper crafting AND as a My Digital Studio download! Plus they have finally rolled out the Top Note in a My Digital Studio download!

In case you cannot tell ... that skinny thing sitting on the end chair beside my Grandpa is ME just preparing to turn 30 ... oh those were the days - hard to believe that was almost 11 years ago!!!

Inspired by others ...

This is a layout I created after being inspired by the work of Christine Fuson over on My Digital Studio ... she used a similar layout for her MDS content submission ... should have been a winner in my opinion as it is just so COOL!

The wave is created by first creating two square punches and stretching them to fit out a large one on the left side and a smaller rectangle on the right. You fill the left side with your choice of DSP and than the right with the coordinating color. Than you make to circles and stretch them to make the shape of the wave you want and than fill the top one with the solid colour and the bottom one with the DSP and move it around to make it blend and tweak the solid circle to be a nice wave flow. Than decorate your page as desired!

I just LOVE how the medallion stamp goes with this Love Letter designer series paper - like they were made for each other!