Sketch #9: Amanda

Welcome back! We have another fabulous sketch for you this week! Brought to you by Amanda!! The team has some great LO's to show you, and I know for a fact that there are a few more in the works!!
So remember, Sept sponsor is Gelatins! Play along for your chance to win a set of Gelatins stamps!!

Here we go!!

Amanda's Sketch:

Amanda's LO:

I had the gel-a-tins Asian Garden stamp set. I double stamped the grasses in the centre of the layout in olive green and brown and stamped them in olive green around the flowers on the top and bottom of the layout. I also stamped the leaves around the Prima flowers in the centre of the layout onto patterned paper and cut them out for some dimension. The bird stamp is also from the same set.

Allison's LO:

Berries by Allison Cope
I happen to look at my "Asian Garden" stamp set by Gelatins and realized that the flowers appeared to look a little like raspberries; perfect for our little outing picking wild berries in the mountains. So I masked a few flowers off to make them look like raspberries. I also took the leafy branch and printed them all over my label shape at the top on my page. I love the versatility of this stamp set!

Darlene's LO

Let me just say that I'm enjoying using these stamps on my layouts more than I thought I ever would. I've mostly only ever used stamps for cardmaking and it's really made me step outside my comfort zone to incorporate these on my layouts. Again, I wanted to do a border and I thought this flower stamp would be nice to cut around for a scalloped edge. And again I used the leaves to add to my flowers. Thanks again to Gelatins for a great product to work with!

Mel's LO

I had the letter stamps. I stamped them on green paper, cut them into squares and inked the edges with fushia stazon ink. I then added some bling to the D.

Tina's LO
I once again got to use the Gelatins Asian Garden stamps on this. Was determined not to just do the same idea as I did last week... but it worked so well! LOL! 3 colors of grass... blue clouds on pop dots and glittered. Birdie cut out and popped... Added my own sun to complete the look!


Thanks for playing along! You are ROCKING the sketches! Wasn't Allison's sketch a blast to work with? Didn't try it yet? you HAVE to! It's SO much fun!!!

See you next week!! :)

Day 7

Hi everyone!! Are you loving this? I am so enjoying reading about all the team members and seeing everyone's fabulous sketches everyday! Thanks for all the inspiration, girls!!

My name is Amanda. I have been married to my wonderful husband, Kevin, for almost 7 years. I am a SAHM to our 3 kids: Riley, 41/2, Kieran, 3 and Bridget 16 months. I am busy to say the least! Thankfully, Kevin is a wonderful hands-on dad and we live close to most of our family. I am grateful to have such a wonderful support system.

I have been scrapbooking for about four years. It started out as a way to document the life of my eldest son, but quickly turned into a passion. I love that it is a way to tell my family's story but also serves as my creative outlet. I have always enjoyed writing, crafting and photography and love that scrapping allows me to combine them! On particularly crazy days, I am thankful to have a hobby that I am so passionate about...one that allows me to escape for awhile and enjoy time creating. I enjoy trying many different things when I scrap...I love creating a page with clean lines one day and then trying something shabby chic the next. My kids and nieces/nephews give me tons of inspiration and great pictures to work with...I many never catch up, lol!

I have been fortunate to be on several design teams over the past couple of years. I love that I am able to inspire others and my scrapbooking has really grown thanks to these experiences. I am so excited to be part of the LCOM sketch DT!! These girls are all wonderfully talented and I'm honoured to get to work with them!

Please, drop by my blog here :)

Here is my sketch for today:

And here's my take on it. These are two of my beautiful nieces:

Have a great day and be sure to check in with us again tomorrow!