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Featured Artist of the Day: Scrapbooking Sketch Challenge

Today's Featured Artist of the Day is Jessica Gallagher!  Jessica took my January Scrapbooking Sketch Challenge, and this is what she came up with!!

I love the intensity on her son's face as he eats!  And I love the clever name of this page.  If you are ever stuck for a title, copy something from someone else - movie titles, book titles, song titles, TV show titles, you name it!!!

Very cute page, Jess!!!  Thanks for playing!!!  If YOU would like to play, too, you still have two days to submit your page.  Check out this link for the sketch and happy scrapping!!

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Sketch Challenge Winner

Congratulations to Maureen Merritt for her winning layout, "explore".  Maureen's layout collected the 66% of the votes in August's Scrapbooking Sketch Challenge and she wins a $10 gift certificate from me!!!!  Here is Maureen's layout, which uses the Hoppy Memories Simply Scrappin Kit, to check out:

 

Sorry for the lack of posts lately.  Last week was a pretty tough week for me.  The kids are now back to school, which is a good thing, but last week was the transition week back into reality, and that is always tough.  And the week ended with my least favorite day of the year, 9/11.  It's a day I would rather forget and still have a hard time reliving.  Another year has gone by, and I still don't think I am ready to deal with the pain and suffering I experienced that day.  I hope you guys understand!!!

The good news is that I hope to be back on track this week and in the weeks to come!!  Looking forward to the new school year and all the adventures it will bring!!!

Watch for some samples from the new digital software from Stampin' Up!, My Digital Studio coming later this week!!

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Featured Artist of the Day - Scrapbook Sketch Challenge

Today's Featured Artist of the Day is Maureen Merritt!  Maureen used the Hoppy Memories Simply Scrappin' Kit by Stampin' Up! to complete her layout.  The colors and the embellishments work great with her photos!!!

Maureen also wrote & told me she didn't want to crop her photos to 3x3, so she kept them at 3-3/4" x 3-3/4".  I think this tiny twist on the sketch is great!!  (I might even like it better than the 3x3!!)

To learn more about this month's Scrapbook Sketch Challenge click on this post.

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Featured Artist of the Day: Scrapbook Sketch Challenge

Today's Featured Artist is Dena Manz.  Dena created this page from photos of when her and her family went to their local fair.  It's a great layout to utilize a lot of photos from one occasion all on one page.  I love how she tweaked the sketch and used a 6x3 rectangular photo in place of 2 3x3s.

Check out the layout and the details of this month's Sketch Challenge, click here.

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Featured Artist of the Day: Scrapbooking Sketch Challenge

Today's Featured Artist is Maureen Merritt.  Maureen scrapped some professional photos of her family taken by a friend of hers.  It's so great how the photographer captured all their personalities in the photos.  Maureen did such a nice job letting the photos speak for themselves, and her scrapbooking did not take away from the photos, yet it also speaks volumes.

(Click on the layout to see a larger version.)

If you would like to take part in this month's sketch challenge, check out this post for all the details!

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Scrapbook Sketch Contest Winner!!

Congratulations to Maureen who has won the June Scrapbook Sketch Contest!!  Here is Maureen's Layout.  For more info, you can check out the original post here.

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Featured Artist of the Day - Scrapbook Sketch Challenge

Today's Featured Artist is Maureen Merritt.  Maureen did another great layout about their family's hikes.  I love her use of the earthy blues, greens, and browns with the pops of red & yellow.  And "Whoo" can resist the adorable chipboard owl (from Stampin' Up!'s On Board So Tweet).

Here is her journaling, a poem about her two little boys:
You are two sweet little boys so loving and kind,
Wild and crazy in every way.

Playing and running side-by-side.
An adventure to fill each new day.

Fighting and laughing, silly and strange,
Brothers and friends forever, I pray!

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Featured Artist of the Day - Scrapbooking Sketch Challenge

Today's Featured Artist is DeeDee Sparks.  DeeDee send along a layout from her visit two years ago to Legoland in California.  She is going back this year and wrote, "We are about to go on this trip again, so it is nice to have the pictures from two years ago on a layout." 

I love her use of color throughout the layout.  Legoland is a colorful place and she was able to use lots of color in her layout without it competing with her photos.  Great job DeeDee!!

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May Scrapbooking Sketch Challenge Winner

Congratulations to Maureen who is the May Scrapbooking Sketch Challenge Winner!!  Maureen submitted the only layout in May, and it's a great one.  Here it is!!

This layout is of Maureen getting engaged.  She wrote in her email how she always scrapbooks her kids (how many of us can relate to that???), but this time she went back to when her & her husband were just dating.

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Scrapbooking Sketch Challenge - Winner!!!

Congratulations to Maureen on her Baltimore layout which was selected as the April Scrapbooking Sketch Challenge Winner!!!  Maureen gathered about 62% of the votes.

Maureen wins a $10 gift certificate from me toward Stampin' Up! product or classes.  Here was Maureen's layout:

See the details on this fabulous page in the original post.

If you would like to participate in May, check back in a few days for the layout!!

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