From this moment

I loved this week's sketch a at Sketch Inspiration as soon as I saw it. I wanted to use it for Challenge#13 at Let's Scrap Our Stash, but it was a monochromatic challenge, and that's not the feel I wanted for this photo, so, Challenge#13 is still part of my to-do list. 

List of supplies

Patterned paper: Creative Imaginations

Rub-ons: Basic Grey, Karen Foster

Stickers: EK Success

Brads: K & Company

Ribbon: JBS kit

Mini alphabet: Lily Bee Designs

Glue: Glue Glider Pro, Making Memories

Two cards, same sketch

The party goes on at Practical Scrappers! Today, we are showing pairs of cards that share a common feature, and that feature has to be exactly the same. I created two cards that are very different but share the same Pagemaps sketch.

Here they are separated for a closer look:

Today there's also a fabulous giveaway and the first two elements in the week-long recipe contest have been posted: cardstock and patterned paper. This contest is going to be lots of fun, so I am playing! If you want to know how to play, click here for instructions.

More Echo Park

More Echo Park For The Record today, as I worked on the page that will go next to yesterday's in the album. I was looking for a sketch to work on this, and Pencillines had the perfect one! They were really similar and matched perfectly. The pics are from a trip to Stockholm we took two years ago, in the middle of summer. DD was so excited to see some green plants (everything dies in the Libyan summer) that she started kissing the trees! I'm so happy I captured that moment, as it tells what we always felt when we saw green. Now we're on this green island, we may forget what it feels like, though we haven't lost the feeling of wonder yet. 

I also made this for the Scrap our Stash challenge #1 at Let's Scrap. As required, it has two different colour ribbons, three metal elements, and I used 3 punches. I love the antennae on this butterfly:

If I continue using three or four metal elements per LO, Brenda Sue will have  a new order quite soon! The next pic is a close-up of the title:

I love how that metal bow looks on the flower! I still have enough For The Record paper for some cards and maybe even another LO, so you may see more of it in the near future!

Cosmo Cricket Challenge

After a lovely day at the beach yesterday, it's been raining all day long today, so our hiking plans have become movie plans. While DH and DD watched Toy Story (they've been so good today, leaving me time to play!!!), I prepared this layout for the Cosmo Cricket "Wanna get published" challenge. I do know the chances of getting published are slim indeed, with so many people submitting gorgeous stuff, but I've had these papers for a few weeks now and had even printed the picture I wanted to scrap with them when I read about this challenge, so I decided to play along.

The LO is called THE PICTURE, and it tells the story of this photo I really wanted to take with the pyramids behind us, and the only way to get it was riding a camel, which I hated every minute of!