Second Chance Challenge - Sketchy Thursdays

OK, I'm on a roll creating for myself today with the help of Sketchy Thursdays who has teamed up with the Jingle Belles!  I haven't written two posts in the same week much less the same day in some time!

The ladies at Jingle Belles Rock came up with a great idea of creating Christmas cards using their sketches all year long! Not sure if I can participate consistently but sure would be awesome if I could so that I would have all my Christmas cards ready for the 2011 Christmas holiday!

Go HERE to learn more and play along with the challenge if you can!

The Sketch to follow

And here is my submission using some of my favorite papers and stamp for sentiment from the girls' paperie designed by Margie Romney-Aslett

Layout Help from Sketchy Thursdays

Hi there! Hope you had a great Valentine's Day week and that you are looking forward to this coming week, I suppose I am although I'm not ready to start my work week, lol.

I've mentioned previously that layouts don't come easy to me, I started out as a stamper, card maker, mixed media and mini album maker.  Over the last year and a half I have been trying my hand at layouts but they don't come easy!  I'm amazed at how creative some women are with their layouts and am also learning that many of them go to others for help.  Well, this week I went to Sketchy Thursday's blog which you can find HERE for help.  They offer layout designs to use as a basis when doing your layouts, love it and saw some items that others had used and realized that they too must have used ST!

So, with all that said here is my layout using this months Girls Loft monthly kit and I think it turned out perfect if I do say so myself!!  The papers used are from My Mind's Eye Lost & Found line, lovely! Here is the link to the actual post for this layout design HERE challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!