Mid Week Sketch 16-12

OK, so the Mid Week Sketch has been a bit like someone on holiday lately, getting up later and later each day till they end up on the last day just staying in their pjs all day... The end of the week is here and so is, finally, this week's sketch. Next week back to work, dressed and ready to go bright and early with makeup on and all. ;-)

Here is my sample page, with a bit of added stitching: 

and here is Sarah's page: 

Sarah is on the Creative Design Team at Home and Scrapped. Go visit her blog Time To Myself and see what else she has been up to. 

love Heather x ..always be a little kinder than necessary..

Mid Week Sketch 15-12

Can you believe another week has whipped by? I am really noticing the passage of this year, with doing a sketch every Wednesday. At least it's a good way to mark the passage of time, and a satisfying way to tick off the weeks. There are plenty of other ways that wouldn't thrill me nearly as much.

This week, Sarah from the DT at Home and Scrapped has made an example page for the sketch. Sarah has a great style, young and funky. Check out her blog Time To Myself for some fresh inspiration.

Here is the sketch for this week. You can team this up with last week's sketch for a double layout if you like - that's what I've done. They will both happily stand alone too. It's another good one for shopping your stash and using up some scrappy bits and pieces. Hope to see lots of lovely links :-)

Here is my example page:

And here is Sarah's example:

Until next Wednesday, enjoy your week and have some fun scrapping and being creative.

love Heather x ..always be a little kinder than necessary..

Mid Week Sketch 14-12

Here we are at week 14. It's interesting doing a sketch every week and seeing how fast the weeks whip by and it's Mid Week yet again. At least I am marking my weeks by doing at least one page. How are you liking the sketches? Enjoying them? Please feel free to leave me a comment, and let me know if you would like a sketch for something in particular, like 3 landscapes or a 5x7 or whatever. Would love to do one for you.

love Heather x ..always be a little kinder than necessary..

March Prize Winner

It was a bit of a quiet month for entries for the prize, so I decided to play knucklebones with the three entries instead of using my hat, just for some fun :-) Here is the result:

Congratulations Jewels, and thanks for joining in. That means that the last two flower packs have been won by Scrappers from Canada, how fabulous is that? I hope you love your flowers when they arrive. 

love Heather x ..always be a little kinder than necessary..

Mid Week Sketch 13-12

OK, so it's a little past mid week... almost the weekend in fact, lol. You weren't going to actually scrap this on Wednesday night anyway, were you? Hope you think it's worth the wait :-)

And my example, which I love. You might think that I choose my photos and design a sketch for them, but I just do my sketching and then look for photos, so I am working the same way you are. Always a thrill when it works as well as this one. I hope you like it too. Wouldn't it make a nice one for a Mother's Day layout?

love Heather x ..always be a little kinder than necessary..

Mid Week Sketch 12-12

I have a double for you this week. One of my regular readers recently requested a multi-photo double and I am happy to oblige when I can, so here it is :-)

Photos of my two darlings lolling about during the Christmas holidays. Layout done almost entirely with scraps and things already precut. I love being able to use up some bits that need a home. In fact, I'm trying to do that a lot this year. 

I have designed this layout so that you can also separate the two halves if you don't have enough photos to do a double. You could also use two larger photos on the left hand side, if that's what you have. Mix it up and make it yours. Get creative and have some fun. 

love Heather x ..always be a little kinder than necessary..

Forgotten Bits

Goodness, three forgotten bits for the month and we're almost half way through already... sorry girls.

First, I forgot to make an InLinkz doovalacky for you all for March, but that is now in place on the side bar so you can share away as much as you like  :-)

Then I realised that I haven't drawn February's random draw winner from all the beautiful pages that you shared in February {{ooopsie}} I have written all the numbers on little pieces of paper, folded them and tossed them in a basket (no hats in sight...) and then dug my hand it to pull out: number 11 - Charlotte Brochu. Congratulations Charlotte, send me your address and I'll post off your flower pack :-) And congratulations to everyone else, you have done some absolutely beautiful pages and I just love seeing them all. I really appreciate you using my sketches and sharing your work on your blogs.

And then, there is the little matter of adding March's pretty prize to show you what you might win if you're the lucky one this month. To be in the draw you have to be one of my lovely followers, and make a page from one of the March sketches and link it here. So here it is, hope you like it.

The prize is a pack of paper flowers, leaves and doilies and a cute butterfly, all handmade by me with quality scrapbooking papers and the help of some pretty dies and punches. Don't you just love those little apple blossom type flowers? They're my new ones.  :-)  If you like what you see here, check out my Made It page, where I have lots of packs for sale in a rainbow of colours and in several sizes.


love Heather x ..always be a little kinder than necessary..

Mid Week Sketch 11-12

Here is a great sketch for a quick page when you don't have very much time. We all have moments when we want need to create but there are other things pressing on us from all directions. Throw this one together in between other commitments or in a one hour slot (that's how long it took me, in amongst phone calls, after school snacks and getting ready for date night with DH). Hope it works for you too.

Please feel free to leave me some feedback or a comment, I love to hear from you and will take requests :-)


Until next week girls, happy scrapping :-)


love Heather x ..always be a little kinder than necessary..

Mid Week Sketch 10-12

Mid week again - there's nothing like a regular once a week event to make you realise that we are slipping through the year - March already! For me in Australia, that means it's officially Autumn, although it might take a while to actually feel like it in Brisbane. It doesn't matter, every season is good for creativity, and there is always something to inspire the juices to flow, no matter what the weather.

My sketch this week is for 2 landscape orientation photos, or for one large portrait photo. Or maybe 4 smaller ones... I used two that were taken when my son came for Christmas, although as you can see, I didn't opt for Christmassy colours at all :-)

Hope you like my sketch. Come back next week for another one :-)

love Heather x ..always be a little kinder than necessary.

Mid Week Sketch 9-12

Here is a pretty sketch for you, nice and easy and with Twinchies down the side (2 inch pieces of art you can create any way you like), just for some added fun. If you haven't done Twinchies before, just google some Twinchie images and you will get the idea.

And here is the gorgeous layout sample, from Home and Scrapped DT member Jewels:

Have fun :-)

love Heather x ..always be a little kinder than necessary..

Mid Week Sketch 8-12

A nice little sketch today for 2 small landscape orientation photos - or use one larger portrait one if that's what you have. There is plenty of scope for some nice embellishing, and you can put in a little stitching for some visual texture too.

And my sample, taken in bad lighting because the baby cried half the day and I couldn't get to it in daylight... 

I'm loving those little stitches I did... might do a little tutorial for them tomorrow (in good light, lol).

And here is a page from Sarah, one of the wonderful Creative Design Team members at Home and Scrapped, the bestest little scrapbooking forum on the internet:

love Heather x ..always be a little kinder than necessary..

Mid Week Sketch 7-12

Another week, another sketch :-) This one is pretty quickly put together with some bits and pieces you might have laying about the scrap stash, and with a little bit of white space you can either use a pretty background paper or do a little misting for something a bit different. Use the 2 photos as suggested, or one 4x6. Hope you like it.

And here's my sample page. It's one of those one's I'm not entirely happy with, because the photos are too dark really, but I liked them anyway. They can't all be perfect I guess, and sometimes you just want to use them anyway. It's not a great photo either, the flowers came out too blue compared to the real thing, but oh well... you get days like that... having said all that, lol, here it is:

Link your page and be a follower to go in this month's prize draw :-) 
love Heather x ..always be a little kinder than necessary..

Mid Week Sketch 6-12

I know, a day late again... just couldn't make it happen yesterday. Hope you think it's worth the wait :-)

Love pink and orange together, and I kind of hoard bits of pink and orange paper. I don't have much, but I can be a bit reluctant to use them sometimes. Do you ever do that? I am trying to get over it and use the bits I love, otherwise what's the point of having them? LOL... silly I know. Anyway, here is my sample page, with some pink and orange to brighten my day. 

love Heather x ..always be a little kinder than necessary..