Mid Week Sketch 48-12

This week's sketch is a bit of a cheat... I did it in the wee small hours last week, in a desperate rush to finish the last page for my wedding album in time for my Silver Wedding Anniversary. So I went with the flow of a very nice piece of paper and made it my own. Then I thought, that would make a great sketch, so here you are, hope you enjoy it.

And here's my page: 

I hope you can forgive this one cheat sketch. Usually everything comes straight from my head.

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

Mid Week Sketch 47-12

Oh yes, another late one... I have an excuse, really I do... It was my silver wedding anniversary on the weekend and the run up to it was rather hectic, since I was catering and doing the decorations and looking for a dress, etc. All over now though, and the stuff on the desk has suddenly cleared enough for me to see what else needs to be done.

The reason for all the wedding photos I've been doing lately becomes clear to you now, I guess? I have been doing my wedding album in time for my anniversary. I think it's safe to say that I am happy now to start working on ordinary photos, and not vintage ones for a while! Ah to be that young again though, sigh....

Anyway, here is last week's sketch, and it's matching page:

The rub-on title decided to misbehave and not come off smoothly, but in the end I decided I liked the vaguely vintage look of it.

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

Mid Week Sketch 46-12

No page done for this one yet, but I am itching to get to it so I think it's high on the list of jobs before the week is over. Here is the sketch, hope you like it. (And yes, I know it's another circle. I am in a circley kind of mood apparently.)

And by the way... did you notice how close 46 is to 52? Not many more sketches to do this year.... Can it really only be 6 more and the whole year is done?

And I have finished the page that goes with this sketch, although I flipped mine to suit the flourish better. Flipping, turning and changing things to suit yourself is a good thing. My sketches are all for inspiration, so don't be afraid to fiddle about with them and make them your own.

I haven't done a title on this page. I made it as a double for another page I did for my album, and that one has a large title, so I decided against one for this page.... also, I was doing it at 3am to finish it, and my brain wasn't happy being made to think of one, lol! Next to the other page, it doesn't look like it needs one. Honest. ;-)

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

Mid Week Sketch 45-12

Well, look at this - I'm on time! lol ;-)

I've had a very busy week, but it's also been very refreshing and relaxing and it was easy to get some scrapping done.

I've been digging through some older photos lately and finding some lovely memories to scrap, although I must say the details are a bit foggy sometimes... other times they are really clear and I am transported back in time. That's one of the beauties of scrapping, isn't it? We can capture those memories once and for all, even if it's only a snippet. Capture the stories of our lives and live those little moments again that make us who we are, as a person or a family or community. It doesn't matter when we do it, as long as we get it done.

I'll have to check the "when" of this photo with my husband when he comes home tonight, but the beginning of the story is told.

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

Mid Week Sketch 44-12

Here is our last one for this week and now we are all caught up :-) This one is a pretty easy one, with a couple of layers and then stuff from the stash pulled out and finally used.

Use two 4x6 photos, or a nice big 6x8 or even four 3x4 inch photos.

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

Mid Week Sketch 43-12

Here's is our next catch up sketch, hope you like it :-) If you don't have a 5x7 photo, you could either mat a 4x6 to size, or use two 3.5x5 inch photos together. Use any tallish embellishment at the side to give your layout balance.

And my sample:

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

Mid Week Sketch 42-12

You may have noticed a couple of weeks without sketches... I can explain... but I won't bore you. So this week we are having a catch up. Today is MWS 42. It's a good one for those multi shots you take sometimes, that tell a bigger story.

And here is my sample page, another one for my wedding album (it's almost finished now, yahoo). 

Hope you like this one and that it's useful to you. I will be back with another one tomorrow :-)

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

Mid Week Sketch 41-12

Looking for something to do? How about this sketch? It's for three 4x6 photos - perfect for sport action shots, family groupings, etc. Use up a few coordinating scraps (they're all 3/4 inch wide strips), add a little sugar and spice and and you're good to go.

I'm still doing my page, so I will put it up later - just thought you would like the sketch to be going on with.

Update: And here is that page. It's a great page to use up some coordinating scraps of paper. Some of these have been in my scrap file for quite a while. I had to piece the scallop strip as it was just a little square of pp, but it worked out quite well and it was the right colour, so it had to be done. I love how it turned out.

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

Mid Week Sketch 40-12

I know it's no longer even close to the middle of last week, but oh well, here is the sketch anyway. Hopefully  now that I'm on the mend, my mid weeks will be back to normal. In the meantime, Josie Dean has kindly done a sample page for me for this week's sketch :-) Check out Josie's blog to see all the other wonderful work she does.

Only a few more days and the next one will be up - doesn't time fly when you are running late? LOL ;-)

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

Mid Week Sketch 39-12

This week's sketch is for three 3x4 photos... or two 4.5 x 4, or one 4x6 and one 3x4. What do you have on hand to scrap? Any of the above will work. It's a cheerful kind of layout, and it would work well with some masking, stamping,misting or paint rings on the background, if you like that sort of thing. Don't forget to share your page in the link so I can leave you some love.

No sample page from me this week as I am not feeling 100% and there is no scrapping happening here. :-(

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

Mid Week Sketch 38-12

Hi girls. A bit late (where have you heard that before...) but here is our sketch this week. If you don't have a large photo, you can mat a 4x6 or cut down two 4x6 photos to 3.5 x 5 inches - just do what suits you best.

And here is my sample - another page for my wedding album. We will be having our 25th wedding anniversary in November so I am trying to get my wedding album scrapped at last! 

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

Mid Week Sketch 37-12

Hi everyone, hope your week is going along nicely for you without too much drama. I have a nice clean sketch for you this week, with just a few easy layers and some nice easy embellishing. And it's suitable for boys - bonus!

Instead of the boat, you can put any embellishment you want of course, and change the whole feel of the page with your choice. Should be fun to see what everyone comes up with. 

We also have some inchies down the side to make if you are interested. Inchies are cute little one inch squares all decorated in whatever way you like to suit your page. I love them, they are like mini (very mini) canvases and you can make them vintage, bright, beachy or whatever, and use up all sorts of little bits and pieces on them - charms, teeny bits of pretty ribbon or lace, mirror squares, buttons, leftover bits and bobs... whatever you like or have on hand - it all looks good :-) 

Here is my page, finally getting around to scrapping Sam, who is now walking. Ooopsie... just a bit behind there... There's nothing like babies and children growing to really bring home the passage of time.

I made my inchies on white cs as a background, then cut the pps 7/8 of an inch. I liked the look so much I decided to outline all my embellishments and the title too, in a narrow border of white cs. It was easy, just cut the pp and stick it on the white and cut around. I think it lifted my page nicely. I have to tell you it's much brighter than this photo... it was a dull day here and I can never get a good photo on a dull day.

Love my new alphabet die from My Favorite Things (MFT), it's so neat and chunky and easy on the eyes. The notepaper edge is one of their dies too - so handy.

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

Mid Week Sketch 36-12

The first sketch of Spring! Um... hmm... should have scrapped a Springy page to go with it, LOL... oopsie. I actually scrapped a companion page to last week's sketch. Oh well, the last of winter and the first of spring go nicely together in their autumn colours in prints that remind me of lazy summer days and faded picnic linens.

Here is the sketch, and you will see why it goes so well with last week's one.

And here's my page, the other half of a double, using last week's sketch and this. Scrappy is part of the title of the whole, which is Scrappy Friends.

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