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..

January Sketches Winner

Hi girls, I have chosen a winner for the January prize draw. I saw this idea on a blog somewhere else and thought it was a good one, so I did it too. I printed out everyone's linky pic and cut them all out and placed them in a pot.

Then I rummaged around in it with my eyes shut (everyone else had just left the house, of course, just when you need someone, lol!) and pulled out:

Congratulations Leesa, and thank you everyone for linking up such great pages, I just love them all and I love seeing them up here for added inspiration. Leesa, if you let me know your address I will send you your prize pack. stormscraps (at) live.com.au

Keep up the good work girls, you can still upload January sketch pages for a while yet, so get them done and share them, I love seeing them there and being inspired by your creativity.

There is another pretty prize for February, since I am in the flower making mood :-)  Put up a link to any pages you do from the February sketches and be a follower and you are in the draw :-)

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

Mid Week Sketch 5-12

A little later than mid week, but still not the end of the week.... sorry about that.

Inchies in this one, little one inch works of art or simple decoration, although you could use any other small embellishments instead. It's up to you whether you interpret the circles as double circles or a ring, either would work well. I have also left the journaling space out of this one, and I look forward to seeing where you want to put it - around the circles, in the space under the title, in the place of one of the photos, or somewhere else? And you could put a 4x6 photo instead of the two upright 3x4s... There's room here for a lot of variety I think. Hope you like it.

My sample shows my health conscious son, doing some weight lifting. He had had a broken hand and was trying to build up his (apparently) lazy muscles again. Looked like hard work to me, it hurt my wrists just to watch, lol, but he's always been very strong and resilient. 

Become a follower and link your page to the new February linky before the end of February to go in the draw to win a little RAK from me (picture to follow). 

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