Ad inspired...

As I mentioned yesterday (I think it was yesterday) at my doctor's visit I had a chance to peruse several magazines and MAN did I get a great eye full! Some great sketches were ad inspired. The one earlier today was (well, sort of) and here's another.

November is here!

I love November. I'm not sure why, and it's surely not my favorite month or season, but November makes me happy. I suppose it's because my mom's birthday was in November and Daddy always made a big deal out of celebrating her day. My best friend's birthday is in November and one of my other's (yes I have three best friends) mom had a birthday in November. Crazy, right!

So, in honor of birthdays, when tons of pictures are taken, and you know how hard it is to choose just one, I bring you this multi-photo two page layout.

The left side and part of the right calls for a single photo printed on vellum for a dreamy effect. Another way to do that might be to print the photo on regular photo paper, but cover parts of it in vellum to call attention to just part of the photo. Then again, just print the photo on photo paper and enjoy how ever you choose! To do this, you'd most certainly have to have a 12 x 12 printer. If you're like me, with only an 8.5 x 11 edge to edge, you can get REALLY creative with it and print in pieces.

The right side calls for a number of smaller photos and would be equally as fun with some photos and some accents. Again, your choice. I'd LOVE to see you examples! Leave me some blog love and link me to your layouts won't you?

Happy Halloween!

Here's a sketch for today with more coming. I had a doctor's appointment this morning and spent a lot of time reading through several magazines and got TONS of inspirations.

Happy Spooking!

Another sketch for October

I can so see wonderful Halloween layouts from this and hope you can too! We'll be heading out tomorrow night after dinner with friends for Trick or Treating. Hopefully I'll get some fun photos of all the "Ghosties and Ghoulies" out tomorrow night.

The End of October Already?

Well, I can't believe we've nearly reached the end of October. It's just flying by without me! It's been a bittersweet month for obvious reasons. Today I got some of my sketching inspiration so I decided to roll with it. This is the first one I've gotten into PSE. Working on a few others. Hopefully I'll have more sketch "eye candy" for you later today.



Don't forget to link me or email me with your layouts of my sketches! I'd love to add them to give folks ideas and more inspiration!

It's About Time, Eh?

Well! I have been busy again and finally committed one of my new sketches to "paper". so here's my latest. I made this sketch with a photo of my mom and dad in mind, a larger photo, so it's a single photo layout.

It's also for a challenge at a great challenge blog called ScrapDragons, so I knew the colors and few more parts of my layout (paint, pink and the word "Art").

So, here's the sketch and the layout!



And here's my layout! Wish me luck!



The paint is on the letters - I painted the sage green and dotted them with Medium Gold Irridescent paint. I also added the gold to the inside of the eyelets and coated them with Irredescent glitter.

The Art of course is in the title.

You can see the pink I think! LOL

Well if blogger would cooperate...

This is a sketch from a little bit ago and I've got a layout to go with but Blogger seems to have a mind of it's own today and I'm not able to upload more than this one (I actually had a few)...

Hopefully this afternoon it will be different.

At any rate, hope you enjoy!