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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Happy Autumn Days - Sketch Challenge

Every year, the theme park in our state has a Halloween outing for kids.  The park does a spooky event at night for adults, but during the day, it's family friendly. Events include trick-or-treating from park characters and picking your own pumpkin from the patch.

For Cory, any outing that involves the plastic pumpkin is a good one as he associates it with candy.  When we went to the park's pumpkin patch, I tried to convince Cory to leave his plastic pumpkin in the stroller so he could pick a real pumpkin.  But as you can see, that didn't happen.  


For this layout, I used Simple Stories, mostly Harvest Lane with a little bit of Fabulous and Awesome thrown in.  I used paper both from 12x12 sheets and a 6x6 paper pad.  I love the smaller patterns on the 6x6, especially the little journaling cards like the title block, "Autumn Days."  

To color the doily, I used spray mist from October Afternoon.  It gives great coverage and dries quickly.  The kraft leaf below it is from the dollar spot at Target. I just added a little ink and stitching and it was perfect for my page.

Here's a closeup of the embellishment cluster on the bottom left. At first, I had just the tree and fence there and they looked a little lonely. So I added the house, which balanced it more.  For a decorative touch, I added a bit of orange/brown twine around the tree from Trendy Twine.


The layout is based on the new sketch by My Creative Sketches for our monthly challenge. 


The sketch challenge starts today and runs through Nov. 15. We'd love to have you play along and we have a great prize for the winner, chosen by random draw.  You can find all the details on the My Creative Sketches blog

17 comments:

  1. LOVE this! I like all the layers and the little house, tree and fence in the corner.

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  2. Love the design. Great details and that picture is cute! Cory looks so big!

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  3. Beautiful Izzy!! :)) Love the photo...too cute!! :)

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  4. oh my goodness, that photo is priceless, and so very sweet, Izzy!!
    Gorgeous layout!!

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  5. What a cute story and love love love love your lo!!!!! I loveeeeeee the colors, the layers and that photo is PRECIOUS!!!!

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  6. this is amazing izzy!! this is just a perfect layout in every aspect!! great job

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  7. I love everything about this! The tab atop the "autumn days" card is perfect and I love the cozy cluster in the bottom corner.

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  8. Huge congrats on LYB Izzy, I am so excited to be cycling with you!

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  9. You definitely are the master (or mistress??) of combining patterned papers! Adorable photo and wonderful page, Izzy :) Gotta love that plastic pumpkin lol!

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  10. Congrats on making LYB cycling team!! I can't wait to see what you create. So excited to be cycling with you!!! I love this layout!! that photo is adorable.

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  11. Love the LO and a BIG congrats on making the LYB team~ saw where you had made it on FB!!!

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  12. Super cute layout-love that embellie cluster in the corner!

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  13. Beautiful! How cute that he's carrying his plastic pumpkin around.

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  14. What an absolutely fabulous layout! Love the mix of product!

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