Heart2Heart Challenge 2 -- Sketch Challenge

I've enjoyed this challenge. I actually put this layout together Tuesday morning to use as a sample for a Tuesday night workshop. This is from the Bella collection and I uses all CTMH products. Besides Buttercup cardstock (1271), I used our Shades of Chocolate (Z1037) brads, cardstock (X5643)  and Exclusives Ink and placed them on an ivory card base. My Just for Blooms flowers (Z1033) were initially white and pink. I inked the white with Buttercup  (Z110) and Chocolate (Z2111)Exclusive Inks and the pink with (Smokey Plum Z2147). My "Thinking of You" stamp is from the Dainty Thoughts (C1350) My Acrylix Stamp Set. Of course, all these products are available at my website (http://dianecook.mytcmh.com/)

Scrapbook in a Year - Cover and Janaury

One of my "great" ideas this year was to start a Scrapbook in a Year workshop. I have a small following but hope that others might grab onto the idea next year. Just imagine, if we can do two pages a month chronicling the events and milestones we've just passed through, we would have a 24-page scrapbook by the end of the year! How cool is that?

This was my 2009 cover (that I'm using for examples) and features some developmental pictures of our grandbaby who was born in October 2008.

Of course, this scrapbook features Close to My Heart products. My pages will be using some Twilight, Desert Sand and/or chocolate, so I'm picking papers that reflect some element of those colors.

     My first project after the cover was our first snow in January 2009. One of my December pages must, for the sake of symmetry, reflect our last of 2009 which was a humdinger and a harbinger of our January/Februrary blizzards in 2010.
     I've been virtually obsessed with snowflakes for the last couple of years and have been punching small and large flakes from photo paper scraps. A bit of crystal for sparkle and glitter for bling brought much-needed color to our first snow of the year.

Heart 2 Heart Color Challenge 01

I'm excited about our new Close to My Heart challenge. And the great part is that it's for everyone! You are, however, required to use Close To My Heart products. That said, here's my first effort. I just started playing around with some punches and suddenly, this layout presented itself to me. Well, it did take a little fiddling here and a little fiddling there, but it seems to have worked out. I find myself wanting to add more bling, but I have it on some authority that it's fine the way it is. So, I suppose I'll stop now and go fix dinner.