A Train Layout

Catalog images of the USPS Railroad stamps are a great compliment to Brick Fire Station digital papers to create a train-themed layout.  The title is computer generated.

Another for the Stick It Down September Sketch Challenge

WooHoo!  I've completed both sketch layouts at Stick It Down for this month!  I'm beginning a new album and trying to select a new collection -  ran across this Brick Fire Station collection in my stash - I love the colors and patterns in this collection, and I think it'll be perfect for this new scrapbook. The title was digitally colored with the paper patterns from Brick Fire Station and Print2Cut on my machine.

Sketch Challenge from Stick It Down!

Happy Sunday! I look forward to the Sketch Challenges at Stick It Down each month. Besides a card challenge, Stick It Down also has both a single-page layout and a double-page layout. I decided to use the double-page layout using papers from We Are 3's Look Up collection. Not only did I use patterns from Look Up for the background panels, I also digitally paper pieced the lighthouse with a brick pattern from the Brick Fire Station collection.

When I join Stick It Down's Sketch Challenges, I begin with the photos I want to scrap - THEN check out the sketch.  So I'm often looking for different ways to get the same effect - but with a totally different topic.  So for this layout, it took me some thinking to decide what I could substitute for the Christmas trees that were more appropriate for my nephew's wedding theme.  They were married on the famous Mackinac Island (Where the movie "Somewhere in Time" was filmed).  Mackinac's sites include the Mighty Mackinaw Bridge - and Round Island Lighthouse.  I am so excited I found a way to replicate the same effect!  Of course, since it was a summer-wedding theme, I substitute flowers for the snowflakes.