There's No Turning Back

Good morning!!   We are continuing our theme of love songs this morning at Scrap it with a Song & up on the playlist is "We Belong" by Pat Benatar.   Despite this song being almost 30 years old - - it remains on my regular Ipod playlist - - one of my all time faves!

For my layout today - I decided to use a line from the lyrics to capture these memories of my daughter and her first time wall-climbing.

Sketch is from #27 at "Sketch & Scrap".
Also entering into the following challenges:
-"Use it Tuesday" challenge to use Fasteners (I have hoards of brads in my stash that go waaaayyyy back!  Loved using a handful of them on this layout!)
- "Write Click Scrapbook" challenge to Use Your Stash (my three older items are the brads, the twill ribbon, and the metal tab all of which are at least 2+ years old!)

Materials Used:
CTMH patterned paper: CLAIRE
CTMH Brads - from various retired brad collections
Alphas:  Jillibean Soup
Twine: CTMH Harvest Assortment Bakers Twine
Button: from my stash
CTMH Outdoor Denim Twill Ribbon (retired)
CTMH Metal Tab (retired)
K&Company Smash Journal Tag

Thanks for stopping by today - - hope you'll visit us at Scrap it with a Song to see what the rest of the DT has designed for you & to play along!  The love song challenges continue until February 28th!

Sweet as Honey

We have a brand new sketch for you today at Let's Get Sketchy!   I was so excited to work on this sketch because it is a perfect layout design to use with CTMH's new Honeycomb stamp set.     This was the first set I ordered out of the new Spring/Summer Idea Book and I absolutely love it.  

Here is my layout:

I stamped the hexagon shapes using the Honeycomb stamp set and the title "Sweet as Honey" is also from that stamp set.   (Hexagons were stamped in Cranberry, Hollyhock and Blush inks and the outline was stamped in Outdoor Denim ink).  

Check out this great stamp set:

The flower cluster is fussy cut from the new Claire collection of papers.   I cut out multiples of each flower and added layers to the flowers using foam tape.   The banner in the top right is also from the Claire paper collection.   
The stamped flowers around the title are from the stamp set that comes exclusively with the Claire Workshop kit (stamped in Hollyhock ink).  
The tag is from the Canvas Shapes self adhesive embellishments - I simply hole-punched a spot to thread my ribbon through. 
I stamped the name in Outdoor Denim ink using the retired Tiny Type alphabet stamp set.
I embellished using some retired Outdoor Denim twill ribbon and some pearls from the Mocha Opaques Adhesive Gems.
Cardstock colours used were Outdoor Denim and Cashmere.
Hexagons were cut using the Accent Essentials Cricut cartridge at 1.25" on Colonial White cardstock.

And here is the fantastic sketch I was working with:

I do hope you'll join us this week at Let's Get Sketchy!   

Spring/Summer Releases from CTMH

CTMH launched its' new Spring/Summer collections on February 1st.   I've dug into a few of these packs already and they are fantastic.  (Warning: Photo heavy post!!)

They are:

Chantilly

Tommy

Claire

Surf's Up

Later Sk8r

For Always

Buzz & Bumble

Watch for many new projects using these seven new collections here on my blog in the coming weeks!

You can check out the entire Spring/Summer Idea Book online HERE.   Enjoy!