July Sketch Challenge - Word: FIREWORKS

It's time for the 

July Sketch Challenge!

Example: F - Frame, I - Ink, R - Rubon, E - enamel Dots, W - Washi Tape, O- Oval, R - Ribbon, K -Kraft Paper, S - Stickers.

*Items used for each letter must be a "stash" item.

When posting your layout, you must include in your write up what items you used
to be considered for the random prize drawing.

Click HERE for SOS Challenge Guidelines.

Entries are due: July 29th, 11:59 PM (PST)

Here's a layout from Guest Designer
Ginny Hickmott
inspired by this month's sketch challenge:

Ginny shares this about her layout:
"Hello again, I am back with my layout for July Sketch challenge using the word ‘FIREWORKS’. Here are my stash items I used for each of the letters: -

F: Flowers

I: Ink (paper edges)

R: Rosette

E: Embossing Powder (on title chipboard)

W: Wood

O: Outdoors (photo)

R: Rhinestones

K: Kaisercraft (papers)

S: Seed Beads

I really enjoyed doing this one, my colours were inspired from a colour combo photo I had seen, so after rummaging through my papers I came up with these Kaisercraft papers 50 Cents, these gorgeous patterns look fabulous layered up. I do love to add a little mixed media to my layouts and this one has a little! I created the background ‘circle’ from the sketch with gesso applied with a palette knife. I have a rhinestone circle on top of that. My chipboard title was altered with embossing powder. My edges have all been distressed and inked with Frayed Burlap, and in the background, I have added mists and seed beads. The layout is finished off with the flowers clusters, buttons, rosette and wood icons. The ‘outdoor’ photo is my DD riding a few years ago, we used to trundle through the lanes picking flowers as we went! If you would like to see more details and photos of this layout then please visit my blog here http://shabbypapers.blogspot.co.uk/

I have really enjoyed being a guest designer here at Scrap Our Stash this month and seeing what you are all creating. I hope I have inspired you with this month’s challenges! 

Ginny"

Now it's your turn! 

Make sure you upload your layout on the side bar before July 29th!

Have a great day! 

Meet Guest Design Team Member Ange

Hi! I'm Angela, aka, Ange. First I want to say thanks to Scrap Our Stash for the opportunity to Guest dt and thanks for all the fun challenges to keep me scrapping! I'm a SAHM to 4 who keep me running 24/7 but supply the majority of my scrappy material. I've been married to my man for 13yrs and scrapping most of it, so my pages and style have changed and grown with the industry (along with my stash!). I really enjoy using sketches to help me start off a page, my lo here was created following a Nuts About Sketches sketch: http://nutsaboutsketches.blogspot.com/ I've loved learning all the different techniques over the years but one of my favorites is to add just a little bit of doodling. My mom tried to teach me that drawing on myself/things with permanent marker was bad, but sometimes a girl's just gotta doodle. :) Here's my blog: http://scrappingcompulsion.blogspot.com/ I'd love to have you swing by and say hi.:)
Ange

Meet Our July Guest Design Team Member Ren-Yi

"I am a software engineer by day and a creative jill of all trades by night. I have always a project on hand that involves some sort of yarn or floss, since I've been introduced to knitting & crocheting 3 years ago through our company's Project Linus community event. I also use to cross-stitch in high school. However, in the summer I lose interest to work on large, warm projects, and my only creative outlet is usually the kitchen, where I love to experiment in both baking and cooking. That was until certain friends (ahem - Steph, Laurie, Belinda) had a brilliant idea to creating the "Swapping Sisters" group, where the girls promised to send me "kits" so i could create cards. Kits, after all, are low-key ways of dappling into paper crafting; i wouldn't have to own too much supply, just a little adhesive and basic card stock -- or so I was told. I went out to Michael's to purchase a Towbow adhesive, some Glue dots and a pack of card stock paper and went at my first project (refurbishing a journal for a boy) only to realize that none of the tools i had handy were any help. So somewhere between six months and now I have accrued one paper craft tool/supply/other vice after another -- and I'm completely hooked. Let's just say that my love for paper, ink and clear stamps have turned into a "must buy" list and "must do" project list. I love challenges and sketches, since they bring me out of my comfort zone and I get to play along with other wonderful, creative ladies. A last little secret about my paper crafting addiction? I bought a sewing machine because I thought stitching on cards is hot...But if anyone asks, the sewing machine was to hem pants for little people. Really. ;)"
My blog

Meet our July Guest Design Team Member Christy

Thank you for inviting me to be a guest designer on Scrap Our Stash. My name is Christy. I have been with my wonderful husband for 17 years. He and my son are the inspiration for my scrapbook pages . You'll also see quite a lot of our dog and our two cats as well. I drive them all a bit crazy sometimes because I can never have too many pictures of them.
I started scrapbooking about 7 or 8 years ago. My first experiences with scrapbooking were with Creative Memories products. A friend talked me into going to a crop with some photos of my son and the next thing I knew, I was hooked for life.I only started submitting my projects for challenges a few months ago. My husband ( and some on-line friends) encouraged me to do so and I am glad that they did. I love challenges like the ones posted here. They help me stretch my stash as well as giving me the opportunity to try new things. I feel I have come a long way since I started scrapbooking. However, I always want to do what I can to challenge myself and take my work to the next level. I'd also love to become a better photographer. I hope you'll pop by my blog and check out some of my other projects as I work toward that goal.
You Are... by Christy