Stuck On U Bloghop: A Celebration

We are extremely excited to have you all visiting on a historic day for Stuck on U Sketches!

Today's post marks our 100th sketch! How awesome is that, right?  And to celebrate in a big way we have invited our entire Design Team to join in our sketch challenge! An additional challenge was to use this as a layout sketch or transform this into a card design! The surprise in the blog hop is waiting to see what everyone did!  This is our 100th sketch designed by Leah Schaeffer.

 

MY LAYOUT...  I sometimes just wonder about things...these were my thoughts for the day when I made this and they centered around things going on in my life at that time.  I highly recommend  this theme in journaling. It can be very therapeutic.

The Details...

Cricut Cartridges used are Artiste and Cricut Craft Room Basics.  The stamps are from My Minds Eye's, The Sweetest Thing collections.  The papers are from that collection too.  I also used Lizzy's 5th and Frolic digital journal card that I got at AC Digitals.  That is a great site for hybrid scrapping.

Anyone who follows me knows that I am a frugal scrapper.  If an embellishment can be made instead of bought I usually go that route.  It stretches my creativity and I feel like there is more uniqueness to my layouts if I do.  It also does not limit my scrapping time to just my budget.  Most of my projects are made with white paper and my printer with a few other little things for detail. As an example, the twine I used in this layout actually came from a cheap mop that fell apart early. Just drag an ink stain over it and you have a colored string that matches your layout.

The flowers

The title

Journal card

Button

MY CARD...

The details   

I decided to vary a little more from the sketlch keeping the frame and angled embellishment concept, however I made a pocket to put the tag in. I am not a fan of much white space, especially on cards.  I like my cards to be page full. This collage card was made using Crate Paper's new Fourteen Collection 6 x6 paper pad.The paper on the bottom is a collage, so I expanded this theme to the whole card.   I made the pocket border from the Martha Stewart Zig Zag border punch.  I found the satin flowers in theWedding aisle at Michael's for $.50  The epoxy circle embellie was made using my Epiphany punch.  I hope to get more of those soon.  I love how you can use scraps from your project to make a matching something extra.

Collage paper expanded to Collage card

Home made embellishments

Components of a great Valentine

On with the Hop...

Now we just couldn't let a big day like today go without a bit of a treat for you all so we have a few wonderful sponsors for our hop!

Our very own Lisa Norris of Pretty Paper Pretty Ribbon

Regina Easter of The Cutting Cafe

And Stephanie of Whimsical Designs

Our only expectation is to be a follower of Stuck on U Sketches and leave a little love along the way for each team member (this will take some time so our hop is a week long!) We have 3 sponsors and will

pick 3 winners and we'll have those to post for you on Friday, February 7th.

 

To honor the event, I am offering blog candy too.   Just become a follower of my site, and leave a comment and you will be in the running to win this Marion Smith Designs Mini Album all put together and ready for embellishing.  I will even send a few goodies with it, to get you started...

 

 

 

I will post the winner on March 8th.  Good luck to all!

Now head on to the next in the hop, which is Fern's blog.  I always look forward to her posts. She is  so creative and just awesome!!

Should you hop in random order, here is the entire list:

Nanne

Sandi

Leah
Wanda
Tracey K.
Tracey G.
Sylvie
Shona
Patricia
Misty
Margie
Lizzy
Lisa
Leslie
Laura
Kim
Jane
Holly
Fern
Erica
Charlotte
Caroleanne
Bonnie
Becky
Annette
Andrea

ENJOY THE HOP AND THANKS FOR STOPPING BY!