catching up

I took advantage of a relaxing camping weekend to catch up on the weekly challenges for Scrapbook Steals.  I love the sketches that guest designer Brenda Smith has provided for the month of July, but I was simply too busy to play along some weeks.  This week I completed the sketch #5 challenge and came up with this layout:

This is Brenda's sketch that inspired it all:

And, since I was in a scrappy mood and had more free time than usual, I went back and completed layouts for weeks 2 and 4 that I had previously missed.  Here are the "better late than never" layouts that bring me back up to date with the series:

blue & gold

After missing last week's challenge (Pansy #2), I was determined not to let this week's challenge get away from me.  I hope to go back and catch up on last week's too, since I really love the sketch.  This is the layout I came up with, based off of Brenda's Pansy #3 sketch for Scrapbook Steals:

The blue background paper is from Echo Park and the diamond patterned paper is by Authentique.  I used some Project Life cards from the Cinnamon edition and die cut the title using Lawn Fawn alpha dies.

As I was blogging, I realized I never posted the layout I made for the Pansy #1 layout, even though I managed to get that one completed in time.  I guess it's better late than never, so here's the layout I made using Brenda's inspiring sketch:

I used papers and embellishments from the Poppy collection by Little Yellow Bicycle for this layout.  For the title and journaling, I experimented with sketch pens and used the Silhouette Cameo.  It was much easier to use a pretty font than trying to keep my own handwriting evenly spaced.