Cosmo Cricket for Sketches in Thyme

 Welcome to my project for Sketches in Thyme Facebook Group. More scrapping of the Frida interactive exhibit in Chicago. I took these photos of the projected scene on the walls from a second floor overlook. It was a great experience, I'd love to see another artist's interactive exhibit.  I accentuated the artsyness with a Creative Memories sticker letter title, a Prima Ruby Violet flower I retooled a bit and a lovely laser cut tag.

Here is this week's sketch.

I forgot to mention the metallic butterfly sticker.  I have to admit I can't remember the brand. I layered all four photos on black card stock.

I had tons of fun layering the different color vellums.  I believe they were part of a kit I separated to get more use of the parts, could be in error here as well.  I have taken to removing packaging if it doesn't fit in my scraprack pages.

Ingredients:

Cosmo Cricket paper

Creative Memories sticker letters

kraft laser cut tag with fiber

Prima Ruby Violet Bits & Baubles flower altered

butterfly sticker

black card stock and various colors of vellum

Play along with this week's Sketches in Thyme Facebook Group sketch or any of the other three from May.

Thanks for stopping by

Alicia

Frida Immersive Exhibit layout for Sketches in Thyme

Welcome to the next installation of my Chicago 2022 scrapbook. I scrapped this page per the latest Sketches in Thyme Facebook Group sketch.  We have four sketches per month and this is the fourth.  I am using the same K & Co papers I have had on my desk for a couple of months.  I purchased them second hand so I don't have the name of the stack but they are so pretty! I just love the bright color combination.

Here is the sketch.

I used both pink and orange letters to create the title.

I printed these two photos small to accommodate the sketch. I cut several circles out of different scraps and since I they are doubled sided papers I had lots of choices.

Ingredients:

K & Co papers

Creative Memories sticker letters and circle cutter

foil washi tape

gems and flair

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://kcclayoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/03/lm-743-going-in-circles-embellishments.html until 3.29.25

guest designer invitation

https://lovethoseprettypapers.blogspot.com/2025/03/atg-using-pretty-patterned-paper-march.html unitl 3.31.25x

https://theoutlawzchallenges-saturday.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-outlawz-anything-goes-in-card-free.html until 4.4.25x

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to hop on over to Sketches in Thyme Facebook Group to join in this challenge or any of the other three sketches this month.

Alicia

Frida Exhibit layout for Sketches in Thyme

Welcome to my first layout of 2025 for Sketches in Thyme Facebook Group.  I am beginning a new project for 2025, I am scrapping a trip to Chicago from 2022.  I like it when I can complete a layout without having to dig in my stash. Don't get me wrong, when I want a specific item I will dig.  My stash is organized but massive hence where "dig" comes into play.  Anyway, I just acquired this K & Co paper stack at Indigo Hippo and they were right by my desk because they had not been filed away.  I immediately recognized how they would compliment my Frida Exhibit photos from this trip.  

All the embellies were handy too, I only had to "dig" for the purple iridescent letters.  I have all my alphas organized in hanging file folder by color, only I had to move some boxes that were in front of the file cabinet.  I have my neutral letters in a closer file cabinet that is right by my desk, but the colors spilled into another cabinet.  I have my desktops sitting on short file cabinets.  I have two desktops running continuously along the wall. So four file cabinets. The two under the desk I use are filled with 8.5x11 cardstock and the two under the other desk are letters.

Here is the sketch I am using.  You can find it and others on the Facebook group.

I have had these letters in my stash for many years, I love when I get a chance to use them.

I die cut several pieces of foliage and leaves in green, paper remaining from the sheet which I cut the corners.  I had some of these puffy stickers laying around my desk.  It was a multiple color set and I used all the oranges, yellows and some purples for another recent project.  I used the greens and the remaining purples here.  I only have some blues left.  I love to use up my stash!

 

I fussy cut sections from a coordinating sheet of paper in the stack the green corners.  It's hard to capture in the photo, but there is a neat metallic purple sheen to the dots.  I had this stamped Frida image in my stash from years ago.  I cannot tell you what I used to color it.

Ingredients:

K & Co papers

Frida stamp

Scrapbook.com Sunshine Blooms dies

puffy stickers and misc embellies

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://giveacrafteracookie.blogspot.com/2025/01/cookie-challenge-200-january-anything.html until 1.31.25x

Play along with Sketches in Thyme Sketch 646 until the last day of the month.  Plus there are three other monthly sketches. Plenty of inspiration to get your 2025 scrapping! Thanks for stopping by.

Alicia

Frida Cards

These are a couple of designs from a few years ago.  I was very into heat embossing.  I was reminded of these cards because I used some heat embossing on  my latest xmas cards.  Lately, I really enjoy embossing folders which I used on the same cards.  They are almost finished and I will post them soon but in the meantime, I will reminisce about these cool cards I made a while ago!

I have never found a very good adhesive for vellum, although the latest Creative Memories tape runner is really good.  As I said these cards are old and I was still experimenting.  Aren't really always experimenting?  Anyway, I would now use the CM tape runner for such a project.  It is not perfect, but really disappears nicely under vellum.