Creative Scrappers! Playing in Leaves and Kayak rides

I've been creating with sketches these past few weeks and love getting back into them.

Good thing, too, because I just made the Creative Scrappers Design Team!!  The sketches are fabulous and and I so looking forward to working with them.  You can see the Design Team Announcement HERE.

So I wanted to share a page that i did used Creative Scrappers sketch #228.

And here is my page that I made with my September Gossamer Blue kit.

I followed the sketch pretty closely.  On the background, I started by using some molding paste and my wood parquet stencil (which I think makes great waves, too!).  I mixed in a bit of blue mist to give it a bit of color.  Then I sprayed some grey mist directly on the page.  I added a bit of sparkly bits here and there.

I punched the circle border from paper and added some string knots in the middle.  I few accents and stickers here and there and that's about it!

Now jumping from summer right into fall, I used a sketch by Kristine Davidson made exclusively for My Scraps & More.  This is the October sketch challenge on the My S&M blog, so go check it out!

I used the Basic Grey Clippings line which has some warm fall colors in it.

I love this big leaf!  Believe it or not, I actually drew this by hand, traced it with a thick black marker, took a photo of the drawing and edited it in Photoshop for stark contrast.  Then I uploaded it to SCAL2, traced it, and I was able to make my very own cutting file!!!  These make great little leaves, too, although I chose to use just one big one on my page.

I have made this SVG file available for you HERE.  You can download it for free!  If you are using a Silhouette, you have to have the designer edition of Silhouette Studio to cut SVG files.  I am using SCAL2 and my Cricut.


On my background, I did some light stamping through a stencil and then traced a little starburst pattern from another stencil, too.  And of course I always add some splatters..

I have been playing around a lot with creating some svg files.  I now have a tab at the top for some of the ones I created.  If you use any, I would love to see them!  THANKS!