Spread 'Em!

I finally got done with my two page spread for this week. It has been a crazy week of unscheduled meetings and appointments. My little one got sick and for the last three nights I haven't slept. Its been like having an infant in the house all over again. Boy, am I glad those days are over. But man, broken nights are hard to take after you've been out of that phase for a while.

So for this week's sketch I decided to work on sketch #9. 
Here is what it looked like.

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Here is my Layout:

And here are some close ups of each individual page.

I used Pebbles, Inc. Tree House paper line. Its so cute! I just love the colors. Its fun and playful. For the die cuts, I used my Cricut (gasp!) to cut the owl and the title from the Straight From the Nest cartridge. The little red bird by the journaling strips is from Pebbles Chips embellishment pack for the Tree House line. I doodled some not so straight lines around the edge of the background and where I messed up I made little zig zags to imitate stitching. I also used my Signo white gel pen (Thanks, Linda!) to "stitch" around the owl and doodle on the title.

Overall I am really pleased with working off these sketches. They are really worth it. It took me one afternoon (between laundry, kids and meals) to put this layout together. It usually takes me a whole week to put together a layout when I am left to my own devices. I hope to get 3-4 layouts done on a given week as this new way to scrap becomes more natural for me.

So how did your spread come out this week? Please post a comment and let me see it! I 'd love to see your work.

Well, that's all for now. Happy Spring Break!
See ya all next week =)