I was so happy this morning. I showed M the “Sweet Child” page that I did for her last night and she loved it. She had a huge smile on her face and her favorite piece was the bird (I thought so!). One day everything that I made will be hers and I want to make sure that they’ll be something she’d love to look at over and over again. I know she’s only four but her thoughts are important to me and even at her age, she’s already got good taste.

Today, after we did a bit of cleaning, I got a chance to scrapbook again. I did this page based on a few items:

- I need to do a layout for Dana Frantz since I’m her guest CT and I’ve only done one thus far. So I need to use her two kits, Party Flower and Chronicles of Life, that I downloaded a few days ago.

- I only submitted two things for VSBN since I didn’t have time all week to do anymore and so I incorporated the black, white, and red challenge, the sewing challenge, and the use a recent picture challenge. Ok, there were more to each challenge but the ones listed were the ones I used in my LO.

-A sketch that I did while I was waiting for my hot cocoa water to boil. This is the first time that I sketched before I work on my LO. Usually I just wing it or like the last few times, used Pencil Lines sketches.

I am quite happy with the result. This page isn’t hard to do. It’s just all about layering. The only add-on that I did isn’t too noticeable is added some grunge brush effect to the red paper and the strips of paper on the left. If you want these brushes, go to the “Texture Overlay” tut that I posted yesterday. You can find the link for the brushes. It’s also interesting to see how the end result of my LO look like in comparison to the sketch that I made myself.

Here’s my first sketch and my sample LO with it. If you want to try this sketch please do so and if you share your LO with me either through email or by posting a link to your LO, you’d really make my day {::SMILES}. Also, if you use any of my tuts, I’d love to see your LOs too!