I love the Hush Hush series and decided to try "getting dark" with a layout!  Hope you like it.

There's a new sketch challenge site just starting up, and until they get fully underway, they posted a mini-challenge at Let's Get Sketchy Mini Challenge

I can't wait to see what new sketch challenges they have in store starting in March.  Check them out!  Here's my mini-challenge adaptation :D

This uses the beautiful DCWV Tradewinds stack!

The February 2012 Sketchy Challenge at Canadian Scrapbooker is up, and here is my layout for this month...I hope you like it!

Original sketch:

My layout:

A layout for the January Sketchy Challenge at Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine

The original layout:

And my interpretation:

 

The really fun part about this layout is that I used a greeting card my parents had given me a few years back as a replacement for the snowman in the original layout.  The large doll in blue is actually a birthday card I received. And what's great about it is that I also used it to hide my journaling inside.  Too much fun!

Okay I don't want the real stuff, but this kind is fine. The pictures didn't turn out that well because I was trying to take them through the front door window, where this display hangs for the winter season.

I made these using some beautiful papers from TPC Studios and a combination of Spellbinders Nestabilities and my Slice Machine!  The pictures don't really do it justice, but hanging in the main doorway these are quite attractive.

I can't believe with everything going on, I managed to finish a layout for Canadian Scrapbookers December Sketchy Challenge.  Just under the wire mind you, but it's done.

A very glittery layout showing off a few of my crystal and glass ornaments.

It's December 1st, decorating day - so the Christmas decoration boxes emerged and the transformation began. I had an idea for some Christmas decor items this year that I wanted to try my hand at, and here is the result:

Here is a closer look at how the panels stand up and spell out "Ho Ho Ho". I really love how this turned out, and it looks great on my hall accent table.

And finally, a super close up. I really put my Slice Machine to work on this project. The large square panels that are the back most piece is a label cut from the Slice. First I cut a piece of Kraft Cardstock and then mounted a piece of patterned paper, cut in the exact same shape on top. It made the back more stable.

I then cut another size of the same label shape and glittered it's edge.  Then, cutting a single strip of patterned paper, scored at every 1/4 inch, I made the florettes. And again, I returned to my Slice Machine for the letters, which I then ran through an embossing folder and sanded slightly for a bit of a vintage Christmas look.

Click on any of these images for a close up view!  This project was a ton of fun, and you could modify it so much, by using different Christmas terms (like Noel, Snow, Joy, etc.) and of course with different patterned papers! 

Love this idea - and there are definitely more variations of this on the way as the decorating continues.