Seasons of Change Blog Hop

Sorry, sorry, sorry!! This week has been absolutely nuts and I got this hop mixed up with another going on later this month. But I'm here now and apologize for the delay.

If you're a usual visitor to my blog and want to participate in the hop, you'll want to jump over to Pamela's Blog to begin at the beginning.

I love blog hops! And the Scrapbook Challenges ones are near and dear to my heart. It's how I first discovered this amazing community, way back in January. The ladies there are truly inspirational and always encouraging. I so hope you'll play along with us! I'm so thankful that I get to keep playing with them for another season!

As always our fabulous sketch master, Pamela, turned out an awesome sketch!

My take: Forgive the irony, but time and the lack thereof have been a big theme in my life these last few weeks. I constantly feel like there aren't enough hours in the day to get everything that I want to do, done. Hence my no-photo layout, about my rapidly dwindling social life.

Since I went to Lizzy's class last week, I had plenty of left over Lizzy goodies to play with. Pamela's design lends itself beautifully to showcasing several blocks of "patterned paper". So once again, I turned to that gorgeous fabric paper. I love the look of frayed ends and ran my scissors along the edge to give them more gusto.

I also did a bit of stamping on patterned paper. I just got the Tattered Angels Time Traveler stamp set and have been dying to use them on something. I figured the clock and pocket watch were perfect accents for my page about time. I use charcoal chalk ink a lot, and just recently purchased a dark brown color. It added a lovely vintage vibe to the page.

Then I went back and added a little cluster of circle embellishments at the bottom, to give it some balance. It still doesn't feel perfect but I think I'll leave it for now. I incorporated lots of fun things, buttons, brads, stickers, punched patterned papers. Ya know, pretty shiny stuff :)

There you have it, that's my take! And if the sketch isn't enough inspiration for you to play along, they maybe I can interest you in a prize or 2...

1. Everyone who leaves a comment on all of the blogs in the hop will be entered into the drawing to win the new "Restoration" line from Crate Paper. [Seriously ladies, I'm so jealous of whoever wins this one!! It's one of my must-haves from the Summer CHA and have yet to see it in stores]

2. Everyone who does a layout based on the above sketch and posts it in the Hop On section gets entered into the drawing to win the new "Pixie-Licisous" line from Cosmo Cricket, inluding the 12x12 sheet of chipboard! [Oh lala!]

3. Everyone who joins the group this weekend gets entered into the drawing for a Prima pack. [Because you can never have enough flowers, truly!]

4. Everyone who invites someone to the group this weekend, through the invite link on the main page, gets entered into a drawing for a Prima Pack. [They really are awesome at what they do!]

5. Lastly, there will be another prize in the Hop On section.

You can check out Pamela's blog for pics of all these goodies! And next on your hopping adventure is Natalie's blog, for more scrappy goodness. Happy Hopping!

xxbesos

j.leija

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