Scrappy Sunday 11/8/09

Well, you guys just THOUGHT I was late with my Sunday afternoon uploads!! LOL. Here we are late Monday night. I've once again been without internet service almost all weekend. It's been soooo frustrating, but I think my problem might be solved! It seems my modem completely died Saturday and has probably been sick for awhile. We got a new one today from the cable company and things seem to be working fine for now. Fingers crossed this takes care of our frequent internet troubles!!

So this week's sketch was inspired by a little project I'm working on to try to get a headstart on some Christmas and Hanukkah gifts for the grandparents this year. I'll show you the sketch, then explain:

If you play along, be sure to use the tag sb110809 (all lower case) so we can find your layouts to pull into the gallery! And remember, all forms of scrapbooking - traditional, digi and hybrid are welcome!! As always, feel free to flip or rotate the sketch or add or remove layers as needed, just as long as the original layout design is recognizable!!

I'm creating keepsake 2010 calendars for all of the grandparents this year for their holiday gifts and I decided to make it easy on myself to just use these fantastic 2010 Large Toppers by Zoe Pearn (Sweet Shoppe). Here's a look at the Calendar Page Topper I created for June:

The page is all predesigned and I just "slipped" my photo layer under the template layers in photoshop, did some resizing and it was was done! When I print them all up, I'll add the Calendar "bottoms" in every other page, have it professionally printed and bound (probably spiral bound) and will have a wonderful keepsake gift that all of the grandparents will love. Here's a look at the Top and Bottom together:

So, as you can see, I actually created my sample first for this week, then "drew" up the sketch later. The sketch is easily converted from 12x12 to 8.5x11. I wanted to show you how easy it is to use these sketch ideas on other projects and gift ideas. Does anyone else have any special scrappy holiday gifts planned for this year? I'd love to hear your ideas!!