Scrapbook Challenges sketch 264

Hi all!  Well, I was feeling in the mood to scrapbook last night so I found a few photos and went to it.  I decided  to use the sketch from Scrapbook Challenges for this layout, sketch 264.  I really liked it and the examples from the design team.  They do such a great job!
Anyway, I love these two photos of my friend Nancy and I.  We have a lot of things in common, including our love of paper, scrapbooking, stamping, and so on but we also have a great time going out and doing stuff like we did this summer with our husbands to the DMB concert.  I wanted to showcase these two different events in this page and highlight our friendship.  I just love how it came out!

I used my Tim Holtz mini rosette die for my rosettes and I am in love!  It cut them out so perfectly and it was a cinch to put them together!  I also used my pennant punch from Stampin UP and sewed twine in it from the Twinery to hang my banner.  I used some border punches for the scallops and my top note die from Stampin UP for the sides of the photo and embossed those with an Stampin UP embossing plate.  The buttons on the rosettes are also from Stampin UP.  I added the ticket from the concert as a momento:-).

It is based on this sketch:

September "Back to School" Calendar page

Hi all! 

If you are looking for the Labor of Love blog hop, click here.

If you are looking for the Stampin Daisies Challenge post, click here.

Today I want to show my Calendar page I made for the month of September.  If you have been following my blog then you know that I post one of these each month on our fridge and use it in my scrapbook to keep track of everything that happened.  I really love how this one came out! When visiting CHA I stopped at the Taylored Expressions booth and bought some stamps, okay I bought a lot of stamps but who's counting?  I got this adorable school set from them and couldn't wait to create my September "back to school" Calendar page (not to mention the cards and scrapbook pages I can create later)!  Here is what I came up with:

 I used my Copics to color in all the stamps, who knew coloring could be so much fun!

 Love this owl!

Supplies Used:

Paper: DCWV Celebrations Paper stack, Stampin UP! Real Red, So Saffron and Whisper White (to stamp the images)  Blue Reflections paper and the apple paper is OLD, I got it from archivers years ago:-)

Stamps: Taylored Expressions Make the Grade

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black

Punches: Stampin UP Perfect Pennant

Various Copic markers to color

Green alphabet stickers for my "SCHOOL" title.

Cricut Designer Calendar cartridge for my calendar grid and September title