Sketchfest results! Using a bit o' Ranger!

So the Creative Scrappers Sketchfest was this weekend, and I have a few results. I'm still working - we have until the 31st to complete layouts. But let me tell you, the sketches were great, and I think it was just what I needed to get past my fried brains and start creating again. I took the opportunity to play, not to "scrap fast." My friends who I crop with will laugh when they read this. I never scrap fast! I like to play anyway, but this time I did things that take a long time just to do them.

This first layout has a bit of Ranger Distress Crackle Paint as well as Distress Embossing Powder... and some hand stitching helped by my new Tim Holtz Idea-ology Ruler. Love it. The hand stitching did make me wish that I had room to set up my sewing machine, though. Pictures are from our family reunion two weeks ago -- my dad's first cousins on the Haugo side. The brilliant sketch is by Liz Weber.

The next one is another reunion photo, though the cousins in this photo are just a tad younger! The photo is an important one for me, though -- my daughter with my cousin's granddaughter. They see each other about once a year, if we're lucky, but they always look forward to it. You can't tell in the picture, but they were sharing a recliner at the reunion, hanging out downstairs at my dad's cousin's place, watching movies. I crept downstairs to see what they were up to, and this is what I found.

Let's see... not as much Ranger on this one, though the Holtz influence is clear here in the grungeboard, ink, and distressed edges... This sketch was by Cherie Averill.