Psychotic Ramblings from a Serial Scrapper AKA Craft Room Therapy with Chris Pozzi

Today I am sharing a layout created with this weeks sketch from Nuts about Sketches.  I really love the color combo on this!  Red and black are not new combos for me but love the teal addition!  What have you been creating lately?  Sadly this is my last Nuts About Sketches creation and the site is going to be taking a break.  I will really miss Shawn's Sketches!  Especially the 2 pagers!  Some of my favorite layouts have been created with her sketches!

I loved this sketch from Nuts about Sketches (sketch # 356).  Look at all those photos!  and of course there are more Yellowstone pictures!   I even used a bit of washi tape !!!! 

Today I am sharing my take on this week's Nuts about Sketches sketch # 355.  I used my Kreaxions #917 heart punch!   I really love Shawn's sketches.They always offer a wide variety from 1 page to 2 page from single photos to lots of photos.  Be sure to check out the rest of the teams work!

Today I am sharing this layout using Just Imagines/Kreaxions # 310 punch and This week's sketch at Nuts about Sketches.  I used #310 by itself on the top borders then used the punch with the A insert along the bottom ribbon border.

Love these older Bisous PDQ papers.   They have been in my stash for a few years waiting for just the right pictures. I used this week's Nuts about Sketches sketch # 352, adding some banners, and gem dots to help "modernize" this stash paper.

Here is my take on this week's sketch at Nuts about Sketches. I have been trying to use up some of the papers that I have had saved for a while.  Loves how the colors in these autumn papers brought out the colors in the pictures.

While in Yellowstone I was amazed by all the trees, alive and dead.  I love looking at the dead trees showing evidence of all the hot spots moving around.  You can see live trees right on the edges of the pools, then the hot spot shift just a tiny bit and kills off those trees.  For this layout I use this week's Nuts about Sketches sketch #349 and of course my Kreaxions circle cutter. 

Here is the proof that I actually go on vacations with my family.  So often I forget to hand over my camera to make sure I am in the pictures too.  AS you can see in the photos, I am still with my camera,  but my hubby managed to snap a few shots of me :D .  I remember this day, it started out warm and then the temperature drop very rapidly.  Just look at how windy it was--my hair is standing straight out!!.  For this layout I used this week's Nuts about Sketches #347,  my Kreaxions circle cutter, I really love that tool, and some MME Market Street papers from a My Creative Scrapbook kit. 

For this layout I used Sketch #346 from Nuts about Sketches.  I love how many photos there were in the sketch! Absolutely perfect for my vacation photos!  Here I added a lot of miscellaneous hot spots in the geyser basins.  I love how you can see the steam rolling off these! You may notice I used my handy Kreaxions circle cutter again.  I love how that little tool cuts circles within circles!

I couldn't help but record one of the most important lessons we learned while in Yellowstone.  There is a reason people carry backpacks with them.  The weather can change very quickly!!!  We started out walking the loop around Old Faithful with it being sunny and warm and wearing shorts, only to have a cold front and rain move through half way through the walk and spend the rest of the walk freezing and wet.  Needless to say we never made that mistake again. I used this week's sketch at Nuts about Sketches. (#344) and some old Dream Street papers from my stash!  I also used my Kreaxions circle cutter! 

I am loving the metallic trend that is going on right now!  For this layout, I started off with this week's sketch at Nuts about Sketches (# 343).  Normally I use both sides of the sketch and create a 2 page layout, but this time I only used the left side of the sketch.  I used one of my My Creative Scrapbook kits to make paper and embellishment coordination super easy! 

Today I am sharing this cool layout using the Kreaxions Circle cutter and Punch # 919 (with the positioning parts "A").  I used this week's sketch at Nuts about Sketches, which used matted cirles. I have always struggled getting perfectly matted circles.  Then it hit me.  the circle cutter is perfect for creating matted circles too!   I first cut the circle using the 5 inch mark.  I then moved the mark to 5 inches plus 1 "tick" on the ruler (which would be 5 1/4).  and presto a perfectly matted circle!   I then matted that circle again moving up one more "tick" to 5 1/2 inches.  So super easy!  To finish off the layout I added more circles and then punched the border using #919 and the "A" insert. 

  I created this layout using this week's sketch from Nuts about Sketches (#341).  I even hand sewed on the layout!  Something I haven't done in a long time!  I use the circle wreath on the paper as the circle on the sketch!  I love it when the paper does the work for me!  Do you use sketches?  What do you look for in a sketch?

Check out  this super fun layout of me (that's right I actually have a picture of me  on a layout!) and my son.  For this layout, I used this week's Sketch from Nuts about Sketches! The sketch called for lots of circles which were a breeze to cut out with the kreaxions Circle Cutter!  I thought the half circle at the top of the layout looked a little plain, so I "dressed" it up a bit but using the circle templates and the 903 punch.  I then added the doily behind the flower using the star template and the 903 punch with the "A" inserts. Products used: Nuts about Sketches Sketch 339 Fancy Pants Burlap and Bows Kreaxions #903 (alone and with "A" inserts) Kreaxions Circle Cutter Kreaxions Star template Kreaxions Circle Stencils

I loved playing with this week's sketch at NAS!  I love that Shawn offers 2 page layouts with lots of photos!  (as I take lots of photos!)  Be sure to check out all her sketches!

Love the sketches from Nuts about Sketches.  I love how Shawn incorporates multiple photos on each sketch! This weeks sketch (#336) included room for 5 pictures on a 1 page layout!  I switched out 2 of the photos for journaling blocks and of course still working on the Yellowstone trip album from 2012.  Hmmm that leaves me Yellowstone 2013, Washington DC 2013, Daulphin Island 2014 to do.... better get scrapping!