July Scarp our stash sketch challenge

 I finally am back into a creative groove.  I did try to keep the juices flowing on vacation by reading my blog feed daily and marking layouts and challenges I wanted to try when I got back into my craft space.  Now that I've got two weeks of summer school under control and summer track is over, I'm hoping to craft nightly.  Here's what I managed to knock out the past two days. I created this one using the July Scrap our stash sketch challenge.

I tried a couple different configurations with the banners and just didn't like having the tails facing each other.  I think it's because of my background patterned paper. I noticed that most of the DT at S.O.S used solid paper.  Could also be that my cuts are not symmetrical.  Anyway, I changed it up just a bit to work.  I choose to stagger the smaller green banners to play up the stars.  I fussy cut the stars from a scrap of patterned paper but only had two.  Hide the fact that the third didn't match by mounting a merit badge in the center of it.

I also got a quick single-page layout with an 8 x10 photo of my son and husband with a few of their troop mates at World Jamboree.  I have a whole album covering World but wanted a page in my son's road to Eagle Album so that all of the events and activities he does as a scout are in chronological order.  

and this one I whipped out last night.  I was inspired by Creative memories virtual crop sketch #2

I used CM winter woods

and rotated both sides of the sketch to accommodate the orientation of the photos. 

I didn't use the banners or other embellishments so that I could get the photo mat/ title card and journal box on the layout.  Journaling is to be done by my husband and son sometime soon.

Thanks for stopping by to take a peak