This weeks sketch is based off our August Guest Designer, Keisha Campbell’s layout! We love how she used our Handmade Layers collection to put together a beautiful layout! Plus, that banner at the top and the grid pattern in the middle? Amazing!!This sketch has room for embellishments, journaling tags and photos! You can pick what…

It’s Sketch Thursday and this week’s sketch is based off of Design Team member Allison Waken’s super cute and fun layout she did for our August Inspiration Gallery! I love how this layout and sketch has room for lots of layering, and that the paper pieces are small enough that you can use some of…

This week’s sketch is based on this layout from the July Inspiration Gallery from ES design team member Waleska.  That single horizontal band containing her photos, journaling and embellishments?  Love the composition! This sketch has room for three photos, but as I told my sister-in-law last week when we were scrapbooking together, think of a…

Another Thursday, another sketch!  This week’s sketch is based on this layout from ES design team member Stephanie Klauck.  Six photos on a single page layout?  Awesome!  I love how Stephanie seems to effortlessly use ES tags to embellish her projects. This week’s sketch has room for six photos as Stephanie did.  Or what about including…

This week marks the first time the work of our new design team is featured on the ES blog – I’m thrilled to be able to share more from them!  This layout, from design team member Marcy Penner, first caught my eye because of it’s subject matter.  I just started running and while I don’t…

Happy Thursday! Thursday is my favorite day of the week – it means the weekend is almost here and I start to plan all the things I’d like to accomplish (and barely make a dent in). This week, Thursday also means it’s my birthday, thus I thought featuring this fiesta themed layout from former ES…

Can I tell you how much I love Sketch Thursday?  Each week I get to create a layout for my personal albums inspired by one of our design team members.  That means that it’s guaranteed I’ll create at least one layout a week.  (That was my goal for 2011.)  It also means that my layout comes together quickly…

Happy Thursday – a short work week here in the US as we celebrated Independence Day on Monday!  Are you finding inspiration in our weekly sketches?  We hope so!  This week’s sketch is based on this layout by former Design Team member Melissa Mann.  This layout is nothing like my usual style but something that I…

Happy Thursday!  If you’re looking for inspiration to scrapbook this weekend – you’ve come to the right place!  This week’s sketch is based on this layout by Design Team member Melissa Mann.  The single large photo she used immediately caught my eye and I couldn’t wait to try something similar. Although this week’s sketch is very…

This week’s sketch is based on this layout by Design Team member Lory Bucaria.  I love how Lory used vertical strips to house embellishments, journaling and her title.  I also love how she included a bit of color with embellishments at the top of the layout. This sketch is very clean and streamlined but you can make…