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Just gotta do it!

I love working from sketches or page maps to create my scrapbook pages, sometimes I come across a sketch and you've just got to do it. Well that's exactly what happened this week. I found this sketch 
over here on the Scrapbook and Cards Today Blog. It just spoke to me and was a great excuse to use up the remnants of a kit I'd bought a couple of years ago. I'm on a mission, along with many of you I'm sure, to use stash instead of just keep adding to it. Here are my pages.
Everything was Pink Paislee, and I've still got some more! This sketch is for this years project 12, similar to the Document 2010 project that I've just finished. A sketch for a double page layout is released every month to record the previous months story. I'm not sure that I want to produce an album of the year, every year. The sketches are too yummy to resist, so I may just use them to try and clear some of these holiday photos.

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Em said…
Oh... well done you!A double layout AND sticking to your 'use your stash' diet. I can't do either! LOL The photos of Belguim look very inviting :)

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