SKETCH TIME - PRETTY LITTLE STUDIO

Happy Tuesday!  We are another day closer to the weekend and, for me, one day closer to having a little free time to sit down and play with my scrapbook supplies.  We've got a sweet sketch posted over at PRETTY LITTLE STUDIO that will help kick-start your crafty mojo - it's nice and simple so you can interpret it any way you want - whether you take a clean and simple approach or want to use an entire paper and matching ephemera collection.

My layout is somewhere in the middle of clean and simple and everything-but-the-kitchen-sink.  I did add lots of pieces to it, but I kept them small and layered many of them so it doesn't feel quite so busy.

I love these little thought bubbles by PRETTY LITTLE STUDIO. 

When your tween is giving you a "look" that speaks volumes to you but maybe not so much to Aunt Gerta in Idaho, you can use these bubbles to translate what your child would be verbally telling you if you were actually cool enough to talk to.  LOL!  Of course, they can also be used for journaling.

To see this week's sketch and more inspiration, go check out the PLS BLOG - right now!!!  Do it!  Don't make me have to roll my eyes and start pouting...

MAKING A PIECE OF THE PIE - PIE CHARTS

Today over at PRACTICAL SCRAPPERS, the On Trend Team members (including me) are showing off our pies - charts that is.  The perfect thing to make pie charts with are scrap pieces of paper.  And since I had lots of scrap papers that I had been hoarding saving from my PRETTY LITTLE STUDIO collections (and I had a project due), I decided to multi-task and use my Pretty Little Studio scrap papers to create my pie-chart for Practical Scrappers.  It's a win-win!

Want to know how to make a pie chart?  I have a quick step-by-step tutorial to walk you through it on the Pretty Little Studio BLOG.  And, of course, for other inspirational pie charts, check out Practical Scrappers.

A few close-ups and I am out of here until tomorrow, when it will be time to reveal the new PLS sketch (and my take on it).  It's another good one!