Beautiful Day (Artful Delight Sketch Challenge)

YAY!  After a week of barely no creativity, i was finally able to spend a little time in my scraproom today!  I have a LONG list of projects to do and challenges to participate in before the end of the month, but i'm afraid that i won't have time to reach the end of the list in a week.  I SO wish i could quit my job!  It greatly interferes with my crafting time! 

But no job = no money = no scrapbooking!

All that aside though, i  was happy today to play with the April sketch from Artful Delight.

Apart from this wonderful sketch, i was also inspired by the weekly challenge on the BasicGrey Blog that required me to use patterned paper as my layout background.  I love Basic Grey paper - they always have the most eclectic and intricate patterned papers so i went through my BG stash and i came up with a mixture of different papers to create my layout:  Cappella "Libretto" coupled with Origins "Refresh" as the background along with Scarlet's Letter "Night" and Cappella "Dolce" as accents.

This picture is a very special souvenir from my University graduation way back in 1996.  I really enjoyed my 5 years at University studying as an English major, but i was SO excited to finally graduate and start a new chapter of my life.  They often say that no matter the experience, most important are the people you meet and the friends you make along the way...  Well, i was truly blessed to have met Line during my 2nd year at University and for the next 4 years, we were almost inseparable. She quickly became one of my dearest friends, my 'Partner in Crime' as we liked to call each other back then.  Nowadays, we don't get to see each other or talk that often, but she will always hold a very special place in my heart and will always be at the top of the list, where best friends are concerned!

I also wanted to participate in the Scrap it With a Song challenge by using one of their playlist songs as inspiration on my layout.  You'll recognize the title as being one of my favorite U2 songs, "Beautiful Day".  On that note, i am happy to announce that my layout 'You Are My Song' was chosen as one of 3 favorites for the March playlist, so i will be one of the Guest Designers at Scrap It With A Song for May!  :)

Here are a few more close-ups of my layout:

Other Basic Grey products used are: Bling it On Rub-ons & Rhinestones, Rub-ons Transfers 'Wholy Cow', Ribbon Doilies, Micro-Chip Stickers 'Milk Chocolate Chip'.

Other products used are: Petaloo flowers and leaves, Quick Quotes chipboard, Dusty Attic chipboard, American Crafts brads, Glimmer Mist, Distress Stains.