A Recipe & A Sketch

So anyone who knows we well knows that I do not cook! Therefore, the above-mentioned recipe can not be about dinner plans, right? Right! There was a scrapping challenge posted at My Scrapbook Nook that used a "recipe". You had to use the following items on a layout:
1 photo
1 background paper
4 patterned papers
2 stickers
1 tag
1 canvas butterfly
2 buttons
& handwritten journaling.
Here is the layout I made following the recipe:

I used the May kit from MSN featuring Echo Park's "This & That" collection. Another stunning kit!! I have had so much fun creating with it. (And it's easier, & more fun than cooking!!)

I also played along with the sketch challenge at MSN. Here is the sketch they provided:

 
And here is my layout:

Leah is growing up too quickly! And these pictures are not even recent!!! She is almost 9 1/2 & said to me the other day that she wishes she could stay this age-she doesn't want to grow up! (However, she does want to be old enough to have a cell phone!)

There are more challenges I hope to find time to play along with. Though this month is shaping up to be a busy one. Only one more week of school!!!!!!!!!! AHHHH!

Hope you all have a great night!

~Stephanie