Song Sparrow layout for Lasting Memories challenge

Good Morning :) and welcome to the last challenge of the month over at Lasting Memories layout challenges:

Today we have a new challenge for the week. Our theme for March has been - March - National Month Of... and this week's challenge is:

LM #388 - Red Cross Month - 

Create a layout that has Red/White color scheme (can have the plus signs too that have been so popular lately) or if you ever did anything or received anything for the Red Cross tell us about that :)

I went with the Red/ White color theme:

 This layout was created during LOAD218: Day 23: The prompt I chose was Where do you find art in your daily life? What is something that is beautiful and makes your life just a little bit nicer because of it?        Nature is God's Art and I look to it often for beauty and artsy appeal too :) Using my February counterfeit kit for this layout. Sparrows are one of the hardest of the birds that visit our feeders to identify, but with lots of sources I think I've narrowed this one down to be a Song Sparrow :)                       

 Using of variations of Red and White to my layout. Red letters for my tile and a white pattern paper for my background

 a project life card for my journaling and very limited on embellishments for this layout to make the pictures really shine. One thing about LOAD is I don't take the time to over think the layout so I can get it done very fast.

Love these pictures of this young bird in the feeder. Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing your creations for this fun topic and thank you for playing along with my hosted month over at Lasting Memories layout challenges blog.

Happy Birthday-hat-Sketch N Scrap challenge

Good Morning and welcome to the last challenge of the month over at Sketch N Scrap. This is a card sketch challenge:

and this is the card I created:

 A birthday card for one of the granddaughter's birthday next month. This was a fun sketch to play with and made a fun card :) I was glad to use that one 6X6 paper in my counterfeit kit: Florally Whimsy and the card base came from a paper in my 100 Pattern Paper pile. The ribbon and the the hat were sitting on my craft desk waiting for a card to use them for :)

The inside of the card.
Thank you for stopping by today to see what I'm up too in my corner of the world :) Don't forget there is a cropping party going on over at facebook:
Join in our monthly Facebook Crop - March 16th - 31st,  you can upload your projects through March 31st at midnight CST.

 

I look forward to seeing what you create with this fun sketch and see it linked up over at Sketch N Scrap.

Field Life layout for Use Your Stuff challenge

Good Morning and welcome to this week's challenge over at Use Your Stuff challenge blog. Karrie has challenged us to: On the Border - Use Border Punches (or decorative scissors) on your project!!
I created this layout during a crop I was at andI used the zigzag embossed border punch from Martha Stewart on my leaves strip along the bottom of the layout:

 This was after the Tactical Demo was over. WWII Revisited Living History Bivouac-WWII re-enactors portray field life, 1944-45. It was a very interesting exhibit, so much to see and to learn how they handled Field Life was pretty cool to see history in action.
Close up photos:

 

 The left side of the layout, using sketch from an old magazine for the layout. I used my current counterfeit kit for the embellishing, but I used my 100 Pattern Paper challenge #2 pile for the papers.

 This is the right hand side of the layout. I created alot of tags for this layout for the tag challenge over at Nicole Jones Scrap-A Thon class. Used one of the project life cards from last month's kit. Also the 5 stars cover the challenge for our Scrappin N Chattin group.

My journaling.
Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing your creation for the fun challenge :)

Processing Tomatoes layout for Lasting Memories scrapbook challenge

Good Morning once again :) today is a busy day here at the blog posting.
If you are looking for the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog challenge #2 post you can find that here.
If you are looking for Sketch N Scrap Lucky Charms Crop 3rd challenge post you can find that here.

Last post of the day :) Sunday is usually for Lasting Memories Scrapbook challenges and this Sunday this is the newest challenge for March.  Our theme for March has been - March - National Month Of... and this week's challenge is:

LM #387 - National Frozen Food Month &  National Nutrition Month - 

Create a Foodie layout - you can have food in the picture, in the paper, or in the embellishments
I just love to do foodie layouts, great to have the everyday happenings in my albums. This layout came about from LOAD1017 Day 16 prompt:
I’ve got a secret…
 …to success – document something you are proud of accomplishing:

…to success – document something you are proud of accomplishing. Always proud each year what we get accomplished through the harvest season. Tomatoes this year (2017)- I had fun instagraming the process which helped with my journaling for this layout too.

Close ups of the layout. I went with a grid format cause of having so many pictures. I found that if I google the photo amount with the words scrapbook sketch I get lots of sketches to choose from. 

My title block

My journaling.

Thank you once again for stopping by today and seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world. I look forward to seeing your creation for this fun challenge linked up over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook challenges.

Logistics layout for March Lucky Charms challenge #3

If you are looking for the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog challenge #2 post you can find that here.

Good Morning again and welcome to the 3rd challenge for this month's theme over at Sketch N Scrap's  over on Facebook group and crop. The sketch:

 

and the layout I created with the sketch:

My title is the top photo, the Logistics. This was the final room to see at the PA Military Museum in Boalsburg. There is a story that I want to write for my journaling in that section between the stars and the Jeep that is why the Jeep had it's own page. See as Minneapolis Moline collectors we also know of a story about MM making the 1st Jeep, lol looks like everyone is involved in this cool vehicle cause everyone want to lay claim to it. So it is something that I want to take my time a bit to write it out on paper before adding it to the layout.
There is more information about the Logistics-branch of the Military that is on the adjoining layout to this layout that was blogged on Friday. The layout was also created with my current counterfeit kit: Florally Whimsy.
Join in our monthly Facebook Crop - March 16th - 31st,  you can upload your projects through March 31st at midnight CST.

 

Footloose and Fancy Free for the Counterfeit Kit 2nd Challenge

Good Morning and welcome to the 2nd challenge over at Counterfeit Kit challenge blog. Susan has challenged us today with a sketch :) my favorite challenge is a sketch so easy to do and with the kit prepared ahead of time the hardest part is deciding which photos to use :) This was a very quick layout, I wanted to get away from vacation photos a bit and do some current photos that  took with my phone camera.
Here is the chosen sketch:

SOURCE
A fun sketch to use :) using papers, some washi tape, diecut title, felt doily and the wood veneers from my kit: Florally Whimsy this is what I did:

Buddy and I out for a walk, it was nice to get out and get some sunshine it seems to feel like a long winter right now. 

 Close up of the photo of us and my journaling. Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing what you created for this fun challenge linked up at Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog or over at their facebook group.

Happy Easter card for Funday Friday challenge

Welcome back :) If you are looking for Sketches In Thyme Project Life Style post you'll find it here.

Hello and happy Funday Friday :) Today over at Jo's Scrap Shack our challenge is Always Anything Goes. Our sponsor this week is Little Blue Button Stamps. I had gotten The Christmas Elements digi stamp Easter wreath digital stamp. Here is the card I created :

I just loved coloring that stamp and the papers are from an old layout kit I recived that I thought the colors worked great with the stamp (bashing some old scrappy stuff. Bashket) Thanks for stopping by again today :)

 So make sure to play along this week~

    Starts: Friday, March 16th  12:00AM

   Ends:  Friday, March 23rd    6:00PM

(Eastern time)

What do you need to do to enter?

Challenge Rules

1. Please post a direct link to your blog post that includes your
challenge entry project, using the linky tool below. 

2. Be sure to include a link back to Jo's Scrap Shack and to the challenge post you are entering your project into

3. THREE entries per person are allowed for each challenge and you must post a separate blog post for each entry.

4. For all entries -NO BACK LINKS ACCEPTED- 
The date on your blog post should be dated between the start date & the end date for the challenge you are entering, in order to be eligible for the challenge & prizes

5. You may link up to other challenges but be sure to link back to Jo's Scrap Shack and to the challenge post you are entering 

 * All entries that do not meet the challenge requirements

WILL NOT be eligible for the top 3, any sponsor wins or any random wins by Jo
All random wins will only be mailed within the US and Canada only.

You have until March 23rd by 12:00AM (eastern, USA)  time to link up. 
All winners will be announced during the week of March 26th.

Have fun and we look forward to seeing what you create!

The Vehicles layout for a Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style challenge

Good Morning this is the 1st post of the day. Here is the 2nd sketch of March to challenge us over at Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style,  Emma has created a fun sketch for us to work with:

 

Here is the card I created:

 I had this fun card for to journal the definition of the word Logistics (this layout will be posted on Sunday, the other side to this layout) The layout I created around this card:

This was The Vehicles exhibit (Logistics) at the PA Military Museum. It was a great exhibit and enjoyed seeing the Museum. I found a sketch on pinterest to help me create this layout. It's also created with the tags for the focus on tags of the Scrap-A-Thon class with Nicole Jones

Close-ups:

 The had some cool displays

 The Project Life card to made into the title of the layout

 I thought this was a super cool vehicle, add the information about it too.

The hubby looking at the exhibit and my personal journaling. 

I used my curent counterfeit kit: Florally Whimsy for the layout. The card was created using last month's kit besides this month's kit. 

Thanks for stopping by today and check out the other layout that goes with this page on Sunday. I look forward to seeing what you create with this fun challenge sketch.

Simply Love layout for a Sketch N Scrap challenge

Good Morning and welcome to today's challenge over at Sketch N Scrap. Heather has created this sketch for up to play with this month:

 

and this is the layout I created with this sketch:

 Our sweet Buddy is the feature on this layout today and a story of the everyday in our house. I used my current counterfeit kit: Florally Whimsy and with a Black and Silver theme created this layout.

My journaling plus the definition cut apart was great to use with this layout

My Title

and our Buddy just sucking it all up :) Scattered punched silver hearts around the layout. I made this layout to tell a story and that was one of the challenges during Scrap-A-Thon class too.
I look forward to seeing your creation with this sketch challenge over at Sketch N Scrap

Noon layout

Good morning and welcome :) Today's layout is a combination of last month's counterfeit kit Pretty Little Pastimes and this month's kit Florally Whimsy.

This came about for the scrap-a-thon that Nicole Jones is doing (a class of her's for this month.) The focus was project Life cards and I got 5 of them on this layout. Used them mainly for layering. Using a scrap of paper from last months kit with the full background paper of this months kit for my base and the rest is project life cards from last months kit. Added the title and the 5 green puffy stars for the embellishing. That was it a simple layout for me to get done in a hurry and another for the Portersville, PA vacation trip.
Thanks for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing your creations from your Counterfeit kit.

Tractor Time for Stick It Down double page layout challenge

Hello :) Today is Stick It Down's Double Page Layout challenge. Our sponsor this month for Stick It Down challenge is:  Lottie Loves Paper!

Lottie Loves Paper is a UK based online shop for scrapbook supplies and a monthly kit club, run by Sarah Jayne. The LLP monthly embellishment kits are full of beautiful, fun, "on trend" embellishments from some of the leading scrapbook brands. The Lottie Loves Paper online shop stocks patterned papers and embellishments from brands such as Cocoa Vanilla Studio, American Crafts, Pink Paislee, Crate Paper, Simple Stories, Echo Park, Pretty Little Studio and Pinkfresh Studio. LLP offers a variety of "Add On" products each month to give you the flexibility of a larger scrapbooking kit, should you so wish.  Kits are available as a "one off purchase" or as a six month subscription.  

Lottie Loves Paper also has a thriving Facebook group where members enjoy sharing their projects made with the kits, gain inspiration from guest designers and participate in regular challenges. You can fine LLP on social media:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lottielovespaper/

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/LottieLovesPaper/

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/285155941853521/

and the Facebook UK Scrapbook group "For The Love Of Pretty Paper" can be found here:

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/352119058322839

Now here's the double page sketch for this month!

and this is what I created:

I've been created alot layouts this year with the goal of getting Vacations/Roadtrips done so been doing alot of double page layouts this year :) This sketch was so fun to use too. I loved adding the grid of photos to that empty spot in the left hand corner of the layout. Changed it up just a wee bit to add my title but stayed pretty close to the original sketch. Using paper from my 2nd 100 pattern paper pile for this layout and the project life card came from my counterfeit kit: Pretty Little Pastimes
Close up photos of the layout:

 The left hand side of the layout

 The right hand side of the layout

 My journaling, plus I added some silver metallic thread to the layout

 Close up of the grid of photos. I also added the information that we wrote down of the pictures

Thanks for stopping by today and seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world.

You have until the end of the month to play along with any - or all! - of our sketch challenges. Link up is over at Stick It Down. One winner from each sketch will be chosen and invited back as a guest designer. We also have Lottie Loves Paper sponsoring a prize for one random participant! LLP is offering a £20 voucher to spend in the online shop!

Heart n Chain card for Funday Friday challenge

Good Morning and welcome to my blog :) Happy March and Happy Funday Friday
over at Jo's Scrap Shack for the Always Anything Goes challenge our sponsor for this challenge is DigiStamps 4 Joy  I got to use a sweet digistamp from DigiStamps 4 Joy:

Now I'm ready for May :) a card for the hubby. It'll be our 25th Anniversary. So really need to think about what I want to write on the inside of the card :)

 Thanks for stopping by and seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world.

Our Sponsor this week is:

  The winner will win $10 worth of digis to their online store!

 So make sure to play along this week~

    Starts: Friday, March 2nd 12:00AM

 Ends:  Friday,  March 9th  12:00AM

(Eastern time)

What do you need to do to enter?

Challenge Rules

1. Please post a direct link to your blog post that includes your
challenge entry project, using the linky tool below. 

2. Be sure to include a link back to Jo's Scrap Shack and to the challenge post you are entering your project into

3. THREE entries per person are allowed for each challenge and you must post a separate blog post for each entry.

4. For all entries -NO BACK LINKS ACCEPTED- 
The date on your blog post should be dated between the start date & the end date for the challenge you are entering, in order to be eligible for the challenge & prizes

5. You may link up to other challenges but be sure to link back to Jo's Scrap Shack and to the challenge post you are entering 

 * All entries that do not meet the challenge requirements

WILL NOT be eligible for the top 3, any sponsor wins or any random wins by Jo
All random wins will only be mailed within the US and Canada only.

You have until March 9th  12:00AM (eastern, USA) time to link up.

All winners will be announced during the week of   March 12th

Have fun and we look forward to seeing what you create!

CKC-March Kit Reveal-Florally Whimsy

Happy March! So glad to see February gone and welcome to the sun and hopefully warmer temps this month. Good Morning and welcome to March's Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog. You should have come to my stop from Margie: Margie's Blog, I'm looking forward to seeing what she came up with for her kit :)
Creatively, Susan has created a fun kit for our inspiration this month. She put it together based on the formula Jill Sprott used in her stash-busting challenge series.  You can read all about Jill's concept and formula here on her blog. I'm gonna have to go check out that formula :) 

I just loved the earthy tones going on with this kit. I was drawn to the florals and the geometrics too and such sweet colors. So I went into my 100 pattern paper pile and come up with my kit

Florally Whimsy

I tried to stay with in the colors that Susan had, finding lots of papers in my pile that worked. I added lots of hearts and stars and some textures too. 

 My papers :) sorry about the sun coming through the curtains :) but so glad to see it. Going with blues, teals, golds, black n white, stripes in a variety of ways and diagonals too, Lots of florals, wood grains, dots, few words and grabbed a few scrap papers too. I come to find out I'm in need of vellum not many left in my stash.

 Alphas: Seem to be drawn to browns this month and a couple of ones I would like to get used up if possible

 Washi tapes, wood veneer, die cuts, chipboard, and grab those metal edge frames when I saw them they reminded me of the tags Susan had in her kit.

 Felt, lots of die cuts and some puffy too with some twill I had gotten at Christmas time wrapped around some gifts :)

Thank you for stopping by today and now your off to instagram to see what kind of cool kit Laura has created from this sweet inspiration over at her instagram spot

and if you get lost here is the whole list:

Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog - http://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/
Guest Designer Libeeti - https://creationswithlove-li-bee-ti.blogspot.co.il/
Kelly - https://www.honeysucklehillcrafts.com/
Leslie - http://lcsmithsaved-outofthemire.blogspot.com/
Lisa - http://lisahausmann.blogspot.com/
Lori - http://loriannie670.blogspot.com/
Margie - http://scrappinmargie.blogspot.com/
Tina - http://tinasscrapcorner.blogspot.com/
Laura - https://www.instagram.com/mrsp_scrapsandtea/