The First Football Game LO

Good Morning! Welcome to May. Today I have many things to tell you but first I wanted to mention I will be doing a 2nd round of 50 layouts challenge, starting today.
The 2-page LO I have today I did this past Sunday at a crop so it was part of the 1st round of 50.

I used echo park Touch Down collection kit, that I got through one of the daily specials online buying sites, it was perfect to mark Avery and Elias first football game. We were excited to be there and root on Williamsport Red and see the boys play.

 The left hand side holds a large photo of the boys all geared up, a variety of other pictures taken throughout the game. The collection kit was nice cause it had the paper, the stickers and the cutouts for the layout.

The right hand side holds more pictures including Pap Campbell holding 2 more grandkids, they love to sit on his lap. The large title from the sticker sheet and a journaling card from the cutout sheet. Everything on this layout was in the kit.

 I popped up Allstar with foam tape and touchdown was attached with a glue dot which gave it some dimension too.

 Added the leftover strip from the cutoff to make it a 12 X 12. A fun journaling card for the center.

 The top border was from the cutout sheet and a variety of stickers scattered about the layout. All I need to do yet is journal about the game

The cool title that was on the sticker sheet.
So the other couple of things I wanted to mention is:

So inlight of this I joined up with LOAD514:

I'm looking forward to scrapbooking the daily prompts and will try to post what I'm doing throughout the month. It's going be a hectic crafting month, but a fun one too. Today is also the reveal day for the new Counterfeit Kit Challenge, didn't get a chance to use up all the kit from last month even though I tried my best:

 Lots of paper left, but I put it aside because I have a feeling I'm gonna use it up with LOAD514

The other thing is that Counterfeit Kit Challenge is putting on a weekend event this weekend for National Scrapbook Day. It starts at 8am MST so that means 11 Am for me (plenty of time to do some house cleaning before it takes place or if I hadn't done so get my kit put together. Posts will go live every 2 hours. A mix of inspiration and challenges (I did see mentioned about color inspired challenges). All challenges are open to May 16th plenty of time to get them done.
What are your plans for National Scrapbooking Day?  Have a great day:)

Sawmill Layout

Good Afternoon you all and welcome. This double layout makes 50 layouts done since Jan 1, 2014 I conquered the challenge! Sweet now I can add all my dedicated monthly local club purchases into my stash and start another round. I still have lots of stash to use up :)

This was taken during the Bark's Peelers' Convention July 3, 2010, that we attended. This is a 2 page layout of the Sawmill in action.

The left side of the layout shows the process from the pond to the log being cut into usable wood. I thought best to use a grid style layout for this.

The right side shows how the sawdust leaves the mill to keep the dust down. The conveyor then takes it to an empty wagon. Also shown the lower level of the mill where the belts and pulleys operate.

I used paper from both the March and April counterfeit kits and still haven't killed the kits yet, but I have a plan for next month that might killed all the kits :) the letter stickers came from this month's kit.

The arrows were cut the day I was doing a lot of cutting with the cameo. I pulled the metal paper from a masculine paper pack that I got at Walmart a few years ago.

The SAWMALL lettering I pulled from my alphas stash I knew I had some letters that represent wood and worked out great for the layout.

Added a 3X4 journaling card from the journaling pads in this month's kit. It was a fun layout to make and so glad to finish up my 50 layouts last night.
Yesterday's layout was featured on "Lasting Memories" Scrapbook Layout Challenges. I Feel so blessed by my Lord to have the creativeness I have. I have so much fun trying out the challenges and that is enough for me, my rewards are in what I create and any new techniques I learn along the way
Today, I will be taking off from the creativeness and preparing my room for something I signed up for and want to give a try. It's called LOAD514. More details tomorrow with the other layout I did on Sunday to show you :)

May is National Scrapbooking Month-tomorrow there will be a new kit to work up for Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog (check out the hop tomorrow) and they have big plans for Scrapbooking Day on Saturday and they are also doing things on Sunday too so a full weekend of fun, challenges and prizes at Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog :) What are your plans for the month?

Croquet Layout

Hi you all, how are you on this fine Tuesday morning? It's a bit windy here where I live. I was at a crop this past Sunday and got  layouts done :) Here is 2 of them: a 2-page layout:

This was taking place during Tammy's visit in June 2013. We had a family get together and I found the kids playing croquet. It was so much fun watching Bradley-Tammy's youngest teaching his cousins how to play that I had to get the pictures through the process.
Right side:

Right side: I used part of March's kit and April's kit for these pages. The base pages are from the March kit and the ruler cardstock is from April's kit. I had a lot of pictures of this event and wanted to show case all of them so alot of them were cute down to 2.5" and I was able to border both sides with them.
Left Side:

Left side housed the title of the layout this came from one of the sticker packs of the current kit. More of the 2.5" pictures

Up close of that side border: the checkered cardstock is from the current kit: Echo Park: Sweet Day

Up close pics

This was the center piece where it was cut and went on both sides. This paper came from a paper pack I got at big lots, great for a crop cause it was all precut. the Family and together came from a precut pack of words, probably K&Company and the croquet pieces are from Jolees:Croquet stickers

Close up of the right side bottom, I included a 3x4 card from a Memories-big something pack (I'm at work typing this up so not access to my stash :) and the smile was a cut out from the sweet day sheet, perfect for our G-daughter when she that I was taking photo she made sure to smile :)

I will be including this in the challenge: Lasting Memories: for Earth Day/Arbor Day what a way to spend the day on this earth :)

Thanks for stopping by, hope to have the other 2-page layout that I did posted tomorrow

Moving Forward

Hi you all and yay to the weekend. Since I have blogger I get this wondeful morning informational email of what all my favorite blogger sites are doing and sketchabilities had this super cute sketch that I knew I had to try. So this is my take on the sketch:

and this is the sketch:

Isn't this a fun sketch :) So I had this up for a couple of days on my computer, so I could see what I wanted to do with it and Wednesday night I started digging through my top drawer for some pictures and came across these 2 thought yep they are the ones. I used my current counterfeit kit for the layout other than the holly & berries paper that was from another layout I did this past week.

I painted the right side with Making Memories paint effect kit: Springtime, I liked the effect so much that I painted a border all around the page.

 The pictures are of me and Buddy Christmas Eve 2005, I used the frames in the kit to frame the pictures, the chevrons were punch out with a SU punch and CTMH: Charming Chevrons Flair stamp set was used with perfect pearls to create the metallic look. Added a sticker from the colorbok Antique Paperie collection. The doily was a cut out ad I finished up those negative cut dots on the doily with some glossy accents. The words moving forward thought was fitting cause we moved on from one shot to the next trying to get the perfect picture which didn't happen but got these 2 supper cute pics instead. The heart came from CTMH Florentine sticker pack

 I finished up that scallop tape for one of strips, and included the gold cutout I did one night doing a variety of cuts on my cameo, and the top strip was just punched with EKsuccess  punch scallop scallop. The hearts are the negative cuts from something I cut, to cute to throw out so I finally got a layout it would work on. The variety of sprinkled dots is from stickles: waterfall

 The bow was cut that night too, did a few of these bows in a variety of papers and weights of papers too. The first ones didn't come out so well but after chatting with an online friend found out you have to curve it with a boner first like you would for ribbon to give it the spiral look after that it didn't look to bad, I added stickles to the center piece of the bow. The journaling card was cut in half and came from Simple Stories documented line.
I haven't gotten the jist of the splattered look yet, but I'm enjoying working on it.

CKC April Blog Hop-Kraut Layout

Good morning and welcome to Counterfeit Kit Challenge April Blog Hop. If you came here from Jemma's blog then your on the right track if not then you want to go back to Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog and check out what all the girls are doing in the hop. the challenges this month are: 

Challenge #1 - Blog Design Challenge: Use the blog design from one of the Master Forgers as inspiration for your project.

Challenge #2 - Pocket Page Inspiration: Make a pocket page card (3x4 or 4x6) the star of your project.

Challenge #3 - BIG Title: Use a large title (or sentiment) on your project.

I chose Challenge #3: the BIG title on the layout but I think that I've got some pocket page inspiration going on too :) So my layout is called "Kraut"-this is what we call sauerkraut in our house and my husband has been heard calling it "Krut" too, so it was a toss up of the title and the coin chose Kraut :) 
This layout came about from a sketch I found in a magazine:

 This is from Creating Keepsakes Nov/Dec 2012 issue: the inspiration was the right hand side of the layout

 I worked on the layout at a church craft day and I always take magazines to crops for inspiration cause I don't consider taking my laptop. 

Here is the big title representing canning kraut. The journaling card came from October Afternoon Farm Girl collection (this collection fits us so well :) This was a day this past year of canning Kraut and my husband is the master-canner in our house he even taught this city girl (very small city type girl, lol! ) how to can. See my Mom didn't can at all, so I had no idea how to do it till I met him. 

I usually help, but this was all him doing it this time and I was able to get a few shots of the process. We definitely enjoy going down in the basement and grabbing a can of something or out of our freezer for anything we have processed and stored that way for our dinner each night. This is Part of our Everyday life :)

I love that I was also able to add a negative cut that makes a great looking frame to encase that picture of the jars of kraut.
Case file #112: I think I used all the colors from the scheme. The evidence: I used the pattern background, something sheer (the vellum), frame was used and I think I can say that I paneled the collage of pictures. For the testimony: this is our tranquility and the vellum canning jar behind the title not a pocket though, but it's holding the title very well :)

Thanks for stopping by and off you go to Isbaha's blog
and if you get lost along the way here is the full list of hoppers:

CKCB           http://www.counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com

Jemma         http://just-jimjams.blogspot.co.uk

Tina              http://tinasscrapcorner.blogspot.com

Isbaha          http://isbahashome.blogspot.fr

Lesley          http://ohblogitifyoucantbeatthem.blogspot.co.uk

Annie            http://www.artyfartyannie.co.uk

Elaine           http://chidkids26.blogspot.co.uk

Leslie           http://lcsmithsaved-outofthemire.blogspot.com

Kate             http://kateblue.blogspot.com

Virginia         http://celtichouse.blogspot.co.uk

Kim              http://texassantagertrudis.blogspot.com

Maggie         http://maggiebscrapblog.blogspot.fr

Julene          http://julenebydesign.blogspot.com.au

Lisa              http://lisahausmann.blogspot.de

1st Christmas Layout

Good Morning to you :) We took over Zachary's 1st year album last night to our son and daughter-in-law's place and the album was well received, just the look on their faces while looking through the album sure does make it all worthwhile :) Well a 1st year album needs a 1st Christmas Layout:

This is probably the 1st layout I did in quite awhile that wasn't made up entirely of my counterfeit kit, but I did get a bit of it in  and on the layout with that journaling tag and the puffy ribbon attached to the tag :) I pulled out my Christmas box full of Christmas related paper and found this fun kraft style snowman paper for the double page layout. The first Christmas title was a laser cut I had gotten from our local store a few years ago just for this project.

 The left side of the layout is to mat the main Christmas picture and journaling of the day by his mom.

The right side includes the mats for other pictures of the other grandparents, we are the 3rd set of grandparents and usually are the last to see the kids over the holidays, but made sure to include the 2 Christmas pictures that I had from that visit in the center of the layout.

The journaling tag did come from the tag cutout sheet that was in my April Counterfeit kit  (totally forgot that I did cut that out and added it to the layout I just covered up the image that was on there with a Christmas sticker from the dollar store Christmas Laser Saying stickers pack.

 Here I fussy cut a strip of cardstock to have that word border a cross both pages of the layout and another sticker

 The plaid and the holly paper both came out of that Christmas box full of paper too.

Lots of stickers used throughout the layouts.

I feel pretty good that I was able to get this book accomplished (a goal for this year), I spent my free time on Easter finishing up the album with this 2-pg layout and 7 other pages that were mainly just done up as pre-made pages and all Katherine needs to do is add the pictures and the journaling.
Thanks for stopping by today and stop back tomorrow for the Counterfeit Kit challenge-April blog hop.

Road Trip-LO 3- Antique Tractor Exhibit

Happy Easter to my bloggy family, I hope you are enjoying the day with God and your family. I whipped up this layout last night.

Do you know the secret to getting a layout done quickly? I sure do, I use a sketch to help me out and at Counterfeit Kit challenge blog this month that is one of the inspirations. So I seen this sketch when I was perusing my email and knew it was a good one for these 3 pictures it's from Sketch-N-Scrap.

I tried to follow along with it pretty closely.

 I sprinkled some dots that I had left over from a cut and added glossy accents.

 The journaling spot is from the Vintage Transportation PL core kit, these have been sitting on my desk from a project that I did last month so it's nice to put them to use and it works well for these layouts.

 I used the time face paper for one of the backgrounds and wanted to make sure that some of it came through the layout. I added a sticker from the Colorbok-Antique Paperie Clear Stickers w/Gems pack.

 The luggage tag added the date of the event, final destination of heading home and some final thoughts of the day that didn't fit on the journaling tag added CTMH bakers twine:Grey Wool. Next to the tag is another journaling spot from the same kit, sure does explain our feelings of the trip and gives it a nice little title to the page.

This is the overall center section of the layout, I used papers and washi tape from my April kit. These were the last pictures that we took that day and thought it would make a great layout to tie it all up.

Thanks for stopping by today and I wish you all a blessed Easter, we had wonderful blessings this week that we have praised God for :)