#TBT Halloween 1995 a Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style challenge

Good Morning and Happy Friday to you :) I hope you are somewhere where the sun is shining! We are missing the sun here been mostly rain lately and looking forward to seeing the sun.
The title block of the layout came from this fun Project Life sketch over at Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style. I fell into the craze of Project Life cards when it first came out thinking I would transition into Project Life scrapbooking, but didn't fall in love with it so now I try to use them in my Scrapbooking, which I do love to do. Finding that these fun sketch challenges help with this and a good way to add a project life card to a layout. So this mid-month sketch:
 Now, on to Sketch #102 - courtesy of Emma!

This is the card I created using this sketch. It come from the Project Life core kit Vintage Travel

 The pre-written part on the card worked out for this particular layout. I found that looking through the cards in this core kit that I need to have them handy cause they can be used for alot of things besides travel so time to use up the stash I have!

The layout I made around this card:

 Used some black cardstock for my background, just a wee bit of my current counterfeit kit (Glitter tape, gold glitter hashtag and a few things from my last counterfeit kit plus some theme paper and those fun black glitter dazzles and this layout is called done. I used the sketch over at Let's Get Sketchy for my inspiration for the overall layout:

and I used the LOAD518 Day 17 prompt for my layout theme: Throwback Thursday. Story: Use an old photo to throwback to an earlier day Technique: Use retro embellishments or old stuff from your stash. Using both the old photo and old stuff from my stash (Halloween stickers I had forever! it seems)

 My journaling

 Close up of the picture of my kids plus the card I created

Adding some fun word stickers too. Adding Gold Heidi shine mist to the layout to give the black a bit of something. There it is in a nut shell :) I look forward to seeing what you create with this fun sketch :)

Hey Girl Your Awesome LO of Sketch N Scrap challenge

Good Morning :) Welcome to another cool challenge over at Sketch N Scrap. This is the sketch we are to use for this challenge:

and the layout I created using this sketch:

I had fun creating this layout for Sketch N Scrap using the sketch. Tells a story of when I was writing the newsletter for the Moline Gold Collectors Assoc. an Antique Tractor Club my husband and I belong to. I become treasurer the same year. Something I volunteered to do and did for 10 years.

 Close ups of the photos and the title spot.

Using my current counterfeit kit: Geometric Beauty for the most of the elements of the layout but I had also brought in some things from my stash too.

 The journaling, bit hard to read unless you have it in front of you

So I wrote it on this paper to attach to the back of the layout.
Thanks for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing your creation for this challenge and all the challenges we having going on this month over at Sketch N Scrap
 May is in full swing here at Sketch N Scrap as we celebrate turning SIX YEARS OLD this month!!  We are in process of our Sixth Birthday Bash Crop on our Facebook page  WOW!  SO much excitement!!  

We hope you will join us!!!  We can't wait to see what you create!

Together for a Sketches In Thyme Project Life Style challenge

Good Morning and Welcome to the 2nd half of the month's challenge over at Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style :) Today we have this cool sketch to use, me I used it for my journaling card on my layout:

 

this is what I created with this sketch:

 Now this card goes with this layout:

 A layout created from LOAD218 day 15: I can do anything! Something hard of difficult.
The large photo is of my younger kids :) Thank goodness for these large portrait style photos for I'm not one to have large photos around as I don't scrap them that often and at the moment I'm out of ink for my printer :) I told a story of my greatest joy at that time with the kids as being a single mom there are plenty of hard  and difficult stories to tell and way to much to tell on one scrapbook page :) so choose a simple memory :)

 The card on the layout

Details of the layout including the fussy cut flowers. I used my current counterfeit kit: Pretty Little Pastimes for the card the paper that I fussy cut the flowers from and the enamel dots

and a close up of the kids :)

Thanks for stopping by and I look forward to seeing your creation for this fun challenge over at  Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style :)

My List to See

Good Morning :) Sorry so quiet, been scraping each day, but not had the time to post them yet. Guess I need to work on prepping the blog atleast weekly to get the pages up on here. Today is the 3rd week to the new month's challenge over at Lasting Memories: Word Play is the theme this month - use some form of the word on your layout - can be in the title, in the journaling or even on an embellishment.and this week's challenge is Dream - you could use dream, dreamer, dreaming, daydream, etc.:

  I have dream in my journaling. This has been a dream and a life long passion of mine to see and be in each of the United States. This layout was produced during LOAD1017 Day 23 prompt:
I’ve got a secret……love – tell about something you have dreamed of doing with your life but have never acted to make it happen. You might reveal if you would do it if you could possibly make it happen today.
  This is something I had always wanted to do throughout my life seeing all 50 states. The blue states are the ones I have been to and seen even just for a little bit through my life. So I guess now I have a bucket list to conquer :)

I used lots of scraps from my 100 Pattern Paper challenge pile on this layout plus a Black/Orange/Purple challenge that month over at Scrappin N Chattin.

 used some word stickers too

My journaling.
Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing your creation real soon over at the Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge blog.

Adulting Today layout

I created this layout from the help of LOAD1017 I've got a Secret Day2:

…to successful adulting – document how you stay organized 

Not the planner type girl more of the post-it, list it on a scrap of paper type girl. Used scraps from SS Daily Grind collection for the layout:

 I also got inspiration for the layout from a sketch over at The Memory Nest #95

Love the layering of the sketch :) I'm not one for huge letters for a title, but I used the largest ones on the sticker sheet that came with the Daily Grind collection.

Close up of the pictures. We use a planner for our daily journaling

The title.
Thanks for stopping by today :) Will have the last sketch needed for the Fall Frenzy challenge over at The Memory Nest up in a bit :) Need to make 1st :)

To Cool For School

This layout was created from LOAD1017 I've got a secret Day 6: …past –a school memory:

 This prompt brought back lots of memories and this is the one I chose to tell that day. Yes I did do that :) I guess I was in a stage in preteen year that I just didn't want to go to school. If I remember correctly thinking I was 12 when this happened cause I think Steve was still in school so either 12 or 13. Oh my did I get when Mom and Dad came home from vacation!
I got a bit of help with this layout from the Sketch over at The Memory Nest #97

 What a fun sketch to play with :) I love to use sketches just makes my scrapping so easy :) and quick too. Something that is needed during LOAD month.

 My journaling

 Close up of the title block and photo

 I found this fun meme online to include in the layout :) Thanks for stopping by once again to see what I'm up to in my little corner of the world :)

New Life Changes layout

From LOAD1017 Day 29: …diary – if you’re a planner girl, this will be a cinch! Document your signature daily routine. It may be just one element – do you weigh yourself first thing in the morning, or always start with a double shot caramel macchiato?

I went with a photo that I had taken of my locker at work. My journaling talks about some of the changes I made to work my shift. While most people get up at 6 AM to have thier coffee I get up at 6PM to start my day with a cup of coffee. A little bit about my day. Changes in my life to accommodate my new job. 1 year Anniversary this month :)

  

A nice easy layout using Simple Stories Daily Grind collection (just about got this one done!) and a sketch over at Sketches in Thyme sketch #297

 

 A very interesting sketch.

 Some of my journaling and a cluster

 Some more journaling with this cluster

 Bottom cluster

Title and another cluster :)

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

Love Being A Girl layout

Hello :) This is another LOAD1017 inspired prompt layout. This layout came from Day 18: I've got a secret..... …about girls. What do you love about being a girl?
This was a really tough prompt for me so many ways to go with it! it was hard to narrow down my choice. I found these odd photos that I printed out for some past LOAD and went from there. Our local paper does women in our local history every month and I just love to read the articles and I think that is where my story evolved around what it is to be a girl now and just wrote a small portion of my feelings (this could have been pages and pages of journaling :)

 I used the Oct 15 Sketch over at Stuck?! for this layout

This was a fantastic sketch to add all those fun stickers to. Love the touch of the tag again for this layout and added word strips to that area too.

 Close up of the journaling I added to the bottom of the layout.

Thanks for stopping by again to my little corner of the world.......

Brother N Sister layout

This is a LOAD1017 inspired layout for the prompt it is from Day 3: I've got a secret....... Day 3 :

…about boys – document an important male relationship in your life

I documented this layout about my brother Steve:

 I used the sketch over at Stuck?! the Oct 1st sketch for inspiration for the layout:

Sweet sketch for this fun prompt and found a few pictures of us together throughout the years.

My brother Steve was my focus for this prompt :) I have 2 brothers and they are both older than me, but Steve and I had a closer relationship since we were closer in age we grew up together. Chose 3 photos of us through the years and a bonus to have one with Mom :) One from our early years, one from our 20s and one from just recently within the last 5 years.

Close up of the journaling. 

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My 1st Ride for a Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge

Good Morning and welcome to the new week's challenge over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge blog. This month's theme is All About Patterns and this week's challenge is stripes.

 This layout was created for LOAD517 Legends of Hollywood Day 20  
Grease – 1978
What kind of car do you drive now, or what was your first car, or what car did your parents drive wen you were young, or how do you get around without a car?
I went with a story of my youth for this prompt and about my parents too. It was cool to see this bus at the local Transportation Museum it brought back alot of memories from me but that is a story for another time, this is the story I told for this prompt.This was my very 1st ride growing up :) Buses I remember the most, but Taxis too. My parents (era:1967) they didn't drive. Not sure why, but they never did so for me this was my normal. Till I started going places with my Aunt.
 I don't use stripes very often but I do try to get them into my counterfeit kit each month when I can. I used a picture of my parents I found while looking through slides, there isn't many with them together :) Also a picture of the bus that was at the museum.
Thank you for stopping by today and have a great holiday tomorrow to all my USA bloggers :) I look forward to seeing what you create for this fun challenge over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook challenge.

Playtime Memories

Another layout, another sketch challenge :) This came from day 4 of LOAD817mini. In Now and Then  the girls work together to buy a treehouse, a true symbol of childhood. What iconic symbols of childhood have untold stories in your life?

 Barbie dolls were very iconic in my childhood :) Some of my favorite memories of my childhood was around playing with my Barbie dolls. I also had the little Dawn dolls too :) I'm thinking these photos are from around 1973 when I was around 11 years old.
I used the Jump Start sketch over at the ScrapRoom blog

 

 This was a funs sketch and so many layers :) I used an old paper pad for a few of my papers and I used buttons and stickers from my counterfeit kit last month: Geometric Splatter

 Close up of the layers and photos

 The journaling:

Thanks for stopping by again today :)