It's a Lasting Memories Blog Hop

Welcome to the hop! Wow 300 challenges congrats to Lasting Memories.

If you came from Haven's blog then you are right where you need to be if not then you may want to got back to Lasting Memories and start at the beginning of the blog hop :)

Welcome to Lasting Memories 300th Challenge blog hop! Several of our design team members are playing along and offering up some blog candy, so be sure to stop by each of their blogs.

Our theme for July is "Childhood Games". Each week you will make your layout based on the photo/game provided. Our first challenge is "Marbles". Here is your inspiration photo:

My inspiration from the challenge picture was the colors and the cluster of marbles:

I did this during a class with Nicole Jones Demystifying Clustering class and taking a bunch of the same things and clustering them around the picture. Me I did it around the vellum quote I found :) with the thought in mind and the inspirational picture from lasting memories thought it was a great combination for the layout :)

Donna is one of my bestest friends we met through our Antique Tractor club and instantly became friends and we have alot in common too :) So when I had my husband take this picture of us together I knew that friendship was the fitting story here for the layout. I used some of my March Counterfeit Kit Camera Crazy for this layout.

Close ups of the layout:

One lucky blogger will win some blog candy from me to, (the candy is a surprise! I wasn't able to get a picture of it before the posting :) whoever leaves a comment on this blog post, if you’re not already a follower, please sign up! I’ll announce my winner on Sunday's July 10th Lasting Memories post so that gives you 6 days:) so leave some blog love before you go off and see what my DT sisters are creating:

Thanks so much for hopping along with us! Next up on the hop is Sandy's blog 

Here is the order of the blog hop in case you get lost along the way:

Lauren

Michelle

Lori

Haven

Tina

Sandy

Barbara

Lasting Memories

Challenges that I want to link up too:
Another Freaky Scrappy Challenge: Butterflies in your work :)

24/7

This is from LOAD516 Day 4 theme is Life by the Numbers and the prompt is: Chores! Hmmmmm so I've done a layout about chores once before using my playlist for the theme. So I decided to focus on the actual chores for this layout. I also I would include about the new schedule I'm doing at that time that came with the new job.

I used a collage of photos for this layout this was a challenge over at Scrappin N Chattin yahoo group and I grabbed a piece of theme pattern paper from SU pattern pack for part of the layout and the 24/7 paper from my March's counterfeit kit Camera Crazy that I saved back to use this month as soon as I heard what LOAD would be about.
I used the sketch over at Let's Get Sketchy week #1 sketch:

 This was such a fun sketch to play with and very easy to adapt a collage of photos to the layout. I used the monthly calendar pattern paper for half the layout and use that 24/7 for the title too.

 punched out some stars and doodled around them to give more umph!

The collage photo. A little bit of what I do in the name of chores. Refill the bird feeders, laundry, suppers and making sure the counter is cleaned of dishes each night is just some of what I do during the week.

That's One Handsome Boy

Good Morning you all :) This is gonna be a short post today, doing it up before heading to work this morning :) I had totally forgot about doing my DT project for Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style, you ever have one of those moments? when you see the date and dawns on you that you are to have your project in to hostess 2 hours from now! Yep did and went through that last night.

 This is the 4X6 card I made last night :) Zachary becoming a big boy and getting his first pair of real shoes, he had been walking a couple of months when this picture was taken :) This is my take

On this fabulous new sketch by our super talented Maven, Shawn Lahr.....

Sketch #21.....

Isn't this a cool sketch :) Love the layer look to it.

 Here is the layout I did with it. I used the card within the collage of photos. The idea of the layout came from Scrapbook Challenges new challenge series: Liftapalooza 2016 this is my lift of ALi's layout that was featured which you can find here

I had chose this paper awhile back for this layout with plans to do it :) So glad to finally get it scrapped :)

A close up of the collage of photos and the card

The title came from a sticker I found

Close up of the journaling in the corner of the layout. So I guess I'm gonna have to get my planning calendar out and actually start using it so this doesn't happen again :) Thank goodness for my last month's Camera Crazy counterfeit kit was handy so I can grab a couple of papers to get this layout done in very quick time.  Thanks so much for stopping by to see what I'm up to in my little corner of the world :)
And the prize that is up for grabs this month:

The prize this month is this fabulous Life in Pictures stamp set. Don't you love these old cameras? 

You have until April 30, 2016 to add your links! 

The Daily Grind

Good Morning you all :) Well I guess it was about time I create this year's goals layout :) This was a layout made during Calvinball, but it was created for over at Paper Issues for their crop weekend last month for their selfie challenge. Speaking of Calvinball I had a fantastic time playing along I made #15 in the overall count board for the month and create 31 different crafty projects over the month.

I do goals each year and this time decided to do it with a scrapbook layout :) Maybe a yearly layout for my All About Me album will be taking place. I used my Camera Crazy kit, last month's counterfeit kit, for the layout. After hearing what the theme will be for May LOAD over at Scrap Happy I thought best to save the rest of the Simple Story collections: Daily Grind and 24/7 for that LOAD. But I did get a few layouts made from the collections, this being one of them.
I used the sketch over at The Memory Nest for my layout inspiration Make it Monday No. 56

I really like the layers of this sketch and was able to use a PL card for the 4X4 photo spot.

 The selfie of me was taken Jan 1 of this year, I try to reflect on the past year and think of what I accomplish and then list what I want to accomplish in the year ahead. This is that list.

 I got an Easy title for my layout from the Daily Grind sticker sheet and just loved this 6X12 paper that was in the collection for the Date spot and some fun phrases too.

As my favorite color is purple besides gold I knew I had to add just a bit to the layout and was able to accomplish that with the doily for the peeking layer that was on the sketch. This was one of the quickest layouts I've done in along time and I let the words on the papers be the embellishing of the layout.
Thank you for stopping by today and seeing the view from my little corner of the world

Practice Makes Awesome

Hi you all :) Well Calvinball is winding down :) It was a blast and lots of talk over at Get It Scrapped about doing it again in July :) That would be fun I could do Christmas in July and get all those Christmas Layouts and projects done then :) I guess I'll have to wait and see what happens. I did get my Demystifying Clustering class with Nicole Jones completed and preparing to start Ready, Sketch, Go! a collaboration with Tracie Claiborne and Jen Schow. I've got the 1st layout from the 1st sketch started :)

A fun layout of Waylon at the bowling alley, Sabrina and a friend of her's went :) My word the Sabrina is amazing going bowling will carrying her twins! Looks like by the score Waylon did pretty darn good :)
This layout was inspired by Scrapbook Challenges: Sketch 197 – Updated
 
I really like how it turned out and the fun swirl piece across the photo was a negative cut from the silhouette that has been hanging around my craft desk, so cool to add it to the layout.

 Looks like he's in the zone :)

 Splatters scattered about the layout

The journaling :) It was a fun layout to do :) Thanks for stopping by and seeing what I'm doing in my little corner of the world

Derby for the Lasting Memories layout challenge

Good Morning and Happy Easter to you. I went to a beautiful church service this morning at the church that I got married in, it was wonderful to be back in the chapel for the Lord this time. I've been going through some christian changes and looking to attend a church that is closer to me on my side of the river. It's been a long 2 years since I stepped into church for a Sunday Service, I go each week for bible study on Wednesdays so I'm usually in church each week. It's a journey, but one that I need to do. I hope your Easter was a good one today too.
The latest challenge is up over at Lasting Memories today, and it is the final challenge of this month. Our theme this month has been "Welcome to the Oscars" and our last challenge is - "And the award goes to..." This could mean sports, trophies, school awards, etc. I found this picture in my stash of printed photos and I have many that would fit this challenge, I decided to do this one.

Elias, our grandson, he is the 2nd son of Albert's family. We were so proud t o see this picture on FB, we are always so proud to see the grandkids achieve in their life. So that day Elias was the star, winning that trophy.
I had inspiration for my layout from Whimsical Musings Challenge #124 - Inspired by stars, constellations, or the night sky I was very inspired by stars for my layout. i was also inspired by my Demystifying Clustering class by Nicole Jones this was lesson #13, just a couple more to go :) It's been a fun class and so glad to be learning so much about clustering. Also inspired by Calvinball :) with that I make sure I add things to increase my points :) and then I get inspiration from my counterfeit kit Camera Crazy. That is what is great about scrapbooking there is so many places to look for inspiration for layouts.

 Close up of Elias and that trophy :) Plus 2 clusters: large one on top and the small one on the bottom

 The journaling spot, love having cutaparts in the kit, they are great for this kind of thing too. That 1st place ribbon was in the stamps that I included in this month's kit. It was done with heat embossing with gold embossing powder. It was s fun addition to the layout

The top cluster is the medium cluster. Thank you for stopping by today and see what I'm up to in my little corner of the world. I look forward to seeing what you create this week for this challenge. All Challenges end on 4/1/16

A Moment Outside My Window for a Funday Friday

Hi you all and welcome to Funday Friday :) I hope you all are having a chance to enjoy a long weekend :) Looks like the weather here is gonna be pretty decent so some time outside too maybe in order for the weekend :) This past week the Design Team was announced over at Jo's Scrap Shack great to see so many new faces welcome ladies to Funday Friday team :)
Today's Funday Friday challenge theme is Anything Goes over at Jo's Scrap Shack and the sponsors this week are Di's Digi Stamps and Bugaboo Stamps.

 

 This was a purely fun layout to make no real reason behind making the layout other than to include the fun digi stamp. Yesterday was not a good day to find the pictures that I had in mind for the layout, but so glad that I have a variety of pictures that are printed out and ready to go in a moments notice :) A cleanup of the room in April is now a must do if I'm losing pictures and stamps. This layout was inspired by Whimsical Musings Challenge #10 - Inspired by what’s right outside your window
I also used a sketch to help me along with my layout. I used the Throwback Thursday Sketch #3 over at Sketch N Scrap

 

I like when I can add a stamp to my layout and this one was so cool when I seen it over at Bugaboos that I knew it would be used for a layout. I used Bugaboo's Winter Bird House stamp for my layout:

I colored it up with a variety of markers. More close ups of the layout:

The Title came from the  Whimsical Musings challenge and the journaling about the photos, not much just the vitals.

The cluster with the stamp

Just small clusters with this layout :p I used my current counterfeit kit: Camera Crazy for the journaling and part of the title paper and the word sticker and alphas.

Thank you for stopping by today and seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world. I look forward to seeing what you create for this challenge and link it up over at Jo's Scrap Shack

Our Sponsors this week are:

   The winner will win a $12 gift voucher to Di's online store!!!!

and

The winner will win a 7 pack of digis of their choice!!!!


 So make sure to play along this week~

    Starts: Friday, March 25th 12:00AM

Ends: Friday, April 1st 6:00PM

(Eastern time)

What do you need to do to enter?

Challenge Rules

1. Please post a direct link to your card/project post that includes your challenge,

using the linky tool over at Jos.

2. Be sure to include a link back to our challenge

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

4. All entries must be NEW and created for the current challenge.

5. You may combine with other challenges as long as you link back to us in your post.

 * All entries that do not meet the challenge requirements

Will not be eligible for top 3 or random wins (optional from sponsors prizes)

Any random wins will only be mailed within the US and Canada only.

You have until April 1st by 6:00PM (eastern) time to link up.

All winners will be announced during the week of April 4th.

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

Joy of Spring for the Counterfeit Kit Challenge March Blog Hop

Hi you all and Good Morning :) Another cool Blog Hop with Counterfeit Kit Challenge, would be great to see you all play along too. You should have come to my blog from the creative Susanne's blog :) So excited to go and see what cool project Susanne has done, but I'm excited to go and see what all the members have done. So if you are just now joining the hop you may want to go to Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog to start at the beginning of the hop.  This month we could either do the challenges or we were able to show anything we wanted that was created with our kit that we have not shared yet on our blog. As a reminder, here are the three challenges this month:

Challenge #1: May you live in Pinteresting times
Challenge #2: Media Studies
Challenge #3: Insta Inspiration

I chose to do Challenge #3 Insta Inspiration I chose to make a layout with photos in a square format like an insta :) Love these flowers when they bloom in the backyard with that pop of purple. I chose to do a monochromatic layout and lets those purple blooms shine.
This layout was done with the sketch from Let's Get Sketchy : Week 3 sketch
 
I did this sketch as soon as I seen it was a good one to use for a monochromatic layout :)

 The title are of the layout, easy to see the lime green of it here

 It was cool to add clusters to this layout and got to use up an old die cut that I had gotten in a swap, but I had in numerous counterfeit kits :) Glad to see it out of my stash and on a layout

 This cluster has the flower name besides the date the pictures were taken. The fabric flower I had gotten in an old swap too.

 Was able to use up that button (got a few more to go yet in the big buttons in various colors) I like adding the string to it and making a bow.

 The journaling. A little bit of information about the flowers I found online and some personal thoughts too.
I was also inspired by Whimsical Musings Challenge #27 - Inspired by going green We are going green.  But I am not asking you to make a Green page (although, you get extra points in my book if you do!) I am talking about the concept of "green" - Repurposing, Recycling, Re-using.
We do our part of "Green" so glad to be able to use buttons on this layout :) Most buttons that you see on my layouts usually come from old shirts of the hubby's that he cuts the buttons off and I receive them :)

Thanks for stopping by today and enjoy the rest of the blog hop. Your next stop is over at Elaine's blog
It's great to have her back around the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blogging again and looking forward to seeing what she has create :)

 

My Layout for the Lasting Memories Movie/Actor Quote Challenge

Hi you all and welcome to my blog :) Today's challenge was interesting, it took me awhile to focus in on what I wanted to use for a quote and then I come across this picture of Zachary and knew it would make for an easy quote find. So what did I use? You talkin' to me? from the movie Taxi Driver and the actor was Robert De Niro that said it :) per Wikipedia:"You talkin' to me?"The catchphrase "You talkin' to me?" has become a pop culture mainstay. In 2005, it was ranked number 10 on the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes.^[47] Look at that look he's giving to Mom, yes it definitely fits the title.

Since I took the picture of the layout I have added the ? to the layout :) This was a fun layout and just love that picture, oh that look he gives his Mom :) I grabbed some old theme paper for the layout and used specific cuts of words for my heart clusters. I used my current counterfeit kit: Camera Crazy for the background paper and the veneer hearts. I got my inspiration from many places:Sketch is from My Creative Sketches current challenge:

This is just a cool sketch the DT did a great for creative inspiration for it :) I also had help from 2 other challenges. One over at Paper Issues for their tic tac toe challenge I used: pattern paper, wood veneer, and handwriting. Over at Our Happy Scrappin Place I took on Something Old/Something New : must use 2 items that are over 3 years old (the pattern paper, the journal spot, the twill for the hearts, rubons) must use 2 items that are less than 1 year old (the veneer hearts and the Enamel green triangles are both new this year :) Woohoo! Love when I can use so many challenges :)

 Oh boy look at the look :) That is a Campbell right there :) I've seen it at times with my hubby! The title block of the layout :)

The journaling :) Katherine and I what was posted on FB from the 2 of us :)

 Close ups of the other 2 clusters :)

Thank you for stopping by today and can't wait to see what you create linked up over at Lasting Memories :)