Spring is in the Air - Use Your Stuff Challenge

Good Morning and welcome today's challenge over at Use Your Stuff challenge blog is Spring is in the Air. Well around our house spring is in the air when my hubby starts to plant seeds for the garden. It's always nice to see the garden grow through the season too:

 This layout was created during LOAD1016 Day9: Show of hands. How many of you have found that absolutely perfect stamp set or die cut and fell in love, but couldn’t think of a single way to use it?

A couple more garden pictures scrapped. For the challenge, I had gotten these die cuts cause I wanted them had them cut out and never used them. Do you ever do that? Today was the day when I seen the challenge and the stamps also got their first inking today too.

 I had fun layering that view reel diecut around the layout.

 I inked up the stamps I got from CTMH awhile back for this layout and added the Reel Life as my title of the layout

More stamping on the edge of the triangle. this layout would have been made with either my Sept or Oct 2016 counterfeit Kit.
Thank you for stopping by today and I hope to see your creation linked up over at Use Your Stuff Challenge blog.

Not Your Momma's Cooking for a Lasting Memories Challenge

Good Morning and welcome to the blog today, it's a bit chilly and rainy here in PA today. A typical winter were having this year, one day it's hot and the next it's chilly and then you have the snow mixing in once in a while too. We ended up with 6" of snow on Thursday, today it has all just about washed away and it is rainy, prayers that the water stays in the banks of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. Something we do quite often is keep an eye on the river during times like this. So that is it in my life at the moment, we celebrated the Great Granddaughter's birthday yesterday, Sabrina had a fantastic birthday party for them and was fun to be there to celebrate with them. I've been staying busy with LOAD217 so that is why it's been a bit quiet here on the blog. Will catch you up soon with the layouts I've been scrapping, some are for challenges around blogland so I need to get them posted soon don't want to try to do them all up at the end of the month like I normally do :)
So today is Lasting Memories new week's challenge Celebration of Love So many possibilities here.  Don't be afraid to branch out.  Have fun with this one.
LM 331

 "Celebration of Love" - Layout showing a moment, celebration, favorite hobby, family anything you LOVE!

Love of this wonderful hobby is where I was dicided to go this time for this challenge, as it is LOAD month for me I thought a LOAD layout would be appropriate and one of the fun things about a membership at ScrapHappy.org is that there is a members only LOAD in October and this past October was a fun one. At the end of most of the LOADs some of us do a round up page and that is my layout for today is the round up page for the October LOAD1016:

 I love how this came together and added as many specifics as I could. I used my October counterfeit kit: Falltoberfest which had some of the Simple Stories Home Spun little cutaparts on the layout that is in my current kit this month. 

 I used journaling in a vary of places on this layout. This one has my statistics for the month of scrapping

 The rest of the project life cards was used here for the daily themes of the LOAD month.

 My own journaling about the month here.

 I found this fun apron brad in my stash with those hearts thought that it worked out well for this layout as it had a cooking flair about the theme of the layout and the hearts are for my love of scrapping.

 A fun little cluster in this section of the layout

and finished it off with this fun title. May need to outline that 'your' part of the title when I come across the layout when I'm sorting the pile of layouts this week? maybe!!? So you can see it better against the paper that it sits on.

Thank you for stopping by today and seeing what I'm up too in my little corner of the world and check out Sketch N Scrap's facebook page they are having a fun crop this weekend with lots of fun challenges too. Looking forward to seeing what you create for this fun challenge of Celebration of Love (so many sometimes it's hard to choose, but choose something and get it on that scrapbook paper :)

I Saw I Smell layout for Use Your Stuff challenge

Good morning and welcome, Today's challenge over at Use Your Stuff is Challenge # 249 When the Cat's Away the Mice Will Play. Today we have a fun challenge for you....let loose your inner animal!  For this week's challenge we would like your project to have an animal theme...it could be a layout of your pet, or a zoo trip, maybe a card with an animal stamp or if you like mixed media maybe you have a stencil or some paper that has animal print....any way you can incorporate animal into your project will work...
A fun day roadtrip my husband and I took to Ithaca, NY. We crammed as much as we could of the town in 5 hours. Definitely will be going back up in the spring to see more. We got to See and Smell alot of things at the Ithaca Farmers Market by the waterfront, it was really cool to see the birds at the waterfront. and thought that this layout was great for this challenge:

Our Day in Ithaca, we started out with checking out the Farmers Market, so cool too just see and the smells were amazing. Loved seeing the birds at the waterfront to just enjoying the beginning of the day. 

This layout was created for LOAD1016 Day 25: The Main Course: Today’s “main course” is your title! with that in mind I created that fun title to my layout using 2 different fonts and the brochure art work for it too. It was just a cool day and a cool experience too.

Close up pics: 

 Fussy cutting some elements from the brochure we got for the layout

 Journaling

My title work, lots of layers, stickers and lots of cutaparts 

Thanks for stopping by and I look forward to seeing what you create for this fun challenge.

Speaking of LOAD (Layout A Day) it begins in 2 days! Looking forward to having fun creating from a Greek Mythology theme. Will try to keep up with updating weekly this month on what I created.... 

We Like Spicy for Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge

Hi you all and welcome! Now we are coming down to the wire and Christmas is next week! Oh my! Still lots to do at our house. Dave and I'll be double teaming today wrapping the Christmas gifts. House cleaning on Monday after taking the dog to the Vet for his annual appt. Decorating throughout the week with any last minute things to get done. The festivities begin at our house on Dec 23rd with a visit from Dave's Sister and her hubby, coming up from Florida to spend the holiday with family. We'll be visiting each day after that till probably the weekend of the New Year. Learn from what we found out this year with both our jobs and do a better at handing the Christmas season next year :) Procrastination isn't working out so well this year for us.
Today is the last challenge over at Lasting Memories for this year so this challenge will be open for 2 weeks. Fairly easy challenge too

ANYTHING GOES - but use photos that are from 2016.

 LOAD1016 Day 15: Your Secret Spice:

So! Where do you fall in the “heat” category – mild, well-seasoned, or spicy?

This might play to your favorite food, your personality, or maybe the heat is a hot flash! Use color, boldness, or a clever reference in your title to convey the temperature of the subject you choose to scrap today.

 We are definitely Spicy when it comes to food :) Enjoying a bit of the Salsa we made and canned this year.

 Just enough heat to know it's there and not burning your mouth. We have a bit of summer in the jar for throughout the winter this year to enjoy! I had used my October Counterfeit kit: Flower Power for the layout and this was also part of the 100 pattern paper challenge with using 4 papers. Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing your creation linked up to Lasting Memories :)

She is Fearless! Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge

Good Morning :) and welcome. I apologize for the lax in blogging but it's been a long week at work :) So no time to chat here this past week. Today is Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge blog the challenge this week is:

LM - 322 - Use One Photo

This challenge is from our "All About The Photos" theme from May. Just use one photo on your layout this week.
This is one I created:

 Emily our Great-Grandaughter figured out how to use the dog door after watching the dog do it a few times! LOL this girl is something else so much like her Mom :) It's always special to see pictures like this up on facebook as we live in PA and these great grands live in South Dakota. Some day we'll get there to see them :). So this layout came from LOAD1016 Day 17: Wet your Appetite: Misting

 Pink and Gold Heidi Swapp color shine mist added to the layout. Pink sprayed on and gold in droplets. Our Great Granddaughter being herself :) She is adventurous. This was a fun layout to do and didn't take to long to put together neither :) 1 sheet a pattern paper, a scrap of vellum paper and a scrap of pattern paper too.

 A 3X4 card for the journaling and the circled letters were cut from another pattern paper that had lots of words on it :) Everything came from my October counterfeit kit Flower Power and I used a paper from the 100 paper challenge that I'm working with :) Which is on hold at the moment as I'm working on Christmas craftyness :)
Thank you for stopping by today and I hope to see your creation over at Lasting Memories too

Beautiful for the Lasting Memories Layout Challenge

Hello and welcome :) Today is the 1st Challenge for the December challenges over at Lasting Memories Challenge Blog. We are taking on a  "BEST OF 2016" theme to end our year with a bang.  We have picked the most popular challenges and we are duplicating them in hopes you will love to challenge yourself again with these great themes!!
LM 321 - GLITTER and GLAM This was based off a challenge we did to honor THE OSCARS.  So show us your sparkling and glittering layouts!! This was a fun theme when we did it the 1st time around and just as fun this time around. With knowing of this challenge prior to LOAD1016, was able to incorporate some of my layouts to also work with the LM challenges too. So this was one of my favorite layouts that I did during LOAD and was fitting for this challenge theme too:

 This was done for LOAD1016 Day 13 And For Dessert prompt: We we’re joining in on a challenge from Alison’s blog, Alison Day Designs – sharing her passion for papercrafting & showing you how easy it can be! The layout above was one of many in this post: A Sewing & Fabric Challenge. Visit the link, enjoy her tips, and take the challenge to use fabric on a layout. Alison's has a fun blog and well worth checking out. This day she was doing her version of the 20 project (Shimelle's concept and was a fun class)
I Loved this challenge :) Made me remember some really old fabric paper in my stash and got that out, besides the ribbon and tulle. Wasn't sure what pictures I was using till I started to put that border together and then it dawned on me the pictures to use, but as I was going through the fair pictures I came across these 2 of the home and garden exhibit and knew they were the ones to use for this layout :) Just need to add the date and the layout is done :)

 I used my counterfeit kit: Flower Power for this layout and used up that pink fabric paper along with some ribbons and tulle in my stash. Finished off the flowers that was in a cup on my desk :) always glad to get some stash out of my room and on to the page :)

My journaling and more flowers plus and added metal butterfly for more fun texture on the layout. This is not my normal scrapping but it is fun to GLITTER and GLAM it up a bit once in awhile :) Looking forward to seeing your layout linked up to the challenge over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook challenge blog.

Reel Life Story

Good Morning and welcome to this week's Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge: Triangles. I have 4 of them on this layout:

  I made this layout for LOAD 1016 Day 9: The prompt was to use something that made you excited to buy it, but never used it! Haven't we all fall into the scenario :) I've bought lots of stamp sets that have made me excited to get, lots of ideas and then nothing! put it away and never used it! This stamp set I had in many counterfeit kits and still didn't use it, well this day was the day to use it :) and this also is one of the challenges that were for The 20 Project class too (something I need to get back to and finish up :).
I missed out on getting this posted in time for the sketch I used over at GrandDiva's Creative Corner:

It was a really interesting layout to try.
The layout was a couple of pictures I took of the growth of the sweet corn in the garden. the 1st photo was from the back view of the garden and the 2nd photo was almost a month later at the front view, just a different way to look at the garden :) When your summers are of the same things sometimes you got to change it up a bit :) I love to take morning walks with Buddy in the summer after work so my focus is usualy the garden. Close ups:

Thank you for stopping buy today and I look forward to seeing what you create for this challenge :) over at Lasting Memories

Wander Out & About - Use Your Stuff #240

Hello and Good Morning :) I have a layout for the challenge over at Use Your Stuff :) Challenge #240 - Fall Y'All and Renee is our Hostess this week. Fall to me is the changing of the colors in the leaves, the cooler temperatures, hoodies and seeing pumpkins everywhere.

 This was created for LOAD1016 Day 23 Not Your Momma's Recipe: Today’s “recipe” is the October ScrapHappy sketch!

 

 A fun sketch to create with indeed, the main thing was to find the photos that would work with those small squares :)

I really love how this all came together. I used my counterfeit kit: Flower Power for this layout and the Go Now Go collection from Shimelle which is featured in this month's inspirational kit over at Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog. I also used a sheet of paper from my 100 pattern paper challenge.

the title came from cutting apart one of the 12 X 12 sheets

My journaling of the day

The hubby looking about :) This was the last place we visited at Ithaca, NY October 9, for my birthday. It certainly was a beautiful fall day and a beautiful spot to see the colors. Thank you for stopping by and I hope to see your creation linked up over at Use Your Stuff blog

 For this weeks challenge, we are focusing on fall.  What's your favorite thing about fall.  Do a layout, card or spread showcasing all things fall.Link up over at Use Your Stuff

Junior Year

Welcome back :) This layout is from LOAD1016 Day 28: Go for the Garnish: Bring out the Bling, Sparkle & Shine. Our Granddaughter Astacia just sparkles in this picture so I knew this was the set of pictures I was going to use. I was blessed with handing over my camera to my grandson Avery and he and Astacia used it, what I got was some amazing photos :) Astacia is a Junior this year, she is growing up way to fast :)

I used some school papers from My High School mat stack for DCWV, a tiedye paper, and the alphabet paper to create this layout. I also used the sketch from The Memory Nest Make it Monday No. 74

Loved that triangle border :) Framed out the top of the layout cause it didn't feel grounded. Thanks for stopping by today to see what I've been creating in my little corner of the world :)

The Good Life

Hello :) This layout is from LOAD1016 Day 6: challenging you to make a paper-pieced embellishment. That I did, pinwheels was a suggestion and that is what I went with :)

These were pictures from the summer last of the flowers we bought to dress up the flower bed out back. Of course we have to stop at times and play with Buddy :) The pinwheels was a fun embellishment to make and thought it gave a whimsical look to the layout. I used last month's counterfeit kit: Flower Power for this, it's also one from the 100 Patterned Paper Challenge and I had used 4 papers for the layout.
I had also used a sketch for the layout. When I had seen this sketch I knew I had to use this pattern paper:

This sketch is from The Memory Nest: Make it Monday No. 73. All I did was flip it to left for the starting on the banner. I used 3 photos inspired by one of the designers had done.
The journaling I put directly on the layout :) It was a pretty good day :)

Needed Photo

LOAD1016 Day 16: Prompt was a mood board, I had used the colors of the mood board for this layout:

 During a visit with Brad and Tristan, right before they were leaving, Brad said that Katherine needed a photo of Tristan with a tractor, hmmm wonder what she's up too! But we were happy to obliged and the chosen tractor was right out or front door :) the Allis-Chalmers doesn't get as much photo attention as the Molines do so this was cool to get another one of the tractors in a photo. I journaled both around the photo on the edge of the brown paper and also on the tag spot .

 The journaling spot and Dave and I with Tristan

Brad and Tristan
I used sketch #224 over at Sketches in Thyme for this layout :)

This was such a cool layout :) 1 I will use over again :) I used my current counterfeit kit: Flower Power and also from the 100 patterned paper challenge I used 2 pieces of pattern paper.

Quite the Pair

LOAD1016 Day 11: The Main Course: we will concentrate on the story. I love to take pictures of birds that come to the feeder, we'll I got a story about these 2, quite the Pair they are:

 These are a pair of Carolina Wrens and they decided to make a nest out back in our charcoal bisque bag, really! yes really! I was so glad to tell this story from this past year, it was quite and event for awhile. The male protected the nest with loud sharp whistles from the wire that goes from our house to the pole. No easy sleeping for this gal while this was going on. We did alot of research about this bird and come to find out they like to nest near people so next year we will put up a nesting box that I got for Christmas just for them to use :) I used my current counterfeit kit: Flower Power for the layout and also was my 100 patterned paper challenge with using up 2 piece of paper and lots of scraps.
In used sketch #223 over at Sketches in Thyme:

Z on the Pedal Tractor

LOAD1016 Day 7 prompt: Using up spent alphas:

Zachary on the pedal tractor that Dave got for Brad, that Brad has passed down to the kids to have fun with. A beautiful fall day in October 2015 I seen this picture on Katherine's FB feed, grabbed it and here it is :) I used my current counterfeit collection : Flower Power and also these papers are from m 100 Patterned Paper Challenge with using 3 papers and lots of scraps for the layering.
This layout was put together with the help of this sketch #222 over at Sketches In Thyme:

Visit Ithaca Let's Go!

This layout is jammed packed just like our day trip to Ithaca, NY was. I put in a little bit from each place we had visited that day. This will be the beginning pages to the trip we took up to Ithaca. the layout comes from LOAD1016 Day 22 prompt: Try something fresh-use your newest products on your page. So this layout was created entirely from Shimelle's newest collection Go Now Go! I fell in love with this collection as soon as I seen it and knew I had to have it :) This is the 1st time I bought a collection on preorder :) I usually wait for the sales. I used the sketch over at Let's Scrap for the inspiration of this layout.

We went to 4 different places that day and then dinner at a local restaurant before heading back home :)

 The left hand side of the layout

 The right hand side of the layout :) Made sure to include a picture of me as this was my birthday gift from Dave, the trip :)

 This Farmer's Market is next to this gorgeous waterfront :) I love seeing the birds out in the water.

 A little blurp about the Museum of the Earth. The dinosaur skeletons were amazing to see :) and just a couple of hours away from us.

Ithaca is all about the gorges Wow and just the one we saw was amazing! There is so many more there to see that it would take more than one day to see them :) but I expect a trip up in the spring to see some more of these beautiful gorges and waterfalls. Our last stop of the day was at the Marina and Dog Park. Beautiful fall foliage there and fun to see the sailboats head out to the lake through the channel.
I used the sketch over at Let's Scrap to create this 2 page layout:

This was perfect for all those spots for the brochures write ups of the area we saw and my own personal journaling of it too.