Favorite for Lasting Memories #405 challenge

Good Morning and welcome :) Wow have we gotten quite of bit a rain over the weekend with the storm hanging over us, starting Saturday morning and still going on today, this far we have had 3.7" of rain! There are puddles in the garden, large puddles. Guess I'll be hanging laundry downstairs in the basement this week as there is more rain coming in the forecast for this week. Hopefully it's a bit drier where you all live.
Now for the challenge over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook challenge, we are on the monthly theme of All About Me and this week's challenge is YOU are my Favorite: Create a layout documenting one or many of your favorite things and journal your WHY. You can do a layout listing your favorites in multiple categories - book, movie, food, location, drink, tv show, etc; or, you can focus on one favorite that deserves it's own entire layout. Maybe the world needs to know why scrapbooking is your favorite hobby!? Tell us about you, friend.
I went with cooking for this favorite challenge:

 This was one of my favorite layouts I created during LOAD1017 Day 28: I’ve got a secret…

…formula – a favorite product that you swear by, and it doesn’t have to be scrappy! Bisquick is a favorite staple in our house for cooking, used it with Mom as a kid to cook and I use it now for my own cooking. I bashed those huge buttons when I created this layout, so glad to have them out of my stash :) and used a fun cooking vellum quote too on this layout.

 A great quote for the layout

 a picture of me using one of my favorite products :)
Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing your creations for this fun challenge this week over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook 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.

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.

My Spice to Life layout for Lasting Memories challenge

Good Morning and welcome to a new week challenge over at Lasting Memories January our theme is "Word Play" and our first challenge this week is "Love".

LM #377 - Love - use some form of the word "Love" on your layout.

This can be in your title, in your journaling, or even on an embellishment, just show us some form of the word Love ( love, lovely, loving, etc.) on your layout.

 

This is the layout I created for this challenge:

 This is the Spice to my Life :) my husband and this is a recent picture of him over the summer when we were on vacation. This is also a layout I created during LOAD1017: Day Thirteen: I’ve got a secret……ingredient – that one thing that your day is not complete without. My Special ingredient to my life and without him in my life everyday it would be incomplete :) My hubby when he is on the road and don't get to see him he calls me. He's my heart and my soulmate.

 I was able to find a variety of Project Life cards in my stash that had the word Love on it and used plenty of them on this layout. What is cool about project life cards are that they can be used in place of a picture which adds some spice to the layout. I went for a grid style layout for those cards and

scattered sequins and glitter stars on the layout for the embellishment. Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing what you create for this week's fun challenge 

A Recipe for Happiness for a Lasting Memories scrapbook challenge

Hello :) With being gone for the holiday up in NY visiting Tammy n the grandkids I some how forgot to get this layout ready to be blogged here yesterday :) So we have a new set of challenges over at Lasting Memories   January our theme is "Word Play" and our first challenge is "Happy".

LM #376 - Happy - use some form of the word "Happy" on your layout.

This can be in your title, in your journaling, or even on an embellishment, just show us some form of the word happy (happy, happiness, happiest, etc.) on your layout.

I chose this fun layout I created during LOAD1017

 LOAD1017: Day Five: I’ve got a secret……favorite food – include a recipe. It’s fun to apply the recipe concept to our pages, too, so although this is a food-centered prompt I have included an optional scrap recipe as well. I used the optional recipe too only had 1 photo though :) A now favorite recipe I received from a friend at work, an excellent cook he is :) Peanut Butter Pie

 Close up of the layout :)

 and the recipe

and my journaling.  It's one of my now favorite recipes to take to get-togethers. It comes together so quickly and it's soooooooooooo good :) I look forward to seeing your creation for this week's fun challenge over at Lasting Memories.

Holidays Together a Lasting Memories Scrapbook challenge

Hello :) Today is a Lasting Memories Scrapbook challenge:

Here is our challenge:

LM #375 - Winter/December Holiday Traditions - Use more than 2 photos on your layout.

Keeping with our theme, create a layout with more than 2 photos to use up that stash of holiday photos.

 I have 5 pictures on my layout. This is one of our favorite Holiday Traditions when going to Tammy's house playing a game with the family :) From Christmas 2015 these pictures were taken. Changes have happened since then. But the same tradition continues. This layout was created during LOAD1017 Day 24: I’ve got a secret…
…handshake – document a family tradition or an inside joke.
I went with the family tradition for the prompt :) Using a Close To My Heart collection this layouut came together relatively easy. I used a sketch I found googling sketches. It's great to have a sketch and a paper collection to make a layout quickly :) Just under an hour to create this layout.

 My journaling for the layout.

 Close up of the title cluster

and the other cluster. We had a fun time that night and enjoyed playing the charades style game. We would love to see your Winter/ Holiday Tradition photos on a layout. I look forward to seeing your creation for this fun challenge soon.

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 :)

What's Cookin'?

Hello :) Getting some layouts that I did during LOAD1017 posted for the challenges that I made them for. This layout was from LOAD1017 I've got a secret Day 25: …talent – find something to scrap that people would be surprise to know that you are good at.
On prompted with a twist, it's not much of a secret about our cooking skills I've scrapped many foodie layouts in various prompts :) So just a couple of dishes we made this summer. I needed a quick layout today:

 I had fun creating this layout and I got some inspiration help from The Memory Nest's sketch #98

I just had so much fun playing with this sketch.

 Some close ups of the layout.

 I had fun using embellishments for my title. Thanks for stopping by today and seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world :)

Autumn Splendor for the Use Your Stuff challenge

Good Morning :) Today over at Use Your Stuff our DT sister  Karrie is challenging us to use up our stuff!!  Yeah that's what we' re always all about here, so this time dig into your patterned papers because we want to see you use 5 or more on your project!
Here is the layout I created using 5 pattern papers:

 This layout came about from LOAD1017 Day11: I've got a secret...... …place – somewhere you’ve always loved to be. 
My home is always my favorite place to be the good the bad and the ugly at times, but always my favorite :) through past LOADs I have scrap many stories about my home and each year just a walkabout on the property gives me the reasons why my home is my fav place to be :) Some of the sunflowers that grew this year within the small pumpkin patch we had. Sketch over at Scrapbook Generations the free sketch during their crop this past weekend. The title chipboard has been in my stash a long time so glad I finally found a place to use it :) 
I used 5 different pattern papers that came from my old 100 Pattern Paper pile (in the process of putting a new one together to use this upcoming year :) as a challenge in October for our 100 Pattern Paper facebook group.

 Some close ups of the layout. My journaling

 5 pattern papers: the background paper, the photo mat paper and seperate framed paper too, the border stripe paper is the oldest paper on this layout coming from 2008 and the orange stripe paper was a branding strip :) Using washi tape for the other border, stickers from a fall collection I have, strips of dazzles stickers and enamel dots to finish it off :)

 That is a chipboard piece that I've been trying to use and finally found a place to use it :)

 A close up of one of the sunflowers and that fits Scrappy Sisters Scrap September challenge Day 18: Close-up. 
Thanks for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing your creation over at Use Your Stuff challenge blog.

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.....

Fall is in the Air

Happy Halloween!

  Hello :) I have a few layouts to blog for some challenges today. This layout was inspired by LOAD1017 Day 30 …password – the subject is technology. The ultimate love/hate relationship is what most of us have with our devices. Find a clever way to document that, perhaps in a Dear Smartphone letter!

This is the layout I did for this prompt: 

What I love about my smartphone is that I have it with me all the time so then there are times like this on the spur of the moment I can take a photograph. What I don't care about my camera is that all the photos don't come out this great, instagram usually helps with the focus better than the actually camera does :) I got a cheap phone to see if I would like a smartphone and found out I do so I'll be looking at the Christmas sales for a new phone for me with a better camera :) 

I used sketch #298 over at Sketches in Thyme for my layout inspiration:

 Fantastic sketch and quick to do too

 My journaling and a close up of the photos

 One of the clusters

 My corner embellishment. Since I was talking about the camera on my phone thought this orange camera icon on my craft desk was fitting for the layout :) 

Be back soon with another layout.