Vintage on Display

Hello again :) I hope you are having a fantastic day today! Still crunching numbers here in my room. This layout came about from the 24 hour challenge over at Scrappin N Chattin yahoo group. Since I worked overtime that day I also used it for my last day for LOAD215 which was Day 28, not what I planned that day but I was running out of time and energy! So the prompt was books that made you cry and man was a stumped on that prompt just nothing came to mind not sure if I read a book that made me cry but I seen a few movies. Prompt was books that made you cry or strong emotions here books that captured the heart. Well there was on book Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl came to mind and association with my own diary but that was stirring up to many emotions so I went off prompt and used this fun layout:

 The kit I used was Authentique: Genuine Elements, I know I used this kit in a past counterfeit kit: My November 2014 kit. there was a sketch that I had to work with too. (for some reason blogger doesn't like the sketch in the post :)

 This was fun putting together a layout with just this kit only and nothing else.

 The photos are from May 18, 2013 we always enjoy taking in the Middlecreek antique tractor show each year at this time a tradition for us to celebrate our Wedding anniversary by spending time together.

Oliver tractors were the feature and the Oliver group put on a really nice display. Every year we see something different.

Dave & Tina's Adventures in Gettysburg

Hello and welcome :) Tis the season of taxes prep to make my appt on Tuesday, so not to much crafting this weekend. But I have 2 layouts yet from LOAD that I want to post today before I start crunching numbers! This one was from Day 27 it was a Friday and that theme was Topic Sentence or Subject. The Prompt was from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and as you can see from my title we were to replace the word Alice and Wonderland with our own version of the subject hence: Dave & Tina's Adventures in Gettysburg.

 The pictures and event is from February 23, 2013 (I've corrected the date since I made the layout). The tractor club we belong to Moline Gold Collectors Assoc. is hosting the national Minneapolis Moline Collectors, inc. (MMCI) Winter convention this year in April. So that particular day we were down to see the place where we are holding the convention. Of course I wanted to make sure to scrap some of it so while driving around the area I took pictures :) This is a collage of what I saw. (I hadn't been down since I was a kid so it was fun to see it again :)

 I used the papers from DCWV Linen Closet pad and most of the stickers came from Paper House: Civil War collection. The Alphas came from EK Success sticko and Gettysburg came from the smae collecton of Alphas I pulled for this month's kit (that is what made me decide to use these very old alphas when I seen them)

 A collection of pictures from the drive

 The journaling spot

These photos were taken when we did just a bit of walking in the battlefield, just in an hour we didn't cover even a quarter of it. They have a self drive tour so something to look forward to in April (hopefully by then the weather will be a bit warmer to enjoy it.
Thanks for stopping by and catch the last layout of LOAD I did later today. Off to crunch some numbers!

Books

Hello again, I'm just about caught up with all the posts from LOAD :) This layout came about from Day 23: Family Favorites. The prompt was All in the Family (Great show by the way :) What books do you and your family members read? I chose a fun layout after pondering quite awhile on this prompt, then it dawned on me a conversation I had with my oldest son on facebook:

The discussion was about 2 books by Stephen King, so I thought it fitting to find a quote by him to use for the Title, added a B & W picture of him and pictures of the books we were discussing.

 I used more of the chip board letters from the atd Vibrant chipboard Alphas and my brother labeler for the rest of the title.

 These are the 2 books we discussed. We both enjoy discussing the series Under the Dome and I'm looking forward to reading the book (it's a thick book :) at the library they had in 2 sections part 1 and 2. Doctor Sleep I got for Christmas and will be reading that very soon.

 So I went on Facebook and pulled up the conversation and copy and pasted it to a word document. I made the document 2 columns that is how I got it to be a bit compact. I printed them out on white cardstock and cut and inked the edges. The conversation is from April 2014.

We share a love of reading Stephen King's works is from the jouraling spot. We also share of love of horror movies, I don't care much for the gory ones anymore but he likes them :) A love that our family seems to enjoy watching, my brothers too not so sure about my sister Patty. This is another one of my favorite layouts from LOAD and not one I would have even considered scrapping if it wasn't for the prompt. That is what I learned from that last LOAD I did that the stuff you scrap is not the norm of scrapping and you can get some really fun stories told with out even trying to hard. A fun memory now captured on paper. The papers came from current kit in February, from the DCWV: The Linen Closet and the red border came from a border cut sheet from Cotton Bloom Stack. Thanks for stopping by today and seeing what's up in my little corner of the world

Reading Is Cool

Good Morning :) I hear there is snow in the area, some how so far we have lucked out and not got any yet, for the ones that are please stay safe. This layout is from Day 22, a Sunday and the theme is Your Own Story. The prompt was How do books and reading intersect in your life now (how they impact you today) *I decided to tell of the love of books through the years. Some suggestions from Lain was: Are you reading more?, Stacks of Books and/ or get photos of book cases (that is the one I went with :)

I went around the house on Sunday and got a picture of each of the book cases in the house, we do have quite a few with a wide variety of reading tastes. I used the DCWV Dear Jane pad for the fun book paper and the red and white paper came from the pad too. The borders were from scraps of last month's kit .

 The title came from 2 different alphas: I used the atd Vibrant chipboard Alphas for the READING an old set of Alphas in my collection and wasn't staying stuck well I had to add more wet glue to get it to stay stuck (I best use it up and get it out of my stash) The metallic silver letters are from Colorbok

A close up shot of one of the sections of the layout

 And another shot of the middle section of the layout

The journaling block, just a bit of my reading through the years. Now I enjoy reading just about anything :)
Thanks for stopping by.....

Perfecting Your Pitch

Hello once again today :) This layout came from Day 21 which was Rights of Passage (Important Books) Prompt was Book that inspired you in some way to do something. I thought this would be a good time to do a layout as to how I came about getting this book that helped me.

The layout includes a couple of pictures of me growing in my business. I used my current counterfeit kit for the layout I also used an old sketch I found on the internet at Sassy Scrappers old sketch.

 The path began when I was asked to speak at an ABWA meeting about my business. I've been in Toastmasters a while before the speaking engagement so I was comfortable speaking there. 8/19/03

 A picture of me with a couple of toastmasters introducing the Williamsport Toastmasters to the ABWA at one of their meetings. 9/12/04

From ABWA came going to one of their conventions is where I met Nancy and her book. The book was an amazing read for a person wanting to grow her business into one that excels in her business. This book did that for me.
Thanks for stopping by and seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world....

Lycoming County Fair 2010

Hello and welcome. Well yesterday we got another layer of snow and ice coating over that (one nice thing is it snowed first) made everything crunchy but not to horrible of a drive into work. My layout today is from Day 17 of LOAD it was a Tuesday and that was Design Principles. The prompt was to use one large image across 2 pages. The inspirational video showed a brochure that opened up for the large image, so I went that way and used the brochure that we got of the fair for my center portion of the layout:

I used my CTMH Jubilee workshop on the go kit and the chipboard elements that are from this line too. This kit was in a previous counterfeit kit awhile back. The only thing not from the kit besides the stuff I received at the fair and the photos was that border of tickets I think that came from a cutapart sheet I had.

 The left side of the layout has the brochure, the parking ticket and pictures from the day.

The right side of the layout has the rest of the brocure, the tickets that I was able to keep from the demolition derby and more pictures.

 A closer view of the brochure and pictures. I used alot of cut up pieces from the one words sheet that came with the kit.

 I kept the demolition derby with the tickets and the info of the derby on the brochure.

We had a very enjoyable day that day with the grandkids. Love to see Dave enjoying the interaction with the grandkids.
So this ended up being one of my favorite layouts out of LOAD, suppose to be a large image and I made it into a large montage of photos of the day.

3rd Grade

Good Morning. Today I have a layout from Day 14 of LOAD215, it was a Saturday, the theme was Rights to Passage and the prompt was A book that was read to you aloud or a book you read aloud.

This is possibly a picture of me from the 3rd grade (nothing marked on the back) but by looking at other pictures from that same year it's awfully close. This was a framed picture my mom gave me years ago, they have been sitting on the entertainment center since then, but recently decided to pull them out of the frames and get them scrapped. Now there is more room on the stand for more Grandkid pictures. I went with a red and blue color theme for the layout with a side of black. I used a past counterfeit kit.

 3rd grade I remember our teacher reading to us (this is my earliest clear memory). Most likely I was read to in other grades but that grade I remember, I can picture the room and where she sat to read to us. In the speech bubble is just t few of the books I remember being read.

 The journaling block

 Some fun with some rub ons and a fun block to add to the layout (I know I got in trouble for this quite often :)

More doodling with rub ons
This was a fun prompt and posted on facebook my DIL posted a picture of the boys, Zachary reading to Tristan just so cute and would have fit in well with this prompt but just a few days to late. But will certainly be scrapping the page soon enough. You all have a fantastic day, stay warm....

The Year Was 2002

Hello enjoying the day? We are having snow once again! Ugh! so ready for this winter to be over. So I have this bright layout to kick the blues away. The layout came from Day 18 of LOAD it was a Wednesday which the theme is word play. We were to start a page with Once Upon A Time...I seen that prompt and though, sheesh! I already did that one so I compromised and start my journaling block with the sentence. So deciding on what to theme this layout on I came across some photos that should have been scrapped awhile back. Jake our oldest dog that passed away last year in October, this layout centers around the 1st year we got Jake.

This was such a joy to do, all the pictures came from the 1st year we had Jake, he was an older pup but still won our hearts. I used sketch #34 over at the Memory Nest for my layout. I used the sketch the original way and on the opposing page I flipped it:



I worked my layout around the sketch. You can see the sketch with in the layout, but I added more pictures than what the original sketch called for

 The left hand side of the layout has some of the first pictures of Jake he was a playful pup and Dave did enjoy time with him. I used a variety of papers mainly from my dog theme drawer, but the main background paper came from I'm thinking the DCWV Linen Closet pad or the Guilded Paper pad. The alphas came from one dog related sticker sheet and the rest from my kit. The dog dish diecut was in my drawer just waiting for the right layout. The die cut is from Creative Pointe's Dog Elements file

 The right side I carried over the same papers added more stickers to this side and a definition of faithful on clear that got lost on the layout but was stuck to good to lift off  so it stayed right where it was attached.

 Some closer shots of the layout

The journaling block

 He was a great dog for taking care of groundhogs in the yard. My hubby with out facial hair wow is that a blast from the past :)

Thanks for stopping by today, I've got a few more layouts to post from LOAD this upcoming week and I got my current counterfeit kit put together today so I will be showcasing that tomorrow. My scraproom looks like a paper cyclone storm came through from all the crafting this past month so will be putting that away also and need to do my final LOAD layout that shows the stack of layouts I did for LOAD215 seems to be what all the girls do and looking forward to my final count for the month of February... You all have a fantastic day today :)

Game Day

Hello again :) This layout came about from LOAD 24 a Tuesday and that was the day for Design Principles. The prompt was the old pop up/interactive books (do you remember those? I sure do!) We wer to use something that you can lift or pop something up. Since this was a weekday I went for ease and popped the title pennant up on my layout:

I used the sketch at Let's Get Sketchy for the layout:

Albert took his oldest 3 kids to a Pirates game this past summer and PNC Park. I try to keep most of the layout in the color theme of the Pirates team colors. My papers, enamel dots and some of the sticker elements came from my current counterfeit kit .

 I used a variety of stickers throughout the layout even a 3 dimensional one so more pop up added to the layout. I like using the bingo card for one of the large circles in the sketch

Added another scallop edge circle for the journaling. A fun layout for a fun day. Hoping to make a 2nd page to this with more pictures from the game that day. Thanks for stopping by....

Dave Was in a Mood

Good Evening, yep ended up working today so trying to finish up posting the layouts for challenges for the month. this layout came about from LOAD day 20. It was a Friday and that was topic Sentence or Subject. We were to use the starting sentence to the book "Judy Moody" (Judy Moody was in a mood. Not a good mood. A bad Mood.) We were to do BLANK was in a mood. A BLANK mood. and we were to fill in the blanks. I chose:
Dave was in a Mood. A cutting mood.:

 I totally had fun putting this layout together, when I found the perfect sketch to use for it:

The sketch is from My Scraps & More sketches #100

DAVE was in one of the oldest Alphas I had and so glad I included it this month on my counterfeit kit. The kraft paper background was a scrap from almost a year ago I found and put ti to good use. The blue polka dot came from the current kit. I also used basic grey alphas and Mood was from an Alpha I've been trying to use up. the teal polka dot I actually got out a pair of those old scissors with the edges and cut the edge to give it the texture.

 Both tags came from studio 112 journal tags pad and used one for the journaling. the star is from jellibean soup pack and both brads on by the journal tag and the one on the top left corner of the layout is from Making Memories 5th Avenue (jumbo pebble brads) the star circle chipboard diecut came from a smash pack of items

the Live simply is from CTMH sticker pack, the blue star and the handle with care boht came from jellibean soup pack.
The Oliver tractor was the first tractor Dave owned and it was used quite a bit on the property, since these pictures the tractor was sold to a friend that gave it to another friend for him to pull (tractor pulling is huge in our area)
Thanks for stopping by......