Say Hello to Summer

Good Morning :) Hope you all had a lovely weekend. We were busy ding stewed tomatoes and getting them canned up, still got salsa to make yet today :) Yesterday was the finally of the Little League series and it was great to see The Endwell, New York team took the series and it was great to see it End this Well is was a deserved win that had not lost a game leading into the series and won it straight through with no losses. We always enjoy watching the game at home will canning up some kind of tomato product. To me it seems when the series ends so does summer and this coming weekend is Labor Day, I'm ready for some cooler temperatures but no snow please for me :)
This is the 1st layout I did for LOADmini Day 1: Summer equals Water. I had one thought in mind for this layout but knew I didn't have all the pictures I wanted to use yet (and still don't! Need to prepare another print order I guess) But I did have these of our grandkids, these are Albert's 4 kids (Astacia is not with them that day).

 I used my July counterfeit kit for this layout Just Chillin' and used quite a bit from the I (heart) Summer collection from Simple Stories

 A close up of the pictures of the kids. We live along the river both us in South Williamsport and the kids in Williamsport, so the River Walk is a good thing they added along thee river. One section of it leads you to this area and isn't that what the beginning of summer is about :) Enjoying the warm days and getting your feet wet. I like the border of word stickers I used along the side of the pictures.

 Bullet journaling was great use for this layout and challenge I did for our SNC group

The top cluster with more stickers and the rhinestones and some fun word phrases with the date. I used and old Cocoa Daisy sketch from May 1, 2012 for my layout. This is also for the challenge over at Whimsical Musings Challenge #95 - Inspired by a summer colour scheme
This collection really shows off that color scheme very well :) As summer comes to an end and so will the garden and I have more time to scrap, plans to really get into catching up with the prompts over at Whimsical Musings
Thank you for stopping by and seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world. Lots of Summer photos that need to be scrapped yet.......

Loyalsock Valley Antique Machinery Show

Good Morning :) I did a layout about our local Antique Tractor Show. This was created from the Summer Lovin' LOADmini Day 5 prompt: Lovin' the Great Outdoors
Our way of Lovin' the Great Outdoors in the summer time :) This year we haven't went to as many shows as we have in previous years, but we always get to atleast one each year so far this is one that I was able to attend since it was our local Tractor Show:

 These are just a few of the pictures I took that day :) I have just gotten in more pictures to be scrapped yet. I fun over view of the show that I took in a bit. I used the sketch over at Scrapbook Challenges for my layout:

 

SS 16′ Sketch 07

The August challenge over at Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge is to use a souvenir from a place or event on your page - maybe a theater ticket? A subway pass? A map? A pamphlet from somewhere you visited or want to visit? The side border piece is the wrist band I had on at the show and thought it worked out well for the layout as well as parts of the flyer for the day and for the title block.

 My journaling went into a speech bubble that I cut from a PL card :)

The title block has all the info on about the show, dates, location and feature and nice addition :) I scattered star sequins in the red and gold these are the colors of the tractors :) I used a piece of paper from that 8X8 October Afternoon paper pad in my current counterfeit kit Easy Livin'.
Also to get more ideas for ways to use a sketch, I've been watching Tina Gale's Focus on Sketches series n youtube and have been getting lots of fun tips on changing up a sketch :)
Thanks for stopping by today and I wish you a fantastic day and a fantastic weekend :) We have Little League World Series in hi gear around my house this weekend with the final games so plans to do a little salsa making and canning and some stewed tomatoes too something that is both a bit lite in the basement at the moment.

Just Enjoying the Day a Stick It Down challenge

Good Morning :) Today is the posting from the Double Page team over at Stick It Down. Here is what I created with the sketch:

 I had fun creating this layout from the sketch and I used a few leftover scraps from my July counterfeit kit challenge kit Just Chillin' the pinks and light blue from last month kit worked out great with all those bold bright colors. Here is the sketch we were using:

I used alot of cut aparts and alot of stickers for my embellishing, some punch out shapes too.

 The left side of the layout had 5 photos, a couple of cutaparts, punched out hearts and stickers used for borders and for clusters around the layout. This is pictures of the flower bed getting prepared for the flowers we just bought and planting the flowers.

 The right side holds the title of the layout, another cutapart PL style card, stickers, punched out hearts and a journaling label. Picture of the finished flower bed and a picture of me relaxing on the back patio from all that fun work :) Just enjoying the day. This comes for the LOADmini Day 3 For the love of Relaxing
        Relaxing by way of sowing in the flower bed :) just about as relaxing as scrappin :) and kicking back out on the back porch enjoying the day.
Thank you stoping by and I look forward to seeing your creation real soon over at Stick It Down, You have until the end of the month to link up your layout. We'll choose one winner from each sketch to return in October as our guest designers!                

Summertime

Good Morning :) I love Summertime it's my next favorite season with Spring coming in 1st. I love the sights and smells of summer. Today I have a layout that is inspired by Summer Nights but it is about Summer Days. Lasting Memories new challenge this week is Summer Nights color photo for our inspiration, using the colors from the photo:

I added one extra color to my layout and that is a kraft color:

The layout is is about a walk I took yesterday with Buddy around our yard. This is Day 6 of LOAD SummerMini: Lovin the sights of Summer and this summer our sights have mainly been at home :) Nothing wrong with that :) lots to see in the yard.
I used the sketch over at Scrapbook Challenges sketch #494:

 

So I used my newest counterfeit kit Easy Livin' for my layout, the blues and pinks were perfect match for the inspirational photo :) I used some of I heart Summer collection stickers for the title and some embellishing of the layout.

 The journaling was added to a card from the cutapart sheet in the kit. Had fun creating the scallop embellishment from the papers in the kit and using 2 handheld punches for it.

A close up of the photo collage I made. Very impressed with the Instagram photos that I took with my camera for the layout. Thank you for stopping by today and I hope to see your creation linked up over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook challenges.

Fair Food

Good Morning :) This week something pretty cool is happening over at Scrap Happy, a mini LOAD! One week long LOAD and it's a Summer Lovin LOAD. So I have done 2 layouts so far. This one is the 2nd one: Summer Food. We'll there is all kinds of way to go about this, but my favorite summer food is Fair Food so with October Afternoon's Midway collection I made this layout:

I used this sketch over at The Memory Nest:

Since my photo is a collage photo, it's  bit larger than the block in the sketch. The elements are there :)

 A fun spot to add my journaling and a cluster of stickers

A close up of the food. The newest thing I tried this year was the Deep Fried Nutter Butters like a burst of peanut butter in a dough not bad, but I like the Oreos better :)
Have a great day today