Addicted to Scrapbooking

If you are looking for today's Use Your Stuff post you can find it here.

Hello I'm back with another blog post :) The one thing I promised myself I wouldn't do was wait to the last minute to post about challenges this month and do it in a timely manner, well that didn't happen. Guess I better work on that next month during Calvinball.
This layout came about from LOAD217 DAY 2: Symbols What is your symbol? What represents you?

    I would have to say what my symbol is, what represents me the most is the camera, but scrapbooking in general is a good representation of me. So the camera, books n paper with the pencil (journaling) I pulled together this morning (Feb 2) to create my symbol. This was a really fun prompt it really had me thinking quite a bit at work last night about my own life and so glad that I came full circle to back with the camera and scrapbooking as I feel that is when I'm most blessed and having fun.
I used the sketch over at Let's Get Sketchy for my inspiration for this layout:
       
 and a moodboard. Thankfully my Jan counterfeit kit: Glacially Toasted had some pink in it and all those florals to create with.

 I fussy cut the paper to be usable for the title and still work with the sketch. My journaling. I used some fun veneer that I got from my "bash" kit too

This fun picture of me with the camera came from the date night with the hubby when we went out for dinner at a stationery train here in Williamsport at the Transportation Museum. (Future layout) found the fun meme on line. Thanks for stopping by today.

40th Anniversary LO

Good Morning and welcome :) Today Over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge, Lori has challenged us to use a Tic Tac Toe board for our layout. It's been a fun month "Stash buster" challenge and a cool challenge to finish off this month's challenges. Here is my take on the challenge:

and the challenge is:
Pick a row - up and down, across, or diagonal, and use those 3 items on your layout.

I did the straight across the middle of the board:  Enamel dots (hearts), polka dot paper (the paper that doily border punched), hearts (washi tape)

 A picture of my husband and I at my sister in law's 40th Anniversary Surprise party for them. This will be a double page layout once I get the rest of the pictures developed of the party. The girls were taking pictures of the attendees as they were coming in. I used Martha Stewart's Doily Lace punch for the scallop borders. Also the purple paper made an excellent pocket to put the napkin in from the party. The title of the layout came from the invitation card we received about the party. I think I better get those other photos developed and get this double page layout completed :)
Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you join in with all the fun challenges this month over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge.

Love To Scrapbook

Hi :) It's been picking up at work so got some overtime this past week and some next week ahead so not much time to scrapbook, so glad I plan ahead when I'm a design team member just in case and this is one of those just in case moments. Got to enjoy seeing the Little League World Series USA championship game today here at the house on TV with a record crowd in South Williamsport for the game today, what a game! It's great to see PA win it and now on to the big game tomorrow with playing against Japan :) Would love to see PA get the title this year, but if not they played one heck of a World Series and should be so proud at this moment making it this far without losing 1 game that is very impressive :) Okay so now onto scrappin :)
Were in a new month of challenges at Lasting Memories and this month's theme is "Techniques and Titles" and this week's challenge is - Mixed Media w/a BOLD title. This is a layout I did in May during LOAD515: Day 2 plus I made this layout using Counterfeit Kit Challenge for their national scrapbook day challenges of: 

This is one side of a 2 page layout (which I need to complete sometime in the near future :) This was based off a sketch from the sketchathon challenge that I cannot get access to now, but it was a fun one to do :). Also it was from the (Inter)National Scrapbook Day challenges over at Counterfeit Kit Challenge: Leslie's Gold glitter Challenge at Counterfeit Kit challenge.          
LOAD515: Day 2: Let’s talk Liner Notes, and dedications!
It’s always fun and interesting reading about who helped the artist make an album and who they dedicate the album to. Who do you dedicate your scrapbooks to and why?
                 

Mixed Media w/a BOLD title is what I think I have :) The bold would be that word LOVE for the Maggie Holmes and the mixed media would be the embossed stamped image :)

 I've got various reasons why I love to scrapbook and alot of my pages focus on my grand kids :) Above 4 of Albert's kids together. Below picture is Brad's boys taken when we were over for Tristan's first birthday (very low key compared to Zachary's party)

 I had fun using the CTMH Gold embossing powder for fun details on my layout with the stamp on the title and the doily stamp scattered about the layout.

Then there is this cutie too :) Buddy brings life into our empty nester house. I addeed sequin stars to the layout and that fun glitter tape pennant for the gold glitter challenge. So to answer LOAD question:  Who do you dedicate your scrapbooks to and why? That produced my journaling for the layout.
I scrapbook because I enjoy doing it. But I have to dedicate my scrapbooking to the moments that are captured by the camera. I have a family I love to scrapbook about and one page can't be dedicated to all my stars.
(I don't think 2 pages will be enough but I will give a try :) Put that on my list to do for September to finish off this layout.
Thank you for stopping by and Who do you dedicate your scrapbooks to and why?
I hope to see your creation on the Lasting Memories link up soon.

What a Nut Layout

Good Morning my fellow crafters and bloggers. Happy Scrapbook Day to you a day late :) Did you all enjoy any scrapping yesterday? I did for some of the morning and most of the afternoon till dinner time :) I accomplished 3 layouts playing along with the Sketchathon and Counterfeit Kit Challenge. So it was a very enjoyable and relaxing Saturday for me.
Today is a new challenge over at Lasting Memories last week started the new month of challenges with Life Affirmation theme today's challenge is Determination there is such a wide range of possibilities with this, but I went with one that just maybe a bit unusual but really does fit well with the theme:

Yep the squirrel is determined to get in the bird feeder and he finally accomplished the day I took the pictures. I used 2 different challenges to come up with my layout. The first one is from the sketchathon challenge with this sketch and we had to add brads to the layout too:

It was a fun sketch to try, I like the bottom section of the sketch and thank goodness this month's counterfeit kit had that scallop edge paper in it, that gave me one of the pattern papers for the other challenge over at Counterfeit Kit challenge: Susan's recipe challenge:
Make a layout using the following:
5 brads or enamel dots
4 patterned papers
3 stickers or pieces of chipboard
2 labels or journaling spots
1 piece of ribbon, twine or washi

you can see all 4 pattern papers here: with 3 of them making up the bottom edge of the layout. The white was prescalloped and the blues I used my Recollections punch. The peach is the ribbon for the recipe.

The brads I used are the snowflakes scattered about the layout, the 2 journaling spots are here together one helped make up the block for the title and the other has the journaling on it. The title comes from that sticker I found.

The rest of the recipe is in this top corner of the layout, with the chipboard triangle and the pennant sticker from a recollections pack for the creative chaos series.

This particular time the bird feeder was in the tree, hanging down from one of the limbs. It seems to have jumped to get onto to the feeder and make sure to be on the side so all it's weight isn't on the perch that will close it up.
He's determined to get in the feeder as we are determined to keep him out! He may have won this battle were determined to win in the end!
You all have a fantastic day today! We have plans for the youngest Great Grandson's 1st birthday, wow that year went by so quickly.

Butterfly Kisses layout

Good Morning, ahhh it's Monday! Had a long night last night I hope your Monday is better than mine was. I have a layout I did for the sketchathon challenge sketch #25 and the twist was to add a large title to it:

This is my little great granddaughter Emily, 3 weeks old in these pictures. Her parents took her to the butterfly gardens I guess near their place in South Dakota. This is the sketch:

I kept to the base of the sketch pretty well. the left side has the butterfly transparency that was in my counterfeit kit, thought it worked out well for the theme. Also on another Purple/Scallops challenge #2, so the purple of her butterfly wings fit that theme very well and I brought in the purple background designer pattern paper, the purple hearts paper, purple vellum punched with a recollections punch and added the purple ribbon to cover up the tape.

I shifted the journaling strips so I could have the 2 pictures of her in the wings. I have more pictures to this outing and will do another page to it later this week. The rhinestone butterfly was from last month's kit.

The title block came from a swap a few years back, it's from the cricut imagine and the lady that did it really did a fantastic job on dressing it up. This past week I went through my swap cuts and put a few that I plan to use aside and this one was one of them.

 The journaling strips I moved up to the right hand side of the layout, seemed to help with the empty space there. I used my Dymo labler for the strips  in the blue.

I tacked down the transparency at each corner with the brad/flower combo from Queen & Comp. Sassy Sequins. Overall I really like the way it turned out. So far all the sketches have been lost of fun to use. This is the last week of the sketchathon so got to get in gear and get er done!
Thanks for stopping by and checking things out :) Have a fantastic day!

I Am A Big Brother

Hi you all :) I hope your having a fantastic weekend. I have been doing laundry and cleaning up a bit here myself. It's a beautiful day so I've hung clothes out to dry, just love spring days like this.
This is a layout I did for the sketchathon over at My Scraps & More forum. This is from sketch #3 and it's from that box of memories that I'm working through this month. Not even a dent into it yet so maybe continuing it through next month also. Just have to wait and see what happens next week with it as I continue with the sketches:

This was the next picture to do that was in my box of memories. Zachary holding his little brother Tristan at the hospital. He looks so proud, can't believe that was over a year ago. Here is the sketch I used:

The only other thing was this one had a twist and some of them will have something else to do with it other than the sketch: This one has just a little twist....add some mist, paint, spray or ink to your page!

I added the sei Tumble Dye mist, that is in my current counterfeit kit, to various spots on the layout It's like a golden yellow, bringing in more yellow from the frame around the picture and the CTMH yellow arrow washi tape. The title work is done with the gold letters in my kit too. The heart swirl was sitting on my desk from another project and I added that to the layout too. The heart swirl file is from Creative Pointe Valentine Hearts set

 I used a very old scrapbook kit for the hello baby frame, the heart stickers and the baby/balloon stickers I used my SU chevron punch for the chevron arrows pointing to the picture

My journaling block was from the PL cards that are in my current kit. Also added the baby boy dimensional sticker to cover the noted spot on the card. A good layout for Tristan's 1st year book. All the papers and that fun yellow arrows washi tape is in my current counterfeit kit.
You all have a good weekend :)

Daddy's Treasure for the April CKC Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to this month's Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog Hop. You should have come to my blog by way of the amazing Julie from Spend Less Craft More
The 3 challenges this month are:

• Challenge #1: Pick A Challenge
• Challenge #2: Sketch Challenge 
• Challenge #3: Spring Challenge

My take is on both challenge #1 and #3. I've been doing the Sketchathon challenges this month so the layout was done with Sketch #22:

 
 Also I love spring because of all the beautiful colors that are emerging from the dead of winter. So the layout is very colorful with flowers about the layout. This is pun title layout (from another challenge over at the Scrappin N Chattin yahoo group) Daddy's Treasure is Tammy his only daughter born amongst all his boys.
Some up close pictures of the layout. I used my current counterfeit kit for most of the layout but I do keep previous kits close by incase I need anything I especially want on my layout. 

This layout is also part of my Box of Memories series that I have been doing on ScrappersChallenge facebook group. The one piece of pattern paper came from the box, I used it for the photomat and for the pennant strip in this bottom corner.
Thank you for stopping by and you can catch my take on challenge #2 later today. Off you go and check out what Mater Forger Margie is doing today for her challenge

Knoebels Then & Now

Good Morning! Hope you all are enjoying this fine Sunday. We are having some fantastic spring weather the last few days. I spent some time outside yesterday hanging up laundry and playing a bit with Buddy. Spring allergies keeps me indoors alot, but sometimes I gotta get out and get some fresh air:) Today's challenge over at Lasting Memories is Family Travel Traditions. We had 2 travel traditions growing up but I focused on the one that Dave and I still do now:

Knobels is an amusement park here in PA that is about 2 hours from my house. As a kid, Mom's work would hold a picnic there each year in June. I was 3 almost 4 in these 2 pictures :) I loved the Whip when I was a kid and this is the one made for the younger set and I was lucky to have a brother that would tag along with me on the rides too he was 9. Now I like the Scenic Skyway ride, even though I'm afraid of heights I get on and hold on tight. This particular set of photos comes from our visit to the park on my birthday 2013, we found out they had a cover bridge festival so decided to check it out. Wow the fall foliage was just gorgeous that day and the perfect way to spend a birthday.
I used the sketch #13 from the sketchathon challenge over at My Scraps and More.

This fun sketch took me less than an hour to put together this layout. I used October Afternoon Midway collection that has been in and out of my counterfeit kits many times, now it just sits by my desk handy for these kinds of layouts :) I used alphas from my current kit for the layout.

 My brother Steve and I enjoying the Whip ride. Era: 1966. The thicker & sign was a match to the color blue of the ride cars

Dave and I enjoying the ride Era: 2013 and a picture of what we seen from our view, perfect way to see the whole park from this view.

 One of the entrances to the park, super cute photo op too :)

The journaling spot, all the doo dads and that fun border strip came from the OA Midway collection too. This just came together so well, I guess having a kit available has it's advantages (no matter if it's premade or made from your stash) for some fast scrappin.
Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you join us this week over at Lasting Memories. This is the last week of the challenges so make sure you get them n quickly to play along. This month there is the fun prize of those 3 die cuts being given away.

He Shoots He Scores

Hello :) So far it's been a pleasant week, lol only Tuesday though so you just never know what may happen :) This is the 2nd layout I did from the box of Memories that I'm working through:

I used this sketch:

This paper is so cool to use for this layout the tie-dye burst just worked out perfect for that sunburst on the sketch and I added a foam basketball for the title pun and the picture fun.

I added a variety of stickers, paper clipart from and old scrapbooking kit, some vellum stickers too

Close up of the left hand side

The paper, the PL card, the die cut stars and the Alphas for the title all came from my current counterfeit kit. That paper clip I got in a bag full of baby scrapbook stuff at a yardsale a few years ago and so glad to get that used and out of my stash, the old clip art came out of that same bag of stuff too.
I'll be using this layout for the Scrap Our Stash Challenge this month of using the word STAMP:
I used:

S- Sketch, Stars, Stickers

T- Tie-dye pattern paper

A- Alphas to create the title

M- Metal safety pin clip

P- Project Life Card, Picture, Photo Mat

I'm really enjoying scrapping photos out of this box, there is some newer pictures and some older pictures too. The My Scraps and More sketchathon is really making it fun to scrap them too. Tos see more on sketch Challenge #2 you can see it here on this blog post.

Love Moments With You

Good Morning :) Now back to the normal work week, I hope you all had a fantastic holiday yesterday. This is a short week for me as I will be attending the MGCA hosting the MMCI  winter convention in Gettysburg, PA. So lots of crafting in a short period of time this week for my DT spots this coming weekend. But lets start with today's challenge first. This layout was made for the Creative Cutting Challenge Anything Goes:

 This layout is of the first time I held my youngest grandson. I waited quite a bit for him to open his eyes. This picture was taken a few days after he was born, I had printed it both in color and b/w. I used Creative Pointe's Valentine Hearts svg file for my layout.

A cool set of hearts that can really be used for lots of themes not just Valentines

 So I enlarged the double heart and used that in the center for my title background and I scattered a few of the combine hearts around for borders and embellishment spots. The gold foil words were cut with my cameo, I used 2 Silhouette store files to make up the title.

 Added some of the newest trend of nesting with the red twine and my journal spot came from one of the cards in my counterfeit kit, as did the rest of my papers.

Love this besides the pictures I also love the addition of the hearts here for the border element and some fun blue sequins.

 This corner spot I took one of the negative cut hearts from the large cut and added a piece of the swirl heart, some more of the twine and the blue sequins.

Here I found the perfect vellum square to use for the layout from my baby theme drawer of stuff added more on the swirl hearts. This was just a fun layout to do and I used this sketch for my layout:

A fun sketchathon is going on over at My Scraps and More for the month of April on their forum board:  http://myscrapsandmore.proboards.com. You can see more information here on this blog post.
Some of my crafting this month is going to come about from a box of stuff I found in my craftroom the other night. I boxed up all this stuff from my craft desk right before the Christmas Holiday crafting and put it in this box:

 I figured I would start from the top and work all the way through it. So this box is my goal for the month other than the DT themed posts that need done that might not work for those themes.

There is all kinds of stuff in here so this should be fun, a photo envelope too hmmmm I wonder what may be in there? Be a week or 2 before I find out by the way it looks.
Thanks for stopping by today and I hope to see your creation over at Creative Cutting Challenge here are the details of the challenge:

Now we're ready to see YOUR  SVG (or similar) creations.

PLEASE READ THE RULES BEFORE YOU ENTER THE CHALLENGE:

They are simple and short.  Please click on the rules tab above for complete rules to enter this challenge.  
MOST IMPORTANT RULE:  You MUST use a SVG or similar electronic cutting file in your project.  CRICUT CARTRIDGE ONLY ENTRIES ARE NOT ELIGIBLE.  Please make sure that you mention somewhere in your post what part of your project was created with a cutting file.  Entries that do not fit this basic requirement will be deleted.