Extra! Extra! LO for Sketch N Scrap challenge

Good Morning and welcome to the blog again :) I'm out and about this weekend working on transplanting flowers that I started in February. The weather is cooperating enough to get it done. But I have another layout for you:

We got a fun challenge over at Sketch N Scrap for the day. A wonderful sketch from Heather to play with today. 

This is a very interesting sketch and this is my creation:

I come across a kit I put together that had this fun newspaper print and it had sticker sheets that had the triangles so I cut up some pattern paper for more triangles for that edge of the sketch. A little history from my home town that I'm still creating with the photos that I took that day during my walk. I kept the embellishments minimal so the focus is on the story. Thanks for stopping bu my little corner today and seeing what I'm creating.

So now it's your turn let's see what you can do with the sketch.Thanks for stopping by today to see what I created and can't wait to see what you create from this cool sketch over at Sketch N Scrap blog.  

The Rialto Theater LO for Use Your Stuff challenge

Good Morning and welcome to a new week and a new challenge over at Use Your Stuff challenge blog. This week's challenge is VINTAGE.

So this could be some vintage papers, a vintage photo, a vintage technique, use your imagination and use your stuff! :)

 This is photos and a stop on that historical downtown Williamsport walking tour I took. This theater actually has special memories as this was the 1st theater I got to go to by myself and saw the movie Willard (yes I was a thriller movie junkie :) We had 3 Movie theaters in town at that time.

 The architect to this building is amazing.

 Information about the building from the tour

 My own memory for my journaling

This was also a LOAD218 Day12 layout. The prompt was about change
Change: changes for me growing up, changed up the sketch that I used for the layout by rotating it.   I used my past counterfeit kit: Pretty Little Pastimes for the layout inspiration that had some vintage papers in it.
Thanks for stopping by today to see what I'm up too in my little corner of the world.

Homegrown layout for a Sketch N Scrap challenge

Good Morning and welcome to today's challenge over at Sketch N Scrap blog. Today with have this fun sketch:

Lots of space on here to play with :) and this is what I created with it:

For that big circle on the sketch I used a large doily! A yard sale find a few years ago that I'm still trying to get through them.
Created using this LOAD1018 Day 10 prompt: Show of the Day: The Music Man (1957)
Whether you grew up in a small town like River City, Iowa (the town from the musical) or a large city, your environment helped shape the person you are today. Write about the place you grew up & the special memories you have from that place.

 The self-guided tour through Downtown Williamsport was such a joy to do because it brought back so many memories of my childhood downtown. A town that you walk to and not worry about anything happening to you along the way. Times have changed and so has Downtown. But I love the addition of the information of the building that I can add to the layouts besides my own memories.

 Using speech bubbles too for telling of these memories just like I was talking and telling the story.

 I had fun telling of memories through the pictures and journaling.

 With and additional photo of Capital Records another favorite place I went growing up, especially on Saturdays after American Bandstand was on and I would go down to see if they had the latest 45 in :) Also using my current counterfeit kit: Tainted Love. Really did love growing up in a small town, miss that old town too as growing up so has the town and it isn't quite the way it was, but here and there you ca see bits and pieces of the past with in the present.

Don't forget to check out this month's crop over at the facebook group event:

Lots of fun sketches to play with over there too. Thanks for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing what you create for this fun challenge.

Mussina Building layout

Hello :) This is the 1st layout I created in this new year of 2018. One of my goals this year is to do a Layout a Day. Something easy enough with all the printed pictures I have on hand. But not sure if I will be able to keep up with daily posts but will give it a go :) I will have my goals post up probably tomorrow still working on my list for the year but this is one of the for sure goals for me :) I also have a goal of scrapping the printed pictures I have on hand of vacations/roadtrips this I expect to be 70% of my daily scrapping. I have so many theme albums I want to do that I had goals for last year that didn't get conquered so make that a priority this year :) Those pictures aren't going to be seen sitting in envelopes from the printers.
I created this layout joining in with a challenge over at Bash Your Scrapbook Stash FB group . #BYSSLayouts365 will be the hashtag and the goal is to finish 365 layouts (projects, cards, etc.) in 2018, which is one of my goals :) So this challenge is right up my alley.

 This is a layout created with pictures of the Self-Guided tour of Historic Downtown Williamsport I did in April 2017. I have lots of pictures from this walk that I want to get scrapped and since they are a variety of different pictures I shouldn't get to bored creating with them till I'm done :) So between my Counterfeit kit-Sprinkle and my 100 pattern paper pile should have lots of choices for papers for the pictures. The papers for this layout came from my counterfeit kit. I used a sketch over at Let's Get Sketchy for my inspiration:

I loved this background for the pictures and used a piece of the pattern paper that was similar in color with the windows of the building and that made it look like it was pointing to the photos.

 I added the information about the building that is supplied with the tour paper to the bottom of the layout

 The butterfly came from the pack of die cuts that was in my counterfeit kit that had the trucks in it :) also had the butterflies and the florals on this layout. I added my journaling with a piece of the same paper that I had used up in the top element.

close up of the pictures of the building. It's always fun to get myself caught in a photo withing the photo taken.
Thank you for stopping by today to see what I'm up to in my little corner of the world...........

CKC-Sprinkle: 1 12X12 layout
100 Pattern Paper Pile:

Never Giving Up layout

Hello again :) This is the 2nd layout posted today:

This was one of the stops on the Self Guided Historical Walking Tour of Downtown Williamsport. The First Presbyterian church of Williamsport, corner of Third and Mulberry streets, was organized, February 23, 1833. Previous to this time there was no church of this denomination in Williamsport
A congregation that never Gave Up (hence the title)
This layout I created this morning for the 100th Sketch over at The Memory Nest. Sadly this is the last sketch for the time being, I will be missing this blog as she always has awesome sketches:

More layering on this sketch :) I added it to my layout too. I used paper from my 100 pattern paper challenge pile. Close up shots of the layout:

 The write up information from the tour

 My journaling

 The title work. I added just sequin flowers with brads for my embellishment

2 different views of the church from the front side on 3rd Street and from the Mulberry Street side. A very large church. I would like to go inside some day and see what that looks like. On to the next stop of the tour.
Thank you for stopping by today ans see what I'm doing in my little corner of the world.....

Explore the Past layout for Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge

Good Morning and welcome to a new month of challenges over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge. I am the hostess for this month's challenge and the theme is Scrapbook Cooking Time: Having fun creating with some scrapbook recipes. This week's recipe is:
The recipe: 3 patterned papers, background stamping, a punched shape, puffy stickers and your handwriting.
This is the layout I created:

It was interesting to come across this picture of the Russell Inn from a Book at the library. The sing post is what is there now on the spot that the Inn was at.
The layout came about from LOAD 1017 Day 27: I’ve got a secret…
 …passion – the thing that really drives you. Find an exuberantly artistic way to communicate the feeling.
My recipe: 3 pattern papers, stamping: part of the title and the little notebook page, stars are the punched shape, Hiedi Swapp puffy stickers and my own handwriting :) a fun recipe for the layout
Some close up photos of the layout:

 The photo I found of the Inn

 My title work

 Current pictures of the area

 My journaling :) This is from my Historical Walking Tour series of layouts. 
Thank you for stopping by and seeing what I'm up too :) I look forward to seeing your creation to this fun recipe linked up over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenges

Wander for a Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge

Good Morning and welcome :) Worked the night shift last night a mandatory thing so a short weekend for me :) We have a new challenge for you this week over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook challenges, Lauren has asked us to Use a BIG title to document our BIG adventure.
This is a glittery big title for a big adventure around our Historic Downtown, a fun adventure for me down memory lane where I grew up and to learn more about my home town. I'll be on another walking tour next week too done by our local library so another fun adventure.

I used a fun title from Shimelle's line Go Now Go. This was created from LOAD517 Day 23:
Prompt:
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – 1986
What would you do with a whole day off?
This is what I did:
I don't get to many Saturdays off so I took advantage of the day and did somethings in the morning with Dave, but in the afternoon I went off on my own for awhile. A walking tour of out local Downtown. We have a rich history in Williamsport, PA and it was cool to take a day off and check out the walking tour of the old buildings that are Downtown. Growing up here I certainly appreciate seeing glimpses of my childhood with in the buildings that in itself could tell a story of a memory from the buildings. Old buildings and some new fixtures with in Downtown Williamsport made the tour very interesting. A lot more layouts from this tour to come as I scrap it.

 My tour guide, a self guided tour through Historic Downtown Williamsport, PA

 My journaling

       This was cool to find along the way and a story to tell in another layout. The building across the street had that fun mural on it too. There is alot more to this adventure to come lots of photos to scrap.
I look forward to seeing what you create for this fun challenge over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge blog.

Bases Loaded for a Lasting Memories Challenge

Good Morning :) It's a new challenge over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge blog :) The theme is All About You and this week's theme is "Let me take a Selfie" I'm still in training when it comes to selfies but a few months after taking this picture come to find out that I can see the selfie as it's being taken by a switch on the camera so it's been getting better. But first we have to scrap the old ones :)

I had a blast making this double page layout :) I created this during LOAD216 Day 26 Landmark prompt: this is one of our newest landmarks in Williamsport, PA
Bases Loaded is the newest Landmark in our city. It was put together for the 75th Anniversary of Little League Baseball. Out town feels very honored to have this here a way to show Carl Stotz that we appreciate what he started, shame he wasn't alive to see it unfolding, and the rift that he had with LL later didn't come to an end, But, by the way of his daughter it is starting to change and Little League is embracing Carl Stotz by adding this and another statue of him up at the Volunteer field. I made sure to get over today and a picture with Carl Stotz. :) Through our family we have a very special bond with Little League, my Dad playing for Jumbo Pretzel on of the original teams. But that is another story for another day :)

Yes me trying to take a selfie :) I am getting better at it :) LOL This is bench they have that you can sit and get your picture taken with Carl Stotz (a statue of him) so that was fun :)

 The left side of the layout :) Lots of photos and lots of journaling about how the landmark came about.

 The right side of the layout :)

 I pulled this information for my journaling from an article on the internet about the landmark.

 There was so much information that I put some on each page of the layout.

A little bit about what I feel about the landmark. This will go in to my Williamsport Album. With the warmer weather taking place I would like to get out and walk about Williamsport and get pictures of some of the local history and get it in the album, being raised here there is alot I remember and alot that has changed already, but looking forward to adding my memories to it :)
Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing what you all create for this new challenge of the week :)

James V Brown Library @ Christmas Time

LOAD Day 12: Landmarks. Lets see what can I do this week :) I made a list and then I decided on the James V Brown Library. I had taken some pictures of the library at Christmas time for my December Daily and I knew I had a few extra photos I could use to tie in the landmark story with something current too :) Research the library abit to have the history part of it for this layout and I found a then picture to go with the now picture I had.

It hasn't changed much over the years. I found this great sketch to use over at Scrap Much?

 This is the February 5 sketch

The left side housed the information about how the library became to be and still today stays true to it's original mission. Picture of the bronze nutcracker

The right side holds the 2 other Christmas pictures, one of a statue and one of the tree in the rotunda.

Close up of the title work with holly brads, I used a square doily on the layout. Most of the layout came from my current counterfeit kit Color Splash

 Close up of the photos

Close up of the title work

My personal journaling :) This is one of my favorite LOAD prompts right now, the Landmarks. I have learned so much about my city in just a few of them that this is going to be an ongoing project. I found a guided walking tour and would like to take it in the spring for my own photos of the historical places here in Williamsport, PA and a theme album just on the something that could be looked back on by generations.