Love the Ones You're With

Good morning and welcome :) I received most of my December/Christmas pictures in the mail Friday, so look out! The December Daily will be a common site on the blog! for this month as I get creating and getting it finished by the end of January. Probably a few layouts for the Christmas Album too, as there were alot of pictures ordered. Something how the holidays and events bring about the most pictures and so hard to decide which ones to keep and which to let go! But with the kids and the grandkids there are lots of separate visits all tied up into one month.
Today though is Sunday and it's a Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge, January we are focusing on using up some of that forgotten stash.Our second challenge of the month is:

LM 326 - Buttons, Bling, and Brads - use a little, or a lot, use just one of the choices, or use all three!  

I used bling and I finished up a pack of stickers too that was in my stash:

Dave with his granddaughter Astacia :) Love this picture and my hubby is 6'4", means Astacia is getting a bit tall.

I love the greens in my current counterfeit kit: Glacially Toasted. the steampunk style butterfly stickers was a great addition to the layout and a nice touch of bling too.
With the last butterfly in the pack I also made a Thank You card:

 Used some rubons on this card and ribbon too. I like that I saw someone said about making a card with the leftovers after creating a layout and put that into practice right away.

The inside of the card is ready for the inside sentiment.
Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing your scrapbook layout up on Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge.

 

It's Counterfeiting kitting time!

Hello and welcome to a new Counterfeit Kit Challenge for January 2017. I love the inspiration kit the Julene chose for this month and wasn't hard to choose papers for my kit from just 2 drawers of pattern papers in the blue drawer and the green drawer, but I did look through my brown drawer for a pattern paper too. These drawers hold my original scrapbook paper when I 1st started buying open stock paper and some leftovers from old completed paper pads that only had a few left to it. The kit we're counterfeiting is the Kaiser Craft Ubda dreams collection.

Kylie from Shop'n'Crop has provided the inspiration kit.

When I seen the kit on the 1st, I had to laugh out Loud! Wow it looks just link my shirt! I actually said that....

A Christmas gift from my sister, loved that it fit and wore it to church that morning.

I just loved those greens and blues for a January month makes me think of spring. I love the navy that seems to be seen trending so far this year and good to see dollies still coming out in kits (my favorite). My kit:

Glacially Toasted

 My papers:

The 1st paper I came across was the one with all the various circles on it and that started off my kit and I pulled my papers with that for my inspiration and when I seen the kit I knew the 2 6X6 pads I wanted to use, just added the 4X6 mat stacks for some extra choices especially for cards.

My mix media stuff I pulled including stamps that had the doilies on them, thought they would be some fun additions to my layouts, just a night of stamping to do some ahead I see in my future. I also added a waterbrush something I've not yet tried, been in my stash quite a while and still in the package.

My alphas a mix of small and large, partial packs I would love to get used up this month not sure what kind of titles I'll be able to create with them. 

My embellishments include rubons, die cut bows I would love to get out of my stash, an 8X8 paper kit that I thought went great with this and see it being used up fairly quickly, wood veneer doilies I purchased last Christmas and never used and a pack of recollections wood veneer I got for Christmas this year, ribbons, the pack of standouts I want to get used up, Urban Market chipboard stickers another one I want to get used up. The butterfly stickers I think I've had that in my stash for a very long time :) a good time to use it up! Some adhesive gems and some enamel dots that just match this kit so well. I slimmed down my choices so I may have a chance to use them up.

Also I reserve the right to use out of my stash anything I may need, cardstock, stamps, inks and so on. I belong to 2 FB groups that have challenges going on and 1 is a bashket that I have 20 items in to use up so access to that too and for the other group were doing a 30 challenge of flat stickers so they may pop in once in awhile, my alphas are part of that challenge too. 

So a great start to crafting for January :) I have a few DT projects to do and a crop this weekend that this kit will definitely go with me and lots of 2016 photos coming in that need scrap besides the ones I have on hand. I also have my Christmas kit from last month on hand for when my those pictures come in and I can get my December Daily done fairly quickly :) plus I still have my 100 pattern paper challenge pile still with in reach :) A good start for my Cover To Cover class I got planned this month :)

Thanks for stopping by and I would encourage you to play along too :) it's fun to have a kit ready to go when you sit down to scrap/craft just one of the elements that help to make scrapping just a bit faster :)

2017 Scrappy Goals-One Little Word and more.

Yep it's that time of the year to think about what I want to achieve this year. I pondered a bit on this during the last 2 weeks of December. Goals were discussed with my husband on the ride home from Tammy's after Christmas. I think I have a doable list this year :)
Scrappy Goals:

•  Get the Scrap Corner organized-especially the embellishment section of it.
• Upload photos weekly/ print monthly (something I learned for a Shimelle class except she did biweekly for printing)
• Finish boughten Classes
• Printed photos on hand get organized/need to locate information and add that with them as I organize them. date and any story I may want to tell
• Do unfinished Projects around the room:

1.  December Dailies (I think I have 4 of them prepped that need done) and this year's getting done this month
2. 2 Road Trip Albums
3. 2004 Flood Album
4. Before You Album
5. Project Life Album (2013?)

• Work on current albums : 2016 and 2017
• Goal of 250 layouts (I did 199 this past year so a doable goal)
• Use up atleast 3 paper pads before I buy a new one so a good goal 3 to1 throughout my scrappy stash.

All are doable goals that could be accomplished this year if I stay on track. This year seems to be more scrapping for us and our adventures than the grandkids but I will be getting them done within working on current albums. So this week I need to gather a list of all my classes (thinking that doing all of them over 2 years is doable) so I can get an idea of the ones I want to get done and in what order. With plans of the 1st class being Shimelle's Cover to Cover class.

Household Goals:

• Clean out upstairs back room that I store stuff in: Sort for yard sale, Purge/Trash, Keep piles. Also ebay my Mom's Jewelry (an obligation I've had since she passed on that seem to gotten put on the back burner) and ebay my business stuff since retiring from that.
• Clean out both trucks: Sort for yard sale, Purge/Trash, Keep piles. Ebay anything worth ebaying.
• (My husband) wants to get the back porch area under roof and enclosed, so expecting to help with that
• Start cleaning out the house a room at a time eliminating what isn't needed

Personal Goals:

• To continue my walk with God
• to take time to read this year (I didn't do much of that in 2016 and sure did miss it)
• walks with Buddy
• to keep exercising my knee to continue strengthening it and getting it strong. (tough getting older sometimes)

My One Little Word this Year is COMPLETE

The definition:

com·plete

kəmˈplēt

adjective

adjective: complete; comparative adjective: completer; superlative adjective: completest

1. 1.

   having all the necessary or appropriate parts.

   • 
     

     synonyms:

     entire, whole, full, total; More uncut, unabridged

   • having run its full course; finished.

     
     

     synonyms:

     finished, ended, concluded, completed, finalized; More accomplished, achieved, discharged, settled, done;

   verb
   verb: complete; 3rd person present: completes; past tense: completed; past participle: completed; gerund or present participle: completing

1. 1.

   finish making or doing.

   
   

   synonyms:

   finished, ended, concluded, completed, finalized; accomplished, achieved, discharged, settled, done; informalwrapped up, sewn up, polished off finish, end, conclude, finalize, wind up; informalwrap up, sew up, polish off
My reason: I want to complete things this year. My classes, my goals, my scrapping n cardmaking. I purchased alot of classes over the years and never followed through with any of them but 1. So this is my main objective in 2017. I want to complete 3 before buying 1, this will go into my scrapping too eliminate 3 before buying one. I have alot of unfinished themed albums/projects/layouts I started and want to complete.

Yep that is what I want to do this year is to complete what I started. I'm taking on one class at a time and completing that before going onto the next one.

If you have read down to here I thank you for hanging out with me, you are a trooper :) I've learned over the past year that I do best scrapping if I have a monthly kit ready and I thank Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog for that! I also know that I spend alot of time looking for information on Facebook when I need dates or stories of the pictures I have so to conquer that issue I will keep a steno notepad handy to write down the date and the information needed for the photos that I grab from there (Grandkids and Great Grandkids pictures). The current photos I have, I will take an hour or 2 a week to look up information for those and the stories so then they are ready to be scrapped when the time is right. I want to gather all the photos I have in the room and get them to one central photo file. Layouts completed will be putaway weekly if not daily as to not have piles (what I'll be working on tomorrow seperating that large stack of layouts and getting them into albums so the household and guests could see them if they wanted too. Yes I think 2017 is gonna be a good year! I'm in a good place in my life at the moment :)

Do you have your 2017 Goals set........

What You Reading for a Lasting Memories challenge

Wow 2017 is upon us! How exciting and I think it's going to be a good year for us. We both think that with our household goals for this year will make it a good year. I've got lots of cleaning out the old this year, lots from my old business to get cleaned.
My goals for my scrappy life I will post tomorrow and looking forward to a scrappy year this coming year!

This month's theme over at Lasting Memories was brought to us by our Design Team sister Lori and the theme is: "Stash buster" challenge - Let's show these neglected items in our stash a little love in the new year! This Week's Challenge is: Punches - Use those punches on your layout! Any type of punch - border punches, shape punches, and if you don't have punches, use  die cut/ephemera. Lots of cool inspiration over at Lasting Memories from the Design Team. Here is what I created:

This is Zachary January 25, 2012 Katherine posted this photo on Facebook and I responded "What's that the sports section or the financial section he's reading?" Got to love this! Just about 1 1/2 yrs old here. I used my favorite punch for this layout and used a variety of paper that makes me think of newsprint. the title I created with an alpha I thought looked great as it's similiar to a newspaper. A fun layout to create and the punches of blue gives it a nice touch. 
Thank you for stopping by today and I do hope you enjoy this 1st day of the new year......

Special Day Today

Welcome I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas yesterday and got all they wanted. Today is Guest DT post for the 3rd week at Let's Get Sketchy, posting with Team B.

and the sketch:

This was a fun sketch to use and love the way the layout came out too :) I used up some paper from a CTMH Charlotte collection and lots of stuff from my stash too. Thanks to Let's Get Sketchy for letting me their Guest Designer for December :)

Have a fantastic day and see you soon.......

A Sweet Mention over at Counterfeit Kit Challenge

Wow thank you to the Counterfeit Kit Challenge for the mention of my blog on their list of followers today! I'm humbly surprised and honored by the kind words that Lisa (Master Forger) said about me :)

OH my! I'm flattered! So many kind words and wow a 160 times that I had linked up this past year, that is cool to know :) You all know I love this blog and will promote anyway I can :) Your blog has helped me in more ways than one with my scrapping through the years as I follow along :) I'm very humble at your generosity here with the Master Forgers, using your time to make such beautiful kits in a cool and interesting way :) Merry Christmas to you all and looking forward to a wonderful 2017 as I use up my stash in the most creatives ways cause of your blog :)

To my blog followers I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I look forward to spending time with you in 2017 with more layouts and cards as I'm gathering up my thoughts for the new year and the goals I would like to accomplish. 

I made the Team! Over at Sketch~N~Scrap

Woohoo! I'm a new design team member for Sketch~N~Scrap for the 2017 1st term DT! so excited to be on the team! I follow the blog dedicatedly for my scrappy inspiration so when I seen the posting for the call and a little nudge from a scrappy friend of mine, I applied and got the spot :) 2017 is going to be an exciting year I think in my scrapping as my 2017 one word will join into my scrapping too.

Sketch N Scrap is hoping to inspire you for another amazing year full of awesome sketches, fun challenges and events and our newest endeavor ONLINE CROPS!  We hope you will find time to join in all the fun we have planned from 2017!

See you in 2017 with inspirational layouts and cards from the sketches over at Sketch~N~Scrap