Funday Friday Sketch Challenge a Kindergarten layout

Hi you all :) Vacation has arrived and we are enjoying time with friends at the tractor show out at Penns Caves. The show is the Nittany Antique Tractor show and Moline is the feature and my husband and I got to be the chosen ones to chair this show. So far it's been going well and were getting a fairly good turnout of Minneapolis Moline tractors.
Today is Funday Friday over at Jo's Scrap Shack and the sponsors this week are: A Day For Daisies and Bugaboo Stamps. We are to use a sketch:

so I made a layout using the sketch:

 It's a cool sketch that I knew would transfer over to a scrapbook layout very well. I used Bugaboo stamp: Words from an Angel - Mother

the stamp I used was for another intended purpose for a different layout but when I seen the pictures of Zachary for his 1st day and what Katherine said I knew these would be perfect to scrap with this stamp :)

 I used papers from my current counterfeit kit, but I used embellishments from one of last month's kits

 That big K is from CTMH stamp set and the the smaller stamp is from a recollections stamp set.

 I added the journaling and that just finished off the layout very nicely. They grow up so fast, so far Zachary is enjoying Kindergarten :) Mom well she is working it out well. 
For this day we can't forget the ones we lost in 2011, but today is Katherine's birthday so it was fitting to share a layout like this :)
Hope to see your creation over at Jo's Scrap Shack :)

One Month Old:A Lasting Memories challenge layout

Good Morning and Happy Labor Day weekend to you :) today I have Lasting Memories newest challenge: Distressing with a Title That Tells a Story:

This is our little Great Granddaughter Emily at One Month old. She is such a cutie and getting so big :) She's eating watermelon now and has a couple of teeth too. But I really like how I did this layout and I found that fun little star sticker that the gold in it matched her little flower on her dress. So I distressed the blue floral with pink distressing ink to add more of that pink to the layout. The papers and element to the layout came from my May counterfeit kit and this was also created with a LOAD515 prompt: Day 3.
 The prompt was: Monochrome: So I chose using blue based on the blue of here shirt and the title card brought in the golden yellow to compliment the blues.

 Some close up shots of the layout. This was a very simple layout and I love how it turned out .

Thank you for stopping by today and I do hope you have a pleasant Holiday. I hope to see what you created over at Lasting Memories this month :)

September Counterfeit Kit: Garden of Earthly Delights

This month's counterfeit kit inspiration comes from Studio Calico's Pop Art kit:

One that is a bit different than my own style so I kept it to a minimal amount to play with this month and I also still have 2 kits from last month that I didn't have alot of time to play with so figuring I can get at some of those kits too.
I started my kit with 2 papers from the same paper pad to get me going. When I seen the ferns in the kit in those color I knew I had a paper similiar to that with leaves on it so when I got that I also noticed the reddish orange paper that seem to fit well with the color of the kit,

so these 2 papers guided most of my choices of the rest of the papers in my kit other than trying to stay within the element of the inspirational kit itself
Here is the papers to my kit: Since it's a heavy harvest month this month the name of the kit is:  Garden of Earthly Delights

I brought in a bold floral and a soft floral, some blocks, some dots and circles, graphics and finished it off with some word papers. Scrapbooking is a Garden of Earthly Delights
The Studio Calico Pop Art Kits have four kits comprising I tried to take a bit from each:
I brought in Project Life cards: Some I made when I first found out about project life, some are from the Honey kit, Jade kit and from a Chalkboard kit (from Me & My big ideas I think). I also added a DCWV mat stack (I have lots of these and would love to get some used up so a different one each month to get them in the mix) this one had more of the colors and florals of the kit. Also added the 6X6 pad for the same reason. If I don't mix them in they won't ever get used up :)

 I pulled Alphas: Some large with light blue in it like the kit and some small like in the planner kit. I pulled all the alphas I had in the light blue.

 I thought I could forge the Alpha blocks they had in the kit with the large alphas I had that was in last month's kit that I brought back into this month's kit. The hash tag I'll have to cut out with the cameo.

The lower section of stamps the one on the left is similar to what they had in the planner kit and the other one is just cause I wanted to use it :)
 The embellishments: has some rhinestones, some enamel dots, some washi, some die cuts I found in my stash, some puffy stickers and chipboard stickers, paper flowers and sticker flowers and a sandwich bag full of odds and ends. (some bottle caps in that bag to decide what I'm doing with it)

 As I was clearing off my desk to make room for my gathering of paper for the kit this was my pile. As I looked at it thought it would make a cute card or a fantastic start to a scrapbook layout so this was added to this month's kit to be used up in one way or another.

"Noel" a card for Funday Friday Challenge

Hi and welcome to my blog and the long Labor Day weekend has begun :) Any big plans? We don't have to many that I know of right now, but that can certainly change :) I plan to relax just a bit lots of crafting to do this weekend to before we go away next weekend. Maybe a yard sale or 2 and probably a cook out one day is always fun. Now that we are heading into the harvest season you can see Fall right around the corner! Wow where did summer go! A blink and that was some quick 3 months that went by... time needs to slow down just a bit :)
Today is Funday Friday over at Jo's Scrap Shack and the sponsors of this week's Anything Goes challenge is Little Blue Buttons Stamps: I made a card with LBBS digi stamp Miss Lilly and the Snowman:

This is such a cute digi stamp for a Christmas card and the paper itself set off the card sentiment for me. I used the current sketch over at Mojo Monday for my card:





I really enjoyed using this sketch and I think I'll be using it quite often in the future very versailte one that can be used for many types of cards.
A close up of the digi stamp:

I used my bic markers to color the digi and had fun with some Liquid Applique for the trim on her hat and coat and for some texture on the snowman too. I added "Gold Ice" ice stickles to the bottom to surround her a bit to look like glistening snow.
I used the left over blue vellum for the border from my July counterfeit kit, the pink word paper came from my first ever scrappy win a long, long time ago so glad to fine a use for that. The snowflakes came from CM Chalet sticker sheet that I got at a yardsale and the center medallion came from a K&Company classic metal art pack popped up on foam tape. I have not had a chance to do the inside of the card yet but it will be more of the pink paper, the blue border and white cardstock with a Christmas message inside. So glad to be working ahead on Christmas cards this year :) Have a fantastic day and I look forward to seeing what you created for the challenge.

  The winner will win 4 digis of their choice!

 So make sure to play along this week~

    Starts: Friday, Sept. 4th 12:00AM

Ends:  Friday, Sept. 11th  6:00PM

(Eastern time)

What do you need to do to enter?

Challenge Rules

1. Please post a direct link to your card/project post that includes your challenge,

using the linky tool below.

2. Be sure to include a link back to our challenge

3. THREE entries per person and you must post a separate blog post for each entry.

4. All entries must be NEW and created for the current challenge.

5. You may combine with other challenges as long as you link back to us in your post.

 * All entries that do not meet the challenge requirements

Will not be eligible for top 3 or random wins (optional from sponsors prizes)

Any random wins will only be mailed within the US and Canada only.

You have until Sept. 11th by 6:00PM (eastern) time to link up.

All winners will be announced during the week of Sept. 14th.

Have fun and we look forward to seeing what you create!