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.......

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!                

Simply the Best

Yes he sure is :) Today's layout features our favorite pooch, Buddy. It also features to sketch challenges. Today I am the featured Maven over at Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style and this is the card I made for my layout:

And the sketch this week is:

Now for the reveal of Sketch #39 by our fabulous, Treasa Cimorose......

A 4X6 card that I then embellished with paw printed ribbon, journaling stickers and a cut out for the corner piece that Treasa had the scallop piece at.
The layout:

Sorry about the blue tint but that is the instagram photo I took of Buddy, I guess now he really does look like a blue heeler. I used the sketch over at The Memory Nest for my layout.

My version of the sketch :) this is sketch No. 68, I have fallen behind on the sketches, but planning t catch up really fast this week.

 Close up the center of the layout. I am still working with last month's counterfeit kit Just Chillin' and trying to get through some of the scraps that were left in that kit. I wasn't able to scrap as much as I would have liked last month so scrapping some of the pictures that I had planned to scrap this month. Before the end of the week you will see this month's kit :) a small version of the kit.

 The stars that I had cut for a previous layout the extras worked out perfect for this layout.

And that cute journal card I created plus my own hand written journaling. This was a fun layout and the sketches were great to use. We hope to see your creation from the top sketch over at Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style soon.

Your prize for August is this Purr-fect Halloween stamp! You will have until August 31 to link up your cards. We can't wait to see how you are inspired to create this month!!!

Summer Lovin'

That title just gets my mind singing the song from Grease :) Hello to you :) Today is a new challenge week over at Lasting Memories: ADD AN IMAGE YOU COLOR OR COLOR YOUR BACKGROUND PAPER Following the new Adult coloring trend that is happening. I don't get into the coloring books, but I do enjoy coloring digi stamps and occasionally adding them to layouts. So for this challenge that is what I did:

A few captured moments of this summer. Were more home bodies this summer so it's fun to look out and about the yard to see what is happening this summer. This is just one of many summer layouts that will be done this year :) The coloring I did I used A Day For Daisies digital stamp: Daisy Bird Bath.

and I used this sketch:

Thank yor for stopping by and seeing what I'm up too today. I used scraps from last month's counterfeit kit Just Chillin' for my layout. So please join usat Lasting Memories!  You have until September 2nd to link up.  :)

Wild About You

Wow! Can't believe it is August already! where the heck did July go! So the scrappy goals I set for myself last month didn't produce much but I did have fun creating some layouts in July and a couple of cards :) I'm still trying to figure out a crafty schedule with the new job even though it's been a couple of months I still haven't gotten a good solid schedule yet. Sundays and Mondays I try to get crafty, so the rest of the week is a hit and miss. But I try to do something each day related to scrapping it may be a class, a youtube video inspiration, photo editing (I got alot that I need to upload and get printed :). The 1st of the month also provides new inspiration over at Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog and this month the inspiration is different that what I have been creating with over the last couple of months so a fun kit to pull this week :).
Today I did a layout based on the sketch over at The Memory Nest and what a fun sketch it is! This is my take on the sketch:

The Memory Nest sketch:

The sketch was so out of my norm and so fun :) I found these 2 photos of Brad's boys and that started the whole layout :) I don't do that to often starting with the photos and then creating the layout but for this style sketch it worked out and then I knew the embellishments I was grabbing to use and the papers. I still grabbed some things from my July counterfeit kit Just Chillin'.

 A close up of he grid portion of the sketch, I think my arrow is little off :) Zachary looks so much like the Campbell side of the family and Tristan looks like the Bastian side, but they both have Brad's blond hair color when he was young. It's always a good visit when these 2 come over to see us :)

 So I tried my hand at bullet style journaling a challenge over at the Scrappin N Chattin yahoo group

I found a couple of quotes to add to two of the corners of the layout :). The photos of this visit was the inspiration for this layout I will also match this up to Whimsical Musings Challenge #98 - Inspired by visitors

Happy Day

Hello :) I hope you all had a great weekend :) We attended the Campbell Family reunion despite the weather and rain it was a good day yesterday. The last day of July, wow where did it go! My July didn't go as I was expecting it to, no Christmas cards made at all! So I guess I'll be a bit busy next month trying to get going on them :) Maybe Christmas in August instead of July :)
Today is Lasting Memories new challenges for August and were taking on the new Adult Coloring trends! Have you seen these coloring books in the craft shops :) it's one way to grow up and be a kid again :) So the 1st challenge this month is Include all 7 colors of the rainbow or an actual rainbow on your layouts. I think I may have covered both in my layout:

These pictures were taken with my phone :) so they are not the best but it was so cool to see this rainbow that day when I went to the bank. I knew it was going to happen when I seen the sun shining and it was raining. So instead of looking at it as a bad day cause I had planned on going to the fair, I looked at it as a good day cause we were in such need for the rain :) So I went to the fair on Monday and found out it was free admission so it all worked out, life as we know it :) God moves in many ways to brighten our day.
This layout is going to cover a few challenges, 1st I used the sketch over at Sketches in Thyme for my layout:
Sketch #211:

This was a fun sketch to work with. I like the way the clusters were going up through the center of the layout and used the left over puffy butterfly stickers on my layout. The butterfly stickers cover a challenge over at Archi-scraps a challenge blog that I missed doing a layout for last month when I went to check today the new challenge was up so glad to see butterflies for the theme of the challenge :) I used Whimsical Musings Challenge #35 - Inspired by silver linings there is a silver lining about that day :)

 A close up of the pictures with the rainbow. I had heard that the Flight 800 memorial in our area, was having it's memorial when the rainbow came out, wonderful to see God work in this way/

My journaling. I do appreciate what God gives us and we see it most in his creations :) I had fun creating this with part of my current counterfeit kit Just Chillin' I was surprised I didn't have much left in the kit, another week and I just may have killed it :) So the new kit inspiration comes out tomorrow and I'm looking forward to seeing it :) Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing your creation soon posted over at Lasting Memories.

Genuine Star Student

Hello once again today :) This layout I made today for The Memory Nest weekly sketch challenge.

 This is the layout I created :) Pictures of Zachary while he was writing. Great to see him doing so well so early in life, he just started Kindergarten just a couple of months ago. They have to know so much now versus when we were in school. We are so proud of Zachary and all our grandkids to see them developing like this.
This is the sketch for this past week's challenge over at The Memory Nest:

 

Only with 2 pictures to use for the layout I moved the journaling up and used a journaling card for the middle picture.  

 I used my current counterfeit kit Just Chillin' for my layout :) Adding in the school related embellishments with the circles I punched out. I was inspired to use some of the puffy stickers too so this goes with Whimsical Musings: Challenge #220 - puffy stickers

 My journaling

My title block. This was a fast one to put together with a great sketch and lots of scraps left from my counterfeit kit it took no time to put this together :) Probably the longest time was choosing the pictures to use.

A Floral inspired Birthday Card for the Use Your Stuff Challenge

Hi and Good Morning :) I hope you had a wonderful weekend, ours was a bit hot so I relaxed quite a bit in the house where it's a bit cooler :) Today over at Use Your Stuff challenge blog, our hostess Lori wants us to create using floral patterned papers on your project. I'm in need of a few Birthday cards so this one was a sweet one to create and I had a few floral patterns in my current counterfeit kit Just Chillin' that I could use for this challenge, lots of scraps to work with:

I used the sketch over at Sketch N Scrap for my card: card sketch #77

I found some fun pieces on my craft desk to add to the card :) Those extra bits and pieces are great to have around so they get used up :) The flower and the floral gems came from my desk and so did the sunny floral piece that made it into the inside of my card:

I look forward to see your creation made from floral pattern prints linked up over at Use Your Stuff challenge blog. Thank you for stopping by and seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world :)

Gears happy Birthday for Funday Friday Challenge

Hello and happy Friday to you :) Today is Funday Friday over at Jo's Scrap Shack and today's challenge is a Color Challenge: Coral/Tan/Aqua and our sponsor is Scrapper's Delights and use their Cogs And Gears Stand digi stamp:

A birthday card for the hubby :) I used a sketch over at Sketch N Scrap for my card: 
 Here is a closer look at that digi stamp:

 I colored it up with bic markers, glitter silver wink of stella brush and silver chrome viva pearl pen for the scattered studs look and for some detail work on a couple of the gears (really need to use these more, the Viva Pearl pen :)

The inside of the card. I used that aqua cardstock that was in my current counterfeit kit and matched up great with the Close to my Heart Chalk it Up paper kit for the card. Thank you for stopping by today and I hope to see your creation linked up to Jo's Scrap Shack.

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The New Grill for SID challenge

Hi you all :) Today is the reveal for the DT Double Page layout for Stick It Down and my layout consists of our new Grill/Smoker we got this past April. The hubby said he was going out to check on prices and a couple hours later there is a new grill/smoker on that back of his truck:

It was a festive event trying to get it off the truck :) The tractors are good for that kind of stuff too. So this was the perfect sketch for those pictures :)

Here is the sketch :) Very festive :)
The Left side of the layout:

Focuses on getting it off the truck
The Right side of the layout:

Dave with the new grill and it off the truck and set up on the back porch area, plus my journaling. I used my current counterfeit kit Just Chillin' and grabbed a few papers from an old paper stack.

 Close up photos of the pictures

 and my journaling.With all the banners on this layout I was inspired to use this for Whimsical Musings Challenge #181 – banners
Now go and get your double page layout done and get linked up over at Stick It Down :)

Star Studded Experience

Hi once again :) I did this quick layout to get in on the challenge over at The Memory Nest. Our granddaughter Britney and her beau Russel went along with her brother Bradley and his girlfriend Cortney to Myrtle Beach. Britney and Russell took in the Hollywood Wax Museum and really got some awesome pictures. But this one was my favorite and deserved a page on it's on. a will make a companion page of some of the fun photos they took (so many to choose from :)

The sketch over at the Memory Nest was perfect for this fun star filled layout

 

Most of my layout came from my current counterfeit kit Just Chillin' but I also used some scraps that were hanging around my craft desk :) Because of the stars I can use Whimsical Musings Challenge #192 – stars (scrapbook products) I used plenty throughout the layout.

 

Awesome Day for a Lasting Memories Challenge

Good Morning to you :) Today is the new week's challenge over at Lasting Memories.

In keeping with our theme of childhood games... use the below photo for inspiration.
 Absolutely anything can be used!!

LMCB # 302
CandyLand

Again... anything for inspiration.    

  I went with the colors and something along the playing card blocks with a photo then a block

 These are more photos during that day walking with Buddy. It was an Awesome Day. This is the companion page to the otherr layout using the left overs from the polka dot paper. The layout was created from my Counterfeit Kit: Just Chillin' I pulled the yellow from my scrap bin to enhance the layout and bring in the yellow from the flowers. Note: make sure there is enough matching papers for layered layouts in my kit :) I know one thing the smaller kit is working out this month and just may have it kicked by the end of the month :)
The sketch I used to inspire my layout came from Sketches in Thyme: Week 2

Sketch #208 by the amazingly talented, Brenshevia Baker....

Isn't this just a cool sketch :)

 The purple hearts were punched out from the navy paper. The layout was created in mind of another challenge in another group to use negative die cuts which I used the circle and the scallop punches to create the blocks and added the blue/yellow background paper. All the embellishments and layers came from scraps on my table so I then can use Whimsical Musings Challenge #19 - Inspired by the scraps on your table

I had fun creating the blocks and will use this technique again.

My journaling. 

I look forward to seeing what you create and link up at Lasting Memories.