Great Gift layout for a Funday Friday challenge

Good Morning and welcome :) I hope you have had a great week this week :) If you have stopped over looking for the Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style challenge you can find that post here

Happy Friday to you :) It's Funday Friday and Today over at Jo's Scrap Shack our challenge is Always Anything Goes. Our sponsor this week is Little Blue Button Stamps. I dug into a stash of bits and pieces looking for one of the printables that I may have on hand and found 2 that I added to the clustering on this layout:

When I was looking through my photos to use for the art pieces I came across these photos from early in the year and they spoke to me for this layout :) So went looking for some papers to use for the layout I come across some in an older counterfeit kit: from my April counterfeit kit: Spring Flings and Easter Things. The background paper came from my 100 Pattern Paper challenge pile, been trying to get into this pile more often lately so I can get that conquered before the end of the year.
For my layout inspiration I used a sketch over at Sketch N Scrap's July crop on facebook:

Rotating it just once to work with my photos. Love the layering on this sketch and was able to use some scraps on it too.

 The title for the layout it was a great gift I got for Christmas from my brother and his wife :) The bits and pieces came from the stash bowl that I got the art printables from.

 When I first put out the gift for the birds, using the printable and a few punched out hearts

 The other printable I added to the 2 photos here at the bottom of the layout. The hello actually came from this month's counterfeit kit in the ephemera pack. Thanks for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing your creations for this fun challenge.

    Starts: Friday, July 20th   12:00AM

   Ends:  Friday, July 27th    12:00AM

(Eastern time)

What do you need to do to enter?

Challenge Rules

1. Please post a direct link to your blog post that includes your
challenge entry project, using the linky tool below. 

2. Be sure to include a link back to Jo's Scrap Shack and to the challenge post you are entering your project into

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

4. For all entries -NO BACK LINKS ACCEPTED- 
The date on your blog post should be dated between the start date & the end date for the challenge you are entering, in order to be eligible for the challenge & prizes

5. You may link up to other challenges but be sure to link back to Jo's Scrap Shack and to the challenge post you are entering 

 * All entries that do not meet the challenge requirements

WILL NOT be eligible for the top 3, any sponsor wins or any random wins by Jo
All random wins will only be mailed within the US and Canada only.

You have until July 27th by 12:00AM (eastern, USA) time to link up.

All winners will be announced during the week of July 30th.

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

 

Happy Valentine's Day LO for a Funday Friday challenge

Good Morning :) A bit late on posting this challenge, we were on vacation last week and here I thought I had already did the post and had it prepared to pop up on Friday, but with everything going on to get ready for the trip I didn't get the post done.
Good Morning and Happy Friday to you :) It's Funday Friday and Today over at Jo's Scrap Shack our challenge is Always Anything Goes. Our sponsor this week is Little Blue Button Stamps. I had gotten Love Birds – printable art tiles bottle caps designs. I love to use their printable art tiles on layouts they make for a nice starting block for clustering. Here is the layout I created using it:

 The fun art tiles made for fun clustering spots on my layout. This layout was created using left over scraps from my April counterfeit kit: Spring Flings and Easter Things and the purple background paper is from my 100 pattern paper pile. I used a sketch for my inspiration but can't remember where the sketch was (me bad!) The card I received my hubby is the center of attention on the layout and that created a wonderful title to the layout too.

 The rose that he surprised me with for Valentine's Day and the journaling

 One of the art tiles for this fun little cluster.

 I added this fun piece of emphermia with the teal pattern paper. Another of the art tiles in the top corner of the layout for another cluster

 and the last tile was added to the side of the card for the last cluster on the layout. I love the combination of the card and the picture to create a special layout for this year's Valentine's Day as when I see that rose I'll be reminded of what I felt when I saw it on my craft desk that day, totally utterly surprised!
Now it's your turn! Can't wait to see your creation for this fun challenge.

 So make sure to play along this week~

    Starts: Friday, June 08th   12:00AM

   Ends:  Friday, June 15th    12:00AM

(Eastern time)

What do you need to do to enter?

Challenge Rules

1. Please post a direct link to your blog post that includes your
challenge entry project, using the linky tool below. 

2. Be sure to include a link back to Jo's Scrap Shack and to the challenge post you are entering your project into

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

4. For all entries -NO BACK LINKS ACCEPTED- 
The date on your blog post should be dated between the start date & the end date for the challenge you are entering, in order to be eligible for the challenge & prizes

5. You may link up to other challenges but be sure to link back to Jo's Scrap Shack and to the challenge post you are entering 

 * All entries that do not meet the challenge requirements

WILL NOT be eligible for the top 3, any sponsor wins or any random wins by Jo
All random wins will only be mailed within the US and Canada only.

You have until June 15th by 12:00AM (eastern, USA) time to link up.

All winners will be announced during the
 week of June 18th.

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

#TBT Halloween 1995 a Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style challenge

Good Morning and Happy Friday to you :) I hope you are somewhere where the sun is shining! We are missing the sun here been mostly rain lately and looking forward to seeing the sun.
The title block of the layout came from this fun Project Life sketch over at Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style. I fell into the craze of Project Life cards when it first came out thinking I would transition into Project Life scrapbooking, but didn't fall in love with it so now I try to use them in my Scrapbooking, which I do love to do. Finding that these fun sketch challenges help with this and a good way to add a project life card to a layout. So this mid-month sketch:
 Now, on to Sketch #102 - courtesy of Emma!

This is the card I created using this sketch. It come from the Project Life core kit Vintage Travel

 The pre-written part on the card worked out for this particular layout. I found that looking through the cards in this core kit that I need to have them handy cause they can be used for alot of things besides travel so time to use up the stash I have!

The layout I made around this card:

 Used some black cardstock for my background, just a wee bit of my current counterfeit kit (Glitter tape, gold glitter hashtag and a few things from my last counterfeit kit plus some theme paper and those fun black glitter dazzles and this layout is called done. I used the sketch over at Let's Get Sketchy for my inspiration for the overall layout:

and I used the LOAD518 Day 17 prompt for my layout theme: Throwback Thursday. Story: Use an old photo to throwback to an earlier day Technique: Use retro embellishments or old stuff from your stash. Using both the old photo and old stuff from my stash (Halloween stickers I had forever! it seems)

 My journaling

 Close up of the picture of my kids plus the card I created

Adding some fun word stickers too. Adding Gold Heidi shine mist to the layout to give the black a bit of something. There it is in a nut shell :) I look forward to seeing what you create with this fun sketch :)

Young One for a Use Your Stuff challenge

Good Morning and welcome :) Today's challenge over at Use Your Stuff is a Mood Board:

and I was inspired by the young bird in the bottom left corner, the florals and the soft colors on the mood board:

The picture on my layout is a very young Brown Thrasher that I saw June 3, 2017. I made this layout using scraps on my desk, most of the scraps came from my last month's counterfeit kit: Spring Flings and Easter Things and using bits of this month's counterfeit kit: Geometric Beauty

 Journaling

 Fun cut apart words I got from a border sheet that was in last month's counterfeit kit

Flowers I had left over in a dish on my craft desk and the sequins are from my current counterfeit kit :)
Thank you for stopping by today and seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world. I look forward to seeing your creation for this fun challenge over at Use Your Stuff.

Photo Opp layout for Stick It Down challenge

Hello :) Today's Double Page challenge over at Stick It Down is this fun sketch:

 

This is the layout I created with this sketch:

 The pictures are during last year's Easter Egg Hunt and there were a couple special moments this being one of them when Andrea was trying to gather the kids for a special photo. Using pattern paper from my 100 pattern paper pile and from my counterfeit kits both last month and this month and the stars from both kits too :) I was impressed how much I have combined these kits to make current layout and it's worked out well.

 The left side of the layout has 2 burlap doilies, border strips, word strips, and stars

The right side of the layout has some of the same and also that fun shaker camera sticker I had gotten in my Paper Issues Swag Bag (1st one I ever got) so glad to use pieces from that fun purchase.

 Close ups of the layout

Thank you for stopping by and seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world and I look forward to seeing what you create from this fun sketch over at Stick It Down

Easter Egg Hunt Prep

Happy (Inter)National Scrapbooking Day! and cool that it's National Scrapbooking month too! Are you scrapping today? Well we're here to help you all with that at Sketch N Scrap with this fun sketch for today's newest challenge:

and this is the layout I created with this fun sketch:

 Had so much fun putting this layout together. I used both this month's counterfeit kit and last month's counterfeit kit plus pulling out 2 pieces of pattern paper from my DCWV tie-dyed paper stack. The paper and alphas are from this month's kit and the Easter Egg stickers are from last month's kit.

Title work

Close up of the photos and journaling (I have corrected the date on the photo above since taking the picture

Thanks for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing your creation for this challenge and all the challenges we having going on this month over at Sketch N Scrap
 May is set to be a busy month here at Sketch N Scrap as we celebrate turning SIX YEARS OLD this month!!  Saturday we will kick off our Sixth Birthday Bash Crop on our Facebook page AND  we will also be celebrating National Scrapbooking Day with an exclusive sketch on the blog!!  WOW!  SO much excitement!!  

We hope you will join us!!!  We can't wait to see what you create!

Thought and Prayers card for a Funday Friday challenge

Hello and happy Monday afternoon, I am squeezing in a post today that I should have had done on Friday.  I have been so busy that I don't know whether I am going or coming. But looking forward to a slow down just a bit in May and May is also LOAD so looking forward to scrapping each day too.

It's a Funday Friday Post for Jo's Scrap Shack.The theme is Anything Goes. Our sponsor this week is Bugaboo this is what I created with the digi stamp I received for this challenge :)

 I used this lovely digital stamp Beautiful Blocks Thought and Prayers for the front of my card. I used my current counterfeit kit:  Spring Flings and Easter Things. The paper is scraps from another project and added a few dazzles on the card

 I used wink of Stella to the flowers to give a bit of glitter to the flowers. Trying to replenish my sympathy cards.
Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing you creation for this fun challenge.

Starts: Friday, April 27th  12:00AM

   Ends:   Friday, May 04th 12:00AM

(Eastern time)

What do you need to do to enter?

Challenge Rules

1. Please post a direct link to your blog post that includes your
challenge entry project, using the linky tool below. 

2. Be sure to include a link back to Jo's Scrap Shack and to the challenge post you are entering your project into

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

4. For all entries -NO BACK LINKS ACCEPTED- 
The date on your blog post should be dated between the start date & the end date for the challenge you are entering, in order to be eligible for the challenge & prizes

5. You may link up to other challenges but be sure to link back to Jo's Scrap Shack and to the challenge post you are entering 

 * All entries that do not meet the challenge requirements

WILL NOT be eligible for the top 3, any sponsor wins or any random wins by Jo
All random wins will only be mailed within the US and Canada only.

You have until May 04th by 12:00AM (eastern, USA) time to link up.

All winners will be announced during the week
 of May 07th.

The Unusual Ones layout for a Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style

Hello again :) If you are looking for the Sketch N Scrap post you will find it here.

Some of the tractors we saw at the Portersville Steam Show in 2004 :) featured in this layout. First though the title block of the layout came from this fun Project Life sketch over at Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style. I fell into the craze of Project Life cards when it first came out thinking I would transition inot Project Life scrapbooking, but didn't fall in love with it so now I try to use them in my Scrapbooking, which I do love to do. Finding that these fun sketch challenges help with this and a good way to add a project life card to a layout. So this mid-month sketch:

Now, on to Sketch #100 - courtesy of Emma!

this is what I created for this challenge:

 Using my current counterfeit kit for this card and for the layout. This is the title block for the grid style layout I made:

 I framed the pictures within this vintage style pattern paper with torn edges. The title block gives it a current edgy look to the layout. Adding a couple of fussy cut arrows for the clusters on the layout and to journal blocks to finish off the grid style layout.

 close up of the layout and the tractor pictures

 My journaling

and the title block shown on the layout. Thank you for stopping by today and seeing what I created today and I look forward to seeing your creation for this fun sketch challenge over at Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style.

Happy Birthday Cake card for Sketch N Scrap challenge

Good Morning and welcome :) Such a busy month this month for me :) Spring has finally arrived in our area I think. We have this fantastic sketch from Lisa for us to play with over at Sketch N Scrap.

 

 and the card I created with this sketch:

 I had fun using up some scraps that were on my craft desk from recent layout I created from my Counterfeit Kit: Spring Flings and Easter Things. Also some scraps that I found while sorting through boxes in my craftroom.

I look forward too seeing your creation over at Sketch N Scrap.

Unicorn Happy Birthday card for Funday Friday challenge

Good Morning and welcome :) We finally got to see a bit of Spring in our area of PA :) with warmer temps the past couple of days and climbing higher today, yah it makes me happy to see the colors finally changing for Spring and the new beginnings of the flowers and nature itself :).
Today is Friday! Yep Friday the 13th! But it is also Funday Friday :) over at Jo's Scrap Shack where the weekly challenge is always Anything Goes. Our Sponsor this week is  Digital Delights by Louby Lou!
I was given this fun Unicorn digi stamp to create with this week and this is the card I created:

 The diagonal paper from my counterfeit kit: Spring Flings and Easter Things, dictated how I was coloring the stamp :) I also used clear wink of stella to give a little glitter to the car. The sentiment came from my Paper Issues Swag Bag this month :) Love it for one of the younger Great Grandgirls.
Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to link your creation up over at Jo's Scrap Shack.

 So make sure to play along this week~

    Starts: Friday, April 13th  12:00AM

   Ends:   Friday, April 20th    12:00AM

(Eastern time)

What do you need to do to enter?

Challenge Rules

1. Please post a direct link to your blog post that includes your
challenge entry project, using the linky tool below. 

2. Be sure to include a link back to Jo's Scrap Shack and to the challenge post you are entering your project into

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

4. For all entries -NO BACK LINKS ACCEPTED- 
The date on your blog post should be dated between the start date & the end date for the challenge you are entering, in order to be eligible for the challenge & prizes

5. You may link up to other challenges but be sure to link back to Jo's Scrap Shack and to the challenge post you are entering 

 * All entries that do not meet the challenge requirements

WILL NOT be eligible for the top 3, any sponsor wins or any random wins by Jo
All random wins will only be mailed within the US and Canada only.

You have until April 20th by 12:00AM (eastern, USA) time to link up.

All winners will be announced during the week 
of April 23rd.

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

Until next time, enjoy life's blessings~

Thanks for stopping by!

Easter Chip Tree 2017 layout for Counterfeit Kit Challenge #1

Good Morning :) Counterfeit Kit Challenge  #1 Challenge is Easter! Easter is a big deal at our house with yearly Easter Egg hunts for the grandkids :) so lots of fun memories to scrap.
I have created a double page layout from one of the highlights from last year's Easter Egg Hunt from my kit Spring Flings and Easter Things

The chip tree always finishes off the Easter Egg hunt each year :) It's always fun to watch the kids go at it.
I used this sketch over at the 100 Pattern Paper challenge facebook group for this layout:

 I stuck to it pretty good and it had a spot to show case all my photos too
Close up photos:

 The left side of the layout. Everyone waiting for Grandpa to say Go! The title was created with the letter paper that was in my kit and used soft pastel color floral paper for my backgrounds and matted my photos with bolder stripe paper.

 The Right hand side include the Go! pictures and my journaling.

 The title work

 Used Heidi Swapp Gold color shine for splatters

 Include the bling foil stickers of Easter Eggs that were in my kit

My journaling
Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing your own creation for this fun challenge over at Counterfeit Kit Challenge