Precious Memories LO for Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge

Hello :) How are you this cold weekend? I've been trying to stay busy scrapping when I can. This layout came about from this week's challenge over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook Layout Challenge. The theme for February has been - Black + White + one other color and this week that color is Lilac!

 Our granddaughter Jessica with her daughter, our great granddaughter Ava having a special moment together. I loved these photos as soon as I seen them on Facebook and knew I would be scrapping them at some point. Found the lilac butterfly paper in my original 100 Pattern Paper pile (yes still have it separate and still working through it :) Also came up with the white border piece from the same pile, I punched with one of my favorite punches.
Looked through my stash for the lilac pieces to embellish with. Found this lilac flower I created awhile back in a stampin up class. So I got to use this for LOAD219: Day 17: Use flowers on your layout.

So created a fun cluster with a handmade flower, buttons, pieces from the frames pack in my kit and the black dazzles stickers. Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing what you create with this fun challenge you have till Saturday to play along with us over at Lasting Memories.

Authentic Vintage Items for a Lasting Memories Scrapbook layout challenge

Hello and happy Sunday to you :) Quick stop in today to show you the layout I created for this week's challenge over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook Layout Challenge. Our theme for February is Black + White + one other color. This week's challenge color is green! So I went through my counterfeit kit: Springtime Fresh and pulled out the black N white papers and the green too and got a few to work for my grid layout:

 This layout came about from inspiration from the current LOAD event LOAD219 Day 9 prompt: Glinda the Good Witch: Story: Scrap a story about something good. Technique: Make your layout pink and sparkly.... or don't, whatever you think is good. And I think this is a good way to do a masculine layout :)
The grandson doing some good helping out at the NCC8 artifact fair for some community service hours for a merit badge.

My counterfeit kit had some fun vintage style papers in it using a light green, black n white polka dot and the green dusting newspaper print for my blocks and I used a green background came up a bit darker and of a grayer color in the photo than what it looks like in real life. Used some black mulberry paper to mat the photos and punched a few hearts and stars to scatter about the layout. Added that bright green ribbon for more texture on the layout :)
Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing your creation for this fun challenge over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook Layout Challenge.

Best of Friends LO for Lasting Memories challenge

If you are looking for the post for the Mini Kit for Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog you can find the post keep scrolling down.

Hello and welcome to a New Year of challenges over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge blog :) In January we will work on using up some of our supplies in our stash that maybe we have - dare I say it - a little too much of - OR items that are being neglected. Today's challenge is Bling, Buttons, Brads, Sequins or Enamel Dots - choose one or more of the items listed and use on your layout.
I chose Bling as in Gems something I don't use much anymore on layouts for some odd reason :) But I got lots of so need to atleast get them used up :)

 This was from a LOAD1018 Day 24 prompt: Show of the Day: Rent (1996) 
Rent showcases a group of friends. Do you have a group of friends that were/are a support you to you? Have you had any adventures with them? OR Create a title in a bold font, using stickers, rub-ons, computer, handwriting or whatever you choose :)

Went with the Friends aspect of the prompt. Friends together for a meal :) Used my counterfeit kit from September: Falling For You and Janet from RTS Scrapbooking 4for4 series a super fun series that gets you scrapping fast from 4 pieces of pattern papers :) I used the gems from that kit on the layout to give it a little bling :) a nice touch with those leaves keeping within the fall theme of the paper too.
We look forward to seeing what you create from this challenge and getting into your stash using it as we create :)

Into The Spin layout for Lasting Memories challenge

Good Morning and welcome to this week's challenge over at Lasting Memories. Deanna is our hostess this month for challenges over at Lasting Memories and our theme for November is - Techniques - and today she has challenged us to:

Now, we're gonna start getting a little messy with this week's challenge. I want to see 'Watercolors, Paint, and/or Misting'. Use as much or as little as you want, but hope you'll get a bit messy and have FUN! Since my birthday is this week, I would love to see Birthday themed layouts.

 I got the 1st part but not the birthday part of the challenge:

A double page for me today :) I have included the misting on the layout of photos that I took while we were watching a show at Knoebels, taking a slight break from all the fun we were having.
This was created during LOAD1018 Day4: South Pacific was the featured Broadway play and the prompt was either: Pull out a vacation story you've been meaning to tell OR Use misting or a bold splatter technique to set off those vacay photos, or any photos you choose. I chose the latter prompt :) for my layout. I had used a sketch for the layout but did not note the sketch to refer to it. I also used my counterfeit kits:) August Kit: Summer Life, September kit: Falling For You and October Kit: Tainted Love, using the flower background paper from the Summer Life kit the navy paper from my September kit: Falling For You and that fun bicycle paper from my October kit. Cool that I get 3 papers to work together like that from 3 different kits :) all the embellishments from my October kit :)
Close up of the layout:
Left Side:

and the Right Side:

It was a fun show and gave a nice break from walking around the park.
Thanks for stopping by and I look forward to seeing your creation over at Lasting Memories

The Good Stuff - Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge

Hello and Welcome :) to today's challenge over at Lasting Memories Layout Challenges. We have a fun theme for October and today's challenge is one that anyone could join in on:

 

Our theme for October is - October Events - and this week our challenge is:

LM # 417 - Breast Cancer Awareness.  October is Breast Cancer Awareness month.  Show us a way that you help out this worthwhile cause or just use lots of pink on your layout.

Here is the layout I created with this challenge in mind because of the pink used:

This was completed during the LOAD Mini: Out of this World over the summer where we do 1 week of LOAD. I used paper from my Perfect Collection Class for this very quick layout. The prompt was: LOAD Mini: Out of this World: Day 1: SPACE: Scrap about a physical space you love or something that requires a lot of your mental space. How do you make space for yourself? or you could created a layout with white space.

I would have to say I love to be out in the yard this time of the year to enjoy seeing God's creation through the flowers we have about the yard. Summer 2018. Between the beginning of Spring and throughout the summer I love to see the flowers we have growing around the yard. 

My title work coming from my counterfeit kit in August 2018: Summer Life. The title definitely came from the kit and so did the embellishments.

 The journaling block is a bit hard to read and I darken up the image so it's a bit easier to read.

Love to be out in the yard this time of the year, especially when the flowers are in full bloom. Summer 2018

Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing what you create for this fun challenge over at Lasting Memories Layout Challenges.

Our Home layout

Good Morning and welcome :) I hope you are having an enjoyable Labor Day weekend :) I've got a huge list to tackle today so tomorrow can be enjoyed and relaxing too :)
Today starts us off with a new challenge month over at Lasting Memories Scrapbooking challenge.

Our theme for September is - Mixed Bag - meaning our challenges are going to be a little bit of this and a little bit of that! That's my kind of challenge :) Our first challenge of the month is:

LM #411 -  Since Labor Day is tomorrow here in the US, and it is the "unofficial" end to summer, create a summer themed layout and include the word "fun" on your layout - this can be in the title, in your journaling, or on your embellishments.

This is the layout I created

 Still being inspired by that sketch I did for yesterday's post from Sketch N Scrap and this was the challenge for today over at Nicole Jones Scrap-A-Thon 2 and the Home prompt was a challenge for Scraptember a fun scrappy month in a facebook group :)

 I enjoyed using a little of this and a little of that with my counterfeit kits, too Using paper from last mnonth's kit:Summer Life and July's kit:Dash of This and Dash of That, too and a little of the 6X6 paper cut apart sheet and the homegrown sticker sheet for my title and for embellishing on the layout from my current kit: Falling For You

 I got the fun right there in the word stickers that I was adding to the layout so the challenge for Lasting Memories was fulfilled :)

This was a fun layout to create and I'm thinking the Shimelle's class Layer on Layer on Layer on is helping me with my current scrapping style.
Thanks for stopping by today and I do hope you enjoy the view where your at today :)

Discover layout for Lasting Memories Scrapbook challenge

Good Morning :) I hope you are enjoying your weekend, we are finally having a beautiful one here in my area :) and were also enthralled with the Little League World Series in our area. Can you believe that August is just about over! and Summer is just about over too, we know where that went in our area.....Rain Rain and more Rain, but it was nice to see the Sun yesterday :)
Now let's talk challenges! Lasting Memories last challenge of the month is a fun one. Our theme for August has been - Transportation - and our final challenge of the month is:

LM #410 - Transportation - I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike.  Now we want to see bikes on your layouts!

This can be bikes in photos, on the papers, or in the embellishments.

This is the layout I made using bikes for embellishments and on my paper too: 

   It's fascinating what you see along the roads when you take vacations that involve some driving at the city your at. This is what we saw right after we left the Flight 93 Memorial a very interesting looking barn indeed. They have a few of these down in this area . Used 2 PL cards from my February counterfeit kit: Pretty Little Pastimes.

This layout was also created during LOAD218 for the Day 28 prompt: (out of 3 choices of prompts this is the one I chose):What has travel revealed about yourself? Such an easy, fast layout :) 

I look forward to seeing your creation for this fun challenge over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook challenge.

Favorite for Lasting Memories #405 challenge

Good Morning and welcome :) Wow have we gotten quite of bit a rain over the weekend with the storm hanging over us, starting Saturday morning and still going on today, this far we have had 3.7" of rain! There are puddles in the garden, large puddles. Guess I'll be hanging laundry downstairs in the basement this week as there is more rain coming in the forecast for this week. Hopefully it's a bit drier where you all live.
Now for the challenge over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook challenge, we are on the monthly theme of All About Me and this week's challenge is YOU are my Favorite: Create a layout documenting one or many of your favorite things and journal your WHY. You can do a layout listing your favorites in multiple categories - book, movie, food, location, drink, tv show, etc; or, you can focus on one favorite that deserves it's own entire layout. Maybe the world needs to know why scrapbooking is your favorite hobby!? Tell us about you, friend.
I went with cooking for this favorite challenge:

 This was one of my favorite layouts I created during LOAD1017 Day 28: I’ve got a secret…

…formula – a favorite product that you swear by, and it doesn’t have to be scrappy! Bisquick is a favorite staple in our house for cooking, used it with Mom as a kid to cook and I use it now for my own cooking. I bashed those huge buttons when I created this layout, so glad to have them out of my stash :) and used a fun cooking vellum quote too on this layout.

 A great quote for the layout

 a picture of me using one of my favorite products :)
Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing your creations for this fun challenge this week over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook challenge

Night Shift layout for LM #403 challenge

Good Morning and welcome to today's challenge over at Lasting Memories scrapbook challenge blog. This month Natalie has challenged us "I hear a lot of discussion about scrappers who tend to leave themselves out of the documentation. Your story is so important! This month's challenges will focus on an All About Me theme, and I can't wait to learn more about you all!" What an awesome challenge month, let's get to know all about you too :)
This week's challenge

LM #403 - Document your JOB

Often we don't document the everyday parts of our lives, but our jobs are surely a huge portion of our being. Create a layout about your current job, a past job, your everyday tasks/chores that may not pay but are certainly a job, or even about a dream job you may never have had or yet have. Tell your career stories!
I've told many stories about my business, but I don't think I told to many stories of the job I have now or jobs I have had in the past. Here is one about the job I have now:

 This layout was created for LOAD217 Greek Mythology was such a fun LOAD day 14 prompt:
DAY 14: Hephaestus
What is your work? How do you spend your days? What is your labour of love?

My Labor of Love, actually I do love my current job :) but my labor of love is working the night shift :) We are a small crew so we are more like very close friends as we all know each other now. I enjoyed this prompt and will be making another layout in the future about what I do at my job with a few job pictures. The picture here is of just some of the snacks we make and package. I'm in the cracker packaging dept. 'The Pouch Line' that puts together the Teddy Bears packaging as well as small pouches of crackers. 

Closeup of the title work and the photo:

 and the journaling:

Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing what you create for this fun challenge at Lasting Memories scrapbook challenge

Delightful Father & Son Superhero Lasting Moments layout

Hello and welcome to the newest challenge over at Lasting Memories
 Our theme for May has been - Variety Of Shapes - and this week our challenge is:
LM #396 - use one or more hexagons on your layout

Here is the layout I created or this challenge:

 Using some old stash and some project life cards plus some scraps from this month's counterfeit kit-Geometric Beauty, I made this layout using my Stampin Up hexagon punch. Lots of fun creating that background of the layout. Using a very old Studio Calico sketch I found on Google for the inspiration for my layout.

 This is the journaling. The layout is from LOAD518 Day19 prompt which part of it was to use a Hero theme with a measurement of sort on the layout. My son is a hero in my book :) once you get past the goofball craziness of his personality he's an awesome person

 Carl and Zane what a great pair of guys. Love you both!
Now are you ready to take on the hexagon challenge! I look forward to seeing your creation real soon and check out the other challenges over at the Lasting Memories challenge blog.

Song Sparrow layout for Lasting Memories challenge

Good Morning :) and welcome to the last challenge of the month over at Lasting Memories layout challenges:

Today we have a new challenge for the week. Our theme for March has been - March - National Month Of... and this week's challenge is:

LM #388 - Red Cross Month - 

Create a layout that has Red/White color scheme (can have the plus signs too that have been so popular lately) or if you ever did anything or received anything for the Red Cross tell us about that :)

I went with the Red/ White color theme:

 This layout was created during LOAD218: Day 23: The prompt I chose was Where do you find art in your daily life? What is something that is beautiful and makes your life just a little bit nicer because of it?        Nature is God's Art and I look to it often for beauty and artsy appeal too :) Using my February counterfeit kit for this layout. Sparrows are one of the hardest of the birds that visit our feeders to identify, but with lots of sources I think I've narrowed this one down to be a Song Sparrow :)                       

 Using of variations of Red and White to my layout. Red letters for my tile and a white pattern paper for my background

 a project life card for my journaling and very limited on embellishments for this layout to make the pictures really shine. One thing about LOAD is I don't take the time to over think the layout so I can get it done very fast.

Love these pictures of this young bird in the feeder. Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing your creations for this fun topic and thank you for playing along with my hosted month over at Lasting Memories layout challenges blog.

Processing Tomatoes layout for Lasting Memories scrapbook challenge

Good Morning once again :) today is a busy day here at the blog posting.
If you are looking for the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog challenge #2 post you can find that here.
If you are looking for Sketch N Scrap Lucky Charms Crop 3rd challenge post you can find that here.

Last post of the day :) Sunday is usually for Lasting Memories Scrapbook challenges and this Sunday this is the newest challenge for March.  Our theme for March has been - March - National Month Of... and this week's challenge is:

LM #387 - National Frozen Food Month &  National Nutrition Month - 

Create a Foodie layout - you can have food in the picture, in the paper, or in the embellishments
I just love to do foodie layouts, great to have the everyday happenings in my albums. This layout came about from LOAD1017 Day 16 prompt:
I’ve got a secret…
 …to success – document something you are proud of accomplishing:

…to success – document something you are proud of accomplishing. Always proud each year what we get accomplished through the harvest season. Tomatoes this year (2017)- I had fun instagraming the process which helped with my journaling for this layout too.

Close ups of the layout. I went with a grid format cause of having so many pictures. I found that if I google the photo amount with the words scrapbook sketch I get lots of sketches to choose from. 

My title block

My journaling.

Thank you once again 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 linked up over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook challenges.

Fire!!! Did You Know challenge for Lasting Memories Layout challenge

Hi you all :) Been scrapping daily :) so still going with my goal this year :) It's been fun too reminiscing with older vacation photos also.
Today is a new month of challenges over at Lasting Memories Layout challenges. We start of with March challenges with the theme of Did You Know....- March National Month Of... and we will be focusing on little-known facts/holidays in March. 

Did you know that March was named for the Roman God "Mars"? Mars was the god of war and also an agricultural guardian. So our challenge to you is:

LM #384 - Create a layout about war (think a layout of a war hero, museum-area about war (Gettysburg)...) OR an agricultural/farm layout (which this could cover just about anything with farming - food, animals, seasons....)
So many choices of photos for this theme! So I went with the photos on my scrappy desk that I've been creating with and found these photos of cool pictures of an Civil War Reenactment:

 A very simple layout for today and this is also LOAD218 Day 25 prompt too. I used the choice of an old scrappy tool which was my crimper. I used my current counterfeit kit: Pretty Little Pastimes
These pictures came from when we were at the Portersville Steam Show in 2004. Cool to take the time out of the busy day of events and take a step back in time.

 A simple layout with a simple title and some journaling for a quick layout that focused on the photos and the time period.
Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing what you create for this challenge :)

Dahlia layout for a Lasting Memories Challenge

Hello :) How are you all doing? As you can tell I've been quite busy, but I have been scrapping each day this month as it's a LOAD month :) This layout I created for LOAD and for this Lasting Memories Scrapbook challenge:

LM #382 - Color Me Happy - Purples - use the colors below as the primary colors on your layout. Blacks, whites, neutrals are all a given.

One of my favorite colors :) would think I would use it more in my scrapping but I don't use it enough :) I used these colors on this layout:

This LOAD is to Choose Your Own Scrapbook Adventure and you get a choice of what prompt to scrap :) it's been a fun way to scrap this month :)
LOAD Day4: What have you been surprised by when you examine it closer. Figuring a close up photo would be a great take on this prompt.   I had no large photo available so I used the 2 supporting photos and then the closeup photo on the doily. I used my current counterfeit kit- Pretty Little Pastimes. Day 30 sketch from Christys Beautiful Life 30 days sketch series 2 for this layout.
Close up photos of the layout

 All the papers had purple in it besides the beautiful flower too. Finished off a package of enamel dots with this layout and I added some gold with the crate paper hearts on the layout :)

 My journaling

The picture of the full plant. I think this one is gonna be a new favorite to see through the summer.
Thank you for stopping by and seeing what I'm doing in my corner of the world and I look forward to seeing what you create for this fun challenge over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook challenges.

My List to See

Good Morning :) Sorry so quiet, been scraping each day, but not had the time to post them yet. Guess I need to work on prepping the blog atleast weekly to get the pages up on here. Today is the 3rd week to the new month's challenge over at Lasting Memories: Word Play is the theme this month - use some form of the word on your layout - can be in the title, in the journaling or even on an embellishment.and this week's challenge is Dream - you could use dream, dreamer, dreaming, daydream, etc.:

  I have dream in my journaling. This has been a dream and a life long passion of mine to see and be in each of the United States. This layout was produced during LOAD1017 Day 23 prompt:
I’ve got a secret……love – tell about something you have dreamed of doing with your life but have never acted to make it happen. You might reveal if you would do it if you could possibly make it happen today.
  This is something I had always wanted to do throughout my life seeing all 50 states. The blue states are the ones I have been to and seen even just for a little bit through my life. So I guess now I have a bucket list to conquer :)

I used lots of scraps from my 100 Pattern Paper challenge pile on this layout plus a Black/Orange/Purple challenge that month over at Scrappin N Chattin.

 used some word stickers too

My journaling.
Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing your creation real soon over at the Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge blog.

My Spice to Life layout for Lasting Memories challenge

Good Morning and welcome to a new week challenge over at Lasting Memories January our theme is "Word Play" and our first challenge this week is "Love".

LM #377 - Love - use some form of the word "Love" on your layout.

This can be in your title, in your journaling, or even on an embellishment, just show us some form of the word Love ( love, lovely, loving, etc.) on your layout.

 

This is the layout I created for this challenge:

 This is the Spice to my Life :) my husband and this is a recent picture of him over the summer when we were on vacation. This is also a layout I created during LOAD1017: Day Thirteen: I’ve got a secret……ingredient – that one thing that your day is not complete without. My Special ingredient to my life and without him in my life everyday it would be incomplete :) My hubby when he is on the road and don't get to see him he calls me. He's my heart and my soulmate.

 I was able to find a variety of Project Life cards in my stash that had the word Love on it and used plenty of them on this layout. What is cool about project life cards are that they can be used in place of a picture which adds some spice to the layout. I went for a grid style layout for those cards and

scattered sequins and glitter stars on the layout for the embellishment. Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing what you create for this week's fun challenge 

A Recipe for Happiness for a Lasting Memories scrapbook challenge

Hello :) With being gone for the holiday up in NY visiting Tammy n the grandkids I some how forgot to get this layout ready to be blogged here yesterday :) So we have a new set of challenges over at Lasting Memories   January our theme is "Word Play" and our first challenge is "Happy".

LM #376 - Happy - use some form of the word "Happy" on your layout.

This can be in your title, in your journaling, or even on an embellishment, just show us some form of the word happy (happy, happiness, happiest, etc.) on your layout.

I chose this fun layout I created during LOAD1017

 LOAD1017: Day Five: I’ve got a secret……favorite food – include a recipe. It’s fun to apply the recipe concept to our pages, too, so although this is a food-centered prompt I have included an optional scrap recipe as well. I used the optional recipe too only had 1 photo though :) A now favorite recipe I received from a friend at work, an excellent cook he is :) Peanut Butter Pie

 Close up of the layout :)

 and the recipe

and my journaling.  It's one of my now favorite recipes to take to get-togethers. It comes together so quickly and it's soooooooooooo good :) I look forward to seeing your creation for this week's fun challenge over at Lasting Memories.