Books

Hello again, I'm just about caught up with all the posts from LOAD :) This layout came about from Day 23: Family Favorites. The prompt was All in the Family (Great show by the way :) What books do you and your family members read? I chose a fun layout after pondering quite awhile on this prompt, then it dawned on me a conversation I had with my oldest son on facebook:

The discussion was about 2 books by Stephen King, so I thought it fitting to find a quote by him to use for the Title, added a B & W picture of him and pictures of the books we were discussing.

 I used more of the chip board letters from the atd Vibrant chipboard Alphas and my brother labeler for the rest of the title.

 These are the 2 books we discussed. We both enjoy discussing the series Under the Dome and I'm looking forward to reading the book (it's a thick book :) at the library they had in 2 sections part 1 and 2. Doctor Sleep I got for Christmas and will be reading that very soon.

 So I went on Facebook and pulled up the conversation and copy and pasted it to a word document. I made the document 2 columns that is how I got it to be a bit compact. I printed them out on white cardstock and cut and inked the edges. The conversation is from April 2014.

We share a love of reading Stephen King's works is from the jouraling spot. We also share of love of horror movies, I don't care much for the gory ones anymore but he likes them :) A love that our family seems to enjoy watching, my brothers too not so sure about my sister Patty. This is another one of my favorite layouts from LOAD and not one I would have even considered scrapping if it wasn't for the prompt. That is what I learned from that last LOAD I did that the stuff you scrap is not the norm of scrapping and you can get some really fun stories told with out even trying to hard. A fun memory now captured on paper. The papers came from current kit in February, from the DCWV: The Linen Closet and the red border came from a border cut sheet from Cotton Bloom Stack. Thanks for stopping by today and seeing what's up in my little corner of the world

Reading Is Cool

Good Morning :) I hear there is snow in the area, some how so far we have lucked out and not got any yet, for the ones that are please stay safe. This layout is from Day 22, a Sunday and the theme is Your Own Story. The prompt was How do books and reading intersect in your life now (how they impact you today) *I decided to tell of the love of books through the years. Some suggestions from Lain was: Are you reading more?, Stacks of Books and/ or get photos of book cases (that is the one I went with :)

I went around the house on Sunday and got a picture of each of the book cases in the house, we do have quite a few with a wide variety of reading tastes. I used the DCWV Dear Jane pad for the fun book paper and the red and white paper came from the pad too. The borders were from scraps of last month's kit .

 The title came from 2 different alphas: I used the atd Vibrant chipboard Alphas for the READING an old set of Alphas in my collection and wasn't staying stuck well I had to add more wet glue to get it to stay stuck (I best use it up and get it out of my stash) The metallic silver letters are from Colorbok

A close up shot of one of the sections of the layout

 And another shot of the middle section of the layout

The journaling block, just a bit of my reading through the years. Now I enjoy reading just about anything :)
Thanks for stopping by.....

Perfecting Your Pitch

Hello once again today :) This layout came from Day 21 which was Rights of Passage (Important Books) Prompt was Book that inspired you in some way to do something. I thought this would be a good time to do a layout as to how I came about getting this book that helped me.

The layout includes a couple of pictures of me growing in my business. I used my current counterfeit kit for the layout I also used an old sketch I found on the internet at Sassy Scrappers old sketch.

 The path began when I was asked to speak at an ABWA meeting about my business. I've been in Toastmasters a while before the speaking engagement so I was comfortable speaking there. 8/19/03

 A picture of me with a couple of toastmasters introducing the Williamsport Toastmasters to the ABWA at one of their meetings. 9/12/04

From ABWA came going to one of their conventions is where I met Nancy and her book. The book was an amazing read for a person wanting to grow her business into one that excels in her business. This book did that for me.
Thanks for stopping by and seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world....

Lycoming County Fair 2010

Hello and welcome. Well yesterday we got another layer of snow and ice coating over that (one nice thing is it snowed first) made everything crunchy but not to horrible of a drive into work. My layout today is from Day 17 of LOAD it was a Tuesday and that was Design Principles. The prompt was to use one large image across 2 pages. The inspirational video showed a brochure that opened up for the large image, so I went that way and used the brochure that we got of the fair for my center portion of the layout:

I used my CTMH Jubilee workshop on the go kit and the chipboard elements that are from this line too. This kit was in a previous counterfeit kit awhile back. The only thing not from the kit besides the stuff I received at the fair and the photos was that border of tickets I think that came from a cutapart sheet I had.

 The left side of the layout has the brochure, the parking ticket and pictures from the day.

The right side of the layout has the rest of the brocure, the tickets that I was able to keep from the demolition derby and more pictures.

 A closer view of the brochure and pictures. I used alot of cut up pieces from the one words sheet that came with the kit.

 I kept the demolition derby with the tickets and the info of the derby on the brochure.

We had a very enjoyable day that day with the grandkids. Love to see Dave enjoying the interaction with the grandkids.
So this ended up being one of my favorite layouts out of LOAD, suppose to be a large image and I made it into a large montage of photos of the day.

3rd Grade

Good Morning. Today I have a layout from Day 14 of LOAD215, it was a Saturday, the theme was Rights to Passage and the prompt was A book that was read to you aloud or a book you read aloud.

This is possibly a picture of me from the 3rd grade (nothing marked on the back) but by looking at other pictures from that same year it's awfully close. This was a framed picture my mom gave me years ago, they have been sitting on the entertainment center since then, but recently decided to pull them out of the frames and get them scrapped. Now there is more room on the stand for more Grandkid pictures. I went with a red and blue color theme for the layout with a side of black. I used a past counterfeit kit.

 3rd grade I remember our teacher reading to us (this is my earliest clear memory). Most likely I was read to in other grades but that grade I remember, I can picture the room and where she sat to read to us. In the speech bubble is just t few of the books I remember being read.

 The journaling block

 Some fun with some rub ons and a fun block to add to the layout (I know I got in trouble for this quite often :)

More doodling with rub ons
This was a fun prompt and posted on facebook my DIL posted a picture of the boys, Zachary reading to Tristan just so cute and would have fit in well with this prompt but just a few days to late. But will certainly be scrapping the page soon enough. You all have a fantastic day, stay warm....

My March CKC Counterfeit Kit

Good Morning Counterfeiters! Crafters! and everyone else. Yep it's a silly Monday for me a long night at work, a bit tired and then I get silly :) Counterfeit Kit Challenge unveiled their March kit for us to forge yesterday and it's not to shabby :) Here is the inspiration they supplied for us to work with: (Very photo heavy)



a kit from A Piece of Cake Designs. The first thing I spied was the woodgrain and the blues and that big cupcake in the corner (which I know isn't part of the kit but...) So here is my kit:

Tangled Up in Blue

I do have it in mine, it's on the sweet day sheets that I have in my kit (sorry it's hidden from view) I pulled some sweet, some words and bingo cards, some blues, some stripes, some florals, some triangles and some frames.
When I seen the blue in the kit the first I thought of was the CTMH Skylark workshop on the go scrapbook kit so that was added to this month's kit:

along with the extras that it came with including cardstock.

 While looking for the wood-grain sheet I came across this pack from Creative Memories called Shine paper and photo mat pack (shame I found it not even open) I like the colors and the designs so I put that in the kit.

I did finally find that wood-grain sheet it was in with the I (heart) Summer pouch of items so those went into the kit (I came across some summer photos so this will be perfect for those)

 I pulled a few papers from last month's kit that wasn't used over to this month's kit cause they matched so well. A CTMH sticker pack and the alphas I chose for the month, these are so old time to get them used up before they don't stick anymore!

Lots of doilies amongst the master forgers so I pulled a few I had for my kit.

I pulled out my tray of distress inks to use this month and the one memento ink. Not pictured is my 2 Heidi Swapp color shine spray ink in Teal and Gold Lame

I pulled my collection of Chalkboard cards, some fun wood frames, a stencil, washi tape, and clips and things from SU.

Some odds and ends added to the kit, I have plans for the basketball stuff for a layout of our grandson so that is in there.

 When I went looking for the gelatos that I knew I had gotten in a swap box a couple of years back, yep found it still in the box with all the other stuff from the swap so I'm thinking that this is my box of embellishments this month! Lets open the box and see what's in here:

A wide variety of things including a stamp wheel (will need to locate a handle in my stash for that) There was a 6X6 pad of paper in there, lots of bling, lots of precut labels, Alphabet stamp set, butterfly stamp set, rubons, naked chipboard, sequins, metal charms, brads (ones that look like screw heads too), some beads, stickers, photo corners, flowers even a date stamp! Plus lots more to finally see the light of day and make it on a crafting project! Look I spy a Cupcake!
So this is my kit for the month to craft with. Never got a real chance to use my Artbooking cricut cartridge with LOAD going on so that is staying in for another month.
I will have total access to my stash if needed, but not thinking I will need anything else :) Thanks for stopping by and if you got the time check out Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog you just might want to join in and have a fun month of crafting

The Year Was 2002

Hello enjoying the day? We are having snow once again! Ugh! so ready for this winter to be over. So I have this bright layout to kick the blues away. The layout came from Day 18 of LOAD it was a Wednesday which the theme is word play. We were to start a page with Once Upon A Time...I seen that prompt and though, sheesh! I already did that one so I compromised and start my journaling block with the sentence. So deciding on what to theme this layout on I came across some photos that should have been scrapped awhile back. Jake our oldest dog that passed away last year in October, this layout centers around the 1st year we got Jake.

This was such a joy to do, all the pictures came from the 1st year we had Jake, he was an older pup but still won our hearts. I used sketch #34 over at the Memory Nest for my layout. I used the sketch the original way and on the opposing page I flipped it:



I worked my layout around the sketch. You can see the sketch with in the layout, but I added more pictures than what the original sketch called for

 The left hand side of the layout has some of the first pictures of Jake he was a playful pup and Dave did enjoy time with him. I used a variety of papers mainly from my dog theme drawer, but the main background paper came from I'm thinking the DCWV Linen Closet pad or the Guilded Paper pad. The alphas came from one dog related sticker sheet and the rest from my kit. The dog dish diecut was in my drawer just waiting for the right layout. The die cut is from Creative Pointe's Dog Elements file

 The right side I carried over the same papers added more stickers to this side and a definition of faithful on clear that got lost on the layout but was stuck to good to lift off  so it stayed right where it was attached.

 Some closer shots of the layout

The journaling block

 He was a great dog for taking care of groundhogs in the yard. My hubby with out facial hair wow is that a blast from the past :)

Thanks for stopping by today, I've got a few more layouts to post from LOAD this upcoming week and I got my current counterfeit kit put together today so I will be showcasing that tomorrow. My scraproom looks like a paper cyclone storm came through from all the crafting this past month so will be putting that away also and need to do my final LOAD layout that shows the stack of layouts I did for LOAD215 seems to be what all the girls do and looking forward to my final count for the month of February... You all have a fantastic day today :)