Father's Day Card for Funday Friday

Hi you all :) Yay Friday! It's a hot one where I'm at today, we haven't seen Summer begin on the calendar yet, but the last couple of days it's definitely here! Today's Funday Friday challenge theme is Father's Day over at Jo's Scrap Shack and the sponsors this week are: A Day For Daisies and Bugaboo Stamps. This is the card I created:

 I made this card for my husband from our furbaby for Father's Day. I used A Day For Daisies digital stamp: Buddy. I thought that is was just perfect for this type of card and fits so well with our own Buddy. I used my current counterfeit kit for all the papers for the card. I also used the current card sketch over at Sketch N Scrap:

 Isn't this stamp just the cutest thing! Oh my I see my Buddy's love for his best friend so well in this stamp, sometimes nicknamed Dad's Shadow that he's with him constantly when he's home. He is a protector as much as he is a friend. I colored up the stamp with my bic markers.

The inside of the card all ready to give to Dave. I found the sentiment to type up with a google search. Thanks for stopping by today and I can't wait to see what you create for the challenge.

Our Sponsors this week are:

   The winner will win 3 digital stamps of their choice!!!!

and

 

The winner will win 7 digital stamps of their choice!!!! 

 

 So make sure to play along this week~

    Starts: Friday, June 12th  12:00AM

Ends: Friday, June 19th  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 June 19th  by 6:00PM (eastern) time to link up.

All winners will be announced during the week of June 22nd.

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

Off the Hook

Hi you all :) After cleaning off my craft desk yesterday I rewarded myself by crafting up this 2 page layout. The papers in this layout come from 3 different Monthly Counterfeit kits ( a piece of this month's is in there too :) I dug these pictures out to be scrapped in April, well never got the chance too and May LOAD had nothing to do that I could use these pictures for so yesterday was the perfect day to scrap them :) Plus there is still a handful from that day left to scrap another layout too.

This was made from a sketch challenge over at Scrappin N Chattin yahoo group for this month's challenges. So the grid work of the sketch worked out perfect for the fishing photos

Albert and Andrea and their kids less Astacia was on this layout. Albert is our next to the last son (Dave's 3rd child). the pictures are from last year that Andrea posted of FB so I grabbed them and did the layout :). I'm looking forward to handing over the layouts of the kids and their kids to the kids at Christmas time with an album that I can then just create the layouts and give to them each year.

 The kids were sure having fun :)

The journaling just about all of it came from what Andrea posted for each of the pictures and I made some assumptions with the rest. I used 3 diecuts on the layout: 2 I received from swaps and 1 is the one I created for a swap from the Nifty Fifties cartridge.
Thanks for stopping by and seeing what I'm doing in my little corner of the world

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

When you see a smile on my face, I'm in my Happy zone! 

Hi you all, hope it's been a great weekend for you :) This is a layout I made during LOAD last month and the whole of the layout is what makes me happy and this is just one of the times in my life that I'm truly happy.

Today's Challenge over at Lasting Memories is Happiness and we were given this quote for inspiration:

This quote should be given to every little girl and boy out in the world :) What a confidence booster that is. There is a way to be selfish and to share with others at the same time, because when you share with others it produces Happiness and that is a cool way of being a bit selfish, I think. It's the MEAN in the world that changes what being a bit selfish is that makes Happiness a priority.

This layout came about from the LOAD prompt on May 27: Performer:
Some people say everyone’s a Performer.
If you could be a performer, who would you be and what song of theirs would you sing?
Out of all the songs that I love to hear. all the groups and singers, I have alot of favorites too. But, It was when Cyndi Lauper hit the Video scene with Girls Just Want to Have Fun! There aren't many songs that will pull you out of a blah mode than this. So that one is my choice for this layout and I used that song title for my layout title.

There are many things that make me happy, being with my grandkids, being in my scraproom, traveling, Family times no matter what were doing has a place in my heart. But, there is times in your life you just remember and when you spark that memory it instantly brings a smile on your face :) This day is one of them and a different side to my personality that most people don't know. These are the pictures from that day, Dave let me mow the one field off and man did I have a blast!

Aug 14, 2012 was the day!

The journaling I had first put on a PL card but that wasn't fitting in the layout at all. So I cut up and made these journaling strips and it worked in the chosen spot. I used my last month's Counterfeit Kit. All the LOAD layouts I mainly used my May Counterfeit Kit, so when you see more LOAD posts over the month you'll know what I used to create it with.

When you see a smile on my face, I'm in my Happy zone!

Now it's your turn :) Looking forward to what you create on what makes you happy :)

Rinda's 2015 Scavenger Hunt

The 2015 Scavenger Hunt is under way:

I am joining in with Rinda's Photography Scavenger Hunt this year and on this page you will find all my 'finds' for this year. I will probably have done a post about them too, but here you will find them all together. I will be adding to this page as I come across the items on the list. I may take more than one photo of an item and I will be deciding at the end of the hunt which my final items will be.
So the post was made about the new Scavenger Hunt this year, she shares this:Newcomers welcome - the more, the merrier! No special photography skills are required - I love seeing everything from snap shots to fine art photography in response to the list. You don't have to do anything special to sign up, but if you're a blogger who I don't normally visit, leave me a link to your blog in the comments and I'll add you to my feedly reader. I like to gather and highlight posts now and then throughout the summer to share here. You can see the post here on Rinda's Blog looks like a fun list here it is:

Scavenger Hunt List

So, without any further ado, here's this year's lists:
1. A bouquet of flowers
2. An ornate door knocker
3. A person walking a dog (or other animal)
4. People playing a board game or card game
5. Architectural columns
6. A metal bridge
7. A turtle
8. Someone "plugged in" to social media 
9. A tent
10. A college or university
11. A cellular tower or television satellite dish
12. A public restroom, bathroom, or toilet
13. A merry-go-round or carousel
14. A traffic signal
15. A flag pole with at least three flags on it
16. A panoramic view, taken while standing someplace high in the air
17. At least two people wearing matching outfits or uniforms
18. An overloaded truck, car, bicycle or other vehicle
19. A ticket booth
20. A natural body of water
21. A photograph of you with a sign reading "2015 Summertime Photography Scavenger Hunt".  Note: you may not use a substitute for this item.  If you find something on the list too difficult, you may substitute one of the following items for any one item on the list, except for Item #21:
Alternative A: People eating outside
Alternative B: Someone holding an umbrella
Alternative C: A rocking chair 

By pure luck I already have photos of the Turtle:
7. A turtle:This was the first find by pure luck on June 1 we had a snapping turtle in the garden:

Dave said he probably came up from the river, must have been quite the tract. I just happen to see something strange in the garden and went to investigate and this is what I found. So first picture down and done! Crossed off the list. I have a separate page for this hunt: and there you can check in if you like to see what pictures I've gotten over the summer attached with a link to the blog post about it.

Sketch Time for Funday Friday Challenge

Hi you all, how are you the fabulous day :) The sun finally showed up here today after a long week of cloudiness. Any good plans for the weekend? We are planning to go to a tractor show about an hour away, a day out of Dodge as my husband says, hmmmm sounds like the beginning of a scrapbook layout. Well enough about me, since it's Friday that means it's Funday Friday over at Jo's Scrap Shack. Today's challenge is a sketch and our sponsors are: Little Blue Button Stamps and Di's Digi Stamps. Here is what I made with an art file for Little Blue Button stamp:

 and here is the sketch:

I changed mine up to the size a A2 card so I can send it in the mail with a regular stamp, but kept overall sketch look intact. I had fun grabbing some scraps that were on my desk from last month's crafting to create my card. I got a new die that I couldn't wait to try and this sketch offered that spot so I used that for the back layer of the circle, the gold embossed stamp was done last month for a challenge and this was one of the extras that I cam across and added it to the card. The center square is the printable file from LBBS: Birds and Houses:

Covered it with CTMH liquid glass for a flair button look added ribbon for the center border and that's it a Birthday Card all ready to send.

The inside of the card has the stamp Birthday sentiment. Thanks for stopping by today and seeing what I'm up to in my craftroom. Would love to see your creations over at the linkup.

Starts: Friday, June 5th  12:00AM

Ends: Friday, June 12th 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 June 12th by 6:00PM (eastern) time to link up.

All winners will be announced during the week of June 15th.

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

 

My June Counterfeit Challenge Kit

Hi :) How have you all been? We've been busy with the warmer weather coming it, weekends are as relaxing as were off doing something. I'm feeling much better now than what I did this time last week which is a good thing :) So it's that time of the month, by the end of the month I'm looking forward to the 1st to see what Counterfeit Kit Challenge wants to use for their inspiration and this month they chose the Basic Grey's New Collection, so that is 8 different kits to choose from. So here is my kit:

I used Basic Grey's Aurora for my inspiration this month :) Right at the get go I was drawn to the Purples and Blues with some Neutrals and a dash of Black and Pink to the mix.


I tried to stay close to the color scheme and some of the patterns, no constellation papers in my stash so I used what I thought looked close to what they had for the pattern.

 The chosen alphas

 Some stickers and stencils

 Box full of goodies: Washi tapes, stickles, ribbon and the middle compartment holds all kinds of odd and ends

 The embellishments. I have also added DCWV: The High School Matstack with 2 graduating this year and a couple of friends kids graduating I got a few cards to make. Plus some graduating/ prom layouts to do. So that's my kit for the month, I'm off to work you all have a good night :)

STRUT YOUR (Creative Pointe) STUFF! June CHALLENGE

Good Morning and Happy Monday to you :) Yep, it's been awhile since I have been on the blog, I haven't felt to good. Seems to me that Spring/Summer colds are worst than Winter colds. But enough about me I wanted to tell you of a new challenge over at Creative Cutting Challenge:

While the regular challenge is taking the summer off,  we're going to try something new!

STRUT YOUR (Creative Pointe) STUFF! CHALLENGE

So, how does this special monthly Challenge work? 

You can enter any project, from any date* (back linking allowed!) as long as you use an electronic cutting file from The Creative Pointe.  So if you've purchased or grabbed a freebie from one of our almost two hundred files, you can play along.  

If you haven't got a Creative Pointe file to use, grab one of these for free:  

Shower Heading

Bride 2B

Ice Pop Treat

Sand Castle

Uncle Sam Hat

Sheriff's Badge

We want to see what you create (or have created) with our files!  

I's your June chance to STRUT YOUR (Creative Pointe) STUFF!  

Two fabulous prizes will be awarded by random drawings each month this summer.

You'll have to go over to the blog to see what you could win!

This layout was made off of yesterday's LOAD prompt: all about Cover Art: Duran Duran was THE teeny bopper band of the 80s, and they knew how to use art on their album covers. Remember Rio? That’s the album with the woman’s portrait by Nagel on the cover. Let’s take our cue from that and make a page with a huge self-portrait or portrait of someone you love.

I didn't have a huge photo of Amber or the paper to make the photo, so I combined two of my favorite pictures from facebook of her, senior picture and graduation.  I used part of Creative Pointe's Be-YOU-tiful file for my title:

You can check out her other files over at her pinterest board: https://www.pinterest.com/creativepointe/svgs-for-electronic-cutters/

All the elements of this layout came from all old counterfeit kit challenge kits. They got a new kit up today if you would like to take on the challenge of counterfeiting a kit!

 It was so cool to see Amber's cap, that is so her and the title is just perfectly fitting for her.

I did some fussy cutting to put the I Did It on the tag that holds the journaling and a couple of pieces from the Maggie Holmes Flea Market packet of diecuts. I made one mistake and corrected it after taking the picture. Amber got accepted at STI for Diesel Technology! Way to go Amber!

That's right boys you better look out cause her comes our Amber! we are so proud of our granddaughter and your accomplishments. 

Thank you for stopping by and I hope to see your creations over at Creative Cutting Challenge.