Good Stuff sneak peek

Good morning :) A sneak peek of something I'm creating at the moment. You'll see the completed layout either tonight or over the weekend. This is for today's challenge over at Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style. The card I created:

and this week's challenge sketch is:

I was glad to use that 4X4 chipboard piece that came from this month's counterfeit kit: A Little Fall in the Air. This was a fun sketch to use for my ..... hmmm you'll have to wait and see later what it may be :)

Your prize for September is this Blessed Beyond Measure stamp set. You have until September 30 to add your links over at Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style! 

Happy Birthday Owl card

Hello :) How are you this fine day! It is gorgeous here in PA cooler and sunny, love it! I'm a little behind on my DT post for Use Your Stuff blog, but still wanted to post the card I made for the challenge and this will be sent out at the end of the month for a Grandson's birthday.

 This is the pile I created the card from. Lots of those scraps that were on my desk, that I added to my current counterfeit kit to get used up throughout the month. That die cut owl is the feature on this card, but that alligator under the owl is gonna be made into another card. Just to many left overs on the desk that are calling me to do another card.
Our challenge this week over at Use Your Stuff is a color board:

Loved all the greens and blues together

 My card and I stayed within the color pallet, but when off a bit with the yellows in the papers and diecut.
I used the sketch for my card inspiration from Mojo Monday:

It was a fun sketch to use and powered my card making that I had it done in an hour :)

I broke out some stamps that were never used for this card SU: Whacky Wishes set and CTMH: Juniper ink with some clear embossing powder to give it some texture.

The inside of the card. Thanks for stopping by and I look forward to seeing your creation linked up for this color pallet challenge over at Use Your Stuff.

Life is Pretty Amazing layout

Good Morning :) Today is a new week at Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenges and the theme of the month is "WHICH DIRECTION ARE YOU GOING or WENT?" and today's direction challenge is Forward as in - Planes, Trains and Automobiles Inspired... anything that moves. Boats, Bikes, etc... or use an ARROW on your layouts!!
Lots of movement happens in our yard when the grandkids are around and that is what makes Life Pretty Amazing:

 This layout came about through and challenge over at SNC yahoo group a sketch challenge :) it also came about from LOAD1015: Day 7: Octopus: Story: something that reaches into all aspects of your life. Product: ink! Image: family photo & highlight a family trait or feature.

There was so much I had going on in my head for this prompt that would take more than 1 day to scrap. So I went to the photo that I found of my husband with 3 of the grandkids and a note of a fine trait he has. I see that trait in all but 1 of his kids and with the 3 that have it it's stronger in 2 of them than the other. This was a fun prompt and a good one for many ideas to scrap. A dedication to my husband and the way he looks at life and being a grandfather is a few words :)

I grunged up this layout pretty good with the inky edges and the chocolate mist. Thank you for stopping by and I look forward to seeing your creation to this challenge :) over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook challenges. 

A Little Fall in the Air- CKC September kit

Hi :) and welcome.... Today I got to check out September's Counterfeit Kit Challenge thoroughly and gathered up my kit for the month. They have a fun inspirational kit that to me reminds me of the coming of fall with the yellows and corals colors and the blues for the clear skies of fall. Our inspiration this month is the popular Felicity Jane kits. The kit that we are taking inspiration from is the August kit, "Maggie":

The kit does remind me of a peek of Fall with the changing of colors in the trees this time of the year. I had fun gathering up my kit and for scrapping this month I have lots to choose from :) 

Here is my kit: A Little Fall in the Air

My chosen papers my focus to be more on the blues, corals and yellow. I chose 4 paper pads to pull my papers from before heading to kits.

 This is from the CTMH Chalk it up kit. I got some back to school pictures to scrap.

 Some rubons, a vellum gold heart piece from Maggie Holmes, retro chipboard set, sticker sheet from The Story of 'Fall' collection, a boys collection with the right blue colors in it to use, a dazzles kit, a family kit that I want to use on some reunion photos from the summer, Simple Stories Home Spun to get used up. A few used 6X6, 4X6 and 3X4 paper pads that I want to create with this month. I'm doing a Shimelle class the month of Learning Something New, it seems to be more of a journaling class but to put the focus of the journaling with scrapping so these will come in handy for that and 1 of my unused Smashbooks (just not sure yet which one)

 My alphas, lots of partial sheets and also some full sheets too.

The embellishments a wide array of them :) the bowl of washi tape and ribbon, bakers twine, brads, enamel dots, doilies, die cuts, some things I got in swaps that I want to work through, chipboard, paper ribbon and 2 stamp sets.

My laptop had taken a crash and I'm using my dinosaur of an old PC for the moment till I can either get it fixed or get another one (whichever is cheaper). But what was interesting is what I had to do to get to it, it seem to have become a clutter spot for scrap and card leftover and well I took it all and put it in a shoe box. From there, another day later as I was trying to find a password sheet for a site (just lovely trying to gather up all the old passwords to get into sites again :) I decided to sort through the shoe box at the same time. So all the scrappy crafty pieces are in this container:

and this will stay on my craft desk to get used up this month. I've got so many goodies in there, more for cardmaking but there is things for scrapping too. Since I've been taking Shimelle's classes she mentions a scrapbasket that she keeps her paper scraps in, well I think I'm going to give this a go for the rest of the year and see if it works out for me. I have lots of paper scraps around my craft room that I want to get used up and this may be the way to do it :)
Another class I'm taking later this month is from May Flaum's Kittastic 2016
that I think is going to be lots of fun and plan to make the kits for that class from this kit and my stash :) 
Thank you for stopping by today and seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world, it would be great to see you kits too :)

First Day Of

A late night scrappin happening :) I finished this layout of the Grandkids just in time for the challenge over at The Memory Nest the picture was taken with my phone

This is the sketch that I used from The Memory Nest:

What a cool sketch to use too for this layout of the grandkids 1st day of some fun summer classes at the local college. I used my counterfeit kit from last month Easy Livin'. Another layout for the 2016 summer :) completed.

Round and Round

Good Morning and I hope you are having a great Labor Day weekend :) We have been in and out of the house since Saturday afternoon checking out what is happening in the are and enjoying the holiday weekend:) We are doing up some tomatoes tomorrow so enjoying some relaxing time, before we get back into harvesting from the garden :)
Today is a new set of challenges over at Lasting Memories and would love to see you create something and link it up over at Lasting Memories.  
SEPTEMBER CHALLENGES - "WHICH DIRECTION ARE YOU GOING or WENT?" - Show us what you did this year or what you will do in the year to come based on the DIRECTION noted.
Today's challenge focus is "UP" - Up in an Airplane?  Hiking Up a Hill?  Standing Up from a nap?  :) Kites, Hot Air Balloons...you get the picture :)

I thought I would go with a layout I did during LOAD515 Day 21. “Throwback Thursday” is where old photos take the stage for a laugh or an “aww”. Use an old photo, an old scrapbooking technique, an old song, or all three at once on a page.
   I found this old photo of me from 1974 from Gettysburg, recently (April 2015) we went again it was cool to have taken a picture in the same area. Title is an old song and the paper used is from the first paper pad I bought when started scrapping. This was a fun prompt to do :)
Now it's your turn :) We would love to see your focus on UP                           

Joy

Happy Friday to you :) Ready for the long weekend? I sure am :) One more night of work first though :) Today is Funday Friday over at Jo's Scrap Shack and today's challenge is Anything Goes. Our sponsor is Scrapper's Delights and use their Poinsettia digi stamp:

This is the card I made with the digi stamp. Sorry the picture was taken with my phone last night, I seem to be having an issue with my laptop at the moment :) Hopefully it's not to big of a deal to get it up and running again :)
So I got into one of my Christmas stash Iris boxes (I have 3!) and got all the supplies I needed to embellish the card. The digistamp I printed right on the cardstock and colored it with a variety of markers. Added stickles to the center and also added some stickles to the edge of the petals that are at the forfront. Found some silver glitter tape and also the holiday wishes ribbon for the border element of the card and a few sequin stars in the corner. I used the dazzles Chistmas sentiments for the Joy sentiment and have another Christmas card done and ready to send :)
Thank you for stopping by today and I do hope you have a great weekend ahead :)
I hope to see your creation linked up to Jo's Scrap Shack.

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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
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The monthly prize drawings will only be mailed within the US and Canada only

You have until Friday, September 9th 6:00 PM (eastern) time to link up. All winners will be announced on Monday, September 12th.

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