Out in Nature

I hope you had a restful and fulfilling Thanksgiving.  

I'm playing along with three challenges with this layout

I followed the photo placement and the bottom border, but the title and clusters are my creative flourish.

Scrap-n- sketch #322

I also used red and green hearts for the 

Heart's Quest Challenge

And lastly, I'm joining Challenge Yourself

My family loves to go hiking, and it is among my favorite activities to do with them.

We plan to hike McDowell Falls this afternoon, so there will be a page with photos from that outing as well.

Thanks for stopping by to take a peek

 

Summerween

This is the second time Jessica missed Halloween, this time due to the Job Corps.  To make up for missing the spooky season, my daughter and her friends had a summerween party where they carved watermelons, ate candy, and did other Halloweenish things.

I'm playing along with Rochelle's November Scrappy Friends challenge and Stacey's tic tac toe

I went with one less photo as I used a larger photo on the left side.

I did the diagonal- top left to bottom right with orange ink splatters, tag, and torn edges.

Thanks for stopping by to take a look

 

October layouts

 I meant to get these posted in October but I just ran out of time.  Last district cross country meet is done, farm/ garden winter prep is under way.  Tomato sauce is in the works from the last of the season fruit.   I do have plans to scrap over the long weekend coming up but will see if that happens as I have stitches in my thumb.  Dominant hand

But for now enjoy these two layouts 

LM #774 -color palette inspiration

 

One and done

 I’m using Meggan Jacks one and done layout guide from 3-13-2025.  I rotated the left hand side of the sketch to accommodate my photo orientation.

I just got “Hit the Road” designer paper and stickers at the scrapbook retreat I’m attending this weekend.

I did  some journaling on both the pages chronicling or trip from Boulder to Boise.

Thanks for stopping

LM #773 - color palette inspiration

 

This month, Lasting Memories is challenging us to use color mood boards for October.  
Here’s the palette selection for this week.  

The image on the mood board reminds me of me of herbs in an apothecary, so I used the image along with the color scheme to select my paper for my layout of Kam Wah Chung.

Thanks for stopping by, and remember to join us at Lasting Memories.

LM #772 - color palette inspiration

 This month, Lasting Memories is challenging us to use color mood boards for October.  
Here’s the palette selection for this week.  

I went with sandy yellow, lime green, and aqua for my layout and leaned into the tropical flair with fussy-cut flowers.

I was inspired by the pagemaps sketch from last month's Challenge Yourself

My photo orientation didn’t lend itself to two 3x5 photos, so I went with two smaller photos stacked to fill the space.

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LM #771 - color palette inspiration

 This month, Lasting Memories is challenging us to use color mood boards for October.  Here’s the palette selection for this week.

The red is more tomatoey than berry but I think the midnight blue, petal and pearl are spot on.

I also was inspired by the scrap rooms jump start sketch for the month 

I used a decorative tag instead of of a fourth photo and moved the title up a bit.

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Day 3&4 using LM mood board

I created a companion page to my guest DT layout for  Lasting Memories using the mood board below 

I used some of the same papers but have more of the curly fern pattern on this layout 

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LM #770 - color palette inspiration

 This month, Lasting Memories is challenging us to use color moodboards for October

Here is the current board

I went with the leafy green, light blue, and rusty orange

as well as touched on some of the plant motifs.

I was also inspired by the September 1st sketch from Sketches in Thyme

Here are a few close-ups of my embellishment clusters.

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LM# 769 -plaid

This month, Lasting Memories is challenging us to use up our stash of paper.

 Include at least one patterned paper of the required design for the week on your layout.

This week, use plaid-patterned paper

I only used small hints of plaid along the edge of each side of my layout.

I have very little of the paper left, but it was the perfect amount to make this layout pop with a bit of color.

Thank you for stopping by to take a look. Remember, you still have time to create a layout for the challenge.

 

LM florals #768

 This month, Lasting Memories is challenging us to use up our stash of paper.

 Include at least one patterned paper of the required design for the week on your layout.

This week, use floral-patterned paper

I struggle to use floral paper, especially when the pattern is a large print like the paper I used.

I fussy cut around each of the flowers and layered them along the side of my layout to mimic the flower wall at the entrance to Silverwood theme park

I almost forgot to take a photo of the paper before I started hacking on it.

I have a companion page using stripes that has the journaling for our day of adventure.  You can find it here

Thanks for stopping by to take a look, and remember, you still have time to make a layout for the challenge.

LM stripes #767

 

This month, Lasting Memories is challenging us to use up our stash of paper.

 Include at least one patterned paper of the required design for the week on your layout.

This week, use striped patterned paper

 This is the companion page to my floral page that can be found here.

For this page, I used a large flower to carry the theme across the layout while featuring the stripes with fewer photos.  The awesome thing about stripes is that it is a great place to do journaling.

I'm not sure I like the car sticker in the title, but I'm using up stash

Close up of the journaling after I fixed the date mix-up.

Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget to use your stash with Lasting memories

Graduation part 2

Finally getting to some September challenges now that we are more than halfway through the month.

I’m using the following sketch from Rochelle 

And the third column on Stacey’s tic tac toe

The background paper is polka dots, brads are under the banners, and red metallic twine.

Thanks for stopping by to take a peak.

 

Dynamic titles

 Another layout for Camp crop a lot.

This time, the challenge was to create a dynamic title. 

Think I nailed it

and here is a close-up of each side

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Cone peak/Iron mountian

I'm getting caught up with challenges from Creative Memories VIP's by Mandee Shirley. This is for week six- use a peaka boo pocket.  I don't have any pockets so I used an old CM photo sleeve.

Here's a look at what's under the flap

I altered the sketch from CM to make it work for the number of photos I had

Thanks for stopping by to take a look

 

Dury Ridge

 

Over at CM VIP's by Mandee, we were challenged to use a paper-saving technique.  I had an oops moment when I cut the circle on the inside of the Jumbo cutter instead of the outside, but my happy accident created a ring, so I went with it

Here's the finished layout using Deep in the Woods paper and embellishments

Thanks for stopping by

VIP challenge

 I was staying on top of the challenges over at Mandee Shirley's" Uncrafty crafter Creative Memories VIP group but then summer camp happened.  I'm trying to take advantage of a not-so-nice day outside to craft, and only managed to work on coloring badges and adding up points for the challenges

18 points over 5 Challenges

Here's how the point system works:

post your version

post within 24 hours

include pics

include journaling

use mostly CM products

I did:

Week #1 use circles 5pts

Week#2 with Switzerland 4pts

Week #4, which I haven't posted as I need photos from our upcoming anniversary trip 3pts

Week#5 with Tree Pick up 5pts

and Week #8 with Court of Honor 1pt )only posted my punched piece with some flowers as not a CM product layout)

It's not too late to join the group for some fun inspiration