LM #550 Multi-photo

 Today Lasting Memories  kicks off a new theme and set of challenges, courtesy of DT Lauren.  The June challenges are all about photos.  For the first challenge, we are focusing on multi-photo layouts.

I used three photos in my multi-photo layout.

I drew inspiration from Scrap support sketch #10

I rotated the sketch to accommodate my photo orientation and added an extra photo in place of the journaling box.  I love how adaptable sketches can be especially when your in need of some inspiration.

 I used Echo Park "Celebrate Christmas" to document the tree recycling that my son's troop did as money-earning activity

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Guest Designer at Lasting Memories for the month of June

 I'm super excited to announce that I'll be a guest designer for Lasting Memories for the month of June.  I love playing along with the challenges and getting inspiration from the design team.  I think their challenges are some of the best but I might be biassed as I'm a former DT ( 2013-2017).  Life just got too busy to continue to commit to the team, so I stepped away from contributing and have played along when I could.  This year one of my #2021goals is to scrap for at least 15minutes a day and write a blog post at least once a week. With the help of a friend and a cute month tracker I’m sticking close to my goal, only missed seven days so far this year. 

PS I've updated my blog profile picture for the occasion

I hope you join me over at Lasting Memories this month

First aid skills

 If you can't tell I've been working my way through photos of my son's scouting adventures.  I'm trying to get more current so that he can start helping with the journaling process while he still remembers what was happening at the events. Hopefully, he and my husband can sit down together this summer and reminisce about his past scout career while they fill in the important gaps.  I'm up to Feb 2020 so I'm getting there.  I'm missing a few events that are still on my husband's phone and need to be printed but definitely getting closer with the help of this sketch from Sketch-n- Scrap #225

I picked through my red scraps as it's the color of the first aid cross and my son happens to have a red shirt on. Threw in a bit of gray to pull out the color in the background paper.  feels good to be working from my stash.  I'm really trying to use up what I have before buying anything new.  So hard to do as there are some cute new collections coming out.

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Court of Honor Nov 2019

 One more layout before calling it for the night. This one is based on Sketch-n-scrap #224 sketch

I flipped the sketch and did one less layer as the background paper was already fairly busy.

The fluer de lis was on the backside of the paper so I fussy cut it out and then hid the cut with the kraft cardstock.  Instant embellishment.

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Melakwa with S.I.T

 Happy Mother's Day to me.  Aside from doing the normal household chores of the day I've been able to spend some time scrapping.  Got  sketch #468 from Sketches in Thyme done this afternoon

I rotated the sketch and used a 4x4 square for my journal box and left off the circle.

I tried to find an element to use in place of the circle but just didn't come up with a good substitute.

Still need to have my son fill in the journal card as I have no idea what they did at camp other than what the pictures show.

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McKenzie river rafting

 Well, I'm a little late with this post to stay on track for my #2021 goals of blogging at least once a week but I am doing fairly well at creating daily.  This layout took some time with the hand stitching, but I love how it turned out.

Here's the sketch I used

I used slightly larger photos and only two instead of the three.  Also moved the journaling location.

Originally I was going to use the cut file as a mask for my shimmerz sprays but I loved the texture it provides with it in place.  To make everything pop off the page more I stitched around the contour of the wave cuts.

I took the better part of two days' worth of my lunch shift to get the sewing done.  

the "fun stuff this way" arrow had white letters that didn't stand out enough so I went over it with a black pen

mix and match summer themed kit collection cast-offs and sprinkled in a few enamel dots

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Gift Exchange

 I have another boy scout layout from my son's troop gift exchange.  I still need to pull out the cricut to cut a title but I'm running out of time to enter the following two challenges.  Lasting memories "flowers and tags" and The scraproom April "jump-start"

Here's the sketch for the jump start

I got the silver sprinkles as a bonus with an order a while back.  I think they'd work better in a shaker pocket than directly on the page.  Live and learn, but another layout is done

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Court of Honor

 Nothing like looming deadlines to light a creative fire.  

I'm doubling up on this one with Sketches in thyme #464 and Lasting memories 4x4 challenge.

Here's the sketch

and the details for Lasting memories 4x4

4x4 photo- Since April is the 4th month of the year you must include at least one 4x4 photo on your layout.

I choose two 4x4 as it was close to the sketch proportions.

I had fun with my shimmerz vibes "seas the day and love ocean"

I used the packaging technique and splattering.

Layered lots of scraps, a branding strip, and fussy cut some flowers.

The title is a sticker from some boy scout embellishments I picked up a while ago.

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E.A.S.T.E.R. challenge

 April is almost over and I'm just now getting to the E.A.S.T.E.R. challenge at Lasting Memories.  It's a wordplay challenge using scrappy items, themes, or techniques for every letter in the word Easter. The layout doesn't have to be Easter-related.  It can be about anything, but the 2 E's have to be different items.

 

I dug through my scraps for this one, mixing and matching pieces for a layout documenting Eric's trip to Camp Easton on Lake Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

For my Easter letters:

E- Enamel dots ( Nuvo drops which I managed to smear on the right-hand side of the page)

A- Arrow (red and white chevron arrow under boys rule)

S-Stickers (words and phrases)

T- Thicker  alpha (colored red to match the color scheme)

E- Easton ( camp name in the title)

R- Rhinestones and red

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Memorial day with April sketch challenge

 I'm playing along with the April sketch challenge

I switched the orientation of the sketch and subbed in brackets instead of the shaped photo mat

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Tsisqan Lodge 75th

 I used Sketch-n-Scrap #222 for this layout of Tsisqan lodge's 75th-anniversary dinner.

This is the first layout in a while that is not from a collection or TSR kit.  I pulled out my scraps to mimic the colors of the photo backdrop (sunset).  I also dug through my embellishments to round out the layout. Went with a few substitutions/ omissions.  No dollies but instead used the scrolled blue paper.  Also, the photos are bigger than those in the sketch but the overall framework is there.  I hope you enjoy my creation  and thanks for dropping by

OA weekend

 I'm officially done with my 2020 album and have switched over to working on my son's scout album.

I used the same sketch from my last post but only the left-hand side of the sketch and went from six photos to two.  So amazing that one sketch can be the inspiration for so many different layouts.

I finished off the "Happy Camper" TSR kit minus a few chipboard flowers.  I made my embellishments stretch to fit by cutting the play frame diagonally and spreading it across both photos

I also created my own thicker type Alpha's by cut 4 layers of cream cardstock under the patterned paper letters.  Love the dimension it gives to the layout

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Sketch support #19 Gingerbread Village

 

One more 2-page spread and I will be done with my 2020 album.  I can't believe how quickly it came together but it's all thanks to Linda, my CM advisor,  her tracking sheet challenge has been a real game-changer.  So far I've only missed scrapping four days this year.  I have also been utilizing a lot of sketches to get layouts done.  I used the following Allison Davis Sketch support #19 for my Gingerbread village layout.

I used CM "North Pole Magic" paper, die cuts, and Village border punch that I inherited from Mary and thought I would never use.  It looks so good as a gingerbread village all I had to do was add a little white doodling to give it the gingerbread house vibe

Also pulled out some dollies, Shimmerz paints, chalk ink, and a few gems

Even utilized my underused cricut for the title cut.

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All about sketches w/LM #538

 Somehow I missed this2 photo sketch from earlier in the month.  So glad  I was cruising through the lasting Memories gallery and saw a couple of layouts that inspired me to snag this last one.  I can now officially say that I have played along with all the challenges for the month 5 for 5

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flip-flopped a few things around as far as the title and subtitle placement go, but that's the nice thing about sketches they're just a suggestion for placement.

I did group my embellishment clusters in the same general areas and tried to have the same color combinations in each cluster along with a mixture of heights and textures.

Thanks for stopping by to take a peak.  Can't wait for next months challenges

All about sketches with lating memories

 This is the last sketch challenge for the month with lasting memories and I have enjoyed the challenges immensely, having participated in 4 of the 5 challenges. I think I may have a sketch addiction, but that's okay as it led to another creation this time documenting our baby goats.  We got Drawf Nigerian Goats this past November and spent sometime bottle feeding them to help them transition away from their mom.  The little boy didn't take to the bottle at all and ended up with the name Dodger as he truly dodged everything, but our little girl snowie was the complete oposite.  She'd cry for her bottle as soon as we entered the barn

I think the sketch was intended to be for 8 1/2 X 11 but I stretched to a 12x12.  Just a few deviations from the sketch as I didn't do a journal banner and I added a visual triangle of embellishments around the close up of snowie to make it more of the focal photo.

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Silver Falls

 I tried to kill another TSR kit today.

But still had more than 2/3 of the sticker sheet left.  

Instead of stressing about it and trying to embrace the challenge, I decided to chop up the small bit of remaining paper and stickers into 4x6 mats so that I can stick them in my storage system to use at a later date.

Halloween

 For as interesting of a year as 2020 was I sure do have a lot of scrapbook pages completes for the year's album.  Maybe because we still did things even if it was scaled back or maybe because I refused to hide in a hole and hope that Covid would disappear.  Got to keep living life.  My only problem no is what scrap project to work on next.  Since I've been crafting a minimum of 15 minutes a day I've made my way through most of the family photos.  I know I could print this year's photos and be current, work on the kid's school albums so I don't have to do it all in the summer, or get back to scout photos.  Guess I'll find something. But for now, here's the latest two-page spread courtesy of an Oct 2020 page map sketch. 

I'm really struggling with my phone's camera.  Actually just my phone in general.  Touch screen sensitivity.  Time to get it repaired or replaced.  Anyway, I still haven't figured out to photogra[h my finished project without it looking all wonky.  Suggestions.

All about sketches with Lasting memories

 So excited to be 3 for 3 with lasting Memories Sketch challenges this month.

this time we are creating with the four photo sketch shown below

I did make my photos a bit larger and didn't set them on angle as I used my corner rounder to soften the edges and  my plaid stripe through the middle made the off set angles look funky.  Still love how it came out and that I used some more of two fall-ish themed Echo Park collections.  Trying to kill off another kit but just couldn't use the cutiesy forest animal chipboard pieces. I did however mix in a few odds and ends.

I created the title card by cutting down a 4X6 card that had multiple fall words that didn't apply and then fussy cutting around the top edges of the two orange flowers to have the flower border with out a wierd cup through the centers of those flowers.