LM#745

 

I'm back with my second sketch challenge for Lasting Memories

 I didn't have enough photos of my son's family celebration or of his friends' party, so I combined both events into one.  I did a few substitutions for photos with just colored blocks of card stock, especially since I didn't have a 6x4 horizontal photo.

 I picked the colors based on a stash of Creative Memories die-cut embellishments that I was gifted. These birthday-themed die-cuts work great with the photos and are not too hard to match with CM cardstock. The peacock blue block was bold and stood out too much before I framed it with freehanded white ink work.

I moved the journaling to the other page and added a die-cut cluster instead.  I backed the hollow circle with the same blue as the 6x4 block on the other page and popped the cake up with foam.    Also added rhinestones instead of a decorative edge to the shelf.

same layout configuration as the sketch minus two photos

Thanks for stopping by to take a look and I hope you'll join us at lasting memories

LM#744-Lasting Memories sketch challenge

 

Hello all, I know it has been forever since I have shared anything with you all, lovely followers.  I'm happy to announce that I am guest designing for Lasting Memories this month.  We are doing a sketch challenge, one of my favorite challenges.  

"Feel free to change the sketch up a little to fit your photos (use more or fewer photos, flip the sketch, only use one side, etc.) as long as we can see the original sketch in your layout."

I love that sketches provide inspiration.  I sometimes follow the sketch done to the exact placement and sometimes use it as a jumping-off point.  For this Alison Davis sketch from July 2020, I kept the basic background structure and the main photo layout but changed the cluster location on the left-hand side and added several smaller photos to the right along with my journaling.

Thanks for stopping by, and make sure to join us at Lasting Memories

3 in 1 March Challenges

I’m excited to have created a layout for Challenge Yourself (bling) using Rochelle’s sketch and Stacy’s tic tac toe for March.

I choose to do the diagonal with 2 photos,  a tag, and stars.

Thanks for stopping by to take a look

If you look closely at the photo below you might see that I also used Ink splatters but they are hard to see because I used shimmer ink and a yellow similar to the star paper

Little sneak peak

I’m back crafting but can’t share too much just yet but I’ll have something for you each Sunday starting at the end of the month.  I was hoping to knock out a few March challenges too, but we’ll see if that happens.

I’m off to San Diego this coming weekend to pick up my daughter from Job Corps and have a road trip to plan so I’ll catch up with you all soon 

The trees have eyes

   The setting sun and the darkening forest trail caused me to jump when I saw this tree! Was it a tree sprite or a Fairy come to life? Can you see the face?   The thick eyebrows, a lumpy but petite nose, and big pouty lips.

 

Another beautiful hike documented using  Rochelle's January Challenge 

I changed the sizes of the photos and circles but kept the placement about the same.

I also combined the sketch with  Stacy's scrappy friend's tic-tac-toe

using the right-hand column of splatters, enamel dots, and twine

Thanks for stoping by to take a peak

 

Beautiful Adventure

Hello again, back with another hiking layout.  I'm playing along with Lasting Memories #731.

The DT has asked us to focus on our arrangement by using a sketch as your starting point

 

I choose to use the sketch below from Sketches in Thyme

I changed it up by adding a third cluster and dropped the title below the journaling.  I decided not to use the photo corners since my one cluster would cover it anyway.  

Thanks for stopping by to take a look

 

Go big- Hike

I'm back with another hiking layout.  I picked all the papers and colors from the matching knit hats my daughter and I were wearing.  We did a very short hike in the Thurston Hills area.  Some of the trail was for mountain biking but it had been so wet that the trail had been closed to bike traffic.  Lucky for us we went when we did because the week after that area was absolutely destroyed by an ice storm

I'm on a roll and happy to be sharing another Anything Goes at Challenge Yourself

 

Parker Falls

 For my birthday this year, I did a quick solo hike in the Umpqua National Forest to Parker Falls.
Nice quiet hike on a very cool morning.  Can't wait to get in a few winter hikes this Christmas break.

I'm excited to share another layout with Challenge Yourself after being selected last month as the random prize winner.  

Ice storm 2024

We are well into December and experiencing much cooler weather. So far, there have been no major storms, but we still have the rest of the month and January. Last year, we had a significant ice storm in mid-January.  Freezing rain followed by a brief thaw and another round of freezing rain to create a thick layer of ice on everything.  We escaped any major damage but the southern end of the valley was hit much harder