Halloween at UYS

  In honor of the spooky day Use Your Stuff, would like to see your Halloween or black/orange projects this go-round.  Anything having to do with Halloween or a project primarily in black and orange will do!  Be spooky, be cute, be sarcastic....most of all be fun and use up that stash!

My layout has nothing to do with Halloween at all but the Spring bonfire photos worked well with Black and Orange.

I'm also playing along with the Lasting Memories Sketch challenge.

I love Allison Davis's sketches.  I just did a 4x6 photo layout class so I was excited to see that LM choose Sketch Support #3 for this week's challenge.

 I did just the Left side and only used two photos but you can see the overall design.

Here's my take:

I pieced together some scraps to make the stripes that the photos sit on top of.  Great way to make my paper stretch as I'm getting to the midpoint of my Simple Stories "Take a Hike" kit.  I also threw in some Creative memories Halloween paper on the B side was the floral that I used to back the main photo.

Here are my tips for the split stripes:

1. Use pencil marks to measure a quarter inch shorter than the photo.  That way you have enough paper tucked under the photo and the line doesn't show

2. Use a ruler so that the top and bottom line up

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Die cuts at UYS

 There’s still time to enter the die cut challenge at Use Your Stuff. It’s not my week to post a DT creation but couldn’t pass up using the fun die cuts I picked up at the recent retreat I attended.  I stretched the frame behind the photo by hiding the cuts behind the layers.  The tag at the top and the notebook paper are also die cuts.

For more details on the challenge make sure to stop by Use Your Stuff 

Lasting memories color inspiration

 Lasting memories has a new color palette up for inspiration and it’s perfect for fall /back to school photos. I’ve been plugging away at the kids school albums at the retreat I’m attending this weekend.  All caught up again.  Good thing as I have a small collection of newspaper clippings from cross country season.  Thinking I should scrap it as it comes in instead of waiting till June now that everyone is in High school and teachers don’t amass a body of work to use at conferences or send a file home at the end of the year.

Here is the color palette 

And here’s my creation based on the colors 

She has changed so much since starting JCHS.

TSR Jumpstart

 Finally getting some time to scrap at a retreat and tried the Jumpstart sketch at The Scrap Room

I’ll share more layouts during the week.  Right now I need to get back to scraping.

Scrap your stash sketch

 I’m playing along with scrap your stash October challenges.  I combined the tool challenge with the sketch as I haven’t used my jumbo circle cutting system in years.  Which is what lead to the oops cut that I covered up with the title card and embellishment cluster.

I tried to minimize the amount being ct by starting at the edge but the blade lift the paper and shift my template causing a funky double cut.  It’s hidden so not too big of a deal other than I shifted my journaling placement to the edge of the page instead of around the circle.

Here’s the October sketch 

I choose to use paper with circles as per the challenge.

  The basics of the sketch are there with a few minor tweaks 

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Fall at UYS

Hey everyone!  I'm sure wherever you are, the signs of fall are starting to sprout up, the leaves are definitely changing color and are falling from the trees...

In keeping with that, our theme is Autumn or Fall.  It could be the colors, or anything associated with the season, basically anything that makes you think of it! For me, it's back to school.

I need to get caught back up with the kid's school albums as a new year is starting and I don't have the last few years done.  Good thing I have a scrap retreat coming up

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