Cozy coupe at childs play

Time for June challenge #2, but before I get to that, did you see we have a Design Team Call going on right now? We'd love for you to give it a try and perhaps be added to our great crew here! Now on to today's challenge, we are taking a ride in every child's favorite vehicle, The Cozy Coupe...

I plan on playing along so you'll have to come back to check out what I've done.

I'm still a little behind with scrapping, but at least I'm done unpacking from the last Girl scout camp

Canoe bites

I'm having a hard time sitting at the computer and have a feeling it will be that way for a few days.

I have a picture of just a few of the bruises from climbing in and out of capsized canoes

Mind you this is only one leg. 

 I have bruises on the other too, but they are higher up, thus the discomfort when sitting

Should have seen them yesterday when they were super purple.

I hope to have some camp picture to share with you in a few days.  I'm waiting on the people that stayed dry to send them to me.  I almost took my camera out in the drybag with my first aid kit, but glad I didn't.  I have a very soggy kit and bandages that I had to toss.   Guess the dry bag didn't like 4hrs of dunking in and out of the water.  Althought I think it was pretty much soaked after the first canoe over canoe demo

DT call at Childs Play Challenge

For those of you that follow me and aren't currently following Child's Play Challenge I thought I'd pass along  this post from our creator Tiffany.   

Wow- can you believe it is time for a DT call already?? The 6 month term is drawing to an end for the very first team of designers here at Child's Play Challenges. They really kicked off this new blog in such a great way. They've inspired us with fabulous and playful layouts, and I have been so lucky to have them on my team. But, now it's time to look for a few more people to join us!

If you are like most of us scrapbookers, you feature children in your layouts, whether it's your own children doing yet another adorable thing or even digging up old childhood photos from the attic. We celebrate children and childhood all the time in our layouts, and through this challenge blog, our hope is to offer up inspiration week after week to help you keep those pages coming!!

I am looking for a few talented and creative scrapbookers out there to join me in this adventure. If you'd like to play along with fun challenges, participate in the blog and motivate others to take part in the fun, this might be the place for you! Your term would run August 2012-January 2013, and you would be asked to complete 1 layout per month. If you would like to be considered, here's what you need to do:

1-Create a new layout just for this call based on the toy below.

2-Post about the DT call on your blog, along with your take on the challenge.

3-Leave a comment here telling us that you would like to be considered for the DT, along with a link to your blog post, and be sure to include your email address!

The deadline for this call is June 30th, and the new Design Team will get started on August 1st! Can't wait to see what you come up with!! =) Tiffany

 

 

 

How do you fold

This weeks challenge at lasting memories is all about folding.  So use some kind of paper folding technique like iris foldin, teabag folding,or any kind of folding on your layout

(please include instructions or even a link to how you did your folding)

Here's what I did

I made a flower with five 1 1/4 inch circles

 I used double sided paper from K and Company Brownie paper pad

 Fold sides in about a 1/3 of the way

 flower petals can be are created by placing folded edges together

 finished flower

 And here is the entire Layout with folded flower

 I used the numerals from a scrap of Brownie paper for the title and added sticker "th" and rub on letters for the word "birthday"

 close up of flower and fussy cut paper/photo

Journal is down the left side of the layout

camp awards

Okay I've been slacking on the LO's.  The last few weeks I've been caught up in helping plan camp for the girls in our service unit.  Two weeks ago it was Camp "believe" at Neverwox (Camp Cleawox).  This weekend it's Iron Chef 2 for the older girls.  Super intense Canoe and Archery camp with a Iron Chef style cooking competition.  This year they are making Pasta sauce and box oven cup cakes.

Anyway I'm in charge of canoes again and have made some awards for the girls.

 I bought some frames at St Vincent De Paul for (99 cents or less) per frame.

The photo my husband took when we were at camp for camp believe. 

 I wrote directly on the photo with silver gel pen

 I also used my label maker for the Award type. 

Most improve paddler, fastest canoe over canoe and fastest completion of obstacle course

Lastly I taped a patch to the glass that the girls can put on the uniform as a reminder of their accomplishment

Leaving footprints behind

Today's challenge at Lasting Memories is some sort of footprint. 

 It can be people, animal, bird, whatever as long as it leaves a print.



We also have  a sketch from Page maps for those that want a little extra challenge.

I used this weeks sketch to create a layout about our remodel

 I changed the sketch a bit, by putting the journal area at the top and the title at the bottom

I did the title with rub on letters and had to make the last  "e"  with the letter c and i.  It works well enough

 I also change the number of flags from 4 to 3 to fit my space.  Totally love the screw brads.

 The last change that I made was replacing the decorative scallops for screws and nails.

Close up of journal section.  I did the last two lines free hand and I can totally tell.

I hope you can join us for this weeks challenge as we have a wonderful prize from Digi Darla for you

Painting

For the last layout that I did last night I used the pictures of the girls painting with recycled household paint.

All of the projects they worked on were part of their World thinking Day display.  We held the event on Earth Day as the Theme was Conservation and using resources wisely and as part of the project the girls learned about ways to recycle paint.  All the unused paint collected will be turned into a state run paint recycling program.

 left side of layout

 Close up of title

 right side of layout

 journal

To make the title I cut letters from the girl scout promise, which was printed on one of the pages in the K and company brownie pad.  I also used the outer edges of the paper for the  upper and lower borders on the layout as it has a cool stitched look to it.  Also got the center brown paper to make the journal strips.  Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

GS sewing

Here's the second layout I did last night

 More of K and company Brownie Pad

 Made a border with hand stiched Zig zag and some stitching on the journal card too

" our guest presenter Heather taught the Daisies how to make pillow case dresses, which they will donate to a third world country this summer"

" The brownies worked on a denim poncho

 while the Juniors pieced together a couple of neck ties for  a skirt"

Girl Scout Picassiette Mosaic

I was letting the Girl Scout Photos pile up and with the prospect of having camp photos to scrap too I thought it was time to get caught up.

So I did three 2 page layouts last night

Here's the first layout of the girls doing several

Picassiette mosaic

 I used K and company Brownie 12x12 pad.  I got a bunch of them at big lots for $1 a pad

 Left side of layout

 Close up of the Bunny that our guest speaker Deanna made.

Right side of Layout

I should start writing a book of all the kid based adventures in the house.  I thought nothing could top having to drive from Eugene to almost Portland that I did yesterday to get my middle daughter to her field trip, but here I am with another adventure.  Today Eric locked us out of the house with no shoe, jackets or phone.  Thankfully the garage had extra rain boots and spare jackets for our walk in the pouring rain to the elementary school in hopes that my middle daughter had a house key in her backpack.  Luckily she did and the rain slowed for the trip home.  Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.  No school day yeah!!