All about being Thankful at UIT

It's time for a new challenge at Use it Tuesday ,and it's all about being Thankful.

Show us what your thankful for. 

 You can create a layout, card or altered art project as long as you use items from your stash .

  Just remember to list what items you used from your stash.

For an added challenge try to make the whole project from your stash like I did

I'm thankful for being able to spend Thanksgiving with my family.  This year might be the last one we get to celebrate with my husbands mother.  She's in failing health and having a difficult time getting around.

Even though the pictures aren't the greatest.  I wanted to have a LO from 2011 with my mother in law in it.

I think it's rather fitting that the base of this layout is from paper I inherited from my mother in laws stash this past weekend.   My father in law is starting to clean out the house so the kids will have less to deal with when the time comes.  So thankful for that.

I framed the photo of the food as 2011 was the first year that we did everything for Thanksgiving dinner.

The only problem is that you could see my backside as I worked at the sink so I covered as much of it up as I could with the Autumn leaves and tag.

the chevron strips are from an Old creative memories short cut pack.  I just smeared them with ink the unify the color scheme and update the look.  I'm not sure where the journal box and matching leaves came from since they have been in my stash for awhile

I tucked and weaved the photos into the chevron strips.

Hope you enjoy my creation and look forward to seeing what you create

Please link your creation using Inlinkz by Friday  Nov 23rd  . No blog? No problem! Just use keyword USE043 when uploading to an online gallery and leave us a direct link so we can find your creation.

Please make sure to mention you are playing along with us at Use It Tuesday  (a link is great too!)



Candy winner from LM Dt lift off

While no one lifted my layout I did receive many wonderful comments.

Shaunagh is my winner and said...

I love this page, and the gears and colours, so striking :-)

She will receive CTMH 6x6 paper pack

 Congrats

Remeberance Day at lasting memories

To all of my US followers thank you for joining me on Veterans Day

 for the latest Lasting memories challenge,"Remembrance Day"

What exactly is remembrance day?

There are so many possibilities.  Remembering the sacrifices of those before us. 

Both of my Grandfathers, Father and  Father in law served in the military as well as my husband so

 Veterans day has a special and deeper meaning for me.

It could be

Remembering those that have past and no longer with us

The design team at lasting memories has simplified it to be a LO about some one special.

That is in your thoughts and on your heart.

I did a layout of my father's sister who died in infancy.

Mary Lynn Tencza lived for only two days and

all I have is her hospital photo and her Baptismal record from Providence Hospital.

The Baptismal record was damaged in several spots, so I tried to hide it with the flowers in the upper left corner and the fussy cut card stock sticker in the upper right

I'm featuring another of the Cedar Chest Design digi stamps  " Maggie with bird house"




I cut away the bird house so it looks more like a guardian angle waving goodbye

There's also an optional sketch this week if you need some extra inspiration

Hope you've been inspired to join us this week and

don't forget to link up for our monthly prize.  The more you play the more chances to win.  We are also  looking for a December guest designer.  If you'd like a chance just add GDT after your name when you link it up.

After working on another layout I found some vintage gift tags in my stash

Here's another look at the same layout

I think the angel is a more fitting embellishment for the LO

Use it Tuesday- DT Call

Design Team Call!

Since we only play the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, there was no challenge for you this week, but we did want to give you a reason to come by and check us out. Use It Tuesday is preparing for the New Year with an Open Design Team Call!  Please read below for all of the details!

This will be Use It Tuesday's 4th Design Team call and we encourage people from all experience levels to apply.

Term: January 1 to June 30, 2013

Requirements:
- have an online gallery and/or a blog
- if you have a blog, you need to be a follower of Use It Tuesday to apply :)
- have a Facebook account or a willingness to make one
- be able to work with deadlines
- make and post 2 inspiration projects per month
- comment on players’ projects
- be a team player
- have a positive attitude

Interested? Please email the following completed application to UseItTuesday@gmail.com by Friday November 30th.

1. Name
2. Links to your online galleries and/or blog
3. Your previous DT experience, if any.
4. Please tell us a little about yourself.
5. How did you hear about our DT Call?
6. Have you played with us previously?
7. Please tell us why you would like to be on our team.
8. Please share one fun fact about yourself.

Thanks and we look forward to hearing from you!!

Mom's Birthday

Today is my mom's birthday and this is the card I made for her. 

 Now if only my Father in laws card could be so easy.

  It's today too

I started with a cardboard base Mom tri fold card that I covered in  CM fall paper

the first M has glitter silk leaves, buttons, and bling

the O is just out lined in the same glitter glue as the M's but looks different on the darker back ground

little bit of ribbon and bling for the last M

top view of card when mostly folded

Hopefully it gets to her on time. 

 Mailed it Monday

DT lift off at lasting memories

 Lasting memories has a new sponsor this month.

Cedar Chest Designs is offering free digi stamps as this months prize for our lucky winner.  All you have to do is play along with the challenges to be entered to win. For this weeks challenge we're having a DT lift off, so pick a DT member and lift away, but tell us which one and link up by Saturday Nov 10th @ 6

Some of the DT will be featuring Digi stamps from Cedar Chest on there projects . A digi stamp is not required to play along with us, but if you want that's awesome. 
Cedar chest has some freebie stamps you should check out too.  If you choose to use an image from cedar chest desings, that gets you a 2nd entry for our grande prize

I chose to use the car and driver stamp 

 

I rotated creative scrappers sketch #232 for this layout

 and changed out the number of photos as well as gears for the circle elements. 

I cut the driver out and added an acetate windshield to the digi stamp from Cedar Chest. Then used foam dots to pop the car off the gears background.  For the background I used clockworks embossing folder on silver card stock then rubbed with black chalk ink to highlight the gears.  Stuck on a whole bunch of gear stickers and used up all my stash.  Some are adhered to red metallic card stock to make them bigger and take up more visual space as well as to balance out all the blue gears.  Journeled with my label maker and clear label tape so that the background paper is still visible

This week some of the DT are also giving out Blog candy.

Mine is 6 sheets of 6x6 CTMH cornflower blue pre-printed layout gift pack

all you have to do is leave a comment

sorry for the awful picture it's raining like crazy and the light is really poor

Hope you've been inspired to join us this week and

don't forget to link up for our monthly prize.  The more you play the more chances to win.  We are also  looking for a December guest designer.  If you'd like a chance just add GDT after your name when you link it up.

Cottege Grove Caches

I was inspired by two different wonderful scrappers for this layout.

Tiffany,  Breakfast @ Tiffany's is doing a twenty minute challenge

and Chas is DT at Red Carpet Studios where they're hosting an ABC ransom hop

I got this LO done this morning after the youngest went to preschool.  Seems like the only time I have to create now is when everyone is at school and preschool only last 2 hours.  With driving back and forth, throwing in a few loads of laundry and checking out the latest post that really only leaves a little bit of time.

Glad I'm pushing myself to keep it to 20minutes or I'd never get anything done.  Fortunately this layout was easy to put together as all the elements came together in a kit I inherited from my wonderful Aunt Diane.

So no time spent searching for matching embellishments or coordinating papers.

 The title is a mix match of colors, but all the same style and brand so not as creative as Chas with four different alpha, but still using up letters that otherwise would just sit in my stash.  the whole blog hop has different ideas for using extra letters on layouts.

even did the same thing with the numbers on the chip board tags that correspond with the journal points

Shelling out at Lasting Memories

This weeks challenge is rather open to interpretation since not everyone celebrates Halloween.

So Shelling out could be you passing out the treats on Halloween, gutting your pumpkin shells or a trip to the beach searching for shells.  Hey, it could even be you shelling out the big bucks for your latest trip to the scrapbook store.

Mine is all about Shelling and cracking crab.

We have some wonderful Friends that let us share their beach cabin in Waldport, Or.

On this trip we spent Saturday crabbing on Alsea Bay.  Went back to the cabin and cooked up our limit of crab.  They have an awesome outdoor crab cooker and fish gutting station.

close up journaling

I used the cast of from the 1st page.

  To make this crab I cut around the image and some of the spots where there was a lot of paper around the claws.  Then I just stuck the photos of the kids inside the outline and cut and trimmed to get this.

This is minus tide on Sunday.

  My four kids and John ( lime green swim trunks) played in the ocean until we had to leave for home

Hope you've been inspired to join us this week and

don't forget about our monthly prize.  The more you play the more chances to win.  We are also  looking for an November guest designer.  If you'd like a chance just add GDT after your name when you link it up.

Clue at Child's Play

Wow,I have no CLUE where the month has gone, can you believe it's already time for our 4th challenge? Today we're playing the classic game,Clue!

For my take on the challenge I'll be sharing my latest Geo caching LO.
It's like treasure hunting with GPS coordinates as your main clue.

Here's one weekend worth of caching as we headed up Hwy 58 to our property in Crescent Junction.

I made a flip file to showcase photos and clues

"Oak Ridge Rest Stop"

GC1GATM = geocache id number used for cataloging finds

N 43 degrees 44.256'  W 122 degrees 27.330'

difficulty 1 1/2 stars   terrain 1 1/2 stars

Clue: Actually this cache is in the Greenwaters Park Area across from the rest stop.

* Had to be super sneaky with all the bike Oregon riders camped out in the park.

Side view of photo flip

Don't forget you have till the end of the month to link up your  Green Slime, Great Pumpkin, Googly Eyes and Clue Layouts at Child's play



Use Orange at UIT

It's a color challenge at Use it Tuesday .
It's not even Halloween yet and I'm all tricked out in orange and the treat is I didn't do a Halloween or Fall layout, but instead showcased my girl friend baby shower.

So pull out  some orange to make a layout, card, or altered art  item for the current challenge.
  Just remember to list what items you used from your stash.

Last year I bought the animal cracker stack to make a babies first year album for my girlfriends shower gift.  The base of this layout is one of the few sheets I had left from that stack .  I also used a scrap of the brown polka-dot paper and fussy cut around the monkey, hippo and leaves to make my own embellishments.

I also managed to use the last of the orange animal print ribbon I got to make the baby album. Tossed in a couple of piece of orange card stock for over the top orange layout and there you have it a totally orange layout using only left overs from animal cracker stack.

Hope you enjoy my creation and look forward to seeing what you create

Please link your creation using Inlinkz by Friday  Nov 2nd . No blog? No problem! Just use keyword USE042 when uploading to an online gallery and leave us a direct link so we can find your creation.

Please make sure to mention you are playing along with us at Use It Tuesday  (a link is great too!)

Double take at Lasting memories

For this weeks challenge at lasting memories we're asking you to use the same photo twice on your layout.

Some of the DT have projects that have identical photos, some have the same subject from different angles and Denise has an awesome reflection photo that she played with.

I used two photos of the same subject from a slightly different camera angles

 

and stacked them to make one focal photo.

Here's what they look like on the layout

the bottom photo is on  foam dots and when stacked together almost has a 3D quality. 

close up of my middle two kids.  Our current canoe configuration is that I get the middle children in the 15ft canoe and my husband gets the oldest and youngest in the 13ft canoe.  Before long we'll have to get a 3rd canoe.  Good thing the kids are pretty good at paddling.

Hope you join us for this weeks challenge.  
If you'd like to join us as a guest designer for November just add GDT after your name when you link it up

Fern Ridge in 20 or less

Happy Friday everyone. I have another

  LO for you.

 Here's the timeline for this one.

last night:

selected photos and sketch

today after preschool drop off

9:28-9:42

switch out laundry, set up cricut, pick out papers

9:42-10:22

work on page one of two page layout

*** will post on Sunday as part of Lasting Memories post***

10:22-10:44

another load of laundry, charge cell phone and  page two -minus journaling

10:44

leave for preschool pick up

11:27

 clean up desk and jot down journaling

  11:33

done

Having fun cranking out the layouts.

Thanks for a great challenge Tiffany



Fourth of July in 20 min or less

Okay I have another crop layout to share that I did in 20 or less.( kind of)

If you're like me and take everything , but the kitchen sink to a crop you know that it takes a while to figure out where you packed everything. Along with stopping to catch up on the latest happenings.-some of these ladies I haven't seen since this summer.  Hunting for the plug in for my cricut, dropping in my raffle ticket, getting a snack and reading through all the welcome stuff.  I think the whole thing might have taken an hour, but actual work time definitely under the 20 minute mark.

How  is it possible to get it done that quick?  The secret for me was

 sharing some of my stuff.  While looking for a cowboy themed  die cut  I found this pre made border in my stash.  Added a little ribbon on either sides,  doodling and some die cuts from the fire cracker I found while hunting for cowboy hats.. I got this quick and cute border.

I got 8 layouts done at the crop that was from 9-5pm.

Had to stop and share a couple of techniques and of course there were the hourly drawings and lunch

not to mention I didn't get there till about 9:30 so I averaged a layout every 45 minutes

some took less time, others more.

  You'll have to wait to see the other layouts as they are part of some of my DT work for

Use it Tuesday, Child's Play and Lasting memories.

so stop by Breakfast at Tiffany's to share what you can get done in 20

20 minutes or less challenge

Tiffany over at Breakfast at Tiffany's is challenging us to create a layout in twenty minutes or less.

This is one that I created at a recent crop.  I wish I could say that the rest of my creations from that crop were as fast, but I don't work as quickly in a room full of wonderfully funny distractions, I mean ladies.

Super easy layout to put together I used all coordinating papers so all I had to do is pick what goes where as far as the pattern paper and back grounds go

Journal strips are also quick and easy

C is for canoe, Cleawox and cold kids

The center probably took the longest to create as I cut the paper strips and circle and stuck it all together.

The center has paper loops that popped up more before going into the album. but I still like that I made my own embellishment with paper

Why don't you take the 20 minute challenge too