End of February check in

 I had a few more multi-day stretches of none scraping than I prefer but made up for it with the crop. Still above goal on my page count and there’s always next month to try and get back to daily crafting.

I also have another scout layout to share based on sketch #18 from scrap a sketch

and I'm playing along with the  Love our stash challenge at Lasting Memories:

 "Stickers" - Sticker sheets, sticker books, puffy stickers, chipboard stickers - use some stickers on your layout!

I used the Simple Stories "I AM" papers and mixed them with two different sets of fall-themed stickers

 I love all the dimensions and texture of mixing chipboard stickers with regular stickers.  I popped up a few of the stickers of foam too

The tag is actually the bottom half of a die-cut that I snipped the decorative flower pattern off.  Flipped it upside down and punched the whole.  Perfect color match to the paper while giving it a masculine makeover.  I really struggled with embellishments at first as I was trying to use the embellishments from the kit.  Unfortunately, they had a more feminine and spiritual feel that didn't jib with the subject of the layout. I honestly paired the photos and paper based on the plaid print and the night colors of the photo.

so glad I decided to dig through my cast-offs one more time to pull out these fun stickers.  I find I go through the coordinating papers for the kits faster than I use the multitude of stickers that come with it.  Anyway, I like how it turned out.  Thanks for stopping by to take a peek

Winter Retreat 2022

I had a fairly productive weekend retreat.  I opted for a attending just for the day on Saturday but my hostess was amazing and asked me back for the remainder of the weekend, so I got in a few more bonus hours to create on Sunday.  Great thing about the location is that it’s 12 miles from home so not spending the night is an easy option.  Fall retreat I’ll be there the whole time, no running home.

Anyway here’s some of what I got done.  Holding a few back for  design team work next month.  Still working through 2020 Boy Scouts but over half done

 Thanks for stopping by to take a peek 

UYS Birthday challenge

 Welcome to challenge #442 at Use Your Stuff.

For this challenge, we are going with the birthday theme as it is our blog host birthday month.

And last month was my 49th birthday.  Along with the traditional homemade cake, my husband and I slipped in overnight at a beach condo in Newport Oregon.  I'll have some pages for that trip coming in the next month or so.  After this layout, I'm shifting my focus to my son's scout album.  The goal for the crop is to get 2020 done.

 For my layout I used a little bit more from my Echo Park "Lets Party" TSR kit.  I still haven't killed the kit yet and I think I've got two layouts done with it and possibly enough supplies to do one more and a card.  I just started back up with the scrap room double shot kit club because I'm craving some variety and miss getting new stuff.  I did back off a bit by going with the double shot (two kits) instead of the flavors of the month (four kits) I should be able to use more of the old kits to make room for the new.  

I grabbed this sketch from the scrap a sketch group on facebook. I had a couple of oops when trying to outline the layers and had to hide my errant pen strokes with a sticker so it's close but not exactly the same as the sketch.  Plus I rotated it.

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Deep in the woods with S.I.T.

I used Sketches in Thyme #504 as the starting point for my layout using CM "Deep in the Woods" collection

I used John Muir quote: Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world"

in place of a title.  I find that I don't title all of my layouts as the photos and journaling usually tell the story well enough. what about you?  Do you title every layout?

I love all the texture the die-cut borders provide and the little extra I got from the vines/ branches cut from the laser-cut photo page. I find that by cutting them apart to my liking I'm more apt to use them.

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White Christmas…Almost

Significant snowfall in the Willamette Valley is not super common, especially on Christmas.  We got two days' worth of snow starting on December 26th and carrying on into the next day.  Beautiful but a lot of work as I was out in the greenhouse/ caterpillar tunnel every couple of hours poking at the roof with a broom to keep the snow from accumulating and crushing through the plastic sheeting.

I overworked my pectoral muscles and ended up with costochondritis ( inflammation of the cartilage between the sternum and the rib cage).  I'm still recovering and have just started running again as deep breathing was painful for the last few weeks.

Here's the sketch I used

This is the first go at the sketch

I wasn't sure if I wanted to add a snowflake on top of the patterned paper, but after a few days sitting out in my scrap space I decided to take the dive and add more details

I used navy blue card stock that is similar in color to the second layer of some of the background circles.  Topped it all off with some rhinestones for some extra sparkle

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UYS- celebrate Love

 Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and this week’s challenge at Use Your Stuff is to celebrate love or use hearts in your layout.  

I have done both documenting my daughters new puppy.  

The paper and embellishments are hearts and my title and subject photos reflect the love theme.

  While I do love Pippin enough to create  his jacket from the sleeve of my old fleece jacket I’m also glad to be able to send him home 

Pippin is a chihuahua/ pug a.k.a chug and a little ball of energy. The close up is right after his nap so he wasn’t at full speed yet and the other is him snuggling in for the snow day. 

I used the sketch as a starting point but went bigger and more photos. No journaling and more embellishments.  That’s the beauty of using sketches.  It just a suggestion 

I mixed and matched fonts and embellishments from 3 different sources.  The small glitter hearts are from a kit.  The chunky glitter love and embellishments from a thicker title pack and gold puffy  “puppy” alphas.  I had to cut one of the capital R’s to make a p but it works and I used more of my stash and that’s the whole goal of Use Your Stuff

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you join us for the challenge.

End of month goal check

This year I’ve set a few scrap goals:

15 minutes a day doing something scrappy 

Weekly blog post

Use my stash 

10 pages a month 

So far so good, got my ten page in on the 28th.

Here’s the latest work in progress from a sky by Allison Davis at scrapbook generation.  It’s this months free downloadable sketch  

I think I might add snowflakes where the stars are.  Going to let it sit for now.  What do you think?

 

Nutcrackers

 It has been a while since I’ve done any paper tearing and this sketch from sketches in thyme was perfect for it. I went slightly larger with the photos and added two extra photos 

Also threw in some embellishments too

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National Camp in

Just found this layouts in my drafts from way back when I was still playing along with the CM virtual crops.  Not sure what happened but here’s a bonus post for today 

December scrap a sketch

I recently joined scrap a sketch on Facebook 

This sketch is from the December 18th sketch-a-thon

The circle element is a mixture of chipboard leaves and leaf stickers popped up on foam.  I also added in some dotted flourishes to create movement around the leaves.  Hard to se them in the photo but love the little actors it adds.

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Mid month check in

 Hi all stopping in with a mid-month check in.  I’ve changed up the way I tracking my time spent scraping this year.  Last year I did the days of the month letters that could be colored in.  I’m much more of a linear girl so an actual calendar with a place to tally total pages completed.

Below is a layout that I finished before my birthday weekend.  No challenge, no sketch, just because.

And a quick sneak peak of the subject of my next DT layout 

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JO with S. I.T and UYS

With my “Magic Awaits” collection still out from my DT assignment I thought I would do another layout with it. 

The papers are Creative Memories take on Disney colors so they are a perfect match for the Inspired by Disney challenge at Use Your Stuff.  I paired it with the current sketch at Sketches in Thyme.

Even though the embellishments are meant to accompany photos from the Disney theme parks I picked the more neutral ones that are generic enough to go with my subject matter 

And here’s a peak at the journaling 

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Deep in the woods

 I have to admit that I am smitten with the new "Deep in the Woods" collection from Creative Memories.

I'm very much into the earthy colors and textures on the papers and I love that I could cut apart the laser cut frame page to get it to spread across two pages.  I added in some leaves cut from the side of the journal card.  Sprinkled in some wood round stickers.  Plus a smattering of mushroom stickers and die cuts to finish off the layout..  the paper works so well with my photos of my adventure partner Jodie.  We went mushroom picking this past November

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UYS- Inspired by Disney

I'm super excited to announce I've been selected for the Use Your Stuff DT.

Team A will be sharing their take on Inspired by Disney.  

I inherited my scrap friend  Creative Memories' "Magic Awaits" decorative bundle.  Mary was a huge Disney fan and was working on her Disney Album when she passed from cancer two years ago this March.  I kept the collection even though I'll probably never go to a Disney park.  I find that the color scheme works well with the Junction City High School colors.  Below is a layout I created for my daughter's school album which is 8.5x 11

I hope that you find some inspiration from my project, or from the other DT

 

Halloween

Still working my way through the end of 2022.  My kids are on the edge of being too old to trick or treat but decided to go out this year as they didn't last.  I'm using Sketches in Thyme #499 for this layout.

I framed one of the 4x6 photos with a cut-down 6x6 frame from an old Halloween paper pad from Creative memories.  I also used two sheets of the argile print butted together.

 The black lace detail is fussy cut from the same paper pad.  The owl is a coordinating dimensional sticker and the banners are die cuts.  Finished it all off with puffy stars and black nuvo drops.

Thanks for stopping by to take a look

 

Greenhouse

Wheel of challenges at scrap our stash is a recipe challenge

1 title 

2 photos 

3 embellishment clusters

4 pattern paper 

5 enamel/ puffy dots, jewels or sequins

I think I pulled the recipe together.

To get 4 patterns I had to gut a strip 3x 9 ish inches.  Didn’t cut enough for the top blue floral to go edge to edge like the pink on the bottom but no worries as I hid the shortage behind the tag/ cluster.

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Year end recap

 I started off strong with my #2021goals of scraping 15 or more a day and blogging at least once a week.  Did fairly well until cross country seat started.  Lost my free weekends to coaching.  Still manages 91 post and over 100 layouts as a couple post featured multiple layouts.

 

Keep your fingers crossed for me as I’ve applied for a Design team spot for 2022.

LM #557 throwback

 I absolutely loved the multi phot challenge earlier in the year and am glad to see it made the throwback list at Lasting Memories.  I used the CM December virtual crop sketch1 for this layout but rotated it to fit my photos.

I be got on more set of photos paired with paper from the fall retreat weekend packing.  Definitely makes the process go faster.  I’ll need to get the next group prepped this weekend.

Did a bit of fussy cutting of the floral paper in the kit and wasn’t sure I’d use them as these pictures are from an October canoe trip.  If the colors work why not, right?  

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