UYS-Spring/Easter

 

  Oops!  I thought I got this posted last week when the Use Your Stuff Spring/Easter challenge went live but apparently not.  I'm still working my way through Boy Scout photos and have these two from the troop's spring camp out at Weyerhaeuser woods. The boys worked on their pioneering skills with the lashed shelter. 

I used lots of bright spring colors and flowers from my Vickie Boutin TSR kit.  Still have some ephemera to use up but the pape is all but gone.  Time to mix it in with another VB kit.

Sorry for the delay and thanks for stopping by

Scrap a sketch Season bonus

Scrap a sketch has posted a sketch every Fri, Sat, and Sunday of April with a different Season as the theme. There are also two bonus sketches so far and I used Bonus sketch #2 for this layout of the troop serving pancakes and treats at the classic car show.  I used Fancy Pant's " A cherry on top" kit because it has a 1950's vibe that goes with some of the cars featured at the show.  I fussy cut a cut apart card for the embellishment cluster on the left.  popped it up on foam for some added dimension and threw in some enamel dots to finish it all off.

Thanks for stopping by to check out my layout

 

Beach

Super quick layout featuring the troop's trip to the North fork of the Siuslaw River.

Used some more CM sunshine getaway.  Almost have the paper stack used up.  I'm just about halfway done with the 2021 scout album.  Not sure what I'll work on next.

Thanks for stopping by to take a peak

 

Scrap a sketch #6 summer

I'm glad that I'm finally able to play along with the 4 seasons April Challenge at Scrap a sketch.

I'm still working on my son's scout album and have documented three of his hundreds of photos for this layout.  I plan to create a pocket page book for his summer camp adventure, but wanted to have at least a page in his Road to Eagle  albums.  

It still needs to get the boys to do the journaling, but other than that it's done

 

Crop update

I didn't  get as much done as I had hoped. I figured that I could crank out a layout an hour,  so target goal was 12 pages.  Well, by the time I got settled in and crafting it was closer to 10 am,  One less hour and I also didn't factor in lunch so I'm happy with the six  pages I did complete.  I'm only sharing a three of them here as I still need to finish the title work on the last two page spread.  

These next two  pages slowed me down a bit:

This one I had to wait for my background to dry as I used Shimmerz spritz and Vibez.  Most of which got covered by the final photo arrangement.  Do you ever start with one idea and by the time you finish it's a completely different product?  Totally happened with this one.  

This next one is based on the April four seasons sketch, however I didn't go with a summer theme as the photos are of my son's attempt to design a game for the merit badge he was working on.  He still needs to revisit the requirements to finish it up.

I spent a bit of time hand stitching the border on this one but love the added texture

This last one was a quick and easy layout to put together.  I love that the title lent itself to pulling pink elements into the layout.  Who said that there are gender rules to scrapping boys?  I was also able to pull a few embellishments from my stash which I'm trying to do more of.  If the color works why not.

Thanks for stopping to take a peak 

I'll be back soon with more from the crop.

 

NSD

I got to celebrate National Scrapbook Day a month early this year with an all-day crop on April 9th.

My Creative Memories consultant hosted a fabulous event and I'm excited to share my project from this year as well as this one that I made with the CM NSD kit from 2021.  I used mostly the B side of the patterned papers as they were tone-on-tone and not overly shamrockish.  The photos are of my son and his scoutmaster at the Portland Crispy Creme on their way home from a campout at Fort Stevens.  The colors were perfect and the phrases worked for this layout too.

 

Sketch support

I'm using Allison Davis sketch #24.  You can find the free sketch here

I went with two 4x6 photos of the boys cooking at camp.  I thought I was going to do the curvy element in flames but it didn't work out the way I wanted so I just stuck with the embellishment clusters.

I mixed and matched collections that  had a camping or outdoor theme.  Some of the die cuts are popped up on foam to a dimension and separation as is the case in the lower cluster of s'mores.

 I've had the marshmallow sticks  in my stash forever.  Glad to finally get them on a page

Thanks for stopping by  I'll be back on Sunday for a NSD share

#445 Tags at Use Your Stuff

We have a new challenge at Use Your stuff for the first two weeks of April…TAGS!  Pull out your punches, dies, kits and collections.  You can use pre-made tags or make your own like I did.

I'm starting the next Scout album for my son.  Up to 2021 now so getting closer to being caught up.  I'll probably switch over to working on the family album this summer as I have per paired  scout photos and paper in preparation for a NSD crop next weekend

 

My CM tag punch got a workout with this layout 
To make it easier to line up the tags I cut 9 inch strips and then punched both ends of the strip.

Then I cut apart a die cut frame to get the pine boughs that I tucked under the bottoms of the photos.  For above the photos I cut a die cut border in half to have enough for both sides. Stuck on a few stickers from the collection and a few rhinestones to finish it all off.  

Enjoy the close up below

 

Thanks for stopping by to take a peek and I hope to see your creation over at Use Your Stuff

LM Love your stash all the things

When I started this layout on Saturday night my main goal was to complete Lasting Memories Love your stash - finishing touches with enamel shapes and Nuvo drops, but then the new challenge came out: All the things.  For the final challenge of the month, you must use at least three patterned papers, stickers, trim, punch/die/ephemera, enamel/ brads/sequins.  Up until the last challenge I've managed to create two layouts for each theme.  They can be found here: #588End of February check-in, #588Halloween, #589 Love Your Stash Trim, #589Chess, #590 Court of Honor, #590 Gift Exchange.  Fell off the creative flow with the start of Spring Break and outdoor projects.  I'll share photos of those when I get around to scrapping them.

    

1. I have more than three PP
2.  #588 Sticker- phrase stickers, leaves, and the hiker silhouette
3. #589 Trim -washi tape, bakers twine, and stick pin ( blue blob behind the certified die) for ephemera
4. #590 Punches/ dies/ ephemera used my punch to make the tag as well as a variety of dies. 
5.  #591 Finishing touches enamel stars and Nuvo Drops

 

I just snagged this mini kit of Simple Stories " Take a Hile" from the local goodwill this week.  I worked in a  few items from my stash as well.  The Outdoor memories and certified badge are cut from journal blocks to create my own dies and hid the edge of the leaves with the lantern as it looked weird the way that the leaves were cut straight on the side of the card. 

My starting sketch is from the Scrap a sketch FB group

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time on the long read.

 

A Double Trouble Collaboration

  We are partnering with the  Double Trouble Challenges for this new challenge.  

 UYS challenge this week is White + One other color.   

Try to have just the white and one other color varying shades are okay.

 (Feel free to use neutrals like black, kraft, cream, but sparingly)  

Now here are the details for the Double Trouble challenge 

  Make sure to share with both Use Your Stuff and Double Trouble

I'm not much of a card maker and tend to create mostly 12 x 12 layouts, so my take on the challenge will be white plus red and a little black.  You can't have a layout about chess without red and black, but the majority of the layout is white.  

Thanks for stopping by and remember to share your layout with us at Use Your Stuff and Double Trouble

I’m also playing along with Lasting Memories love your stash as I used a strip of washi tape

Gift exchange

Back with the final 2020 Boy Scout layout using the latest sketch from sketches in Thyme and Lasting Memories love your stash challenge- dies, punches and ephemera.

 I went a little bigger scale wise as I used two photos to make a 5x7 picture.  Also change up the journaling stripes but the overall layout is similar.  

Thanks for stopping by

Court of Honor

 

November 2020 Court of Honor Covid style; masked, spaced and video streamed for our families.

I'm playing along with two challenges with this layout.  The inspiration for the layout is from Sketch-n-scrap #245 March 15th sketch.  I got the large banners in but altered the two background blocks to work with my photos.  I'm also loving my stash with Lasting memories challenge #590 punches, dies, and ephemera.

The notebook edge is a border punch and the BSA rank badge is a die-cut piece as well as the branches.  For ephemera, I stuck in two leaf straight pins into the foam that's popping up the badge. 

thanks for the inspiration to get another layout done.

mid-month update:  on target to complete 10 pages.

Creative scrapbooker magazine

 Playing with Creative Scrapbooker magazine 2022 March sketch.

Flipped the top photo so I could nestle the title in the open twist of the flames.  Mixed and matched Echo Park “Happy Bear” and Simple stories cabin fever.  Love how it came together.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by

Scrap a sketch #22

 Created this quick layout from Scrap a Sketch #22

I fussy cut two of the pieces from the cut apart page from the Echo Park “Fall Forever” collection to make my title and embellishments.  Great way to soften the linear elements.

I’m almost done with 2020 scout photos.  This one is from one of the November meetings when the boys were building owl boxes to hang up at the back of our property.  We hav a resident owl in the filbert orchard and another smaller barn owl from the neighbors farm that might like a safe winter nesting area

Thanks for stopping by 

LM #589 Love your stash-Trim

This week's challenge at Lasting Memories is:

"Trims" - Ribbon, twine, washi tape, or paper strips 

 I'll be honest I just restarted this post as I noticed that  I could have added more trim.  

Trim times two: Baker twine bow and washi tape on the banner piece

  Also, I am still loving the stickers from my stash as well.

Thanks for stopping.  I have another layout with washi that I'll reveal on March 21st as part of my Use Your Stuff DT layout.  Till then hears a little sneak peek

 

UYS masculine

 

Welcome to the newest challenge at Use Your Stuff.

We're going with a masculine theme this time around.  I'm currently working on my son's scout album so it was a perfect fit.  I chose this layout because I was finally able to use up my Jillibean Soup "too cool for School" kit and  I used a munch neglected stringed medallion punch from my border marker stash.  

I did a bit of fussy cutting the chevrons to create the popped-up elements and clustered the last of the die cuts and puffy stickers for my embellishment cluster.  Super excited to have another layout done.

Please share your masculine creations with us at Use Your Stuff.  

Stick it down and LM #588 Halloween

Here is my take on the March double-page layout at Stick it down.

I tweaked it a bit to work with the last bits of  CM Pumpkin spice papers that I had. The stripes are close to the sketch but I had to get creative to cover the whole thing (there may or may not be a small gap in the plaid paper but it's covered by the 4x4 paper)  Only leftovers I had were stickers which is surprising as I used a bunch.  On a roll with Lasting Memories #588 Love your Stash- "stickers"- sticker sheets, sticker books, puffy and chipboard too. I finished off two of the three sheets of stickers from the collection. 

I added the border strip at the bottom instead of the banner on the top corner and used a fussy cut photo instead of a die-cut element on the bottom.  A smattering of themed stickers, some of which are popped up on my new foam tape and some journaling for the right-hand side of the layout.

I continued the pumpkin border across the bottom photo to take up the dead space of the parking lot without losing the impact of the long line of cars.  The troop hosted so many families with their drive-thru treating that the line backed up onto the road.  Since I moved the journaling to the other side of the layout I used a sprinkling of phrase stickers down the side of the layout.

Glad I got to play along with both of the awesome challenges and to have another scout layout done.  

 

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