Use your stuff 6X6 paper

This weeks challenge at Use your stuff is to use at least 3 sheets of 6x6 paper.

 

I used 4 plus 6x6 papers to create this layout of me on my first birthday.

 

 I say plus because I cut and pieced two of the suns together and then used the extra tan peices to create journaling strips

 

here's a close up of my pieced together sun

 

I was also inspired by Challenge yourself #27

I thought  the word grow from the song lyrics "Wonderful life" by Louis Armstrong is the perfect description of my first year of life

 

thanks for stopping by to wish me a Happy Birthday (Jan 15th)
 and don't forget to join us at Use your stuff

 

Ribbon, Washi tape, or Paper Strips at lasting memories

Welcome to the third challenge of the New Year at lasting Memories.  This weeks challenge is to use Ribbon, Washi tape, or Paper Strips "your choice".  I went with Washi tape as I am also playing along with the scrap room whip it up Wednesday challenge to create a banner.  They shared this link  for a banner tutorial.  I didn't watch it but winged it.  I like how it turned out. Now to just get better at photographing my two page spread. 

 

For this layout I also used Sketches in Thyme #257

 

I went with two photos instead of one large one

 

My washi tape banner

For the second layout I used up all the scraps that I had left from my June TSR kit AC "starshine"

 I also used some more of the washi banners under the camera chip board. 

Thanks for stopping by on my birthday
and don't forget to check out the rest of the January stash busting challenges at Lasting memories

Freaky fast forumal and thursday throwback with TSR

I'm so excited to have finished of my August prize pack from TSR and only have a few small bits left of my August Simple Stories "sunshine  & happiness" kit left after creating two more layouts using inspiration from the scrap room blog and facebook fan group. 

 

Here's my take on Throw back Thursday

The challenge is to create a layout inspired by the throwback sketch....and use at least one item that has been in your stash for at least one year.

My stash items are the solid colored card stock and
I pulled out my circle punch that I haven't used in forever

 

and here's my freaky fast formula for January

Thanks for stopping by to take a look. 

 I'll have more up soon as I plan on scrapping for my birthday

 

Buttons, Brads and Bling at Lasting Memories

This weeks stash bash challenge at Lasting Memories is  to use buttons, brads and bling.

I don't have a lot of buttons, but I do have a bit of a collection of brads and bling. 

So this challenge was a good one for me to make a bit of a dent in my stash of bling.

 

 

I'm also doing a bit of paper stash bashing too as I used the last bit of my

May TSR kit Bella Blvd. Lets go

 

I used my light blue rhinestone bling to ring the title block of my layout. 

Also popped in a few red buttons too

 

I cut the title with Creative memories divine cartridge on my cricut

 

The journaling reads

"Ashley for as much as you bluster about not liking your sister I know you love her"

 

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Smiling

 

  I was struck by the following sketch from Creative Scrapper sketch #302

I rotated the sketch to work with the photo orientation as well as  moved the title placement but other then that I stuck close to the sketch.

 

I used some more girl scout photos for this layout.  I'm trying to get caught up on the troop album

close up of the journaling.

  The fox head is an epoxy that I removed from a hair pin that came with the TSR kit Simple stories "Hello Fall"  I added the pearls and rhinestones for a little extra dimension

 

the title is also alpha from my stash. 

 

Thanks for stopping by to take a look

Punches with a Jumpstart

My head cold is finally subsiding and I managed to clear off the craft table for a brief scrapping session.

So here I go with a late reveal of using punches for Lasting memories combine with the newest sketch over at the Scrap Room.

 

 

At lasting memories we are asking you to break out your punches and use them on your layout. Any type of punch - border punches, shape punches, and if you don't have punches, use  die cut/ephemera.

I pulled out my old creative memories heart punches as I was inspired by the heart design on the flip side of the paper I was using from my April TSR kit Elle Studio "little Moments".

 

 

I used the TSR jump start sketch for January rotated

 

I also changed the location of the journaling and title but it still has the same feel as the sketch

 

Make sure to Join us at lasting memories for a full month of stash busting challenges

 

 

scrap table take over

 

 

So much for getting any scraping done.

My husband and son have taken over the craft table to build this years pinewood derby car. 

 

I'll have to crave out some space to get my DT projects done

 

Freaky fast formula x2

 

I'm back with not one but two layouts using the freaky fast formula for December

I used my September TSR kit Echo Park "Fall is the air"

 

 

I also added a button and sequence to the papers/ Ephemera from the kit.

This first page is of the Service unit investiture and rededication and the one below is of the crafts the girls did at the event

 

 

Thanks for stopping by to check out my creations.  This is probably it till after Christmas

 

Carving party with Sketch -n- scrap

For some reason I thought  that if I just taught my water ex classes that I'd have more free time with the kids during break and maybe get some scrapping done too.  Well, not so much with driving the oldest to swim practice twice a day and working an hour or two in between.  I did manage to crank out his page thanks to the help of a great sketch over at Sketch -n- Scrap

 

 

I changed it up a little by going with 4 photos as I wanted to get in all of the girls from the troop that attended the service unit carving party.  With the extra photo I went a little large with the background papers too.

Hopefully I'll sneak in another layout before Christmas

 

2016 anything goes at lasting memories

Welcome to the last challenge of the year at lasting memories.
 We've been doing a best of 2016  highlighting our favorite and most popular challenges.  There's still plenty of time to play along with us so let me recap what's happened so far this month.
Glitter and Glam, use only one photo,  use only four photos and our current challenge which is anything goes with photos from 2016

I chose photos from July
My husband and I were invited to attend a fundraiser dinner for the Viking Sal Senior center.
We had a wonderful sampling of New Orleans style foods and wine at Walnut Ridge Vineyard

I based my layout on this amazing sketch from Kristine Davidson- Creative Scrapper Sketch Vol.4 

 

and here's my layout

 I used the table place card as my journaling block.

It has all the yummy foods we sampled listed on it.

Let me make your mouth water as the names don't do the food justice

 

The shrimp cocktail was a jumbo Shrimp with pickled okra and watermelon chunks severed with a fried cheese straw accompanied by a complimentary glass of wine

Main course was Creole Chicken Fricassee atop homemade grits cake with fresh grilled veggies

dessert was the best though as we had New Orleans bread pudding with Praline rum sauce. 

So good

 

Don't those photos look yummy

Picture of us and the photo below is a Walnut, thus the name of the vineyard

 

I had a lot of fun putting this together with my July TSR "Fancy Pants-Good Fellows"

It's a very masculine line but the colors were perfect for the layout.  I used the enamel dots and wood veneer "this great day" from the kit.  The twine is from my stash. 

I still have a few bits of paper and a bunch of embellishments left, so I might be making a father's day card with left overs.

 

Thanks for stopping by and make sure to join us at lasting memories

 

Use your stuff- Let it Snow

This weeks challenge at Use your stuff is hosted by Janis from Pause Dream Enjoy
The theme is "Let It Snow."  Make any type of project you'd like with some snow on it,
and come link up with us

We don't get much in the way of snow here in the Willamette Valley, we do however get freezing rain.  Just this week too.  Think I much rather have pretty snow if it's going to be slick out.  Anyway for my contribution this week I created a layout of the Chess game my mother and daughter played during Christmas break back in 2014.

I added a bunch of stenciled and doodled snowflakes to the base page
 The stencil I used was looked more like an asterisk and dots so I added the extra arms to the flakes and the smaller dots weaving in and out around the larger ones with a white gel pen.

 

From there I loosely followed Sketches in Thyme sketch #235

 I didn't want to cover up all my snowflakes with a large paper layer behind my photos so I just double matted the main photo and I used a chipboard frame instead of a tag, but I think you can tell I followed the sketch.  I love using sketches when I'm short on time as I don't have to work as hard on the general placement of everything and can just focus on getting the rest of the layout together

 

 

I also rotated the photo orientation to work with my photo and drop the framed photo down a bit to hide a smudged snowflake

 

The title is older thicker letters that were actually glittery pink, so I toned them down with a chalk pen and now they look snowy too.  Got a bit creative and cut the bottom off of a b to make my h, but it works and now there are four less letters in my stash

 

To add just a little more snow I used the coordinating snow flake that cam with my TSR kit for December (MME- Sugar Plum) perfect timing as the papers arrived this afternoon and I was struggling to find Christmas papers in my stash.  Love my kits

 

Thanks for stopping by to take a look and don't forget to show us your snow at Use your stuff

TSR December throwback

One more birthday layout tonight.  That's what happens when you have almost back to back birthdays. One on September 2nd the other on the 6th.

 

I used the December throwback challenge from The Scrap Room facebook page to create this layout of my daughter's birthday tea party

 

 

Dec 2014 sketch. 

 I changed out the tree for the birthday tag and used slightly larger photos

 

the Party time is actually part of the paper label, but works great as a banner

 

I had just enough scraps left to make this little card for my friends birthday

 

Thanks again for stopping by

 

 

December This or that challenge

I'm playing along with Rochelle's this or that challenge this month.

and I've used the Brenda's bonus sketch

 

I opted to not do circles as cutting the pictures would have cropped out the family gathered to celebrate my oldest birthday

 

 

I used a combination of  creative memories happy birthday embellishments to mimic the cluster in the sketch.  Then added the big blue rhinestone to the mix.  I have a few smaller ones on the blue pennants near the photos too.

 

Thanks for stopping by

Stick it down December double

 I was so inspired by this months 2page sketch at Stick it down  that I couldn't wait to get started. I decided I'd scrap some more of my troop photos as I just happened to be at my Cadettes archery day in my stack of photos.  I managed to get 7 photos within the large target I created for the layout.   

   And here's my take on the sketch 

The target is not centered in the middle as I wanted to cut on the break between photos.

 This also left more room for my larger title.

 Below is a close up of the journaled required steps to earn their badge.

 

Thanks for stopping by to take a look