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.  

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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

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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

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.

Thanks for stopping by to take a peak

 

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

Thanks for stopping by to take a peak

 

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.