Pumpkin Patch with Lasting Memories

Good morning, dear friends!

Today I'm bringing a traveler's notebook spread I created for this week's prompt over at Lasting Memories. This month is all about Fall Harvest! Scrap about your harvest or favorite plants/flowers/etc.

My spread is about the TWO pumpkins we grew in our yard this year. LOL - pitiful! At least they're pretty.

I love how these Echo Park die cut, Carta Bella stickers and striped paper from CraftSmithCo all fit together so well with my pumpkin photo.

As always I used my Rock Your Notebook custom insert.

I layered a vellum envelope behind the photo with some adhesive cork to pop it off the page.

I cut little notches in the sides of my background paper to keep the twine in place.

Here's the story of our sorry pumpkin patch! haha!

I hope you will play along with this week's challenge at Lasting Memories!

Family Retreat

Hey everyone!

Today, I'm sharing another "rare" double page layout. I created this page with photos from a fall, family retreat.

Here is the left page alone:

And the right page alone:

I used the bag technique again, to house all the extra photos I had.

I really love this cute collection from CraftSmith Co - I feel like mixing the blue into the fall palette is unique.

I still love inking the edges to help things stand out better. Do you still ink? Or no way?

Totally did not plan to make the papers coordinate with my boys' clothes, but hey - it works! I sewed some orange twine into my borders in random spots for added texture.

I cut the glitter title from some cardstock & used some puffy letters for retreat. I seriously cannot get enough of skinny puffy alphas!

Supplies:
Paper - CraftSmith Co.
Alphas - Fancy Pants
Autumn Blessings ephemera - Echo Park
Fall stickers - Me and My Big Ideas

Thanks for looking!

Soulmates

Happy Columbus Day!

Ah the joys of being a federal employee - haha.

Today I'm bringing you a fun little page I created for my October Daily.

I created this page for this week's challenge over at Lasting Memories, which was to use nature elements in your work.

I also created this page using a fun sketch from Let's Get Sketchy!

Here's the original sketch. I had to adapt it to fit my 6x8 OD album.

I used some leaves and pumpkins as my nature elements. I also added texture by using a paper bag and twine.

I sure do love how these little dudes love each other!

This was a super fun page to create. I hope you come and play along with us over at Lasting Memories. As always, LGS has great sketches, so check them out too!

Supplies:

Papers - Craftsmith, Pumpkin Spice

Glitter leaves and pumpkin - Hobby Lobby

Staples - We R Memory Keepers

Wood veneer and triangle clip - Studio Calico

Twine - Michaels

Thanks for looking!

Autumnal LOVE - a Lasting Memories challenge

This month at Lasting Memories, we have a great Fall Colors Challenge for you - complete with a wonderful prize!

Here is my inspiration for the Fall Colors Challenge.

I had these wallet sized photos leftover from when I printed a bunch to give out at Heath's 3rd birthday party & the fall colors went so well with the theme. I decided layering a bunch of  fall colored paper would work well too.

I love these little ephemera peices by Echo Park!

And now we're preparing for hs 4 year old photos & babe's 1 year old photos <>.

I hope you feel inspired to create a lovely fall themed or colored page & play along with us at Lasting Memories. Check out their blog for more inspiration from the fabulous design team!

Supplies:
Brown cardstock - The Paper Studio
Glitter cardstock - DCWV
Patterned paper - Craftsmith by Michaels
Paper ephemera - Echo Park

Thanks for looking!

Thanksgiving Babes

Hello all! I'm bringing you a double page spread today from Fall 2015.

First of all, I created this traditional layout with a Sizzlin Summer sketch from Scrapbook Challenges.

Haha - I just couldn't help myself! Here's the original sketch:

Lately I'm really loving using textures on my pages, and what is on a turkey butt? Feathers! So I put some feathers on my page. I stinkin' love these wood veneer letters I picked up at the Studio Calico warehouse sale in the spring.

Speaking of wood veneer - that brings me to the second challenge I created this page for - the On Deck Challenge over at Scrapbook Circle. The challenge was to use wood elements on your page, and I certainly did that with this page, and the corresponding pocket page. I love the wood look for the fall.

Here is my corresponding pocket page:

This is why I LOVE pocket pages - all these sweet silly faces the boy is making - I'd never put them all on a traditional layout. But I don't flinch in the least at using so many in my pocket pages, even if they're pretty similar. This documented my baby's first Sunday at church.

I continued the title from the traditional layout on the opposite page - Turkey Butt & a little HAM - b/c that is definitely what my oldest is!

See?! haha!

Supplies:
12x12 page
Wood paper - Crate Paper
Foxes and other ephemera - Cedar Lane by Pink Paislee
Wood Veneer - Studio Calico
Wood circles - Dear Lizzy
Pocket Page
Journaling and Wood grain backing Cards by Becky Higgins Project Life
Chipboard glitter stickers - Me and My Big Ideas

I had a lot of fun making these fall pages to go together.
Thanks for looking!

First Holiday - a Creative Sketch

Today I'm bringing you a Thanksgiving page of when my little dude was only a few weeks old. I know we don't like to say it, but let's all admit they kinda look a little like aliens at this point. Little cute, cuddly alien baby. :) Love that snuggle bug no matter what he looks like!

They have a super fun and beautiful sketch over at My Creative Sketches, and I used it for this layout.

So fun, right?!

I had the circle already cut from a prior page, and I'm loving wood papers, especially for fall layouts lately. I've got my triangle with the gold glitter embellies.

I used just about the last of my Cedar Lane ephemera stash from Pink Paislee (tears) - I love that line!

I think that was as close as he could get to a smile at that time, but he definitely is all smiles these days, 8 months later.

Also happy to report he no longer resembles an alien in any way :)

Supplies:
Wood paper - Crate Paper
Washi & alphas - Studio Calico
Ephemera - Pink Paislee
Orange papers from a cool stash from a yard sale - no name!

I really am grateful for this sweet little guy. He's such a blessing!

Thanks for looking!

Fall Fun - a Let's Get Sketchy Challenge

Today I've created another layout for a new to me challenge. I used a super cool sketch from Let's Get Sketchy, who I found through my love, Freckled Fawn because they are collaborating together this month. Their sketches seem to be super awesome, and a chance to win a Freckled Fawn prize? Come on, it's just too good.

I'm working with photos all over the place currently. Still building my 2015 album chronologically, but also already working 2016... Here we have fall 2015. Please excuse the extremely fat, prego face - this was only a couple weeks out from having a giant baby!

I rotated the original sketch a bit. Here it is:

I like how it was simple & fun. Still able to add in a bunch of patterns and colors.

Here are a couple detail shots:

Supplies:
Background Paper and binder clip - American Crafts
All other Paper from a garage sale stash - no names found
Glitter Leaves - JoAnn's
Alphas and cork arrow - Studio Calico

Thanks for looking!

Blog Hop - The Counterfeit Kit Challenge!

I'm participating in the member blog hop today for The Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog. I'm pretty excited about it! You may have arrived here from Sally's Challenge Chatter. After Dillightfully Crafty, you can hop right on over to Snaps and Snippets.

So today I've prepared some photos to document my process of creating a scrapbook page with my March kit, which I named Snappy Pack.

Here's the page I've created for the Challenge "May you Live in Pinteresting Times." The challenge was to find a pin to inspire your project, but it could not be another craft project or scrapbook page.

Here is the pin which I used as inspiration:

The image came from Sarah Hearts.

Now to get a little bit into my process... So I grabbed my Snappy Pack CFC kit and picked out the papers I loved that I wanted to use for this photo. I knew I had to use the chevron with the fall colors, as that is what I had in mind when I printed the photo, so I was working around that piece.

First I grabbed my favorite orange paper:

But it was a bit darker than I wanted, so I decided to save it for a future project.

I liked this neutral (with a little glitter), but it needed something more.

So I added the orange flower paper, which sort of mirrored the flowers in the photo - and I thought, "perfect!"

I had this sweet pocket card that I thought would work well for the kids' photo, but I had to figure out where to place it. The top of the photo did not work...

Boom! Moved to the bottom left corner & it just fit perfectly. I think the black in the top most square is different in this type of palette, so I decided to accent it and add a bit of the black camera paper from the CFC kit.

An extra layer is always a good idea. This orange paper softens the black & worked perfectly.

Then I spotted my new Studio Calico punch that I found on clearance recently, so I figured it needed to be used. This is literally the "process" of my creation - it's always in the process of evolving as I work!

After I punched some chevrons, I inked all my papers. I ink papers a good portion of the time. I just feel like it gives a good dimension, as well as it tends to hide imperfections, so if you have some tattered edges (unintended) or maybe a not-so-straight edge, it's much less noticeable when inked!

Now it's my favorite time! Embellishment time!

I had this cute little veneer circle that I felt needed a little something. (Confession: This stamp was not included in my CFC kit, as it just arrived in the mail the day I made the layout! But it was just too perfect with the Snappy Pack photo/camera/click inspired kit, that I just had to use it!)

These flowers were screaming to be included on my sunflower page!

I stuck everything down once I had visualized where everything was to be placed, then done!

Here are some detail shots:

You can see that I added a couple more punches once I had the paper placed exactly and felt there was still too much blank orange space.

Look at those sweet baby smiles! I love seeing my baby have fun with his friends!

Thanks for looking!

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