Challenges galore!

 

Hello! Just a warning that this may be a long read! I am posting several LOs

So I have been following Jessica at Scraptastic Club for a while now and I am loving all the inspiration her blog and her designers have to offer! I have also been trying to do all of the monthly challenges that she posts…but I must admit that life gets busy and while the LOs get made I just don’t get them uploaded in time But this month I have completed all 3 of the challenges to date and I am actually going to get them published on my blog! YIPPEE!!! Okay enough rambling!

Challenge #1 – must have banners somewhere on the LO

This LO is from Brady’s Preschool trip to the SunnySide Pumpkin Patch in Assaria. Love how it turned out! And the colors really suit Brady

 

Challenge #2 – sketch challenge by (Heather) that has to show a family relationship.

 

This is the sketch (which is fabulous!!!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

And this is my interpretation of the sketch:

 

 

 

 

I had so much fun with this sketch! And the pictures of my parents with 3 of their 7 grandkids where just perfect! I love the relationships that all of the kids have with their Mema and Papa. Make me so very happy!

 

Challenge #3 – recipe challenge

This month's recipe is... use any three of the following:

• Use a fall photo
• Dig out those embossing folders. Try using them on a chipboard piece!
• Use two colors of cardstock
• Use rub-ons. I think that sometimes can be one of those items we tend to forget to use.
• Punch a border
• Use teal, orange and brown
• Mist somewhere on your page, be it the whole page or a mask or an item adhered to your page.

And this is what I came up with:

 

*use 2 colors of cardstock

* Use teal, orange, and brown

* Mist somewhere on the page

*use a fall photo ****this doesn’t look like the “typical” fall photo but it was taken after Fall had officially started!

 

Okay! So that is all for the Scraptastic Club Challenges…unless there is another one before the end of the month!

I want to share one last LO that I just completed last night. It is of Brady and the Preschool Bear, Precious. Brady got to bring Precious home for the weekend and was to care for him like he was Brady’s “little baby”! Oh that bear went everywhere…he even got lost a couple times BUT was always found again once the toy mess was picked up (poor Precious was always buried under the toys). I had so much fun with this LO…I love all the colors and yes ever single letter is stamped, embossed and then hand cut around! Took awhile to get just the letters done but the end result is so totally worth all the time

Gosh I just really LOVE how this turned out!

Remember to Enjoy the moments!

Stacey

It’s a spooky time….

Ah, October is here! I love this month…change of season, birthday’s (mine included) Halloween parties at the schools for the boys, My parents Wedding Anniversary, and of course Halloween itself! A night that kids (and kids at heart) can be whatever/whoever they want to be! And a night that will ensure that your kiddos will not sleep… because of all the candy they have eaten…even though you told them they could only have one piece and had to save the rest!
Usually I have been out and about taking pictures of the trees changing colors. Unfortunately with the drought we had through the summer the leaves are just turning the dirty yellow color and falling off the trees with the slightest of breezes I am still holding out to find at least ONE tree that will turn that super deep almost glowing rust color. And if I can find that ONE tree, I will make a entire layout devoted to just that one tree!! I already have the sketch in mind…now I just have to drive all the back roads in Ellsworth County to find that tree
So for now I am still working on Halloween LO’s and I have two more for you today! When my CE was up and running I would rarely do a single page LO. I love doing the double page LO’s  because I can make a whole scene on the page and use the pictures as embellishments (of sorts!!)! So with my CE down I have gone back to the basics and have also found that making a single page LO (even with a sketch) can be a challenge! Did the CE actually make me lazy??? Well… hmmm!
Okay enough rambling! Here are my pages! This first one is based on a sketch from Shimelle. I love her sketches and her take on scrapbooking!


This next page if for the first October challenge at Scraptastic Club. The challenge is to use a pattern on our LO. I went with a checker board type pattern. And then of course added the embellishments (actually the boys helped me added the embellishments!). Every thing that I used on the following LO is from Scraptastic Club Witching Hour kit. (the above LO also uses papers and embellishments from the same kit).

Thanks for stopping by! We have another busy weekend full of football and family time! Have a wonderful weekend
Stacey

State Fair Layout (LO)

It is amazing to me what a person can create when inspired!

This happened to me this afternoon while I was hopping through some of the other blogs that I follow. I came to Scraptastic Club Blog and found that a new LO challenge had been posted! WhooHooo!!! So this challenge has a much different twist to it than I am used to. It is a recipe LO challenge!

Here is the recipe: 3 cardstock, 4 patterned papers, 3 alphas, 2 pictures, 5 buttons, 1 banner, 1 journaling spot, and paint.

So I jot this down and decide to let it roll around in my crafty little brain while I clean up my craft space. As I started filing sketches and various scrap papers, an idea POPPED! State Fair pictures with that crazy carnival paper that I just had to have and bought over 7 months ago and have never used… shhhh, don’t tell Jon!!

So this is what I came up with:

This is the completed LO. Sorry about all the reflection in the picture…I am still trying to figure out how to take better pictures of my LO’s and cards. I am much better with pictures of people!!

I used paint to make this journaling spot.

And this is where I “cheated” a little and used patterned paper that already had a banner on it  

So here is the break down of what I used to create this LO:                

• Bazzil Cardstock – Tangelo, Artesian Pool, Lemonade
• Patterned Paper – Imaginisce Animal Cracker – Under the Big Top, Come one! Come All, Kaboom, Step Right Up
• Buttons – stash
• Paint  - Jenni Bowlin Seed Packet, Adirondack Brights Pool
• ATG (glue gun)
• Chestnut Roan fluid chalk ink
• Paper Trimmer
• Thickers (alpha stickers) - Jewelry Box

So now as I am looking at the page on the table beside me as I complete this blog, I am thinking….hmmm I think it needs some white gel pen stitching! So I may just go back and add that…or not!

Thanks for stopping by

Stacey

P.S. Did anyone notice that there are NO Cricut cuts??? That is because my poor Cricut Expression has gone and gave out on me So while I can’t use my machine to do the super cute cuts at least I have just proved to myself that I can actually make a nice LO without using my CE. Who know?!!!