14 Days of Valentine's - Day 3

Here is a pocket page to hold my kid's Valentine's from 2010
I made using my Sew Easy Tool with the Heartbeat attachment
Tape I found with the Conversation Hearts, just attached it to cardstock.

 Here's a shot without the cards in. The top piece/strap is loose to allow the cards to fit nice.

Close-Up of the Stitching

Paper Secrets - Scrap Your A** Off Challenge #6

Here is the details:
Complete a layout based on the following sketch created by Rochelle Spears. You must also use 5 of the 10 products listed.
You have 7 days to complete your layout & upload it to our gallery to move on to the next challenge.



hand or machine stitiching
glitter/stickles/microbeads
3+flowers
rubons
3+ photo corners
punch
3+ tags
altered or raw chipboard
paint
vellum


Here is my take:

I used Hand Stitching, 3+ Tags, Raw Chipboard (painted) Paint and Vellum (both were sayings one on the Tag and under on top corner).

Paper Secrets - Scrap Your A** Off Challenge #5

The Sketch:

hand or machine stitiching
glitter/stickles/microbeads
3+flowers
rubons
3+ photo corners
punch
3+ tags
altered or raw chipboard
paint
vellum
Had to use 5 out of the 10 above!

Here is mine: 
I used hand stitching (on paper pieces and in title)
Stickles (Butterflies and flowers)
3+ Flowers
3+ tags
Paint (on the tags)
Vellum (Butterflies)

Some Close-ups:

Moving on to Challenge #6
(the placement in the list just lists the order in which you submitted your challenge)  1. lostinadream
2. joellio
3. smileysheep
4. nkramer74
5. burffrau
6. Kline
7. tallulah1
8. JessicasCraftShaque
9. Vickie
10. scrapnkel
11. jazzescrapper
12. kacarr61
13. marlynnp
14. rscott
15. kimmer
16. mishodris
17. Pammie Kay
18. CircleB

Paper Secrets - Scrap Your A** Off Challenge #4

Here is the Sketch we were given to work with for Challenge #4

ribbon
glitter/stickles/microbeads
3+flowers
rubons
3+ photo corners
border punch
stamping
altered or raw chipboard
mist
bling or pearls

Had to use at least 5 out of the 10 listed above!

I ended up using Ribbon, Stickles, Border Punch, Stamping, Glimmer Mist, & Pearls. Here it is:

Here is one with the flash so you can see the glimmer mist and Stickles:

Some Close-Ups:

moving on to challenge #5
(the placement in the list just lists the order in which you submitted your challenge)
1. tallulah1
2. nkramer74
3. rscott
4. kimmer
5. joellio
6. Vickie
7. Kline
8. burffrau
9. smileysheep
10. kacarr61
11. mishodris
12. ecolavero
13. lostinadream
14. scrapnkel
15. cleesch
16. CircleB
17. JessicasCraftShaque
18. marlynnp
19. jazzescrapper
20. Pammie Kay

Paper Secrets SCRAP YOUR A** OFF! Challenge #2

Here is the sketch we had to use.

We also had to use 5 of the 10 products they had listed.
I used 3+buttons, 3+flowers, 3+ photo corners, 3+brads & stamping.
Here is what I made:

Paper Secrets SCRAP YOUR A** OFF! Challenge #1

SCRAP YOUR A** OFF!  

How it works:

*You had to sign up before May 12th to play. 
*Challenges are posted every Friday. The 1st challenge(Friday, May 13th) You have 7 days to upload your layout.  
*Any participants who do not upload before the deadline will be eliminated. Those who do move on. 
*All the challenges will be based on a sketch & use of basic supplies.
*The series of challenges will go until there is only 1 participant left, making them the winner who will get their choice of scrap supplies valued at $75.
*Our Design Team will be playing along but will not be eligible to win.


So I just completed my first Challenge. Here is what we were asked to do:
Complete a layout based on the following sketch provided by PageMaps. You must also use 5 of the 10 products listed. You have 7 days to complete your layout & upload it to our gallery to move on to the next challenge.

Here is my take: using Ribbon (thin white from pics to buttons), Buttons, Brads, Flowers, Textured Chipboard

A Girl & Her Dog!

Here is a layout I finished and finally put it into my daughter's Album. I have been bad about cleaning up after scrapping lately. I was looking for a certain paper pack I wanted to use and found a bunch of pages in the works or just waiting for journaling.
Sorry about the pic, it was at night so there is some flash on the page. Got to try another during the day!
Here was one that was finished:

Online Crop Challenges, Blog Hop & Ideas

Fisk-a-teer - CHA 2.0 Online Crop Master List of Challenges and RAKs

So I just got the chance to start working on some of these Challenges today.

Another Fly By! RAK

Make a card or page with a fairy tale theme!  In honor of my fairy tale life!  And all fiska fairies here!

Here is one of mine:

 

Pages, Pages, Pages

I find that have a pile actually a 3-ring binder full of pages that just need something to be completed. I was reading somewhere and they mentioned PHD, which means Pages Half Done. So, I guess I am not alone.
Anyway, last night got to finish 2 of those PHD's and do a new layout with scrappin' friends at her house. A much needed welcome after hubby being home since Tuesday. So, he is working today, thankfully! Not just for because we(kids/I) have our routine back but also so we can eat and put diapers on the youngest.

OK, so I am going to get something done today and update. Since there hasn't been a pic posted in a few!

Needs a little something more but at least it is out of the Pages Half Done Binder!

Lazy Day, Basketball and another Challenge Completed

Got to sleep in today until 9:15 am which was nice. Especially since I pulled my back yesterday when I went for an unexpected little ice-skating stunt walking down the driveway. So, the family had a lazy morning and went to see my second cousin play in her basketball game. Did a little shopping at the mall had an early dinner and came home. I got to finish another challenge too! So, happy that I completed 8 out of the 12 challenges by the 16th!
So here is the latest.The Challenge was: You must have 3 stars, 4 stripes or 4 strips of paper & your title needs to come from the word "Freedom" or you need a 7 letter title. Feel free to use as many or as little letters from the word.

Crop Cancelled for Today

So, the crop I was supposed to go today was canceled and I am disappointed. But I did get to finish up a Challenge last night.
For this challenge, I had to create some sort of grid on your page that has 12 sections. You must also use the number 12 in your title or subtitle somehow and your layout needs to be Christmas-themed.

Another Challenge Completed:
1) JUNE/Summer themed
2) Multiple photos (doesn't have to be 6, but must be more than 1)
3) MUST USE 6 papers (no more, no less) -- (cardstock & pp each count as one..)
4) NOT A REQUIREMENT but as an optional extra challenge: Use the number 6 somewhere on your layout....(I used the NUMBER 6 in my journaling.. ages of the boys)

Looking at the layout together I think I need to add the Yankees Symbols on the right page. It is too empty..

Doubles, No Husband and More Snow

So, I was hoping to get the chance to work on more of these Challenges from the Memorable Seasons website. But what stood in my way: 1st - Gerry worked 2 doubles in a row stayed up in Yonkers, NY on Tuesday after the first double shift at Martin's (a guy he works). 2nd - Kids were in Mommy mode. 3rd - I had visitors throughout the day. All of which is life and some was an unexpected welcome. The worst of it was waiting for Gerry, my husband to get home from work in the middle of the third snow storm this season. And to top it off and making it nerve racking. He was doing this at 1 a.m. from White Plains, NY after pulling 2 doubles and driving his front wheel drive commuting car. So, anyway at 3 a.m. he was 30 miles away and to get to that point it took 3 hours. So, about 5 a.m. he arrived home. Thankfully and I finally got some sleep!

So, just finished up what I started two days ago. Challenge #3 from MS.
3 pictures, 3 word title, 3 different manufacturers & use green. 
I used Making Memories tweed pattern paper & sage green scraps, The Paper Company Corduroy Hunter & Unknown Grosgrain Ribbon Scraps (Micheal's Brand) from a spool that went missing.

Just got another Challenge posted to do from MS site:

Here is the link also placed here to remind me how to find it.

Memorable Seasons/january-sketch-challenge

Adding another: One Word

My first Challenge of the New Year entered!

I completed this challenge, which was using 11 embellishments.
Title "Oatmeal Girl", Journaling, 11 embellishments (7 flowers, 3 buttons, 1 eyelet)