Eat, Drink and Be Merry !

 

It's that time of year and I'm starting making some Christmas layouts for this years Christmas album.    I have always loved collecting coffee mugs from travel, but for lack of storage space in the kitchen I have gotten rid of a lot of mugs.   But my Christmas mugs are alway in the cabinet and ready to get out and use for the entire season.   A few years ago I found this kitchen them Santa and added it to my Santa collection so that I could add a few things in the kitchen at Christmas for decorating for the season.     Today I got out my mugs, and hung my Christmas dish towel on the rack and my kitchen is ready for Christmas.    I should probably bake something to add to go with my coffee or hot chocolate but that will have to wait.

I'm entering this at two different challenges, USE YOUR STUFF & LASTING MEMORIES.

First I used the mood board at "USE YOUR STUFF"   I loved this great seasonal mood board and I was inspired by the red, green and cold color swatches and the the picture of the cup of hot cocoa.

Next I played along with the Pick 3 challenge at "LASTING MEMORIES" where I am also a guest design team member for the month.   I actually picked 4 items, a Doily, the color Green, the color Gold and a Tag.

LM #526 - Mixed Bag - Pick 3

Hello, hello! Welcome back to Lasting Memories. We are so happy that you are joining us today. I can't believe that it is (almost) December and time for a new theme and a new set of challenges.  

For December our theme will be "Mixed Bag" and the challenges will be a little bit of everything. Our first challenge of the month is:

 LM #526 - Pick 3 - Pick 3 items from the list below and add them to your layout. You can use more than 3 items and you can use items that are not on the list, but you must you at least 3 items from the list:

Doily

Heart

Flower

The color gold

The color green

Washi Tape

Tag

Circle

Chipboard

OUTSIDE TURKEY

 

This is going to be the year of inflatables for my granddaughter.   They had one big dragon up for Halloween, now Tom the Turkey for Thanksgiving and my brother is passing on a lot of inflatables for Christmas.   So I'm sure there will be a couple different ones for sure if not more.

I was asked to be a Guest Designer at   "LASTING MEMORIES"  for the December challenges.   For this first challenges starting today is Pick 3.     You can use more than 3 and anything else you want but be sure and include 3 from the following list on your layout.

DOILY

HEART

FLOWER

THE COLOR GOLD

THE COLOR GREEN

WASHI TAPE

TAG

CIRCLE

CHIPBOARD

Being Safe

 

I wanted to enter the Nov. 1st challenge to use Hexagons at  "THE STUDIO CHALLENGES"  so I used this hexagon cut-file.   I got it all cut and put it on a piece of white card stock.   I always pick my pictures first to use in a layout and then go the design and papers but I had no idea what picture to use now.   So I looked through some of the pictures I already had printed and found this picture of my granddaughter hiding in the dog cage.    Her Mom sent it to me saying that they turned around and saw her in there and asked her why she was sitting there.   She said she was hiding from the dogs so they would leave her alone while she had her snacks.    So I though that the hexagon cut file could semi look like a cage and I went with that picture to scrap.

Here is the link  to  "THE STUDIO CHALLENGES"  

Sunday, 1 November 2020

1st Nov - Hexagons

Good morning! Welcome to a new month and a new challenge!

Today's challenge is ...  

 Hexagons; focus on the shape of Hexagons, maybe you want to use one big one or lots of small ones, it's up to you!

Here are the design teams Hexagon inspired layouts...

Christmas 1956

I found some slides my Grandmother had kept and we scanned them and I was able to print as photos.   Of course I was thrilled to find some pictures from when my brother and I were young at Christmas.   I'm guessing this is 1956, my brother would be 3 in 2 months and I would be 5 1/2 at this time.     I can also see a little bit of my Mom sitting at the dining room table and also both of my grandmothers.   That's my Dad on the floor and even though only his arm is showing that is my paternal grandfather sitting on the couch as he always wore a white shirt and my other grandfather was always the photographer.

I'm entering this at "CHALLENGE YOURSELF"   I was inspired by the gold in the mood board and that goes with my gold stars in my background paper.

This month, we are asking you to use the "Home for the Holidays" mood board. And it doesn't have to be about Christmas . . . you get to pick the holiday you would to scrap about. 

Retro Ornaments

 

I made this layout for the Nov. 15th challenge at "SCRAP YOUR STASH",   The challenge was to use the sketch and include watercolor papers and chipboard.   I used all watercolor papers and then added to chipboard ornaments.    I'm glad I decided to use all watercolor papers and combine the colors.

FALL

 The house next door to my Dads always has seasonal flowers and decorations all over their front yard.   This is what it looked like in early October and I got a few pictures of my granddaughter there in all the fall color.

I used the Color Color Inspiration #3 at  "LASTING MEMORIES" for this layout.

Happy Birthday Mylan

 

This is my oldest granddaughter, Mylan.   She turned 11 earlier this month and this surprise is what her Mom had ready for her the morning of here birthday.  Special donuts.

I sued sketch #213 at   "SKETCH N SCRAP"   to make this layout.   I changed it about with using a large cut-file at the top for a title.    It's a great sketch to work with and I'll be using it again I'm sure.

Check out all this months challenges here at  "SKETCH N SCRAP".    Here is the sketch below.

Thanksgiving Card

 

We have decided not to get together this Thanksgiving as we usually do and just save our big family get together until Christmas.   We are just going to be safe and social distance at Thanksgiving and get together with some portal calls and everything.

So I made this card to send to my son and his family.    I still have to make one for my daughter and her family and that will probably be all I do this year.

I combined two challenges for this card.

First Sketch #461 at   "FRESHLY MADE SKETCHES"    It was so simple and easy to work with.

 Next I used this prompt from today at   "THE SISTERHOOD OF CRAFTERS"   I haven't embossed much lately but I got out two different embossing folders for this card.

Embossing

 Hello Friends & Welcome Back
to another fun challenge here at the Sisterhood of Crafters!

Today's fun challenge theme is:

    EMBOSSING
(wet or dry)

Hello Fall

 

Went with a different design for this layout by using triangles in different colors.   I was trying to pull the colors from the  "LASTING MEMORIES"  Challenge #523 Photo/Color Inspiration #2

Love You

 My daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter went out this weekend and had some family pictures taken.  This was one of my favorites of the three of them so I went right to work on a layout using the picture.   I combined fall papers and fall color palette for this layout.   Even though they were lucky and it was in the 70's this weekend in central Missouri.   Got to love a late Indian Summer.

I used the color palette challenge #211 at  "THE PAPER GIRLS CHALLENGE"

Halloween Outing

 One last family group Halloween page finished.  Had so many picture from our St. Louis family it became a two page layout.

I used the double page sketch at   "STICK IT DOWN"   for this layout.   I haven't used a double page sketch in awhile but this one was perfect for all of the pictures I had of everyone.

I also used the color scheme at  "THE PAPER GIRLS"    I so love this color palette.

Homecoming

 

I can't believe it, our oldest grandson is almost 16 and went to Homecoming this year with his beautiful date.     He can't be that old.   It wasn't that long ago I was going to Homecoming.   LOL

I went the the double "Scrappy Friends"  challenge for this layout.   I always love this combo challenge.

I started with the sketch at  "THROUGH THE EYES OF ROCHELLE SPEARS"  and then the November Tic-Tac-Toe challenge at  "SCRAP WITH STACY"  I used the middle row Wood, Arrows, 2 Photos.        On my layout I have 2 wood veneer embellishments and one of them is an arrow, the the black strip has a gold arrow on it plus I used a white gel pen for some mini arrows pointing to the pictures.

Here are the links....."THROUGH THE EYES OF ROCHELLE SPEARS"

"SCRAP WITH STACY"

Fall Greeting Card

 I made this card this morning for the Color challenge #618 at  "THE COLOR THROWDOWN"

Hello there! It's Lynn here and I’m your hostess for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge #618!  I chose some fall colors for all of us to create with and I hope you'll like creating with the colors Green, Brown, Orange and Red for this week's challenge and I hope they inspire you to create something special. We are using generic colors, so as long as you use the color values shown, you are all set! As always, please feel free to incorporate any neutrals that you need in your design as well!

Carve the Pumpkin

 

My granddaughter Elle wants to be involved in everything going on.   So she helped with everything including cleaning out all the seeds from the pumpkin she was going to carve with Dad.   I think she might have enjoyed the messy clean out as much as she enjoyed carving the pumpkin.   

I sued Sketch #212 at  "SKETCH N SCRAP"  for this layout.

Warm Greetings

 

Last night was an image coloring night for me while I watched the election returns.   This image I did to make a card for  the  "SHOPPING OUR STASH"  challenge.

SOS432 - Hot Drinks for Cold Nights

Hello and welcome back friends!

Thanks so much for joining us in our Happy Fall Y'All challenge. Wow! So many entries! Let's see if we can keep it going for our new challenge called: Hot Drinks for Cold Nights

This fortnight, we want to see your coffee, tea, hot chocolate and apple cider creations - anything that's steaming hot and drinkable :)

So Very Thankful

 I love these awesome family pictures from our son and daughter in law and grands in St. Louis.

They went out during the day on Halloween to take these family photos.    They really looked like they were having so much fun and got some great pictures at the same time.

I used the November 'Thankful' challenge at  "SCRAP OUR STASH".    It was perfect for scrapping these pictures because I am so very thankful for our family and to have these great family photos.  I used a beige doily also on my layout and I just cut one in half and used half at the top and the other half at the bottom of the layout.

Carve and Create

 

These are our two granddaughters in Orlando (thus the shorts) and they were busy creating and decorating their pumpkin stack to take to the big neighborhood Halloween party for part of the decorations.

I used the sketch at  "SKETCHES IN THYME"  sketch #443, it fit perfectly with the 3 pictures I had.

Above is the link and here is this weeks sketch.

I was also inspired by the Challenge #409 at  "USE YOUR STUFF"   My background paper is perfect for the challenge of  STRIPES.

STRIPES #409

We are going pattern this week people!  Bring out your STRIPES!  

We want you to incorporate stripes somewhere on your project...maybe your paper, an embellishment, maybe it's in a photo for a layout...if you are stripey we want to see it!