Let's Bowl

I lucked out on making this layout.   I had these 2 pics of my stepson and grandsons bowling that I knew I would scrap but had no idea on how.       Since I'm on the Design Team at "Scrap Much?!"
we get the sketches early to work with and I had not scrapped this one yet, so I decided to use it with these two pictures.   I pulled out some paper for my background and by side border and then the two patterned papers to frame my pictures in.   Next stop was, how to embellish and and title.   I pulled out the drawer for all my sports papers and swap items, hoping that I was remembering right that I had a couple of bowling items.   YIPPEE I even had 4 6x6 pieces of bowling paper,   So back to the drawing board.  I taped all 4 together to make my background paper.   I kept the paper that I had framed the pictures in, because I thought I needed something a little brighter against my background paper and then I saw all the other swap bowling items I had kept for years and never used.   A new border for my layout, stickers and handmade bowling items including the pins and blue ball together and the 3 X deco squares, representing strikes.    I now had everything,  I just pulled the blue from the title sticker and added the blue doily for the circle in the sketch.

I hope you play along with this latest sketch at "Scrap Much"  maybe you will find old things you have been hoarding to use too.    Check out all the details    HERE.

Witches Gultch

Another layout from our latest road trip.    This was such an awesome stop that we found out about at the last minute.   We were going thru the Wisconsin Dells and we had heard about Witches Gultch, we missed this little dirt road to it twice out in the middle of no where but we were persistent and found it.  I'm so glad we did because it was such an awesome walk through this.    We walked all the way down to the river and back.

Since I'm leaving tomorrow to be out of town for 9 days this will be the last layout you will be seeing from me for awhile.

I used the new Make It Monday - sketch #45 at "THE MEMORY NEST" that was just announced today.  I had so much fun working on this layout and putting my own spin on the sketch.   Plus got to use 3 great pictures from Witches Gultch.   All July and August challenges are open until September 1st and there is a great prize of a $20 GC.   The more sketches you enter the more chances you get to win.

Check out the sketch below and see all the details here at "THE MEMORY NEST"

Summer in Nauvoo, IL

One of the stops we made on day one of our road trip was Nauvoo, IL at the old Mormon Homestead.
I had been there before and gone through everything.   This day it was packed with 5 busloads of students so we just walked around a bit and got some pictures.   The flowers were beautiful so I wanted to make a layout with a couple of the pictures I took.

I used the latest sketch at "SKETCH-N-SCRAP" #85, it was perfect to also add a picture of one of the Homestead signs about where we were.

Check out the sketch below. and come back on the 5th, 15th and 20th for their  other great challenges during August.    Here is the link for this sketch challenge.   "SKETCH-N-SCRAP"

A lighthouse card

I had a scrappy friend in mind when I made this card as her birthday is coming up and she loves lighthouses.    "SKETCH FRENZY FRIDAY" had this great sketch posted on 7/31/15.   This is another sketch I think I'll be using more than once.   Also at "JO'S SCRAP SHACK" their Fun-Day Friday challenge #99 is 'Anything' goes and can make a layout or card. Always a fun challenge.

I'm going to be going out of town on Tuesday for 9 days so I'm trying to get a lot of scrapping in before I leave and having a chance to make this card and enter these two challenges was top on my list for today.

Here are the links for both Challenges:

"SKETCH FRENZY FRIDAY"

"JO'S SCRAP SHACK"

Ho Ho Ho - Just Believe

After completing a daily card for Christmas in July for two different yahoo groups I really thought I would  take a break from making Christmas cards.   But then I saw this sketch yesterday at
"52 CHRISTMAS CARD THROWDOWN"  and I couldn't resist it and make another card today.

Just click on the link above to get all the details and here is the sketch below.   You have just over 5 days left to enter and make a card using this awesome sketch.

There is one more great challenge going on that I'm going to enter with this card.  "THE PAPER PLAYERS"   Challenged #256 is 'It's Hip to be Square"   You just have to make a square card.
Easy peasy.   Also just over 5 days to enter this challenge so click on the link.

Cuteness

I had a couple of July challenges I still wanted to do before I got started with anything else.   So I combined the two of them together for this layout.   I spent so much time last month making all my Christmas cards I thought I might have forgotten how to do my true passion.....layouts.

For this layout I used the sketch at "MY CREATIVE SKETCHES"   and then used Tic-Tac-Toe challenge at "1-2-3 GET SCRAPPY".   I did the diagonal, lots of black, gray background and lots of yellow.    I really liked the sketch and the style worked well with how I like to mat everything, and that allowed me to use both yellow and black in my matting.   There are shades of grey lines in my background patterned paper but I cut it down and matted the whole layout on some solid grey card stock also.

Check out the links below to see the details for yourself.

MY CREATIVE SKETCHES     You have till August 14th to enter.

1-2-3 GET SKETCHY       You have till August 10th to enter.

TRAVEL

I have been trying to catch up on scrapping some older vacations.   So lately been working on our trip to Europe in 2006.   I was really glad to have this latest sketch from "Let's Scrap" to use for some vacation pictures.  I was lucky to get 9 pictures on this double page layout.    I had already made a layout a bit earlier on more standard stonehenge pictures, but here in this layout I tried and covered more of what we did during our day trip there.   It was so cold and windy that day with a storm coming in, one stop was at the Stonehenge concession stand for a cup of hot coffee, plus our stop inside at the souvenier shop, that is my Dad buying a book there.   Plus we went into the neighboring town of Averbury for lunch and I loved the look of the moss covered roofs of the homes there.

So take a look  HERE   at "Let's Scrap" and see what the other design team members did with this great sketch and then join us for the challenge.  There is a great prize this month too.   Our sponsor for August is "Eureka Stamps"    Now let's get scrapping and join the fun.