Pumpkin Nights Festival

Whenever  we go to Silver Dollar City I know there are going to be plenty of photo ops all over the park and this trip last week was no difference.    I'm taking pictures of my hubby and then passing the phone off to him to take pictures of me.   I have him use my phone because its easier then to download everything at once to my phone.   So there is a system to my madness.   LOL

I'm glad I had him get these pictures because they worked perfect for this months Sketch Challenge at
"SCRAP-CHALLENGE-YOURSELF" Blog.    Plus bonus for me I decided to print another picture from the trip and cut it in a circle to use as my title Pumpkin Nights

I combined a lot of papers with this, the background from a very old stack of papers I had bought many years ago.   Then the background paper the pictures are one was from a Halloween 6x8" stack of papers,  the green dotted that I journaled on and the white paper that has words on it came from a 6x6 stack of Halloween papers and then the other square of jack-o-lanterns was a scrap from a piece of old 12x12 Halloween paper.  I think it all worked out well together.  

By using all these patterned papers I'll also enter my layout at "CRAZY HAZELNUT'S PATTERNED PAPER CHALLENGE"

"SCRAP-CHALLENGE-YOURSELF" Challenge #70

"CRAZY HAZELNUT'S PATTERNED PAPER CHALLENGE"  October challenge

TUESDAY, 1 OCTOBER 2019

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper October 2019 challenge

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper
Octoberber 2019 Challenge

A challenge that is always about using

Patterned Papers

You may enter any creation on which some patterned paper/card has been used - please remember that you must use some patterned paper

You may enter as many times as you wish during the month and link with as many other challenges as allow you to do so.

I'm giving a prize each month to the randomly chosen winner. I'm willing to post anywhere in the world, so that means that anyone can enter regardless of where you live.

Halloween Card Time

Days are getting cooler and then end of the month is fast approaching so Halloween is in the air and time to get all your cards made and decorations out.

It's also World Card Making Month at   "SKETCH N SCRAP"  and I was asked to be a  Guest
Designer this month and I used their sketch #2 for this card.      Check it out.    So many ways you could use this sketch,  any holiday, any occasion, even a great Hello card.    I hope you give the challenge a try and check back each week for more sketches and inspiration.

Ghost Card

I'm using all the Halloween colors on this card,  Purple, Green, Orange and Black.
I used the sketch at   "FRESHLY MADE SKETCHES"  as inspiration for making my card.
It's their sketch challenge #406

A Halloween Card

I started with a white card base and then inked the edges with purple.   I fussy cut a stamped skeleton and then inked those edges with black.   Put it on a scrap piece of purple yardstick and inked those edges with black again.   I also used my stapler in a few places to give it a little different look and added a bat brad.    Then I cut a piece of orange card stock slightly smaller than my card base and inked it in black.  I put the purple back skeleton on the left edge of the orange paper.   Glued it all down to the card back and then added this black and orange Halloween banner on the card to finish
it off with the sentiment.    

With my Halloween theme and Halloween sentiment, all the letter "H"  I'll be using this card at  "JUST ADD INK" for challenge #478 to Add "H"  

Just Add Ink #478...Just Add "H"

Good Morning JAI friends!

We have a fun new challenge happening today, for this week Tina has challenged us to add a "H" element to our projects. 

Lots of simple and creative options for this one, you can use anything beginning with the letter "H", a technique, theme or object...the possibilities are endless! But please let us know in your blog post exactly what your "H" eleme

Our Home

        I was asked to be a Guest Designer for the double page sketch in October at
"STICK IT DOWN"    As soon as I saw the sketch I started thinking about what I could scrap that
I have a lot of pictures of and haven't done yet.     Then it came to me...Our Home.
I added one more picture than was in the sketch and I didn't want to fill all the space with pictures because I really loved the look of the tags too.    So I have pictures of my favorite rooms, our
Master Bedroom, Master Bath, Kitchen,  Dining Room and my Craft Room.    Then the larger
picture is our living room, looking down from the upstairs loft where my husbands office is.
It was the best way to get a complete picture.   I just left out the other bedrooms and baths.
       I'm not sure what happened with the color on dining room wall looking into the kitchen, it is not
bright blue, you can see pretty close what the color is by the picture of the dining room, a shade
of green, certainly not that blue that shows in the picture.     I took different pictures but all came out this color.   Oh well.    
      I decided to do a very thin border around the pictures and all the tags.   For the tags I had three different designs of patterned papers of houses so that is what I used for the tags and then one of the
patterns across the top and bottom and then a black card using a border punch I like.
After that I just added my title and did different embellishments I found on the tags.  Some
black bling on the ends of the tags and that was it.
      I hope you will play along with the double page sketch this month and have as much fun with
it that I did.    Here is the link to "STICK IT DOWN"  and you can also check out the single page
sketch and the card sketch for the month.

Silver Dollar City

We always have so much fun when we go to Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO and this new part,
Pumpkin Nights for the Fall Festival was fantastic.   I got so many great fall pictures to make scrapbook pages of.   Good times for sure.

Everything with the exception of my double matting on the photos is using patterned paper, the background paper is a textured polka dot paper that I've been hoarding, now I need to go out and get more.

All this patterned paper I used made it perfect to use this layout for the monthly challenge at
"CRAFTY HAZELNUT'S PATTERNED PAPER CHALLENGE"   This is the perfect challenge for me I love mixing patterned papers.

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper October 2019 challenge

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper
Octoberber 2019 Challenge

A challenge that is always about using

Patterned Papers

You may enter any creation on which some patterned paper/card has been used - please remember that you must use some patterned paper

You may enter as many times as you wish during the month and link with as many other challenges as allow you to do so.

BBQ

Sometimes I make layouts about my favorite meals or restaurants and lots and lots of times I make layouts about my granddaughter Elle.   With this layout I combined the two together.
This week while I spent one night with family we went out to eat at my favorite BBQ place in Columbia, MO  "Como Smoke & Fire"  and had my favorite meal there, a BBQ pork steak.  I just love them, my hubby doesn't at all so it is a very rare time we make them at home, but this is my go to dinner at this place.   But the topper for the evening is that my granddaughter was there too.
I think this is the first time she has been there, but we had fun together and she loved her mac & cheese and smoked turkey sandwich.   She ate all the mac & cheese first, of course what kid wouldn't do the same, and then have of her sandwich.   She turned to me and said "Gigi, my belly is full now"

I used the sketch for this week at  "SKETCHES IN THYME".   I pulled out a couple of my food/recipe themed papers and tore a piece for the top  part of my layout and added my pictures and title.   Then I just pulled out a lot of food embelies and stickers and did a cluster of embellishments.
Added my journaling and I have a completed layout.

Check out this sketch at  "SKETCHES IN THYME"  and be sure to check all the sketches for the month too.

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Next I'll enter my layout at  "LASTING MEMORIES"   Challenge #467 is Torn Edges.

Welcome back to Lasting Memories! We are so happy that you stopped by today. We are back with a new challenge for you to work with this week.

Our theme for October is "Mixed Bag" which means our challenges will be a little bit of everything this month. This week's challenge is:

LM #467 - Paper Tearing - Let's see some torn edges on your layout.

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Last but not least is the challenge at  "CRAZY HAZELNUTS PATTERNED PAPER CHALLENGE"

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper October 2019 challenge

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper
Octoberber 2019 Challenge

A challenge that is always about using

Patterned Papers

You may enter any creation on which some patterned paper/card has been used - please remember that you must use some patterned paper