Lucky Cows!!

Here is Load #17

Nothing really fancy--except that the strip of patterned paper and the solid green paper are probably ten years old if not older!! Both from Close To My Heart--I miss that Kentucky green color!

The title was cut with Cricut's Opposites Attract cartridge.

♥

LOAD #16

This was a fun one! I was able to post this in three different spots on Let's Scrap. 1. For the LOAD challenge. (to find out about the LOAD Challenge, visit here.) 2. For the Scrap Your Stash Challenge and 3. Posted into the gallery for following the weekly sketch. And Guess What? The weekly sketch has a random drawing from all the entries--

AND--I--WON!!!

I'm gonna get a bunch of October Afternoon goodies!

OH HAPPY DANCE!!

I'm also entering this over on Use It Tuesday, where Tuesday's Challenge was to use two hoarded items. Well I can tell you that not one sheet of paper or brad or bling is less than two years old! Most of the paper is from Close To My Heart and there is one piece from Fancy Pants.

I've been visiting that blog for quite some time, but this is the first time I've entered anything.

The Scrap Your Stash Challenge (#32) on Let's Scrap gives you a list of items to use. When I saw the list I thought there was NO WAY I was going to put all those things together.

Here is the list:

3 patterned papers ( I ended up using 5! )

2 different washi tape

rub-ons (the lettering and the "You Rock My World" are rub-ons)

1 die cut (cricut cut the dragon flies and journaling spot)

3 eyelets/ brads/bling (used 3 brads, 3 pearls and 2 blings!)

I would never have put this many patterned papers together if it wasn't for this challenge! 

I was surprised how well it came together!

LOAD #11

Making great headway on the California album!

LOVE getting these finally done!

This layout was done with a sketch from Let's Scrap.

I used some paper I had left from the retired Pemberley pack. Do any of my Close to My Heart sisters recognize the paper that the scallop strip is cut from? Can you say OLD!! So fun to incorporate it on this layout! I also used some old, retired wooden shapes. 

I've been working at an evacuation center the past three days. The devastation from the Colorado floods is so wide spread and so close to where I live. It breaks my heart. Hope to get another layout done today and take my mind off the sad stories I have heard this week.

Hope all is well in your part of the world!

♥

LOAD 9 & 10

Hello! From flood stricken Colorado! Thank goodness, our neighborhood is situated pretty high above the Poudre River, so flooding at my house is pretty unlikely, but roads all around us are closed so it takes quite a bit of time to get from here to there.

Getting more done for the LayOut A Day Challenge I'm doing over at Let's Scrap. 

#9 is one for the southwest trip we took in 2008.

(please pardon the horrible photo quality here-because of the rain, I don't have natural lighting.)

#10 is another one for the California album. I'm really having fun choosing papers for these layouts. The papers used here are from Close To My Heart's winter pack a couple years ago, called Wonderland! LOL and I used them for ocean pictures!

LOADs 6,7 & 8!

SO happy! While looking for paper to do my next California layout, I found a Workshop On the Go Kit, with the Lucky paper pack. The colors didn't go with the CA pictures I had, so I searched for pictures to use. I found pictures from a trip we took in 2008! I know, I'm so bad! I DO have some layouts done and in the album for this trip, but looks like I never got all them done. Maybe I take too many pictures! Yeh, that's the problem!!! So glad I hoarded it, because it is working perfect for these pictures from the southwest!

This is the layout that was given in the workshop.

So nice to have this kind of help when I'm doing a LOAD Challenge!

Not too creative here. But I didn't want to crop the pictures much--so what's a scrapper to do???!

I used the Imagine How-To book for help with this layout. The Sweet Symphony design is what I used--but of course, as with most sketches I use, it isn't exactly like the directions! I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. LOVE this Lucky paper!

LOAD #4

UGH--I was doing so well the first week. I've fallen behind. oh well. At least I'm making headway on the California album!

Sorry for the blurry picture. We are finally having a rainy day, and although I love that, I don't get the great natural lighting I need for picture taking. Autumn has finally arrived here in Northern Colorado, we are finally out of the 90s!! I don't even know if it is 70 degrees today! LOVE IT!

Where Ever you are--I hope you are enjoying your day!

♥

LOAD

I'm participating in Let's Scrap's LOAD Challenge. LOAD stands for LayOut A Day. I know you're laughing at me right now! "What??? Lisa is going to do a layout a day?" I know--right? Well--it is called a Challenge for a reason! The deal is that you just TRY to get 30 layouts done in September. I thought it would be fun to see how many I could do. I must admit, I have been on a roll. I thought I should stop and take pictures of what I have done before I move onto my next layout.

LOAD #1

Back to our 2005 California trip! Maybe I'll get this vacation totally scrapped during this challenge! This layout was done with Close To My Heart's now retired Dakota paper pack.

LOAD#2

Another one for the California album. I used CTMH's Florentine paper pack for this. Retired. I know, beautiful papers--right? If you like these papers, then you need to see what Close To My Heart has in their catalog now! I used three Flip-Flaps on this layout, where the map is.

I was so excited to get them on the layout--well the truth is, it has been so long since I have used them, that I put them ON the layout--and they should be on top of the page protector. I'll be fixing that. But I DO LOVE those Flip-Flaps, it makes it so easy to add more pictures to your layout. In this case though, I cut out information from the visitor guide to give the written history of places and things we saw.

LOAD #3

Had to throw an easy one in! Still; they are pictures that I wanted to add to the album so they needed to be scrapped. I'm not a real blingy, embellishy kind of girl so to some, this might look pretty plain.

So, three are done and I have another layout kind of plotted out, I hope to get it done today! Today is the 5th, maybe I'll get two done!

Thanks for looking in today.

♥

June Challenge

What?? It is June already? So hard for me to believe. 

With the new month comes a new Challenge over at Scrap It Girl.

The June Challenge is, "Punches, Punches, Punches".

Get out your punches and create a layout, tag, card or 3D item with them.

I don't own a whole bunch of punches, but had fun coming up with a layout

using three different shapes. 

 A one inch square, one inch circle and a scallop punch were used in this layout. I have a few border punches which I originally thought I would use but didn't.

Don't forget to link up your layout on Scrap It Girl for the Challenge,

here is the awesome prize this month.

 

Thanks so much for looking in today. 

Hope the rest of your day is fabulous!

Cheers.

NSD Challenge #7

Well--I didn't get my last two Frosted Design challenges posted in time. The cut off was midnight on Monday--but I didn't look to find out midnight where? LOL Oh well, that is ok, I'm just having fun getting layouts done in a fast way!

This one was Jennifer's Recipe Challenge. I loved what she wrote for her guidelines:

begin with1 piece of patterned paper as your recipe base

add some texture and character to your recipe with some distressing of any kind

  add in 2 piece's of cardstock for good measure

 everybody loves something sweet, add 1-2 photo's

add a secret ingredient (hidden journaling)

no need to measure just grab a handful of flowers to taste and toss them onto your recipe

spice it up with a little bling 

stir in your choice(s) of lace, ribbon or a doilie or 2

before serving, top it off with a special title to make your creation extra memorable

let it set, and serve on our Frosted Designs blog in the correct challenge link up!!

It's prettier in-real-life (IRL). I had trouble taking a picture that made the paper flowers show better.

 I spent awhile trying to figure out how to make a sliding piece that would stop and not come out all the way, then I remembered that CTMH's 

Magic- Interactive Scrapbook Program had instructions on how to do it.

I just love the little bobble I have for the tab of the hidden journaling, it is from Close To My Heart's Heirloom Assortment. I'll cut a slit in the page protector and have the tab sticking out.

Ok--so not the most exciting hidden journaling, but it was getting late, and I was hoping to get the layout entered for the challenge. I may go back and put something different.

The glittery leaves, hearts and "love" sticker are things I have had in my stash for years! 

Now I hope to complete some of the challenges for Scrapbook and Cards Today, their challenges aren't due until midnight Thursday.

This time I'm going to find out what time zone that midnight is! 

Thank you for surfing through today!

Hope your day is a beautiful one.

NSD Challenge #6

This one is for Debbie's Pattern Paper Challenge on Frosted Designs. Use only pattern paper, no cardstock allowed!

It's hard to tell, but the base page IS a pattern paper--I even tried to take a close-up, but it still didn't show. There are three different pattern papers in this layout. 

I am now done with Easter 2009!

NSD Challenge #5

Thank goodness some of the NSD challenges gave you a few days to get things done!

This one is for one of Frosted Designs challenges. In this challenge you were to use strips of paper in your layout. Since I had the Easter 2009 pictures out for the last challenge, I continued with the same papers and more Easter pictures.

I got brave and used my own lettering for part of the title!
It feels so good to actually be doing some layouts!
Let's see if I can get another one done.
Thanks for stopping by today.

NSD Challenge #4

I really got to go spend time with the family!

This challenge is for Big Picture Classes Challenge #10.

In this challenge we were to use any cast-off object on a layout--to upcycle. 

Funny story here. I've saved a Kleenex box for awhile now because I liked the design on it so much, I thought I would find a good use for it. When I saw this challenge, I went to look for that box and guess what I found? Easter candy that I had bought and couldn't remember where I had hidden! LOL--please tell me I'm not the only person who does this! But oh boy--finding chocolate when you think there is none in the house makes me very happy! I immediately unwrap the little chocolate bunny, pop it into my mouth and admire the cute picture on the bright colored foil---and an idea pops into my head!

Why not use this for the challenge!

PageMaps helped me put together this layout. 

OK--I think I'm done for the day!

Thanks for looking in.

NSD Challenge #3 Complete!

I'm back! I'm having so much fun, another layout done! 

This is another one for Big Picture Classes; it is Challenge #12. For this particular challenge you were to use Kraft paper in two different ways.

I love Close To My Heart's Kraft paper; it takes ink color so nicely. For my layout I tore strips of paper, inked the edges with Chocolate, sprayed them with a Ranger Color Wash, and layered them to try to get a mountain look. (click on picture to see more detail) On the base piece of Kraft, I sprayed with Sapphire Glimmer Mist and stamped it with white acrylic paint and bubble-wrap. The pictures are tucked into the layers and brads were added to hold down the paper and/or to appear like rocks!
The second piece of Kraft I used in this layout is the black chevron strip at the bottom of the page. These are from Close To My Heart's Kraft Color-Ready Border collection. I used a brayer to roll black ink on them. I think they are the perfect touch to the page.

It feels so good getting this layout done: one, because they are pictures from 2007 and two, I've had those stickers you see on the layout for probably 7 years or more!

NSD Challenge No. 2

WooHoo! I completed another challenge given on NSD! What has gotten into me? I'm completing things WAY faster than I normally do! 

This layout was done for Big Picture Classes Challenge #1. The challenge was to emphasize a photo with a fanciful frame. In my layout I put a circle of bling around the heart shaped snowball. I'm still debating on whether it helps pull the eye to it or not, but I like the way it looks.

Yesterday I was also following Scrapbook & Cards Today, where they used a sketch from PageMaps. I followed a link in the post and found this sketch.

 

OK--now I'm going to try to get something else from the NSD challenges done.

(who needs a clean house?)

Happy National Scrapbooking Day

Happy National Scrapbooking Day everyone!
I've been having fun trying to follow along in some NSD celebrations on a few web sites. (I say try--because I had to go out and do a bit of yard work!)

The first challenge I went for was on Scrapbook dot com. They are having hourly challenges over there and the first one was to do a card. Well--I didn't join in until half the hour had passed--but I thought, "what the heck, let's see what I can do!". Well--I didn't get it done in time to turn it in for the challenge--but I was pretty darn happy with how fast I DID complete it.

I used this sketch from I {Heart} 2 Stamp.

 And here is my card.

Supplies usded:

Paper from Prima-the Fairy Belle Collection

Close To My Heart cardstock in Colonial White, Baby Pink, and Grey Wool

Close To My Heart Ink pads in Chocolate, Baby Pink and Ponderosa Pine

Happy Birthday stamp set (retired), Ribbon, Button, Paper Flowers, Pin Clip, Pearl Opaque, and pink Sparkles all from Close To My Heart. 

Die-Cut Cardstock from K&Company

We'll see if I get anything else done and posted today!
I hope you all are able to find some time to do some crafting on National Scrapbooking Day!

April Challenge for Scrap It Girl

 This month's challenge is hosted by Design Team member, Rina. She is a Creative Memories consultant and since she is hosting this month's challenge, the challenge is to "use your Creative Memories Products." Don't have any Creative Memories products? Order some from Rina here, so you can play in the challenge this month. 

OK- ya'll know I'm a Close to My Heart gal! I was browsing Rina's site--and saw something I had! I bought the Circle and Oval Cutting System eons ago! So it looked like I was going to create a layout that included circles!

The double scalloped border was created by cutting circles in half!

A 5"x7" photo is being developed for the matte on the left.

Oh so nice to get pictures from 2006 scrapped!!

And now--check out the great prize Rina is giving away!

 New Tape Runner

12x12 Spring Paper Pack

4th of July Paper Pack

Petal Punch

Paper Tearing Tool

Black & White Ribbons

Bright Stickers

 Awesome--right? So head on over to Scrap It Girl's site for more information on how to enter. Hope to see your artwork posted there this month!

Thanks for looking in today.

Cheers!

ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK-GO KU!!

Go Green and Recycle

Go Green and Recycle, that is the challenge this month over at Scrap It Girls website! Use anything recycled. It can be layouts, cards, altered items, or home decor--have fun, get creative and go green!

 I decided to do a layout. I just love the "Life is Good" clothes, and can never throw away the cute tags that come on them! I used one in this layout for the title! To the left is a leather cord that was wrapped around a candle--too priceless to throw away! Then for the buckle, I used a pop-top from a can! I'm sure I'm not the only person who has a huge collection of pieces cut from a Cricut that were too big, too small, wrong button, or something! This heart was just laying on my table (hmmmm--I think that was from last month's challenge! lol) so I decided to use it here. Then last--not one 12x12 piece of paper was cut for the layout--I used all scraps! I'm hoping to get the companion done this weekend.

We look forward to seeing your creations posted to her blog!

Check out all the DT's creations and check out the awesome prize for this month!

Scrap it Girl's March Challenge

Scrap It Girl's February Challenge

February’s Challenge:  Feb. 2-Feb 29;  Show some love, use hearts, xo xo, or do a layout about someone or something you love! For my layout I chose the theme "Puppy Love" for the first day we brought our puppy, Ace, home. We fell in love with him--not so much love from the cats though! lol

(click on picture to see it larger!)

Upload your layout to Scrap It Girl for a chance to win this awesome prize!

 

Here is a picture of Ace now!

A One Picture Layout!

I don't know if I have EVER done a one picture layout. I see them all the time and I like them but as you can tell by the layouts I usually post here, I tend to FILL my pages with pictures!
Well, I've been scrapping a family reunion (2009) and after weeding through the pictures and getting groups together that would then be different layouts, I was left with a few singles, that I definitely wanted to include into the story. Now--the daunting task of creating a One Picture Layout! Could I do it?

While strolling through my blog list yesterday, a certain challenge caught my eye. I've always wanted to partake in a Frosted Designs Challenge and this one was calling to me! I really liked the layout that a couple of ladies from the DT used. They got their sketch from Creative Scrappers. Inspiration for my One Picture Layout was found!

The Fabulous Friday Challenge at Frosted Designs was a Recipe challenge.
The Recipe:
Three pieces of patterned paper
Two buttons and a
One word title
And here is sketch #192 from Creative Scrappers

I had so much fun putting this together!

All supplies from Close to My Heart can be found here.
Elemental Paper Packet (X7141B)
Cardstock: Black, Pacifica, Cranberry and Colonial White
Eclectic Alphabet Chipboard Sheets (Z1395)
Milepost Shapes (Z1464)
Wooden Buttons (Z1387)
A Typeface stamp set (A1117)
Stamp Pads in Cranberry and Pacifica
Also used a retired Paper Pack called Notebook for the ruler and journal card above picture.

Hope you find time for crafting today!
Cheers.

Scrap-It-Girl

I've got some very exciting news! Kimberly from Scrap It Girl has asked me to be on her new design team! I've been participating in her challenges some time now--and I'm thrilled to take this next step  She will have monthly challenges--that will be sure to get your creative juices flowing!
Today her first challenge was posted

The CHA Challenge

January 11-January 31

Kimberly (the lucky duck) is going to CHA in California this month. So in this first challenge you need to use something that starts with C, H, and A.  Make sure you go to this page and read the rules then visit this post to see what all the DT members came up with. At the end of my post today--I'll show you the prize for this challenge.

I had so much fun pulling this one together!

 

For the letter C: Close to My Heart Cardstock was used in Black, Tulip, and Smoothie and Close to My Heart's Roxie paper pack was used.  I used Close to My Heart's Cricut Cartridge and scraps of chipboard were used to pop up the banner.

 Why use expensive 3-D foam tape when you have tons of chipboard scraps?

 For the letter H: Hemp and Hearts. I have had a bunch of silver heart brads in my stash forever. I got those out, colored them with a red sharpie and was so happy to add them to my page!

For the letter A: Art Philosophy (the name of the Close to My Heart Cricut cartridge) I used it for the banner, the decorative matte behind the picture on the left, the butterfly and the flourish in the lower right corner. The butterfly (which is an animal!) has two layers. One of the layers was cut from acetate and painted with acrylic paints!

Now--I hope you go visit Scrap it Girl and take part in this fun challenge. Here is what you can win--

Thanks so much for visiting today.
Wishing you many smiles!!