Push the Limits Layout for Lasting Memories #636

I am excited to announce that I have joined the Lasting Memories Design Team as of this month! The challenges this month all revolve around a few of the favorite things of DT member Brandi's little boys, and here is the first inspiration board. Even if you don't have kid photos to scrap, I can see lots of ways  you could be inspired by this board, so feel free to join in on the fun.

Here's the board:

And here's my layout:

Recipe:
Flyin' High, Later Sk8r & Boys at Play stamp sets
Let's Wander Mixed Media paper (American Crafts)
Nectarine & White Daisy cardstock
Sunflower, Nectarine, Tulip & Lagoon ink
Teen Spirit Boy ephemera (Echo Park)
Color Kaleidoscope stickers (American Crafts)
Cricut Artistry cartridge: ring
Pattern: Stick It Down February 2023 single page sketch

Challenges: Time Out Challenges #231 Photo Inspiration (I was inspired to use the mixed media paper with multiple colors across it as my background and to use a title with white writing on a colored background)

Zoom Layout

My kids loved driving the cars at Legoland, except my youngest who was too little, so he played on a motorcycle in the little kids playground. For this layout, I played along with a few challenges that inspired me to add elements to my layout. For example, The Studio Challenges asked us to "create a layout using a scrapping item for each letter of the word heart, you get bonus points if you use more than one for each letter!" Here are my items:
H - hemp fiber, hearts (on the tab)
E - enamel gems
A - arrows, Artiste Cricut cartridge
R - red, road signs
T - tab, tag, tape (washi)

Recipe:
Flying High, All the Details,  Boys at Play & Friendship Word Puzzle stamp sets
For Always paper
Kraft, Black, Cranberry, Honey, Topiary & White Daisy cardstock
Honey, Topiary, Cranberry & Black ink
Natural Hemp
Milepost Shapes
Red Enamel Gems
Jeppers Creepers washi tape
Staples
Cricut Artiste cartridge: stop sign, traffic light, pedestrian crossing sign, arrows
Cricut Artbooking cartridge: file folder
Pattern: Sketch-n-Scrap # 195 (rotated right)

Challenges: Heart 2 Heart texture challenge (used a crimper to corrugate the Honey cardstock, plus added some hemp fiber and Milepost Shapes); Lasting Memories #486 Tool Free for All (crimper, stapler, Cricut machine, stamp sets I haven't used in ages)

Happy Together Layout

For this bunch of photos of the kids riding scooters and skating around our cul-de-sac, I decided to feature three photos on a traditional layout and put the rest in a pocket page. The design is actually a scraplift of Sandra's "Biker Dawls" layout from over on Scrapbook.com. Down the left side of her page, Sandra had a bunch of sayings she had cut out of a piece of pattered paper, but I chose to ink up my stamps and get to work stamping and cutting! I used the rainbow paper from my brand new "I Heart Us" paper pack from CTMH, and that gave me a whole rainbow of colors to chose from when stamping the little sentiments.

And here's the journaling card from the pocket page:

Recipe:
Boys at Play, Framework Alphabet, Friendship Word Puzzle, It's Your Day, Just for Boys, Kid Power, Later Sk8r, Take Note, This & That, Whooo's Your Valentine & You and Me stamp sets
I Heart Us papers & My Complements stickers
Canary, Bluebird & White Daisy cardstock
Canary, Pixie, Thistle, Key Lime, Lagoon, Sweet Leaf, Raspberry & Bluebird ink
ShinHan Touch Twin marker
Hopscotch PML card
Stargazer and Cats & Bats Dots
Thistle striped ribbon
Staple
Star punch (EK Success)
Challenges: Heart 2 Heart Happy Times challenge; Lasting Memories #444 alphabet stamps (used to stamp "happy" in my title); Double Trouble Something, Anything, Everything challenge (for Thing 1, I pulled out a bunch of stuff I have never used before - the I Hearts Us papers, Bluebird cardstock, Bluebird & Raspberry ink pads, and a roll of Thistle ribbon, then for Thing 2 I played along with Heart 2 Heart, and finally I used tons of word stamps for Thing 3).

VBS 2012 Layout

Wow, only my third layout for the month and July is almost over - so sad! Looking forward to being able to scrap more once school starts for the kiddos. For this layout, I started with a sketch from Lasting Memories and then used a patriotic color challenge from Scrap It Girl to go with my non-patriotic photos. Something I learned while doing this layout: when you emboss a 12" long piece of cardstock, it ends up being shorter than 12"! I knew this happened with a crimper, but I had never done it with a embossing folder, so I ended up having to trim along the bottom row of chevrons for a zig-zag border. Oh well, live and learn . . .

Recipe:
Roughing It stamp set (SU)
Boys at Play stamp set
Ruby, Outdoor Denim, Kraft & Champagne cardstock
Ruby, Outdoor Denim & Desert Sand ink
Outdoor Denim marker
Best Day Ever Assortment circle sticker
Burlap ribbon
Outdoor Denim grosgrain ribbon
Ruby washi tape
Mileposts Shapes arrows
3-D foam tape
Embossing folder: CTMH chevrons
Pattern: Lasting Memories sketch
Challenges: Scrap It Girl color challenge: navy, cream, red, kraft

Week 32 Layout Linky - Tiny Trains

This is one of those layouts that start out with great inspiration but then get bogged down halfway through! I was really excited about my train tracks, but then I couldn't figure out how to finish the layout. After it sat on my desk for three days, I finally ended up by adding some directional stamps from the Boys at Play stamp set.



Recipe:
Boys at Play stamp set
Honey, Cocoa & White Daisy cardstock
Clover Meadow, Cranberry & Bamboo ink
Clover Meadow & Black markers
3-D foam tape

***If you are participating in the 52 Layouts Challenge, please use the link below to link your layout to this post. You have until Friday at 11:59PM PST to post your week 32 layout. The link will allow you to post a title and thumbnail that link to your site, where we can see the layout in all its glory! Note: please do not post from a password protected site that will require us to input a password before viewing.

Williams, AZ Layout

Good Monday to everyone out there in Blogland. Hope you all had a great weekend. I didn't post any layouts last week (sorry!), but I have been working on some. Here's one from our 2006 Arizona trip. We stayed in Williams, AZ because you can catch the train from there to the Grand Canyon. Williams was a small but cute town, and we enjoyed looking around while we were there. For the layout design, I adapted the sketch from Nuts About Sketches Week 118 to fit my needs.



Recipe:
Cocktail Alphabet, Ticket to Ride & Boys at Play stamp sets
Passages & Caprice Level 2 papers
Dutch Blue & Colonial White cardstock
Chocolate & Cranberry ink
Chocolate marker

Great 2B 8 Layout

I have to confess: I have a love/hate relationship with Chuck E. Cheese. I love that the kids have such a great time while we're there, but I hate having to scrap all those bright, busy photos. Can anyone relate? When scrapping Adrian's birthday party pictures this year, I tried to compromise by using only snippets of B&T paper on a solid color background. The fact that the B&T papers are slightly grungy looking helped to tone down the shock of bright, primary colors, and I actually find myself liking this layout. Hope you do, too.



Recipe:
Spot On Backgrounds, Boys at Play, Gear Up & Extreme Caps stamp sets
Tinkering & Animal Cookies Level 2 papers
Twilight, Sunny Yellow & White Daisy cardstock
Holiday Red, Twilight, Clover Meadow, Bamboo, Desert Sand, Autumn Terracotta & Creme Brulee ink
Twilight marker
Autumn Terracotta embroidery floss
3D foam tape
Scallop border punch (Fiskars)

LOAD #14 - New Best Friends

We got these "dolls" for our boys at the Disney store a while back (they were on sale), and the kids were so excited about them. Adrian had dressed up as Buzz and Elliot as Woody for Halloween the year before (2008), so they each identified with their new friend. I especially love how Adrian carefully buckled Buzz into a seatbelt before we started the car. Too cute! Also loving the Route 66 papers I got through the CTMH Holiday Heyday Clearance Sale in December. Gotta have more of those sales, right? And I got a chance to use 2 new stamp sets that are destined to become favorites, Boys at Play and Cocktail Alphabet. I can tell these are going to be so useful in the future as I scrap photos of my two superheroes!



Recipe:
Boys at Play, Cocktail Alphabet & Journaling Jots stamp sets
Route 66 Level 1 papers
Moonstruck, Clover Meadow & White Daisy cardstock
Moonstruck, Clover Meadow, Cranberry & Sunflower ink
Natural twill
Sunflower embroidery floss
3-D foam tape
White jel pen (Sakura)