Dear Friends, Let's Celebrate Layout for Lasting Memories #703

It's time for the final challenge of the month over at Lasting Memories, and this time I asked everyone to create a layout that was inspired by someone else's layout. There are so many talented scrappers out there, so it was hard to narrow it down, but I decided to lift fellow LM design team member Jill Rugg. I loved her adorable "Wish You Were Here" layout and pretty much CASEd (copy and steal everything) it! The hardest part was figuring out how to make the edges look like an airmail envelope, but I finally created a template in Cricut Design Space and used the openings as a guide to color the markings. I noticed after I was about halfway around the layout that they should have been flush with the edge of the paper, but I just kept going and decided I like how it looks. Please come play with us over at Lasting Memories before this month's challenges end on June 1st, and don't forget to link up your completed layouts!

Here's my layout:

And here is Jill's original:

Recipe:

Captured Happiness, Express Postage, Postcard - Travel Series, Today's Date & Just for Boys stamp sets
Black, Honey & White Daisy cardstock
Holiday Red, Carolina & Slate ink
Black markers
ShinHan Touch Twin markers
Candy Apple Glitter tape
Best Day Ever Assortment ephemera & sticker
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: tab

Rancho Simi Layout + November Single Sketch

Even though I posted the single page sketch on Splitcoast Stampers three weeks ago, I hadn't gotten around to creating a layout to go with it, so today I sat down and powered one out. Since all the photos are matted, this seemed like a good layout for a patterned paper background, so I pulled a full sheet from the Pathfinder packet and went to work. I was playing along with a Scrapbook.com stamping challenge to stamp a bird on your layout, and I can't believe I actually had a chicken stamp! I've been doing this way too long, right?

The sketch:

My layout:

Recipe:
Bingo Alphabet, Catch You Later & Today's Date stamp sets
Pathfinder Level 2 papers
Glacier, Chocolate, Barn Red, Champagne & Colonial White cardstock
Glacier, Chocolate, Barn Red & Olive ink
Olive marker
Chocolate baker's twine
Chocolate embroidery floss
Chocolate brads
Scalloped border punch (Fiskars)
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: tag, hearts
Pattern: Splitcoast Stampers Sketch15Nov1
Challenges: Lasting Memories Bingo / Thankful challenge - I used the diagonal row with brads, multiple photos, tag, and 2 alphas. I didn't actually use the word thankful on my layout, but I was truly thankful to sit down and rest for a while, so hopefully that counts!

Loved Faces @ the Canyon Layout

Happy February, everyone. Hope you're having a fun day watching the Superbowl or scrapbooking, or whatever else takes your fancy. I was able to sit down and create another Grand Canyon layout that incorporated a few fun challenges.

Recipe:
Live Inspired, You & Me, Victory WOTG, Star Struck & Today's Date stamp sets
Lucky Level 2 papers
Outdoor Denim, Desert Sand & Colonial White cardstock
Outdoor Denim, Desert Sand, Sunset & Cocoa ink
Cocoa marker
Cocoa grosgrain ribbon
Brown sparkles
3-D foam tape
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: title, hearts
Pattern: EMS Sketch 22 + my creative brain!
Challenges: 4 Crafty Chicks Anything Goes challenge; Frosted Designs Directions challenge (arrows, @ symbol); Scrap It Girl Recipe challenge (arrows, numbers, blue)

Open House Layout

This layout has been sitting on my desk for a week now, unfinished, because I just couldn't seem to find a way to pull it all together. I knew I wanted to participate in the Child's Play Mickey Mouse Clubhouse challenge, so I created the title, but after that I was stuck! Yesterday, I discovered a new sketch blog (well, new to me, at least) and I thought the sketch would work really well with my photos, so this morning I was able to finish it up. BTW, I love my son's poem. He did great on the first stanza, but then he kinda lost track of the whole rhyming thing, so his result cracks me up.

Recipe:
Spot On Backgrounds, Today's Date & Capture the Date  stamp sets
Sunset, Honey, Cocoa, Topiary, Dutch Blue, White Daisy & Cashmere cardstock
Sunset, Cocoa, Dutch Blue & Creme Brulee ink
Black bitty brad
Twill ribbon
3-D foam tape
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: scalloped border
Artiste cartridge: stars
Challenges: Little Red Wagon - cardstock only (no patterned paper); Frosted Design's Fabulous Friday challenge - polka dots; 2 Broke Girls Max & Caroline challenge - use numbers; Pamela's World of Scrap - sketch 237 (using the right hand side of the 2 page sketch)

LOAD #8 + Week 41 Layout Linky - December 25th

I sometimes struggle with titles for layouts, especially with subjects that I scrapbook a lot (birthdays, holidays, soccer games, etc.), so I was really happy when the inspiration for this title landed in my lap. I pulled out a set of Christmas stamps and the one I decided to use had December 25th on it. I've never used that as the title of a Christmas layout, so problem solved!

Recipe:
Just for the Holidays, Today's Date, Friendship Alphabet Small & Friendship Alphabet Large stamp sets
Outdoor Denim & White Daisy cardstock
Barn Red, Desert Sand & Topiary ink
Honey marker
Gold gel pen (Sakura)
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 41 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.

EMS Sketch Challenge 2 - The Zoo Layout

Here's another sketch that I came up with for this week. Hope you can play along. Remember, feel free to use different size photos, fewer or more photos, add or remove elements - whatever it takes to work for you. Let's get those photos out of the packages and into our albums!

The Sketch

My Layout

Update: this sketch was used at A Cherry on Top for their double page sketch challenge in March 2024. Click on the link for more inspiration!

Recipe:
Classmate Alphabet, Rustic Alphabet, Intrinsic Backgrounds & Today's Date stamp sets
Expedition Level 2 papers
Autumn Terracotta & Colonial White cardstock
Autumn Teracotta, Olive, Chocolate & Cocoa ink
Cocoa marker
Chocolate brads
Autumn Teracotta My Accents
Circle Cutter (CM)