Furniture for Pharaoh Layout

I'm continuing scrapping my photos from the King Tut exhibit, so here is one with some of the furniture that was found in his tomb. Since there were too many photos to scrapbook on traditional pages, I inserted a pocket page opposite. You can see a few of the photos from the pocket page below my layout. My title is a little obvious and not very exciting, but at least I used alliteration, right?

Recipe:
Background Elements stamp set
Land of Pharaohs papers (Stamperia)
Indian Corn Blue & White Daisy cardstock
Mocha & Toffee ink
Brown marker (Zig)
Ancient Egypt Ephemera book (Ruth Harding - purchased on Amazon)
Telling Our Story Adhesive Brads (Echo Park)
Let's Wander Thickers (American Crafts)
Simple Vintage Essential foam stickers (Simple Stories)
Title font: Algerian
Challenges: Park Hopping My Happy Place - the Egypt theme reminds me of the Lost Kingdom Adventure at Legoland California. Paper Rocks Scissors #5 - used my scissors to fussy cut the jars out of the ephemera book)

The Golden One Layout

I purchased some beautiful papers this week that I really wish were around when I was scrapping all my 2017 photos from the Egyptian section of the British Museum. I decided to get them anyway because they are perfect for all the photos we took at the Tutankhamun exhibit at the California Science Center in 2018. Out of all the photos we took (and there were a lot), I chose 85 to scrap, and many of those will end up in pocket pages between two traditionally scrapped pages in my album. There was a time I would have scrapped them all, but life is short and I am running out of space for my albums, so pocket pages without all the added bulk of layers are a good solution.

Here's the collection of papers I just purchased. You can get them at Scrapbook.com or A Cherry on Top, but I don't know how long they will be available, so if you need Egyptian themed papers, it's probably wise to grab them now.

Recipe:
A Typeface & Starter Alphabet stamp sets
Land of Pharaohs papers (Stamperia)
Dutch Blue, Cashmere & Mocha cardstock
Versamark ink
White gel pen (Sakura)
Gold Embossing powder
Treasure Chest Fairy Gemstones (Memory Box)
Diamond stencil
Cricut You Are Here cartridge: pyramids
Pattern: EMS Sketch Challenge #110

Challenges: Cut It Up #332 Masculine including a die-cut; Crafter's Cafe #320 Masculine; Love Those Pretty Papers Anything Goes (I loved this new paper pack, so even though I covered up the middle of the piece I used, I just had to share it on your challenge!); Little Red Wagon #812 E is for Embossing - I used heat embossing for my title.

Making the Cut Layout

Our insurance company insists that we keep a tree that is very close to our house trimmed back, so every six months my hubby has to climb a ladder to trim off all the branches that are overhanging the roof. I didn't manage to get a photo of him, but I did get ones of the kids stuffing the cuttings into the green waste bin.

Recipe:
Caprice & July/August 2021 Mix-In papers
Mocha, Toffee, Sage & Pewter cardstock
Toffee, Chocolate, Sage & Sky ink
Burnt Sienna Fineliner pen (iBayam)
Chocolate brads
Indian Corn Blue embroidery floss
Junebug Puffies - bird
Blue Jean Hearts puffy shapes (Doodlebug Designs)
Measuring Tape ribbon (Joanns)
Wooden arrow
It's a Guy Thing sticker
Wisdom Stickers - Leather (All My Memories)
Woodgrain stencil
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: tree
Cricut Artbooking cartridge: grass
Cricut Artiste cartridge: gears
Cricut Simply Sweet cartridge: title (welded to a line in Design Space)
Cricut Design Space: chain saw
Pattern: EMS Sketch Challenge #38 I created this sketch in 2012 and only used it again once (in 2017), so it needed some love. Glad it worked so well for my photos!

Challenges: A Cut Above Anything Goes with a die cut; Cut It Up #332 Masculine with a die cut (my photos aren't very masculine but I think the rest of the layout is, so hopefully that counts);  Heart's Quest Challenge Blog #74 Anything Goes with blue hearts; Paper Rocks Scissors #5 Anything Goes using paper and scissors (used them to trim the ribbon and embroidery floss); Scrap With Stacy June Tic Tac Toe board used the bottom row with Sticker (hard-working and kids) + Arrow (wooden) + Puffy sticker (bird and hearts)

Dragonboat Races Layout

Every summer, my husband loves to participate in the dragonboat races. In 2018, his team placed second, and someone was nice enough to take some pictures of the team so I could scrapbook them!

Recipe:
Save the Date and You & Me stamp sets
Summer Vibes papers
Glacier, Candy Apple, Lemonade, Kraft & White Daisy cardstock
Glacier, Candy Apple, Sunny Yellow, Nectarine, Fern & Black ink
Black marker
Color Kaleidoscope sticker (American Crafts)
Sweet Rush Collection - Loving This puffy stickers (American Crafts)
Color Kaleidoscope Thickers (American Crafts)
Star Attraction Shape Sprinkles (Doodlebug Designs)
Cricut Accent Essentials cartridge: curvy arrow
Cricut Design Space: title, boat, dragon, arrows
Pattern: EMS Sketch Challenge #87

Challenges: A Cut Above Anything Goes with a die;-cut; The Outlawz Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone; Double Trouble #193 My Guy - includes  boat and oars for optional twist of how my guy likes to spend his time!

Highlights {Science Center} Layout

We were excited to see the Treasures of King Tutankhamun exhibit at the California Science Center in 2018, but the tickets had timed entry, so these photos were taken while waiting for our time to enter the exhibit.

Recipe:
Sweetheart & These Are My People papers
Black cardstock
Green textured cardstock (from MU stash, source unknown)
Pixie, Green Apple & Black ink
White gel pen (Sakura)
Bold & Bright Thickers and ephemera (American Crafts)
Blush ribbon
White embroidery floss
Craft buttons
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: tag
Pattern: EMS Sketch Challenge #117

Challenges: Paper Rocks Scissors #5 - included 5 patterned papers and used my scissors to trim the ends of the ribbon and embroidery floss; Let's Craft and Create #220 - Anything Goes with optional twist to use buttons; Color My Heart Color Dare #654 - my additional color is green.

Technic Time Layout

My son has always loved Legos, so one summer my hubby the engineer decided to step it up and introduce him to some Lego (Technic) robots. Here are the two they built together.

Recipe:
Stacy's Hand Alphabet stamp set
Building Blocks papers (Scrapbook Customs)
Color Kaleidoscope Mixed Media paper (American Crafts)
Colorful Kit paper (KI Memories)
Cranberry, Nectarine, Bluebird, Sundance & White Daisy cardstock
Cranberry, Nectarine, Bluebird, Honey & Versamark ink
Clover Meadow marker
White embossing powder
My Happy Place & Puppy Love Shape Sprinkles (Doodlebug)
Cricut Artbooking cartridge: ring border
Pattern: EMS Sketch Challenge #61

Challenges: Neglected Stuff - my stuff is the brick paper; Park Hopping My Happy Place - anything Lego makes me think of Legoland, and the R2D2 robot reminds me of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland.

Embrace the Moment Layout for Lasting Memories #754

It's time for another Design Team reveal over at Lasting Memories, and Lisa is continuing to challenge us to use a list of paper sizes on our layouts. This is proving to be more challenging than I expected, but I feel very excited that I finally accomplished this week's list! After much moving around of my papers, I noticed the listed paper sizes could be put together to create a full background, so that's what I did. Come check out the rest of the design team's layouts and decide whether you are up to the challenge!

The Shakespeare quote above the bird says: Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

Recipe:

Color Kaleidoscope papers (American Crafts)

Vicki Boutin Mixed Media papers (American Crafts)

Black ink

Simple Vintage Essential foam stickers (Simple Stories)

Dymo label - Black

Telling Our Story adhesive brads (Echo Park)

Challenges: Inspiration Station #74 - the circular design and variegated colors inspired me to add the top right paper.

This & That Layout

Continuing my habit of combining the miscellaneous photos from every month on a single spread, here are my August 2018 photos. I was excited to discover one of my sketches is being used as the challenge sketch this week over at A Cherry on Top, so of course I had to dive in and create my own version of this sketch to add to the five other times I used it! Love that about sketches; they are so versatile that you can use them over and over and your layout looks unique every time.

Recipe:
Cherish the Day Stamp set
Sweetheart & Something Fierce papers
Sage, Evergreen & Bluebird cardstock
Sage, Ballerina, Cotton Candy & Bluebird ink
Star Spangled Blue marker
As You Grow PML journaling card
Simple Vintage Butterfly Bits (Simple Stories)
Puppy Love Shape Sprinkles (Doodlebug Designs)
Random Spots stencil
Cuttlebug Spots & Dots embossing folder
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: title
Cricut Artbooking cartridge: heart
Pattern: EMS Sketch Challenge #68

Challenges: Heart's Quest Challenge Blog #74 Blue hearts; Can You Handle the Pressure - used circle embossing folder on my green circles; Color My Heart Color Dare #655 - in retrospect, my light green may be a little too light, and my dark green may be a little too dark, but I tried!

Angels Game Layout

My son was staying over at friend's house and they went to an Angels game. The other mom texted me a few photos of the boys so I could scrapbooking them. I was able to use some older supplies like the grass paper but hopefully gave it a current look. The chipboard was white to start out with, and I stamped and inked it to add some interest.

Recipe:
Spot On Backgrounds stamp set
The Summer Stack papers (DCWV)
Striped & Triangles paper (from my stash, source unknown)
Candy Apple, Black & White Daisy cardstock
Candy Apple, Espresso & Black ink
Dimensional Elements Monograms chipboard
Star Attraction Shape Sprinkles (Doodlebug)
Cricut Design Space: baseballs
Cricut Artbooking cartridge: star frame
Pattern: EMS Sketch Challenge #120

Challenges: Cut It Up #331 Anything Goes with a die-cut; The Outlawz Festive Friday Challenge - One for the Boys; Time Out Challenges #290 - used Repeat (baseballs, triangles on patterned paper) + Bold (colors) + Place (baseball stadium)

Today Was a Good Day Layout

I'm finally getting back to the photos from the beach camping trip my sons and hubby went on with the church youth group, and these are the last ones. Since I am not a lover of sand or the beach, it was much more fun to scrap these summer-themed photos than it would be for me to go to the beach!

Recipe:
You Are Here & It's Your Day stamp sets
Hopscotch papers & PML card
Almond & White Daisy cardstock
Lagoon, Sunset, Flaxen & Honey ink
Ocean marker
Hopscotch sticker
Beach Party rubber shape
Magic Mesh (Creative Imaginations)
Cricut You Are here cartridge: geo-tag, shirt
Pattern: Sketch-n-Scrap #317 - I pieced together the smaller orange and circles patterned paper scraps to make the piece that is orange in the sketch.

Challenges: Little Red Wagon #810 See Through It - I used some Magic Mesh that I had in my stash in two places on my page!

Go Fish Layout

I have scrapped pictures from the Aquarium of the Pacific at least four times that I recall, so at first I wasn't sure what to call this layout to differentiate it from all those other times, but the title Go Fish popped into my head, so I went with it!

Recipe:
Lollipop Shoppe & Colo Me Silly papers (Basic Grey)
Red speckle & colorful dot papers (from my big bag of scraps, source unknown)
Glacier & Sapphire cardstock
Tangerine textured cardstock (Bazzill Papers)
Tangerine gel pen (Cricut)
Simply White Nuvo Drops
Fish punch (EK Success)
Funky Journaling Genie (Chatterbox)
Cricut Design Space: waves
Pattern: EMS Sketch Challenge #113

Challenges: Neglected Stuff June challenge - I dug into my bag of paper scraps and found three old papers from Basic Grey to make my waves, plus I used the Funky Journaling Genie that I haven't used in 10+ years as a guideline for my writing; Paper Rocks Scissors #5 - used my scissors to cut out the triangles for the sun;  Colorful Options June 2025 - I ended up using a rainbow of colors, but also had a "by the sea" theme, so I decided to include the inspiration board as well!

Giraffe Grad Card

Tonight I'm heading to a 6th grade graduation for the son of a friend, so I needed a little card for him. There were a bunch of challenges I used for inspiration, so be sure to check those out below. I posted two versions of the card. The first one has a plain white background, and I was going to go with that one, but the Amazon delivery truck pulled up to the house with a package of stencils I had ordered, and one of the stencils reminded me of the giraffe's spots, so I added that to two of the corners. Which version do you like best? On the inside of the card, I stamped the sentiment "You're moving up!" because I thought it worked well with the giraffe and the promotion to middle school!

Recipe:
Elemental stamp set
At the Zoo papers (Doodlebug Designs)
Clover Meadow, Toffee, Sunflower & Chocolate cardstock
Clover Meadow, Toffee, Brown Bag & Chocolate ink
Chocolate baker's twime
Animal Spots stencil (Boqon)
Cuttlebug Wicker Weave embossing folder
Cricut Artbooking cartridge: giraffe
Cricut Artiste cartridge: banner
Pattern: Hand Stamped Sentiments #464

Challenges: Can You Handle The Pressure? - Anything Goes with an embossing folder + twist of zoo/jungle animal; Stencil Fun -  Anything Goes with a stencil; Inkspirational #342

Tic Tac Toe Challenges #271 - I used the middle column with Die cuts + Ribbon or Twine + Embossing folder.

EMS Sketch Challenge #122 + My Favorite Flakes Layout

It's Sunday, which means another Lasting Memories challenge has started, and it's a really fun one. Lisa gave us a list of paper sizes that we need to include on our layout. I decided to pull out photos from our Mammoth vacation in April 2018; I scrapped the rest of my photos from that vacation, but then was waiting for my Stampin' Up order with the adorable Snowy Scenes papers to arrive. Since my papers were brand new, I didn't just want to randomly cut into them, only to decide I wanted to use them differently, so I created a sketch with the four papers Lisa challenged us to use, and I even extended it into a double pager with a repeat of two of the papers. Feel free to play along with the Lasting Memories challenge, either using the sketch as inspiration, or just getting creative on your own. Be sure to leave a link in the comments if you use the sketch! 

Here's the sketch:

And here's my layout:

Recipe:
Snowy Scenes papers (SU)
Candy Apple, Almond, Chocolate & White Daisy cardstock
Glacier & Almond ink
Burnt Sienna fineliner pen (iBayam)
White gel pen (Sakura)
CTMH chipboard
White Pines flair
Cricut Design Space: snowman, title using BFC Night Kiss font
Challenges: Cut It Up #331 - anything goes including a die-cut

One of These Boys Layout

My final layout for National scrapbooking month! I picked a couple photos of my son with four brothers from another family, and I remember thinking when I took the photo that, although there are definite similarities between him and the other boys, no one could mistake him for part of their family. That memory made be decide on the title, and I wrote more about it on the hidden journaling tag behind the top photo.

Recipe:
Friendship Word Puzzle, Special Care, Connections & All the Details stamp sets
Soda Pop papers
Sapphire, Sweet Leaf & White Daisy cardstock
Sapphire, Sweet Leaf, Lagoon & Canary ink
Ocean marker
White gel pen (Sakura)
Soda Pop sticker
Bold & Bright ephemera (American Crafts)
Heavenly Blue organdy ribbon
Cool Summer Night enamel dots & heart (Altenew)
3-D foam tape
Rays & Burlap stencils (Stampers Anonymous)
Circle Double Stitched Steel Dies (Art Impressions)
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: scalloped circle, tag, banners
Pattern: Sketch-n-Scrap Birthday Bash Sketch #4

Challenges: Cut It Up Challenges #331 Anything Goes with a die-cut; Crafter's Cafe #319 Anything Goes with optional no squares; The Outlawz Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone

Diving Into Summer Layout

To scrap my second set of photos from my church youth camping trip from 2018, I used premade background pages from CTMH. I don't usually use these types of pages, so I decided to include my own touches by adding the berry pink patterned papers to either end, plus some word stickers and other embellishments.

Recipe:
Starter Cut Above Layout Kit 2
Hip Hip Hooray papers
Olive, Avocado & Sandance cardstock
Olive, Citrus Leaf & Thistle ink
Black marker
Mod Great Lengths Title stickers (CM)
Simple Vintage Essentials foam stickers (Simple Stories)
Reasons to Smile washi tape (American Crafts)
Telling Our Story adhesive brad (Echo Park)
Blue Jean Hearts Puffy shapes (Doodlebug Designs)
Heart punch (EK Success)
Cricut Artbooking cartridge: sun
Pattern: EMS Sketch Challenge #111 (for left side)

Challenges: Heart's Quest Challenge Blog #74 Blue and/or yellow hearts - both colors on heart washi tape + 2 blue puffy hearts; Inspiration Station #73 - I was inspired by the outdoor scene, especially the sun on the horizon.

Sun & Sand Layout

My hubby took a ton of photos at the youth camping trip in 2018 where he was a chaperone, so here's a  layout using some of the photos from the first day. I kept it pretty simple because the background papers were already rather complicated.

Recipe:
The Summer Stack papers & chipboard die-cut (DCWV)
Toffee cardstock
Toffee, Twilight & Sorbet ink
Challenges: Creative Inspirations The Great Outdoors - aren't these beach photos gorgeous?; Double Trouble #192 included optional twist of flip-flops (paper on the right page).

BFF Layout

I was trying to think of a good title for this layout when I ran across a challenge from Little Red Wagon to create something with a friendship theme. These photos really illustrate the close friendship my two youngest kids had. This past year in therapy, my daughter revealed how lost she has felt the last four years since her little brother passed away. He was always the outgoing, playful one, so it's been hard for her to make friends without him to lead the way. While I pray she is able to overcome and find her footing someday, I will always be thankful for how the two of them weathered life's storms together.

Update: Chosen as a Featured project on Little Red Wagon!

Recipe:
Best Friends Forever & Take Note stamp sets
Happy Trails papers (Simple Stories)
Lagoon, Saffron, Crystal Blue & White Daisy cardstock
Ruby, Goldrush, Saffron, Lagoon, Crystal Blue ink
Black marker
White gel pen (Sakura)
Bold & Bright ephemera (AmericanCrafts)
Cool Summer Night enamel dots (Altenew)
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: tags
Cricut Artbooking cartridge: notebook page
Cricut Artistry cartridge: umbrella, raindrops
Pattern: EMS Sketch Challenge #25 (rotated left)

Challenges: Creative Inspirations The Great Outdoors - I love these pictures of my kids fooling around outside in the aftermath of a rainstorm!

June Highlight Reel Layout

These are my miscellaneous photos from June 2018 that I collected and put on one layout. I decided to just feature two photos; the other four are in Flip-Flaps so you can lift up the plastic sleeve and see the photos underneath.

I had to share one of the photos that will be in a Flip-Flap; this was my son's face when he found out Chewbacca wasn't a real alien, just a person in a costume!

Recipe:
Highlight Reel, Noted Backgrounds & Dream Big stamp sets
Molly papers (Bella Blvd)
Oh Happy Day paper (Simple Stories)
Lagoon, Raspberry, Sunflower, Sapphire & White Daisy cardstock
Lagoon, Sapphire & Sunflower ink
Ocean marker
Navy & Pure Pink markers (Zig)
Turquoise fineliner pen (iBayam)
White gel pen (Sakura)
White acrylic flowers
Beach Party rubber shapes
My Crush Everyday Assortment stickers
Swiss Dot grosgrain ribbon (Offray)
Cricut Artistry cartridge: flowers
Pattern: Sketch-n-Scrap #316 - I adapted it for my photos and to add journaling, and since the pictures needed to be able to lift up, I moved the flowers around.

Challenges: Double Trouble #192 - includes optional twist of flip-flops