Offline Fun Layout for Lasting Memories #660

Welcome to a new week and a new challenge from Lasting Memories. It's the last one this month, so you only have a week left to play with any of the July challenges. I hope you are inspired and play along. In line with her "Things Learned in Preschool" theme, this time Brandi asked us to select any group of 3 consecutive letters (ABC or LMN, etc.) and use an item on our layout for each letter, plus use 1, 2 and 3 of an item.  There was so much scope with the whole alphabet to play with, but I still ended up using letters right at the beginning. Here's my list and my layout:

B - Blue skies and Brushed paper packs
C - circles and chipboard alphas
D - die-cuts
1 - sticker and bow
2 - word phrases
3 - butterflies

Recipe (all supplies CTMH except where noted):
Bee Mine stamp set
Blue Skies & Brushed papers
Candy Apple, Canary & White Daisy cardstock
Candy Apple, Canary, Flamingo, Lagoon, Green Apple & Black ink
Black & Buttercup markers
Summer Daydreams sticker (Photoplay)
DE Chipboard F,U,N
Maize grosgrain ribbon (Offray)
Star Dust Stickles (Ranger)
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: butterflies, tag
Pattern: EMS Sketch Challenge #10 (using this again for the 5 for 5 challenge over at Scrapbook.com)

Challenges: Cut It Up Challenges #282 Look Up in the Sky (I looked up and saw butterflies and bees)

One Busy B Layout

It's with a sad heart today that I post this layout inspired by a sketch from Let's Scrap; they are retiring their blog for now, so this may be the last new sketch of theirs I use. Hopefully they will return some day when life isn't as crazy, but I will sure miss their bi-monthly inspiration! In the meantime, they helped me create a fun layout for my daughter's second grade open house, where we got to see all the work our busy bee (the "B" is for Brianna) had been doing in class.

Recipe:
Bee Mine, Friendship Alphabet Small, Distressed Backgrounds & Honeycomb stamp sets
Lucky & Buzz and Bumble papers
Cocoa, Desert Sand & White Daisy cardstock
Cocoa, Desert Sand, Goldrush, Outdoor Denim & Olive ink
Outdoor Denim marker
Color Ready Kraft Borders
Outdoor Denim baker's twine
Outdoor Denim brads
DE chipboard Monograms "B", Signage & Banner
PML Tabbed Journaling Card
3-D foam tape
Cricut Artbooking cartridge: frames
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: scalloped border with cut-outs
Pattern: Let's Scrap 7-15-19

Challenges: Double Trouble #36 Round & Round: Thing 1 - circles on the patterned paper, brads, and my daughter's pizza + Thing 3 - school theme; Scrapbook.com Music challenge - used lyrics from Chuck Berry's School Days as my journaling.

LOAD #7 - Stingers

Wow, I'm posting earlier today than I have the whole week. Monica, I hope you're proud of me! Here's the latest layout. It's probably a little hard to see, but I random stamped the Honey cardstock using the bees from the Bee Mine stamp set (the Petite Perks Set from this quarter's idea book). I wanted a subtle effect, so I used Creme Brulee ink. I also used the bees for my embellishments, but I had to add a little stinger to them since my son's team is called the Stingers. I finished them with a little Liquid Glass and a foam square to pop them up. Looking forward to seeing today's layouts from everyone.



Recipe:
Posterboard Alphabet, Best Shot & Bee Mine stamp sets
Silhouette Level 2 papers
Honey, Black, Bamboo & White Daisy cardstock
Hydrangea, Black, & Creme Brulee ink
Black marker
Liquid Glass
Foam Squares
Brayer