LA County Fair 2016 Layout

Heart 2 Heart challenge blog had a really fun challenge to include something that moves on your project, and all month I've been trying to figure out how to incorporate something moving onto a layout. I finally figured it out last night when I was working on pictures from the county fair. I had a couple of pictures of my kids on rides, and that inspired me to create a die-cut carousel and make the horses move up and down. It took me a long time but I finally managed it for at least one of the horses. The other one kept getting stuck, so I decided one was good enough - LOL! When you pull on the tab at the top of the page, the horse moves up and down. Thanks to Heart to Heart for inspiring me.

And here's the pull tab:

Recipe:
Love Right Now, Ticket to Ride & Tiny Typewriter Alphabet stamp sets
Something Fierce papers
Raspberry, Carolina, Bluebird, Pixie & White Daisy cardstock
Raspberry, Carolina, Bluebird, Clover Meadow & Sunny Yellow ink
Moonstruck marker
Love Letters Rub-ons
White Daisy flower brads
Childhood PML card
Cricut Artbooking cartridge: tickets
Cricut You Are Here cartridge: cotton candy
Cricut Artistry cartridge: oval
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: tab
Cricut Artiste cartridge: carousel
Challenges: Heart to Heart I Like to Move It

Parking Lot Pals Layout

Lasting Memories Blog will be hosting challenges about transportation all month, and I've been racking my brains to figure out how to play along using my Yosemite pictures. When I came to these photos of deer grazing in the parking lot at Curry Village, I knew I was onto something! I die-cut the deer and cars to create little scenes reflecting our encounter with nature in the midst of civilization.

The sketch I used didn't have much space for journaling, so I included some hidden journaling in a pocket under the deer pictures on the right hand page. For a music challenge at Scrapbook.com, I used lyrics from the song Big Yellow Taxi on my journaling ("they paved paradise and put up a parking lot"), so it seemed appropriate to make one of the cars in my parking lot a taxi! Also in keeping with this theme, the horizontal lines in the title represent parking spaces.

Recipe:
Love Right Now, It's Your Day & This & That stamp sets
Mayberry papers
Cocoa, Desert Sand, Sky, Olive, Cashmere, Black & Colonial White cardstock
White Daisy textured cardstock
Cocoa, Desert Sand, Honey, Smoothie, Cashmere & Olive ink
Olive marker
Honey Triangles washi tape
Licorice Opaques pearls
Cocoa grosgrain ribbon
Small heart punch (EK Success)
Cricut You Are Here cartridge: deer, taxi, car
Cricut Artiste cartridge: title
Cricut Artistry cartridge: pocket
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: large hearts, scalloped border
Cricut Artbooking cartridge: arrows
Pattern: Scrapbook.com August 2018 2 Page sketch challenge
Challenges: Lasting Memories cars challenge; Fantabulous Cricut Challenge anything goes (used quite a few cartridges on this layout!); Use Your Stuff triangles challenge (the triangles are on the yellow washi tape - you may have to click on the picture because they're kinda hard to see)