Its All Good Layout for Lasting Memories #664

My scrappy mojo is slowly returning, so I whipped up a layout for Lasting Memories Challenge #664 using the sketch picked out by Design Team member Lori. I had two photos of the cupcakes I decorated for my daughter's cat party showing the very rough design and the much better final design of the cupcakes, so I used them with some cat themed papers and embellishments. If you would like to join in the fun over at Lasting Memories for this or any of our other sketches, click on the link above to see the sketches and link up your layouts by September 2nd.

The sketch:

My Layout: 

Recipe:
Chloe patterned papers & cardstock stickers (Bella Blvd)
Molly patterned papers (Bella Blvd)
Raspberry, Toffee & White Daisy cardstock
Raspberry, Pixie, Capri, Sapphire, Canary & Toffee ink
Fineliner pens (IBayam)
Cupcake Hearts puffy shapes (Doodlebug Designs)
Emoji sticker (American Greetings)
Cricut Simply Sweet cartridge: title (its all)
Challenges: Time Out Challenges #245 Colorful; Let's Craft and Create #198 Polka dots and/or stripes; Double Trouble #145 Scrapbooker's GORP (I used stripes, flowers & polka dots)

March Madness Layout

 August has been a busy month for me with a family vacation and getting ready for another year of homeschooling, so I have had a hard time getting creative with my scrapbooking. The same photos have been lying on my desk for several weeks, waiting to be scrapped, but I finally found some mojo this week thanks to a few scrappy challenges, so here is my layout at last! Fittingly, the title reflects the topic of the layout: the busyness of March 2017.

All the butterflies and some of the flowers started out white, and since I had lots of fun coloring them, I wanted to share a few extra shots of them so you can see how pretty the colors are:

Recipe:
Laughing Lola, Splendor & March/April Mix-Ins paper packs
Goldrush, Thistle cardstock
Goldrush, Thistle, Topiary & Whisper ink
Black marker
White gel pen (Sakura)
Summer Vibes PML card
Just Blooms Paper Shapes - Spring Blossom (flowers) & Flutter (butterflies)
Small paper flowers (Recollections)
Craft buttons
Embroidery floss
Licorice Opaques pearls
Pattern: Rochelle Spears August 2023 sketch

Challenges: Scrap With Stacy August 2023 Tic Tac Toe board (diagonal with faux stitching + circle + journal spot

Inspiration Station #52 (inspired by colors, flowers, butterflies)

Happiness Is Homemade Layout

I wasn't sure I was going to scrap these photos of assembling my daughter's new dresser from IKEA, but when I saw the current challenge from Time Out Challenges, the sign "Make and Create" inspired me to share about our experience. After all, it was part of everyday life that I shouldn't skip, even if it isn't as glamorous as birthday parties or amusement parks!  

Recipe (all products CTMH except where noted):
My Happy Place papers & stickers (Doodlebug Designs)
Kraft, Cotton Candy & Crystal Blue cardstock
Cotton Candy, Crystal Blue, Buttercup & Sweet Leaf ink
White gel pen (Sakura)
Kraft Color-Ready border
Irresistible Frames chipboard
My Happy Place Shape Sprinkles (Doodlebug Designs)
Pattern: Scraplift from Scrapbook.com
Challenges: Time Out Challenges #243 (inspired by the make & create sign plus the white furniture)

Scrap With Stacy July Tic-Tac-Toe board (used dots + frame + chipboard)

{You} Made It Layout

To scrap these photos of a friend's new baby, I played along with several challenges, including the Heart's Quest challenge to use hearts and a congratulations theme. The song lyrics, "Looks like we made it" kept running through my mind, so I shortened and adapted it to {You} Made It, with a special note of congratulations to the new parents as my journaling.

Parents' and baby's names blanked out to protect privacy.

Recipe (all supplies CTMH except where noted):
Chocolate Alphabet Small, Background Elements & Live Inspired stamp sets
March/April 2022 Mix-In & Skylark papers
Sage, Toffee, Chocolate & White Daisy cardstock
Sage, Desert Sand, Chocolate & Lagoon ink
Sienna fineliner pen (iBayam)
Lagoon ribbon
Silver heart brads (from my stash, source unknown)
Cricut Wall Decor & More cartridge: You
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: tag, heart, brackets
Cricut Artbooking cartridge: heart banner
Scalloped border punch (Fiskars)
Pattern: Stick It Down July 2023 single page sketch

Challenges: Heart's Quest Challenge #34 Congratulations theme + hearts; Use Your Stuff  #489 Three Item Cluster (cluster on tag using multiple stamps, cardstock circle, silver heart brad & bow); Color My Heart Color Dare #558 (used diagonal with lagoon + silver + sage)

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)

Under the Wrappings Layout

I missed last week's Christmas in July challenge from Double Trouble, so I was excited to see they had a new Christmas challenge, this time asking us to include a Santa hat. While I was trying to figure out how to add the hat, I noticed Farm Quest Challenges had a bear challenge and, in one of photos, my son was reading from a Christmas book called Little Cub. What could be more perfect than to add the bear die-cut I found over on Cricut Design Space and give him a Santa hat and a present to hold? Great inspiration from these challenge blogs!

And here's a close-up of the cute little die-cut bear:

Recipe (all products CTMH unless stated):
Friendship Alphabet Small stamp set
Sparkle & Shine papers
Ruby, Scarlet, Almond, Chocolate, Black & White Daisy cardstock
Ruby, Juniper, Almond, Chocolate & Slate ink
Sienna fineliner marker (iBayam)
Sparkle & Shine Complements chipboard
DE Tags chipboard
Ruby glitter buttons
White Daisy embroidery floss
Grey and white twine (Recollections)
Xmas Red Stickles (Ranger)
Clear shimmer brush
Cricut Design Space: bear using Digital Gems cut file
Cricut You Are Here cartridge: gift
Cricut Artistry cartridge: Santa hat (modified in Design Space)
Pattern: Splitcoast Stampers Sketch15Feb3

Challenges: Double Trouble #143 Christmas in July (Thing 1 = Christmas project + Thing 2 = enter your project at  Jingle Belles' Santa's Hat challenge + Thing 3 = include a Santa hat; Farm Quest Challenges #32 Bears; The Crafter's Cafe #299 Christmas in July

Christmas Is a Time for Sharing Layout for Lasting Memories #658 - Sharing Is Caring

Happy Sunday, and welcome to another Lasting Memories challenges! Today Brandi is challenging us to scraplift a layout from one of the design team members, so I chose a layout that Lori created last month. I loved the simple multi-photo style with the fun torn edge and the circle element, so I adapted them for my layout. This whole week in Southern California we have finally experienced summer temperatures, so I decided to cool off by scrapbooking some Christmas photos.  I would love to have you join us over at Lasting Memories before July 29th for this and any of the other challenges!

Recipe:
Jingle All the Way papers (Simple Stories)
Pear & Partridge and July/August 2021 Mix-In papers
New England Ivy & Scarlet cardstock
Desert Sand & New England Ivy ink
Black & Cranberry markers
Jingle All the Way puffy stickers & Journal Bits ephemera (Simple Stories)
Everyday Moments journaling card (Scrapbook.com)
3-D foam tape
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: banners
Pattern: Scraplift of Lori's layout

Challenges: Double Trouble #142 Christmas in July (I didn't do the optional twist of stars and stripes this time, but I might play along again so I can do that!); Let's Craft and Create #197 Anything Goes with optional twist of flowers

Walk {Adrian's Walk-a-Thon} Layout

I've scrapped quite a few walk-a-thon layouts over the years, but this is my first purple one! Until I started looking at cardstock colors to use, I didn't realize quite how many shades of purple I had. It took a while and some digging through my stash but I think I finally found some papers that worked; hope everyone else thinks do, too!

Recipe:
Life's a Hoot papers
Periwinkle, Lagoon & Wisteria cardstock
Miscellaneous SU cardstock (from my stash but long retired)
Lagoon, Wisteria & Flamingo ink
Lovely Lilac ink (SU)
Violet fineliner pen (iBayam)
DE Chipboard heart, W, A , L, K
Great Lengths stickers (CM)
Thistle striped ribbon
Teen Spirit Boy ephemera (Echo Park)
Gold Stickles (Ranger)
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: hearts, postage stamp
Pattern: EMS Sketch Challenge #10

Challenges: Use Your Stuff #487 Hearts

The Perfect Day Layout and Lasting Memories Reminder

Saturday is the last day you can enter our Lasting Memories challenges for June, so I thought I would play along one more time using the summer words play for CAMPERS. Here's the list of things I incorporated into my layout:

C - circles & camera sticker
A - arrows (on red circle)
M - metal brads
P - patterned paper
E - enamel dot
R - red cardstock
S - sunglasses stickers

And here's my layout. I love these fun photos of my kids enjoying the school luau and spending lots of Mom and Dad's money in the process. My favorite is the one of my son (in the Hawaiian shirt) pretending to walk like an Egyptian - LOL! Feel free to check out all the Lasting Memories challenges and play along with anything that sounds fun! Then check back on Sunday for a new set of challenges.

Recipe:
Summer Vibes papers & stickers
Goldrush, Fern, Candy Apple, Glacier & White Daisy cardstock
Goldrush, Fern, Candy Apple & Glacier ink
Red fineliner pen (iBayam)
White gel pen (Sakura)
Red enamel dot
Yellow & heart brads (from my stash, source unknown)
Challenges: Double Trouble #141 Something, Anything, Everything (Thing 1= anything goes + Thing 2 = played along with previous partner); Crafter's Cafe #298 Humorous (the funny photo of my son, plus included a play on words by using Marie Antoinette's famous "let them eat cake" quote as part of my journaling about a cake walk)

Going Up Layout

Since he's a recent high school grad, scrapbooking my son's elementary school photos sometimes seems like an exercise in futility, but he seems to enjoy it when I call him over to see whatever photos I'm working on, so I persevere! These photos were taken at his 2nd grade school luau (more like a carnival but with a slightly tropical feel), where the climbing wall was a huge hit with the kids. I scrapped the left page while the right hand page is actually a pocket page, but to show it here, I stitched the photos and journaling card together on the computer to avoid the glare of the plastic page protector.

Recipe:
Stitched Journaling panels stamp set (Autumn Leaves)
You & Me stamp set
The Summer Stack papers (DCWV)
Goldrush & White Daisy cardstock
Goldrush, Green Apple & Desert Sand ink
Sienna fineliner pen (iBayam)
Color Ready Kraft Borders
Matte Sprinkles Zoo assortment (Doodlebug Designs)
Cricut Artiste cartridge: title, arrows
Pattern: EMS Sketch Challenge #64 (rotated right) + pocket page