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

Water Lane Layout

I really wanted to use some patterned papers I bought to scrap my London trip from 2017 (I've only been working on it six years - LOL!), so I skipped ahead to the Tower of London. These photos were taken just inside the Tower's entrance, at historic Water Lane, so named because it used to be right on the banks of the Thames until Edward I filled in part of the river and created the Outer Ward. We took some great photos at the Tower, but the one of my hubby with the Yeoman Guard (a Beefeater) is one of my favorites!

When I put it in the album, this layout will also include a Flip-Flap with two additional photos (St. Thomas' Tower and the Traitor's Gate) that will cover the journaling, so here they are:

Recipe:
Limited Edition, Make It Count, Distressed Backgrounds & Stipple Plaid stamp sets
Once Upon a Time paper (P13)
Candy Apple, Sapphire, Mist, Almond & White Daisy cardstock
Candy Apple, Sapphire, Mist, Almond & Slate ink
Grey Fineliner pen (iBayam)
Wood heart & arrow
Bamboo Bigger Brad
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: banners, tag
Pattern: EMS Sketch Challenge #95

Challenges: Heart's Quest Challenge Blog # 32 Travel + Love/hearts; Double Trouble #141 Something, Anything, Everything (Thing 1 = anything goes + Thing2 = played along with previous partner Cupcake Inspirations #572)

There's grey in there, too, but hopefully that's okay!

In God's Perfect Time Layout for Lasting Memories #656 - Summer Words - CAMPERS

For our last June challenge over at Lasting Memories, we used products or techniques for each letter in the word CAMPERS. This and all the other June challenges are only open until Saturday, July 1, so hurry on over for some inspiration, then please share your layout so we get to enjoy it, too! Here's my list of supplies for the CAMPERS challenge:

C - Clock
A - alphabet stamps
M - metal heart charm
P - plaid patterned paper
E - eyelets & Envelope
R - ripped paper
S - stickers

My journaling about God's perfect timing in the adoption of my children's bio-sib is on the tag inside the yellow envelope, but I chose not to share it here since it involves another family.

Update: this layout was picked by Festive Fridays as one of their faves!

Recipe:
Make It Count, Starter Alphabet & Live Out Loud stamp sets
Ethan Plaid paper (MM)
Hip Hip Hooray paper
Fern, Bluebird & Saffron ink
Hip Hip Hooray sticker
O Happy Day cardstock sticker (Simple Stories)
Fern baker's twine
Eyelets (MM)
Love charm (MM)
Decor Journaling Spot
Pattern: EMS Sketch Challenge #95 (right page only, flipped horizontally)

Challenges: Festive Friday #137 - (used blue, green & heart embellishment)

Scrap With Stacy June Tic Tac Toe board (used the middle column with metal + stickers + circle