HAPPY OCTOBER!!!

Well, I am trying hard to face it that it is time to say goodbye to summer.  Although fall can be such a beautiful season it leads to winter, lack of light and bitter cold.  So, instead I am going to try and focus my energy on continuing to prepare to move to a new place and to enjoying creating lots of art! Creating always helps me to feel better.

The first thing I am going to share with you today is my layout for the Scrapping Everyday Miracles October layout reveal.

Here is the great sketch by Bev Code - 

I decided to work on some photos from the awesome Robin's Scrap Nest crop I attended back in April in the Ohio Amish Country.

and here is my layout - 

and a few fun close-ups!

The theme of the crop was Bee Happy!  Bee Scrappy! so I got to add a few of these fun bees!

 These pretty flowers were right 
outside my room!

This is the name of the Inn the crop was held 
at where I also stayed.

My next share is another fun coffee themed card with a cute little Julie Nutting doll on it.  I used the sketch #206 from Freshly Made Sketches.

And now my card -  

(Aren't these coffee sentiments the funniest?)  

This one says...

ALL I ASK

FOR IS

WORLD PEACE

AND A HOT

CUP

of COFFEE

and close-ups!

 

I am sharing this fun coffee card at the 

Coffee Loving Cardmakers 

Fall Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

Thanks for stopping by to check out my latest creations.

BEE HAPPY! BEE SCRAPPY! - TONS OF FUN TUESDAY!

This is the last full day of Robin's Scrap Nest 

Bee Happy! Bee Scrappy! Crop at the 

Carlisle Inn Walnut Creek.

In the morning we checked out some of the great gift shops - especially Carlisle Gifts which was right across the street and had an amazing selection - a little bit of everything!

Next we headed to Rebecca's Bistro for lunch.

And after lunch we got to play with paper dolls!  That was something I always enjoyed when I was a young girl.  These Julie Nutting doll stamps are so much fun.

Here's my doll - 

And my final creation from the crop uses Make It Monday sketch #37 from The Memory Nest.

and here's my layout!

BEE HAPPY! BEE SCRAPPY! - IT'S SUNDAY!

Sunday started off with a trip to NewPointe Community Church in Millersburg, Ohio with my roomies.  Then it was back to The Carlisle for more creative fun!

On Sunday I used a sketch from Turtle Soup Monday Sketch challenge 4/6.

and some photos of my younger son Thomas fishing the first time we went to Lum's Pond State Park in August 2013.

And here's my layout...flipped around a bit...

I also did a make and take tag with Charlene Woods designer of C-thru the Woods stamps. The tag reads 'May Each Miracle of Spring be a sweet reminder of God's Everlasting Love.'  I'm going to enter my tag in challenge #179 at Word Art Wednesday.

Can't wait to post Monday - I actually accomplished a bit more!

BEE HAPPY! BEE SCRAPPY! IT'S SATURDAY!

I'm just back from an awesome trip to Ohio for another crop of Robin's Scrap Nest.  This time it was at a beautiful place called The Carlisle Inn in the Amish country of Ohio.

There were a few swaps that were arranged in advance...

Flowers -

           

ATC cards-

and a special page for an album for the awesome hostess Robin Adair Lawrence Immel.

The first day I was there I managed to complete one layout...

I used the April Week 1 sketch from 

Let's Get Sketchy.

and my layout - more photos from my 

Mom's 1982 trip.

Keep following the posts to see more!