ONE PLUS ONE!

Today I am going to share my last layout for the NSD challenges over at A Cherry on Top as well as a card.

First for the layout.  The challenge was Donna's Scraplift with a twist.  The instructions were to go to the gallery, to the page of your age, and select a layout to lift the design from.  then you needed to select 5 embellishments from the other layouts on the page.

Here is the layout I lifted.

The embellishments I chose were:

flower cluster

3 banner flags

buttons

white lettering

frame part of photo inside mat

Here is my layout:

flower cluster, buttons

3 banner flags, buttons

white lettering

frame inside mat

And now for the card -

I used sketch #396 from Mojo Monday.

The sketch-

and my card - 

I hope that you have enjoyed today's share.  Please stop back again!

MORE BUTTERFLIES!

Back in August 2013 I saw more butterflies than I had ever seen in my life before or since.  I took some amazing photos of them at Lum's Pond on August 17th and at Mount Cuba on August 30th. This layout is from photos I took at Mount Cuba.

I was inspired for the design of this layout from Shannon's Comic Book challenge over at A Cherry on Top.  

Believe it or not THIS is a comic book!  They sure have come a long way since I was young.

Here is the layout I designed as inspired by that comic.  I had that paper line by American Crafts in my collection for ages.  I was so happy to find the perfect thing to use it on.  I fussy cut several parts of the paper.

And here are a few close-ups-

Two different species of butterflies feeding 

on the same bush at the same time.

some cute tiny little buttons-

a few other buttons -

my favorite photo of the batch!

I hope that you have enjoyed these butterflies as much as I have.  I am also going to submit this layout to Word Art Wednesday for challenge #182 as the butterflies are such a beautiful reminder of the wonder of God's amazing creations!

A QUICK SHARE

.....before I head off to bed.

I created this layout for Brandy's NSD Recipe challenge over at A Cherry on Top.  It called for selecting items of a pizza that were then converted to scrapbooking items.

My choices were:  
     
Crust - deep dish = cardstock and pattern paper
Sauce - marinara = use a sketch or a template
Toppings - pepperoni = bling
                  black olives = buttons
                  Italian sausage = alpha stickers
                  white onions = washi tape

The crust will be obvious.

I got my sauce over at Scrap Africa - it's their sketch #50.

Here's my take -

pepperoni & black olives

Italian sausage & white onions

I hope you have enjoyed sitting back and enjoying a slice of my pizza! The plan is to be back tomorrow with more creations for you!

All comments greatly appreciated.

MY LAST OF NSD!

Today I am sharing the last layout I got to do in celebration of National Scrapbooking Day.  I created it for The Cherry on Top's Deanna's NSD 2015 Monochromatic/Ombre challenge as well as the May 1st Challenge at Picture This! calling for 2 Photos + Black and White + Doily + Yellow.

I'm using a few more of my favorite butterfly photos 

from Lum's Pond August 2013.

And a few close ups of the accents...

I just remembered that there was a layout I did for the ABC challenge over at Soul Scrappers. This month's letter is "E" and the chosen embellishment is Enamel Dots.  You also had to use a word that starts with the letter "E".  

Here's my layout-

and now for a few close-ups-

this was a really great concert! It was so much fun to share the music of 'my era' with my sons.

check out these enamel dots! - I made them out of pony beads cooked in the oven.  Boy did they make some really smelly smoke!

now how's that for an "E" word? 

Ethnomusicology 

Do you know what it means?  As I didn't I'm going to assume you may not either...so I will tell you.

Ethnomusicology is the study of the music of different cultures.  I figured good 'ol southern rock was a great culture to start with!

And now it's back to cooking, laundry, and the other dreary details of my day today. I am planning on more creating tonite!

HAPPY NATIONAL SCRAPBOOK DAY!

Today I am going to share a few layouts I created today for National Scrapbook Day.

The first uses a few funny photos from the crop I went to last September at Rivercrest Farm in a beautiful renovated barn.  I created this for Chris' Dinner Menu challenge for the NSD Crop over at A Cherry on Top.

This was the menu I chose -
Beverage - Water - faux or real stitching
Appetizer - Fried Calamari - diamonds
Main Course - Chicken Parmesan - 2 sheets cardstock
Side Dish - Roasted Vegetable - Doily
Salad - Caesar - something brown
Dessert - ice cream - my choice - embossing

Here's my dinner -

Chicken Parmesan - 2 sheets of cardstock

Water - Faux Stitching

Fried Calamari - Diamonds

Roasted Vegetable - Doily

Ice Cream - Embossing

Caesar Salad - something brown - Brown Ribbon

My next layout is for Ann's Tradition challenge for the NSD Crop over at A Cherry on Top and for the May Stash challenge #26 at Scrap Our Stash.

Ann is getting married soon so she chose to do the wedding tradition 

"Something Old, 

Something New,

Something Borrowed,

Something Blue."

and the SOS challenge is-

And here is my layout -

Something Old - Karen Foster Stickers

Something New - 

Recollections and Jolee Shaker Boxes, 

Shells by MudPuddles

Something Borrowed -

Julie Nutting Mermaid Doll

and of course the Something Blue is the blue subtle printed patterned paper.

and

E - Embossed Square

M - Mermaid

B - Blue Background, Bottle, Birds in photos

O - Ocean photos and Ocean quote

S - Stickers, Shaker Boxes

S - Sand, Shells

I hope you got to do some creating for National Scrapbooking Day too or at least got to live vicariously by enjoying mine!

All comments greatly appreciated!

MORE FROM NSD

Here's a layout I did for the NSD Pick an Element Challenge over at A Cherry on Top.  The challenge was to pick three elements from this layout.

The elements I chose were the color red, arrows, border punches (and I have a bit of corrugated paper on it too!)

I used the April 15th sketch from over at Boys Rule.

and here is my first layout:

My next layout is for the Flying Unicorn Song Lyric/Poem Layout challenge.  I had several photos of the map collection at Winterthur so I looked for a poem about maps.

Here is the poem I chose:

A Map and a Dream

by Karen O'Donnell Taylor

Maps are more

than tiny lines

intersection

lace designs...

More than names

and colored dots,

rivers, mountains,

tourist spots.

Map are keys

to secret places

vast new world

and unknown faces.

I can trace each

graceful line...

Close my eyes

and in my mind

I can travel

anywhere...

A map, a dream

can take me there!

And here is the layout:

I am also entering this in Crafty Creations challenge #262 Anything but a Card.

I wasn't able to get as much done as I had hoped to today but most of the challenges are still open for most of tomorrow so hopefully I will be able to get a few more completed.

Sweet dreams!

My Grandfather and his Horses - early 1900's

This was such a special page to scrap.  It is one of two photos I have of my Grandfather whom I never met.  I used all the elements for the Use Your Stash challenge over at Colorful Creations as well as basing it on  sketch #220 at Creative Scrappers.  It also qualifies for entry to the Cherry on Top Heritage challenge which called for using an older photo of someone wearing a hat.

Here is the list of the stash:

Pattern Paper

lace

flowers

bling

doily

a banner

Here is the sketch:

and here is my layout:

Hope you have enjoyed my family trip back in time.

LOTS OF LAYERS!

Today's postable challenge is a card with lots of layers for the Paper Play Challenges Blogspot Week 31.  I created it using a sketch from A Cherry on Top card challenge and lots of scraps from my basket.  Here is the sketch:

and here is my card:

I wanted to do something a bit different on some of the layers so I stamped on them using gesso!  I love the outline effect it gives.

I just went to post my challenge and the collection over at Paper Play is CLOSED.  :(     I missed it by about 40 minutes!  :(   Well at least it is still eligible for Cherry on Top!  :)

Hope that you have enjoyed checking it out anyway!