LOVING THE LEAVES

For the Colorful Creations Favorite Things challenge this month you needed to do a layout about something you love about Fall or a Favorite Fall Activity.  I love to watch the changing colors of the leaves and to take rides to see how they have changed.  Being a few hours south of where I used to live, the leaves don't change quite as fast, in fact they are only getting started now.  I wasn't able to get photos of any of the actual leaves but I took a few more of the October photos of me and Michael and put them on a wonderful patterned paper of fall leaves and also accented them by putting some silk leaves on pop dots which I added some sheen to with Perfect Pearls. I distressed the edges of everything with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Walnut Stain.  The instructions also were to use warm Fall colors of brown, red, yellow and orange. To create the layout I started with Creative Scrappers Sketch #252.

The Sketch:

I finished it off with some twine and lots of orange bling.  I am also entering this layout in Top Tip Tuesday challenge #113 about the Seasons, Pink Elephant challenge TPE223 for Distressing, Party Time Tuesday #144 Anything Goes, Divas by Design Use some Orange, and Word Art Wednesday #104 Anything Goes.

My Layout:

I am also going to link up at Link up #4 with The Memory Nest.

I have a real crazy day today - layouts to finish, challenges to prepare for November, errands, laundry and getting some odds and ends for my son for Halloween.  So I am off and running.  Have an awesome day and thanks for dropping by.

HAPPY NATIONAL HONEY MONTH

September is National Honey Month.  I created a layout of Thomas' first day of High School using hexagons as honey combs as his school mascot is the yellow jacket.  I used a Crafters Workshop Template with Dry Dex Spackling which I colored with Stickels and Liquid Pearls.  I did this for the Colorful Creations Say It With Words challenge - use the name of your school and I used a September Page Maps sketch from Scrapbook.com.

The Sketch:

My Layout:

For the Kraftie Krea8tions challenge I created some cards using Winnie the Pooh and his love of honey.  

For the first one I used sketch #277 from Sketch Saturday, and the color orange for Kaboodle Doodles  challenge #190, and inspired by the book Pooh's Five Little Honey Pots for Challenge #226 at The C.R.A.F.T. Challenge Blog.

The Sketch:

The Book:



My Card:

My next card uses sketch #193 from Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge and the color palette challenge from The Crazy Challenge. 

The Sketch:

The Color Palette Inspiration:

My Card:

My third card uses sketch #175 from Sunday Sketch & Stamp and Polka Dots and Stripes for challenge #TPE218 at The Pink Elephant and Going Dotty Challenge at Try It On Tuesday.

The Sketch:

My Card:

My Fourth Card uses fall colors for challenge #134 at Die-Cuttin Divas, and sketch #DS120 from Deconstructing Jen and Anything Goes at Party Time Tuesday.

The Sketch:

My Card:

My last card uses a button for Fab 'n Funky challenge #186, Autumn Colors for the challenge at Lili's Crafty Little Fairies, and sketch #277 from Sketch Saturday.

The Sketch:

My Card:

I hope you are having a happy honey of a month and that you have enjoyed my sweet creations!

SUNDAY'S LABOR

Today I created a layout using sketch #6 From the Sketch-a-Thon on 2 Broke Girls, a Back to School theme for my Anything Goes challenge on Colorful Creations and Challenge #TPE214 from The Pink Elephant.

The Sketch:

My Layout:

And then I created 2 cards:

The first was using sketch challenge #308 on Mojo Monday, Color Challenge:  Black, White & ? #PWC273 on Paper Pretties, and Cardz TV Go-To-Gals challenge #34 Color Pop - Black & White with a pop of Yellow.

Here's the Sketch:

My card:

My next card used sketch #68 from Feeling Sketchy.

The Sketch:

My Card:

Thanks for stopping by!  Hope you are enjoying the long Labor Day weekend!

FROM THURSDAY NITE!

I was able to create only one layout last nite.  I used sketch # 1 from Scrapbook.com August sketch challenge.  I am also entering it in TPE213 at Pink Elephant which is for anything but a card.

Here is the sketch:

And here is my layout:

Hopefully I will have more for you later tonite or certainly over the weekend!   Thanks for stopping by.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE SCRAPS TO TREASURES TEAM!!!

Welcome to the Scraps to Treasure Team Big Birthday Party Hop!

The party started Robin's blog at http://scrapandchat.blogspot.com/

You should have arrived here from Camille at http://shortonideasaz.blogspot.com/

In honor of this special occasion we all created birthday themed projects.  We create all of our projects using scraps from prior projects.

Here is the pile of scraps I chose to work from:

I chose to make a few birthday cards.  

For the first one I chose the color palette challenge TPE212 from The Pink Elephant.

And sketch #306 from Mojo Monday!

and my first card:

for my second card I took color challenge TSG220 from There She Goes .

and sketch #211 from Tuesday Morning Sketches:

and card #2:

And for my final card I chose color palette #108 from My Craft Spot-

and Sweet Sketch #218 from Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

I felt that the papers I chose gave a masculine feel to it so rather than a flower I chose to embellish it with a gear and a clock.

Here's my last card:

and now I have a birthday present for a lucky commenter I will choose at random.  In order to qualify you must be a follower of all the blogs in the hop and to have left a comment on each one.

Here's the present:

Here is the full line up:

Robin S. - http://scrapandchat.blogspot.com/
Pam ~ http://mzlavr2.blogspot.com/
Camille ~ http://shortonideasaz.blogspot.com/  You should have come from here!
Paula - http://preciouspagesbypaula.blogspot.com/  You are here now!
Lissa Marie - www.somanycrafts.com  Go here next!
Lucy ~ http://love2createitall.com/
Lynda ~ http://memoriesintyme.blogspot.com/ 

Happy Hopping!!!

THE GRADUATE

Today I needed two Graduation cards for a party we are going to.  The school colors were blue and white so I did them up in a blue monochromatic color scheme for challenge TPE209 at The Pink Elephant.  For the first one I used Sketch #65 from Feeling Sketchy with a Sizzix Diploma die, a Martha Stewart border punch and a stamp.

Here's the sketch:

And the card:

For my second card I used sketch #2 from the July Card Sketch challenge on Scrapbook.com, lots of Distress inks, and the Sizzix Paper Doll, Grad outfit, diploma and shoes, and a vellum sentiment with 2 rhinestones.

Here's the sketch:

And the card:

So Congratulations to Brittany on her graduation from Immaculata University!

Hope that you have enjoyed these cards and you will come back and visit again tomorrow!