It's A Dog's Life LO for a Sketch N Scrap challenge

 Good Morning and welcome :) Wow are we really into December! 2021 just flew by and I think this month is going to also. Now on to the Sketch N Scrap challenge for the day. A wonderful sketch from Heather to play with today.

This is the layout I created with it

That background paper that looks like hair I think fits well for Buddy's hair coloring and it came from my 100 Pattern Paper Pile 2021 challenge :) a good handful yet to use up before the months out :) The rest of the papers for the layout came from my Dog theme drawer :) I love the addition of the pocket card next to the photo. Thanks for stopping by today to see what I created and can't wait to see what you create from this cool sketch over at Sketch N Scrap blog.

Sweet 16 LO - Sketch N Scrap challenge

 Good Morning and welcome :) Wow it's the middle of May already! Time flies when your having scrappy fun. Now on to the Sketch N Scrap challenge for the day

Happy 9th Birthday to Sketch N Scrap!!  Today we are celebrating 9 years of sketchy inspiration with an exclusive sketch for this momentous occasion, brought to us by sketch artist and Sketch N Scrap owner Lisa. 

Here is the sketch:

This is what I created and using the birthday theme too I wanted to celebrate our pup Buddy
 

Our Buddy turns 16 on Friday, so thought this would be a good topic to scrap and also worked for the theme of the current day's LOAD too of something we treasure.Thanks for stopping by today to see what I'm doing in my little corner of the world :)

From the Sketch N Scrap blog: In honor of NSD and our 9th birthday this month we have FOUR prizes to give away here on the blog!!!  We will select four random people from all our blog & Facebook entries to win each of the following prizes:

$15 gift card to A Cherry On Top- donated by DT member Deanna

$15 gift card to A Cherry On Top- donated by DT member Stacy

$15 gift card to The ScrapRoom donated by DT member Lisa

Card kit: donated by DT member Tina

And last but not least make sure and join our Private Facebook Group because we are giving away a GRAND PRIZE in this group!  Throughout the month we will be hosting a birthday bash crop in our private Facebook group and if you complete ALL EIGHT challenges your name will go into the drawing to win this amazing Pink Fresh Some Days collection generously donated by DT member Lori!!  

There's lots of ways to win this month so stop by the blog and check it all out

 

 

Autumn Blessings LO for Sketch N Scrap challenge

 Good Morning, the weather here in PA has been changing all over the place! Last week I think we had Indian Summer and now the temps have changed to the cooler weather of Fall. Welcome to the 2nd layout sketch challenge of the month over at Sketch N Scrap blog. Stacy has a sweet sketch for us to play with this month:

This was a fun sketch to play with :) I added an extra picture to my layout but the essence of the sketch is still there.

A walk that Buddy and I took on a Saturday night before the time change, enjoying a bit of time outside. The leaves have fallen quite a bit by then. Using my current counterfeit kit: Fall Breeze and the sequins came from my Kreative Cuts Club November 2019 kit. This sketch was great for the scraps of papers I had in my kit.

Thanks for stopping by today and seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world.
I look forward to seeing what you create from this fun sketch over at Sketch N Scrap.

Good Dog LO for a Use Your Stuff challenge-Critters

Yay for an Early Spring! He has spoken and didn't see he's shadow :) Love this now to see if it happens :)
In honor of this critter's answer we at Use Your Stuff challenge blog are in a collaboration with Double Trouble:
Our theme for you this week in honor of Groundhog Day on the 2nd is to create a project that has CRITTERS....it could be something that highlights a pet, or a stamped image with some animals on it, maybe it's the PP that you use with those birds, ducks, moose!  Whatever tickles your fancy!

Now for an added twist, we are partnering in this challenge with Double Trouble Challenges!

You want to make sure to head over to their blog as well and incorporate their challenge themes into your project for a chance to win...just click on this link .

Easy enough for me :) with Buddy in our life I have the critter challenge under control :)

My layout is of my Buddy :) my favorite critter. Using an older paper pad I got years ago in a swap for my layout of Buddy. Lucky enough to get the right picture while he had his tongue out making it extra special. I had fun creating this layout and really love how it turned out too.
Now it's your turn! I look forward to see what you create for this fun challenge over at Use Your Stuff challenge blog

Happy is the Heart at Home

Good Morning and welcome :) Got my 1st layout done for 2020 and what better way to start off the new year that with my favorite pooch Buddy. Using the January 1 sketch over at Sketch N Scrap 

I had fun creating this fun layout of Buddy opening up his gift from his Aunt Patty (my sister)

Choosing a Non-Traditional color scheme I went with a challenge over at The Secret Not Secret Kit Club FB group and used Amy's Mood Board challenge for my colors. I used my November Counterfeit Kit: Everyday Insight and used up some of the home accents that was in that kit. That golden yellow paper for the background is a very old EK Success paper from Build a Page papers. I wanted to create atleast 1 more layout with this kit before putting it away :) but I just may do 1 or 2 more yet with it before getting into the Christmas paper.
Thanks for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing what you create with this fun sketch over at Sketch N Scrap challenge blog

Silly Pup LO for Use Your Stuff challenge

Hello and welcome :) It's a new week and more challenges to come this week. Lets start out this week with Use Your Stuff challenge blog. Mayo is our hostess this week and she has challenged us to a Furry Friends challenge :) easy enough for me as I'm blessed with a furry pooch in the family. So now to choose a layout.

I decided to feature the layout I create during LOAD1018 Day 26: Show of the Day: Hairspray (2002) The challenge was to show off your hairstyle photos and stories or Freshen up your layout with a white background and and some bright letters like the Hairspray playbill.
I think I'm on prompt :) if were talking of hair :) Used the variety title for my layout and a fun page about our Silly Pup :) Used another layout from Janet's 4for4series (fall series) and my counterfeit kit for Sept 2018: Falling For You and some theme products too.

 I did the bright variety of letters for my title, staying within the LOAD prompt

 But feel that brushing Buddy's hair is right in prompt too as we're talking about Hair for the play Hairspray :)

Close up of my journaling for the layout. Had fun using a variety of bits and pieces on this layout too. Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing what you create for this fun challenge this week :)

Lucky Dog layout - Sketch 114

Good Morning and welcome to the 2nd challenge sketch of the month over at Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style and this is the sketch That Emma created for this month:

and this is what I created for my layout:

Using some old 4X6 pocket style cards and cutting them down just a wee bit to work for what I wanted for this layout:

 Going with a grid design for my layout thanks to RTS scarpbooking and Janet's new fun series about go to designs. I used that plaid pattern paper from my current counterfeit kit: Just Bloomin' Lovely  and the wood veneer arrows too that were in the kit. From just that one day shopping I thinks so far I got 4 layouts done and still got a few more to do from the pictures I took. Another grid layout will be coming from those pictures too but that is a story to tell another day.

 The close ups of the layout

 The card I created with additional wood veneer stars that I dressed up the layout with.

also added the enamel hearts that are in the kit too. Thanks for stopping by and I look forward to seeing your creation with this fun sketch over at Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style.

Simply Love layout for a Sketch N Scrap challenge

Good Morning and welcome to today's challenge over at Sketch N Scrap. Heather has created this sketch for up to play with this month:

 

and this is the layout I created with this sketch:

 Our sweet Buddy is the feature on this layout today and a story of the everyday in our house. I used my current counterfeit kit: Florally Whimsy and with a Black and Silver theme created this layout.

My journaling plus the definition cut apart was great to use with this layout

My Title

and our Buddy just sucking it all up :) Scattered punched silver hearts around the layout. I made this layout to tell a story and that was one of the challenges during Scrap-A-Thon class too.
I look forward to seeing your creation with this sketch challenge over at Sketch N Scrap

Adore My Buddy for Counterfeit Kit Challenge's 1st Challenge

Good Morning and welcome :) This is Challenge #1 for Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog, it is I LOVE PARIS

• WE all love Paris. capture the mood of Paris in your layout/card/tags. Use iconic buildings from Paris (need I list them?).Add love hearts, lace, whatever you want.
• I’ve added some ideas to the Pinterest page.
• https://www.pinterest.com.au/julenematthews/february-counterfeit-kit/
• They don’t have to feature photos of Paris! 

When I think of Paris I think of the iconic buildings, the love and the atmosphere of the city and my kit had a few things that resembled those thoughts. A layout of our favorite pooch one spoiled king in our household created using some Paris theme paper I have in my kit:

These photos have been sitting on my desk for quite a while and I thought this was the prompt to use the photos :) I used one of the stamping up papers that had the variety color of rectangles on it for matting my photos to bring in colors of that fun snake Buddy is playing with.

 The journaling

 My title work

 couple of photos of Buddy enjoying his new toy.

the other photos of Buddy having fun with his toy with Dave :) I thought the crowns that I had in my kit were a good choice to draw your eye to the photos and a good time to use them with my journaling. Lots of hearts on this layout and a couple of alphas for the title, the project life card cut down for the journaling. 
Thank you for stopping by today to see what I'm up to in my little corner of the world. Have you put together your counterfeit kit this month? It's a great inspiration kit this month, I've been enjoying my kit very much and got to be one of my favorites I created :) This is my 11th layout from this kit so far.

Chowder Head layout

Good Afternoon :) This layout was inspired by LOAD 1017 Day 9: …nickname – hopefully you had an immediate thought for this one.
Yes I did it's a nickname my hubby gave to our Buddy, our furry friend.

This is our Chowder Head aka Buddy. When I seen the prompt about nickname I knew I had to do this layout about Buddy. I used a recent photo of him:

 I used the Oct 1st sketch over at Let's Get Sketchy:

Love the layers that was matting the photo for this layout :) The border strips was like a frame for the layout. I also used 2 other challenges for this layout for the Scrappy Sisters Scrap September day 4: 3 colors: blue, off green and white. For Scrappin N Chattin yahoo group this is for the Navy Day challenge using Navy the most in the layout (a variety of blues indeed)

 Close up of the journaling

 The title and bottom cluster

and some of the other cluster work on the layout.

Thanks for stopping by and seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world ........

2017 Fall Pickings for Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style challenge

If you are looking for the Sketch N Scrap post you can find it here 
Hello again :) My 2nd post of the day is using this fun sketch over at Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style. The mid month sketch for October is courtesy of the talented Emma Pescott: Emma has created a great journaling card for us to work with:

 

 I created a fun card to go with my layout:

Fall has finally come to Pennsylvania and we are finally seeing the color changes here. We generally grow pumpkins each year for the grands to choose on and then make a craving party out of it and have them decorate our house too :) Well this year it isn't happening with the yield we ended up with pumpkins. We do have pumpkins for them to choose from but that is about it :)

 A fun layout out I created with one of this month's Page Maps sketches:

I flipped the sketch and I also used 1 photo for the 2 small photos. Cool sketch :)

 My journaling card when where they had their journaling at :)

 Buddy made for a very nice photo with the wagon full of pumpkins this year.

 The pumpkins that we grew, oh my not even a dozen! But we have some for the grands to choose from if they come by soon, I noticed yesterday that a few are rotting already.
I used this layout for LOAD1017 Day 14: …musical gift – these are about as much as I am capable of! I went off prompt and created this layout. I did try to play an instrument in band in my Jr High years, but it didn't amount to much a few lessons and that was it and no pictures and not much of a memory for a whole scrapbook page layout. So went with a fall layout page instead.
This layout also falls under Scrappy Sisters Scrap September Day 27: Use Scraps: All scraps on this layout except the background paper. I've got about 3 or 4 collections of fall paper scraps together in a baggy with the left over papers from another collection that I'm trying to use up before cutting into a new fall paper pad I got with my birthday GC at Michaels.
Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a fantastic day today!

Sleepy Buddy for a Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge

Good Morning and welcome to a new week's challenge over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook challenges
All About Animals - In The House. You are to Include a house pet/animal on your layout (dogs, cats, rabbit, hamster, snake, turtle, etc.) This can be in the photos, stickers/embellishments, or in the paper. Well our house is home to our Buddy dog :) Buddy gives me all kinds of reasons to scrap about him there a few coming up soon, but this is one of my favorites of Buddy the way he sleeps. To me it looks uncomfortable for him he likes it:

Sleepy Buddy: I really don't know how that is comfortable but he seems to like to sleep that way :) I think I woke him up with the flash of the camera.
This layout was created last year for Calvinball :) I didn't get a chance to play this year got a cold and just never was able to get caught up. My points that I had earned for the layout during Calvinball 2016: Scrap with scraps, Use something in your stash that is at least two years old, Use patterned paper only on your page, Create a monochromatic page (everything has orange), Use your own handwriting - title or journaling, Scrapbook your pet, Using 3 different fonts on one project, Use something shiny on your page - micro-beads in the 2 flowers, Use a dark background. points: 10
It's an interesting way to scrap and gets you using your old stash.

Pawsitively Adorable

If you are looking for today's Use Your Stuff post you can find it here.
Last post of the day I'm thinking :) I still have to do the layout for today's LOAD prompt :) and get some laundry done too :) This layout is from yesterday's prompt, LOAD217 DAY 26: Cerberus Tell a story about your pet, or a pet from the past. Easy Peasy :0 Just needed to decide on the story to tell?!!

 This layout was inspired by Scrap Our Stash sketch n word challenge:

 

 It was interesting challenge: C: cardstock, U: Uniball pen (silver), P: pattern paper, I: inked edges, D: diecuts

  This is our Buddy :) I thought the 4X6 card was appropriate for a title for this layout and used some fun pictures of Buddy that have just been sitting in the photo box :) I used some of my last month counterfeit kit for this as well as some theme product too.

I was also inspired by one of Whimsical Musings prompts to use a blurry picture and I get lots when trying to take pictures of this furbaby :) Challenge #129 - Inspired by blurry photos

A Fun Yard Sale Find - LM 323

Good Morning and welcome :) Ah the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season is under way in our house, making Christmas cookies today and tomorrow, got packages to wrap, the house to clean, cards to mail out, the house to decorate, a work Christmas Party to attend, some shopping left to do and a menu to plan for Christmas Eve :) and 2 weeks to cram it all in! yep tis the season! How is your list coming along? I did find time in my busy schedule to still do some scrappin and craftin when I can, it gives me peace and relaxation to be in my craftroom.
Today is a new challenge over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge blog and For December we have been doing a "Best Of 2016" theme, and bringing back some of our most popular challenges from this year. This week's challenge is:
LM 323 - Use only 4 photos - no more, no less

This is the layout I made in conjunction with a challenge over at the Rocking Holiday Crop on facebook for Sketch N Scrap. That challenge was a bingo card and a sketch:

 This was created with my Counterfeit kit: Falltoberfest, so this also came out of my 100 Pattern Paper challenge using 4 papers and a scrap too.Oh my gosh I bought this Dino at a yard sale for 50 cents for the grandboys when they visit, we wanted to try it out to see if it worked and when Dave was trying it and it moved here comes Buddy checking it out. To Fun! well worth the money just in that little bit of time with Buddy. Now it's put up for the kids to play with :)
From Sketch N Scrap here is the sketch I used:

From Dec 1, 2013 (part of the bingo row I choose)

 Part of the journaling

 My title work

 The subtitle

 Priceless Buddy having fun with the remote action Dino :) I used the color combo of the Dino for my layout. Thank you for stopping by today and I wish you a fantastic day today :)