May LOAD Days 17-20

I've been scrapping so late every night that I haven't had time to type up the blog posts for these! Less than 2 weeks to go now, I'm so happy that I've made it this far!

This is Day 17...used one of the sketches from the 28 Sketches Class.

Paper from a K&Co paper pad and embellishments all from my stash!

This picture is from when Mike and I were dating a few years ago. :)

This is Day 18...some pictures from a fall drive in CT. I have no idea where we were. I need to show Mike because he will remember!  Paper is from a DCWV stack, it was perfect since it already had a title on it. I added some Cosmo Cricket stickers for the date and a few Basic Grey Pyrus embellishments. 

This is Day 19...pictures from the 2008 Big E. Love seeing the different butter sculptures when I go. The title is the name of the sculpture. Thank goodness for Google!  I didn't know what to title the page and Google came to the rescue. I was also able to find the artist's name which was nice to add. 

This is Day 20. I used SBSC283 for the layout, it worked out great for my pictures! I had them sitting out on my desk all week and didn't know what to do with them. As soon as I saw the sketch on Friday, everything came together! I love when that happens! More paper and embellies from my stash!

I'll be back with Day 21 shortly. It's for a challenge so I want to post it separately or else it would get lost here!

May LOAD - Day 16

I made a quick page last night using yesterday's sketch for the 28 Sketches class. I think it took me longer to decide what pics to scrap than to make the actual layout. Sorry for the poor lighting but it was late when I took the picture and getting a good pic is not easy!

My friend's dogs Taylor & Emmitt :)

Have a great day!

May LOAD - Day 15

Last post for today!

Here is Day 15's page...kept it simple since it's so late.  I kept getting distracted watching the baseball game - A big woohoo for the Red Sox sweeping the Yankees!!!

I used the 14th sketch from Artful Delight's 14 Days of Sketches for this page. 

This is my friend's cute cat, Eli, hiding by a plant.  I thought the Scrabble tile letters were fun to use for the title. Everything is from the Basic Grey Max & Whiskers collection except for the lettering. 

Thanks for looking!

LOAD Days 12-14

{Please scroll down one post for my Birthday Sundaes challenge card}

I've still been keeping up with the May LOAD challenge - woohoo me!  With Blogger down I wasn't able to post Thursday's page and then I busy, busy with no time for posting until today!

This is Day 12's page. I was inspired by The Paper Variety's movie inspiration challenge for this layout. I originally planned to scrap some stars from the Hollywood Walk of Fame but then I came across this picture of me & Woody from The Big E and I thought it was perfect :)  I used last week's Sketchy Thursday layout.

I used some old DCWV patterned paper and some even older cardstock lol. The title is Thickers. 

Here is Day 13's page.  Again lots of old stash used up!  The photo is of my friend's pets. I helped her take her Christmas card picture that year (2007). This is one of the outtakes :) 

This page is from Day 14.  Another page full of old stash, even a swap item! I have tons of those to use up.  The photo is of the doggies in the above picture. I came across this picture the other day and was surprised to pull the page together so quickly yesterday morning. Having some of my paper organized by theme is making scrapping really easy and now I am motivated to finally get the paper closet finished! I hope to have some time next weekend to work on it. 

Now to figure out today's page!

TFL!

LOAD - Day 10

Not my best page ever but it's another one done...

Long day/night and I didn't have time or energy to do much, not ready to throw the towel in yet either lol (I'm stubborn like that!)

I used today's Artful Delight sketch which you can see HERE.

TFL!

May LOAD - Day 8

Whew...I made it. I have such a headache tonight that I was ready to throw in the towel. I'm glad I didn't as the page I made is super cute (and I am determined not to fail this challenge!)

This is a picture that I snagged from my sister's computer awhile ago. I thumbed through a bunch of different pics tonight and picked this one when I found a sketch that would work. As I was contemplating paper choices, I remembered that my Artful Delight kit came yesterday and it was perfect for what I had in mind as this new week for LOAD focuses on color. The sketch is #8 from the 14 days of sketches at Artful Delight.

Everything is from the Echo Park Summer Days collection and is all from the kit except for the Thickers. The bright fun colors make me happy :) and I can't wait to use it again!

TFL!

May LOAD - Day 7 and another challenge

This is my 4th page for today and possibly my last so I am going to enter it for my Day 7 of LOAD.  I'd hate to get distracted and not make another page by the deadline tonight!

I started this layout using the 2nd NSD challenge from the Scrapfriendly Yahoo Group.  The challenge is to use newer photos, papers & tools.  I used adorable pics of my niece Emily, some MME Stella & Rose Hazel papers, and used my Cricut (and Gypsy)!! The yummy was cut from the Simply Charmed cartridge - first time using it! The cake was cut from the Sweet Treats cartridge (my 2nd time using this - I originally bought it to cut some flags that I used on my wedding bookmark favors)

TFL!

May LOAD - Day 5

A simple page for today. I am really loving the first week of LOAD - Back to Basics.  Getting back to the basics is helping me scrap faster and easier which is great since I have stacks and stacks of pictures to get on pages!

This is another page for the series of pages for Kent Falls 2010 which is why I simply titled it The Falls.  I pulled out my fall bin and found these sparkly stickers from Walmart and leaf stickers from Hallmark. Some extremely old stash used up, yay!

TFL!

May LOAD - Day 4

Today I decided to make a 2 page layout. These will be added to the book I started about our visit to a sunflower maze a few summers ago. 

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The journaling reads 'As we walked around the maze, I was surprised to find so many different colors of sunflowers. They were all so beautiful!'

TFL!

May LOAD - Day 3

Here is today's page!

It's not the best picture of our little reindeer but by the time I figured out the best camera setting we weren't going to dress Amber up again, she wasn't fond of the antlers LOL. She didn't mind the dress at all :)

I used a card sketch from Eat Sleep Stamp for the layout~

Thanks for looking!

May LOAD - Day 2

I spent so much time reading tonight that I only had time for a quick page.  I'm reading Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks for those that are interested!

I used Basic Grey Life of the Party for the paper, balloons and journaling spot. I bought this collection with these pics in mind. I found some papers in there that can be used for my Mom's birthday pics as well so you'll be seeing those soon!

I did use some old stash - the letter stickers. I tried to outline them but ended up writing on them just a bit, oops! I wanted to make them stand out a bit more since I couldn't find any color stickers that matched in my stash.  

I decided to save today's May with May prompt for the weekend, it will require more of my attention and some supplies that I haven't put my hands on yet.  

Have a great night!

Challenge Projects - Day 1

It's only Day 1 and I am loving the Layout a Day challenge and May with May class!

The LOAD prompt for today was to use the basics - photos, cardstock, patterned paper, journaling and a title. I was able to do this page in about 30 minutes and didn't use a sketch! I am so impressed with myself LOL! It was nice not fussing around trying to find the 'perfect' paper or embellishments. 

May's prompt for the May with May class was to complete a crafty project is 30 minutes or less. Now I could have taken the easy way out and used my LOAD page but nope, I'm all about getting crafty this month so I challenged myself to make a card!  I pulled out a stamp that's never seen ink (yay me!) and I used the paper & embellishments already on my desk from yesterday.

LOAD supplies - Bazzill cardstock, DCWV patterned paper (from the OLD stash!), Thickers, zig writer pen

Card supplies - Spring Birds stamp from Memory Box, MME Stella & Rose Hazel papers, Queen & Co pearls, copics (R32, R35, YG03, YG67, G20, BG13, BG23)

TFL!