Sketch 237 Challenge- From Pamela's World of Scrap

 When doing my virtual crop last Saturday I used this sketch as one of the challenges!  I really like the way Pamela's World of Scrap set up her sketches!  They are as a card, single page or double page.  After I finished mine I realized it was actually a challenge so I am entering my version of this layout below!

My finished product!

I used the Dotty paper from a year ago and the title is cut from the Artiste Cricut cartridge!  I matted the letters to make the blue pop and just love the way it came out!  Simple but works great with the pictures!

Tommy Workshop

 Create these two 2 page layouts for $25.  Everything will be cut for you and you get the leftover  Tommy paper and Dimensional Stars and Tommy Assortment!

Wednesday,  July 24 at 10 am 

or 

Saturday, July 27 at 7 pm

Sign up and pay by July 6!

K is for Kissing! ABC BLog Hop

Welcome to the Everything ABC's Blog Hop!

For this hop we will be featuring the letter K.  This may be the name of a paper, a stamp set or an embellishment.  Whatever the crafter has chosen as their K element will be featured in their post.

If you have just hopped onto my blog, please start at the beginning  at Amber's  blog ~ Scrapper's Therapy 

If you came from Amber La Mons then you're on the right track!

Almost immediately I thought of kissing when I thought of the letter K and scrapbooking/stamping!  I first did it a few years ago on a title for a Halloween layout, I wanted it to look creepy and it worked so well!

Recently, I made this layout out of our trip to New York last summer.  The paper is some left from my pre-CTMH days, before I knew better!

It  was ok but needed a title and some pizzaz!  This is where the Kissing comes in!

 I inked up the first letter of my title, S with Sky ink.

 And the wave stamp from the Surf's Up Workshop On the Go inked with Lagoon ink.

 Then I put the S face up on the table and carefully stamped the wave stamp on the S stamp.  Be careful not to slip because it is slippery!

 Because my stamp I was kissing with was small and my stamp I was kissing was big I had to stamp it several times on the S, reinking each time!

 This is what it looked like all inked up!

 And after I stamped it!  Cool huh!  I was thrilled with the outcome!

 Here is the N with the inked side up!

The S is the after kissing stamp and the Z and the wave are in their "natural" form. 

 Here is the finished product!  I inked the edges with Lagoon and added a few splashes to finish it off!

 I just love the end product! Stickers would not have been this cute!

Stamp Kissing is not complicated and can even be simpler than I used for this! This video from Tresa Black  is what I used for inspiration!  She also has several other kinds of kissing of varying difficulty! Hope you enjoyed this presentation of the letter K!

Your next stop on our Everything ABC'S blog Hop is Shelly Nemitz of Just One Piece.

Here is the complete lineup in case you get lost along the way :)

1. Amber La Mons~ Scrapper's Therapy 

2. Linda Norman- Scrappy Therapy 

3. Shelly Nemitz - Just One Piece

4.  Theo ~ Celebrate Crafts
5. Shalana Glass - Scrappin' with Shalana

I also entered this in the Use Your Stuff Challenge!

July 4th

 I wanted to show these two layouts together even though I have already posted the 2nd one because these are the same pictures of the same day on two completely different looking layouts!  The top one I only used two relatively small pieces of patterned paper and a few stars cutout from the Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge.  The titles were cut form the Artiste Cartridge. I started with a layout I had seen on Pinterest and it evolved into this!  I had lots of pictures but only wanted one page!  The funny thing is I like them both and for very different reasons!

To see more details  about this layout go here!

Fanfare was a great paper pack for summer, patriotic days and boys and much more!  It is still available in Studio J too!

Which layout do you like better?  Why?  Leave a comment and I will draw a winner of some CTMH love from the comments on June 12!

Amazing Wonders Aviation

 My kids went to Vacation Bible School at my Mom's church last year and had a wonderfilled time!  These pictures are from the last night of Amazing Wonders Aviation VBS!  

I really wanted to do propellers and couldn't find any on my Cricut cartridges so I cut a daisy type flower from my Art Philosophy Cartridge and trimmed out all but 2 petals that were opposite each other and added a pearl badge button from the Wrangler Assortment !  I love the way they turned out and had so much fun doing it!  Love finding creative solutions to dress up your page when you don't have what you want/need!

The paper I used was the retired Caboodle, still available on Studio J! I also cut the title using the Artiste Cartridge! Sharing with you inspires me to push further and get creative!

For Always Workshop

Create these 4 elegant and fun pages with the For Always papers with the help of the Artiste and Art Philosophy Cricut cartridges and Sparkles Black and Grey Assortment.

All papers will be cut for you, and all leftover paper is yours!  You need only to bring adhesive, pop dots, glue dots and scissors.

Cost is $20

Wednesday, June 12 at 9 am 

or 

Saturday, June 15 at 7 pm

Sign up and pay by June 1.

Sara and Lora were playing with our new iPad and the photo program including distorting the pictures! They were just perfect for these pages!

 These pages were inspired by Lindsey DeLaMare at Scrapping-by-the-Sea.  These pictures are fro my husband's concert at the Mission San Jose! 

Morning Announcements

Micah did the Pledge of Allegiance on the video announcements at School.  Joshua also was there with his class to sing the school song!  It was fun to watch them!

The paper I used was retired Rough and Tumble which was a great boy paper!  The buttons are also retired and I was excited to use some stash for the Child's Play Challenge to use some buttons!  I also used the Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge for the title.

What have you used that you have had in your stash recently?