Skinny Pancake with frames

We went to the Skinny Pancake restaurant in burlington, VT last April for lunch.  It is a crepe restaurant.  The food was yummy!  You order and pay at the counter and then the servers bring your food to your table. We were given #35 for our order.  I took these photos of my son while we were waiting for our food to be delivered.  My son was "playing" on his phone and then drinking his soda.  For the scrapbook blog Three or More  you must always use 3 or more photos.  Their July challenge is  to use frames on your LO.  I put a frame around my son in each photo.

 Here are some epoxy stickers that I used near the bottom of my patterned paper.

I put the phone near the photo that had my son using his phone.

Here is a close-up of two of the frames.  It also shows the stars that I put on the page with pop dots so they were lifted off the page.

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At Kitchen Keepsake you will find challenges that are always fun.
This first LO is from the Skinny Pancake where we ate lunch over our Spring Break.  It shows 3 of us at our table with our #35 in front of us.  This crepe restaurant will be a place we will go to again.  This challenge was to use rainbows.  I didn't actually use a rainbow but used chevron  paper that had the rainbow look to me.

I used 2 different stickers for the title and then traced then with my back pen.

Here is one of the giant rainbow gems that  I put on the page with a pop dot.

To see more rainbow LOs go to Kitchen Keepsake.

This second LO is for the August calendar challenge.  It is to use bright summery colors.

I love using ribbon on my LOs.  I often staple it on my page.  I fold the ribbon and staple it in place.  It is as easy as that.

 

For this challenge go to Let's Dish Calendar Challenge at kitchen Keepsake.

Go Krista at SBC

Monday brings  sketch 403 at SBC.  I used Challenge #1 and doubled the sketch.  It was perfect for the photos of Krista playing softball.

I used mist on my white background paper and then added patterned paper on each end.  I loved doing the stitching on my page.  I did some before I put down my photos and lots after I had my photos glued down.  I used 2 different colors of thread and also different zig zag stitches.  Here is a better look at the stitching.

   

   

Here is the title and more stitching and a sticker star.

I loved how the LO all came together with the buttons, star stickers, arrow stickers, journal circle, and circle color wheel.  To see the sketch and find out more about this challenge head on over the SBC.

   

Road Trip via Scrapbook Circle

Today I want to show you a page I made from our trip to Vermont last April.  We took a day during our Spring Break to go to Burlington.  As usual we took the ferry from Plattsbugh to Vermont.  I took this photo with my iphone while we were riding on the ferry.  I used my Scrapbook Circle July kit for their Challenge #79 Typography.  I used the gray Polaroid looking paper down the center to hold my photo, a camera, and my title.

 Below is my title "and so it begins Road Trip." 

  Here is the top left corner where I stamped  celebrate today and added the sticker special day.

 Lastly this close-up shows the bottom right corner where I have the adventure journal card, the #2 as part of my journalling about riding on the ferry, and the word enjoy.

There are lots of words and phrases on my page to go along with this typography challenge.  If you wish to see the details go to the Scrapbook Circle blog.  You have until August 6th to enter.

It was Windy on top of the mountain

If you have been following my blog you know that when we went to Whiteface Mountain last summer I was not too keen on walking up the side of the mountain so I took the elevator.  The photo that I am showing off today is one that I included on a LO posted on my June 23rd blog.  On today's LO I am using the photo by itself.

It is the selfie that I took of myself while I was waiting for the rest of my family to reach the top of the mountain.  As you can tell from my glasses and hair the sun was shining and the wind was blowing.  I used the July sketch from Kitchen Keepsake and the color challenge at Challenge YOURself as inspiration for this LO.   

      

I spritzed my teal background paper.  I cut a square from some purplish textured paper.  I then cut rectangles from a patterned paper that had the colors from the color pallette and a plain gray piece of paper.  I layered these under my photo.  I added the ribbon near the bottom of these layers.  I used a canvas tag for my cluster and added a velum circle and a star on top of it.  I also added my journalling to a scrap piece of paper.  I used big white sticker letters for my title and some keys in a line under it all.  This photo shows the cluster and journalling.  You can also see that I inked the edges of all the papers I put under my photo.

I'd like to say that I had a great time on this day, but I would have to say it was a scary time for me.  After we drove back down the mountain we went to lunch and played min-putt.  These were the parts of the day that I enjoyed. 

To see the sketch challenge and the color challenge go to these blogs:  

Kitchen keepsake and Challenge YOURself.  

Thanks for stopping by today.

Quiet

One morning while stopping to pick up my nephew for school, at my mom's house, we saw this deer near her house.  It was in the small apple orchard that she has.  When I sat down to scrap these photos I decided to use all 3 that I had taken with my phone.  I used the July 15th sketch from Stuck Sketches?!  I chose a wooden tree and some leaves that had come in a kit that I had.  

Studio Challenges also used this sketch with their July Colour palette.  I gave it a shot for both challenge with my LO!   Here is a close-up of the twine I used in the upper right corner and the rub-on I used on the left corner.

  

If you'd  like to see more from these challenges go to Stuck Sketches and Studio Challenges.  You will see what the DT members created and find out how you can win prizes from entering the challenge at each blog. 

Pixles and Paper Challenge

I found another new scrapbook challenge blog.  It is called Pixels and Paper.  They have 1 challenge per month.  They post an image and you can use whatever inspires you about the image to create any form of scrapbooking and memory keepers that you choose.  Here is the July image.

Below is the LO that I created.  The first thing I noticed were the bright colors.  It was the reds and yellows that drew me in.  I decided to scrap some photos from last Easter.  Coloring eggs is one of our family traditions.  We often gather at my mom's house.  It is there that the grandchildren spend time together coloring eggs.

I started with some spotted paper to place my photos and most of my other embellishments on it. I then sprayed red, yellow, and rose mist on my yellow background paper. I put on some paper stripes behind and on top of my spotted paper.  I added the wooden circles some hand stitching on 2 edges of the paper and sewed the light bulb at the top of the inside spotted paper block.

 Here are a couple close-ups.

So there you have it:  my page that was inspired by the Ferris wheel.  Thanks for stopping by today.  If you want to go see the details for this challenge go to Pixels and Paper