NATURE BEAUTY {Stick It Down DT}

Hello

 

It is time for DOUBLE PAGE REVEAL over at the Stick It Down!  YAH YAH!   Oh Yes I am excited!  I just love doubles!  When I saw this sketch of Shelby, I became delightful!  It is just a beauty!  I even got more excited when I saw the banners at the bottom!  I just love banners!  This sketch is really awesome and so easy to follow.  I am sure that you will enjoy it as much as I did!

 

I am doing some cottage photos and I know it is December right now.  I really want to do festive layout for December which would be more appropriate but I do not have the Christmas pictures as my other computer is sick and I do not have access to my last year Christmas pictures so I just went ahead and continued working on my summer pictures.  It is not normal for me to take pictures of nature such as landscapes, flowers, or animals.  But on that day I was feeling low and rather bored and I decided to do something different other than taking thousands pictures of my family.  I challenged myself to take pictures of OTHER things around the cottage.  I have to admit that it was fun and somewhat challenge.  Now with this layout I sure am glad that I did this nature photo taking challenge as now I have memories of surrounding of the cottage environment.

 I hope you will play with this wonderful sketch of Shelby!  I can guarantee you that it is very nice sketch to do!

 

Merry Christmas!

 

Laureen

Stick It Down

Double Page Design Team

 

OUR STOCKINGS {ScrapMuch?}

Hello! 

 

Here I am with another layout for ScrapMuch?.  My layout is for my December Daily.  When I saw Laura Whitaker's single layout sketch, I decided to do the page for the December Daily album that I am hoping to finish this year.   It is a 6 x 6 album. As for the sketch, I have rotated it and the sketch has 3 photos recommended, but I have used two photos as I wanted to use the two girls on this page.  I have also created coordinating page for the two boys on the next page to go with this page using a different sketch..

 

The link to ScrapMuch? is ScrapMuch?  I hope you play one of the sketches for December and there is random draw for participating.  You may WIN a prize!  Scrapping is FUN as you know!  Let's participate!

Happy Holidays!

Laureen
ScrapMuch?
Design Team A

THE DEER CAME EVERYDAY

Hello!

Here I am with a single layout playing with Two Scrapbook Friends' sketch and crafty challenge.  Jayne challenged us with her awesome sketch and her crafty challenge was to use a quote.

Here is my layout,  her sketch is really fun to play with.  I enjoy adjusting the polaroid size to meet my two photo size needs.  My page is for December Daily.  It is 6 x 6.     My title, "The deer came everyday" was a quote from Trip Advisor on the internet. There also was a quote that the deer came everyday to feed".  The deer come everyday at same specific time everyday at our in law house everyday to be fed.  So I found this quote fitting for the two pictures.

Thank you Jayne for this fun challenge!  I enjoyed playing!

Keep Scrapping!
Laureen

EXCITING NEWS- Stick it Down! Announcement

Our new Design Team!

Our new design team will start sharing their creations in January. The new year brings some other changes as well, that we hope you will just love!

• Three sketches will be revealed on the first of each month. That's right! You will receive the card, single page and double page layout sketches on the same day! We will provide the sketch and one sample to inspire you to play along.
• The end of each challenge will fall on the last day of the month, allowing you much more time to create and share your project with us!
• We will continue to share design team projects all month long AND we will pick a few of our favourite submissions to share along the way as well!
• Our winners will be posted on the third day of the following month and if chosen you will be asked to be our guest designer the month after that.

Card Team

Sketches: Sharlene

Alison

Ann

Ashley H

Ashley W

Colleen

Jodie

Valentina

Single Page Layout Team

Sketches: Rachel

Amanda

Katy

Marci

Melinda

Rachel

Ronna

Double Page Layout Team

Sketches: Shelby

Connie

Kel

Laureen

Sharlene

Stephanie

Tracey

Congratulations to our new members and to our returning team! We can't wait to get started and see what YOU share with us at Stick it Down!

AT THE LITTLE BARN {Scrapbook Generation Blog Hop}

 

 

Welcome to the Scrapbook Generation Blog Hop for December. If this is your first stop, you might like to start at the Scrapbook Generation blog and then hop through each link.

Here is my double page layout.  I used the sketch from Scrapbook Generations Sketch Fusion with Simple Stories page 34 but with understanding I mainly used the right side page for both pages.  I moved the title to the top for the left page as I had larger pictures and I did not want to crop them off.  So I used the right page sketch for both pages.  I changed around with the embellishments as the page's needs.

You can find the SG sketches in their books and as downloads in the SG store, and there is a free one every month in case you wanted to try it out.

Next on the hop is (Casandra - http://casandra-scrappinbliss.blogspot.com/), leave a comment on each blog and one lucky commenter  receive a free sketch bundle of their choice from the store.

The winner will be drawn on Monday, December 8th which leaves you one week to leave a comment.

In case you get lost at any point, here is the list all the blogs

Scrapbook Generation blog - http://scrapbookgeneration.blogspot.com/
Ruth - http://scrapmachine.com/
Steffanie - http://steffanies.blogspot.com/
Devra -  http://mycreativeview.blogspot.com/
TinaGale - http://tiggersscrapplace.blogspot.com
Lori - Http://savingmine.blogspot.com
Lori S - http://loriannie670.blogspot.com
Cicily - http://www.pinkdalmatianscrapper.com
Pamela - http://reflectionsofmyartandsoul.com/blog
Katy - http://scrappinkaty.blogspot.com
Laura - http://happinessequalscreation.blogspot.com/
Lyne - http://lynnseverydayideas.blogspot.com/
Penny - http://pennyscraps.blogspot.com
Laureen - http://mybusyscrapbookinghands.blogspot.ca/  This is me   :)
Casandra - http://casandra-scrappinbliss.blogspot.com/
Sharlene - http://inspirationstationbysbe.blogspot.ca/
Corrina - http://anotherthingoffthelist.blogspot.ca/

Let's have fun blog hopping!
Thank you for visiting!
Laureen

THE RACE {Sketch-y Friday}

Hello!

Yay!  It is REVEAL time for TEAM A over at the ScrapMuch? today!  Double page layout!! Handswaving!!!!!  I am all excited!  I just HEART double page layout sketches!

When I saw this sketch I was all excited as I "visioned" MANY pictures!  I know that you can use patterned papers for the squares!!!!  I could not because I had 23 pictures and I was able to downsize to 16 pictures.  So that was hard enough LOL!  I used 2x3 wallet size pictures and cropped some at the end off.

Laura Whitaker created this wonderful sketch.  I can see myself using it again and again in the future.  I would like to try it again but using the patterned papers and pictures as a mixture on the second page.  Thank you Laura for this awesome DOUBLE PAGE SKETCH!

Let's try this sketch out and participate over at the ScrapMuch?!  You may win a prize from a random draw for just by participating!  The deadline is November 29, 2014 at midnight.

Cheers and be sure to find time to scrap!

Laureen
ScrapMuch?
Design Team A

AT THE BEACH {Stick it Down}

Hello!!!!

 

 

Yea! It is revealing time for double page layout for Stick It Down double page team!  I have decided to do some pictures from cottage last August.  Sigh... the warm weather, for sure, have left us in Southern Ontario.  It even have started snowing.

 

When I saw Shelby's sketch, I could not wait to play with it.  Seeing that there are five photos on the sketch,  I looked through my readily organized cottage pictures.  I was able to find this set of 5 pictures.  The only problem was that they are all horizontal.  They all are wallet sized 2x3.  So that is why my layout look a bit different from the sketch even though the number of the pictures are the same.

 

I was thrilled to be able to use the bling word BEACH as title as I have had it in my stash forever.  Finally the blue shade worked well on the layout! 

 

 

Lets' have fun by playing with this awesome sketch by Shelby!  Double page layouts are FAB!!!!

Laureen
Stick It Down
Double Page Team

14 TH

Hello

 

This past weekend I had a scrapping getaway weekend.  Wonderful weekend!  I got to scrap several layouts and it SURE felt GREAT!  It was fun to spend time with two wonderful girlfriends Sharlene and Kathie.

 

I got to do a sketch and crafty challenge for Two Scrapbook Friends.  You can see the sketch below.   The crafty challenge was to have something old, new, borrowed and blue.

 

For mine, I did:

 

old: paper (the background)

new: MFT stencil

borrowed: I borrowed Sharlene's two punches to create the title

blue: patterned paper are BLUE!  So are the letterings on the cake! (wink!)

 

Keep Scrapping!

Laureen

A FUZZY FRIEND {Sketch-y Friday}

Hello Everyone!

Cannot believe it is actually November!  It is ScrapMuch? Design Team A's turn to reveal their work as it is Sketch-y Friday today!  Laura Whitaker once again had provided a wonderful and fun sketch!  I was delight to play with her sketch!

I looked through some of my pictures and found some perfect pictures for this sketch but there were problems... I had more pictures that I wanted to use... so a double page layout came into my picture.  Of course I continued to used the same sketch on the other page only that I flipped it over to the side.  BINGO I was able to solve the problem.    I had two more pictures.  They were close ups that TELL you the story of what the pages were all about!  The FUZZY CATERPILLAR!  I used the pictures instead of writing so.... in total, my layout I have 8 pictures!

Ok lets share my picture of the layouts!

 

Here is a run down of our Sketch-y Friday rules.  You have until November 29th, at midnight to participate in any of November's sketch challenges, each linkup tool will remain open until that date!

If you are playing along with more than one challenge you will need to link each of them up via a separate blog post for the link up tool to work. (International participants may be required to pay some shipping fees.)  Good luck, we cannot wait to see what you create!

 *note - If you are playing along using Flickr the team will no longer be leaving comments, due to changes in Flickr policies and passwords.  However, we will be checking out your entries for sure and you are definitely eligible for the prize draw. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.


Take care!

Laureen
ScrapMuch?
Design Team A
 

STICK IT DOWN! Design Team Call!



Design Team Call!

It's time once again for a design team call! We are looking for new members for each of our teams - single page layouts, double page layouts and cards.

Our next term will run from January to June 2015 so please do not apply if you cannot commit to this time frame.

What you will do:

• provide one project per month with a possible special event during the six month term
• comment on all submissions as you are assigned
• post our challenge to your blog and other social media outlets 
• have projects completed ahead of time in order to meet the deadline

What you need:

• an active blog
• a facebook account as this is where the DT "meets"
• a love for sketches

What we will do:

• provide the sketches at least one month in advance
• provide your posting schedule and commenting assignments
• be supportive and encouraging
• share your photo and your link on our blog
• share your project on various social media outlets

How to apply:

• send an email to Stick it Down with the subject line "Design Team Call"
• include your name and location
• include a list of current teams (no experience necessary!)
• include 3 of your favourite layouts or cards that best display your style and suit the requirements of the team you are applying for (ie, submit cards if you are applying for the card team)
• introduce yourself in few brief sentences

This call is open to everyone including our current team members and will run from November 1st to November 21st. The new team will be notified by November 28th and announced by December 1st. The new team's projects will be revealed on January 1st.

 

Good luck!

 

Laureen

DT Team Member

SPOOKY {ScrapMuch? DT Sketch-y Friday)

Hello and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!  Trick or Treat?  I'd go for treats!

 

 

Sketch-Friday over at ScrapMuch? for Team A  YAY YAY! double page layout on a Halloween!  Just PERFECT~!  I love Halloween.  A perfect day to showcase more Halllowen layouts.

 

Laura has had created another awesome sketch.  This time she put in a challenge for the title, so I decided to try something different for my title.  I pretty much followed the sketch!  Thumbs up!  Gotta to go to get the treats ready for the little Trick or Treaters!

 



Let's play with this sketch and you may win a prize over at http://shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/ 

Boofully yours,

Laureen
ScrapMuch? DT

FRIGHTFULLY DELIGHTFUL & CAUTION {Stick It Down DT }

BOO! 

 

It is HALLOWEEN coming soon!  It is Sketch Tuesday Challenge over at Stick It Down!  Oh my! I JUST love this October sketch that I have made two double page layout!  I would create more from this sketch in the future~!  Shelby created this wonderful sketch.  I love that she left large area for the title and that we can do different ways of doing the title.  For the first top layout, I just simply used different Halloween stickers.  For the bottom layout I created a layered using my Cricut machine and My Favorite Things Die-namics LLD Bright Lights Alphabet Letters and some stickers from MME.

 

 

 

Let's play with this Shelby's sketch and you will have fun over at the Stick it Down!  Please check their blog for the deadline.  You may be get picked as a winner!

Have a safe HALLOWEEN!

Laureen
Stick It Down DT
 

HARRY POTTER on OCT 31

Hello! 

 

Have you seen Harry Potter on October 31 before?  No?  Oh here is the right place to see him!  Harry even carved his own facial image on a pumpkin!

 

I had fun creating this double page layout!  I wanted it to be Harry Potter themed but also to show it as a Halloween themed as well.  So I used the Harry Potter patterned paper and added some Halloween embellishments.

 

 

 

Keep Scrapping!!!!

 

Laureen

CARVE

Hello! 

 

It is October and I just love doing Halloween layouts.  I feel good as I catch up the past years' Halloween!

 

For the papers, I have used Teresa Collins' line called Haunted Hallows.  The colours are mostly soft but their images are spooky!  I have used the sketch from the Scrapbook Generations.  I have used the bingo cards from my Halloween stash.  I have added some shiny orange sequins to the white dots for fun.

 

Off to do some more Halloween layout while it is still October!

Keep Scrapping!

Laureen

NINJA TUTRLES {ScrapMuch? DT Sketch-y Friday}

Hello!

Sketch-y Friday Time!!!  Laura had another sketch for us Team A!  I followed it pretty much except that I only used one photo instead of two.  I love doing Halloween theme layout because they are fun and I can go crazy with them! LOL!  The Halloween colours are usually bright and interesting, so many characters. 

 Let's play with this sketch and you may win a prize over at http://shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/  The deadline is October 29 at midnight.

Lets' scrap!

Laureen
ScrapMuch? DT

FAMILY FOREVER {ScrapMuch DT Sketch-y Friday}

 

Hello! 

It is Sketch-y Friday today for Team A!  It is first Friday of the month!  YAH YAH! It means DOUBLE PAGE LAYOUT!

Here is my double page layout.  This layout is about last year's Thanksgiving.  It was a special Thanksgiving as my sister Debbie flew in from BC.  It was lovely to have her with us.  Thanksgiving is a special day that we get to be THANKFUL for many things!  I am thankful for Laura Whitaker's lovely sketch.

I hope you get to play with this awesome sketch.  Please click ScrapMuch? for details on how to play as you may win a prize!

CHEERS!

Laureen

COLOUR ME RAD {Stick It Down DT}

Hello!

 

It is Tuesday Sketch Challenge over at the STICK IT DOWN!  The sketch by Shelby was fun!  When I saw the sketch, I immediately thought of my wonderful pictures from the event Colour ME Rad.  I had collected beautiful patterned papers but when I sat down and remembered that I had several tie and dye papers somewhere.   They were papers that I wanted to get rid of.  I thought since the pictures were colourful and sort of related.  Not tied and dyed but POWERED.....  I found the tie and dye papers.  I see that they were glittered.  Which  was why the pictures of the whole layout did not really come up good.  There were so much glitter on them.  Part of me wished that I stayed with the first choices of papers that I chose.  Oh well...  the event was so much FUN and let the layout be WILD and FUN!

 

I would like to try this sketch again for a serious event again and see to compare.  The biggest challenge is to what to substitute the tree and the bird.  I have some ideas coming up already...

Lets play this sketch for STICK IT DOWN's Tuesday Sketch Challenge!

CHEERS

Laureen

CHRISTMAS MORNING {ScrapMuch? DT}

Hello! 

 

Yeah  I know... It is not Christmas..... I know it is not Christmas in July....  I just decided to go for Christmas in September!

 

When I saw three photos on the sketch, I thought, it was going to be hard as you see I have 4 children... but luckily I found a picture of the boys together.  PERFECT  This worked perfectly for this sketch!

 

Triangles are new for me to work with me.  I do not recall working with any of them on my previous layouts...  Of course triangles are easy, it is just that I always think that they are awkward shapes but after doing this layout. I do admit it is not that bad.  It is fun creating triangles.  For my photos, I sized them to 2x3 and they worked well for this sketch.

 

 

It is SKETCHY- FRIDAY at the ScrapMuch?http://shopscrapmuch.blogspot.ca/  I hope you will play as the sketch by Laura Whitaker is awesome.  I can say that this sketch is a quick one!

CHEERS!

Laureen

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL {ScrapMuch? DT}

Hello

 

It is Sketchy- Friday at ScrapMuch?  It is exciting because it is double page!  Scroll down and you will see another awesome double page layout sketch by Laura Whitaker.

 

 

When I saw the sketch, I knew immediately that the Back to School pictures would be PERFECT as there are 4 sections of pictures.  I can do two of each of my children, you see that I have 4 children so it worked WELL!  The pictures were from last year.  The top section is just a natural standing with smile.  The bottom section is each of them signing out the grade they are entering.  For 2013- 2014 Charada enters Grade 11, Janna enters Grade 8, Braden enters Grade 5 and Dalton enters Grade 3.

 

I had the Back to School stickers from Karen Foster. I have had them in my "School" theme box for a long time.  I am very glad to be able to use them this time finally.  I am really am happy to see BLUE layout as I always think blue is a rare colour in scrapbooking world.....  don't you think so???  I love BLUE.  I always love to do blue pages.

 

 

So lets' play with this awesome sketch over at the ScrapMuch?

Scrapping is FUN!!!!!

Laureen

SUMMER DAYS SPENT {Stick It Down DT}

Hello

Sorry Here I am with my DT reveal for STICK IT DOWN!  I was in hospital again and I just came home today.  I have had stayed in the hospital for 6 days.

Anyway let's talk about the FUN things! When I saw Shelby's sketch, I wanted to go for something fun.  I decided to go for the pictures that I took when we were visiting our friends at their trailer park.  I truly enjoyed this sketch very much because it holds 9 pictures!!!!  It also left a large space for title.  I used a card and under the title, I checked off the boxes that applied to us and that was FUN!

 

 

Shelby's sketch is really fun to play with.  I know you won't regret!  9 photos!!!!!  Come on and play over at Stick it Down for their Tuesday Sketch Challenge!

 

Keep Scrapping!

 

Laureen

 

KODAK MOMENTS {Scrap Much?} Sketch-y Friday

Hello!

Yes Yes Yes! It is Sketch-y Friday over at Scrap Much?!  It is Team A Week Reveal.  A single page layout using a fun sketch designed by Laura Whitaker.

 

Here is my layout.  I had fun creating the layout using three wallet size photos.  The middle one had to be different so I had to adjust and worked it around.  They turned out good and very masculine one.  I am pleased with it.  I love the sketch.  I will likely use it again!

 

 

 

Why don't you just print off the sketch and go to your scrap room and start SCRAPPING!  You may win a PRIZE if you link your layout!  Good luck!

 

CHEERS!

 

Laureen

Scrap Much? DT

 

SANDBAR {Scrap Much?} Sketch-y Friday

Hello!

Hope many of you are enjoying your summer holidays....  Today is Sketch-y Friday over at Scrap Much?  It is Team A's turn for revealing their layouts using Laura Whitaker's sketch this week.  It is double page layout this time!  Hurrah!!!

 

 

It was fun playing with this sketch.  I have decided to go for bold, loud and colourful patterned papers. I managed to find some corrugated flowers that I have been keeping for a long time.

Let's find time and play with this sketch and submit your layout over at the Scrap Much?  You may win a prize!

So much photos, so little time!

CHEERS!

Laureen
ScrapMuch? DT

GARDEN {Stick it Down DT}

Hello!

Yay!  Here is my first DT revealing work for Stick It Down!  It is Double Page Sketch week at Stick It Down.  Here is my layout.

Shelby at the Stick It Down designed this sketch layout.  I pretty much followed the left page.  The right page I had many pictures but I had to use the 4x4 picture sizes so I decided to place the pictures the way you see on my layout not scattered way the sketch showed...  The pictures were taken at different times when the vegetables were ready as you can notice as Braden wore different clothes except for the bottom three pictures on the right page.  I decided to stick with Shelby's cloud and added the sun.  Since my layout was all about Braden's vegetable garden, the sun and clouds were FITTING!

Here is the sketch.

 

 

The double page sketch is FUN to play with!  Hope you will have the chance to PLAY and SCRAP!

 

 

CHEERS!

 

Laureen

Stick It Down

Double Page Layout Design Team

 

HAPPY {ScrapMuch? DT}

Hello!

Sketch-y Friday today over at ScrapMuch?!  In a mood to scrap this week, PERFECT... ScrapMuch?! has another sketch for you!

It is Design Team A's opportunity to show their layout using this fun sketch by Laura Whitaker.  Here is mine using the sketch!  It was really fun playing with this sketch.  Mainly, I followed the sketch.  I omitted the journal part.  I added the flowers at the left bottom corner and some banner at the top.

Happy Sketch-y Friday!  Have a FAB weekend everyone!

Cheers!

Laureen
ScrapMuch?!
Design Team A