Scraplift

I have wanted to scraplift a layout by Amy Martin for the longest time and I've wanted to use her style over at P&C.  The new designer, Meredith Cardall, has an alphabet that I thought would be perfect for the scraplift so I decided to go for it.  The original layout had one large photo, but I needed three.  I think the adjustments still keep the flavor of the original.  I hand made the journaling box.
The photo were taken on my new iPhone 6 and Rachel posted them on her Facebook page.

don't take my picture!

Meredith Cardall | Happy Fall Y'All

Gennifer Bursett | Toolkit: Mists v9

P & C Collab | Dream - stitching

Gina Marie Huff, Nancie Rowe Janitz | stitches

Font | Pea Amy

M3 at TLP -- Challenge #1

The first challenge of the month is to use one of the theme words.  I let the kit pick my word - Magic.
The word art was the deciding factor.

Magical - M3 Nov Challenge #1

Little Butterfly Wings, Quirky Heart, Just Jaimee, Lynne-Marie | M3 Nov 14

Just Jaimee | M3 Nov 14-Gesso Bits

Recipe Challenge

I used the subscription kit to make my layout for the December Recipe Challenge.  I wanted to use colors that would not scream Christmas to show the versatility of the kit.

Gennifer Bursett, Meredith Cardall, Deena Rutter, Celeste Knight, Shirley Polk | Joyful - December 2014 Subscription Kit

Fonts | KG What the Teacher Wants, DP Bloated

First LO with the new subscription kit...

I loved the bah humbug paper in this kit, so I wanted a not so serious photo to scrap.  I've taken some great photos of Buddy by the tree each year but never get them scrapped.  The bohken lights are so fabulous in this photo.  I think I LOVE IT!

Bah Humbug

Joyful | December 2014 Subscription Kit

Meredith Cardall | stitching, branch

Gennifer Bursett | staple, paper, brackets

Shirley Polk Design | wordart, paper

Deena Rutter | charm, leaf, banner

P & C Relaunch

Today has been an uplifting day after the drama of the last few weeks.  Gennifer has brought in two new designers and a WHOLE bunch of new kits.  I am excited to work with the new designs.  One of the designers was in the shop a few months ago.  Gen is also going to start a subscription service which is similar to what I'm doing at TLP.  I put in an application to CT at The Digital Press but my heart just isn't in it.  I doubt they'll contact me anyway.  I've decided to stay at P & C if they'll keep me.
In the meantime, Deena Rutter released a new kit and I LOVED the yellow paper in the kit so a layout was just crying out to be made.  I started with photos of Buddy in the snow, but the flowers in the kit just didn't seem right.  I opted for photos of Ewan which I thought looked good with the adjustments I made in RadLab.  I did something new there, I saved the first recipe to use on the second photo. Check it out...

Full Heart

Deena Rutter | Every Little Bit_ Full Heart

Robyn Meierotto | Layered Template 7

Font | KG I Need A Font

Inspiration to try something new...

Hummie from Hummie's World posted a thread about Bible Art Journaling that got me thinking about how I could document my study in Exodus at BSF.  I started a new board in Pinterest and did a little research about Bible Art Journaling.  This is my offering about the lecture.  I didn't study the passage or do the questions because I was attending the Welcome Class.  I will be doing the entire lesson this week, however.

Exodus 32:1-33:6 - Bible Art Journaling

Hummie\'s thread in the Scrapping Pad inspired me to scrap a lecture from a BSF class.

CD Muckosky | A Blessed Life, All Dressed Up, Cottage Sunrise, Ink Pot, Feeling Cornered, Journal Junkie: All That Is Good, Growth and Flight, Moving Forward, Love Story

Paislee Press, Little Butterfly Wings, Nancie Rowe Janitz | Journaling highlights

Fonts | VT Portable Remington, You Are Loved

Just for fun....

I've been lurking about on Pinterest lately and decided to try lifting a design I really liked.  I had to use so many different kits because the layout was a traditional paper layout with inked edges to many of the elements.  It was pretty hard for me to duplicate but I think I did okay.  I really like my version of it no matter.  Once again I used RadLab to tweak the photo.  LOVE this photo!

Beautiful Boy

Main kit used was Oak Tree by Sara Gleason

Other:  Papers | Lynne-Marie, Amber Shaw, Dani Mogstad

Stitches/twine | Karla Dudley, Gennifer Bursett, 

Overlays | Lynne-Marie, Anna Aspnes, Lorilei Murphy

Tags | Dani Mogstad, Kim Broedelet, Jessica Sprague, Dawn by Design, Audrey Neal, Just Jaimee, Mye deLeon, Anita Designs, Crystal Wilkerson

Clips | Allison Pennington, Mommyish

Alpha | Amanda Yi

Fonts | Ariel, Bebas Neue

A scraplift of a design by Jess Mutty.

Last one for P&C this November

Whew!  I got them all done!  It is actually the first time I've done all the challenges in a month there.  It was hard to get the colors and use current supplies because most of the designers that used the colors have gone and I couldn't use their stuff.  I had to break down and use one flower since I couldn't get the recoloring to work on a flower that was currently in the shop (that I have).

Smile - Nov Color Challenge

Pixels & Co. collab | Focus (some items recolored)

Janelle Miller | P & C May  Template Challenge freebie (parts colored with challenge colors)

Amanda Yi | Vintage Daydream - flower (Nov. Company stash kit)

Font | Angelina

Another P&C Challenge

Here is another layout for the P&C challenges.  I'm using the same photo as another layout since the themes are rather similar.

Out With the Old -- Nov. Photo Challenge

Gennifer Bursett | Summer Girl, When Skies Are Grey, Julep

Celeste Knight | Summer Girl

Lynnette Wilkins | November Template Challenge freebie

Fonts | League Gothic, KG I Need A Font, Bebas Neue

I'm thankful for my son-in-law and his help with our new phones.

Feeling bad about P&C Challenges

I have been feeling guilty that I do a minimum of 11 challenges a month at TLP and very FEW at Pixels & Co.  So I got busy today and did two.  A recipe challenge and a journaling challenge.  I got all the elements needed for the recipe.  The journaling needed to be about a celebration with the word celebrate on the layout.  Mine doesn't look very festive, but I like it just as it is.

First up is the journaling challenge:

Deena Rutter | Out & About

Gennifer Bursett | Dialogue

Wishing Well Creations | P&C collab - Dream

Fonts | Jasmine Reminiscentse, VTPortable Remington, KG What Teacher Wants

This photo of Rachel was nearly black it was so dark.  I used RadLab to lighten it but it got a little grainy in the process but I think it looks pretty good.  The recipe called for two kinds of ribbon, a one word title, a cut out, a triangle shape of some type, and a splatter or scatter of some type.  Got it all!

Hello - Nov Recipe Challenge

Gennifer Bursett | Made Of Awesome, For the Love Of, North of Ordinary

Celeste Knight | Menagerie, Silver Linings

Robyn Meierotto | Be Thankful, Chipper

Linda Roos | P&C Template freebie

Font | KG I Want A Font

Last M3 Challenge for October

Challenge #4 for October (I know it's November, but the new kits don't release until the third Friday so the challenges lag behind) is about the theme together.  Since it's an art journaling layout I don't like to do people photos.  I got a little artsy in that I put the color photo in a mask and I did a sketch of the front door.  I need to get some better photos of the front of the house for these kinds of layouts.

Together - M3 Oct. Challenge #4

Lynne-Marie | M3 Aug Sketchbook 01, M3 Oct Arty Bits 03, Sketchbook 03

Just Jaimee | M3 Aug 14, M3 Sep 14t, M3 Oct 14

Little Butterfly Wings | M3 Sept Add-On, M3 Oct 14

Quirky Heart | M3 Oct 14

Font | KG I Need A Font

I explained the theme by saying:

Here is my challenge about Together. My house is an empty nest until one of the kids stops by and then it feels more like home because we are together.

Last November Challenge at the Lilypad

I finally got the 7th layout completed for November at TLP.  This will put me in the running for a guest spot on the CT.  I would just love a chance to be on it.  I figured out days ago what I would do, it was just a matter of finding a kit and time.  I LOVE how it turned out.

Summer - Nov. Random Challenge

Allison Pennington | Rainy Days & Mondays

Amy Martin | Scary Stuff template freebie

Font | Jasmine Reminiscentse

Another layout for P&C.

I worked on this layout for DAYS trying to use a watercolor effect on a photo.  The first photo I used just wasn't good for a partial sketch in b/w with part in color.  I changed the photo and that one did not go well with the kit/elements I wanted to use.  I pared down the photo into a small inset.  If you look closely the color has a lot of textures with a sketchy look within the color.  I blended the photo again into the background paper.

A Great Photoshoot

Celeste Knight | Honeysuckle

Gennifer Bursett | Julep (my FAVORITE staples of all time)

Font | Dancing Script OT

Sad, sad turn of events....

Things have really changed at Pixels & Co.  Most of the designers evidently have been dissatisfied with the shop arrangement and were planning on leaving the site to start their own shop. Gennifer caught wind of it and decided to stop their association with P&C immediately.  Both sides feel the other acted badly.  The customers are reeling with the news and frankly, so are all the CT members.  I have felt wierd for the last two days.  I am so grateful to P&C for inviting me to be a CT but it's the designers who left that are the ones I like the best (their stuff, as I really don't know any of them personally).

I've decided that I'll stay with P&C during the transition period and maybe even longer.  I put out some feelers to the new shop the designers are starting but don't know if I would go with them even if they are open to me being on their CT.  I am still hoping to get a guest shot at The Lilypad.

But to keep some activity going at P&C I put together a layout with mostly Gennifer's kits. Since only P&C items can be used and their are only 5 designers, it is a little harder.
This looks awfully like a Valentine's layout but it wasn't intended that way.  I just loved the grey flower.

Gennifer Bursett | Dialogue, Confectionery, Julep, Miss Molly, Made of Awesome, Scarlet Letter

Fonts | Bebas Neue, Dancing Script OT, Shadows Into Light

TLP Polly Picks

The Lilypad does a thing every couple of weeks where they chose a creative team member and have them choose some kits that they use when they scrap.  The "Polly" this time has been leaving me lots of great comments on my layouts so I thought I would check her out.  She happened to choose many kits I already own, so I did her challenge to use at least 3 of her kits in a layout.

My Husband - Polly Pick Challenge_Lili

CD Muckosky | Journal Junkie: All That Is Good, Urban Scribbles (polly picks)

Lynne-Marie | Tattered Overlays02 set 1, Creative Wordart (polly picks)

Kaye Winiecki | StaxOn-hexagon (polly picks)

Gennifer Bursett | Julep-brad

Mommyish | Candid-brad

Font | vtPortableRemington

#6

I made this layout a week or so ago in anticipation of a Mixed Media Monthly challenge.  With the change of one word, I was able to make it work for a November challenge, the journaling challenge. This challenge was one where I was to talk about what I need in my day to day life.  Since I eat some chocolate virtually every day, I thought this would be appropriate.

I Need Chocolate - Nov. Journaling Challenge

Quirky Heart, Little Butterfly Wings, Just Jaimee | Mixed Media Monthly October 2014

Challenge #5

I bought a kit by Lynne-Marie specifically for the product challenge.  The challenge is to use frames. Jenn McCabe did a layout with the same kit, but she used one of the torn frames as a mask for woodgrain paper.  I thought that was a great idea.  So I selected an old photo of my spent roses and a tattered frame and used the woodgrain paper idea.  I really like the look of it.

So My Garden - Nov. Product Challenge

Lynne-Marie | Tattered Overlays 02, Ecology, Land of Odds

Allison Pennington | Bright - staples

Gennifer Bursett | Painted Woods

Fonts | Bronze Script, Birch std.

Scraplift Challenge at the Lilypad

I picked a large photo layout to lift because I'm a sucker for the over-sized photos.  This one of Vivian is so sweet.  The challenge was how to blend that really dark background in such a way that I wouldn't have to do an extraction.  I just didn't want to risk harsh outlines.  So I just did a color fill with the background of the photo.  It's pretty good. I recolored the black parts of the word art while.

A scraplift of "stand out" by Farrah Jobling

CD Muckosky | Be Your Best

Kate Hadfield | Framed Freebie - recolored arrows

Anita Designs | Its Splash Time - modified stripe

Here's the layout I lifted:

TLP Challenge #3 - One Word

Journey is the word for the challenge.  I caught a photo of Brian walking with Greg so I thought a journey up the path would work.  It is rare to get photos of Brian so it was a natural.

Little Butterfly Wings | The Little Things, Grungy & Messy

Gennifer Bursett | For the Love Of - splatter

Fonts | VTPortable Remington, Bebas Neue

TLP Challenge #2 -- The Template Challenge

As I looked through the forum thread, I noticed most of the layouts were pretty, light-hearted or fallish in theme.  Since I had won a $10 gift certificate in the M3 Monochromatic Challenge from Little Butterfly Wings' shop I wanted to use one of the kits I got with it for this layout.  The kit, Grungy & Messy, lent itself to a darker, grungier layout.  I think it still works AND it's really different from all the others in the challenge gallery.

Sara Gleason | Nov. Template Challenge freebie

Little Butterfly Wings | Grungy & Messy, The Little Things, M3 Sept. 14 Add-On

Lynne-Marie | Ecology

Font | Jasmine Reminiscentse

November Challenges at TLP

Here is a layout for the BYOC (Build Your Own Collab) Challenge.  This challenge requires using three designers' stuff on the layout.  Many of the designers break up their kits between elements and papers which means you have to spend twice as much to get one full kit.  That is two purchases, but still only one designer for the challenge.  Since I am determined to use the CD Muckosky stuff I bought during DSD I looked for things that compliment CD's style and were not too expensive since I spent quite a bit during DSD.  I opted for stitching, stitched hexagons and some doodled borders.  I played around with the background papers quite a bit; there are a couple papers and some recolored layers.  The photo maybe should have been bigger since it's a bit hard to tell that we have stuffed animals on our heads.

Kate Hadfield | Nov. BYOC Joodle Strips5

Allison Pennington | Nov. BYOC Autumnal Stitches

Kim Jensen | Nov. BYOC Stringbats9-Hexagons

CD Muckosky | Journal Junkies: Season of Joy, Bright Heart, Go Get Em, Moving Forward; World of Wonder; Happy Chips; Be Your Best; Graphies; Hey Love; A Blessed Life

Font | Cheddar Jack

Did two layouts for one challenge.

I did a busy, gloomy layout first but it just didn't feel right.  So I put together a second in half the time.  It is for what I like about Autumn at TLP.  It's the 3rd October M3 challenge.

In Autumn - M3 Oct. Challenge #3

Just Jaimee | M3 August 14, M3 October 14

Quirky Heart | Home Sweet Home- M3 Oct. Add-On

Little Butterfly Wings | M3 October 14

Here is the one I passed on:

Put this together last night.

Here is a photo I've used before.  I put this together late last night for a release today. I loved the black herringbone and the blue flower, so I knew I needed the kit

Thankful For You

Amanda Yi Designs & Juno Designs collab | Project Fall | Give Thanks

Font | Traveling Typewriter

A quick layout for Shannon

There is another designer releasing a template on the 7th.  I didn't see anyone else signed up for it so I did a quick layout.  Lately so many have been about Vivi, so I did this one about Ewan.

It's What I Do

Sabrina's Creations & Karla Dudley | iArt collab; Scotty Girl Designs | You & Me Template; Font | Another Typewriter

Blending galore!

I wanted to do some blending  and a sketch on this layout.  I didn't intend to do a straight extraction but the sketch plan didn't pan out because there was so much "junk" in the background.  It was all the plastic toys from when Vivi lived with us this summer. It wasn't what I intended but I think it turned out well.

Twirling

Karla Dudley | Mellow Yellow, Album Cards - brushes

Celeste Knight | Menagerie - paper

Fonts | KD Life ultra, hello goodbye

Here is the original photo:

Another layout for my assigned designer

Here is another layout for Amanda Yi.  It will be released Nov. 7th.

Amazing

Amanda Yi Designs | This Month -November

Font | KDLife ultra

DSD Sales -- CD Muckosky

 This week-end is officially DSD everywhere, so I used it as an opportunity to shop at TLP.  Since CD Muckosky rarely runs sales, I decided to stock up with the 30% off discount.  I bought 13 of her kits on Friday. This morning I checked TLP blog and found a link to CD's facebook page and saw that she was offering a coupon of an extra 25% off for today only.  Drats, I wish I had known she would be doing that yesterday.  Well, since it was SUCH a great deal I shopped again today and bought another 8 kits.  So I felt compelled to begin using them.  I also started a Pinterest board of layouts others have make using her supplies.  I used a boatload of them on this layout. Here what I did today.

Pucker Up

CD Muckosky | Journal Junkie_Spring Fling, Journal Junkie_Growth and Flight, A Blessed Life, Happy Chips, Graphies, Feeling Cornered, Hippity-Hop, Bubble Magic, Be Your Best, Dreams Take Flight

Font | Jasmine Reminiscentse

November Template Challenge

I used a new release from my assigned designer to participate in the P&C Template Challenge.
The template had places for lots of strips of paper, but the kit didn't really lend itself to a lot of patterns without looking too busy.  So I went the dark, subdued route and let the photo shine.  I also cut off part of the strips so more background paper could show.

Buddy

Amanda Yi Designs | This Month | November

Lynnette Wilkins | Nov. 2014 Challenge Template freebie

Font | What the Teacher Wants