A layout using a new kit....

I loved the colors in this kit, My Manly Man.  I thought I could use it for  some of the guy layouts.  I used a new template kit, too by Two Tiny Turtles.  I REALLY admire the layouts Louso does with her templates, so I tried my hand at it.  I'm not as skilled as she is.  Since the new kit is from Quirky Heart, it has a bit of an Art Journaling feel to it.

A Good Man

Quirky Heart | My Manly Man, Love And Light

Little Butterfly Wings | I Am Beautiful, Geek Like Me, The Little Things, Grungy and Messy

Two Tiny Turtles | This Journey Called Life 3 - template

Fonts | KG I Need a Font

BSF Layout - Chapter 16

The lesson this week was on chapters 15 -19, but I focused on chapter 16.  There was a lot worth journaling, but all of it together was just too much for one page.  I got the vision in my head of the title following the swallowing of Korah and his followers but wasn't sure I could put it down on paper.  I think with the help of some swirly stamps acting as masks I got close.  The stamped 3 times alpha was just perfect.  I decided to just let the scriptures stand without any extras in or on it.  The last line talks about God's fire devouring the others in the rebellion because of their unauthorized fire before the Lord so that is why I added the fire coming from Heaven.  I think it turned out great.

The Korahite Rebellion - Numbers 16

The BSF lesson covered chapters 15-19, but I focused on Chapter 16.  I hope the title makes you think of the earth opening up and swallowing Korah & his followers.

Kaye Winiecki | Stamped 3 Times

Little Butterfly Wings | Grungy and Messy

Lynne-Marie, Quirky Heart | M3 Sept 14

Quirky Heart | M3 Feb 15

Jacque Larsen | A Kids Christmas

Fonts | You Are Loved, Impact Label Reversed, Problem Secretary Normal

Last week of the Pocket Scrapping AJ Challenges for February....

The challenges will go on next month too, but the coupon will be for a different shop.  I'll get $3 to use in Amy Wolff's shop this time which is great since I like her stuff.

This challenge was to keep it 'clean and simple'.  Since I'm using a set of templates with LOTS of small spaces I used the same background paper in a majority of the spaces to give "white space". Except for the top pocket, I kept the elements to a minimum with just some recurring word art as the theme of the page.

I just bought the Allison Pennington kit today; it was on sale for 50% off.  I actually bought it for the alphas and didn't use them after all.  Love the title word art and that eyelet strip. I would have loved to use more of the elements from the kit but it wouldn't work for this challenge -- clean and simple, you know....

Talk To Me

Pocket Scrapping AJ Challenge - 2/25/15 -- Clean & Simple

I tried to give more white space than usual with minimal elements in the main part.

Amy Martin | Sixty Twelve Templates

Allison Pennington | Talk To Me

Font | Fake Smiths

BSF Lesson -- Numbers 13, 14

I'm a little late this week.  I got the idea for the layout a couple of days ago, but just didn't get to putting it on "paper".  I ended up with tons of Scripture on the layout.  I tried emphasizing key words. I used colors to show the dialogue between the bad report and Caleb's report.

Numbers 13, 14 --- 12 Spies

The BSF lesson last week covered the well-known account of the 12 spies.  

CD Muckosky | A Blessed Life, Mini Miss Mess, Shimmer Me Summer, Sup Yo, The Bright Life, Journal Junkies: Moving Forward & Season of Joy

Pink Reptile Designs | Every Day of the Week, Seriously, True To Yourself

Allison Pennington | Mixed Bag

Little Butterfly Wings | I Am Beautiful alpha, M3 Aug 14

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

Amy Wolff | Destination

M3 February 15 | Alpha

Map & Fruits are free clip art from the internet

Fonts | Traveling Typewriter, Problem Secretary, AlternateGothic2 BT, KG What Teacher Wants

Slow Scrap at TLP

I really like the slow scrap, you have a day to put it together.  I generally miss the speed one.  This one needed a "serious" border.  I really went to town putting all the elements I could around the border.  It also needed two photos.  I like how it turned out.  I think b/w photo would have been better but I wanted to record the color, so....

Lulu, I love You

For the February Slow Scrap

Pink Reptile Designs | Bordered, Everyday of the Week, It Must Be Love alpha, True to Yourself alpha

Font | Traveling Typewriter

Another designer's blog challenge...

This challenge is from Pink Reptile Designs.  It came with a discount coupon for frames since the challenge required a new use of a frame.  I picked up a kit called Fold 'Em and another Torn Treasures (torn frames) kit.

The torn pile of frames are scene from the yard in winter.  They are piled as if the season is discarded. The fuller frame is a picture of one of the Camellia flowers from the yard in early Spring, the season of promise.  I got the idea in bed several nights ago.

Spring Will Come

Pink Reptile Designs February Blog Challenge [Frames]

Pink Reptile Designs | True To Yourself, Fold \'Em, Torn Treasures, Torn Treasures V12

Fonts | Manhattan Darling, Traveling Typewriter

M3 February Challenge #1

The new subscription kit for the Monthly Mixed Media is out today.  The challenge was to use the word Find, Bright or Passion as the inspiration.  I chose Passion.  I did a bit of recoloring and used the selection tool to change the inside color into a mask for some textured paper on the word art passion.

Passion Needs Direction

M3 February Challenge #1 

Little Butterfly Wings, Lynne-Marie, Sissy Sparrows, Quirky Heart | M3 Feb 15

Font | Manhattan Darling

Polly Pick Challenge [Melanie B]

This was one of the few times I had a bunch of the Polly's picks.  The challenge for me was to put the 4 kits I had together since they are VERY different in style and would not normally be put together.  I think I did a pretty good job making them look like a cohesive collection.

Riding Along...

Polly Pick Challenge [Melanie B]

Pink Reptile Designs | Heimili Alpha

Lynne-Marie | Land of Odds

CD Muckosky | Life Recorded: Stamps

Soft Watercolor Brushes | Just Jaimee

Laurie Ann | Hello Sunshine [staple]

Fonts: KD Life, Problem Secretary

Designer Blog Challenge

Forever Joy from The Lilypad has a monthly challenge on her blog.  She awards a $10 gift certificate randomly to one entrant.  I've not done the challenge before.  I recently bought one of her kits specifically for a photo of Vivi on the telephone playing Vivian's Pet Boutique.  We had so much fun that day.  It worked perfectly for the challenge.  Hope I win the 10 bucks as I don't have much of Forever Joy's stuff.

I'm particularly proud of the shadow on the frame (warped) and the string.  I made the paperclip look like it was tucked under the paper and strip with a layer mask and eraser tool.  I used the dodge and burn tool on the speech bubble at the edges of the frame to look like it was changing levels.

Hello Hello - Vivian

I created this layout for the February Challenge at Forever Joy\'s blog.  It shows something that fills me with joy -- playing with my granddaughter.  I bought the kit I used specifically for this photo.

Forever Joy | Hello Hello

Fonts | Ask My Flashlight, Problem Secretary Normal

3rd Pocket Scrapping AJ challenge layout....

I used the kit from a new designer at TLP.  Sissy Sparrows does a lot of Art Journaling kits.  They also design for the Monthly Mixed Media kits.  I am using a series of templates from Amy Martin for all of these challenges.  The dimensions are half the size of my usual layouts.  It's a challenge to fit things into the small spaces but I'm enjoying it.

Hello Gorgeous

Pocket Scrapping AJ - February Challenge #3 

Sissy Sparrows | Gardener\'s Journal

Amy Martin | Sixty Twelve Templates

Just for fun....

I made a layout just for myself using one of my new kits (Under the Weather by Pink Reptile Designs).  This photo was taken by Rachel after Ewan fell down at school.

Ouch!

Pink Reptile Designs | Under the Weather

Amy Matin | Polly Love Templates [Dana]

Font | Problem Secretary Normal

Next installment of BSF lesson

Numbers: Chapters 11 & 12.

I got the idea for this Bible Art Journal page days ago and finally got around to getting it done.  It works very well for the AJ challenge at TLP right now, too.  I think I did a pretty good job depicting the millions of Israelites in the desert.  I had to cut up a barbeque and a rocket ship to get the flames.

Numbers: Chapters 11&12

This week's BSF lesson in Numbers worked very well for the February Art Journaling Challenge.

Jacque Larsen | A Kids Christmas, Noah\'s Ark

Kate Hadfield | He Is Risen

Amy Wolff | It\'s All Good

Lynne-Marie | Mixed Media

Dani Mogstad | All American Summer, Imagination

Joanne Brisebois | Comic Collection

Enkay | Comic

Karen Funk | Race Day

Fonts | League Gothic, Pea Mel\'s In Between, Problem Secretary, Problem Secretary Normal

A chance at a guest CT spot with Little Butterfly Wings

Thre was a challenge posted in the forum for a challenge at LBW's blog.  I like her stuff so I thought I would give it a try.

Create Memories

LBW - February Blog Challenge

Little Butterfly Wings |Free As a Bird, Grungy and Messy, Geek Like Me

Font | Problem Secretary

2nd Pocket Scrapping AJ Challenge

The challenge is to use pocket type layouts with an art journaling technique with at least one heart in a pocket.  This is a newer size and style for me.  There is a gift certificate available for just doing two in a month.  This is my second one so I definitely get the certificate.

Valentine, I Love U

February Pocket Scrapping Art Journal Challenge #2

Amy Martin | Sixty Twelve Templates

Allison Pennington | Rainy Days & Monday, Autumnal, Currently, Cliff Notes: Lovey Dovey Edition, Warm & Fuzzy Edition, Word to Your Mother Edition

Little Butterfly Wings | M3 Oct 14 alpha

CD Muckosky | Mini Miss Mess

Amy Wolff | Botanical

Just Jaimee | Year In Review

Valorie Wibbens | Sprinkles V. 20

Laurie Ann | Hello Sunshine

Anita Designs | Busy Hands Happy Heart

Last February Challenge for TLP

I got an idea for the last challenge from a photo I saw on Pinterest.  It was where a photo was changed out for a sky scene.  The challenge was a One Word challenge.  The word was "BE".  I used my shadow but changed it out with lots of word art that had something to do with me.  The overlay had the word BE and I changed the color of one to emphasize it for the challenge.

Be

February 2015 One Word Challenge - BE

Word Art and overlay from these M3 Main kits | Au. 14, Sep. 14, Oct 14, Nov 14

By Lynne-Marie, Just Jaimee, Quirky Heart, Little Butterfly Wings

Lynne-Marie | M3 Oct 14 Artsy Bits 03

Little Butterfly Wings | M3 Dec 14 - Scribble Accents Add-On

Featured Favorites #3

I was drawn to another pack of In Bloom papers.  There is a lot of gray in it so I went with a b/w photo of Rachel.  It's a Christmas time photo even though the layout is pretty timeless.

Rachel

Celeste Knight | In Bloom - Patterned Papers, With Love, Watercolor Splatters, Noted, Honeysuckle, Menagerie, Wild Flowers

Deena Rutter | Layered Layouts V. 9

Fonts, | KG Manhattan Script, Problem Secretary Normal

P&C Featured Favorites #2

I'm loving the patterns in Celeste's In Bloom kit.

Hello Silly Girl

Celeste Knight | In Bloom, Splatters, Hello Love, Honey Cake, Happy Tape, Pocket Tags, Chalkboard Elements, Messy Stitches

Deena Rutter | Layered Layouts V. 7

Fonts | Legion Slab, Rochester.

Pixels & Co. Featured Favorites

There were some old releases put on sale.  There were a couple I didn't have yet, so I did a layout with some new items for me.  I liked a lot of the new papers and looked for a template that would use a lot of paper.  I turned the journaling strips into paper strips on my layout.

Happy Together

Celeste Knight | With Love:  Wood Veneers, Patterned Papers, Journalers, Hello Love Chalkboard Elements

Meredith Cardall | Layered Up V.1, Somewhere in Time, Winter Wonderland

Deena Rutter | Loverly

Gennifer Bursett | Dialogue

Font | Rockester

Pixels & Co. Subscription layout

This is another layout using the February subscription kit.  I used the pocket page format for a layout that could have been a traditional layout.

Best Friends

Jen Allyson, Celeste Knight,  Meredith Cardall, Gennifer Bursett, Robyn Meierotto, Shirley Polk | February 2015 Subscription kit: Loverly

Gennifer Bursett | Back to Basics- Pocket pages

Font | Pea Amy

Challenge #6 - Random (Formula) Challenge

The formula for this challenge was to use an item beginning with each letter in the word Valentine.  I wanted to use some of the items in my newest kits.  I started with an vintage postcard and that set the theme right away.  I had all the old, antique items in when I decided to add a really worn looking frame.  I thought of mom looking at all the vintage items and used one of my last photos of her.  I used RadLab to give it a sepia/antique look.  It also needed to be sharpened as it was fairly blurry.

Here is my take on the formula:  V - Vintage postcard
                                                     A - Letter A
                                                     L - Lace
                                                     E - Ephemera (antique envelope)
                                                     N - Newspaper overlay/mask
                                                     T - Tag
                                                     I - Iridescent flowers
                                                     N - Navy hangtag
                                                     E - Epoxy honeycomb

Virginia

February 2015 Random Challenge - Formula "Valentine"

Little Butterfly Wings, Just Jaimee | M3 Jan 15

Pink Reptile Designs | Every Day of the Week, Love the Life You Live, Seriously 

Forever Joy | Hello Hello

Kaye Winiecki | Stamped 3 Times

Agnes Biro | Basic Frames

Fonts | Problem Secretary Normal, Dancing Script OT, Beyond Wonderland

February - Journaling Challenge [Introduce Yourself]

I knew I'd use this photo; it's one of my best selfies.  I haven't used it here at TLP.  I used a new kit I just bought today with a discount code for signing up for Mirjam's newsletter.

Introducing...Diane

February 2015 Journaling Challenge - Introduce Yourself

Pink Reptile Designs | Every Day of the Week, Torn Treasures, Love the Life You Live, Heimili

Font | Problem Secretary Normal

M3 January Challenge #2

This challenge was to make stamps and brushes look realistic.  I use a combination of techniques for that.  Sometimes blending modes, opacity, clipping masks, and/or the eraser tool with layer masks.

I used a lot of blending modes on this layout, layer masks/eraser tool and clipping masks with multiple layers.

It's a Brand New Day

M3 January Challenge #2 - Realistic Paint

Sissy Sparrows, Lynne-Marie, Just Jaimee | M3 Jan 15

Little Butterfly Wings, Quirky Heart |M3 Dec 14

Lynne-Marie | M3 Aug 14,  M3 Aug 14_Sketchbook 03

Font | Habda Stylish Script

BYOC Challenge at TLP

I used mostly things from BYO for this.  Technically, I was supposed to use 90% BYOC.  And the extra I used were so minor, I hope it qualifies.

Cuteness Galore

February 2015 BYOC Challenge

Valorie Wibbens | La Vie En Rose

Sabrina Dupre Designs | I Heart You

Pink Reptile Designs | Seriously

CD Muckosky | Kinda Nerdy, Kinda Nerdy Outlines

Just Jaimee | M3 Nov 14_Gesso Bits Add-On

Amy Martin | Polly Love template: Farrah

Fonts | Problem Secretary, Problem Secretary Normal

Pixels & Co. Subscription kit for February 2015

I've been dying to use a Two Tiny Turtles template which uses a BUNCH of elements.  The February P&C kit is perfect because it is loaded with elements.  It has a very valentines feels to it.
I used something from every designer.  I have 4 stylets on the photo and I blended the b/w photo with a straight out of the camera color photo.

Sweet, Sweet, Sweet

Gennifer Bursett, Jen Allyson, Meredith Cardall, Robyn Meierotto, Deena Rutter, Shirley Polk, Celeste Knight | February 2015 Subscription kit: Loverly

Gennifer Bursett |Indian Summer, Made of Awesome

Two Tiny Turtles | This Journey Called Life template

Font | KG I Need A Font

TLP February Template Challenge

One Little Bird furnished the free template for the challenge.  I went with an arty layout.  The title "free as a bird" works on a couple of levels.  The photo shows Ewan spreading his arms like he's flying and he was free from school as it had just let out for the summer only a few days earlier.

Free As A Bird

February 2015 Template Challenge

Little Butterfly Wings | Free As A Bird

One Little Bird | Flight Plan No.28, challenge freebie

Font | Cheddar Jack

February Product Challenge at TLP

I made the layout as a Bible Art Journal page on my BSF lesson last week: Numbers Chapters 1-10.  Turned out that I used a painted element in it as well as some painted stamped circles and a font that gave it the look of a painted, stamped title.  So I could use it in the product (paint) challenge.  Neat!

Numbers: Chpts. 1-10

Another Bible AJ page from my BSF class.  

For the Feb. product challenge- paint, I used a painted element from CD Muckosky and painted circles by Just Jaimee.

CD Muckosky | Journal Junkie: Love Story

Sara Gleason | Ash Tree

Just Jaimee | Mixed Media Mix and Match

Little Butterfly Wings | The Little Things, M3 Dec 14 Add-on: Scribble Accents

Allison Pennington | Autumnal, Currently

Pink Reptile Designs | Heimili alpha

Fonts |Sidewalk, League Gothic, Roblem Secretary Normal

A new kind of challenge at TLP.

There is a new challenge called the Pocket Scrapping Art Journaling Challenges.  There is a gift certificate for doing 2 of the challenges during the month.  That's real money, so I thought I would give it a try.  I won't print them out in paper, but I will add them to my Pinterest board and this blog.
This one is support to have journaling about something good.  I picked family.

Family - Pocket Scrapping AJ Challenge

Pocket Scrapping AJ Challenge-Feb. #1- Something Good

Amy Martin | Sixty Twelve Templates

Amy Wolff | It\'s All Good

Just Jaimee, Little Butterfly Wings | M3 Jan 15

Fonts | Skater Girls, Pea Denise

New month, new challenges at The Lilypad

It is back to normal, doing the monthly challenges at The Lilypad.  My guest spot at the Pad is next month and I'm in waiting mode to see if I got the permanent Pollywog job due to MOC.  I looked through the layouts and there is STIFF competition for sure.

First challenge I completed was for the Scraplift Challenge.  Christina's gallery had a lot of great choices.  I was particularly drawn to the photo treatments in this layout by her.  The ruffled laces also attracted me.  

To lift her layout, I needed a panoramic shot with a close up of a subject.  Hmmm, that was hard to find in my collection of photos.  I found two photos at the duck pond I figured would work, but there would be no ruffles (used a flat, crocheted lace instead) with it.  Bummer.  Here is my take on her layout:

February 2015 - Scraplift {Christina} Challenge

Allison Pennington | Autumnal, Hayrides & Smiles

Amy Wolff | Destination

Forever Joy | Be

Lynne-Marie | Manic Monday

Sara Gleason | Borders v 1, Olive Tree

Laurie Ann | Hello Sunshine

Nancie Rowe Janitz | Boken

RadLab stylets: Lights On, Contrast, Prettyizer, El Capitan

Font | Problem Secretary Normal

MOC Day 31 - Pocket Page Challenge

Oh, my goodness -- MOC is finally finished.  I managed to do all 31 and finished on time.  I have 11 hours and 45 minutes to spare.  The last challenge was harder than I thought it would be .

B-Ball - MOC 2015

MOC Day 31 - Pocket Page Challenge

Valorie Wibbens | Sewn Pockets

Sara Gleason | Olive Tree

Quirky Heart | M3 Nov 14 - journal card

Little Butterfly Wings | Grungy and Messy - frame

CD Muckosky | Markerific

Kaye Winiecki | From A to B

Just Jaimee | M3 Dec 2014 alpha

Jacque Larsen | Boyish Charm

Font | Problem Secretary Normal