May Great Stash Bash kit!!

Yay!  We made it to May!!  May is an amazing month for me each year and I really look forward to it! Of course there is NSD and it's also the birthday month for Sketch N Scrap which I co-founded 8 years ago!! All those festivities kick off tomorrow at Sketch N Scrap so make sure and follow us on Facebook and the blog!!  Today's it's a new month so that means it's time to launch Lisa & Lori's Great Stash Bash 2020 kit for May!!

For those who are new to the challenge here is how it works:

On the 1st of each month we will post a challenge prompt and the stash kit we have created following that prompt. During the month we will try to use as much of our stash kits as possible on different projects. Then, on the last day of the month, we will do a recap post showing what stash we were able to bash!

This will be a just-for-fun challenge so no monthly prize - but isn't the real prize using up our stash? You never know - if we still have a few unused stash items after a few months, then those items may just go into a giveaway. We hope you will join us in our quest to bash some stash in 2020. If you accept the challenge to play along - link up on either my blog or Lori's blog (or both if you choose) so that we can see who is joining us each month!

Now for our May challenge:

This month we will create a kit with 10 papers (seven papers 3 years or older & three newer papers), 5-7 scrap papers, 4 embellishments (three that are 3 years or older & one newer one), and some FLOWERS!!

Since this is a just for fun challenge the rules are not set in stone BUT we have them to help you focus on what really matters using your stash!  We also hope you will help spread the word of our fun challenge so others may join in!!  You know you have at least one friend who needs to use her stash!! 

Here are the rules: 

1. Follow the challenge prompt to create a kit to work with throughout the month. You may use other items, but please concentrate on using your kit. 

2. Create new, not previously posted projects using your stash kit.

3. If you have a blog - please include the challenge graphic and a link to our challenge in your posts. 

4. You may link to social media if you don't have a blog. If you share on Instagram, please make sure to use - #lisaandlorisgreatstashbash2020

Here is the kit I created using the May prompts:

I am loving these colors this month, I'm in a bright colored mood with a splash of grey/black!
Here is a close up of the older papers:

These papers are from the following collections: Elle's Studio Live, Laugh, Love (4), Bella Blvd Family Dynamix (2) and Bella Blvd Sweet, Sweet Spring (purple). I only had this one Sweet Sweet Spring Paper and was glad to see it coordinates well with the Elle's Studio papers!  
Here are my newer papers: 

These papers are from Simple Stories Oh Happy Day line (yellow), Pebbles Chasing Adventures (red), and Dear Lizzy She's Magic (pink). 
Here are the scraps I picked...as you can see one I spilled water on, so not sure the end is able to be salvaged!

None of my scraps had branding strips on them, so I am not sure what lines they are from!  I think the yellow is from Bo Bunny and the reds are from My Mind's Eye, Scenic Route (wow! So old) & Echo Park! 
Here are my embellishments:

The new embellishment is Pink Pasilee Horizons Thickers, flowers are from Basic Grey (another oldie but goodie) and the older 3 embellishments are from Elle's Studio!! I love all these fun embellishments and hope to use a lot of them this month!! 

I hope you will be inspired to dig through your stash this month and play along with myself and Lori as we endeavor to bash some stash in 2020!!  If you chose to play along make sure and link up below, we'd love to see what you have put together for a kit & what you create with it!  Happy creating friends!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

April TN Time with Lisa & Lori challenge!

Happy April!! March sure did fly by didn't it?!  I hope you have been having a crafty month so far. It's time again for our April TN Time with Lisa & Lori challenge!!  I had a lot of fun with this challenge and hope you will too!  So without further delay...............

HERE IS HOW OUR CHALLENGE WORKS: This is a monthly challenge that launches on the 10th of each month  You will have until the 9th at midnight CST to link up your entries. If you complete my sketch challenge link your TN, bullet journal or planner spread below. If you combined my challenge with Lori's challenge link up your spread here on my blog AND on Lori's Blog (My Happy Life).  You will then have a chance to win my prize as well as Lori's prize!  That's a chance to win TWO times with ONE layout!!

Let's get this party started!!!  Here is my April sketch: 

                                                     And here is Lori's April Challenge:

RULES FOR THE CHALLENGE (to be entered into the prize drawing):

1.Create a TRAVELER'S NOTEBOOK, PLANNER, OR BULLET JOURNAL spread based on the CHALLENGE THEME and/or our sketch. 
2.Create a new, not previously posted project.
3.You are welcome to combine with other challenges.
4.If you have a blog please include the challenge graphic & a link to our challenge in your post.
5.You can link to social media if you don't have a blog. If you show your project on Instagram, please make sure to use #TNtimewithLisaandLori 
6.You can submit multiple projects but they must be posted to InLinkz or social media separately.
7.If there are less than 3 players for our challenge, no winners will be chosen.
8. Must be a follower of my blog to enter.

9. We only ship within the US, international players are welcome but they will need to pay the shipping if they are chosen as our prize winner or forfeit the prize

10.Most importantly have FUN!

Here is my TN spread based on the sketch AND Lori's challenge!

Supplies Used: Patterned Paper: Simple Stories Dream Big, Basic Grey Highline (pink), CTMH Mix In Patterns (mat for picture); Ephemera: Hip Kit Club- This Beautiful Life & Elle's Studio- March kit; puffy stickers: Elle's Studio Hugs & Kisses (Capturing Life) & PinkFresh Studios Everyday Musings (hearts & flower); PL card: The Reset Girl; washi Tape: Heidi Swapp Color Fresh (pink plaid on right page) 

 I used 4 of the colors in my spread: light pink, yellow, green & blue. I absolutely loved this color combo and think I will use it again soon!  The colors scream Spring to me!  I had fun creating this spread using this picture of myself and my friends at The Blast-Cook's Children's 5K walk to raise money for neuroblastoma research in March!  Now it's your turn I can't wait to see what you create!  One randomly selected winner will win this fun set of So Much Happy puffy stickers from CTMH and a washi tape sampler (not shown)!  They will make the perfect accents for your TN pages!  

Now for our March winner!!   THANKS to all our participants this month! I was inspired by each of your amazing entries!!! Our randomly selected winner of the Heidi Swapp Emerson Lane ephemera pack.............. is Anna!!!

Anna here is what you have won:

Anna you can email me at llhidy@gmail.com to claim your prize!! Thanks to everyone who participated in our March TN Time with Lisa & Lori challenge!  I hope you will join me in my April challenge!!  Happy creating!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Sketch N Scrap's Slice of Summer Crop

Happy Monday!! I hope your weekend was super productive!  Mine sure was, got to have some crafty time with friends and enjoyed creating a few cards and a few layouts!  The Sketch N Scrap Slice of Summer crop is still going on over on the Sketch N Scrap Facebook page and it was my turn to host Challenge #3!!  

The challenge is to create a card using this amazing card sketch by Heather:

 

Here is my card using this sketch:

Supplies Used: card base: CTMH; Card stock: Stampin' Up- Basic Black, Pear Pizzaz, Pale Plum; Ink: CTMH Black; embossing folder: CTMH Rose; Dies: CTMH- Hearts; Stamp: CTMH- Inspired Words; stickers: (strips & sentiment) Basic Grey Kioshi

I love how this card turned out!!  I had stamped this heart a while ago while playing around with my new Inspired Words stamp set by Close to My Heart...who would have thought it matched these stickers lying in my BASHKET pile!!!  I knew once I saw this sketch that I would use these old Basic Grey border stickers as they would fit in with the sketch and also check off 3 things from my bash it basket/list!!  So I started searching for a flower to match the stickers and had a hard time finding one (I know hard to believe!)...so I switched courses to substitute the flower in the sketch for another shape and lo and behold when I searched my shape box I found this heart and it matched my stickers!!  I no longer have any of the Kioshi paper from Basic Grey so I had to improvise with cardstock that matched the stickers and decided to give my cardstock some flair by embossing it with my all time favorite ROSE embossing folder from Close to My Heart!!  I ended up using FOUR items from my bash it pile on this one card! YAY!  I can see myself using this sketch again, it is very versatile!  I hope it inspire you to play along with us at the Sketch N Scrap Slice of Summer crop!  All 4 challenges are now posted and you have until August 31st to play along with us!! Happy creating and see you at the crop!

Thinking of You- Sketch N Scrap card sketch #93

Hello crafters! I am so happy to share our first card sketch of the month with you today!  This fun sketch is by Heather and is one I know you will want to use over and over again!

 

Here is my take on the sketch:



Supplies Used: Cardstock: Very Vanilla by Stampin' Up; Ink: Watermelon Wonder & Pool Party by Stampin' Up; Stamp Set: Flower Shop & Four You by Stampin' Up; Punch: Stampin' Up; enamel dots: My Mind's Eye; Patterned Paper: Basic Grey Hillside

 

I was gifted these papers around Christmas time and it made me realize how much I miss Basic Grey! These colors are so fun and I love the smaller patterns of the 6x6 pads for card making! I plan on using this fun sketch again with stars instead of flowers next time! The possibilities on this sketch are truly endless!  I hope you will find time to play along with us this month at Sketch N Scrap and don't forget to hop on over the Sketch N Scrap blog to check out what the other DT members did with the sketch!

Card sketch #74

May has been a super busy month for us, my baby is a Senior this year and is graduating in just a few short weeks!!!!  We have been crazy busy with preparations for graduation and family coming to celebrate!  When I'm super busy and need a card I always use a sketch, it makes your card come together so much faster!  Here is the sketch I have up today at Sketch N Scrap:

 

And here is my take on the sketch:



Supplies Used: Card stock: Stampin' Up; Patterned Paper: Basic Grey;
embossing folder: Stampin' Up; die cut circle w/ sentiment: Basic Grey.

I just love the sentiment on this card!  I found a few more scraps of this paper and hope to make a few more cards with this sketch!  I hope you will play along with use this month at Sketch N Scrap, we are giving away a $20 gift certificate to Scrapbook.com!!!  Make sure and check out the details and see what the DT did with the sketch at Sketch N Scrap!  Happy creating! 

Sketch N Scrap #100

I am so excited to share our March 1st sketch with you today!!!  Today's sketch is our 100th sketch at Sketch N Scrap!  Wow!  100 layout sketches, hard to imagine!  I would never have thought it possible on the that day almost 4 years ago when I designed our 1st ever sketch!  I am so blessed to work with such amazing and crazy talented sketch artists at Sketch N Scrap! 

Here is my sketch:

 

And here is my take on the sketch:



Supplies Used:  Cardstock: Stampin' Up; Patterned Paper: Basic Grey Bowties; letter stickers:

Basic Grey; stickers: Basic Grey Bowties; punches: star by McGill & large star by Paper Shapers

 

I am so sad to see that Basic Grey is no longer going to be making a paper line!!  This inspired me to dig into my Basic Grey stash for this layout!  I love these colors and have to say this is one of my favorite lines of theirs.  This is my son back in 1st grade, his car won first place at the Derby!!  It was very exciting!  What a great memory to capture!  My journaling is on the back but if you don't use such big letters you could certainly fit it under your title...I just couldn't resist using these cute letters!  Make sure and hop on over to the Sketch N Scrap blog to see what the other DT members did with the sketch, there is TONS of inspiration and I know it will inspire you to play along for a chance to win our awesome prize for March, plus we have some other surprises up our sleeve....in honor of our 100th sketch debut we are having NINE challenges for you this month, you won't want to miss it, inspiration galore!!!  Happy creating!

Mix it up!

Good morning everyone!  I'm here today sharing my last layout for my stint as design team member for Lori Brown's CTMH team.  I had so much fun being part of this great team, but as they say all good things must come to an end.  This month I decided to mix it up a bit....after all it's a New Year, so for this layout I used a mix of papers from different lines.  Here is my layout:

Supplies Used: Cardstock: Basic Grey; Patterned Paper: CTMH Tommy, Surf's Up & Pro Player;

chipboard: Basic Grey Hey Boy; star: CTMH Pro Player; stamp: CTMH Pro Player 

scrapbooking kit; ink: Night of Navy by Stampin Up; quote tag: My Mind's Eye;

journaling tag: Chic Tags; punches: Stampin Up; letters: rub ons by Making Memories.

I was able to mix three wonderful lines from CTMH : Tommy and ProPlayer, which are two awesome masculine lines and the third line Surf's Up, which is retired.  I was also able to use up a few embellishments from my stash which I thought coordinated great with these lines, the quote from My Mind's Eye I had had in my stash for years, plus I used up some chipboard embellishments from Basic Grey as well as some really old rub on letters.  I do like the look of rub ons, but they are a bit hard to work with when you haven't had practice with them for a while.  This is one of my favorite pictures of my son at 4, I just love his smile in this picture and it is fun to see him in a suit and tie, since nowadays he would NEVER let himself be caught wearing a suit and tie!!!  How times change! lol!  If you are looking for some fun new products or any masculine papers I would highly recommend either of these lines (ProPlayer or Tommy).   If you are so inclined to do some shopping then don't forget to visit Lori's CTMH store and click on the link Lisa's My Creative Endeavors sent me!  Happy crafting!

New challenge at Sketch N Scrap!

We are starting a new challenge at Sketch N Scrap for 2014! This challenge is a usual sketch challenge but instead of an original sketch created by our sketch artists the sketch is inspired by a layout created by one of the design team members.  Here is our first Inspired By sketch by me:

 Here is the layout that inspired my sketch by Stephanie Ho:

And here is my layout based on the sketch:

Supplies Used: Patterned Papers: Basic Grey; Stickers: Basic Grey; felt: K & Co;

enamel dots: My Mind's Eye; letter stickers: Basic Grey; Cosmo Cricket; Heidi

Swapp; American Crafts Thickers; Paper Trunk

I hope you will be as inspired by Stephanie's layout as I was!  You have lots of time to play along with us at Sketch N Scrap! We are giving away an awesome prize package from Skyline Paperie to one lucky randomly drawn winner and each layout or card you create based on this or one of our other sketches gets you one entry into the drawing!  But you can't win if you don't play so check out the deets here and see the other wonderful layouts and cards created by our design team with this sketch HERE!

Sketch N Scrap #45

Is everyone ready for Christmas?  I'm ready to get my shopping started, yes, I said "started!"...I haven't done much shopping yet, thinking this year will be one of those marathon Black Friday shopping sprees where I complete my list in less then 24 hours!  Wish me luck!  Our last layout sketch for November is up at Sketch N Scrap today!  This sketch by Kelly is sure to get your creative juices flowing!

I decided to get in the Christmas spirit and create a Christmas layout:

Supplies used: Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned Paper: Basic Grey Jovial; stickers:

Basic Grey Jovial, My Mind's Eye Be Merry; Letters: American Craft Thickers & Paper

Trunk; ribbon: Little Yellow Bicycle; bling & pearls: Kaisercraft; faux stitching: Doodlebug

These pictures of my son, niece and nephew together right before opening gifts were so fun, I was excited to scrap them.  We had to bribe them to take a few good pictures and not let them open their gifts until said pictures were taken!  I'm trying it again this year, it worked so well last year!  I hope you will have time to join us at Sketch N Scrap this month and play along with one of our sketches!  It's easy to play along, just create a card or layout from one of our sketches and link it up by November 30th for a chance to win at $25 gift certificate to Kiwi Lane Designs our awesome November sponsor! 

Have a happy Scrappy weekend my friends!

Sketch N Scrap # 40

Happy September! I would say Happy Fall but it is far from Fall here, with it being a heat index of 106 it is kind of hard to think Summer is almost gone!  I am so excited to share another sketch with you over at Sketch N Scrap once again! 

 Here is the sketch:

Here is my layout:

Supplies Used: Patterned Papers: Basic Grey, Echo Park & Jillibean Soup; Cardstock: 

Stampin Up chocolate chip; die cuts & stickers: Jillibean Soup; letters: American Crafts;

flower: Little Yellow Bicycle; circle garland: Teresa Collins

These are pictures of my youngest nephew learning to blow bubbles! His little face is so cute and dirty, he is all boy this one!  I love mixing patterns from different manufacturers, a great way to use up your stash! I hope you will find time to stop by and see all the wonderful inspiration from the DT at Sketch N Scrap for this month!  We also have a awesome prize up for grabs!  One lucky randomly drawn winner will receive a $15 gift certificate to The Memory Nest! Wow! Who doesn't love FREE scrappy goodness?!! But you can't win if you don't play so RUN don't walk on over the Sketch N Scrap, details are:

HERE!

Happy Labor Day to my American friends! Hope you day is filled with creativity!

Sketch N Scrap #30

So, did anyone pull a prank on you today?  Not me, I was ready for them, no one was going to fool me! lol! Oh, they tried, but they didn't succeed no one was able to pull a fast one on me...nope, not today...hope they don't try another day when my guard is down! lol!  Of course, I wouldn't even try to pull a prank on my  blog followers, so here is a fun sketch for you to play along with :

Sketch N Scrap #30

The thing I love most about this sketch is the versatility...you can adapt it to work with one photo, two photos, three photos or MORE....to see what I'm talking about go check out what the Sketch N Scrap DT did with this sketch!  LOADS of possiblities!  Here is my take on the sketch: 

Supplies Used: Patterned Paper: Basic Grey Hey Boy; Carstock: Stampin Up; Stickers:

Basic Grey Hey Boy; Wood stars: Studio Calico; Chipboard: Basic Grey Hey Boy; Punch: Stampin' Up

This is my cutie nephew when he was just 2, messing around and being goofy!  He is such a fun little boy! I love this new line by Basic Grey, it is so versatile!  There is plenty of time to play along~ you have until April 30th to upload your layout for a chance to win a GREAT set of flair buttons from A FLAIR FOR BUTTONS.  Plus, don't forget to submit your application for our new Card DT call ~ it ends on April 3rd at 5pm, we want to see your talent, for more details go HERE.  Hope you get time to scrap & enjoy the lovely spring weather this week!

Sketch N Scrap #29

Can't believe it is time for another sketch again! Wow, where is the time going? Daylight Savings Time kind of had me lagging this week, but I think I am back on track again!  Here is the second Sketch N Scrap sketch for March designed by Brenshevia:

Here is my layout based on the sketch:

Supplies Used: Patterned Paper: Basic Grey Out of Print; Cardstock: Bazzill; Borders: Doodlebug Frills;

Butterflies: Basic Grey; Stickers: Basic Grey; Letters: Paper Trunk & American Crafts Thickers; bling: Kasiercrafts

These pictures are of a recent trip to Casa Manana that my niece and I took to see Rapunzel!  It was a fun time! Don't you just love her bear dressed as Rapunzel?  I had such fun with this sketch and know you will too, why not give it a try?  There is still plenty of time to enter our prize drawing...you have until March 31st to link up your layout using this sketch or Sketch N Scrap #28!