Rainbow

I hope everyone's having a great weekend!  I'm sure you're all just as ready for everything to reopen as I am, but I know we all want to keep everyone safe as well.  I'm plugging along with work, graduate school, making sure my son gets his AMI work done, and getting a little crafting in when I can.

If you've been visiting my blog any in 2020, then you know Scrappin' 'n' Chattin' has a 52-Week Layout Challenge going  We're in Week #15 right now, and my layout below is my Week #15 layout.  It also counts as my first layout for the April Monthly Layout Challenge there of "April Showers Bring May Flowers" and for my "Wood" BINGO square at Snc.

One of the current sketches at Sketches in Thyme is Sketch #415:

This is my take on the sketch:

I'm also entering this at Lasting Memories.  Challenge 491 there is "Word Play--Spring."  You have to use an item or technique for every letter in the word "Spring."  Mine are as follows:  S--Spring flowers on background paper, P--Patterned paper, R--Rainbow title, I--Inking (in yellow between the picture and title), N--Navy ZIG Writer used to write journaling, G--Green cardstock.  

Challenges Entered

~Lasting Memories #491--Word Play "Spring"

~Scrappin' 'n' Chattin' April 2020 Monthly Layout Challenge--April Showers Bring May Flowers

~Scrappin' 'n' Chattin' April 2020 BINGO--Wood

~Sketches In Thyme--Sketch #415

Supplies Used

~Close To My Heart Exclusive Inks in Sunflower

~Simple Stories Good Day Sunshine collection

       --6x12 Page Elements

       --Chill Out

       --Expressions Cardstock Stickers

       --Fundamentals Cardstock Stickers

       --Life is Beachy

~Thickers Patchwork Fabric Letter Stickers in Ladybug

~ZIG Writer in Navy

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you get some crafty time soon.  Have a great weekend, and happy scrapping!

Wedding

I also decided to get involved again at The Outlawz Challenges and found their Wednesday Sketch Challenge.  Here's the sketch to work with:

I decided to use the sketch for a layout.

I've had this picture of my parents on their wedding day, along with my grandparents, printed for a while and was just waiting on the right paper and challenge to use it.

Challenges Entered

~The Outlawz Challenges 

     *Wednesday Sketch Challenge, Mar. 18-Mar. 31

~Scrappin' 'n' Chattin'

     *March 2020 Layout Challenges--Dig Into Your "Stuff"

     *March 2020 BINGO--Your Favorite Woman Layout

Supplies Used

~Carta Bella En Vogue collection

     *3x4 Journaling Cards

     *Dress Forms

     *Element Sticker

     *Map of Paris

~Cardstock from stash

~MAMBI Alphachips stickers--black glitter

~Thickers Sprinkles glitter letter stickers--black

~Timeless Twine in Cape Cod

~ZIG Writer in Pure Black

I hope you've had some scrappy or crafty time today so far.  Thanks for stopping by!

Diamond

In entering challenges, I also decided to get involved at Soul Scrappers again.  For this month, they have a sketch challenge (SC142) using this sketch:

Here's my take on the sketch:

Diamond was our first cat; she just showed up on our carport one day when I was a teenager and eventually wooed her way inside.  She loved to sleep on my bed and always sat at the back door and meowed when she needed to go outside to use the bathroom.  Unfortunately, we found lying her in the neighbors yard one day, and she had passed away. 😢  She was such a wonderful kitty!

Supplies Used

~Echo Park Meow collection

     *Cat Icons

     *Element Sticker

     *Kitty Paws

     *Kitty Plaid

~ZIG Writer in Pure Black

I hope everyone is having a great weekend!  Happy scrapping, everyone!  Thanks for stopping by!

February 2020 Creations

I hope you enjoyed looking through my January 2020 creations!  If you haven't seen those, you can click here to go to that post.  As promised, here's everything I created in February:

I'll be back around the first of April to share my March creations.  I'm planning to get quite a bit more done between now and the end of the month!  Thanks for stopping by!  Happy scrapping!

January 2020 Creations

Happy weekend, everyone!  Our world is living in some crazy times right now, so I hope I can brighten your day by sharing my creations.  I'm in an online scrapbook group, Scrappin' 'n' Chattin', and we recently (re)started a 52-Week Layout Challenge.  The point of the challenge is to complete one layout a week for every week of the year.  At the end of the year, you have fifty-two layouts to add to your albums!  We also have monthly layout challenges, a quarterly sketch challenge, monthly BINGO, and a monthly twenty-four hour challenge that helps us be creative.

I have to admit that I didn't get a lot of layouts done in 2019 (for the past couple of years, actually), so having the group start the 52-Week Layout Challenge again has really helped jump start my creativity again.  I thought at the end of each month that I would share everything I created in hopes that I can give others some crafty inspiration!  Here's everything I completed in January of this year:

I hope you get some inspiration from my creations!  Happy scrapping, everyone!  Thanks for stopping by!

Lasting Memories March Challenge

I haven't been in the layout challenge game (on blogs, anyway) for a LOOOOONG time, so I thought I'd jump back in every now and then!  I was on the Design Team at Lasting Memories back in 2011, so I thought I'd start there.  Their first challenge for March was Mix and Match Patterned Paper, so I thought this layout fit the theme perfectly:

Supplies Used

~Echo Park I'd Rather Be Crafting collection

     *Just My Type

     *Element Sticker

~Echo Park I 💓 Crafting collection

     *Create Beauty

     *Makers Gonna Make

     *Element Sticker

~Thickers Cecily Glitter Letter Stickers--Silver

~Timeless Twine Lemonade Yellow

~ZIG Writer Pure Pink   

I hope everyone has a great scrappy weekend!  Thanks for stopping by!

300 followers!!!

HOLY COW, folks!!!  I was notified by Blogger last week that I've reached 300 followers!  Thank you all SO MUCH for following my crafty blog!!!!  I hope you find some crafty inspiration here and some things you like.  Be looking for a 300 follower giveaway soon!!!  Happy scrapping, everyone!