Paper Loving Gals #1 !!!

Oh My ...how the time does fly!! I totally ran out of time to post this!
Here is my take on the photo inspiration challenge from Paper Loving Gals.
This is a new challenge blog and here is challenge #1!!! YAY!!

I'm still having lighting issues with taking good pictures. Maybe I can sneak in a get a better one this weekend...hopefully the rain will hold off long enough.

I used a sketch from Sketchabilities this time. :)

I dusted off the Coluzzle system to cut out all my flowers. Then I used needle nose pliers to crimp each petal and then added tons of Stickles. This certainly brightened up an otherwise boring day at work. :)

It's ME!!

What is that?? Is that a picture of ME??!!! How did that happen???!!

This month at Crop Suey, the challenge is all about YOU! Or ME! Or something like that...lol

After I searched for quite a long time, I found these fun pictures from one of many Girl's Nights Out. :)

It reminded me that it's time to do that again! Maybe I'll end up in more pictures....hmmm....

LOL!! (Lots Of Layouts!)

Wow! I had a FUN, BUSY week! I was able to spend a lot of time thinking and planning out some pages, and then was totally inspired to get to work!

This month sure brought a lot of wonderful sketches! As I'm sure you can see, I am addicted to sketches and love the challenges that they bring. And since I love going out and taking TONS of pictures everywhere, there is definitely never a shortage of things to work with. :)

The weather is changing quickly, and I am losing daylight even quicker. Taking good pictures is becoming my biggest challenge. So now I have to save my posts until the weekend. :(

I hope you have the patience to sit through a post filled with lots of sketches and my interpretations....

I love Echo Park! And the Be Mine collection worked wonderfully with my daughter's school Spring picture.

This sketch is the October challenge from My Sketch World.

Group 1 sketch from Show Us Your Stuff. I inked up the whole background with 3 different inks. All of the other bits and pieces are from the Fall stash.

This one was probably the most difficult sketch. I just couldn't figure what to do with all those little circles. But then I remembered....I have BUTTONS!!!

This sketch can be found at Stuck?! Sketches.

A fun pumpkin page using the sketch from Scrap Whispers.

Let's Capture These Sketches has some gorgeous sketches! Here is the first one I finished. I can't wait to work on the next one! I used some velvet trim for the challenge at Frosted Designs this week. The flowers are all from Michael's. And I found the metal circle frames and the key in the "junk" drawer.

...and finally! Sketch Inspiration #241! I was able to play with a doily! I love inking and spraying doilies! And I added a few Stickles too. The flowers are all miscellaneous that I layered and stickled. The most trouble I had with this page were the rubons for the giant brads. I had such a hard time with these!

Well, that 's all I have for today! lol!

We are off to yet another pumpkin farm today! I can't wait to get all of these pictures printed!

Have a great weekend!!

My day off....

I so love taking random days off! I actually took today off to sneak off to yet another pumpkin farm. Shhh....

I just love this time of the year. I just wish it were easier to find pumpkin patch goodies for scrapping. I have tons of Fall and Halloween, but just the pumpkin patch is really hard to find. :(

Any hints or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Here is my first page of the day. I have to take the pictures ASAP because the light is disappearing quickly. I'm not liking these shorter days....and the worst is yet to come.

This is sketch #102 from Let's Capture These Sketches. I pulled out some fun purple mulberry paper for this one. This picture is kinda old. I had a hard time figuring out how to scrap those bright orange and purple flowers! My favorite part is the title. It's a title die cut from Imaginisce Happy Harvest...I just added some purple ink to the edges and it was perfect!

And here is my take on sketch #101 from Let's Capture These Sketches. I love these bits and pieces from K&Company. These colors are so pretty! And they kept me from using a lot of white with the communion picture. The photo mat is a square doily that was inked in 3 different colors.

And finally....here is my submission for the October sketch challenge from Artful Delight. I had to dig out another sheet of "wood" paper and a few stickers, but the rest is more scraps from their September kit.

Now I have to go nurse the finger that got smashed in between my chair and the desk. It's really hard to type when I cannot use my right pinky. :(

More pumpkins...

Here are a few pages I finished over the last few days. I had to wait until I had good sunlight to take pictures. I'm not happy that the times are changing. When I leave in the morning, it's dark and when I get home, it's even darker. :(

Not looking forward to Winter...especially with what they are predicting for us. I guess I should just make sure I have plenty of adhesive. They are saying we might have another blizzard and get snowed in again. Oh well, at least I know I will get plenty more snow pictures....lol

Here is my take on Sassy Lil' Sketches Send off #5.

And a fun sketch from Sketches in Thyme. This is challenge #57. I love pumpkin pictures!

And Sassy Lil' Sketches Send off #3. I'm going to miss this site! :(

Sketches in Thyme Design Team call

Well, here is my shot at a spot on the new Design Team at Sketches in Thyme. :)

They always have the best sketches!

To be considered for the team, we have to create a layout based on the following sketch.

I used lots of raffia and burlap. I made my own rosettes and added some raffia along with buttons...of course.

As I was making the rosettes, I kept repeating to my hubby that I REALLY want the Martha Stewart scoring board! This would make things soooo much easier! I sure hope he remembers...of course, I left lots of post-its all around his desk...just a subtle hint. :)

Wish me luck! :)

Manic Monday...

I don't like Mondays!! It just means that the weekend is over and I'm finding it harder and harder to fit in time to scrap. :(

I squeezed in some time last night, but without proper daylight to take pictures, it's getting more and more difficult to get good lighting.

Here is my page for Frosted Designs Sketch Along Tuesdays. It's pretty simple and I used up a lot of Stickles on the quote and the doily. :)

I chose the gold to represent the pot 'o gold at the end of the rainbow. :)

And this fun page is for the sketch challenge from My Scraps and More. They are having a fun Scrap It and Win It challenge and the sketches are so much fun!

Happy Monday! Enjoy the week!! :)