Honor Student

 This week at Sketches in Thyme there is a very interesting sketch to try out!  I have to admit, this one gave me quite the brain cramp...

Then I thought what a great way to use up a lot of those wallet sized photos!

I pulled out envelopes - lots of them - filled with these little tidbits.

I really felt like I took a chunk out of the photo stash...but not really...lol.

Stop by the Sketches in Thyme blog to see what the Maven's have done with this awesome sketch!

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SUPER KID!

It's February already!!  Wow!  Spring is almost here!  lol...okay, maybe not that soo, but one can hope, right??

We have another great challenge this month over at Let's Get Sketchy.  I had more fun digging through the old stash for this one:

I found these letters by Recollections at Michael's a while ago.  No idea what I was going to do with them, but I had to have them.

Now I'm glad I had them.

Here is this month's sketch for you to try out:

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From This Moment

Happy Snow Day!

I"m waiting for the snow to slow down a bit before we get out to shovel and play.

In the meantime, I get to sit at my desk and scrap all day.

I have been trying to figure out a page for the challenge at Creative Embellishments all month.

Of course, at the last minute, I came up with this:

I used a corrugated background and some leftover lace.

The chipboard pieces I used are the title and the flourish under the flowers - all from Creative Embellishments.

Here is the inspirational picture that was offered for the challenge:

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Celebrate - All Star Jazz Band

 

I sure do miss events like this - heck, I miss any event right now.

So glad that my daughter was able to celebrate things like finally being inducted into the All Star Jazz Band.

For this page, I used some gold scraps, gold star stickers, and some newer swirl sticker and music notes.

I feel like the majority of this page was all miscellaneous scraps and it makes me so happy!

I chose this event for the challenge at Lasting Memories.

Make sure you stop by and check it out!

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Cookie' Up Creations - Out with the old

 This month at Cookin' Up Creations, we are focusing on Out with the Old and In with the New.

This is making me dig deep into the stash to find things I have been hoarding for a long time.

For this page, I wanted to use up some of these metal rimmed tags.  I have about 100 of them! 

I was working on a sketch that called for smaller circles and this is what I came up with:

Amazingly, I even had the right colors I needed!

For a second page I did, I used up some of these way old plastic slide mounts:

I never know what to do with them until I saw a page on Pinterest that used them as a base for smaller stickers.

This is yet another embellishment that I seem to have way too much of.

I'm loving this challenge!

My new Ikea cubes are coming on Monday, so clearing out old stash is perfect timing for when they get here.

Stop by Cookin' Up Creations to see what's popping up in the gallery.

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Taking a Hike

And again, another page using up some really old stash!

For this page, I used up more of a collection from All My Memories:

I tend not to use older stuff because I'm afraid to part with it and then find a better idea for it later.

But since this has been around since 2005, I thought it was time to let it go.

I finished off a page of these stickers tags - I cut them in have to work for my page.

The alphas are also from the same collection.  

The scalloped circle is from a set of die cut pieces - I have no idea where they came from...lol.

I inked up the edges to soften the stark white.

Then I added the twine and buttons to the tags.

I used this sketch from Sketch N Scrap #217 to get started with:

                                            

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Camping

 I so wish we could go camping again!!  Hopefully this year will be much better.

Now that our girls can join in on camping fun with the scouts, my son, daughter and husband have great weekends and I get some time to myself.

I used a circle die cut from Pink Paisley and a woodgrain background paper from Recollections.

The flowers are from 49 and Market.  I wanted to pull in the blue from the die cut and add a feminine touch to a scout page.

The stickers are all from Paper House.

I'm using this as a "Going Places" page for the new challenge at Lasting Memories.

Here's hoping we get a chance to go more places!

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