LMCB 161 - Trick or Treat

Happy Monday!!  It's a nice bright sunshiny day here.  Perfect Fall temps.  The only thing I don't like is that the spiders find their way out of their hiding places.  And my son gets to do a school project studying them.  Oh Yay me!!  (Not)  Yesterday the newest challenge over at Lasting Memories started and it's pretty simple.   Use a BLACK BACKGROUND on your layouts!! Easy Peasy!!

Well my background paper is Old Olive green.. but the paper housing the photos is black.  85% black background is good in my book.  ;)  I just had an idea in my head and needed to run with it.

I am also entering this over at TPE 221 (The Pink Elephant) where you are to be inspired by this photo.

And I am entering my layout over at Paper Playtime # 21 where the challenge is to use buttons and ribbon.

UPDATE:  Today 10/15/13 I was FEATURED on their Facebook Page. You can see 

HERE,

Hope you can find some time to play with us over at Lasting Memories.  Just for playing you have a chance to be our Friday Featured Artist or our weekly Top 3!  

Can't wait to see you.

This is layout # 8 of 50 - for our DT "Use Your Stash" challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

DDC # 84 - THINK PINK

Good morning everyone!  It's a new challenge over at Digi Darla's.   In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, it's all about PINK.  I think almost all of us have been touched by someone in their lives that have had a bump in with cancer.  I know I have.  (Mom, Grandma & friends)  FORTUNATELY, everyone I know at the present moment neither has it or has fought it or is in some kind of remission.  Yay!!  So to keep the cheery side of things for my creation, I chose to start on those Holiday cards.  I said it.  HOLIDAY cards.  They will be here before you know it. Make a project that is a "Thinking of you" type theme along with LOTS of PINK on your creation!!   Using DD Image "Dot in Winter"

I was also inspired by the sketch over at The Sweetest Thing.

Sweet Sunday Sketch # 195

And I found a new blog called "Catch the Bug" where their October challenge is Think Pink as well.  :)  I'm entering my card there.

Hope you can come play with us over at Digi Darla's this week!  Let's see those THINK PINK creations!!  

Thanks for stopping by today!  ~Michele

Seattle Waterfront... LMCB 160 (Use just one color)

And you guessed it!  I chose BLUE.  With of course a major amount of white space.  Now if you are wondering what all that babble was about, well you gotta see the next challenge that started over at Lasting Memories a couple of days ago.  I'm a tad late sharing my layout with you all.   The theme of the challenge is to use just one color, or shades of the same color.  We all decided that Black or White can be used as well.  They aren't really colors anyways... right?? Here's my layout...

Oh how we can take for granted the beauty of the place we grew up!!  My stomping grounds.  Having kids sure does make you see old things like new again.  :)  These photos are of the Seattle Waterfront over this past Labor Day Weekend.  Our last little quick jaunt over for some beach time before school started the next week.  As far as the challenge... I used lots of blues.  Found a white seagull embellishment and a cute whale paper clip that is silver.  So still falling within the lines of the challenge. If you have never done a monochromatic layout... I think now is the time to try.  Definitely limits you, but I think it can keep things on the simple side which shows the photos better in this case.  Come on over to Lasting Memories by this Saturday and show us what you can do.  You have a chance to be one of our Featured Artists just for playing along. I am also entering this over at the Paper Bakery using their sketch # 14.  I just stumbled upon their blog and this sketch immediately inspired me.   This is also my layout number 7 of 50 completed for our Scrap Your Stash challenge among us fellow DT members.  Feel free to join us!!  :) Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek today!!

SPOOK to you!!

Awww... and here it surely could be a very frightful night for Halloween!  This weather here is darn scary.  Floods, trees down, windy as heck.  I am going to make this quick and am posting the challenge for Digi Darla's a tad early for I don't know if everything like the POWER will bleep out on me.  So here it goes...
The next Digi Darla challenge for early Monday morning is another...
"Anything Goes - with the optional twist of adding a MOON to your project"  

I used the image "Lil Witch" from Digi Darla.

Please go HERE to join the next challenge for DDC #82!!

I am also entering this over at Let's Capture Our Memories

with another fun sketch # 36.  

Thanks so much for taking a peek!!  

This is also # 6 out of 50 completed for our personal "Use Your Stash for 50 layouts" challenge.

Mini Golf ...

Happy Sunday everyone!!  Lots of wild weather going on where I live.  A couple of monsoon, sideways wind soccer games have filled up my weekend along with some scrapping!  :) Always a good thing!! It's the next fun and what I think is EASY challenge over at Lasting Memories this week!  I hope you can join us for LMCB # 159!  The theme for the challenge is ...
"Use Odd number of embellishments with Even number of photos"

Another fun little family outing this summer to a super cool Putt Putt golf course that had rivers, waterfalls and caves that the ball actually goes through.  As far as the challenge goes... I have 8 photos along with 2 sets of 3 embellies.  The mini golf balls by themselves and the square word sayings.  Technically, that is 6 embellies, but I am choosing to show them as 2 separate groups of 3.  To make them ODD.  :)

I am also entering this over at Let's Capture Our Memories using sketch #35. Fun sketches over there!!

And if you are following me on my journey of using my stash for 50 layouts... 

this is FIVE completed out of 50.  Yep.. .gotta a ways to go.

Thanks for stopping by!  See you later with the newest Digi Darla challenge for Monday.

50 Layout challenge - 5 / 50

CHEER!! - DDC # 80

Told you I would be back today!!  :)  Thank you rain, routines and football! I'm here to bring you the next challenge at DIGI DARLA's # 80.
"Anything Goes - with Optional Twist of using an image  that has a Hop, Skip or Jump theme."

I used the Digi Darla image called "Cheery Cheerleader."  Every year, our daughter and friends are Junior Cheerleaders for a night at a High School sporting even.  Last year it was at the Football Game.  So much fun!!! 

This is also my layout  3 / 50.  (Use our stash / 50 Layout challenge)

Hope you can join us at Digi Darla's!  A great chance to win up to 8 FREE images!! 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Snippets of ME...

Well golly gosh how I have missed my scrapping world lately.  You would think that rest and relaxation would come with the kiddos back in school, but it's been the opposite for me.  After spending the weekend at some soccer games, I finally was able to hang out for a bit at my craft desk due to major thunderstorms!  Yay for rain!!  :)  Oh yes.. and Football on the TV.  Gotta love this time of year. With that said, the challenge over at LASTING MEMORIES is "ALL ABOUT ME."  I decided to focus on ME at the here and now, at this time of my life. 

Most of my layout was using an older kit from the Teresa Collins line.  I am liking this color scheme lately.  Thinking about painting a room with them.  The quote on the left is an OLD rub-on from ??  And then older alphas in the title as well.   Enter HERE to play with LMCB # 157. I also would like to enter this over at CREATIVE SCRAPPERS  using their newest sketch # 251. And, this continues my scrapping journey with the 50 layout challenge. This is 2 / 50. Thanks for stopping by today!  See you tomorrow with YES .. .another layout!  Yay me!!