Family - SBSC335

I really liked Sally's Sketch to start the new year off with. It was very clean and simple. This page is for my heritage album.

Feelin' Fancy...

I have been out running around on errands most of the day, but I was able to get my January Dinning Table Center piece finished. I kept the cranberry and gold colors that I used for Christmas.

Feelin' Thrifty....

We have a savings debate going on at our house. Over the past week we have talked about different ways of saving without breaking the pocket book. I personally like putting 10% aside at the same time I pay my tithing. But with the thought of my lucky pennies last year and trying to teach my kids to become money independent, we decided to try a little lucky penny experiment this year. So along with taking on the 52 week saving challenge that has posted here on Facebook this past month, we have chosen to save up some pennies using two other plans... Just to see which plan has a higher amount at the end of 30 days.

PLAN #1. (Red & Pink Bottle) - "Double the Day"

This is a monthly plan is where you drop pennies in the bottle and you double pennies from the day before. So...

day 1 - one penny. 

day 2 - double the 1 penny to 2 pennies, 

day 3 - double the 2 pennies to 4 pennies,

day 4 - double the 4 pennies to 8 pennies

And so on for 30 days.

PLAN #2. (Blue & Yellow bottle) - "Pay the Day"

This plan can be either a monthly or a yearly plan, very easy and yet gets harder the longer you go into the year. So for the sake of our experiment we are going monthly...

day 1 - pay yourself 1 penny

day 2 - pay yourself 2 pennies

day 3 - pay yourself 3 pennies

day 4 - pay yourself 4 pennies

And so on for 30 days.

Now, I know, we are all adults here at our house and you are probably thinking that all we would have to do is to add up all the pennies on a calculator and we would know which plan will have the most pennies, but it is the habit of saving that I am trying to create here people... Lol... . Do you know how hard it is for some of us to plan ahead enough to drop even 1 penny a day into a jar, never mind 30 pennies. And how about 365 pennies that you would have to drop in the jar December 31st, if you were to choose plan 2 for the whole year? See, think about it!..... 

We would love to have anyone that wants to join us and also share stories of other savings plans you have all tried. We love to read stories of things that have worked.

Old Testament - "In the Beginning"

I have been working on my first few pages of my new inspirational monthly flip calendar that I am making to set on my desk for this year. We will be studying the old testament and I am so excited, I came a crossed my old seminary binder in one of the last boxes I needed to unpack and I found my sheet of Old Testament Riddles. I thought they would make good flip chart messages and daily motivation scriptures.          The class technique challenges that I have been working with encourages to use all of the basic  scrapbook tools to create a layout or page and this is what I came up with...  Paper: White, Rich Razzleberry, Lucky Limeade, Daffodil Delight, Playful Polka Dots,  Ink: basic black  Accessories: ribbon, buttons,

Celebrating National Cake Day

Several Challenges this month were centered around National Cake Day. And I being a novice cake decorator, have been very intrigued lately with the whimsical tilted cakes and so that was in inspiration for these cards.

Keywords: CCREW1113HF, CreativeCrew, SUO, SUM, CC454, MMTPT278,

Stamps: Sweet Treats

Paper: Baja Breeze, Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight, White, DSP Scraps

Paper Size: A2

Ink: Baja Breeze

Accessories: Big Shot, Top Note, buttons, punch, markers

Gettin' Cows

About six months ago my cousin moved here to the beach and she gave me some old pictures of me and my family from years gone by. So I have been putting together a book of memories for us to share with the rest of our family for Christmas. This is one of those pages. The photo is of me and my dad "Gettin' Cows" off the mountain in the fall. One of my favorite childhood memories. Also you will see a lucky penny i found that day and a dried wild daisy that I picked and saved from the mountain that day. Yes, I am a die-hard collector with a passion for persevering memories and historic details.


Also I combined few challenges, so here are all the extras...

• For the Creative Crew Challenge I use my photos of my favorite childhood past time.
• For the Monthly scraplift, I cased eeddmm "Rehearsal"
• For the Inspirational 146 Challenge I used my favorite saying and the colors and textures from the Pier1 table scape "Fall Shimmer" 

Keywords: CCREW1113SF CreativeCrew SUO SUM SIC146 sbc13nov SPLT13nov

Stamps: Weathered Background

Paper: Early Expresso, More Mustard, Very Vanilla, Soft Sky, Retired DSP SCraps

Paper Size: 8x8

Ink: More Mustard

Accessories: Ribbon, dried flowers, crimper, lucky penny

Double Chocolate Fun

Our recipe today was Dori's Double Chocolate Cookies found on page 329 in the "Baking with Julia". Today we decided it would be fun to combine a little crafting and kitchen time together, so for this challenge I made my own Tag Boxes and Tags to go along with the cookies. These are fun little cookie boxes that I made to share with my Stamp Camp Ladies and a few friends from my church to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Love these cookies... simple and sweet goodness that works both as a drop cookie and a rolled freezer cookie. They make great gift or sack lunch cookies because the hold there shape very well and yet stay soft and chewy. We love to dunk them is milk!

Keywords: CCREW1113CF CreativeCrew SUO SUM

Stamps: Turkey Talk

Paper: Sweater Weather DSP, Chocolate chip, Crushed Curry,Green Garden, Very Vanilla, Tangerine Tango

Ink: Basic Black

Accessories: crimper, markers, jute twine, cookies,

Techniques: Tag Box, Gift Box, Tags

Weathered Wreaths - TSSC289

Loved all the challenges for today and I just went crazy with them all... :)

I made my wreath using the Stampin' Up! three-in-one Dollie punch. I punched three whole ones and cut each in half, over lapping the edges and securing with a brad.

Keywords: CCREW1113DF CreativeCrew SUO SUM TSSC289 TLC456,

Stamps: Four the Holidays

Paper: Sweater Weather DSP, sliver glitter paper, Chocolate Chip, Soft Sky, White, Crushed Curry

Paper Size: A2

Ink: Chocolate Chip

Accessories: Crimper, Dollie punch, brads

Techniques: Paper Bows,

Blooming Candles

Yesterday at church, we talked a lot about the power of prayer and the light it gives in our lives. Also about the warmth we feel when we know that God has answered our prayers. While I was looking through Kristine's awesome gallery, I kept being drawn to her very pretty candles, so that is where I got my inspiration from. Hope you all enjoy! :)

Keywords: FS352, 

Stamps: Mixed Bunch

Ink: Mellon Mambo, Crushed Curry, Lucky Limeade

Accessories: Wax paper, tissue paper, candle, markers, ribbon

Thanksgiving Charm - IC413

Our Saturday Inspirational turned out to be one of my all time favorite cake decorators, Duff at Charm City Cakes. The Cake, I chose as my inspiration, was a great cake to celebrate a fall style wedding and brought out all the fun fall colors that I love from our SU! collections.

Also, many of you know, because of my limited stamping time, I often like to combine challenges... So with this card, I followed the sketch 275 challenge at "Creating with Connie & Mary".

Keywords: IC413, CCMC275, LNS234
Stamps: Turkey Talk
Paper: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, DSP Scraps
Paper Size: A2
Ink: Early Expresso
accessories: Punches
Techniques: Paper Piecing,

Glittered Apples - F4A193

makes me really frustrated when the picture I take to up load does capture all the details of the card. :( I used three different types of glittering techniques, only one of which you can see, the brads. For the other two, I sprayed the main background card with shimmer paint and then the apples are also glittered up with red liquid glitter glue.

Additional Info

Keywords: F4A193 MIX40

Stamps: Farm Fresh

Paper: Very Vanilla, Early Expresso, Lucky Limeade, Orchard Harvest DSP

Paper Size: A2

Ink: Raspberry Ripple, Mellon Mambo, Early Expresso, Lucky Limeade,

Accessories: Glitter (shimmer) Spray, Crimper, brads, glitter glue, chalk, jute ribbon, big shot,

BeWitched... TSSC286

In my pursuit of a great Halloween card this week, I feel in love with a couple of awesome challenges: 

CCREW1013DF, CreativeCrew, SUO or SUM -- DSP/Color Focus: Since we celebrate Halloween this month on 10/31, I had to choose Witch's Brew DSP on P 21 of the Holiday Catalog. If you don't have the DSP, use the color combo: Basic Black, Basic Gray, Pumpkin Pie, Summer Starfruit and Very Vanilla.

And TechnoStamper's "Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge TSSC286"... 
 http://technostamper.blogspot.com/20...lenge-286.html

so here is my take on the combinations... :)


Keywords: CCREW1013DF, CreativeCrew, SUO, TSSC286
stamps: Spooktacular Greetings
paper: Witches Brew DSP, Basic Black, Summer Starfruit, Very Vanilla
Paper Size: A2
Ink: Basic black 
Accessories: chalks, ribbon, orange wire, scallop edge punch 
Techniques: Tags

Stashy Style Halloween - STASH13Oct1

Great Challenge... we were challenged to use 2 different DSP from our stash, letter stickers, wire or metal and vellum. I used wire mesh ribbon and metal brads, the little trick or treater is stamped on clear vellum and I used 2 different DSP. I didn't have any letters stickers, but I had this fun Halloween tag that I chose to use instead.

Date: Monday, October 7, 2013 GMT Views: 180 Favorited: 3

Additional Info

Keywords: STASH13Oct1 sbc13oct, CCREW1013DF, CreativeCrew, SUO, SUM

Stamps: Festive & Fun, Booglie Eyes

Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Early Expresso, Very Vanilla, Old DSP, Vellum

Paper Size: 8x8

Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Early Expresso,

Accessories: Brads, wire mesh ribbon, crimper, chalk

Read more: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2434181#ixzz2jMfGBVw7

Inner Hope & Strength - HYCCT1301A

About a month ago I came a crossed a card that I fell in love with. It gave me peace at the end of a very hard day. So, after being very disappointed this morning to discover there were no "world card making day" challenges, I turned to the "Hope you can cling to" challenges and decided that I would hang out there today. When I read through the first challenge I knew what card I wanted to make (case). Here is my inspiration... http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2417559.

Additional Info

Keywords: HYCCT1301A

Stamps: Strength & Hope

Paper: Raspberry Ripple, Primrose Pink, Summer Starfruit, Marina Mist, Gumball Green, Very Vanilla

Paper Size: A2

Ink: Raspberry Ripple, Midnight Muze

Accessories: Big shot, punches, ribbon,

Utah Mums - MMTPT270

Started out trying to complete a new technique with this card, but due to the lack of supplies while on vacation, my card turned out a whole lot different than expected, but I love it.

Additional Info

Keywords: MMTPT270,

Stamps: flower shop, whimsical words

Paper: raspberry ripple, Gumball green, summer Starfruit

Paper Size: A2

Ink: raspberry ripple, Gumball green, summer Starfruit

Accessories: Flower punch, buttons

Techniques: Inking with markers,

Smokey Mountains - SPLT13sep

Our challenge was to scraplift a friend and I was so excited when I got to case an awesome layout created by Cheryl [ SCS Motherload ]. The page I choose was EMS - Smart Mouth 

Sept. Progressive Challenge - Task 3

        Task #3... I can't wait to SEE!

Add THREE unexpected things to your layout in the following categories:

COLOR - I added "Pool Party" & "Real Red"
SHAPE - I added more squares, one for journaling and
TEXTURE - I added brads & Embossed the red "GOOD"

Where Live Oaks meet Palmettos

After spending the week enjoying the ocean view from my highrise condo retreat, it was nice to get back to cleaning out my jungle... I have always been amazed at the huge Live Oaks that share my front yard garden spaces with the South Carolina Palmettos. So, they are the inspirational leaves that I chose to use for my card today. And by adding in touches of Autumn Gold through the ribbon and embossing helps to create a warm welcome of fall here at the beach! :)

Additional Info

Keywords: TLC446 F4A186

Stamps: Day of Gratitude

Paper: Gumball Green, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight

Paper Size: A2

Ink: Gumball Green, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight

Accessories: Ribbon, Gold Embossing

Techniques: Leaf Stamping

Read more: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2424028#ixzz2enzVptJm

Sept. Progressive Challenge - Task 2

       Alright, so far so good. I woke up this morning excited to see task 2.  I pulled up the Challenge, Set my timer for 15 minutes and Voila'....

This weeks  for Task #2!

1. Add your photo(s) anywhere on your page (add mats, crop corners, and drop shadows if desired).
* I added my photo and the DSP mat behind it.

2. Add a stamp
* I stamped the word FRIENDS

3. Add a cluster (3 or more) of embellishments (they could all be the same or different embellishments).
* I added the pieces of ribbon and jute

Read more: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/digital-scrapbooking-bi-weekly-f253/sept-progressive-challenge-16-task-2-09-10-2013-a-t578234.html#ixzz2fP7KgsYl

Sept. Progressive Challenge - Task 1

        As many of you know I am not a big fan of Progessive Scrapbook Challenges, because #1. I am one of those OCD type people that can't leave a project undone and #2. my scrapping closet is so small, it is hard to leave projects laying around on my desk and get anything else done. But yesterday on my "A Run on the Beach" blog I talked about my Friend the FLyLady and the difference between Progress, not Perfection and how you can do anything even if you only work on it for 15 minutes.
       So I decided that I would try this months progressive challenge. My goal is to spend 15 minutes on each new part of the challenge and then put it away, up high so i couldn't see it. You know, "out of sight, out of mind" lol! Anyway.... Here is what I came up with for the first task.

Here’s Task 1 :

NOTE: We'll use ONE or TWO photos for this page. We won’t add them today, but keep them in mind when choosing colors for your page.

-Add a background paper--any kind you'd like.

-Insert a large, wide rectangle in the middle of the page. You can alter the corners of the rectangle (ticket punch, rounded, etc.) but keep it a rectangle please! The rectangle is for a background item, not a photo mat, so you can use any paper you choose."

That's it for this week!