My Little Scrapbook Store 52 Week Challenges!! Week 3

 Hi again my Scrappy Friends!

This year, My Little Scrapbook Store is hosting a 

52 Week Scrapbook Challenge!

We will be posting the challenges at the beginning of each month, and you have until January 2024 to complete your entries!  You can find out all the info and details on how you can play along, when you join the My Little Scrapbook Store Online Crops Facebook Page - Please come join us and play along!!!

Here are the January Challenge prompts:

I've completed 3 of the January Challenges so far - and I am excited to share them with you:

Here is my layout for Challenge 3:

A photo of a cosmo I enjoyed on New Year's Eve

I used the "Pour Decisions" collection from Wild Whisper - that I purchased in a Happy Scrappy Bag from My Little Scrapbook Store along with a Martini Glass Stencil and some purple velvet paper glaze.
I splattered it with some Ranger Distress Oxide Sprays and tucked a journaling card behind the photo too.
I used 3 pieces of flair to meet the circle part of this challenge.

Here are some close ups for you.

If you have never purchased from My Little Scrapbook Store, you can use my discount code  SHERRIREF and will receive 10% off your entire FIRST order!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will join us over at the MLSS Online Crops Page
and play along with us!
 I'll be sharing my other layouts in upcoming posts!
Stay Safe and Be Well
((HUGS)) ~ Sherri

Challenge YOUrself Blog #97 - "Team Turkey"

Hello everyone!!  Happy New Year!! Wishing YOU and your families a very Happy and Healthy 2022!
It is time for the first Challenge of the year from the Challenge YOUrself Blog!! Below are the details:

This was a fun challenge and I used a photo of my wonderful Dad and I from this past Thanksgiving.

2021 was a very difficult year for my family, with my husband's heart attack in August, but we are blessed with his continued healing and improvement. We had SO MUCH to be THANKFUL for this Thanksgiving!

Here is my Design Team inspiration layout for you:

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday!  I love hosting it and cooking all of our traditional favorite foods. Dad and I are always "in charge" of the Thanksgiving Turkey. I cook it and he carves it!

Hear are a few close ups for you:

I fussy cut a bunch of leaves from one of the papers in the collection, and matted some of the stickers on a brown cardstock. I inked all of the edges of the papers and embellishments.

I used 3 pieces of Flair from Dotty About Flair on the page and added some fuzzy fiber behind and around them. You can also see how I splattered the Ranger Distress Sprays over the layout, before adding my photo. I love the way that technique looks, and it is fun to do too!

Here you can see 2 more pieces of DAF Flair, along with the journaling card I have tucked in the pocket I made behind the photo.

I am entering this layout in the Lasting Memories #580 Challenge - New Beginnings - Add a Pocket to your layout.

I love adding a pocket behind my photos to create a place for hidden journaling and an added layer of depth.

I am also entering this layout in the Dotty About Flair Facebook December Happy Holidays Dec 30th Challenge "All about the Papers" - using a sketch, at least 8 papers/cardstock, Teal, Black and Butterflies.

Thanks so much for stopping by - I hope you join in on the Challenge YOUrself Challenge and can't wait to see what you create!

Stay Safe / Be Well / Wear a Mask! 

((Hugs) ~ Sherri

Items used:

Carta Bella Our House Collection:

Black Gingham

Country Floral

Home Sweet Home

Baking Time

3x4 Journaling Cards

Element Stickers

Brown Cardstock

Ranger Distress Oxide Sprays - Salvaged Patina, Crackling Campfire

Ranger Distress Ink - Vintage Photo

Ranger Distress Stain - Picket Fence, Black Soot

Mr. Huey's Colormist - Gold

Wooden Hearts

Twine

Dotty About Flair - Flair

Pink Fresh - Metallic Gold Pearls

Thickers - Avenue

 

Cocoa Vanilla "Daydream" ~ Together

 Hello Scrappy Friends!!

I want to share a layout I made for Dotty About Flair's December 7th Challenge - the prompts are Banners, Stars, Cut File (or Die Cuts.) I made the BANNER using baker's twine and some paper embellishments.  

I used the beautiful Cocoa Vanilla "Daydream" Collection to scrapbook a photo of my hubby and I when we were in Massachusetts.  If you missed out on this beautiful collection, you can click on the link in the name above, to grab some before it is all gone!!

For the STARS I used the fun Vicki Boutin Flower Stencil along with her Creativefx Gold Glaze. I really think they look like Starbursts don't you?!

Here are some close ups for you:

Here is a close up of the Banner and the stenciled Stars - and some Die Cuts too! I also splattered some Ranger Distress Spray on the layout too!

I used lots of DIE CUTS from this beautiful collection.

and of course - I added the perfect colored piece of Dotty About Flair too!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

I hope I've inspired you to create and play along!

Be Well, and Stay Safe!

((HUGS)) ~ Sherri

60 Years of Love!

Hello Scrappy Friends,

Here is my take on 2 FUN Facebook Challenges -

First, I'm playing along with My Little Scrapbook Stores - Scrapbook Layouts and More - August "Rachel's Recipe" Challenge

I am also adding this layout to the Dotty About Flair's Challenge #4 "Let's Celebrate" Birthday Challenge:

Here is my take on the 2 challenges - I've scrapped 2 photos of my parents at a special dinner we had, while away on a wonderful weekend to celebrate their 60th Wedding Anniversary.

If you look closely at the photos, you can see the buttons I had made for them to wear with their wedding photo on them!

I love this beautiful Simple Stories Ancestry Collection and thought it worked perfectly for these photos!!

For the MLSS Recipe Challenge - I used: Nuvo Drops, Mixed Media, Floral Patterned Paper, Puffy Stickers and Inked Edges.

For the DAF #4 "Celebration" Challenge - I used a photo of my wonderful parent's Anniversary celebration, a yellow base page and yellow flowers and embellishments - and also 3 fun pieces of DAF FLAIR!

Here are a few photos showing how I created the base page:

I used a stencil from Little Birdie Studios with a script design

I sprayed it with 3 Ranger Distress Oxide Sprays - Vintage Photo, Speckled Egg, Crackling Campfire.  I wasn't happy with how it left the big rectangle, so I took the stencil that still had the wet spray on the top of it, spritzed it with a little water, and used the smoosh technique over the rectangle.

I also added a few more spritz of the Oxide sprays, and a few splatters too. I then cleaned the stencil and used Black Soot Ink and added the black script here and there.

Here is where I started to design the layout and see where I wanted to place the photos.  I distressed and inked the edges of the double mats on the base page and the smaller photo.

Here are some close ups for you:

I really appreciate you stopping by and am thankful if you've read this post to this point!  I hope I've inspired you to play along with both challenges and I'd love it if you would leave me a comment and let me know where you are from - and how you are doing!

((HUGS))  Take Care and Be Well ~ Sherri

Items used:

Simple Stories Ancestry Collection - papers, stickers, Thickers, ephemera

Ranger Distress Oxide Spray - Vintage Photo, Speckled Egg, Crackling Campfire

Picket Fence Gem Mix - Sands of Time and Day and Night

Dotty About Flair - Color Study Collection

Ranger Distress Ink - Black Soot and Vintage Photo

Nuvo Crystal Drops - Ebony Black, Honey Gold, English Mustard

Thread

Cardstock

Littly Birdie Stencil - Script Design

Mixed Media Frenzy Scraplift

Hello Scrappy Friends!!  

Today I am joining in on the Mixed Media Frenzy's YouTube Hop from the Mixed Media Frenzy's Facebook Page. 

While I am not active on Youtube, I hope to one day start adding process videos...... we will see! 

This is the beautiful layout we are all using as inspiration 
- it was created by a blogger named Melania

And here is my layout I created for the Hop 
- Scraplifting Melania's beautiful layout as inspiration:

I used a photo of my husband and on, from a trip to Gloucester, MA, in 2019.  I used the Prisma App to create the "painted look" for the photo and thought it would work perfect for this Fun, Messy, Mixed Media Hop!

I started with a piece of Vicki Boutin's Foundation paper - 

I used the "kiss" technique and splatter technique with Ranger Distress Oxide Inks in Ketch Flamingo and Salvaged Patina to create the base page.

I used Vicki's Storyteller papers 

- Moonbeams and Simple Things, along with some Stickers from the collection.

I also used Vicki's "Color Study's" Collection - 

Blueberry Sour Textured Paste, and a small circle stencil from the collection.

I used Tim Holtz's Ideaology Ruler stencil too 

- with Ranger Distress Ink in Black Soot on both stencils.

Embellishments included Vicki's Chipboard Thickers from her "Let's Wander" Collection, along with Cocoa Vanilla's Love Always butterfly flair.  The sparkly gold hearts are Maggie Holmes Garden Party Resin Gold Hearts. Finally some white thread and sequins here and there!

Here are some close ups for you:

I hope you enjoyed my "Scraplift" on the inspiration layout - Check out the Mixed Media Frenzy's Facebook Page for more Fun and Messy inspiration too!

Here is the list of Scrappy People who also participated in this FUN HOP and their YouTube and Instagram Links - Have fun checking them all out and "HOPPING" on everyone's channel or Insta account - 

Please leave a comment or a heart of thumbs up and feel free to follow them too! - I am looking forward to all the Messy Fun!

Thanks for stopping by! I'd love for you to leave a comment and let me know what you liked best about my layout!

Take Care and Be Safe - ((HUGS)) ~ Sherri

YouTube:

Krista’s Crafty Life- https://youtube.com/channel/UCuKecOqIMGSgB9fs1dJV0Ew
Kathy Feigl- https://youtube.com/channel/UC89lApHWcee6yADLOLLBREw
Roni Sue Scrapper- https://youtube.com/user/Ronisuescrapper
Scrappy Kathy- https://youtube.com/channel/UC6qtVo7aBN2as-CGizhMb1A
Rebecca Lockhart Scraps- https://youtube.com/c/RebeccaLockhartScraps
Rebecca Moore- https://youtube.com/channel/UCTFGITeK2K1-JyYpExZi-Og
Drop The Color Sonia- https://youtube.com/channel/UC8qCG2earNc7pIZQNo-V1Pw
Kim Arnold- https://youtube.com/channel/UC8EwR-hgIrT5rHHgrRSFyJw
Kiko Halbert- https://youtube.com/channel/UCNmN1C7e1pOIbxJEkHFAW6w
Marie Hirst- https://youtube.com/c/PeartreePapercrafts
Misty Murphy- https://youtube.com/user/craftysoupvideo
Shannon Blinn- https://youtube.com/user/shanedblinn
Sheena Rowlands- https://youtube.com/channel/UCIO6gUQaaJVPdBai7dLD66A
Natalie Dill- https://www.youtube.com/user/NatalieBeth421/featured
Jessie Brodmerkle- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv1-OMEJc1A17v9oLBF2arA
Jody Compton- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLrZWffl4fWkxF-BzJseF4Q
Janet Fritz- https://youtu.be/eLTsandjQwg

Instagram:

Marioly Diaz-Tamura- @mtamura25
Pam Nichols- @pamnich105
Sherri De Knight Caramico- @shercara

SOS - Sketch Challenge - "Chicago Pizza Tour"

Hello Everyone - I hope this post finds you all doing well!  

It is time for this month's Sketch Challenge over at the Scrap Our Stash Blog ! 

We encourage you to play along with us, using the sketch below as your inspiration - and also be sure to use KRAFT PAPER and at least ONE METAL EMBELLISHMENT!!

I decided to scrap a few photos that were taken at the beginning of February - while on a Chicago Pizza Tour, during a sales meeting that I planned for the new company I work for.

Everyone had a great time, and it was a great team building event. We took a beautiful luxury bus to 3 different famous pizza restaurants in Chicago along with a great guide who told us all about each location, pizza facts, and info about Chicago.  If you are ever in Chicago - be sure to check out Chicago Pizza Tours!!  The photos in this layout are from our visit to Flo and Santo's  - famous for their thin crust pizza.  It was really good -but they cut their round pies into squares in Chicago -  very different than the way we do it in New Jersey!

For my base page, I used a piece of Kraft Resist Paper, from a 12x12 pad of Tim Holtz Idea-ology, that I have had forever!!  I then used a TWC Mini Brick Stencil, along with a Nuvo brush and Taylored Expressions Earl Grey Ink to create the brick design in all 4 corners of the layout.   I also used it to ink all of the edges of my papers, including the torn ones - 

I like how it all came out. 

Here are the sales team members who attended the meeting  - It was so great to be able to put faces to names and voices! Everyone was so nice, and the Pizza Tour was really a hit!   

I created a little tag with journaling to tuck behind the photo of the group.

Here is the back of the tag and you can see the metal brads that I added for the challenge.

You can also see the splatters of Glimmer Mist that I used.

More metal brads some FUN metal Flair, and those cool inked/distressed edges! 

(and those square pieces of pizza too! LOL!)

I used different types and fonts of letters for my title.  I love how it turned out!

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you can find some time to escape and play along with us this month at the Scrap Our Stash Blog!  Head on over there to see more inspiration from the other Design Team members, Contest Rules, Prize Info and where you can link up your layout too! 

I can't wait to see what you will create!!

Items used:

Tim Holtz - Idea-ology Kraft Resist paper pad

Simple Stories - So Rad "Authentic"

My Mind's Eye - Stella and Rose - Hattie n Happy, Polka Dots Paper

PaperHouse - NYC Collection

TCW Mini Bricks Stencil

My Mind's Eye Jubilee and Cut and Paste Brads

October Afternoon - Snapshots Tin Pins Flair

Nuvo Brush

Taylored Expressions - Earl Grey Ink

Jillibean Soup - Mini Alpha - Spicy Social Soup and AlphaBeans - Organic Orange stickers

Ruby Rock-it -Upstairs Downstairs Chipboard Alphas

Glimmer Mist - Jack O'Lantern, Raven, Burnt Red

April SOS Saturday Cartoon and Sketch "CareBear" Challenge "#friends"

This months Saturday Cartoon / Sketch Challenge from the Scrap Our Stash Blog gives you LOTS of options!

You get to choose the Color and Symbol of the CareBear of your choice and include that color and an embellishment or patterned with the symbol on the bear's chest!  

I chose the PINK "Love-a-Lot" Bear, who's symbol is 2 Hearts!
I picked a photo of a Girl's Day Out in NYC to see the Mickey Exhibit - and kept the color palette to PINK, Black and White!

We are all BIG Mickey and Disney fans and had so much FUN!

Here are some close ups for you!

I used 2 + hearts 

The base page just had a bunch of plan intersecting circles and I doodled on all of them to match the doodling on the patterned paper I used.

I hope I've inspired you to play along with us this month at the Scrap Our Stash Blog!  
Give it a try - you'll have a blast!
((HUGS)) ~ Sherri

Items used:

BoBunny's Back to Basic - Zip-a-Dee Doodle and Double Dot Sugar

Luxe - Classic Black - Falling Stars

Coredinations - Black Small Dot

My Mind's Eye - Adorbs "Story" Recollect Paper

Paperhouse - Colorways - Flamingo Collection papers

Eyelet Outlet -Enamel and Bling

Cocoa Vanilla - More than words - Flair

Simple Stories - Enchanted Chipboard Stickers

Thickers - Foam Phrase Stickers

EK Success - Mickey Button

Freckled Fawn - Puffy Doodle Camera

Mambie Chipboard Embellishment

Ranger Distress Stains - Picket Fence, Black Soot, Picked Raspberries

June Challenge YOUrself #54 "Party Girl"

Since June is my Birthday Month, I decided to use photos of me at Birthday Parties, for this month's challenge over at the Challenge YOUrself Blog.  Not only do you have to include a photo of YOU in your layout, this month's challenge is to use 2 photos of YOU 
- one as a child, and one as an adult!

I found some old photos that my Mom had given me from when I was little.  The photo on the left is from one of the many great birthday parties my Mom always had for me when growing up. I am not sure about the year or how old I was, but my guess is around 7 ?  

The other photo is of me and my husband and brothers and sister-in-laws, 
celebrating my brother in law's 60th birthday.

I will always be a "Party Girl!" LOL!

I have been dying to use this awesome new paper pack "Paprika" from PhotoPlay!  
I just think it is so much FUN!  I hope you like it!

Here are some close ups for you: 

I hope YOU will join us this month at the Challenge YOUrself Blog!  
I look forward to "then and now" photos of you!

Thanks for stopping by!

((HUGS)) ~ Sherri

Items used:
Bazzill Cardstock: Kachina, Festive
We R Memory Keepers - Baby Mine Pink Cardstock
Photoplay - "Paprika" - Cardstock Diecuts, Element Stickers, Patchouli and Llama Drama 12 x 12 papers
Recollections - Neon Brights Enamel Dots
Simple Stories - Faith - Decorative Brads
Cocoa Vanilla - Make a Wish Flair
Craft Smart - Stickers, Washi Tape, Paperclips
Jillibean Soup - Alphabeans - Organic Orange
American Crafts - Thickers - Printshop and Sunny
Fiskers Edge Punch
Distress Stain - Picked Raspberry, Fossilized Amber, Peacock Feathers, Rusty Hinge