Mother’s Day 2025 CY #140

Hello Scrappy Friends!  

This month over at the Challenge YOUrself Blog we want you to use those stencils you have been collecting!! AND be sure to include a photo of YOU!

I created this layout with a photo of my beautiful Mom and me from Mother’s Day this year. 

I used the beautiful 49 & Market’s Flower Emporium by Vicki Boutin!  I decided to use the B side of one of the pattern papers that had blue tones and added part of a stencil using 2 colors of blue.  I then kept with the blue color by adding some of the many different embellishments that come with this collection. 

Here are some close ups for you- I also splattered with some Ranger Distress Sprtiz too!

I hope you can join us over at the Challenge YOUrself Blog this month!  Break out those stencils and let’s see what YOU create!! 

Take Care and Be Well!

~ ((HUGS)) ~ Sherri 

January 2024 Challenge “One Little Word” ENJOY

Happy New Year my Scrappy Friends!  May 2024 bring only Love, Laughter, Good Health and Happiness to you and your families! 

We are starting the year off with a fresh n challeng from the Challenge YOUrself Blog!  We want you to share your “One Little Word” for 2024 with us!

I selected the word “Enjoy”  which is what I plan to do every possible minute that I can do so, in 2024!

I made it the title on my layout with a photo of my wonderful husband and me enjoying a special moment at our stop

In Bermuda, while on our wonderful Disney Cruise with our family last October.   We kissed under the Moongate in front of our ship the Disney Dream! 

I created the base using Vicki Boutin pastes, a stamp and Ranger Distress Oxides.  I uses pspers and embellishments from her Print Shop Collection.

Here are some close ups for you:

Thanks for stopping by!  I can't wait to hear about your "One Little Word" and see what you create!

Please join us at the Challenge YOUrself Blog this month and share it with us!!

Take care,

Sherri

I used lots of Vickie Boutin’s Print Shop Collection for this layout that I created on a piece on her mixed media paper that was layered with stencils, stamps, pastes and Distress Oxide Inks.  

I hope I have inspired you to join us for our challenge this month!  Head on over to the 

Challenge YOUrself #110 Find What Brings You Joy and Do That!!

Hi Scrappy Friends!  Can you believe it’s February already??   2023 is just flying by!   It’s time for the next challenge from the Challenge YOUrself Blog!! 

This month, we'd like you to create a layout about meditation and or the ways you relax. For instance, you can make it about "meditation for ourselves and about ourselves and the world." Or it can be "why I enjoy meditation." Or it can simply be how you relax and meditate and what helps you relax. 

Here is my Design Team inspiration layout:

I used photos my my dog Sugar taken this past summer under out gazebo. Relaxing outdoors with our 3 dogs is my way of relaxing on summer evenings. I can be found inside in my scrap-room on winter evenings with our 3 dogs around my desk - that is how I (we) relax when the weather turns colder! They are both my Happy Places!

I used the AWESOME Print Shop Collection by Vicki Boutin!  I think this is one of my favorite collections!  I love the colors and patterns!

If you haven't purchased it yet, you can grab some before it is gone - at the My Little Scrapbook Store!!  You will LOVE it!!

Here are some close ups:

I used the stamp set that comes with the collection with some Distress Oxide Inks on the base page.

I fussy cut some flowers from one of the pattern papers and layered them with some of the flowers from the ephemera packs. How fun is that paperclip banner embellishment too!

I splattered Distress Oxide sprays over the base too

I tucked one of the 3x4 cards behind some of the photos and journaled on the back.

Here is the journaling on the back of the card with a close up below. I love the sticker from the sticker sheet that says - 
"Find what brings you joy and do that!"

Thanks so much for stopping by - I hope you find some time for YOU and that you play along with us at the Challenge YOUrself Blog this month!  I can't wait to see what you create!!

Stay Safe and Be Well!

((HUGS)) ~ Sherri

My Little Scrapbook Store 52 Week Challenges!! Week 1

 Hi 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 1. 

- The first week of 2023 included my wonderful husbands birthday, 

on January 7th. 

I created this layout using Photo Play's Add Another Candle collection.  

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I started with a pre-made Vicki Boutin mixed media base that I stenciled some black circles on and splattered with Distress Oxide and Nuvo Mica Mist sprays.
And how cool is that Mega Date Stamp!! I LOVE it!

I made candles by rolling and gluing some of the papers and created flames by cutting some of the ribbon the MLSS includes with your shipment!!  Thanks Michelle!

I just LOVE the Fringe Scissors I got from MLSS too!

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 # 108 - Use Black and White Photo(s)

Hello Scrappy Friends!

I hope you are all doing well and want to wish everyone a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a WONDERFUL HOLIDAY SEASON!

It's time for December's Challenge at the Challenge YOUrself Blog! 

I decided to use the awesome new Print Shop Collection by Vickie Boutin -that I purchased from My Little Scrapbook Store to document a memory from our 40th Anniversary Trip to Gloucester, Mass, this past October.  It was a rainy day and we had fun exploring this unique castle!

I decided to stay with the Black and White theme and picked one of the pre-made base pages, and used a handwriting stamp in some places. I added some red by using enamel hearts, and the new Ranger Distress Oxide Stain - Lumberjack Plaid - by inking the edges, kissing and splattering some too!  I used the fun stamps, rub-ons, chipboard and ephemera from the collection too! - Oh and I purchased a pin from the castle while we were there and used it as an embellishment too!

Here are some close-ups for you:

Thanks so much for stopping by - please head on over to the Challenge YOUrself Blog for challenge info and more great inspiration from the rest of our Design Team!

I hope you get some YOU time to play along with us this month!

Wishing YOU and YOURS a WONDERFUL HOLIDAY!!

((HUGS)) ~ Sherri

Challenge #107 - Documented!

 Hello my Scrappy Friends!  I hope you are all doing well!  I can't believe it is November already!

Today I'm sharing a layout I created for the Challenge YOUrself Blog #107 

- Show us your handwritten journaling and include YOU on your layout! - If you don't usually journal or write on your layouts - come on - give it a try! Check out the CY Blog for all of the other great inspiration layouts from the rest of the Design Team!

Here is my Design Team layout for inspiration:

I used the amazing Fernwood Collection from Vicki Boutin!!  If you don't have this collection - you really do NEED it!  It is so versatile and so fun to play with!  I purchased mine from Michelle at My Little Scrapbook Store - a great family run online business - you should check her out - Here is a link to what she has left in the store - and once it is gone - it is gone - so don't miss out!!

I added lots of handwriting in addition to the card I journaled on. I am so happy I was able to "DOCUMENT" this wonderful visit we had with my friend Krista, who I met through Instagram. We had been "Insta-friends" for years, as we both have/had Portuguese Water Dogs. Krista's dogs have since passed over the Rainbow Bridge, but she has a few other 4 footed friends who's adventures she share on Instagram as Ticaperrita - you should follow her, if you don't already!

Krista is a wonderful and caring Doctor at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. When she heard about my husband Phil's massive heart attack back in August of 2021, she reach out to me and helped me through many very difficult days. Just knowing she was there - just a phone call or text message away, to be my sounding board, and second opinion was a true blessing. 

When our nephew was married in Ohio, this past July, we were able to arrange an in person get together at her home and more importantly an in person ((HUG!))  We also got to meet her 3 amazing pigs, Ms. Zumi, Stanley T, and Cleveland.  Her Tortoise Ms. Marion Louise was in her specially built outside summer house, but we got to peak at her and say hello.  Mr. Dewy Lewis, her little rescue dog was so cute and cuddly too! It was a wonderful day, and I think the 3 piggies enjoyed the watermelon we brought for them to snack on too!

Here are a few close ups.  I inked all my edges with Ranger Ink Black Soot. Everything else on the layout is from the Fernwood Collection, except for the paper twine, and an older Vicki Boutin script stencil that I used on the left side of the layout.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope I've inspired you to play along with us at the Challenge YOUrself Blog.

Please visit there and check out all the details of the challenge, along with all of the other beautiful layouts from the rest of the Design Team.  We hope you find time to play along with us this month too!

Be Well and Stay Safe!

((HUGS)) ~ Sherri

Costume Contest - Challenge #106 - from the Challenge YOUrself Blog

 Hello Scrappy Friends!  Happy October!!  Can you believe we are almost through 2022??!!

Today I am sharing my Design Team Inspiration Layout for the Challenge YOUrself Blog.

This month, we are providing you with this awesome and FUN sketch - *It doesn't have to be about Halloween - and please be sure to visit the CY Blog to see all the great layouts the rest of the Design Team created!!

I decided to scrap a selfie I took last year, when I organized a virtual Halloween Happy Hour for our Sales Team at work!  I sent special Halloween Cookies out to everyone's home, and decorated my office with some ceramic pieces that I made - about 30 years ago! Everyone had a great time and I was voted as 2nd place! 

I had lots of fun using a stencil and stamps, some fussy cutting, splattering and blowing some of the mica stain around to make some creepy purple lines!

Here are some close ups for you:

I hope I've inspired you to play along with us at the Challenge YOUrself Blog this month! It is a really fun sketch.  Head on over to the CY Blog for more inspiration and check out the challenge rules and this month's prize!  I hope you play along with us!

I am also playing along with the October Challenge from the More Than Words Challenges Facebook Page!

or check out their BLOG too!

The Prompts are "Strange" and "Get Inky!"

Check their page out - lots of FUN stuff going on there!

Thanks so much for stopping by!
I'd love it if you left a comment.

Have a HAPPY Halloween!

((HUGS)) ~ Sherri

Items used:

Papers:  Vicki Boutin's Mixed Media Foundation Paper

Doodle Bug Designs - "Pumpkin Party" Collection

-Itsy Bitsy Spider and Party Pinwheels

BoBunny - "Back to Basics" - Tangerine Beadboard

Echo Park - "Chillingsworth Manor"

- Apothecary Labels

Vicki Boutin Sweet Rush Stencil

Ranger Distress Inks : Villanous Potion, Twisted Citron, Ripe Persimon, Squeezed Lemonade

Ranger Distress Mica Sprays: Wicked Elixir, Fortune Teller

Ranger Distress Oxide Spray: Mustard Seed

Close to my Heart - Wicked Stamp Set S1108

Baker's Twine

Let's Celebrate!! - September Challenge #105

 Hello Scrappy Friends!!!  Can you believe it is September already!!!  I hope you and your loved ones had a wonderful summer!!

Today I am sharing a layout with you that I created for the Design Team over at the Challenge YOUrself Blog.  This month we want to see a photo with YOU in it - showing us how you CELEBRATE!!

This year, I turned 61 !!!  Not really sure how that happened, but I sure am thankful it did!!  I selected a photo that was taken a few days before my birthday, when I went to see The Music Man on Broadway in NYC with my girlfriends. Afterwards, we came back to NJ and had lunch outside in Weehawken.  It was such a great day!!

I used the fabulous PhotoPlay "Add Another Candle" collection for this layout. I love how HAPPY this collection is!

I sewed around the edges of the layout and as you know, I love lots of layers and added some sequin clusters too!

I love this fun "Insta-camera" Flair and here is another fun sequin cluster tucked in the stickers and ephemera.

I used a Vicki Boutin Stencil and some Ranger / Tim Holtz Saltwater Taffy Distress Oxide ink, and then a few splatters of a yellow and blue Distress ink all over the base I created from white cardstock - it was so much fun.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my layout! I'd love to hear from you so please feel free to leave a comment on my "This is Sixty One" layout!
  I hope I've inspired you to play along with us at the Challenge YOUrself Blog and show us how YOU Celebrate!!
((HUGS) ~ Sherri