A challenge with Pam

My friend, Pam, likes to do card challenges....with my daughter.  Sometimes they let me play, too.  LOL  Since Isabel is in school all day now, Pam has no one left to play with except me.  :)  So BRING ON the long distance card challenges!

I am up first with a great window card from Jen M.  You can find her video tutorial HERE.

Here is my unashamed knock off of her card.  :)  Hey, I changed the bus to houses!  Mostly, I wanted to see if I could pull it off...I have not made this type of card before.

I made my own cloud background paper.  My stamps are a great set called WHAT MATTERS MOST by Ippity (for the houses, sentiment) and DOTS FOR SURE by Ippity (for the dots on the clouds).  You can check these stamps out at Sherri's Etsy Shop.

Off to see what challenge PAM is going to come up with.  Not playing with the six year olds any more, Pam.  :)

My October Tradition

For me, October means cool breezes....changing leaves....Halloween candy and walking with my sister and sister in law to raise awareness for Breast Cancer.

I love doing that walk.  I am super competive, so it becomes a "let's see how many people we can walk faster than" sort of morning.  LOL

I would LOVE it if you would consider helping me reach my goal of $200 before October 15th.  If you would like to donate under my name, please go here:

Bethany's Official Breast Cancer Donation Page

Thanks so much!

September's Counterfeit Kit

Good grief!  Where did September come from?  LOL  It doesn't help that I have been sick the past month...I think I lost August in there somewhere.  I can't be sick forever, right?

I did not get to put as much time into my kit as I would normally do, but I am giving myself some freedom this month to add as I go...and try creating some new embellishments.  Get out of my self impossed box a bit.

Our kit for the month can be found here:  Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog

I was not digging the embellishments for this kit, which is why I am going to add as I go.  I also included some awesome Ippty Stamps that I purchased HERE.  Sherri had free shipping and you get your stamps pretty quickly, which I love.  This month our challenges are going to be all about stamps, so find some of your favorites and add them to your kit!

Hopefully I will feel up to creating this month.  I have SO many things I want to make, but I feel lousy, which lends itself to sleeping more than crafting.

Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog Hop: Sketch Support Sketch

This month has been SO awesome playing with the great sketches over at Sketch Support.  I cannot say enough good things about Allison's sketches.  Hopefully you have fallen in love with them this month, too.

When I saw the sketch, I immediately thought of my daughter's Kinder graduation.  I didn't get many great shots of the ceremony, so I decided to focus on the important people there.

I LOVE mixing up fonts for my titles, but sometimes get too lazy to do it.  I'm glad I found the energy this time.

The color combinations in my kit were so fun!  I really love all of the bright pops.

You can't have a Kinder Graduation page without an apple, right?  It is just not done!  LOL I'm working on doing more paper piecing with patterened paper.  It really adds a fun touch.

Thanks for joining us on our hop and thanks so much to our sponsor for this month!

Don't forget to leave a comment on our blog hop post to be entered for our great prize!  (And keep an eye on CKCB...you will be getting a hint soon about our next kit!)

Turn it on it's ear....sketch challenge!

Sketches are thought of as the dirty little secrets of alot of scrapbookers.  They speak of them in hushed tones and don't want to admit to using them.  Well, I love sketches!  They are great jumping off points for my own ideas and, let's face it, getting the memories down is the most important thing.  (Unless your a sketch designer....then the sketches rule!)

Just to prove to you how utterly fabulous and versitile sketches can be, our next challenge is to take a sketch and rotate it.  Move it around.  Flip it.  Just use one page instead of two.  Or take a one page sketch and create a second page for it. 

Here is the sketch I picked from Sketch Support: 2 page sketch #3.

I decided to use only one side of the sketch and then flipped that.  If you look at how many different combinations you can get just by using one page or the other from this sketch...and then flipping it different directions, how could you say that sketches make pages all look the same?

**SOMEHOW my circles refused to go in a pattern around the page and swept from side to side instead.  Silly circles.

Theme Park Add On Kit

This month I volunteered to make a Theme Park add on for our CKCB.  We have done the fair a few times and I have been wanting to do the photos from that, so I was excited to get started.  As it turned out.  I didn't use any of those pics.  LOL  I decided to do a layout on my love of roller coasters instead and snagged pics on-line of my favorite ride:  The VIPER!

Here is my page kit:

And here is the skech I picked:

Sketch 11 - One page sketch

I guess I will end up using pictures of my kids another time, right?  LOL



Sketch Swap Challenge

Our first challenge at CKCB was a sketch swap with the fabulous Sketch Support!  I am so grateful that Allison shares so freely with her sketches.  They are awesome and someday I want to own ALL of her sketch books!

For this challenge, you need to pick a sketch, any sketch, from the Sketch Support site and swap it.  For example, if you pick a layout sketch, then you need to make a card out of it.  And if you pick a card sketch, you need to make a layout. 

The hardest part of this challenge was deciding which great sketch to use!  I found a card sketch that translates PERFECTLY into a one page layout, so here it is:

You can find the card sketch I used here: Card Sketch 8

And here is my take on it:

I have been taking classes at Miss Arts Paper Crafting School.  She has a great one about clustering and I have been doing my best to give that a go.  It certainly is fun to try and I am enjoying all of the layering!

I'm done with my challenges for the month already (although you will have to wait to see the rest of them), so who knows how much more I will get done!  Whoohoo!