Where has the month gone?

It seems like just yesterday we were celebrating Labor Day and the start of school, boy this month has flown by! OK...down to businesss....today is use your stash Tuesday (I know it really doesn't rhyme) but the challenge is to use something in your stash that you have had forever and just never seem to use. Well, today my layout features: one sticker (giggle definition in bottom left corner) I got when I first started scrappin', some black letter stickers I got from Doodlebug and have had lying around with very few letters on them hoping to "someday" use them, and some border stickers and paper I got a few months back thinking I would use them for sure and look 6 mos later and I still hadn't done anything with them, well now I have..YEAH for me! Nothing new within the last 6+ mos on this page folks (except for the scallop mini paper and chipboard circles in the middle of the page) I would love to see what you do with your oldies but goodies so post a link to your creation in the comment section for us all to see! These pictures were taken in 2004 at Mall of America theme park, doesn't Jakob look like he is having a ball? The journaling is hidden behind the photos at the far right, and can be pulled out with that littel tab with a star on it. I used this layout for a Sept. challenge at Personalscrapper where we were to pick a letter and what it stands for, I immediately thought of J is for Jakob, but when I decided to use these pictures, I decided that it is more for JOY, don't you agree? Fun challenge. It's hard to come up with titles sometimes. Don't forget Saturday October 4th is WORLD CARD MAKING DAY, so don't forget to make a card or two that day, and if you think you don't have any card making stuff, my challenge to you is to use some of your "old" scrapbooking stuff and create away, you might be surprised what you come up with!

You've been lifted, scraplifted that is!

So for the scraplift the crop challenge over at Personalscrapper, I chose to scraplift anbzmom's layout called FRIENDS. There were so many gorgeous layouts it was hard to pick one, in fact, I most likely will lift some others later, but we just do one for this challenge. This layout features the All Fall line by Fancy Pants and was in our September kit at Personalscrapper. I may post the layout I lifted here if I get permission from the artist, so you can see why I was so inpsired! The challenge I am working on for tomorrow is the Sept. challenge which is to use a letter of the alphabet and the word it represents to you on your layout i.e. M is for Memories. I have my idea, now just to put it to paper.....more inspiration tomorrow.

More fall goodness

I made these fun gift bags using some of the leftovers from the Scrapbooks on the Go Fall clipboard kit. I still have a lot of stickers left, and some I think I will use on my pumpkin patch page for this year. I love it when I can find a way to use my scraps on something useful. The papers are leftovers from my September 2007 personalscrapper kit and some Stampin Up papers I used to make cards with! Check back tomorrow when I will post some pics of my scraplift challenge for a contest at Personalscrapper. I have narrowed it down to 3 layouts I plan on lifting and hope to get one done tomorrow. It was hard to pick as there are a lot of talented ladies on this board and it will be fun to lift some of their beautiful pages!

Fall has arrived

I wanted to share with you the fall clipboard that I designed for Scrapbooks on the Go. It looks great on your mantle or a shelf surrounded by beautiful fall decorations. If you haven't gotten one of their kits you are missing out! Not only are they very reasonably priced but they come with EASY step by step directions and color photos making them a snap to assemble. They have fabulous gifts for the upcoming holidays ( their photo jewerly is unbelievable). I plan on getting their F is for Family and Christmas kits and will post my pages when I am done. So if you need fast, super cute and well priced layout ideas visit them at http://www.scrapbooksonthego.com/ and tell them Lisa sent you! Let me know how you like my new look...yes, my blog has gotten a makeover thanks to Shel over at Shelsscraps! If you want a makeover for your blog I highly recommend her FREE blog backgrounds. Check out her blog on my sidebar or here at http://shelsscraps.blogspot.com Enjoy your weekend everyone!

Got Sketch 102 coming to an end

Here is a layout I did for the Animals R Us challenge during the Personalscrapper crop, but I based this layout on a sketch by Valerie Salomon on her blog GOT SKETCH. Here blog is awesome and having been a fan for awhile so I decided to sign up for her class GOT SKETCH 102. I was not disappointed, I have been scrapbooking for a LONG time and I still learned a bunch of things. I met a lot of nice and creative ladies and had a great time. The good thing about this class is you don't HAVE to complete the assignments in any order or time frame, the class will be up for a while yet so you can still go sign up, I will MOST definitely be signing up for any future classes! I plan on completing a few of the sketches I haven't gotten to this weekend. This is a fast way to get awesome looking layouts in a short amount of time! The above layout features a memory page of my cat Snuggles and in the journaling I included a poem given to me by the vet after she passed. I had met to share the finished layout for my Git R Done Wednesday task as well, but I forgot to pick up the remaining pics I had printed out for it, so it is still 3/4 of the way done, but it now has a title and one pic on it! HA! I WILL get it done, sometimes life(or a senior moment) just gets in the way!

More sharing from the crop

Here is another layout I did during the Personalscrapper crop this last weekend. This was another sketch challenge and it, as you can see, is a very versatile sketch, one I know I will continue to change up and use often. I just love these silly photos of Jake and his good friend Logan. They are growing up yet they still are little boys on the inside, even if they don't want their Moms to see that, so its fun to see them act so silly together! On a different note, don't forget to watch QVC tomorrow as its Count Down to Christmas, only 91 days left folks! Better get started on those holiday projects now! I have started one, I'd love to share but that would ruin the surprise for that special someone who may be seeing this, so sorry but you'll have to wait til after Christmas so we don't ruin Mari's fun Christmas surprise! I wanted to share my Git 'R Done Wednesday project as well, but I didn't get enough time to finish it as I had a meeting for church, but it is more done than yesterday..so maybe I can share tomorrow! Catch ya later!

I've cropped and now I've dropped!

OK, short post here, I am literally dead on my feet. I did a one hour sketch challenge over at Creative Scrappers and I actually got my layout done and uploaded within one hour! YEA ME! Go on over and vote for your fav layout, you have until tomorrow at midnight. I will leave you with my submission, just in case you want to vote for me!! To vote go here: http://www.creative-scrappers.com/ To get to the voting go to FORUMS and then to CONTESTS. It is under ONE HOUR SKETCH CHALLENGE. You can view all the great layouts in the gallery too! More tomorrow on what I got done for the Personalscrapper crop that ended tonite! Now I'm off to bed!