Happy Friday and LOAD513

It is finally Friday - hooray!! It seems like it took forever to get here this week!

I have been playing along with Lain Ehmann's LOAD513 (Layout A Day - May 2013) and thought I would share some of the LOs that I have created. I have kept up so far and the LOs are not masterpieces, but they are done! I hope I can keep it up and have 31 pages done by the end of the month!

So, the theme of this LOAD is the board game "Clue". Lain gives a prompt every morning that you can choose to follow - or not. Just getting a page done a day is the goal. I think it is fun to read the prompt in the morning and then spend my day daydreaming about what page I will create that night (when I should be working!) Here are some of the pages and the prompts that I have done so far:

WHO (as in who dunnit?)

MRS. PEACOCK (use the character or color as inspiration):

MODUS OPERANDI (what is someone's MO?):

THE WRENCH (use a tool, scrap about a tool, etc):

I am having so much fun and will share more LOs as we go along!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Gettin' Disney Done

I am back to getting some more Disney layouts done. I took soooo many pictures on our trip, that I may never be done! It is fun to go back and look at these with the kids, though, and relive the fun time that we had. I have been using some of the March Madness Challenges over at Boston Area Scrap Fanatics to get them done. Lots of fun going on over there - check it out, if you have a chance!

This first one was a sketch challenge. The sketch had a big heart in the background, but all I saw was Mickey Ears!

The next challenge was to use the title and/or words from the song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". These pictures of the kids at the Spirit of Aloha Luau made me think of that song!

This challenge was to use mostly pink on something. You can't get much more pink-ish than Disney princesses!

Everything was from my "Disney stash", which became quite large when we got back from our trip in 2011. I have to start using it up, so I will be back with more Disney layouts for sure!

Have a thrilling Thursday!

Vinyl Winner - and other "stuff"

Good morning!! We have a winner, we have a winner for the vinyl challenge. We wanted to thank ALL the ladies that participated. Such awesome work and great ideas for all of us. Kel and I got together quickly last night in the scrapcave and pulled the name from a hat. We are so scientific over here. We are still old school and use a hat! And the winner is......................

Susan!!!

Congrats to you Susan! Please email Kel at achildinmind@aol.com and will will tell you what you need to do. Thanks again to Nick over at http://www.craftvinyl.com/ for sponsoring our challenge.

We would like to take this time to welcome new follower Audrey. Thanks for stopping by, everyone is family here and we LOVE to scrap it forward. If you have a moment please go on over and check our her blog, she has amazing talent. http:/cuteandsome.blogspot.com. Click here.... Cute and Some

Also we have a challenge coming up, with a fun sponsor. Please stop by tomorrow for the details.

One more thing, sorry it is so long, so much to say!! On HSN today 11:00 - 1:00 est is crafting!! Woohoo, they always have great deals. This is important stuff, lol!!

Have a great day!!!

VINYL CHALLENGE by CARRIE

Here is a GREAT idea and great Vinyl project from Carrie at DoubleClick Connections - AKA Abusybee Here is what she had to say:

"Our Town just started a recycling program! We are super excited! I ran out and purchased two new identical cans to fit in the kitchen. They looked great until this was all I heard... "Mom, which one is for recycle?" "Mom, did you say it's the right one or left one?" Etc Etc....So here was my solution! I used my Gypsy, letters from Wild Card and cut this out of vinyl! Now everyone knows which can is recycle!"

VINYL CHALLENGE TRIFLE BOWL

This is sent in by Kate at Small Bits of Paper She says: "I've seen a few trifle bowls fancied up with a bit of vinyl and decided to give it a go myself. My trifle bowl is from Pampered Chef. I cut Bon Appétit and some leaves from Ashlyn's Alphabet. I chose this cartridge as it has accents and I needed an accent aigu for the phrase. (I bought Ashlyn's Alphabet especially for the accents.) I had measured the bowl first and adjusted the letters to get a height with which I was happy."

THE "WRITE" IDEA..Vinyl Challenge by Jean

This is GREAT. Here is a vinyl project sent to us from Jean at Jean's Crafty Corner. I just LOVE this image. Jean used brown vinyl on a wipe off board and got the images from Don Juan and Heritage CC. Please see her site for all the deets!

VINYL CHALLENGE

Hello Bloggers. Here are the rules of the Challenge:

1. Please follow if you wish, we love company :)

2. Please share this challenge on your blog with a link back here, we'd love our friends to meet your friends :)

3. Your entry should be a new altered project. You can alter whatever you wish.. picture frame, container, glassware..so many choices..We can't wait to see! Using VINYL on your project will be a plus, giving you and EXTRA entry. However, if you do not have vinyl to add to your project, its ok, you can still enter your project.

4. Please email your project to Achildinmind@aol.com before March 1, 2011

5. Have LOTS of fun!

THIS BEAUTIFUL INSPIRATIONAL VINYL WALL ART IS FROM DAWN.. LOVE IT!

CHALLENGE BY DAWN

Here is an absolutely gorgeous page Dawn did for a challenge on another blog and the challenge is do a layout that wold make you say BRRR!!I definitely say BRR!!! I love everything about it!! Fantastic job Dawn!!

Dawn wrote "Here is what I came up with for this challenge. The snowflake mat was cut with the Silhouette; the background paper is 100 years old from some old winter stack; vellum stack quote. I purposely turned the flash on while it was snowing to get those white reflections off the flakes in the foreground."

Don't you ladies just love this page???

Vote please and a big Welcome

Good Monday morning. It is a balmy -1 here in Boston. I think where our fantastic follower Karen lives, it is even colder!!! Kel and I entered a challenge over at Papercraft Star: Challenge 29 Opens !!

We didn't realize that folks have to vote on our projects. If you would be so kind head on over and give us your vote. Scroll about half way down the page, it is challenge #29. Thank you! They are Kel D and Laurie B! Thanks again!!

We also wanted to give a big welcome to our new followers, Scraplebe, scrappingjoy and Jessica! Welcome and take a look around. Please join in the fun, we have swaps, challenges and great great fun!! Don't forget to leave a comment! Also if you have blogs please let us know we would love to see them!! Thanks!!

Challenges done by Kel and Laurie

The weekend has arrived. Woohoo!! Kel and I got together last night and did a few challenges we will show the others through the week. This one is due today. We entered the challenge over at http://papercraftstar.blogspot.com/ You have to use at least two of the following colors, and two of the following, ribbon, embossing, stamped image or die cut. Kel is also entering her card over at http://peachykeenstampschallenge.blogspot.com/



This is Kel's take. This card is soo cute. She used brown's and blues and die cut the butterflies, embossed the little blue strip and stamped on the butterfly. I love, love this card. The polka dot paper is from DCWV Linen stack, such an awsome stack. The blue paper is StampinUP! Great job, Kel!


I chose this because I am going to entering it in another challenge (will show during the week). I choose the blue and the pink and I embossed the little cup. I used a Tim Holtz folder, they really cut deep, some places actually ripped and this is StampinUP! paper. This is from Tags, Boxes and more cart. I inked the edges of the cup and used this little friends die cut.

I also entered my cute little cup over at http://magchallengebythepage.blogspot.com. This is an awesome blog that you use your cricut carts for the challenges, great fun!

1ST CHALLENGE OF THE NEW YEAR

Good morning fellow scrappers! Happy Happy New Year! Kel and I are back in full force with swaps and challenges!!

So this challenge is a Red, Gold and Brad challenge. Here are the rules:

1) It must be a layout any size you are accustomed too.

2) You must incorporate red and gold

3) You have to have three brads.

4) You have to be a followers

5) Of course you must have fun!!

I did this layout of my boys opening presents. I used red card stock as my background paper and My Minds Eye, I Believe is the polka dot paper and the tickets (as you know they are my favorite. Tim Holtz Alternation folder, with Perfect Pearls. I also used the Perfect Pearls (Gold on each of the four corners of the paper. The three brads are from http://www.eyeletoutlet.com/














The deadline for the challenge is Saturday January 15 at 9:00 pm edt. The prize is an awesome selection of brads that the Eyelet Outlet & Brads donated for our prize. A big thanks for the wonderful brads. You won't be disappointed.

Please check out the sidebar for an award we won from Rhonda over at http://bumblcreate.blogspot.com/. We have passed it along to five awesome blogs, check it out!!

OK HERE IS #3 CHALLENGE FOR TODAY, Scroll down for 1 and 2

Kate from

Small Bits of Paper sent us this GREAT card for the challenge. Kate says: "I designed the window using George and Basic Shapes and Destinations. I cut the window three times. Between the bottom two layers, I placed piece of transparency which I embossed with a snowflake folder. The wreath is from Joys of the Season.Have a great weekend!"

Challenge #1 by Marijo..Scroll for #2

Marijo says "Here is my entry for your Christmas challenge. On the card, I used Cricut Very Merry Tags cartridge. On the blocks, I used 1"x1" wood blocks, glued some paper to them and used Creative Memories letter stickers. This is the first time I have submitted to one of your challenges"

I love these blocks they are so cute. What a clever idea!!

This card is just perfect. I love the Merry Christmas paper!

Thanks so much Marijo for your submission, great job!!

AND HERE IS SECOND CHALLENGE

Here's one from Rhonda . I LOVE this angelic tag! Blogger is being a PIP... Sorry for the freaky format for today posts..lol

JEANS CRAFTY CHALLENGE ENTRY

Here's Jeans entry for the challenge. She says :
I started out with a plain blue sheet of paper as the background. I used the Christmas Solutions cart to cut the Santa and the moon. I then printed out the sheet music to the song Up on the Rooftop and used Tim Holtz Antique Linen Distress Ink to make it look aged. I used some gold foil paper from a paper stack called winterberry to matt the picture of Kaylee with Santa. To finish it off, I took a yellow glitter pen and hand drew some stars around the page. Please check out some of her other super creations at

Jean's Crafty Corner

ANOTHER CHALLENGE ENTRY!

Here is a challenge entry by Sharon C. These are great Sharon, thanks for joining the challenge!

Please visit Sharon at .in the big blue house She's very talented!

JANETS XMAS CHALLENGE ENTRY

Janet, great card! She says: "I have only stamped and colored one card before this one and was not really happy with the results. I've avoided stamping and coloring since. I have had this Santa stamp for a couple years now and wanted to use it but was reluctant to try, I finally got up enough nerve and did it, the results aren't too bad. Let me know what you think!"Check out Janets blog at: LadyLuvBug: Santa Christmas card

SNEEK PEEK! GET YOUR CHALLENGE IN!

SHHHHH, don't tell, but here is a peek into part of the xmas prize challenge...It's 1/3 of the prize.. if you know what it is...don't tell. Hurry..one week to get your layout, tag or card in!

PHENOMINAL PHOTO WEEK 2 - Day 1

Good morning everyone!! First of all today is Kelly's birthday!!! Happy, happy Birthday Kel. I can't believe you are finally 21!! Have a wonderful day!!

We have received two challenges (PhotoElf prize) Kel and I are so excited. Please read Kel's post from yesterday, 11/21 and see all the awards and prizes that we posted yesterday, lots going on here!

This first challenge is from Jean over at
Jean's Crafty Corner



The next challenge comes from Rhonda over at

bumblebee creations Thanks so much ladies for your AWESOME Layouts. They came out great!!We knew you had it in you! Remember the deadline for the challenge is this Saturday, November 27th! This is an awesome, aweseome, prize!

HAPPY SATURDAY BLOGGERS!

I'd like to welcome our new follower Berenice! at Karber Weekly Challenge It's nice to have you! Here a few reminders of whats going on around here!

1. We are now at 69 followers.. so at 70..we reveal Laurie's "70th follower" prize and then I'll reveal who out of "1-69 follower" will win the prize I picked! I saw a peek of Lau's I'm pretty sure I saw the words "cuttlebug" hehheheh! Mine is still a secret, but it's a goodie too!

2. Don't forget to get in on our PHOTOELF challenge that started last week and will run for a bit longer. HERE IS A CHANCE TO WIN A fun..easy...photo editing program! See our post of last week to see what this program can do!. Check out our 11/15/10 post for challenge deets! We've received a few entries.... we'll post next week!

3. I have the Tim Holtz Adage Ticket booklet for one of our lucky commenters from this past week. Laurie and I are picking a name tonight..Tune in tomorrow to find out if you won! !

4. Have a great day..have fun!.. and Scrap it forward if you get the chance!