Join me for some Mouthwatering fun!!!

TrailMakers challenge is all about food this month! We are incorporating anything food and recipe related this time. Maybe you are working on a family cookbook, or you still haven't scrapped your Thanksgiving layouts from last year, or maybe you give food gifts to your friends for the Holidays and you create pretty packaging for your containers. Whatever it is we want to see it this month.

Because we do have a holiday this month this challenge will go for the entire month this time. You will have until Saturday, November 27th to submit your project to Mr. Linky at TrailMakers .

As a special surprise - our kit store, The Paper Trail, will be giving away a prize valued at approx. $15 to one lucky participant this month if we have at least 10 participants! If we do get at least 10 challenge participants, I will randomly choose someone to receive a package containing Pink Paislee's Parisian Anthology Elements and the Alphabet as well. These go PERFECTLY with our November Vintage Family kit which is on sale in the store.


Now who wouldn't want to win these, especially if you have bought the Vintage Family kit from The Paper Trail store... this kit is awesome for those old family photos you have been waiting to scrap!!!

MOUTHWATERING!!

So this week's challenge at TrailMakers is one of my favorite subjects... FOOD!!! I love good food, any type, American, Mexican, Chinese, Sweets(my fav)... and the good thing is my hubby LOVES to cook and I have to admit I am pretty good guinea pig for him to try new recipes out on.

One of my all time favorite recipes that we cook together is LOADED POTATO SOUP... I wait all year for the cool weather (I don't eat soup when it is hot outside) to get here just so we can make this.

For this yummy layout I used Moxie Joys of Baking paper and alphas and a ScribbleScrabble Sweet n Sour die cut and I printed out the ingredients from my computer (hate my handwriting).  And I just realized I didn't actually list what you do, but basically mix everything together except the cheese and sour cream and bring to a boil then add the cheese and sour cream.

Also new at the Paper Trail store is our kit club and I have to say it is pretty awesome, you can do a month at a time or 6 months subscriptions.  This is the Vintage Family kit for November

and it is in short supply so be sure to grab it up.  I think it is perfect for vintage photos since it is full of MME and Pink Paislee.

Here is a layout I did using the kit

More Scrappiness

So here is another layout, yes that is 2 in a day!!!  This is for Sketchy Thursdays challenge, they provide a sketch and you run with it, here is the sketch for this week

And here is my interpretation of it, I have been dying to scrap the ultrasound pics from the day we found out what the twins were gonna be, 2 boys by the way... Shelli just is 20 weeks now so we are 1/2 to holding these peas in person!!!  I can't wait to spoil my nephews rotten!!!

Scrappiness

Well I have been a busy little bee last nite and today in my scrap room, which is pretty good for me cause here lately I haven't spent near enough time in there.

First off I did this layout for Ch{all}engeMasters impromtu challenge, where we had to use the word Thankful, a tree, 10 embellies and one photo, which I used from a quick trip we made a couple of weeks ago to High Falls Park and Buck's Pocket

This layout also qualifies for Creative Scrappers, Sketch #128 , it shows a 12" photo, but I love this 8" x10" because it shows of the paper and it is the 1st time I have every used anything larger than  5" x 7".  Now I will have to start printing bigger pics because I love how this turned out!!

Hey ladies....this week at TrailMakers we are asking you to be extra creative by using Halloween papers to showcase a layout that isn't Halloween. Now you might think I cheated because my pics are of a black cat, but I didn't, in fact we have 2 black cats in our house, Blackie is our adopted cat, that came with our house and we also have a Spook that has been with me for 11 years.
Scribble Scrabble's Jeepers Creepers line was perfect for this layout, I used the I Want Candy stripe for my background, Spooky Sampler for the purple background and one thing I love about these papers is the extra strip at the bottom is printed on one side so you can use it like I did on my layout. I also used a flourish and journal card from the Sentiments punchout sheet, threw in a little black cardstock for my photo mats and some Pink Paislee glitter chipboard alphas.
Be sure and check out the Paper Trails store because we have an awesome sale going to help us get ready for some BIG changes on Nov. 1st!!!

BANNER Challenge

Banners seem to be a popular design technique and this was a perfect challenge for me to show some off with pictures from my 40th birthday crop. I was lucky enough to be able to spend my birthday weekend with some of my scrappy friends and we had a blast, lots of junk food, staying up late and tons of laughing!!!

I decided on a two-page layout because I wanted to use several pictures, which I had printed wallet size-9 to a page and I loosely used a sketch by Allison Davis. Creative Imaginations Piece of Cake line was perfect for this celebration, the bright colors were so much fun. I used bright green cardstock from my stash to help show off the fun design of these papers. I made my banners from cutting diamond shapes in half (from the balloon animals pattern paper in the line) and adding some rub-on letters. I pop-dotted the cake and blinged it upadding stickles to the candles and using Liquid Applique to look like icing. I added some journaling blocks from my stash to document the weekend.

Be sure to join us at TrailMakers for the Banner Challenge, we would love to see what you come up with!!

TOP 10 LISTS

This weeks challenge over at TrailMakers is TOP 10 list and I pondered over what to do with this challenge, I could list 10 things about me(done that) or I could list 10 things about my hubby(that's another project) so I decided to list my Top 10 songs on my Ipod and I will warn you it is a pretty eclectic mix of music from Top 40, country, rock, rap, christian rap and christian Top 40, let's just say I like most genres of music.

For this layout I used Haley's Collection-Berry Parfait by Scribble Scrabble (which is on sale at Paper Trail) for my background and Henry's Brilliance Writing 101 by Nikki Sivlis (also on sale) for my list, threw a Jenny Bowlin journal card and some bingo buttons to finish it off. I stamped my Top 10 favorites and used rubons and tiny alphas on my list page.

Be sure to join us this week because it is a prize week and the whole store is ON SALE cause we have some changes coming!!