H2H Scrapbooking Challenge for December

It's time to celebrate! ...I am talking about your favorite holiday!  While I am sure that many of you love Christmas, that is not one of my favorite holidays! Actually it is Halloween but I decided to scrapbook Thanksgiving for this post because this holiday is rapidly becoming one of my most favorite holidays!

I love cooking for my small family and celebrating all that is blessed and wonderful about our life.  I am thrilled that I am able to finish a scrapbook layout before the 1st of December.  Thanks to the Close to My Heart November special, I was able to print a few layouts for only $5.00!

Here is my layout using the Studio J Pathfinding paper pack.  This paper pack is a brand new addition to Studio J and I am so grateful they decided to add several of the new paper packs to the program.

As you can see the Brill family includes a son and daughter-in-law plus two dogs!  My husband, and 'kids' had a relaxing weekend while I worked at the Bernina Sewing Center in Tampa, Fl.  Not to worry - I have several days off while they are at work!

Please join us and scrapbook your favorite holiday!  Add your linky here so we can all share your memories as well!

H2H NO-vember Scrapbook Challenge

Oh NO, it's NO- vember and this month is full of No-Nos!  The first NO Challenge for NO-vember is NO B & T paper.  Many times for me, this is not a crisis and this week proved to be no exception.

I have been eyeing the one page layout on page 108 of the Annual Inspirations and I thought this would be a perfect week to create my own layout.  I have many pages to finish of my son's wedding album and I thought this page would give me the motivation to start working on it again.

I designed the layout in Design Space and then adjusted the colors to match the color scheme of the wedding.  I can see this layout used for anniversary, birthday and other meaningful events.

The Cricut Design Space file is here

Supplies:

page 108 of the Annual Inspirations - Pattern 10 from Make It From Your Heart Volume 2

Cardstock includes White Daisy, Slate, Whisper, Sweet Leaf and Outdoor Denim

Inks include Sweet Leaf, Whisper and Slate

Z1932 Silver Geometric Washi Tape

Stamp set - D1539 The Happy Couple

CTMH cartridges- Art Philosophy, Artbooking and Artfully sent

Here is my finished layout...

Pleas join us in NO-vember for any of the challenges.  You can find the linky here for this one.

Stay tuned for tomorrow's post - the second page to this layout!

Studio J Snippet #8

Well it is almost the end of August and sadly I did not meet my Studio J Challenge of 30 layouts.  But I have used Studio J more in the last two months than I have in the last two years!  I am so pleased with how some of my layouts have turned out and I look back at some of my previous layouts and see how much I have improved!

Studio J snippet #8 - Create a totally different look by changing the colors of a paper pack and creating a matching embellishment by mixing up the My Stickease elements.

Here is a layout I did for convention in 2012 in which I altered the colors of the paper pack and created a totally different design using the My Stickease.

Here is the example I used to create the layout using the Mischief paper pack in Studio J.

I changed the color of the paper on the left from black to Lagoon and the color on the right from black to Cotton Candy.  I turned the lollipops stickers upside down and added a tag and a brad for the frosting and cherry!

I have also entered this layout in the H2H Challenge for this week "Inspired by ...Food!"  You can find the linky here.  Please join us - I am sure that you will find something to scrap about using a food theme!

Inspired by Nature

In August we have a new theme for the entire month on the H2H Challenge Blog. Inspiration is a huge part of our creativity.   It may be the event we scrapbook or the outfit that helps to select the paper pack.  The month long scrapbooking inspiration is nature.

My design is pretty straight forward.  We  are traveling to Alaska at the end of the month and so I started a few pages because I know I will have tons of pictures! Since it is a scrapbook cruise, I will take them with me to start planning the finished pages immediately!

The layout is from Sketches for Scrapbooking  Volume 7 by Scrapbook Generation.

Since I didn't know the exact location for the pictures, I left a large enough space for the title.

You have an entire month to participate in this challenge.  Please join us and add your linky below.

Some Like it HOT!

This week's post on the H2H challenge blog is "Some Like it Hot"!  But not ME! It is too darn hot for me at this time of the year in Tampa, Fl.  But it was so fun to create this Studio J layout using the pictures from our Easter vacation to Florida in 1986.

The best part about this layout is - it is DONE!  I scanned the 28 year old photos into my PSE 12 software, cleaned them up a bit and then inserted them into my Studio J layout. I then created the layout using one of the 'special' paper packs from Studio J and now it is ready to print and add to my scrapbook.

You can find some ideas to jumpstart your creativity here.

Here are the rules for all of our challenges.

*Our challenges are open to everyone!

*To enter, use the challenge of the week to inspire you and post your results to your personal blog or other online gallery.

*Be sure to come back here and use a direct link* to your challenge post so we can see your artwork!

*In order to enter a challenge, you must use CTMH products but your project does not have to be 100% CTMH.

*If you use something from another company, please consider including details in your project's description.

* You MUST mention H2H challenges in your blog post (and a link back to us would be appreciated).

*Spread the word about our challenge blog by including our badge on your blog.

*Most importantly, have fun creating - the Close To My Heartway!

Any entries not following the above rules are subject to having their link removed.

(*To direct link, please leave a link that takes us directly to your blog/gallery page that includes your challenge post - not to your blog home page. To do this, after you've published your post, click on the title. That URL in your browser window is the one that you want to copy & paste into Mr. Linky.)

Please join us in celebrating - "Some Like It Hot" - hot weather, hot foods, hot chicks.. OK....anything hot!

H2H Red and White July Challenge

Welcome to the July Scrapbook challenge with H2H.  This month's challenge is to use the colors of Red and White Daisy.  Here is a picture for inspiration...

For my first post as a member of the H2H Design Team, I created this one page layout.

I love using the Cricut Design Space to design my layouts. I play around with the elements until I get the look I want.  You can find the Cricut Explore file here

I used Z1906 CTMH Artbooking Collection to create the layout.  I added the sparkle with the Z1848 Red Shimmer Trim behind a few stars. I actually used my expensive Bernina 830 machine to stitch on the cardstock (we won't tell Gregor!).  I was trying to create the look of the stitching on his jersey.  The colors I used are Ruby and White Daisy with Pacifica and Whisper.

Please consider joining us this month in the July challenge. Here  are the guidelines for your design.

So remember, show your CTMH pride, scrapbook-style, with

*Any red and White Daisy

*sparkle

*sewing

*optional blue and/or neutrals

You will find the linky for the challenge here