Music Layout: Favorite Topic to Scrap for Lasting Memories Challenge as Guest Designer

Welcome to my last post as guest designer for Lasting Memories challenge.  This week's challenge is to scrap your favorite topic.  I used some old stash a Story Tellers Club kit.  It was in my "music" stash and I thought perfect for these photos. 

I am not sure if you are familiar with The Story Teller's Club but it was a monthly scrapbook kit that came with several double sided printed papers, punch out die cut sheets, ribbon and coordinating card stock. Oh! and I think they usually came with sticker letters.  At least I still have some in my stash.  

Added beyond the kit was some red resin roses.  They are probably Tim Holtz Idea-ology.  They were just perfect for this layout!

Ingredients:

The Storytellers Club kit May 2011

Mrs. Grossman sticker letters

red resin roses

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://lovethoseprettypapers.blogspot.com/2025/07/atg-using-pretty-patterned-paper-july.html until 7.31x

Thank you for stopping by today.

Alicia

Halloween layout: My Favorite Holiday for Lasting Memories as Guest Designer

Welcome to my second week as guest designer at Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge blog.  This week's challenge #758 is scrapping your favorite holiday.  My favorite holiday is Halloween.  It's always a fun holiday! This particular Halloween we traveled to New Orleans for a concert.  

Here is page one.  I began with a kit from way back...for years I belonged to The Storytellers Club.  They really had some great kits.  Long ago I separated the card stock and kits by theme.  I found this one in my Halloween papers.

I found a Pinterest sketch to use for page one.

I love this green shimmer paper.  I still have a few more sheets but I am getting low after years.  I purchased a 25 count pack at Tuesday Morning.  My purchase has outlived the store!  I used Creative Memories sticker letters.  I keep chipping away at my stash.

For the title I used my Cricut and a rock n roll font with skulls and cross bones. I layered scraps of the green shimmer paper behind the cut outs.

I used a sheet of Halloween circle stickers and layered them on a Tim Holtz Sizzix die cut.  I think the bat is from a Recollections collection but I could be mistaken.

The second page continues the title and more of my circle embellishments.  

I found another sketch with four or more photos on Pinterest.  You can find this one HERE.  I loved all the action shots of this song and wanted to include a lot of images, therefore, I printed them small.

The Storytellers Club kits always included several pages of die cut embellishments to punch out.  I thought these brackets were adorable!  I had to use them.  The border with glitter words is a different brand but coordinates well.

A close up of one of the clusters using my circle embellishment and echo park brads.

Ingredients:

The Storytellers Club October 2009 kit

ANC Crestwood Grass Green Shimmer and Plum adhesive backed paper

Creative Memories mini sticker letters 

Cricut Rock Star font

Tim Holtz Sizzix Stitched Circles

Echo Park Decorative brads Arsenic & Lace

Creative Memories circle cutting system

Halloween border (K & Co?)

dimensional bat stickers and other stickers

black card stock

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2025/07/july-2025-anything-goes-w-optional.html until 7.31x

Thanks for reading today and don't forget to play along with  Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge blog.  This week's challenge #758 is scrapping your favorite holiday until the end of the month.

Alicia

Storytellers Club Falling into Fall with Sketch N Scrap

I finished my weekend scrapping a couple of more pages. Simple but pulled some really old stash and used it up!  These designer papers and embellishments are from a Storytellers Club kit from 2009.  Does anyone remember the Storytellers Club?  I was a member for a couple of years around 2008-10 I am guessing.  It definitely satisfied my appetite for club kits for years to come.  I still have dozens of kits.  I finally split them up when I was organizing by the Totally Tiffany method.  I have used much more of the kits than if I had left them "kitted".  I had the paper and die cuts in my fall themed papers. 

I used a couple of more sketches from Sketch N Scrap Monthly Challenges group,

Layout number two utilizes an extra item not in the kit. This was a pack of white borders.  I used Distress Fozziled Amber ink to color it.

The final sketch.  I am switching to card making for my next projects.

Ingredients:

Storytellers Club Falling into Fall 2009 kit

Tim Holtz Distress ink in Fossilized Amber

misc card stock including Stampin Up Early Espresso

White die cut border

Thank you for stopping by

Alicia

Ink Road Stamps Jack and Sally with Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge

Hello and welcome to the latest Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.  I created this card for my nephew for Valentine's Day.

Here is the sketch:

My stamp is pretty new and this is the first time I have used it.  Pairing it with paper that is over ten years old gave me such an exciting thrill!  I love using up my stash.

I did a little coloring with alcohol markers. Even Jack has a tad of light shading.

Ingredients:

Storytellers Club papers

Ink Road Stamps Jack & Sally

Frantic Stamper Accessory Words #3 love die

Spellbinders label die

alcohol markers

Momento ink

misc papers

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://cardz4guyz.blogspot.com/2022/02/289-love-cards.html until 2.20x

http://dragonflydreamschallenges.blogspot.com/2022/02/february-challenge-love-and-design-team.html until 3.5x

Don't forget to play along this week at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.

Alicia

SVGCuts Pumpkin Carriage for Bitten By the Bug 2's Fall Challenge

Happy Autumn!  I just love this season and especially the month of October.  When it came time to create a project for this theme, Feels Like Fall. I was super excited and still on a roll from my recent 3-D projects.  I love creating these objects d' art.  I hope they bring as much joy as I experience making them.  I chose this project from SVGCuts Enchanted Autumn SVG Kit.  You don't have to go this grand, but I hope to inspire you to create an Autumn Project with your Cricut and enter the Bitten By the Bug 2 Feel Like Fall Challenge.

Some of the details,  I used a flower button for the door "handle".  The lantern came together very easily but next time I will use double sided paper.  I tried to chalk the inside but the foil paper had a very glossy back side and didn't take the ink very well.  I added a row of orange gems below the door.

In this photo you can see the metallic gem stickers I added to the platform.  I don't think I did the platform just right but the wheels covered it.  I added orange gems above the door too.

On the ends of the platform, I added flowers.  It's hard to see but I used a dark green metallic paper as my accent paper.  There were some cuts for covering the platform and some of the edges. Notice the pumpkin in the paper print.

The back side.

The metallic dark green papers is more visible in the close up view of the back side.  I also used it on the wheels.

One more angled view.

The opposite end of the platform.  

I inserted tea lights inside the carriage. It was really pretty but hard to photograph.

Y'all I just have to say, I was checking out my products I used to compile the list below.  This patterned paper is from 2010!!! 10 year old paper that has now been turned into a most beautiful creation.  I know my craft room is packed full...but proof I use it up it this project!

Ingredients:

SVGCuts Pumpkin Carriage part of the Enchanted Autumn Collection

Storytellers Club Pick of the Patch papers

Cricut glitter paper

velvet paper, colored vellum, foil paper and other misc papers

Flowers, gems, stickers, brads and buttons

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://asyoulikeitchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/10/favourite-non-card-project-and-why.html until 10.21

http://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/2020/10/challenge-75-add-sparkle.html until 10.28x

https://classicdesignchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/10/classic-design-challenge-october.html until 10.29

https://thefairyandtheunicornchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/10/october-challenge.html until 10.31x

http://craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.com/2020/10/craftyhazelnuts-pattermed-paper-october.html until 10.31x

https://die-cut-divas.blogspot.com/2020/10/thoughts-of-autumn-fill-air-from-bugaboo.html until 11.2x

Thank you for stopping by and don't forget to play along with the Bitten By the Bug 2 Feel Like Fall Challenge for the next two weeks.

Alicia

 

The Storytellers Club with June Jumpstart sketch

I finished last month's challenges and I am still scrapping away...so I turned to The Scraproom's Facebook Fan page for some June challenges.  I love their Fast Formulas, Throwback sketches and their Jumpstart sketches.  This one worked great for my four photo layout.

Here is the sketch.

A close up.

Ingredients:

The Storytellers Club kit

Creative Memories sticker letters

Quick Quotes Milk Chocolate Powderpuff chalking ink

misc card stock

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://thescraproomblog.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-jumpstart-sketch-challenge-and-may.html until 6/30x

Thanks for stopping by 

Alicia

FUN vacation memories~Storytellers Club with Sketch N Scrap sketch

Here is my companion page to the last post. This is my final submission in the Sketch N Scraps 8th Birthday Bash Crop.  I believe there were 26 challenges, 22 layouts and 4 cards, wow!  did I do all that?  I am pretty sure all the layouts are of my January vacation.  I still haven't printed all the pictures!  This one is one of my favorites from this year.  Fun doesn't even begin to describe the great time we have on our annual vacation but the die cut title fit perfectly with this sketch.

Here is the past sketch from Sketch N Scrap

My friend on the far right loves the ice cream machine...so I just had to use this die cut on the page!

I layered a strip of the same navy card stock behind the die cut title along with some orange washi tape and blue twine.  I sprinkled stars punched out of the STC patterned paper and miscellaneous card stock with green and blue enamel dots.

Ingredients:

The Storytellers Club kit

Creative Memories star punches

Bo Bunny clover dot card stock

misc card stock

enamel dots, American Craft twine and washi tape

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://creativeknockouts.blogspot.com/2020/06/353-washi-wonders-leanns-world-101.html until 6/10x

http://kcclayoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2020/05/lm-500-its-celebraton-bingo.html until 6/27x

last row vertical-2 photos, enamel shapes, stars, twine, washi tape

Thanks for reading my post

Alicia

Storytellers Club kit with Sketch N Scrap sketch

It feels so good to use up my stash...I can't tell you how old this Storytellers Club kit is, I belonged to their subscription for a couple of years.  I loved their designer papers, die cuts and how they coordinated card stock.  I long ago split up the kits according to the Totally Tiffany organization method, so the card stock was no longer with the kits nor the embellishments but it wasn't hard to find matches.  

Here is the past sketch from Sketch N Scrap.  I turned it to suit my photos.

I added some sticker letter for a title and moved it from the position in the sketch.  

Ingredients:

The Storytellers Club kit

Bo Bunny clover dot card stock

Creative Memories Blueberry sticker letters

misc card stock

enamel dots

Thank you so much for stopping by

Alicia

The Storytellers Club Exodus layout

I was very productive today and completed two more pages.  Still playing along with Sketch N Scraps 8th Birthday Bash Crop.  This is the companion page using an old summer themed kit from The Storytellers Club.

Here is the past sketch from Sketch N Scrap.

Ingredients:

The Storytellers Club papers and die cuts

Bo Bunny Clover dot card stock

Cricut Palm Trees

Quick Quotes Powderpuff chalking ink Mocha Moma

misc card stock including Graphic 45

wood based gems, glitter gems, and bling

glitter letters

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://craftyfriendschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2020/05/challenge-136-and-winners-of-challenge.html until 6/3x

Alicia