The talented DT at Stuck?! teamed up with the DT over at Paper Issues for this challenge!!!
As always, a a fantastic sketch by Laura Whitaker and it was a challenge cause ya'll know that I'm afraid of shapes, especially circles...and triangles...and hexagons...I'm just too linear!

I probably wouldn't be scared if I would just hook up my Silhouette again but since I'm still being a lazy butt, I just used a scientific method got a dinner plate out and eyeballed it!
Awesomely cute die cuts are some that I bought wayyyyy back in November from Peachy Cheap-they were made especially for them by their customers!  How awesome is that!  And of course if you didn't get them back then, they are long gone... Finally trying to scrap some of my Polar Bear Plunge photos using a very cool app called MOLDIV-just love it!

So, with a sick kid on board, I got to turn on the Winter Olympics (I'm SOOOOO addicted to the winter sports even though I hate snow lol) and take over the dining room table.  Normally I'd go down to the studio, but it's just too cold down there!  So, even though my husband hates it, I brought ALL my artsy crap up here and actually got a lot of layouts done!



All supplies from my February Counterfeit Kit Challenge kit (CKCB) along with a few other supplies since the bff2 just gifted me a huge Hobby Lobby haul!
Did 3 layouts for challenges with the Paper Issues Facebook challenge group. The first one was for their Take 5 Challenge-they have a list of supplies and you pick 5 (or more) and make a layout!  I think I chose turquoise, heart, shiny, cardstock, and patterned paper!  I think that's the first time in YEARS that I've used a cardstock background that wasn't black, white or kraft!  Very outta my comfort zone :)

Finally started, better late than never!  Started with all of my challenges at Paper Issues.  For Scraplift Sunday, I packed up a few kits of stash I wanted to use and stated with scraplifting this awesome layout from the super duper talented Cassie Box:

Sorry peeps, it's just me popping in real quick..layout #16 with my CKCB kit..I've probably done 20 but I'm on my way to VEGAS  and so I won't be posting anymore layouts  until November (it's around the corner)-Will pop in with some photos but no crafty work!

Before I go, I just wanted to thank Julene and the wonderful ladies over at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog for asking me to be October's Guest Designer; I was so motivated to scrap and for the first time ever, I really used my kit in a major way!  

Took a little break from my Counterfeit Kit (CKCB) and just wanted to use up some of the kits that were sitting in my travel bag.  Scrapped while I watched my team lose!
Got out my list of challenges and Victoria Marie was having an online crop so I jumped in on a few of the challenges.

First one:  BLACK  & WHITE ONLY!

Even if it's only ONE layout!  I dumped all my bags and kits so that I could remake them into newer kits for an upcoming crop so for Scrapping Sunday yesterday, I only managed to scrap ONE layout!
This makes layout number 4 with my July Counterfeit Kit (CKCB) though!  I can't tell you how long I've held on to the fence chipboard piece  (YEARS) but I'm glad I finally used it!  Mojo/inspiration is courtesy of the Paper Issues Facebook Group Scraplift Sunday and their layout from DT Michelle Gallant:

Gorgeous, right???  I wish I had my Silhouette hooked up (I will soon though-I got a new desktop and have been super lazybones) so I could've cut out some awesome stars..I substituted with my gold ones that may have been in one of my Clique Kits... and the cute flair was a custom one done for Clique way back in Aug 2016 (I always mix old -n-new)...have some time today to scrap so hopefully I'll be back tomorrow with some creations!!  

Oh my, has it really been three weeks since I posted for Scrapping Sunday?? Tsk, tsk, tsk... I ave been scrapping here and there but just not consistently. BUT, I will be hosting a fundraiser crop for a dear friend of mine who is very ill, and as the host, you have to giveaway prizes!  Well, that forced me to go down to the scrap studio, deconstruct all of my kits, re-do some of them, and to start organizing embellishments to see what I have duplicates of.  I also made the decision that from now on, whenever I buy a collection or a kit, I MUST kill it all at one time and be done with it!

So, today was a day full of multitasking (including hanging out with bff2 this morning) but since the boy child is still sick, chores went by the wayside, we ate dinner early and so I've gotten in some scrappy time all while watching Fantastic Beasts AGAIN!  Four layouts done JFM!  I had originally planned on scrapping all of the Paper Issues facebook challenges before March 31st, BUT got sidetracked and so I just decided to go ahead and scrap them anyway and then continue on to the April challenges.

I said I'd be back today to share a boatload of layouts and here I am!  As I said yesterday, I played along with the December Facebook Challenges in the Paper Issues group-lots of inspo with scraplifting, lists and more and I just ran our of time to upload them!  So there are 2016 layouts ....loved using the stash items of CP Cool Kids kits, some Pebbles goodies I had laying around, some bits and pieces out of my Clique Kits and of course, CP Snow & Cocoa stash!

I ran out of time with my CKCB kit and think I only got about 6 layouts done with that kit...this layout might've been layout #5...

Got some work to do today and a dr's appt (threw out my back AGAIN) but will check in tomorrow with my November Counterfeit Kit since I started putting it together before I injured myself.
Hope you all have wonderful weekends planned-let me know!!

no fireworks for us today (looks like rain anyway)...but hope you are celebrating Independence somewhere! So I'm just using my Scrappy Sunday time to edit pics of layouts I  found during my studio purge that were unfinished but  now finished and also, new one's I did in June using last month's CKCB kit!

scraplift of Melissa Smith from Paper Issues

sketches courtesy of Scrapbook Challenges blog

LOTD using the Crate Paper After Dark collection along with stuff from one of the swag bags I had from the Paper Issues store...not sure which one unfortunately since I had like 3 of them sitting on my desk! LO was originally for a DT assignment but after I photographed it, I realized I didn't follow the directions AGAIN and so here it is, just for me. :): HAPPY FRIDAY !!

Hope you had a wonderful Halloween and a great weekend!   Happy Monday!  Big thanks to all who played with us for Scraptoberfest; it was a great success with so many entries and it's awesome how we inspired you AND you inspired us!  With that being said, remember I had a giveaway for one lucky winner who also posted at Challenge YOUrself?? The lucky winner of this and MORE ( Surprise!  I added more goodies to it- can you say Flair buttons, washi tape and more to it) is:
    SHARON a/k/a sksgranny
 Sharon, please send me your snail mail to:  bluequeen4@hotmail.com.