This and That...

Earlier this year I was part of the DT over at Let's Scrap which is a fabulous fun ning community.  They recently asked their former DT members if we'd be interested in hosting one of their design team challenges.  Well the challenge I came up with was to use found items basically.  The found items on the layout below are the ABC kids magnets, the apple is a flash card from a flea market, and the pencil is from an entire pack that I bought in the Michael's dollar bin.  The little masked circles are from an old package of those 3-ring paper reinforcing labels.

The patterned paper and paper embellies are from Nikki Sivil's, School is Cool line. And the lined stamps are Lawn Fawn.  I also want to note that I painted in the center of the base patterned paper to tone the pattern down a bit.  I've been doing this a lot lately and I wanted to give credit for the technique to the fabulous Helen Tilbury.  She posted a challenge some time back that did this, I never got around to playing with her challenge but the technique stuck with me so I wanted to thank Helen for the great idea!!!

And I'm so happy that I was able to play along with Bird is the Word again.  This time the word is "adore" and I even used their sketch!  Everything on here with exception to the twine in the button is from October's Cocoa Daisy kit.  The honey comb pattern is from their custom stamp from October.  Overall I really like this layout but now when looking at the picture, I may need to add a little something between the card stock and the base patterned paper... hmmm...  The picture is of Marin in her Halloween costume.  I have the kids pictures taken each year in their costumes and this year I asked my dear friend Theresa to take the pictures as she has a much neglected and very nice camera.  Well she jumped at the chance to play with her camera  and this is one of the fabulous pictures she took!

And finally, don't forget to play along with this months ribbon challenge over at Scrapbookers Anonymous!