It's a Wonderful Night for a Moondance

Just LOVE incorporating songs into my layouts, so it's perfect that I get to create layouts for Scrap It With a Song every week! This week the song is "Moondance" by Van Morrison, and there are just so many fabulous lines you could use in a layout. I went with the "wonderful night" part as my title and used this pic of my daughter, niece and some of their friends at a school dance:

I hope you'll stop on by Scrap It with a Song and see what the rest of the DT came up with- so many great ways you can take this song!! Be sure to play along and link up your take on the challenge too! =) T

Challenges:

-Scrap It With a Song Moondance

-Scrap The Girls celebrate

-Tuesday Throwdown clip it up

-Use It Tuesday green

-Color Q color scheme

-Lets get Sketchy sketch

Simply Breathtaking

It's playlist time at Scrap It With a Song, this week the song is "Take my Breath Away" by Berlin...from the fabulous movie Top Gun! Oh I remember gushing over that movie with a friend in 8th grade, I was in love with the Iceman!! Anyway...here's my layout inspired by the song title, not at all inspired by the Iceman!

My journaling reads, "Never been a big fan of fall, but out here in my little Ashby oasis I can't help but notice the colors of fall are simply breathtaking".

This was another "made in minutes" layout, 15 to be precise! Inked the edges of two 3x3 scraps of PP and tucked behind my photo mat. Added a little felt bird and a journal jotter with the date. Ran a scrap of ribbon across, stamped the title, hand-wrote the journaling, and this simple little layout was complete!

if you have something that takes your breath away, why not scrapm about it and then share it with us at Scrap It With a Song, we'd love to see it! =) T

We Feel Fine + a DT Call!!

There's a new song on the playlist at Scrap It With a Song, "It's the End of the World a We Know It" by REM. I am a huge REM fan, and love this song, but was stumped on how to use it. And then it came to me...

I used the "I feel fine" lyric (and just changed it to "we") to go with these crazy pics of my 2 kiddos and 2 nieces looking in funky mirrors at the Boston Museum of Science. Was so glad I snapped these photos- they all look like aliens!

If you'd like to play along with us this week, we're having a DT call over at Scrap It With a Song too- just put "DT" after your name when you link up your project to be entered. Can't wait to see how you're inspired to create with this song! =)T

Challenges:

-Scrap It With a Song It's the End of the World a We Know It

-Our Colorful Creations sketch

-Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges ribbon and buttons

New Dawn, New Day, New Life

Time for a new challenge at Scrap It With a Song. This week the song choice is up to you, just choose any song that reminds you of the new year! I chose "Feeling Good" by Muse, and used the lyrics, "It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life" for my title:

Sort of fit perfectly with this photo of my nephew as a brand new little baby. He's 4 now, came across this photo recently and just HAD to scrap it! I hope you'll go on over to Scrap It With a Song and see the rest of the DTs New Years inspirations, and share your creation with us too! =) T

Challenges:

-Scrap It With a Song any new year song

-Once Upon a Sketch sketch + new years

-Scrap our Stash new

Here Comes Santa Claus!

Right now there is some fabulous Christmas Carol inspiration going on over at Scrap It With a Song. The challenge over there right now is going on through December 31st; just create a layout, card or other paper project inspired by a Christmas carol of your choice. Here's my contribution:

Remember, you have until December 31st to join us & play along with our Christmas Carol challenge and be entered in the AMAZING December prize draw!!  I am also linking this up at the Holiday Madness linking party at Paper Issues. TON of great holiday ideas over there, go check it out!! =) T

Challenges:

-Scrap It With a Song christmas carol

-Dream Valley Challenges christmas

-Truly Madly Crafty christmas images and colors

-Scraptastic Club border punch

-Paper Issues holiday madness

I Heard The Bells on Christmas Day

Time for a new song at Scrap It With a Song, "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"! This week I am still chipping away at all those Christmas pics from last year (and maybe previous years too- yikes!). I made a list of all the "typical" holiday events I like to scrapbook- Christmas Cards, School Concert, Visit with Santa, Christmas Crafts, Cookies for Santa, Christmas Eve, Christmas Morning...no wonder I'm always behind!! well, here's another to add to the album:

I decided to use the line "the old familiar carols play" as my title. These were pics from last year's school concert- my son was not to pleased with squeezing between his sister and cousin for the photo! =) T

Challenges:
-Scrap It With a Song "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"
-The Scrappiest sketch
-Lasting Memories sentiment
-Incy Wincy Designs non traditional Christmas colors
-Paper Issues Holiday Madness linking party

Catch-Up Time

Hello and happy Friday! Time for me to play catch up again, and share all my most recent DT entries! First up I have this month's layout for the challenge at Black With Two. This month Eve has asked us to use Black+lime+cream. I love these challenges because it gets me to scrap out of my comfort zone. I would never think to use this color scheme, but it really works and I love what I came up with. Also, I incorporated  sketch #125 from Twisted Sketches, and used a fabulous posie from Precocious Papers.

Next up....there's a new song up at Scrap It With a Song, Adele's "Rolling in the Deep". I had a few pics of my kiddos at a local pool this summer, and decided to go with "off the deep end" as my title:

And finally I have this week's LO and sketch over at Sketches in Thyme. I am the proud designer of this week's sketch and think it's a pretty good one to work with.

I hope you'll have a chance to check out these fabulous challenge blogs and see all the great work from the Design Teams. Link up your own takes too, I'd love to see what you come up with!! =) T

A New Song is up at Scrap It With a Song

This week the song challenge at Scrap It With a Song is "Fearless" by Taylor Swift. My daughter and I went to see Miss Swift last June, it was her xmas gift, and man can she put on a great show!! So I decided to pull out those pics for this challenge.

Instead of using lyrics from the song "Fearless", I kind of cheated and pulled lyrics from another TS song, "the Best Day" which really fit the mood of the day my daughter and I had together. If you're not familiar with the song, you can read the lyrics here. It is such a sweet mother/daighter song, and brought tears to my eyes the first time I heard it! To make my LO, I did a little misting, layered a couple pattern papers with some fun trims, embossed my stamp designs on chipboard and added a handwritten title. Be sure and stop on by Scrap It with a Song for more Design Team inspiration, and linkup your own "Fearless" design!! =) T

Challenges:

-Scrap It With a Song inspired by Taylor Swift

-Scrap Our Stash use a quote

-Inspire Me Fridays link party

-Pile It On be happy

Three-for-Tuesday!

Hello and happy Tuesday! 3 more projects to share with you today! First up I have a LO I created showing off my love of all things Beatles. I have a huge collection of memorabelia on display throughout our home, but for some reason the thought never crossed my mind to scrapbook about it. And then  Mindy posted the cover art from the album Abbey Road as inspiration for an assignment at Scrap It With a Song! I pulled out papers from The Crafting Family and here's what I created:

next up is my project for the DT at Triplicate Trials Tuesday. The latest challenge is combining hot pink, black and yellow; a cute sketch with circles and a banner; and the modern, chic theme. Here's the card I created using those prompts:

And finally I have my latest LO for Twisted Sketches. Anam has another fabulous sketch to use, plus the twist of "Spell". I was all caught up on Halloween projects *gasp* so i decided to incorporate "Spell" in my title, "A is for Anna":

Reembering an Old Friend

I have created many LOs in my "Book of Me" that have helped get me though a tough time. I love how theraputic scrapbooking can be, and so when a dear friend from high school passed away a few weeks ago, it was off to the craft room for some art therapy:

I created this Lo for the latest challenge up at Scrap It With a Song, using the song "Heaven" by Bryan Adams. The first line in the song, "Thinkin about our younger years" was the perfect title to go with a couple pics from my high school days. =) T

Time for Fun, Fun, Fun at Scrap It With a Song!!!

There's a new song to inspire you to get crafting this week at Scrap It With a Song, this time it's "Fun Fun Fun" by the Beach Boys!! Here's my contribution:

I decided to use the line, "Cruising just as fast as she can now" and just changed the "she" to "they" for my title! Had these great pics of the kiddos on the Goat Karts (yes, I said Goat) at Davis Farmland- one of our must-go places on our list of summer fun. If you're ever in the area, you have to go!!

I hope you'll join us and get in on the Fun Fun Fun!! Hop on over to Scrap It With a Song to see the rest of the DTs projects, and link up your own take by next Monday at midnight!! =) T

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Challenges:

-Scrap It With a Song fun fun fun

-Really Reasonable Ribbon keep it clean

-Paper Issues lets ride

-Unstampabelles wheels

-Challenge Up Your Life no pattern paper

-Creative Craft Challenges anything but a card

Step by Step at Scrap It With a Song!

Time for a little New Kids on the Block! This week's song at Scrap It With a Song is Step By Step. I chose the "step" part of the song to go with a pic I had taken of myself in my craft room- poking a little fun at myself and my obsession with scrapping! =) T

Challenges:

-Scrap It With a Song step by step
-Quirky Crafts numbers
-Creative Scrappers sketch