Get Picky!!

Have you heard there's a new challenge blog,
"Get Picky"? 
This one is all about creating with
multi-photos... something that I really enjoy in my scrapping! 
I'm very excited about their challenges and I hope to participate in them whenever I get the chance.

The first sketch went up on their blog on the 15th, which also happened to be Wave of Light, Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day.  We lit our special candle that night in observance of this day and in remembrance of our angels.   I took some great photos to commemorate what we do on this day every year, and they were a perfect fit for Get Picky's first sketch!  Here's my page...

(You may click on the pictures to view them larger)

and here's the sketch, Get Picky Sketch #1...

I tried to be a little creative by creating a large flame for my background image in place of the sketch's circle.  I also got to play with some of the new Tradition line from Fancy Pants.  I love the flocked red damask transparency... it's gorgeous! 

Tomorrow will be a fun day... spending the day in Lancaster!  We're going to a Britt Nicole, Revive and Hawk Nelson concert!  My niece loves Hawk Nelson, and her Birthday is coming up November 27th, so we are taking her and her boyfriend along with us for an early Birthday surprise!  I know she's going to be soo excited!  We're also going to do some outlet shopping and get dinner before the show.  Times to Remember, an awesome scrapbook store located at the Hershey Outlets just recently opened up their second Times to Remember location at the Rockvale Outlets in Lancaster... sooo you know where I'll be headed! :D Have yourselves a good one... I plan to!   

Not Feeling So Fancy!

So... the notifications for the new dt were to have gone out last night for the new Creative Team at Fancy Pants, and the list is to be posted sometime today.  I did not get a notification!  :(  Not real happy about it at all... just tired of putting myself out there and once more left feeling disappointed.  Blah!!! Anyway... thought for today I'd share the rest of my submission here, and then I can go back to my sulking for this bleak Monday afternoon, lol.  Hope you like them... I did! 

An October Sketch at Imaginisce...

I haven't participated or followed along in any sketch challenges lately and I was kind of craving one, lol, if ya can call it that... a sketch craving!  So I happened upon a great one over at the Imaginisce blog the other day and decided to dig into some of my Fall Papers from the Imaginisce Apple Cider collection. 
It's a one page sketch, however I decided to make mine a 2 page layout... but only my first page follows the sketch...

Here's the original sketch for October from Cindy Stevens at Imaginisce...

And again... here's the first page of my layout that goes with the sketch...

And some close-up detail...

Here's the second half of the layout and some detail as well...

I totally love this Apple Cider line as much as I loved these fun Fall pix from last year!  Look at the gorgeous colors in the leaves... I soo wish they were as brightly colored this year too, but so far they aren't anywhere near as colorful!  Check out that fun leaf doily I used on here... cool, huh?!  I bought  those leaf shaped doilies at the Dollar Tree store can you believe!  I thought they were totally perfect for scrapping with and for making some Fallish cards.  I spritzed on some Glimmer Mist for extra color and shimmer, and I also used them on the layout background here as masks... creating a really cool almost tie-dye like effect to the layout.  Anyway, thanks for checking out my layout and before I go I thought I'd also share a card that I made with a leaf doily and a left-over scrap of Imaginisce...

Hope everyone is enjoying their Fall as much as I am!  :)

And the Owner of Some Vintage Schtuff Goes To...

Hello and Happy Friday everyone! 

Thought I'd stop by and make a super quickie post before my hubby gets home from work and we go to get a bite to eat this evening.  I had my yardsale today and the scrapbook table of course was the very first to dwindle... and dwindle FAST!  Scrap stuff always flies out like crazy mad when I have it... I did really well, so I'm glad about that.  But, I'm not glad about not hearing back from a job that I applied for on Monday! :(  Very disappointing and discouraging... this job-hunting process).  I even had the second interview on Monday and took that as a good sign, but they did say that if I didn't here back by Friday (today) that I won't have the job.  :(  Yes... here I go again... frustrating!!

And of course, I am also anxiously awaiting the big announcement for Fancy Pants Creative Team call, and keeping my fingers, toes, and everything else tightly crossed for me!  Ahhh, I sooo dearly want to be a Fancy Pants designer, really, really bad!  I just adore that company!  They were supposed to have made their selections last week, but it was just posted on their blog today that they are delayed because of the amount of wonderful entries they have received!  Makes me happy for them that they are such a fabulous company that everyone else would love to represent with their product, but then again it doesn't make ME happy to know that there is so much wonderful talent and competition out there going against me! :(  So I will  continue to wait... but it's not easy!  lol! 

Okay... this was supposed to be a quickie, lol! 
So anyway, I am off but before I go, I have selected the winner of my first giveaway for the vintage goodies! 
And the winner is...

Yay, Wendy!!  I will have your package shipped out to you as soon as I can and as soon as I get your addy!  :)

Ohh, yea, one more thingy... today is one of my favorite days, October 1st!  It's the beginning of my favorite month of the year and also my angel Ava Noel's 4 year Angelversary in Heaven!  Just wanted to share will you all that Heaven is celebrating today with one of it's most beautiful little girls!  XOXO!