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Sunday, August 7, 2022

I'm About Challenged Out, I'm Thinking!

What do you think?  Besides doing the regular monthly challenges at OScraps, I have tackled almost all of the Designer Challenges, too!  And the month is only one week old!

Karen Schulz Designs Use It All Challenge found here:  https://oscraps.com/community/threads/use-it-all-challenge-with-karen-schulz.36010/#post-635071

I stacked all 3 papers on top of each other.  The middle paper has a blend mode of Exclusion and the top paper has a blend mode of Soft Overlay.  I changed the color of two of the painted elements to match the colors in Addy’s top.

Chart Your Own Course Mini by Karen Schulz Designs for the challenge, found at the link above.

Fonts are Foundation Regular and Franklin Gothic

Photo was shared with me by my son, Nathanael Day


 

 

Anna Lift found here: 

Journaling reads:  I got these beautiful red flowers from our granddaughter.  She and her classmates were selling flower and vegetable plants as a school project.  The marigolds I know, but the other flower I do not know the name of.  I put all 6 plants in one pot and it did very well as long as I kept it watered.  But thoughts of watering went out the window when my husband and I got sick a couple of weeks ago.  So, they are no longer very pretty.  I don’t know that I can even bring them back from their disparaging looks at this point.  But at least I have some photos to remember them by.

Credits list

ArtsyTransfers Wildflower by Anna Aspnes https://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtsyTransfers-Wildflower.html

ArtsyKardz Wildflower MultiPack by Anna Aspnes https://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtsyKardz-Wildflower-MultiPack.html

ArtPlay Palette Wildflower by Anna Aspnes https://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtPlay-Palette-Wildflower.html

Wildflower Artsy Layered Template by Anna Aspnes https://www.oscraps.com/shop/Wildflower-Artsy-Layered-Template.html

Grow WordART Mix No. 2 by Anna Aspnes https://www.oscraps.com/shop/Grow-WordART-Mix-No.-2.html

MultiMedia Flowers No. 12 by Anna Aspnes https://www.oscraps.com/shop/MultiMedia-Flowers-No.-12.html


 

 

 

Lilach Oren Template Challenge found here:  https://oscraps.com/community/threads/lilach-oren-august-2022-template-challenge.35989/

Journaling reads:  Family.....the most important unit in life we are blessed with.  It is a fascinating journey of unique individuals brought together by the greatest of all fathers, our heavenly Father, the LORD God Almighty!  Each body adding its special talents to the collective whole.  Just the right sassiness, spunk and quirkiness.  The right amount of brain, brawn and beauty.  Each and every one growing and maturing into the individual the LORD has purposed to complete His plan for our good and His glory!  Family.....I love you to the moon and back and back again!

 

We gathered for Memorial Day weekend, 2022.  My sister, Kim, came to spend the week with me.  When that happens, my kids and families come from near and far to gather for the weekend.  The weather was great and we were able to gather in the woods for the fun and games, food and fellowship all weekend.  We had a marvelous time together.  Alas, the weekend always comes to an abrupt stop as the time rolls around for everyone to go their separate ways and head back home.  Our times together are too few and far between!

 

Credits list

Free Template by Lilach Oren

Pocket Scrapping May Pocket Cards by Lilach Oren

Pocket Scrapping May Stickers and Flairs by Lilach Oren

Pocket Scrapping May Pattern Papers by Lilach Oren

Pocket Scrapping May Solid Papers by Lilach Oren


 

 

 

 

Lynn Grieveson Featured Product Challenge found here:  https://oscraps.com/community/threads/2022-08-lynn-grieveson-august-2022-featured-product-challenge.36007/

Journaling reads:  Female Ruby Throat Hummingbird guarding “her” nectar from the nearby trees.  I may be little, but I can take care of myself!

Credits list

No Big Deal Digital Scrapbooking Paper Pack by Lynn Grieveson

No Big Deal Paint for Digital Scrapbooking by Lynn Grieveson

No Big Deal brushes and snippets by Lynn Grieveson

No Big Deal Digital Scrapbooking Elements by Lynn Grieveson

Arial Narrow font

Photo is mine


 

 

 

Buffalo Heritage Days

Journaling reads:  (Most of this came from, “West Virginia: The state that said no” written by Preston Williams on April 12, 2011 for the Washington Post)

In 1861, leaders from northwestern Virginia established a new Virginia state government that remained loyal to the Union. This government then carved out territory to create a new Union state. On June 20, 1863, West Virginia became the 35th state - the only permanent change in territory due to the Civil War.  They were a state born for advocating for and defending the United States of America rather than the seceded states of America. Western Virginians were very committed to the Union in a state that left the Union.

After Virginia voted to secede from the Union, Western Virginia delegates, two-thirds of whom had voted against secession, gathered in Clarksburg and later Wheeling and decided to carve out their own territory and create “a new Virginia.”

“People of North Western Virginia, why should we thus permit ourselves to be tyrannized over, and made slaves of, by the haughty arrogance and wicked machinations of would-be Eastern Despots,” asked a committee of Western Virginia politicians in an open letter in the Kingwood Chronicle in May of 1861. “Are we submissionists, craven cowards, who will yield to daring ambition....The Union under the flag of our common country....causes our bosoms to glow with patriotic heat, and our hearts to swell with honest love of country.”

 

Jessica and Tim dressed and ready to attend the Buffalo, WV Heritage Days celebrations in 1998.  Tim borrowed his Union gear from a pastor friend, Chris Dumford, from Ohio.  This picture was taken in the church yard behind the Buffalo Baptist Church where Tim pastored from 1997 - 2008.

 

 

THE CIVIL WAR by Idgie's Heartsong

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Photo is mine


 

 

Vicki Stegall Momma O’s Challenge found here:  https://oscraps.com/community/threads/vicki-stegall-designs-momma-os-august-challenge.35958/

Journaling reads:  God inspires my reverence and admiration!  This last verse from the book of Jude says it all..... “To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.”  Jude 25

Credits list

Lucky and Blessed Collection by Vicki Stegall Designs

Angelistya Regular Script

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Photo is mine


 

 

Rachel Jefferies Mixed Media Challenge found here:  https://oscraps.com/community/threads/2022-08-rachel-jefferies-august-mixed-media-challenge.36005/

Journaling reads:  The patient fisher takes his silent stand,

Intent, his angle trembling in his hand:

With looks unmov'd, he hopes the scaly breed,

And eyes the dancing cork and bending reed.

–Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

Abby and Ryan fishing on Hidden Creek in the Spacious Skies Campground in Marion, NC

 

 

Credits list

Carefully Curated | Whatever the Weather Mixed Media Artistry by Rachel Jefferies

Carefully Curated | Whatever the Weather Misc Mixed Media Paperie by Rachel Jefferies

Carefully Curated | Whatever the Weather Journaling Prompts + BONUS by Rachel Jefferies

Syngnathidae | Mixed Media Artistry by Rachel Jefferies

Syngnathidae | Journal Prompts + BONUS by Rachel Jefferies

Syngnathidae | Mixed Media Abstracts & Collages by Rachel Jefferies

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Picture taken by my daughter, Elisabeth Palmer


 

 

Vicki Robinson’s Challenge found here:  https://oscraps.com/community/threads/2022-08-vicki-robinson-august-challenge.36013/

Dare to pause and be thankful for the small things.  Female Ruby Throat

 

Credits list

Artful Expressions 03 Collection by Vicki Robinson

Story Starters by Vicki Robinson, provided for challenge at link above

Font is Arial Narrow

Photo is mine


 

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