Lazy Crazy Daze of Summer prompts & Q-3 SHARING Update Wk 8

1. A little PEA lifting. Let’s try a different shape of inspiration. It always amazes me how Linda and nylene and others can take a square sketch or page design and turn it into a lovely rectangle. Here is one of Linda’s pages from last summer. What can YOU create if you start with this page in mind? Here on the farm I am up to my eyebrows in garden veggies right now, so I think I will go with her garden vibe. How about YOU?


For a card to lift this week, let’s take a look at cmpeter ’s lovely floral cards from last summer. What gets your fingers itching to try? The overall design? The popped up diecut pieces? The fresh colours? Her dimensional techniques? Whatever it is, give it a try!



2. Going GREEN. Running with the garden theme, this week’s colour challenge is to use different shades of green anywhere on your project.


3. Oh Snap! (photo challenge) Living color! The challenge this week is to snap something that is both alive and colourful. It COULD by flowers. Or something else that catches your eye, like a butterfly, or someone with pretty hair. I absolutely love the photos taken and shared by @gajenny a couple of weeks ago. Here is one of them


4. We’ve got CLASS! I really love the little corner clusters by Linda’s photo. But clusters are always a challenge for me, so I thought I would find a couple of videos teaching how to create them and how to use them. Here are a couple for you to check out. If you know of better ones, please share. I really want to master this technique before it goes the way of the dinosaurs…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNZxvF-utkY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWUzklr6big

5. Count ‘em up! ! Let’s see at least one NUMBER on your page or card. If it can be part of the title or greeting, that’s wonderful. But the number can appear anywhere. This is week FIVE, so the number 5 would be cool to use, right?

6. Theme for Week # 5: GROWTH How does your garden grow? What growth &/or changes have you seen in your kids? Grandkids? Yourself?. What growth would you like to see over the next little while? Has your family grown, or is it about to grow through birth, adoption, marriage? Is there a new furry face in your family photo?

7. HEXAGONS! Growing plants and flowers bring bees to mind. And honeycombs. And, of course, hexagons. Find some hex pp, cut some different papers into hex designs. Stamp a honeycomb background, or do it all! Looking forward to seeing some sweet pages and cards.

8. Start strippin’! Use paper strips as a background. Just slap ‘em on, or weave them, or create some kind of pattern. Or journal in strips. Great way to use those branding strips or other scraps.

9. Play with your NEW toys. Do you have a tool that has not come out of the packaging? Or—like my Spellbinders Glimmer system--has peeked out once or twice but never been allowed to feel at home in your craftroom? Time to get it out and give it a test run.

10. Way Back Machine In the summer of 2018, mom posted this challenge: Let me see your vacation photos!
“my challenge is the to dig out those vacation photos and scrap them! Summer, Winter, Fall or Spring - any season will work as long as they are vacation photos”

11. Fabric or fiber. Time to pull out that burlap, or velvet, or sheer fabric you could not part with. Or maybe you still have some of those fun fibre strings from when they were the rage. Pull it out. Use it as a background, an embellishment. Poke a hole through your background and use ribbon or twine or fiber to attach at least one of your elements.

12. Challenge YOURSELF and us! What do YOU want to accomplish, scrapwise, this week? Organize one craft supply? Find your scrappy desk or counter? Put together 4 pages? Or 8 cards? Take some steps to start that vacation album from 2013? Finish a UFO that has been begging you to Just. Get. It. Done. ? Take that new tool out of the box and take it for a spin? Whatever it is, please reply to this thread with a heading #12 CHALLENGE MYSELF and let us know what it is. Later in the week, let us know what you managed to do.

13. BAKERS’ DOZEN. Can you cram ALL of this dozen challenges into one project? Hmmmm?

Photo challenge: three very lively living things in our green yard.

Another week drawing to a close today. Where did July go? I am almost ready to drop in the Week 5 prompts, but first wanted to wrap up Week 4. pantsonfire I love your pocket pages. Great uses of those phrase cards and colour to go with your fun photos.

A quick page today, to push past the doldrums...

New teen by Gramma Dee, on Flickr


Using prompts (7) swirls, (8) did faux stitching with my pen--still using my hands, LOL, and (9) old supplies--dug out some old CTMH for this.

Love the cards you chose for this LO, pantsonfire. Thanks so much for playing along!

Think I picked up the golds and blues and red here for prompt #2. Used last week's sketchy Saturday sketch.
Life is good by Gramma Dee, on Flickr

And here is my “Into the Light” photo.

Thought the PEAs would like this one, since it is a photo of peas LOL.

Here is a two pager from this morning. The left page is a take on jediannie's sketch from July 15th.
Last days of school by Gramma Dee, on Flickr