This week on Create with Connie & Mary we have been featuring  the Travel Journal Designer Series paper, the Sentimental Journey stamp set and the Pedaling Past stamp set!  And to finish out the week our challenge is a color challenge (CCMC3)- Kraft, Garden Green, Pumpkin Pie, Night of Navy, and Bashful Blue – the colors in the Travel Journal paper.

For this challenge I decided to create a scrapbook page – originally I was going to use some picture of my boys since the paper is more masculine looking but ultimately decided to scrap a picture of myself.  My mom took a picture or my when we were on our Spring Break trip up in the mountains.  Everyone was playing basketball at the cabin and I was sitting on the hill with our dogs – Aspen and Magnolia.  For our entire stay we had two visiting dogs from another cabin nearby.  We didn’t know their names but they pretty much stayed with us the whole time – took walks with us and hung out in the yard and on the front porch when we were inside.  So in this picture White Dog and Brown Dog (as we called them) joined me and my dogs up on the hill.

I used the Travel Journal Designer Series paper and Pumpkin Pie Patterns Designer Series paper on this layout.  I just got my new Extra-Large Cogs Double Punch and decided to use it on this page along with some die cuts.  The background is Kraft card stock with stamping done in VersaMark ink using the Extreme Elements stamp set – which happens to be one of the sets that is part of the National Scrapbooking Month special – so if you order it you can get a free pack of designer brads.

Remember at the beginning of the year I was working on scrapbook pages for a challenge called 52 weeks of stress-free scrapbooking…..well I’m sort of behind – I think I got through week 6 – and I haven’t done any since  – but this layout is from week 10.  So I’m trying to do some catch up on those pages.  I have been doing other scrapbooking just not using those 52 weeks layouts. I normally do 2-page layouts and these are single page layouts.

Let me tell you a little more about this new punch – you can see a close up in this detail picture.  It is a completely new kind of punch called a double punch – so it punches a punch within a punch.    It punches the cog part and then holds it in place to punch the circle out of the center.  It punches both the large one and the small one at the same time.  These will be lots of fun!

Check out what the other designers did with this theme challenge:

Connie Babbert – Inspired Treasures

Kerin Sylvester – Stamps, Paper, Glitter

Mary Brown – Stamper Camper Corner

Supplies:

Sets:  Extreme Elements (115181), Warm Words (115108)

Inks:  VersaMark ink (102283), Night of Navy classic ink (102977)

Cardstock: Kraft (107070), Garden Green ( 107096), Bashful Blue (105120), Night of Navy (106547), Pumpkin Pie(105117)

Accessories:  Big Shot Die-Cut Machine (113439), SU Billboard Sizzlits Decorative Strip Die (114510), SU Hearts & Brackets die (115955), Extra-Large Cogs Double punch (118873), 1-3/4″ Circle punch (112004), My Way punch (110709), Scallop Edge punch (112091), Travel Journal Designer Series Paper (117156), Stampin’ Dimensionals (104430).