So sweet! I've never seen an all black chicken before. I love my neighbour's red hens even if they try to dig up my front garden occasionally. 

I'm going to jump in again! What does this entail?  And can anyone sign up?  I have been seeing this and don’t know what being on a team means?  Is it only for hostesses. thank you It's a friendly competition for anyone to join. Check out the September info thread for this month's teams and stash li...

Congrats Team Stinkerbelle!

Happy Birthday Leslie! Hope you're having a great day!  

Would those really old laser cut papers from Basic Grey (RIP) count as specialty paper? I had to have them back in the day. 

Congrats Brandi and Sandy! Thank you for hosting such a fun challenge Louise! I'll play along anytime you can do it again. 

I’d better get my butt in gear and head to my scrap room.  now that's the attitude i like to hear! actually, all i care about is people having fun  😊 i don't want people pushing themselves to do more than they normally would or using products just to use them. happy to have you on my team again thi...

July was a very dry heatwave here, so I'm not unhappy to be done with that. August is my favourite month of summer because my garden harvest will be starting soon. Love fresh tomatoes and beans especially! I finished 5 layouts last month and no cards, so didn't meet my goal, but came closer than I h...

July 12/100
August ?/100

Slowly, slowly

I finished two more pages today and plan to put a push on until the 31st. I've learned that I like the look of a washi border along the top and bottom of a layout. 

11 points for Team Leslie:
1 Gallery
3 Challenges (Title, Bimonthly, 100 papers)
Stamping (on journaling strips), Wood Veneer, Washi, Decorative brad, flat stickers, V Boo (tag under Dover Castle), handwritten journaling

From a 2015 trip to England. Just realized that I need to add the date. 
 

https://sbing.com/i/gallery2/545774-490.jpg 12 Points for Team Leslie: 1 Gallery 3 challenges: Progressive, Bimonthly, 100 papers stamping (title & date), wood veneer(location symbol), washi (waves and top edge), decorative brads (banner & camera lens), metal dies (heart die cut), flat stic...

https://sbing.com/i/gallery2/545774-490.jpg Wow, that was a lot of embellishments for me! Thank you, Louise, for pushing me out of my comfort zone a bit! Here's my list: 2 Handmade - banner and heart die cut strip 3 brads - 2 holding banner and camera lens 4 die cuts - 2 tabs, postcard and notepape...

This sounds so fun! Happy Birthday Susan! Thanks for including us in your birthday celebrations!

Congrats! 

I've been finding the team challenge really motivating - thank you for starting it!  My question is how will points be tallied at the end of the month? I would like to see a running or weekly update to know how the team competition is going. Not sure if there's an easy way to manage this though. It ...

Happy Birthday Tammey! 

Mid month progress report: Well, I haven't spent anything yet, but am getting really tempted by all the sales around here! And then there was a Prime Days deal on some TH scissors that I want. But I have been strong. Not sure I'll try no spend two months in a row. Gotta reward myself for all this re...

Here's my step 3:

I stamped 'Bodium' and used stickers for castle. Can't wait for step 4!