Challenge Summary - Feb23

Each month seems to get busier and busier with challenges and CT commitments.... I do enjoy scrapping so am not complaining... just noting how busy I seem to be. And because February is a short month it just seemed to be even busier with lots to do quickly before month end. Anyway, here's the list of this month's challenge layouts:

Gingerscraps

1. Buffet - MissFish Light Weight and Adrienne Skelton Friends 4 Life

2. Daily Download - MissFish Shapely Blends

3. Jumpstart - MissFish Bitty Blocks

4. Colour - MissFish Dreamy Love Blends

5. Designer - MissFish Noteworthy kit & ALFLT template

6. CAP #2023 - MissFish Simply Stacked 73-88

7. Inspiration - MissFish Blended Landscapes 2

8. Perfectly Paired - MissFish Simply Stacked 13-16

9. Bingo - GS Bake Sale layout

10. Use It All

11. Template 1 - ASD Cabin Fever Mountain

The Lilypad

Inspiration - Gina Miller Sugared Hearts

Style - ninigoesdigi LOD layout

Random - Micheline Lincoln Designs A Case of Infatuation

Journal - Day 2 of The Studio LAD

Template - Gina Miller Lovey Dovey

Finding Me Feb - Day 3 of The Studio LAD

Rachel Jefferies - Featured Product challenge - - Day 11 of The Studio LAD

SWL MIS

Kim Jensen background challenge

Speed Scrap

The Sweet Shoppe

It's the Sweet Shoppe's 17th birthday. I have followed this site since the early days as they have lovely freebies every year. However I only started participating in the last year. So now for their birthday celebration there have been games or specific scrapping challenges. I took part as you can earn a free collection by playing along. Here's a list of the actual scrap layouts I did:

Day 2 sketch - used Micheline Lincoln A Case of Infatuation layout

Day 4 Bad Photo

Day 8  Scrap-a-Spin - MissFish Loving Life layout

Day 13 Scraplift Chain - Day 6 of The Studio LAD

Day 15 Paper to Digi

Day 17 new Siggy - using Micheline Lincoln Designs Creative Mind collab

Day 19 Black & White photo

Day 23 recipe - MissFish Month to Month Jan template

Day 26 - template love - Day 15 of The Studio LAD

Day 27 - The Birds and The Bees

Digital Scrapbook

They ran the Winter Layout Madness again this month. This is where you set a goal and complete as many layouts as you can. I set a goal of 28 and I managed to do 51

Feb Kits - DS Winter 

Colour - SS Day 4 layout (shown above), MissFish VA Travelogue 13-16

Scraplift - Day 2 of The Studio LAD

No Photo - Day 3 of The Studio LAD

2 layouts same kit - Michelene Lincoln Designs A Case of Infatuation and Broken

Redo - Rachel Etrog You're My Favourite, MissFish Simply Stacked 13-16

Pocket Scrapping - MissFish Month to Month JanFeb

Bingo - SS Day 17 layout (shown above)

Not so Picture Perfect - Rachel Etrog Happy Heart Day

10 Patterns - Michelene Lincoln Designs Creative Minds

Recipe - Gina Miller Freebird

Hearts - Gina Miller Love Shack and Lovey Dovey, Adrienne Skelton Heartstrings, ninigoesdigi Tying The Knot, Gina Miller Foxy, Gina Miller Me&You, Adrienne Skelton Love Always

Minikit - GS UIA challenge (shown above), DS Baby SS Day 19 layout (shown above), Adrienne Skelton All Heart

No prompt - all the other 26 layouts

Plus there was the Layout-A-Day at The Studio. So it's been one heck of a busy short month!

MissFish - Month to Month Jan&Feb

It's the last $2 Tuesday for this month and MissFish has two great template sets available. I have played with Month to Month Jan&Feb template

You can get these templates on sale today only at Gingerscraps

The Studio - Broken Hearts LAD

I decided to try the LAD challenge at The Studio again this month. I again used a mix up of CT layouts and other challenges plus some specific for these challenges. It was hard keeping up but I did and here's the final list

Day 1 - 3 dark papers - Gingerscraps Bake sale layout

Day 2 - use song lyrics

Day 3 - A disappointment turned positive

Day 4 - Template - using Micheline Lincoln Designs A Case of Infatuation kit

Day 5 - Font - MissFish Blended Landscapes 2

Day 6 - First love

Day 7 - Heart patterned paper - Gina Miller J'Adore & Foxy layout

Day 8 - No Photo

Day 9 - Grief - MissFish Star Bright

Day 10 - Redo - MissFish Simply Stacked 13-16

Day 11 - expressing loss

Day 12 - Template - GinaMiller Sage

Day 13 - Comfort - Rachel Etrog Self Love

Day 14 - Shadows - MissFish Month to Month Jan Feb template

Day 15 - Empathy

This LAD was a lot harder than the last one I did, mainly because of the topics that were covered. But I managed to get it all done.

Gina Miller - Freebird and MissFish Masked Memory mini bundle

Gina has a cute new kit available this weekend called Freebird. There is papers, elements and stitches to choose from.

Get it on sale only at The Lilypad

I used MissFish Masked Memories 6 template available as part of a mini bundle this weekend at Gingerscraps. I shared my layout using Masked Memories 5 early this week using Rachel Etrog's Self Love kit.

Cornelia Designs - One More Chapter

Cornelia has released a second kit this month called One More Chapter

Get it on the Pennysavers sale at The Digital Press on till the end of Feb.

Adrienne Skelton Designs - All Hearts vol1

Adrienne has a new template set available today called All Hearts Vol 1

I used Adrienne's Cats Rule kit and extra papers for my layout.

You can pick this up in at both Gingerscraps and Scrapgirls stores.

MissFish - Bonvoyage kit

Another Wow Wednesday sale at Gingerscraps is happening today. MissFish has two of her kits on sale today. I have played with Bon Voyage bundle.

Check out the sale today only at Gingerscraps.

The Lilypad - SOSN 22 Feb

It's SOSN time at The Lilypad and there are lots of lovely goodies on sale.

Gina Miller - Sage kit and rubons plus Documentary 2 template

 ninigoesdigi - This is Snot Funny (you can see my previous layout here)

Rachel Etrog - Self Love 

Check out the sale on today only at The Lilypad

The Digital Scrapbook - Baby

Here is another installment in the Jan/Feb2023 The Good Life collection, this one is all about Baby

Check out the DigitalScrapbook.com for lots of freebies and remember to take part in this month's Winter Layout Madness challenges.

Micheline Lincoln Designs - Creative Minds

Micheline has been hard at work creating a stunning collab kit with Little Butterfly Wings. It is called Creative Minds.

You can get this at The Lilypad and also at The Sweet Shoppe... on sale all weekend.

MissFish - Star Bright

Juli has a gorgeous template set available today called Star Bright.

I used template 4 but flipped it and replaced the photo with a cluster

You can get this on sale at both Gingerscraps and ScrapGirls shops.

Adrienne Skelton Designs - Cabin Fever Mountains

 Adrienne has a new kit available today called Cabin Fever Mountains.

You can pick this up in at both Gingerscraps and Scrapgirls stores on sale all weekend.

The Lilypad - SOSN 15 Feb

Today's SOSN sale is jampacked full of lovely goodies.

Gina has three different valentine kit's on sale. First up I used Foxy (including elements, alphas and template) and J'Adore

and then I used Me & You

ninigoesdigi - Find the Extra in the Ordinary (you can see my previous layout here and here)

Rachel Etrog - Happy Heart Day 

Wow what a great selection. Check out the sale today only at The Lilypad