TN Time With Lisa & Lori - October Challenge

Hello, hello! Happy Monday to you! I hope that your week is off to a good start!

It is time for the October edition of TN Time With Lisa & Lori. We're a little bit late this time around - but better late than never! Here is how it works - this is a just-for-fun monthly challenge that starts on the 10th of each month and ends on the 9th of the following month at midnight CST. If you complete my random challenge for the month - link your TN, bullet journal, or planner spread below. If you complete just Lisa's sketch challenge, link up over on her blog - My Creative Endeavors. If you combine both challenges - be sure to link up on both Lisa's blog and here on my blog.

Here is my challenge for October:

This month I am challenging you to use orange on your layout and a label or tab.

Here is the sketch that Lisa has created for us:

And this is what I came up with:

I pulled out my 2018 Favorite Photos of  Ada TN to work in this month. I have so many traveler's notebooks that are "in progress" and I would really like to get a few of them finished up by the end of the year. This particular one would not take me long at all to finish up if I would just work on it!

Anyway, the photo is of Ada on Halloween of 2018. She had on this cute little outfit when Abby dropped her off that morning and I had to get a couple of pictures of her in it. I took a cue from the phrase on her shirt and used that for my title and went with ghosts for my embellishments.

Here are a couple of close-ups:

I used one ghost sticker and then several ghosts that I die cut for my embellishments. To help the ghosts stand out from the white background I inked all of the edges with black soot distress ink. I also stamped some stars in black and in orange and die cut them out to sprinkle around my layout. I punched out several tiny black and orange stars to finish it all off with. 

I love these little ghost die-cuts! They just make me smile every time that I cut them out! 

Here is the right side of the spread:

I used a couple of papers from Echo Park's Halloween Magic collection. That ghost paper is so cute and I can't wait to use more of it. 

Be sure to stop by Lisa's blog to see her beautiful layout for this challenge. I hope you have some time to play along with us. I would love to see what you create!

Even though this is a just-for-fun challenge we do have a few rules:

1. Create a TRAVELER'S NOTEBOOK, PLANNER, OR BULLET JOURNAL spread based on the CHALLENGE THEME and/or our sketch. 
2. Create a new, not previously posted project.
3. You are welcome to combine with other challenges.
4. If you have a blog please include the challenge graphic & a link to our challenge in your post.
5. You can link to social media if you don't have a blog. If you show your project on Instagram, please make sure to use #TNtimewithLisaandLori 
6. You can submit multiple projects but they must be posted to InLinkz or social media separately.
7. Most importantly have FUN!

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TN Time With Lisa & Lori May 2020 Challenge

Hello, everyone! Happy Sunday to you! I hope that you are having a good weekend. Happy Mother's Day to all of the Mom's out there today! I got to enjoy some great - much needed - family time with my kiddos this weekend.

Are you ready for the May edition of TN Time With Lisa & Lori? Well, let's get to it! Here's how it works - this is a monthly challenge that starts on the 10th of each month and ends on the 9th of the following month at midnight CST. If you complete my random challenge for the month - link your TN, bullet journal, or planner spread below. If you combine my challenge with Lisa's sketch challenge - link up here and on Lisa's blog  - My Creative Endeavors - and you will have two chances to win a prize. You can find the full list of rules here. 

Here is May's challenge:

(May 10th to June 9th)

Since Aprils showers bring May flowers - and we are now into the month of May - I want to see some flowers on your spread. This can be on the papers, embellishments, or in the photos.

Here is a look at the sketch Lisa has created for this month:

This is one of my favorite sketches that Lisa has created and it is staying out on my desk for another layout that I have in mind...maybe I can get it done and share it before the end of the challenge!

Here is the layout that I created using the sketch and adding in my challenge to add flowers:

This spread is in my 2018 Favorite Photos of Ada TN. Guys, I seriously need help here! I have so many TN's going all at the same time - Ada's Summer Bucket List from last summer, my 52 Favorites of 2019, my 52 Favorites of 2020, and the list goes on and on! BUT - I truly enjoy working in them - probably because they are just for me and I feel there is no pressure to make them perfect.

For this spread I have used papers from my May Great Stash Bash kit. I had hoped to use up the scraps that I had from this layout here from last week, but I didn't have quite enough of the coral dotted paper for the spread so I had to cut use a new sheet. I was able to use up almost all of the yellow paper between the two layouts, though! 

Since my challenge for this month is to use flowers, and I included a ton of flowers in my May Great Stash Bash Kit, I actually managed to use four on this spread!

I stamped out my title using three of the Title Builder Stamp sets (1, 2, and 4) from Elle's Studio. I love these stamp sets and they are the perfect size for my TN's and my Project Life albums.

Here are a couple of close-ups:

The enamel dots and word/phrase stickers were the only things on this spread that were not in my May Great Stash Bash Kit. 

We have decided to carry over the linky for one more month. I know the county where I live has been very lucky and not seen any positive cases of COVID-19 until this weekend and now we have 2. We are going to give it another month before we draw a name for a prize - so just keep adding your projects to the linky and hopefully, we will draw a winner in June!

Be sure to hop on over to Lisa's Blog to see her great layout using this month's challenges. I would love to see what you create, too!

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TN Time With Lisa & Lori April 2020

Hello, everyone! Happy Friday to you! The weather has turned a bit cooler for a few days. I was sure liking those 80 degree days, but it is a little early to be that hot around here. 

It is time for the April 2020 TN Time With Lisa & Lori Challenge today! Are you ready for it? Here's how it works - this is a monthly challenge that starts on the 10th of each month and ends on the 9th of the following month at midnight CST. If you complete my random challenge for the month - link your TN, bullet journal, or planner spread below. If you combine my challenge with Lisa's sketch challenge - link up here and on Lisa's blog  - My Creative Endeavors - and you will have two chances to win a prize. You can find the full list of rules here. 

Here is my challenge for April:

(April 10th - May 9th)

Just use your favorite color combo AND your favorite embellishment on your TN, Bullet Journal, or Planner Spread.

Here is the great sketch that Lisa has created for April:

And here is my spread:

For my favorite color combo, I have used an oldie but a goodie - red, white, and turquoise. This used to be a popular color combo a few years ago, but it's kind of fallen by the wayside lately. I just used this color combo for this layout here earlier this week and remembered how much I liked it, so while I had the red/pink polka dot paper scrap still on my desk, I thought I would use it again as my favorite color combo here. I went in search of a turquoise paper and found a scrap in my February Great Stash Bash kit that I have not put away yet! So this Traveler's Notebook Spread helped me to use up two scraps without them ever going into my scrap box!

My favorite embellishment - right now - are these cute - tiny - enamel hearts from Doodlebug Designs! I got a few of these in a kit from The ScrapRoom a few months ago and fell in love with them. I may have bought a few different packs to have on hand since then! 

So, here we are already on Week 15 of 2020 and I only have two weeks done in my 52 Favorites of 2020 so far. I'd better get it in gear so I am not so far behind! This photo was taken last week when we had to watch Ada while Abby went to the school to get homework packets made for her students for the rest of the month. We just found out today that they have canceled school for the rest of the year and will do virtual learning until their last day in May. I don't know what this is going to mean for Ada's Kindergarten graduation...it makes me so sad to think she's going to miss that, but they may do something at a later date. Here's hoping! 

Anyway, when she came in I told how much I liked her unicorn shirt and she was all ready to strike a pose for me to take her picture! It was so good to get to spend some time with Ada and Abby - just the little distraction that we were needing in this crazy time. 

Here are a couple of close-ups:

I love the Elle's Studio metal heart dies and the coordinating stamp set. I finally ordered them and I am so happy that I did - they will pay for themselves in no time at all!

Now, on to the prize - first of all, thank you to Anna and Sandi for playing along with us in March. With everything that is going on in the world, we are going to suspend prizes for right now so we don't have to get out any more than we have to. So, what I am going to do is carry over the linky from last month and combine the entries with this month's entries. Hopefully, things will be returning to somewhat of a normal situation by May 9th and I will draw a prize from our March and April entries. If things are still crazy, we will roll it over for the May challenge, too, we will just wait and see. So be sure to link up - I will be giving away a prize - regardless of how many different participants I have - when things settle down!

Be sure to stop by Lisa's blog to see her take on this month's challenge. I do hope you play along, too!

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TN Time With Lisa & Lori - March Challenge

Howdy, friends! Welcome back to my blog! I hope your week is off to a good start!

It's time for TN Time With Lisa & Lori's March Challenge today.  Here's how it works - this is a monthly challenge that starts on the 10th of each month and ends on the 9th of the following month at midnight CST. If you complete my random challenge for the month - link your TN, bullet journal, or planner spread below. If you combine my challenge with Lisa's sketch challenge - link up here and on Lisa's blog  - My Creative Endeavors - and you will have two chances to win a prize. You can find the full list of rules here. 

Here is March's Challenge:

(March 10th - April 9th)

In honor of St. Patty's Day next week - I want to see some green on your spread. How much green is up to you - it can be a little or a lot - just add some green!

Here is the fun sketch that Lisa has created for us:

And here is my spread:

I am still plugging away at getting my 52 Favorites of 2019 done. I need to count them, but I do think I am at least halfway there - and I have only done one week in 2020, so I'd better get crackin'! I know I have scrapped these photos of Ada in a traditional 12x12 layout, but Week 18 did not have a lot of photos and these photos of Ada were my favorite. 

I used an older sheet of paper from Close To My Heart on this layout. I think the collection was called - Some Kind of Wonderful - and I have been hoarding what I have left of it - especially this grey paper. The green is actually on the backside of the grey, so I had to be careful when cutting to make sure I had enough for this spread! 

I wanted to keep to just the grey and the green so I just pulled in a bit of black and white to finish out my spread. The puffy butterfly stickers are from Heidi Swapp and came in one of my recent kits from The ScrapRoom. I thought they were the perfect embellishment for these photos.

Here are a couple of close-ups:

I stamped my title using one of the Title Builder Vol. 3 stamp sets from Elle's Studio. I LOVE these stamp sets. I only have Vol. 1 and Vol. 3 but Vol. 2 may just be coming with my next kit from there. And I think they have a Vol. 4 coming out this month, so I know it will make its way to me, too! They are perfect for adding titles to my TN pages and you get so many options with each set.

I also used another stamp from Elle's Studio for an embellishment in my cluster on the left. I added a few green puffy hearts from Feed Your Craft around my spread, too.

I took the first photo of my spread outside of my TN. It is getting so chunky and I was afraid I wouldn't get a good photo of it, but here it is inside the notebook:

A big thank you to Sandi for playing along with us last month! We did not have the 3 required participants so there will be no prize draw for February. Here is what you will be playing for in March - a die cut pack from Pretty Little Studio's Savannah Dreams collection, alpha stickers, and a sheet of cut aparts. Link up by April 9th for your chance to win.

Make sure you stop by Lisa's blog to see her take on this month's challenge. I hope you find some time to play along with us this month!

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! I hope you have a great day!

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TN Time With Lisa & Lori - February Challenge

Hello, everyone! Happy Monday to you! I hope you had a good weekend and are all ready for the new week. We had a very full weekend with a sleepover and a family birthday party. It was so much fun getting to spend time with the family.

It's time for TN Time With Lisa & Lori's February Challenge today.  Here's how it works - this is a monthly challenge that starts on the 10th of each month and ends on the 9th of the following month at midnight CST. If you complete my random challenge for the month - link your TN, bullet journal, or planner spread below. If you combine my challenge with Lisa's sketch challenge - link up here and on Lisa's blog  - My Creative Endeavors - and you will have two chances to win a prize. You can find the full list of rules here and I since it's been a while since I posted them in the post, I will add the rules at the bottom of this post, as well.

Here is February's Challenge:

(February 10th - March 9th)

Here is the list of items. Pick 3 from the list to use on your layout. You can use more than 3 and you can use other items on your spread, but you must have 3 items from the list on your spread.

The color pink
The color red
Hearts
Flowers
Tag(s)
Label(s)
Washi tape
Gold
Striped patterned paper

Here is the sketch that Lisa has created for us to use:

Isn't that a great sketch?! Here is my TN spread based on my challenge and Lisa's sketch:

I changed up a few things on the sketch - mostly out of necessity. I had a lot of journaling and it took up more space on the left side than I had planned, so instead of adding an embellishment directly below the journaling, I moved it to the bottom right side of the page. 

I am really trying to keep my traveler's notebooks thinner this year, and it was hard for me to not add more paper to the right side of the spread! I kind of like the minimal look on the right side, though.

UGH is right! Ada woke up last week with her right eye stuck shut and once Abby got it opened up it was really red. She suspected pink eye but wasn't sure because as the morning went on, and they got ready for school, the redness seemed to go away a bit. She took Ada to the nurse's office as soon as they got to school but the nurse didn't think it was pink eye and sent Ada on to her class. Around 11 Ada's teacher called down to Abby's classroom and told her she thought Ada had pink eye and had sent her to the nurse's office. That time the nurse did think it was pink eye and that Ada needed to go home. Abby called and asked if I could pick her up for the afternoon. Abby called Ada's doctor and she called her in an eye drop prescription. After a days worth of eye drops, Ada's eye was looking and feeling much better!

For my part of the challenge, I used the color pink, gold, washi tape, hearts, a label, and striped paper. 

Here are a couple of close-ups:

I hope you have some time to play along with us this month! I would love to see your take on the challenges.

A big thank you to Sandi for playing along with us last month! We did not have the 3 required participants so there will be no prize draw for January. Here is what you will be playing for in February - a die cut pack from Pretty Little Studio's Savannah Dreams collection. Link up by March 9th for your chance to win.

Make sure you stop by Lisa's blog to see her take on this month's challenge. I hope you find some time to play along with us this month!

As promised - here are the rules:

1. Create a TRAVELER'S NOTEBOOK, PLANNER, OR BULLET JOURNAL spread based on the CHALLENGE THEME and our sketch. 
2. You must be a follower of my blog.
3. Create a new, not previously posted project.
4. You are welcome to combine with other challenges.
5. If you have a blog please include the challenge graphic & a link to our challenge in your post.
6. You can link to social media if you don't have a blog. If you show your project on IG, please make sure to use #TNtimewithLisaandLori.
7. You can submit multiple projects but they must be posted to Mister Linky or social media separately.
8. If there are fewer than 3 players for our challenge, no winners will be chosen.
9. We ship only in the USA but our challenge is open to everyone so feel free to join us if you are an international player! 
10. Most importantly have FUN!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

TN Time With Lisa & Lori - January Challenge

Hello, hello! Happy Friday! I hope you have had a good week. We are all settling back into the routine around here and it's not been so bad.

It's time for a new TN Time With Lisa and Lori challenge! A new year, a new challenge, a new notebook...I am so excited to be continuing with this challenge this year. I love working in my TN and these challenges keep me excited to do so.

If you're not familiar with our challenge, here's how it works - this is a monthly challenge that starts on the 10th of each month and ends on the 9th of the following month at midnight CST. If you complete my random challenge for the month - link your TN, bullet journal, or planner spread below. If you combine my challenge with Lisa's sketch challenge - link up here and on Lisa's blog  - My Creative Endeavors - and you will have two chances to win a prize. You can find the full list of rules here.

Now for the January challenge:

(January 10th - February 9th)

For my first challenge of the new year, I want you to use something old (at least a year old) and something new on your layout

Here is the sketch that Lisa has created for us:

Here is my layout:

For my TN spread, I flipped the sketch to make it work with my photos. For my challenge, the "something new" that I used is a new-to-me paper collection - Echo Park's Go See Explore, the navy paper, and the stickers all came from this collection, and I used new photos! I had already planned on using some photos for Ada's bucket list TN but when I took these this week I wanted to go with them instead. 

For the "something old" part of the challenge - I used scraps from old Echo Park collections, alphas that have been hanging out for years, and my circle and tab punches. 

It was so pretty on Tuesday. I mean when you're talking 60 degrees and sunshine in early January around here, well, you take advantage of it. Shane and I took Willie for a walk and stopped at the creek. There was just enough water for Shane to throw some rocks in it for a while, and that always makes him happy! I love spending time at the creek. It is always so quiet and peaceful and I feel like I step into another world when I walk down the creek bank. 

Here are a couple of close-ups:

When I got this collection in a warehouse box sale a few months ago, I didn't know if I would ever be able to use any of it. Most of the paper's "B" sides were usable, like this navy paper, but the majority of the stickers are ones that I won't be able to use since we don't have the opportunity to travel. I did pick out the ones that would work for an adventure and used those on my spread. 

I hope you find some time to play along with us this month.  I would love to see your take on our challenges! Link up below by February 9th for your chance to win this:

Coming Soon!

A big thank you to Sandi and Becca for playing along with us last month. We did not have the required 3 participants in December, so no prize drawing for last month. Hopefully this month!

Be sure to stop by Lisa's blog to see her take on the challenges!

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TN Time With Lisa & Lori December Challenge

Hello, everyone! Happy Tuesday to you! It's time for the December Challenge here at TN Time With Lisa & Lori! I can't believe that we have been doing this challenge for a year now and it has definitely kept me motivated to keep working in my traveler's notebooks.

Here's how our challenge works - this is a monthly challenge that starts on the 10th of each month and ends on the 9th of the following month at midnight CST. If you complete my random challenge for the month - link your TN, bullet journal, or planner spread below. If you combine my challenge with Lisa's sketch challenge - link up here and on Lisa's blog  - My Creative Endeavors - and you will have two chances to win a prize. You can find the full list of rules here.

Now for this month's challenge. With the holidays just around the corner, we are going easy with an "Anything Goes" challenge.

Here is the sketch that Lisa has created for us:

Here is my layout:

I am back to working in my 52 Favorites TN for 2019. I still have a few weeks that I need to go back and fill in my first insert for this year so we are all the way back to Week 9. For this week, the photo is of Miss Ada. We had been shopping and the stores were putting out their spring clothes. When she saw this cute little llama shirt she decided it needed to come home with her!

I really wanted to crop my photo into a square and give it the polaroid look like on the sketch, but I just couldn't cut away that much of the photo, so we went with a full wallet-size photo.

Almost everything that I used on this layout is from the Simple Stories 'Oh Happy Day' collection or their 'Dream Big' collection. To be honest, I didn't know if I would ever use the banner sticker or the llama sticker but they were perfect for this spread!

My TN insert is getting quite full and with still needing to add a few more spreads I kept my embellishments pretty flat. Here are a couple of close-ups:

I hope you find some time in this busy holiday season to play along with us! I would love to see your take on our challenges! Link up below by January 9th for your chance to win this:

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! Have a great day!

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TN Time With Lisa & Lori November Challenge

Hello, everyone!

It's time for the November Challenge at TN Time With Lisa and Lori! Here's how it works - Lisa will be providing a TN sketch on her blog for us to work with. I will be providing a random challenge here on my blog for you to use in your TN, planner, or bullet journal spread.

You can complete the challenges together or separately - it's your choice. If you complete my random challenge - link up below in this post. If you combine my challenge with Lisa's Sketch Challenge - link up your layout both here on my blog and on Lisa's blog. If you just complete the sketch challenge, then just link up on Lisa's blog. You will have a chance to win a prize from me and a prize from Lisa. 

Here is my challenge for November:
(Challenge open November 10th - December 9th at midnight)

Here is the sketch that Lisa has created for us:

Here is my TN spread based on the sketch and my challenge:

This photo of my sisters and me was taken a couple of weeks ago at our family Halloween party. I am so grateful to have these two in my life. Jenny shares my love of scrapbooking and Amy shares my love of cross-stitching and whenever we get together we always have fun. I could not have picked any better sisters.

For this spread I used Echo Park's - The Story of our Family - collection. I also used a couple of different stamp sets from Close To My Heart - Feel So Blessed (S1709) and For My Mother (CC4192).

I didn't have anything but a 6x4 photo all ready to go, so I went with it and just cut it down as much as I could to get it to fit on the page. That meant I had to move over the paper that was to go on the left side of the photo to more in the middle of the page.

Here are a few close-ups: 

Now for the rules. You can always find the rules to our challenge under the tab at the top of the page, but as a refresher, here they are again:

1. Create a TRAVELER'S NOTEBOOK, PLANNER, OR BULLET JOURNAL spread based on the CHALLENGE THEME and/or our sketch. 
2. You must be a follower of my blog.
3. Create a new, not previously posted project.
4. You are welcome to combine with other challenges.
5. If you have a blog please include the challenge graphic & a link to our challenge in your post.
6. You can link to social media if you don't have a blog. If you show your project on IG, please make sure to use #TNtimewithLisaandLori.
7. You can submit multiple projects but they must be posted to Inlinkz or social media separately.
8. If there are fewer than 3 players for our challenge, no winners will be chosen.
9. We ship only in the USA but our challenge is open to everyone so feel free to join us if you are an international player! 
10. Most importantly have FUN!

Here is November's prize:

I would love it if you played along with my challenge! Just link up your project below by December 9th at midnight! Be sure to stop by Lisa's blog to see her take on the challenge!

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! Have a wonderful day!

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