"Croptoberfest" (31 layout challenge)

I am participating in a challenge at Personal Scrapper. It's called Croptoberfest and the challenge is to create a layout a day or 31 total layouts for the month of October. There is a suggested challenge for most days, but you don't have to complete it for your layout to count. So far, I'm off to a good start!

On the 1st, I made a couple layouts for our vacation album, but I'm only posting my favorite. The challenge for the 1st was to use buttons. I clustered them together in the center of my chipboard sun. For Day 2, the challenge was to use circles. I used my new scalloped circle punch on both of these school layouts. We received an extra 8x10 in the boys' school portrait packages, so I quickly scrapped them. I used the new KI Memories school line for these two pages.

Day three had a paper piecing challenge. I didn't get too creative, but I did use my diecuts to shape an arrow pointing toward my title. These pics are of Blake climbing on a dirt pile on the lot behind our house last summer. The house behind us is finished and the pile is now gone. I did a second layout of the boys with my dad around his farm at Thanksgiving for Day 4. Yesterday I completed three pages for Day 5. The first layout was also entered in the Becky Fleck pagemaps contest (see previous post).

I did a layout of Tom and the boys over at his family farm, too. My favorite layout of the day was this one I did of Blake. He'll turn 10 a week from today and I wanted to do a page about how I feel about that. He'll be in double digits - he can't wait! This is my favorite layout from the week. I used the October kit from Personal Scrapper.
After five days, I'm up to 10 layouts. I like having that "cushion" with the boys home on fall break this week. Plus, next weekend we will be staying busy with all the partying we'll do for Blake's birthday!