Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Christmas 2007

 


I'm still working on old Christmas pictures I found, these are from 2007.   I took my Grandson home with me to feed our kitten and we got to hang out together some and give Mom and Dad some free time.    He was such a cutie and fast forward to present time, yesterday he turned 19 years old.   He was 17 months old here.

I'm still working with the July challenges at "LASTING MEMORIES"  this is for challenge #760 and my favorite brand.    I used all Echo Park papers here from a collection call Home For Christmas.   Echo Park has been my go to paper lately and I buy the majority of my papers from them.


LM #760 - Jill's Favorite Things: Brands

Hi everyone! Happy Sunday to you all. This is Jill, and I thought it would be fun to focus on a few of our favorite things this month! Can you believe we are already on our fourth challenge of the month? 

LM #760 - We all have a designer that we love every collection they release - show off your layout using your favorite brand.

Sunday, July 20, 2025

Christmas Dinner Prep


 I just posted another layout I made today from photos I found from Christmas 2005 for a challenge at   "LASTING MEMORIES"  and then I made this second layout with the old holiday photos I had found to use with their challenge #759.  Favorite embellishments, my favorite embellishments lately have been wood veneer.   I've always liked them and then I found Temu and you couldn't beat the price there so I have stocked up with so many fun wood veneer pieces   So for this layout my title and all embellishments are wood veneer.    

(Oh as I was getting ready to publish this post, I saw that I had written with my white gel pen Dinner Prep 2025 above one picture, it was easy to go back and correct it read 2005.  But I didn't take a new picture)

LM #759 - Jill's Favorites: Embellishments

Hello, everyone. Hope you are enjoying your summer - or winter for our southern hemisphere friends - and are finding some time to scrapbook! This is Jill, and I thought it would be fun to focus on a few of our favorite things this month.

LM #759 - Are die cuts your go-to or do you love enamel dots? Use whatever embellishments are your favorite in this challenge!

Christmas 2005

 


The last week or so  I was looking through some boxes of old photos trying to find a certain one.  In one I found clipped together some groups of old Christmas photos so I set them aside to use them.   I keep all my Christmas layouts in Chronological order in Red 3 ring albums.  I have a whole shelf plus of them now full.   So today I pulled out the album that had 2005 layouts in it to look to see if I had already used any of the pictures I had found.   Only one had been used before.   I must have planned on using these as I had printed them myself back in the day 3x4 size.    I knew I wanted to use the challenge # 758 to scrap your favorite holiday at  "LASTING MEMORIES"    It's obvious I love Christmas and scrapping Christmas with as many albums I have of the holidays.

LM #758 - Jills Favorites: Holidays

Greetings, scrappers, and thanks for joining us once again at Lasting Memories. This is Jill, and I thought it would be fun to focus on a few of our favorite things this month!

LM #758 - Showcase your favorite holiday - Christmas in July or the 4th of July or any other holiday as your theme.

Sunday, July 13, 2025

Summer 1988 and 2025

 




What a fun challenge this month at  "CHALLENGE YOURSELF"  #139.      The Then and Now Challenge.    These are pictures of me, first in 1988 and then just a couple of weeks ago in 2025.



Sunday, July 6, 2025

Presents

 


I'm adding this layout to the "LASTING MEMORIES" first challenge for July.    One of my favorite tools to use is my White Gel Pen.   I feel journaling in white whenever I can  because I think it makes the words really pop off the page.

LM #757 - Jill's Favorites: Tools

Hello everyone, and welcome to a new month of challenges here at Lasting Memories. This is Jill, and I thought it would be fun to focus on a few of our favorite things this month!

 LM #757 - use your favorite die cutter, stencils, cutting device, pens/marker - whatever is your go-to tool.

Thursday, July 3, 2025

STARFISH

 


This set of pictures worked out perfectly for the SCRAPPY FRIENDS CHALLENGE this month.          

I used the sketch from  "ROCHELLE SPEARS BLOGSPOT"



Then I used the tic-tac-toe challenge at "SCRAP WITH STACY"   I used the diagonal:  Ephemera, Tag and Twine/Ribbon.