Washington Cathedral

I'm going back through my vacation albums and seeing what pictures I have missed scrapping.   This was my first trip to DC with my Dad and brother, we took a road trip to visit my daughter who had moved there about 5 months before for work.   This was in 2008 and when I first started scrapping so a lot of pages of this trip I would like to change and expand on.    But even in those pages I didn't have any pictures of when we went to the National Cathedral.   So for these 3 pictures I used the sketch for week #4 at "LET'S GET SKETCHY"    It was perfect for me to use.    There is still time to enter you have until the end of the month.

Week 4 PL title card

I'm on the Design Team at "SKETCHES IN THYME PL STYLE"  and this isn't my week to work the sketch but I really liked it and when I decided to work on my title page today I went to the blog to get some inspiration and decided to go ahead and use this weeks sketch by Emma Prescott.

Hope some of you will join in also.  Still time to work this sketch and the rest of the weekly sketches for January.   Plus there is a great prize.    "Live Your Day" - Picture My Life set.    An awesome prize.

SNOW

We got an inch or two of snow on Wednesday and sitting here at my desk scrapping I could look out and really see that the snowflakes were huge.   So I went out in front and back to take some pictures and try to capture some of the flakes in the pictures.   It's hard to see on this, but looking at the actual layout and not a picture you can really see some individual big flakes coming down.

I am entering this for the  "CLEAR IT OUT CHALLENGE"   the latest challenge is Winter Stash and uses a snowflake.    Well I really got into my stash for this.   I used  the last of what I had of the Bo Bunny - Snowy Serenade collection.    It's the full background paper and all the embellishments and sticker strips at the top and bottom of the layout.   The banners behind the pictures are wintery papers from my scraps.

Check out all the details   HERE.

Happy Birthday Gibson and Addisyn

Gibson and Addisyn had a combined birthday party for 2016 so I had a lot of pictures to choose from but for this double layout I went with pictures of the two of them with their pizza and cake time.

I started with double page, Sketchy-Friday sketch from Jan 1st at "SCRAP MUCH?"  
I added a cake die-cut and then did some stamping with a couple of my birthday themed stamps to add a little extra to it.

Check out all the details of this sketch and all the other Friday sketches for January at
"SCRAP MUCH?"

New Friends

Looking at the challenge #276 - New Life Event, at "LASTING MEMORIES"   I thought of the lunch I had just gone to the week before.     This whole event is "new" to me because until really the last year or two it is totally new to me to go out of my comfort zone and join in on something new.     These ladies I met for lunch are all originally from my hometown and we graduated from the same high school but we never met then as we were from different classes,  I graduated in 1969 (i have the long hair on the left)  Donna in the class of 1974 and Kaye and Becky graduated together in 1963.   We all live in KC (or close) and got to be friends on our hometown Facebook group and have been talking there how we should get together for lunch and finally we did.   We had a great time and went to a new place for 3 of us.  It is owned by a daughter and son-in-law of another native and HS classmate of Donna.    We had an
awesome lunch and I will be going back and just sat there and visited for close to 2 hours.   So I'm sure we will all get together again for another lunch.     So long story short..........  I thought this would work great for this challenge and put it all together finally this afternoon.

Check out all the weekly prompts for January HERE and have some fun.

Memories

Kept this layout clean and simple, no journaling and no embellishments.   I used the sketch at
"THE MEMORY NEST" for this and just kept it without any extras.   I like the look with just the single picture an the the patterns in the paper.

Here is the sketch and check out all the details  HERE.   You still have 12 days to enter all the January  Make it Monday sketches.   This was sketch #52

Cat in the Box

This went together real easy.   I actually had the sketch, the pictures and the paper collection picked out since this weekend.    I finally got it to the top of the papers on my desk and went right to work.
I've now finished all the January challenges at "STICK IT DOWN"  

I am also entering this layout in the January 1st challenge at "SCRAP OUR STASH"
The challenge is a Book inspired stash inspired one.   The Book is The Cat in the Hat Comes Back"
I used that inspiration in my play on on words for the title "Cat in a Box"   (and opps I see I have to reverse my in and a on my title, my bad) plus you must use while paint or paint spatters.   I have no place really for splatters so I got out my water colors and I have white paint over the green word script to the right of the pictures,  I did faux stitching with white paint on my green cat card and then I did some outlining (inside actually) of the brown alpha stickers for my title.

I just love this cat.  This is our only male cat,  Reggie.   He is totally my cat and stays with me all the time.  I emptied this box last week that had a Christmas gift in it and Reggie jumped right into it.
Made himself at home and stayed there for over an hour while I was busy working at my desk.

Here is the sketch and click    HERE  for the STICK IT DOWN challenge  to  get all the details on all going on this month.

And then for the SCRAP OUR STASH  challenge click HERE