Grandparents

These are Cec's parents and Silas's grandparents that also live in Sydney.    I've never met them but I have to be sure and include pictures of them in the album I'm making of Silas.   I have very few pictures, but these two were great.   They were taken while they were having a dinner over at their house and enjoying some outside warm weather.    I've had this matted grandparents poem from a swap for many years and really didn't know if I would ever use it.   I was actually looking for
embellishments to use in my "family" draw of goodies and came across this.
I had already picked out the Make It Monday Sketch #53 at   "THE MEMORY NEST" and had paper cut for the strip down the left side to go with the sketch, but then when I saw this poem I knew it would work perfectly,  it was even matted with a purple print and yardstick just like Nestor's shirt int he picture.   So I just made a thin double mat on my grey patterned paper (to go with the fence in background and siding on house) with purple and grey.    I decided to go with no title and just add a wood 'Love" piece for a single embellishment.

Here is the sketch and check out the details here for this challenge at "THE MEMORY NEST"

A New Card Challenge blog

Woo Hoo, there is a new card challenge blog just starting this week.   It's called.......
"PAPER PLAYER SKETCHES"   and I'm entering this card in their first challenge.
You can see the sketch below and click   HERE    for all the details about this challenge.
There will be a new sketch every other week.   With this first challenge #001 ending on Tuesday Feb. 23rd so well over a week left for you to enter.

I also got to do my favorite thing when making this card.   Everything was in my scrap drawer.    I even fussy cut the partial circle from a scrap piece I had saved from other patterned paper.

Citizenship Day

And here he is again, my great nephew Silas.   His Mom was born in the USA, in Missouri and then moved with her Mom to Australia when she was 5, but has always kept dual citizenship since she was born here, her Dad is here and comes back for a long visit every year.    So when her son was born, she wanted him to have dual citizenship too.    So the application was made and its all official.
Silas has dual citizenship in USA and Australia.   So   I wanted to document this using the pictures they shared.   The two with the flat was the day everything was done and approved and then a picture the day the certificate arrived making it fully official.

For this I used the sketch from  "STUCK ?! SKETCHES"  February 1st sketch.   You will have a chance to win one of two prizes or to be a guest designer for a future sketch.

Next I am going to enter this layout at  "SCRAPBOOK CHALLENGES"  the sketch crew crush Mandi's challenge 'Stacked & Layered"  I like to layer a lot of my papers so I had no problem with working with this challenge.

Check out all the details  HERE. for STUCK ?! SKETCHES

Check out all the details  HERE  for "SCRAPBOOK CHALLENGES"

Stick It Down-Single page layout

I have to say I had a blast making this layout.   When I first saw the single page February sketch at
"STICK IT DOWN"  I really wasn't sure what I would do with it.   If I would just pick one piece of background paper I really liked that had some pattern on it or what.   Then I decided what the heck I'm going to try and duplicate the pattern in the sketch and just see what it looks like.

I started by picking out 4 different patterns for the Bo Bunny Key Lime collection 6x6 pad that I had.
I cut them all into 3" squares and started laying the out on some tan card stock as I didn't want a lot of color showing through.  But that wasn't' looking right for me.  So I cut out 3.25" squares of black card stock to mat each of the patterned papers and then laying them all out again.    I should have taken a picture of the whole piece before I cut off the edges to fit the 12x12 background.  It was huge.

I had already picked this picture of my nephew Silas to scrap, because it is so neutral in colors and that is why I also have the 3 squares of the tan patterned paper in it, just to bring everything together.
I went back and forth on adding a title, even if only his name, but I'm decided to stay as is, no title, no journaling, no embellishing.

Check out the challenges here at "STICK IT DOWN"   there is a card sketch, a single page and a double page sketch to work with.

Time with Bam Bam

When my brother Bruce, Silas's grandpa was in Sydney to visit late last year they did post a few pictures of the two of them together.     He is going to be known as Bam-Bam, hence the title.

I used the sketch from week 2 at "LET'S GET SKETCHY"  to put together this layout, it was perfect since I only had 3 pictures to us.    I'm hoping to have a lot more when he goes back the first of March.    But for now I have this layout made.

Here is the sketch I used.

Hi Everyone

I have been holding off on doing the "LASTING MEMORIES"  challenge #278 until I found just the right picture.    Since I've been working on layouts these last few days of my great nephew I came across this pictures and immediately knew it was the one for "The Blues" challenge.

So I went right to work on the challenge and pulled out shades of blue papers from the  DCWV
Deja Blue collection.  Perfect for this challenge and went so well with this picture.

It's February

I'm on the DT at  "SKETCHES IN THYME PL STYLE" but I also like to play along with some of the sketches each week.    So this 2nd week sketch for February, sketch # 14,  was one I wanted to use for my February and week 5 card.     Check out this challenge and the new one each week and join the fun.   Here is the sketch.