Week #6 PL pages

If you know me you know I have to keep up with my PL pages.  If it get over 2 weeks behind then I'm lost and have no idea what to do for the pages.   I actually think I'm taking pictures during each week thinking PL.   I know I'm addicted.

The PL page challenge for February at the Facebook page for "PAPER ISSUES FRIENDS & FANS"  was to make using any of these options: a January or February PL pages from this year,
use at least 3 hearts, or PI paper pop.   I have last weeks pages and well more than 3 hearts as I
really concentrated throughout the week on what was going on for and about Valentines Day.  

Week 7 PL title card

I am getting over the flu and yesterday afternoon was first time since last Saturday that I've felt like even thinking about scrapping.     So to get my feet wet again I made the title card for this week for my PL pages.   Nothing else done yet accept a couple of pictures taken that I know I'll be using.

For this card I was inspired by one of my fellow DT Mavens Felicia's take of Sketch #15 made by our own  Angela Smith.  I pretty much totally scrap lifted her card.   I don't get to work with her sketches unless I make something not on my week
for a reveal at  "SKETCHES IN THYME PL STYLE"

Check out the sketch below and check the blog   HERE  every day to see what each Maven makes and every week for a new PL card sketch to work with.

There is a great prize this month.     A Fabulous Instalife album in a fun red polka dot pattern.

Amsterdam Waterways

I'm going to go back and try and finish off layouts from different vacations and make sure I've scrapped all the pictures that I want to from each trip.    This was probably my favorite vacation ever.
In 2006 we took a 10 day vacation and flew to London.   My daughter was in college in Oxford so she joined us in London for a few days to sightsee there, then we moved to Oxford for a few more days and then on to Amsterdam for 3 nights before back in London for 2 days before going home.

I loved Amsterdam.   It was cold there, the end of March so taking the water taxies to sightsee was perfect.  A lot warmer (but still cool) and so relaxing and just loved seeing all the buildings and house boats along the canals.   We took several trips this way and it was great.   Saved our feet too. LOL

I used the 2-15-16 sketch at "LET'S SCRAP" by Michelle VanWyke.    It worked out perfectly for the pictures I had left to scrap.     Check out all the details and enjoy the challenge.

LET'S EAT

Now this is the face of a little boy loving the big people he is eating.  :)    His mouth is full and so are his hands.    Got to love it.

This is my take on using the a card sketch to make a layout and that was this weeks challenge at
"ELLE'S STUDIO"    Of course with this food picture I had to go with one of my favorite collections
of Elle's Studio papers.   The Let's Eat collection.   Everything is from it accept the card stock matting, the thickers for the title and the delicious embellie, which believe it or not I got from a
food magazine advertisement.

I have to say it was fun working with this sketch.    Check out all the details  for the challenge
here at  "ELLE'S STUDIO"

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"