Monday, May 12, 2025

Theatre Friends

 


I used the Tic-Tac-Toe Board at "LASTING MEMORIES" Challenge #750 for this layout of my granddaughter Mylan and some of her friends at the year end Theatre Club banquet.

I used the top row across,  Lace, 3+ photos and flowers.



Friday, May 9, 2025

MOD PIZZA

 


I made this layout with the "LASTING MEMORIES"  Challenge #749 --- Tic-Tac-Toe Board.    I did the middle column down.   2 Photos, Doily and Fussy Cut.  I fussy cut the round pictures and the round matting around them.

https://kcclayoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/05/lm-749-tic-tac-toe-board-1.html



Thursday, May 8, 2025

Family Dinner Out


 I don't have a lot of pictures of both of us together where Arthur has a true smile.   He just doesn't like having his picture taken.   So I really like this picture.  We were out to a nice dinner out with his two kids last December when they both came to visit us together in Columbia.  So we celebrated with a dinner out at CC's Broiler, our favorite special restaurant here in town.

This was the perfect picture for me to use this month at "SCRAP-CHALLENGE-YOURSELF" challenge #137-Butterflies.    I have wood veneer butterflies added as embellishments and I also have butterflies on one of the patterned papers that I used.



When making this layout, I chose to use the sketch at "SKETCHES IN THYME" the May 1st sketch this month.



Monday, May 5, 2025

Time with Dad

 


I made this layout for the SCRAPPY FRIENDS May double challenge.     I started with the May sketch at "ROCHELLE SPEARS BLOG" and then the Tic-Tac-Toe board with "SCRAP WITH STACY"

Here's the sketch.


Here's the Tic-Tac-Toe board.  I did the diagonal 3 Photos, Wood Grain & Chipboard.



Saturday, May 3, 2025

Dinner at Cheddars


 I love the SCRAP CHALLENGE YOURSELF monthly prompts and somehow I almost missed making a layout this month.   But with a day to spare I got my layout made.   The challenge was to use Scallops so I got out this punch and started punching my scallops for the layout.




Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Holiday Magic


 I made this layout using the double page sketch from "LASTING MEMORIES" challenge #745.                It was absolutely perfect with all the photos to use from our trip to the Gingerbread House in Columbia, MO.    This house decorates like this every year and let people walk all around their house all evening long to see and enjoy all the decorating they have done.     They were nominated to be in ABC tv show The Great Christmas Light Fight this year.   They didn't win, but it was still fun to know someplace I have been was in the show.    I have gone 3 years now, first year by myself, the next year I took my granddaughter and her family for the first time for them and this year we had 16 people in town for Christmas, both my kids and their spouses and 3 grandkids and one mother-in-law and then my brother who lives in town too, had his two kids and spouses and 2 grandkids all from Australia.   So we took the trek together to visit the house and it was so much fun for everyone.

Here is the sketch that I used.



Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Looking Beautiful

 


I made this layout using the Scrappy Friends challenges for April.   I used this great sketch from      "ROCHELLE SPEARS"   and then the tic-tac- toe board at "SCRAP WITH STACY"    I went on the diagonal for my tic-tac-toe Gold, Circles and Ink (red on some edges and blue on other edges, the paper and the matted photos and the circles.




They always have great monthly challenges so be sure and check them both out and join the fun.

Monday, April 7, 2025

Dance and Sleep


 This sketch for challenge #744 at "LASTING MEMORIES" was perfect for these pictures I wanted to scrap of my granddaughter at a wedding in New York for her Dads cousin.    Before she left she told me she wasn't going to dance at the reception but the pictures they took told me she changed her mind and danced the night away and then crashed in the car on the way home.



Monday, March 24, 2025

EASTER 2023


 This is my layout for the March 2025 Scrappy Friends Double Challenge.   I've used these pictures before for a layout for my granddaughters scrapbook but I'm a few years  behind on my chronological Easter scrapbook that I keep.  So I printed the pictures again and used them today using the March sketch at "ROCHELLE SPEARS".   Then for Tic-Tac-Toe at "SCRAPPING WITH STACY"  I went with the middle row across,  Twine, Tag and Wood. 



Sunday, March 9, 2025

Love Dinner

 


This was a dinner I had earlier this week with my girlfriend on our trip to St. Louis.  We found a new place to eat and it was fantastic.

I made this layout using a sketch from SKETCH & SCRAP  and then the challenge for this March at "SCRAP CHALLENGE YOURSELF"    I have bling all around my layout.



Friday, March 7, 2025

Silent Night

 


Made this layout with the "LASTING MEMORIES"  Challenge #740 in mind.    I cut out a piece of Christmas patterned paper into a circle for my journaling.

LM #740 - Going In Circles: Journaling

Good morning, and welcome to a new month of exciting challenges from Lasting Memories, where it's all about layouts! Are you ready to see our monthly theme for March? Let's go!

Do you ever feel like you are going around in circles? This month, let's turn that feeling into a benefit as we explore fun ways to use circles on our layouts.

LM #740 - Journaling - place journaling on a circle and add it to your layout.

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Party's Over

 



On the tram at DFW to go to our gate to catch our flight back to Columbia after a long weekend in  Fort Worth for Kai's high school graduation.   It was so fun with the whole family being together and the cousins getting to hang out together.  Even though they are 17, 14 and 7 at the time they still are great together and have so much fun.   Elle didn't want to leave them.

This layout is for "LASTING MEMORIES" Challenge #739.

LM #739 - create a layout using a band design.


Band Design is a clean vertical band foundation, a wide and centered band foundation, a curving band foundation or a band along the page edge. Here is an example.

Thursday, February 13, 2025

Day Trip

 


This layout works for the challenge #737 at "LASTING MEMORIES"


LM #737 - create a layout using a Happy Horizontal base.

Sunday, February 9, 2025

KAI

 


I made this layout using the challenges at SCRAPPY FRIENDS.     First I used the layout challenge at "ROCHELLE SPEARS BLOGSPOT"  and the Tic-Tac-Toe at "SCRAP WITH STACY"    I did the middle column down, Brad, Heart, Arrow.







Saturday, February 8, 2025

Christmas Wrapping

 


I made this layout for the Challenge #134 at "CHALLENGE YOURSELF".   The theme this month was to use heart and of course scrap a picture of yourself.     I did a combined Christmas hearts layout.  I inked different wood veneer hearts and added them to my patterned paper tree as ornaments.



Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Capri

 


I made this grid layout for the challenge at “LASTING MEMORIES”

LM #736 - Back to Basics: Grid

Hello everyone. It's the start of a new week and a new month, so let's get excited over some new challenges! Sandy is our hostess for February, and she is asking us to get back to basics with our designs. It is all about our base pages this month!

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Sunday, January 12, 2025

Let It Snow


 We had snow days all last week and my brother's family that was in town for the holidays from Australia were in heaven getting to play in the snow.    I used the Scrappy Friends double challenge for this layout.  First the sketch from "THROUGH THE EYES OF ROCHELLE SPEARS BLOGSPOT"


Next was the Tic-Tac-Toe challenge at  "SCRAP WITH STACY"  I used a diagonal, with Gold, Circle and Splatters.



Wednesday, January 8, 2025

My Best Life

 


I made this layout for the  "SCRAP  CHALLENGE  YOURSELF"   January Challenge #133.

As every month we have to include a photo for ourself and then this months them was to tell things about ourself.  I knew immediately what I was going to scrap.   This is totally me.



he theme for this month's challenge is to create a scrapbook page about YOU.  Tell us a little (or a lot!) about you.
AND DON'T FORGET TO INCLUDE A PHOTO WITH YOU ON YOUR PROJECT!