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.

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.

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.