D.C. Visit

Leslie's Dad had a 4 day visit to DC last week for a pre-wedding get together.    Leslie said the weather was cold and wet the whole time but they did go out and do more sightseeing so I got these pictures of FB and made the layout to take to her at the end of the month.  
I've had this single piece of DC paper forever so was great to use it.   I thought it was fine for the sketch I used.      Check it out     HERE      and below.    It's sketch #74 at My Scraps and More.

Week 12 PL pages

I'm really current this week and here is Page 1 for the week.   I thought it was going to be a hard
week to fill but ended up with a variety of things going on.   Of course can always turn to the cats to do something to journal about.

And here is page two for this week.   Really all I had to do was add pictures from Friday and then I took the tree picture today, because I love to see the trees starting to bloom as a true sign of spring.

I'm entering this page at Stuck on You Sketches as their challenge now is to have butterflies somewhere on your PL pages.   Be sure and check out the challenge        HERE.

I added two 3D butterflies on the top right card where I journaled about spring showing up for the majority of the week because for 5 days straight we have had warm weather.    I am so ready for this winter to be over with.   We are still having cool nights but hopefully that will be over soon too.

This is what fun looks like

I/m back today working on our vacation photos.    This layout I used the sketch at Scrap Much?
You can check it out   HERE    So glad I got the time to do this today because I really like the sketch.
Plus I got to use 3 pictures of Dad taken on 3 different days on vacation.     One on the boat when we went snorkeling,  then laying out by the pool at the house we rented then the last one taken the first afternoon we got there sitting on the bench at end of patio with our ocean view behind him.
Needless to say we all had a great, fun and relaxing vacation.
It might be hard to see in this picture but I did some faux white stitching all the way around the background paper and then my journaling is in white in the upper right hand corner.
I used some new collection papers I got a couple of weeks ago.   Jillibean Soup - Sightseeing Stew collection, it has a lot of fun patterns.     One page is a strip of sayings and patterns and I cut it out to use as my title and the arrows were on the strip too.   I just cut the strip into 3 pieces to make it work.

Here is the sketch I used.

Hiking

 Still working away making layouts today and having a blast.    It's been a week since I've been this productive.    Whats great about this layout is I get to enter it into two different challenges.
I used this sketch #72 from My Scraps and More   see the challenge     HERE

Then because of the embellishments I added to the layout I get to enter this in the Scrap Our Stash
Birthday  Stash-A-Thon for March for challenge # 7 Confetti
Check out this challenge   HERE    I just added red mini candies in the middle of the green diamonds on the strip of patterned paper and then randomly on the two banners.      Viola "confetti"

Big Kids Fun

More layouts from their Australia trip.     This just shows all the fun these 2 big kids have when they are out and about.          I didn't follow any sketch but I went with the challenge at  "Lasting Memories"     Check it out     HERE

The challenge was called  "Scraps, Scraps, Everywhere Scraps"   and that is just what I did.   I used all papers from my scrap drawer but the piece of background papers.    Even the red matting on the pictures is patterned paper.    It was fun mixing and matching scraps to put this layout together.

Sightseeing in Oz

I'm still scrapping some pictures for Leslie from her trip to Australia in 2007.    I think she is going to be very pleased to get these,  I'm surprised I hadn't done this before for her.     I know she will like this picture with her uncle and grandfather.
I used Sketch #72  at My Scraps and More.    You can check out this sketch and other for the March challenges    HERE

This is a picture of sketch #73 that I used today.

Zoo statue pictures

This week I was looking at old pictures and went thru a group from the trip my daughter Leslie, my brother and my Dad took to Sydney, Austrlia.    Since I'm going to visit Leslie next month I wanted to get some more layouts finished to take to her.    So I've been working on layouts from this trip for her.
She is getting married May 4th so after that I'll be busy with wedding layouts and not much else.  :)

At Scrap Our Stash, Stash A Thon Challenge #11 is   Hats/Triangles.     Check it out    HERE
This birthday day challenge was to use triangles somehow on your layout, which can look something like birthday party hats.    When I was reading about this challenge I thought of these pictures of Leslie in her hat and the gorilla statue at the zoo, so knew those would be what I would use on my layout.    I even had patterned paper scraps to use to cut my triangles and viola I have my layout completed.     The title I got in a swap a few years back and it was on a piece of paper but I peeled it off the background paper and just used the cut-out for the title.     Then I used my white gel pen and did some faux stitching around the letters in the title to make it stand out.   I liked the look so went ahead and did faux stitching on the triangles also.