Peace and Joy

I know Halloween is just over and its not Thanksgiving yet but I'm thinking about my favorite holiday.....Christmas.     I'm trying to fill in every year since 1951 (the year I was born) with layouts.  So far I have 4 3-ring albums full.   I've decided to take them all with me this Christmas when we are all together and my Dad and brother, and nephew and 2 kids and 2 grandkids can all look through the years.   The majority of those years we were all together so will be fun too look through as a family.
Anyway I decided to look thru some old pictures and find some I hadn't scrapped yet and just fill in some spots in the albums.     This double page layout is from Christmas 2000 when about 8 days before Christmas my husbands family all came to our house for a celebration.   All but one of his brothers were there, even had some of their kids and grandkids so it was an great time.   I had some pictures scrapped but not all so this will be a great addition.

The challenge going on now at "Scrapping 4 Fun Challenges" is Challenge #29 - Christmas so lucky me I will get to enter this layout there.    For the challenge you can do a layout or a card or any Christmas project.   There are still 5 days left to enter so check out all the details HERE.    Admit it, you are ready to start doing something for Christmas too.   :)

BOO

This year I actually got a lot of Halloween pictures to scrap, besides all the grandkids, I got pictures of all the big kids dressed up too.     In fact this layout shows the "2 Faces of Jason"    I started out with the mask but was scareing some of the younger kids that came to trick or treat so he ended up wearing this wig.    Thank you Jason for remembering your Mom wanted to Halloween pics to scrap and sending both of them to me.   :)

When I saw the sketch challenge at "Stuck on U Sketches"  for some reason it just screamed Halloween to me and I immediately visualized this solid orange strip down the middle from the sketch.     I'm sure there are many ways to go with this sketch so I'm sure I'll be using it again for something other than Halloween.    Check out the details   HERE   and the sketch is below.

Scrap Much? Design Team Reveal

I start my design team with "Scrap Much?" with this reveal today.   I'll be revealing two layouts a month, one double page and one single page.    I'm really excited to be part of this team as 

"Scrap Much?" always has such great challenge sketches and I've entered most all of them.

  I'm having a horrible time getting my full layout to show up here so I hope it fixes itself.

Ever since I upgraded my Mac to the new Yosemite OS there have been things changed in all I do from my blog to yahoo messenger not being compatible.    I swear sometimes changes are not always worth it.    But that is not what this post is about.

I made this layout soon after I saw the sketch to work on.   This is my granddaughter Avery from Orlando, who we got to visit with in early October.    We had so much fun blowing bubbles so I had a big series of pictures to choose from to make the layout.    I have included the sketch below and please check out all the details of the challenge  HERE.   You have until midnight November 29th to enter this challenge.   I'll be watching for all your entries so please join us in the fun.

Oldie but Goodie

I spent some time this morning looking thru an old photo album and found these 2 polaroid pics of my son and daughter on the day we brought Leslie home from the hospital.   Back in the dark ages.   (LOL)  siblings couldn't come to the hospital to see Mom and the new baby so Jason was waiting 5 days at home.   Leslie was a premie so spent a couple of extra days in the hospital.  
Anyway I knew I would want to scrap these pictures so pulled them out of the album and then I saw the week 4 sketch for Let's Get Sketchy sitting on the side of my desk and knew it would work great with these pictures so went right to work on it.     I still have a stash of baby papers I've used for grandkids so I got to use more of these and clean them out some.   I have the sketch at the end of this post.

I am also going to enter this layout in one more challenge.   The latest challenge announced on Monday. Oct 20th  at The Paper Girls Challenge was...... Anything Goes.     It was so much fun to do this blast from the past layout I wanted to enter it in other challenges.    I only had a couple of days left to get my entry in.    I just looked and I think I'm going to be entry #99.  What a great turn out for this challenge.

"Lets Get Sketchy" details    HERE,

"The Paper Girls"  details    HERE.

Week 42 PL Pages

I am now caught up on my PL pages.   I even have the title card made for this week and know a couple of pictures I plan to use so finally can rest a bit on that part.   Last week I worked on 3 weeks of PL pages to get caught up.   I'm rarely behind so I'm glad I am now current with 5 days left to go in this week.   WHEW!!!

I'm going to enter page one at "Lasting Memories" for the Challenge #213 'Lists, Lists and More Lists'    I have a weekly card on my first page with a short recap of what was going on every day of this last week.   Including the World Series Scores, since I live in KC and we finally made it back to the big game.

Check out the challenge  HERE   There are still a few days to enter all "Lasting Memories"  October challenges.

Trick or Treat

The grandkids in Texas got my box of Halloween goodies on Saturday and opened them and I immediately got pictures.   I also got a video thank you for them too.    I loved seeing and hearing.

The present challenge at "Lasting Memories" is Trick or Treat or to use Halloween colors.  
In this layout I did both.    The pic of the kids with their Halloween treats and bags from Grandma and the Halloween papers/colors/emebellies I used to make the layout.  Be sure and check out the details  HERE  because I bet you can all come up with  Halloween pictures or at least use the colors in your layout.

Beauty

Had to title this layout "BEAUTY" as I do think my daughter is Beautiful in this picture and for that matter all the time.   This picture was taken a few weeks ago in upstate New York while they were visiting there for a wedding.

I used the sketch at "Stuck on U Sketches" as I thought it would do great for some fall colors but also just let me have the main focus as my picture.   I have the sketch below and check out the full details  HERE.