2 weeks of PL pages

I stayed up late last night and finished two weeks of PL pages.      In fact I worked on this week and it is finished too all but one picture.     I like staying caught up because I'm afraid I won't remember any highlights of the week I might want to include.     Week 42 was a combo week of work out of town and also company over the weekend.    The big news in KC is that we were the American League champions and going to the World Series for the first time in 29 years so I had to include a picture of the stadium.    Page two covered Friday thru Saturday when David, Nikki and family came in from St. Louis and we had a day of shopping and a day of fun activities and the last day of packing up a U-Haul of furniture we weren't using anymore and would go great in their new house.

Week 43 was Halloween week and really not a lot going on here at home so I just filled my pages with family pics of the family in their costumes.   The top left picture is of Kai, Mylan and Koda opening the Halloween treat box I sent them and then the text message I was getting from Susan telling me what they were saying while opening.   We had tried a FaceTime call but it wasn't working so I thought it would be fun to get a screen shot of the text message.    Page two is more about our Royals, we lost the World Series in game 7 but it was still a fantastic season for KC.   I also got a picture of Arthur putting up our outdoor Christmas lights on Saturday while we still had good weather.   In my humble opinion no reason waiting to try and do it when its cold outside.    Then the bottom right is a pic of  double page layout I had made several weeks back but the Friday of this week it was reveal day at Scrap Much? where I had my first reveal on my new DT assignment.

Thanks for taking a little pic of two weeks in my life.

Thanksgiving Card

"S.W.A.T - Scrap Warriors Advanced Training" has Drill #43 which is a Cozy Fall Mood Board.
So this challenge I made this Thanksgiving card.    I used some scrap fall papers.   A thankful card that I got in a swap and then a leaf and purple brad to hold the leaf to the card.     I was inspired by the colors on the board, the leaves in the pictures and that Thanksgiving is my favorite Fall holiday.
I've been experimenting with different card folds and I really like the simplicity of S fold cards.
They are simple to make but give a unique look to your card, so that design worked out perfectly for all I wanted to showcase in this card.

HERE is all the details for the challenge so you can enter something too.

Mom

Challenge #216 at "Lasting Memories"  is 'Remembering Someone Special'
It's been 9 1/2 years since I lost my Mom but it is the holidays that has me missing her the most no matter how long it has been.    I was looking through old holiday pictures trying to find some new ones to scrap and fill in my Christmas albums and I found this one from Christmas 1999.   I had just read the details on the challenge at "Lasting Memories" and I pulled out this picture to make this layout and not make it a Christmas layout, just one of Mom.
You can read about this challenge   HERE.

Another challenge at ScrapMuch blog

I've been out of town all week and almost forgot to post my layout.   This is my take on the latest sketch a "Scrap Much?"    This is the week for Design Team A.   I just loved this sketch and had so
many pictures I could have used but decided to use these of my granddaughter when she was here in KC and we all went out for ribs for dinner.   She really did a number on this rib and chewed and chewed on it.     I hope you will all try out this sketch.   I would love to see what you will make.
This is actually the 3rd sketch challenge of the month as the first was announced on Oct. 31.   Plus there is a color challenge every month.   You have until Nov. 29th to enter one or all of the challenges.     Click   HERE    for info on this challenge and also see the sketch below.

Trick or Treat --- Give me some Bacon to Eat

I just love these costumes.    That is my daughter-in-law 2nd from right.   All the girls in their group of friends on their street dressed up as strips on bacon for Halloween.   What an awesome idea,  I mean who doesn't like bacon?????

The challenge at Frosted Designs is "Use One Picture"  some people might find that hard but I do a lot of layouts with just one picture,  in fact I had 3 Halloween layouts from this year that would have qualified but I chose this one.   I just loved this piece of paper and didn't want to over do it with anything, so I just multi layered the matting on the picture,  put a little decorative strip of paper behind the pic and add one big embellishment and let the rest of the paper speak for itself.

Be sure and check out the challenge at Frosted Designs and join in the fun, you have till the end on the month to join this challenge and then the other 3 for the month too.    HERE are the details for this one.

Scary

I had a whole series of pictures of Scary Kai getting ready to go out in the neighborhood this Halloween.   I looked through some challenges and found this sketch for week 1 at
"Let's Get Sketchy" and picked out my 3 favorite 'poses' to make into this layout.
I think I used papers from 3 possible 4 different Halloween collections.   I hope to really use a lot on all the pictures I got this year and maybe next year I can buy some new papers.
You have all month to enter the weekly challenges at "Let's Get Sketchy" so check out the details
HERE and join in the fun.

White Space Card - Frosted Design challenge

White Space challenges are usually ones that scare me off, but I looked at the Design Team entries for the White Space challenge  at  "Frosted Designs"  and was inspired by what they made and decide to try it for myself with a card.   No sentiment, just a simple card for any occasion.   I guess I would have had more white space if I hadn't put the butterfly on the dry embossed square but I thought it gave it a little more punch so viola here is my entry for the challenge.   You can get all the details    HERE   this is still a good 10 days to enter.