Kai and Mylan's Valentine Cards

I'm going to be out of town next week so thought I would get my Valentine cards finished for the grandkids, because when I get back I'll have to get the candy treats ready to mail to them in Texas so they have it by Valentines Day.    I saw this sketch at "Sketch -N- Scrap" and knew it would be perfect for Valentine cards.    I'm also in a weekly challenge to make cards from prompts in two different yahoo. groups.   They are both for Valentine cards, one was only to use cream, black and pink on the card and the other was to only use black, white and red.   I decided to personalize the cards a bit and handwrite the sentiment.    Check out the details for this January challenge at
"Sketch -N- Scrap"  HERE  and see below for the sketch.

Crab Legs

We made a last minute run late morning of Christmas Eve for just a couple of items and they announced they had King Crab Legs on sale so Jason and Susan went back a bought enough for us the have them for lunch that day.   We already had all the ingredients to make tacos and fajitas for dinner that night so we definitely didn't go hungry on Christmas Eve.

For this layout I used the new double page sketch at "Scrap Much?!"   The first layout for the month is always a double page sketch so be sure and check it  HERE.

 I hope to see lots of you entering the challenges at "Scrap Much?!" this coming month, there is a new sketch every Friday and I can promise you they are all great.   So get ready to start scrapping.
And here is this sketch to start you off.

Waiting With A Calm Groom

Surprise, surprise, I'm still making wedding layouts.   I was looking through the album and I had a couple of layouts of Leslie in the area where the bride was to wait, but I didn't have anything of Jason waiting.   So I found these candid pics of Jason before the ceremony began, on the left side, with his best man and then visiting with his mother.  Then on the right side a couple of pictures just visiting with some of the guests and then right before the ceremony standing and getting last minute tie adjustments from his best man with the minister looking on and ready for the ceremony to start.

I really enjoyed working with the great new sketch just out at "Let's Scrap"  I really liked the layout of this sketch and I knew I had some great diecut paper that I could cut in half and use on the left and right side of the pages.   Then I just had to find other papers to go with it that would bring out the silver in the design.

You can see the sketch below and check all the details HERE  for Sketch #1-28-15 at "Let's Sketch", Plus read about the great sponsor they have for this sketch, Club Scrap. They have a great
prize with their latest Constellation collection.

With This Ring

Todays challenge at "Lasting Memories" is #226 and its anything goes with the month long theme of 'Life's Moments'    I've been busy the last few days doing more wedding layouts from my daughters May wedding.    She has seen a lot of what I have made but I'm trying to fill in and get every part of the wedding and reception covered because I am going to spend a full day with her in a couple of weeks and I want to take the album to them to look at again.     I couldn't believe I hadn't made a layout of them exchanging rings.   The photographer (in my opinion) didn't do a good job on some of the key ceremony pics but he did get this top one and then one of their friends got this close up of Leslie putting on Jason's ring and posted it on Facebook so I thrilled to have it.

There is also another challenge I will be entering this layout in.   "Scrapping 4 Fun" has challenge #34 posted  and its 'All About Love'  You can make anything that has something to do with love, a card, a layout, mixed media, it can be Valentine or Wedding theme like I did or just so its all about love.  

And a sidenote.   The photo of the layout didn't turn out as well as I would have hoped with the chine of some of the background paper and the the tile embellie.   I had add the clear quote square to the layout and just love that, but still felt like it needed something else, so I had this gold leaf and it wasn't standing out enough against the gold words on the paper so I matted it in black,   To go opposite of my title.   It was just a diecut and I put it on black and then matted it in gold.   But I digress, the picture of the completed layout I feel makes the leaf look like a banana and I promise in real life you can see its a leaf.   :)

So be sure and go check out the last challenge of the month  HERE  at "Lasting Memories."   You still have till the end of the month to do any of the challenges.

To check out the bi-weekly challenge at "Scrapping 4 Fun" just click  HERE.

HO HO HO

Love catching up on my Christmas layout and I get to use this one in two challenges.   Always great when that happens.

First off I found the challenge at "Bitten by the Bug" and used my cricut to cut my letters and make my layout title  'HO HO HO' .    I  had some pictures of my Grandson writing his letter to Santa on Christmas eve and knew I would pick from those to use with the title, just wasn't sure if I would find a sketch or just do something myself.    So I started looking at some other challenges and found the perfect sketch challenge posted at "Let's Get Sketch"  so then I looked thru my stash of Christmas papers and started to work.    I got it all put together but still wanted to add an embellishment so found this Santa brad and that was just the little extra I wanted.

You can see the sketch below and then check out all the challenge details.

"Let's Get Sketchy"

"Bitten by the Bug"

Merry Christmas 2014

Last year I think I had 20 plus Christmas layouts.   I'm thinking this year I might be lucky to get half of that.   I just didn't get as many pictures this year.     But I still have more to scrap.
I saw this sketch #98 at "My Scraps and More" on Friday and knew I would use it for a Christmas layout.   So today I started looking on my computer for what pics I could use and was thrilled to find these 3 in a row of my granddaughter Mylan.    We opened out stocking gifts first and the kids had Santa gifts and then we all had breakfast before we came out to open all the rest of the gifts.
Dylan found this one big one under the tree so she pulled it out to open first.   I have no idea why she was laying on it in the one picture unless she had decided it was to heavy to carry anymore.
I honestly don't remember what was in it for her but I love this series of pictures.

You can see the sketch below and then click  HERE  to see all the details of this challenge at
"My Scraps and More" 

Dylan and Grandma

We took a road trip to Orlando in October to meet our new granddaughter Dylan Macie.  
I spent as much time as I could just holding her,  there is nothing better than holding a baby.
She was born June 10th so we waited 5 months till everything calmed down before we planned
our trip there.   It was perfect timing.

For this layout I used the January 15th sketch at "Stuck?!Sketches"   I really liked the look of it and the chance to mix some different patterns, plus got to get into my doily stash too.    I just pulled out my 'baby' drawer of goodies and started pulling out papers to use and then found my embellishments there too, with the exception of the flower, it was in my fabric flower stash.    Then of course if you know my style, I usually mat all my papers.  I decided to go with another shade of pink card stock for the picture instead of the black I did on everything else.

There is also another January challenge going on at "Lasting Memories".   They have a new challenge every week and you have till the end of them month to enter.    The Jan. 11th challenge is #224 "Captured Moments' and I think this layout works perfectly as this was the first time I got to hold our new Granddaughter.   Such a special time.

So check out the details for the challenge  HERE  for "Lasting Memories"

So take a look at the sketch I used below and the go  HERE  to see all the details of the challenge at
"Stuck?!Sketches.