Chillin'

Taking off to St. Louis for a couple of days the first of the week so wanted to see what other layouts I could get finished of the grands to take with me for them.    I had these 3 pictures they took on a60 plus degree day the end of February when everyone went swimming in the hot tub.

The Sketchy-Friday sketch at "SCRAP MUCH?"  was perfect to use.

I pulled out a couple of old collections and went with the papers from Fancy Pants - Wave Searcher.
I love just grabbing a couple of old collections and see what I can use and clean out some of my older papers.   Still several sheets left but now that I've looked at it again, maybe even today I'll use more of it.

Check out "SCRAP MUCH?"  and see what all is going on there this month.

Hoppy 2016

Another new month and that means another chance to combine the Scrappy Friends challenge.
This includes  "ROCHELLE SPEARS BLOG"   "GRAND DIVA'S SCRAPPY PLACE"  and
"CREATING WITH PAPER & MORE"

I chose to scrap this picture of Kai and Mylan hanging out with the Easter Bunny at Brunch this year.
I was hoping to get some Easter egg hunt pictures but glad I got this one, its a fun picture.

Just go to each of the links below to check out the details and see the prizes offered in each of these challenges and one special prize too if you combine all 3.


"ROCHELLE SPEARS BLOG"   you have the choice to use a PL card or a journal card and I chose to use the decorated journal card to write the details of where the pictures were taken.

"GRAND DIVA'S SCRAPPY PLACE"  gave you a choice of 3 different sketches to use, I chose the one that I thought would work best for me to use a journal card with.

"CREATING WITH PAPER & MORE"   had a mood board and I was inspired by the  square of Easter/Spring words,  the squares with bunnies, Easter eggs and all the pastel colors in all the board.

Super Hero Day

These two cuties are dressed to head off for school to celebrate "Super Hero Day"   So Batman and Spiderman shirts on they are ready for the day at school.

I used the single page sketch at "STICK IT DOWN"  for this layout.    

I'm also going to use it for one of the monthly challenges at one of my yahoo groups for pick 5.
I used card stock, patterned paper, alpha stickers, washi tape and the color red from the list given to choose from.

Here is the 'STICK IT DOWN"  sketch check out the details and join the challenges for this month.

Baseball Season 2016

Baseball season has started in St. Louis and Bryce and Gibson had 2 games last weekend.   I hope we can get there some weekend to see them play.  So far just have trips planned there during the week, so might get lucky for a weeknight game.

For this layout I used the latest sketch at "THE MEMORY NEST"    So glad I found a good sketch that I could use both pictures together.    Check out the sketch below.

EGGS

I got this picture of the grandkids from Nikki and she said they were eating as many of the hard boiled eggs as they could after dying them.    But having a great time.    So I thought it would make a cute Easter layout.

I used the April 1st sketch at "SKETCH-N-SCRAP"  it was perfect for this one picture.

Happy Easter

One more throwback Thursday sketch at "SKETCH-N-SCRAP" was posted the end of March so I
get to enter it for April prize.   This was a fun month long challenge.

These are pictures from this Easter of my granddaughter Addisyn showing off the Easter eggs she found at a party at a home of her parents friends.  

Rock Out !!!

I was lucky enough to be asked to join the "LASTING MEMORIES" design team and today is my first reveal.

This months challenges are going to be all about the different eras of music.   Fun times for sure.
These pictures are all of my brother.   He graduated from High School in 1972 and went on the road with the band he had been playing with during high school with a few additions to the group.   They traveled all over the midwest.   I've already made a couple of layouts for him from a few pictures from back in the day.   But this layout is a variety of pictures taken at different places he has played over the last few years.  

He did quit the band after 8 years and went to college and started his own very successful software business and then was able to sell it and retire when he was in his 40's.     After that one of adventures was making high end electric guitars,  he even made a special one he gifted to  Sheryl Crow.    Now as a job and hobby he has a recording studio in his home and has recorded several bands from the midwest and one group that even traveled from Sweden and recorded with him for about 2 weeks.    During all these years his love for music never left him.   He has a band he is in now that plays at a lot of local events and clubs and had also been asked to play lead guitar with groups that recorded at his studio for special gigs.   So these are pictures from some of those events.

For this challenge   "The Disco Era"   I went with the inspiration of music and the colors and design of the challenge picture.      The black in my music themed paper behind the pictures,  even the coloring of some of the pictures go with the challenge picture and then I used bright yellow card stock and matted with purple card stock to pull more of the bright colors in the picture and then embellished with hot pink and silver puffy mini guitars.

I hope you will join us this week and all the weeks in April and check out what the Design Team has to inspire you with.     "LASTING MEMORIES"