Amazing Grand Canyon

We took an awesome road trip for 10 days in the spring of 2015 from Kansas City to Las Vegas.   We took the direct western route going out through the Rockies and then coming home we took the southern route through Arizona and New Mexico and one stop was at the Grand Canyon.    I had already made a lot of layouts from this trip.  But I still have so many pictures and also a lot of memorabilia so I have decided to make more for that trip album as we saw and did so much.

I didn't follow any sketch for this one, just worked on a placement of everything on my own.   But I am getting to enter it in two different challenges.  

"SCRAP OUR STASH"  June Tic-Tac-Toe    I used the left vertical row,  the color red, camera and wood.   Red card stock for the punched border on the left,  red matting on 3 of my quotes on page two, one small picture on left matted in red and I used a red pen for my journaling.   I have 3 wood veneer cameras on 2nd page and I have wood veneer title also for more wood.  I always love doing a tic-tac-toe challenge.   So many choices and ways to go with your layout.

"CHALLENGE YOURSELF"  Challenge #42 is 'Inspired by Art'     To me there is nothing
more beautiful than the beauty of nature and the Grand Canyon surely represents that.
I know beyond stand and staring out into the vastness of it all and looking at the beauty I also managed to take probably close to 100 pictures so I wanted to make the double layout and use more of it and always be able to look back on this album and see the art of nature whenever I want.
Also for the challenge you have to be sure and include a picture of yourself in your layout and I have two pictures of me.

Mylan's Field Day

I had a lot of pictures of my granddaughter, Mylan's Field day so the new 6-1-17 sketch at
"LET'S SCRAP"  was perfect to use a large selection of them.  These pretty well cover the
majority of the events she was in, plus pictures with her friends.

Here is the sketch and the link to    "LET'S SCRAP"

I am also going to enter this layout at "PAPER ISSUES FRIENDS AND FANS"
For their Product Spotlight: Echo Park.   I used everything, except beige background card stock, from the Echo Park  Summer Fun collection that I bought a couple of weeks ago at Paper Issues.

Family

I'm going to be making 3 different layout using family pictures I took this Memorial Day.   I finished this morning the layout I'll keep and this one will be for my daughter since baby Elle is in it.
Then I still need to make one for my son's album.

I used the June 1st sketch at  "LET'S GET SKETCHY"   This was such a fun sketch to work with.
I'll save it to use again sometime.

Other than the green card stock for my background I used all papers from a new DCWV stack I bought last week.   It's called Pocket Blossom and other than  the pattern of words and a couple that are dotted, all papers are a variety of floral prints.   It will be fun to mix and match these papers in more layouts.

Here is the link to  "LET'S GET SKETCHY"  and the sketch.

Family - Happy Together

This picture was taken this Memorial Day while my son was in town and first time all together with his sister/my daughter and my Dad.   First time since Christmas so I wanted to be sure and get some group pictures.

I made this layout combining two challenges.   I used  sketch #130  at "SKETCH N SCRAP" and also the June 1st Something Old, Something New challenge at "COLORFUL CREATIONS"

I took a little liberty with the sketch because I really wanted to use my background paper about family with this picture.

For the Something Old Something New,  all the paper is old single pieces that I had in my pile of odd and end papers, then my wood veneer butterflies are all I got just 2 weeks ago.   Plus a brand new white gel pen I bought to replace my old dry one.  First use today.  LOL''

Leaving Cancun

I'm catching up on layouts from a family vacation we took to Cancun back in 1995.    I just found some more pictures I didn't have a few weeks ago at my Dads house.   So its been fun to work with these old pictures.

This is my reveal for the June 5th sketch challenge at   "THE MEMORY NEST"    When I started working on this I had just bought Shimelle - Go Now Go collection stack so that is what I used for my background paper.  I thought it was perfect for a layout of pictures of a trip outside of the US.

Here is the Sketch and the link to the  "THE MEMORY NEST".     I hope a lot of you will play along this week.   There are always a couple of sketch challenges each month and also a chance to win a great prize from  "THE MEMORY NEST"

First June PL page

I just finished my first PL page for June.    Not a lot going on these first few days, but will be more to document next week so wanted to get this first page made.

I used sketch #73 at   "SKETCHES IN THYME PL STYLE"   for my June title card.    It was a perfect sketch for a title.

Here is my full page using this card.

Here is the card sketch and the link to the challenge @  "SKETCHES IN THYME PL STYLE"

1st Swim

It was brief but Mom and Dad got in the pool for the first time with Elle.    She didn't mind it at all.
The water was warm enough for her but was a little windy out so didn't keep her in for long.
But the first time in the pool was documented with pictures and videos.

I used the new June sketch at  "STUCK ?! SKETCHES"    It was perfect to combine three pictures.
I'm always looking for sketches for multiple pictures so I'm sure I'll save this one and use it again.
Plus it really lets me highlight pictures through the middle and show my background paper.
As always they have multiple great prizes and also a chance to be a guest designer.  You have until
the end of June to join the two challenges for the month.

I'm also adding this over at  "PAPER ISSUES FANS & FRIENDS"  for their Product Spotlight challenge for June to any of the new releases at Echo Park.    My background paper and green matting paper is from EP - Summer Dreams and the Hello Summer tag is cut from a journal block from EP - Summer Fun collection.

This is also my entry at  "COLORFUL CREATIONS"  for their  "I Love Summer Blog Hop"
I made this layout to show what I love about summer and I am looking forward to more time in
the pool with my granddaughter.

Here is the sketch and the link to  "STUCK ?! SKETCHES"