Music

I'm having fun being the guest designer at  "LASTING MEMORIES"  this month and playing along with the weekly challenges with the theme of  March - National Month of .......

This week the challenge is about   "Music in Our Schools Month"   Silas isn't in school yet but he already loves music,  and right now he is trying to play the guitar just like his grandpa.   It looks like he knows how to hold it just right so maybe he will be a further  Rock Star.   I know his love of music will continue in school and beyond.   He comes by it naturally.

Here is the link to  "LASTING MEMORIES"  and this months challenges.

Make a layout about kids and music or about school.

Zack

I don't think I have ever made a layout with a picture of my nephew all on his own.  He is been in group pictures and such but never one of just him.   I kept this layout really simple and just let the single picture and my background paper be the main points.  I added a kraft circle sticker as an embellishment and some brown Thicker alphas for the title.   Then did LOTs of faux stitching with different colors along the sides of the colored rays.

I was inspired to use this paper because of the challenge at  "THE STUDIO CHALLENGES"
The challenge going on right now it is.........

 Kraft; we want to see you use Kraft (as in the brown paper) on your layouts. It could be as a background or on the layout, however you want to use it.

Sweet Dream

I just love this picture of me holding Elle while she sleeps so I decided to make a layout with it for my album.  Elle at one year old  already has 2 full 3D ring albums full of layouts I've made for her.
I'm pretty obsessed with making layout of all the pictures.

I used Sketch #314 at  "SKETCHES IN THYME"  to make this layout.  I used one big piece of background paper and then went through my scrap paper container and put everything else together.
It was so fun combining all different kinds of scrap papers and scrap pieces of card stock to put this layout together.

Here is the sketch and the link to   "SKETCHES IN THYME"

Final February PL card summary

I just made this PL card today using the sketch #96 at "SKETCHES IN THYME PL STYLE"  for the basis of it.  I did have to rotate it for the pocket it all go in, but all worked out great that way too.

I always do a recap type card for the last pocket of each month.   A little about the month and then a  summary of how many scrapping projects I made.   I will have to go back when the month is over and put the numbers in but other than that I have my summary made for the month.

Here is the link to  "SKETCHES IN THYME PROJECT LIFE STYLE"   and the sketch.

Road Trip to Gettysburg

One of my 2018 goals was to go through all vacation albums and fill them in with more layouts.
So when I was asked to be the March guest designer at "LASTING MEMORIES" and saw the challenge for February 25th I knew it would be a good place to start with this goal.

The challenge is.....Feb. 25th - Did You Know? March was named for the Roman God "Mars" Mars was the god of war and also an agricultural guardian, so this gives you 2 options. Create a layout about war (think of a war hero, museum/area about war (Gettysburg)...) or an agricultural/farm layout (which this could cover just about anything with farming, food, animals, seasons...)

I got lucky while looking through my BIG stack of travel papers that I had one more Civil War piece of paper that I bought at a local Gettysburg scrapbooking store while I was there.   Since it was a day long road trip from DC for us I just added some road trip paper to it and I had it all combined.

Be sure and check out this challenge and all the challenges for March at "LASTING MEMORIES"

Sunsets

Let me say this, there are not a lot of purples in patterned papers, at least not in what I have in my collections.  Finally this afternoon I found this a stack of outdoor adventure papers.   So finally I could make a layout for the Purple colors palette at   "LASTING MEMORIES"    I'm happy to say that I got to enter a layout for all of the color schemes this month.   They were all so much fun.
A variety of the sunset picture from our lake house was perfect for the purple colors.

Here is the link and the color palette for  "LASTING MEMORIES"

It's Stormy

This has been our week here at the Lake of the Ozarks, started mid morning Tuesday and the forecast is rain just about every day through this coming weekend.    I guess I should be glad its not snow, although we have had some sleet a couple of nights.

I used one of the two sketches at  "STUCK SKETCHES ?!"  from February 15th to make this layout.   I tried to stay with 'stormy/rainy' looking papers.   I think these paper choices work.

I am also entering this at the challenge that came out today at  "SOUTHERN GIRLS CHALLENGE"    The challenge is Nature.   And this picture shows the nature of thunderstorms coming in the clouds.

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

Here is the link for information about the challenge at  "SOUTHERN GIRLS CHALLENGE"

Hello and welcome to this fortnights challenge.

Our theme this fortnight is

NATURE

So fill those projects up with flora and fauna