Cooking Together

Sunday afternoon was cooking with Dad.   First they made fresh egg noodles together for company dinner the next night, which including myself and Uncle Bruce.   Along with the awesome homemade egg noodles Jason grilled salmon and fresh asparagus.   It was absolutely a delicious dinner plus Elle kept telling me she made the noodles by saying "my noodles, my noodles"

Jason, my son-in-law, is an awesome cook and baker and is so patient with Elle letting her help and teach her all he is doing.

I used the sketch #181 at  "SKETCH N SCRAP"  for this layout and just replaced the once smaller place for a picture with 3x4  cut apart card from some patterned paper.

Here is the link to the challenges for the month at  "SKETCH N SCRAP" and the sketch I used.

Family

This was a fun layout to make and  I'll be using this torn paper look for a background again.
I got the idea from the sketch on July 1st at  "SKETCHES IN THYME"  Challenge #379
I have this stack of paper called watercolor and that is what I used on the torn paper.

Here is the link to the challenge at  "SKETCHES IN THYME"   check this one out and each one during the month of July.

Luna and Noah

Luna is a rescue dog my son and family stopped and rescued in Southern Missouri on their way home to Texas last summer.    They had been wanted to adopt a dog and had been looking.   They made a gas stop on the drive home and saw a sign for a shelter next door and decided to take a break from driving and go look and they found Luna and feel in love.    So Luna went home with them.   They have had her just short of a year now.

I used the sketch at  "LET'S GET SKETCHY"  for this and it worked out great.

Together in the country

My son has some land he leases out in the country in Texas about an hour from where they live in Ft. Worth.  He keeps an RV out there and it is a rare weekend he isn't out their either on his own or with his kids or the whole extended family.    Out riding around in the jeep, or in the creek cooling off or hunting with a rifle or bow and arrow and some fishing too.    They do it all.    This picture my granddaughter took of her Dad and his girlfriend while they had a long extended weekend out in the country over the July 4th weekend.   I just love this picture so had to get it scrapped right away.

I will be entering it in the challenge #366 at   "USE YOUR STUFF"   I used two butterflies on my layout to go with the challenge.

Challenge #366: Birds, Bees, or Butterflies

Welcome to this week's challenge at Use Your Stuff.  This week, we are challenging you to create a project that uses one or all of the 3 b's; birds, bees or butterflies.  These are a few projects our DT created for this theme:

July 4th 2019 Texas Style

I got these pictures of my son and family in Texas.   They were out camping and hunting and fishing for the long weekend.    They posted a bunch of pictures on FB and I printed these to make a July 4th layout for their album.

I'm entering this at   "LASTING MEMORIES"   and their second challenge for July.

LM #454 - Patriotism - Red, White, and Blue

Hello, hello! Happy Sunday to you! I hope that all of our US friends had a good Independence Day!

It's time for our next challenge...our theme for  July is "Patriotism" and all of our challenges will be patriotic in some way.

LM #454 - July 7 - Team B - In the USA July 4th is Independence Day. Create a Red, White, and Blue layout.

Your layout can be any theme - just use the colors red, white, and blue predominantly on your layout.

July 4th PL page

This is my Project Life page of everything we did on July 4th with family visiting for the holiday.

Lots of family pictures, lots of water time, good food and the finale of watching fireworks from our dock.   It was a great day.

I'm entering this page at   "THE PAPER GIRLS CHALLENGE"

Challenge #179 - Fireworks

Hello everyone, Brittany here to start off July with a big bang! Our next challenge is quite a blast -  FIREWORKS!

All bad puns aside, July is usually filled with celebrations that fill the night sky with beautiful blasts of shimmer and color. I can't wait to see your beautiful projects sharing your love (or dislike even) of these explosive beauties. 

CIJ card

I always celebrate Christmas in July by getting the vast majority of my  Christmas cards made in July.

For this card I fussy cut the poinsettias from a piece of patterned paper and these pop-dots under them to set them up from the wood grain background paper I chose.  I added a clear sticker that said NOEL for my sentiment and then three 3 red gems.   I usually forget to use pop-dots to give my projects some dimension but I'm really glad I remembered for this card.

I'm going to enter this at   "SOUL-SCRAPPERS"  for their card challenge #CC73 to use flowers on your card.

Here is the link to the challenge at  "SOUL SCRAPPERS"  and more information.

Hello everyone!

Are you ready for the next card challenge?

There will be a different challenge each month, for example, making a card for a specific holiday or using an embossing folder, specific colors or an occasional card sketch.

Just think of all the cards you could be making throughout the year, ready to give to friends and family!

So come on, let's play along!

For this months challenge, all you have to do is:

Add FLOWERS on your card

--Any occasion--