June project life title card

I just finished my last card for March PL pages so I thought I would give the last May sketch at
"SKETCHES IN THYME PL STYLE" at try and make my June title card.

Only a day left to enter so I hope you will.

STORMS

I said I would be back with another layout using the May "MY CREATIVE SKETCHES" layout  using the sketch.    This is layout #3.     When I'm using sketches I always stay pretty close to just 

what the sketch looks like and I did on this one too.     I have used 3 different border punches on a

3 layouts so they have gotten a work out.     The cloud sticker I used was white but i just rubbed

 some black ink on it to make it look like a storm cloud and I was pleased with how it turned out.

For this layout the papers I used were from the Cosmo Cricket - Wanted collection.   I saw that I

got it at Hobby Lobby, but I have no idea why because its mostly a cowboy collection, but it must

have been one of the times they had collections on sale for at least 50% off or I doubt I would

have bought it.    But I have to say the dark colors did work well for me for these storm pictures.

My journaling is all about the storms we were having every day for a week.  These were actually taken after we got home from an early dinner and we were driving home hearing all the neighborhood

tornado sirens going off.   About 5 minutes after I took these pictures the skies opened up and it

poured and continued all night long.    There was even a brief touchdown (with no damage) just 10

miles away.    So the warnings were true that tornadoes were in the area.

Check out the sketch here at "MY CREATIVE CREATIONS" and all the details to the challenge.

Be You !

I was clueless when I saw this latest prompt at "LASTING MEMORIES"  but I have to admit
it was fun to research some and find out the meaning of my name.
Barbara is from the Greek barbarous and means foreign or strange traveler from a foreign land.
Well I might be a little strange.  :)   But I don't come from any foreign land, just born and raised and lived practically my entire life in Missouri.     But perhaps if you have always lived on one of the coasts you might think of someone from the heartland to be from a foreign land.

To make my layout I took off on the take of travel and found this layout of me on the ferry ride in NYC.   This was my first time in NYC and I finally got to see the Statue of Liberty.

I'be been lucky enough to do a lot of traveling around the USA and also some overseas trip so I thought this background paper I found was perfect for this layout.    I chose a wood veneer word,
BE YOU as my title, because that is what I always say about myself,  I'm just me.

I added the print out of the meaning of my name,   some of my own journaling and also for embellishments   a wood veneer plane and boat, to represent trips by air and sea.

Check out the challenge here at  "LASTING MEMORIES"   I am sure once you get started on it
you will be like me and really enjoy what you find out and how you can make it into a layout all about you.   Even though its the end of May this is actually the first June challenge so you have a month to enter.

Finally

I thought this needed to be documented.   We donated our old family room couch and loveseat and was waiting for what we thought was just going to be 5 days for the delivery of our new sectional.

But then on expected delivery day found out there was a factory delay and would not be till late in May when we got our new furniture.

7 weeks and 2 days we sat on folding camp chairs.   I was not a happy or a comfortable "camper" at all.  So when deliver was made last Saturday I was beyond thrilled.

I used the latest sketch at  "ELLE'S STUDIO"  for this layout and I broke into my Elle's Studio collection of  'Little Moments'.   Everything is from there except Thicker alphas for title and my wood veneer hearts and explanation points.   I decided to water color those to go with the colors in the background paper.

Check it all out here at  "ELLE'S STUDIO"

Xmas 1999

I was at my brothers house this last week and we were looking through some old pictures and I found this one from Christmas 1999 at his house so I got a copy of it so I could add it to that year of my
ongoing Christmas albums.

The week #4 sketch at    "LET'S GET SKETCHY"    It was perfect sketch for a single picture.
Plus its May and I got to get out my box of Christmas papers and pick some really special ones to use on this layout.    I love Christmas papers  and this bold poinsettia design was perfect for this layout because I got to break it up a bit with the solid break two places.    Then just went with another solid and a polka dot patterns that blended so well.

Take a look at the sketch below and check out "LET'S GET SKETCHY" 

! Year Apart

Great pictures like these need to be entered in 3 different challenges.  :)

My neice posted these pictures together in collage form but I duplicated the picture and then cropped it so I could have two separate pictures.    The reason for this is that I just loved the Flashback Friday sketch #3 at  "SKETCH-N-SCRAP"    I loved being able to mix a lot of papers and of course did my matting of everything.

But back to the pictures this is my great nephew with pictures taken exactly 1 year apart.   What an awesome idea.

Then my 2nd challenge is the May Pattern challenge at  "SCRAPBOOK CHALLENGES"   the pattern this month was grids.

Then challenge #3 is at  "PAPER ISSUES"   Take Five challenge.    My 5 from the list were.
Title, Date, Ampersand, 3 papers and Black

Here are the challenges and the links.

"SKETCH-N-SCRAP"  

"SCRAPBOOK CHALLENGES"

'PAPER ISSUES"

Road Trip to Michigan

Here is my 2nd entry using the May  "MY CREATIVE SKETCHES"  sketch by Christine Meyers.
And I'll probably use it again before the June 14th deadline.

The background for this layout is that I use large D ring albums so I might have 3 or 4 different trips in an album.    So I have gotten into the habit of making cover pages for each trip so there is some type of division between them.     Obviously I haven't done this yet for every trip so still catching up on some older trips and that is what I did today.   Usually I don't have any pictures on these title pages but for this trip back in 2010 I decided to use the sketch and two pictures that I probably never would have scrapped.   Crossing the bridge at Mackinaw City and then the customs coming back from our one night in Canada.    I have no idea why I didn't get a picture of going into Canada but I didn't.

Here is the sketch I used and just go to  "MY CREATIVE SKETCHES"  for the details of the challenge and to see what the design team has done with the sketch.