Up a Tree

I love getting pictures of my grandkids in Texas.    Here they are just playing around with one of their friends, the boy in red in the middle.     This was one day while they were on Spring Break back in March.   They didn't go out of town but found plenty to do and have fun with in town.

I liked making this reveal using Bev Code's sketch for the first week of June challenge here at
"SKETCHES IN THYME"     I used a couple of individual pieces of paper I had laying around.  Added some washi tape down the right side and a little bit of faux stitching on both sides of.   Some flowers for embellishments and brown thickers for my title.   I also matted the center  patterned paper and then double matted my pictures, pulling colors from the trees and the leggings that Mylan was wearing.

Here is the sketch and be sure and check back every day for more reveals using the sketch and also every week for a new sketch challenge.   Have fun and enjoy our weekly challenges.

Here is the link to    "SKETCHES IN THYME"

2017 Mothers Day

I took these pictures off of Facebook of my step-daughter and the Mothers Day breakfast her girls made for her and her Mother-in-Law for their special day.     Looks like they had a lot of fun at the table the girls set up.

I make these layouts of their pictures and then when we visit I take a stack of layouts to them.

For this layout I used the May sketch at  "MY CREATIVE SKETCHES"   I love having layers on my layouts and mixing patterns and this sketch let me do both.

Here is the link to  "MY CREATIVE SKETCHES"   and the sketch.

A Family Smile

I made this layout using the "SCRAP OUR STASH" May sketch and word challenge.
Create a layout using the sketch and add a stash item for each letter in the word: MOTHER

I had so much fun doing this challenge.   I first went to my closet and picked up my stack of single pages, the stack of single sheets I have bought or the one or two full page left overs from my collections.    I really put a lot of things together in this one.    Here is how I used the letters.

M = My Minds Eye - the patterned paper I cut out in a scallop shape behind my picture plus another
        M is the double Matting I did on my picture.
O = October Afternoon - the two pieced of Green floral paper behind center and right side.
T = Tim Holtz inks - I used 4 different colors plus T for Twine.
H = Heidi Swapp - the full sheet of background paper is Heidi Swaps plus I also have 2 Hearts for
       more for the letter H
E = Echo Park  - the pale green lattice paper that is in middle of layout.
R = Recollections - the heart paper flags are that paper, plus for more R I used Red ink and the color
       Red in the paper.

Here is the sketch and the link for this challenge.   Just a few more hours to enter.  Oops just updated this because I thought it said 11 hour left to enter, but it said linky closed 11 hours ago.  Oh well, I still had fun making the layout.
"SCRAP OUR STASH"

 

Summer season has begun

The whole family plus friends were together over  Memorial Day weekend and our treat on Saturday evening was a stop at Andy's Custard, a favorite of our families.   My Dad would eat ice cream/custard every day so he is always ready to go to Andy's when we are all together.

I made this layout with the idea of the summer time blog hop going on at  "USE YOUR STUFF"
There are still a few days to join in.

Big Fish !!!

I've had these pictures of my granddaughter for a couple of months but hadn't found a sketch to use with them.    But today I saw the sketch at  "ELLE'S STUDIO"    It's perfect for two pictures.  
I just had to rotate it to go with my vertical pictures.   But I think it worked fine that way.
My background paper is from Elle's - Little Moment Collection  and the center green graph paper is
from Elle's - Penelope collection.  The strip with the arrows and hearts is the tear strip from the
green paper.   I love it when I can make that extra strip work on a layout.   No waste there.

Here is the sketch and the link to  "ELLE'S STUDIO"

Sketch N Scrap Card

I'm determined this month to make all of the  May challenges at   "SKETCH-N-SCRAP"
along with the challenges for their Birthday Bash.   So far I'm keeping up.

This card was for their card sketch #98 that was revealed on the 20th.  You have till the end of the month to enter.

I like the simplicity of this card and stamped image so decided to keep my card base white and not to add a sentiment.   Just some light inking on all the edges and on top of the pale green card stock I used to the left of the image.    I did rotate the sketch to work with my image.

Here is the sketch and link to all the challenges at  "SKETCH - N - SCRAP"

Another May PL page

I had a lot of my PL page made, just a few pockets to fill, including the 4x6 top pocket.
I was just waiting till today for the new sketch to come out at  "SKETCHES IN THYME PL STYLE"   I was hoping to be able to incorporate it on this page.   It worked out perfect because I
already had the Clematis and Wisteria pictures printed for my page, so just went with more perennial pictures like my roses and then printed two other perennial flower pictures to use on my 4x6 pocket card using this weeks sketch.   It just turned out to be the perfect sketch for me this week.
Here is my complete PL page too.

Here is the sketch #72  and also the link to   "SKETCHES IN THYME PL STYLE"