Christmas Cheer card

I've been busy all morning creating Christmas cards.   For this one I used the Tic-Tac-Toe challenge
at (drum roll)   "TIC-TAC-TOE- CHALLENGE BLOG"   This is challenge number #23

I went on the diagonal of the board and have a sentiment, free space (bling) and a tree.

Here is the challenge and link to  "TIC-TAC-TOE CHALLENGE"

Then because of all my bling decorating my Christmas tree (sorry about the picture) just could not get it right with all the grey weather out today.    But the bling lets this card qualify for the challenge at
"THE SISTERHOOD OF CRAFTERS"   ----- Let the SPARKLE fly.

Here is the link to  "THE SISTERHOOD OF CRAFTERS"

Let the SPARKLE fly!

(Anything with a LOT OF SPARKLE)

Christmas Lights at Silver Dollar City

Two weekends ago we went to Silver Dollar City to the opening weekend of their Christmas Festival.   These pictures don't even start to do justice to the Wonderful Beauty that we saw.   Over 6.5 million lights all over the park.   Just spectacular.    We already bought season passes for next year so we can go more times and then be set once again for the Christmas Festival

I used sketch #140 at  "SKETCH N SCRAP"  click on the name for the link to their blog to see all of the challenges for this month.    And   here is the sketch.

Bike together, Grow together

I'm a new subscriber to the Flavors of the Month club at  "THE SCRAP ROOM GROUP"
I really love all the papers I got this first month and I used papers from the Dear Lizzy - Star Gazer flavor kit and then used the gold sparkly title that was in the Carta Bella - Welcome Home flavor kit.

My mother-in-law took these pictures of her son Jason and baby Elle while she was visiting and sent them too me.    Jason is an avid biker and it was a cold and rainy day so he was using the stationary bike inside and had a biking course on the tv to ride along with.   He got Elle up with him and she was intent on watching the course too (from his bike and from hers)   Could be because they don't let her watch TV yet so when the opportunity popped up she wasn't going to miss it.

Here is the November Jump Start sketch at   "THE SCRAP ROOM GROUP"

Dad - You are perfect

I was looking through all  my pictures on my computer last week and while scrolling fast to see if anything jumped out at me I saw this one of my Dad.   I'm guessing it was probably taken 6 or 7 years ago.   I just love this picture so I printed it know I would scrap it.  

Today I was going through sketch challenges I have been saving all month to work on and saw the one from Nov. 1st at  "LET'S GET SKETCHY"  and I knew it would work perfectly for the picture.

I used all papers from  Craft Smith - Indigo Gold stack and it even had the perfect phrases I could cut out to use for my title and embellishment on the picture.    Plus this title I used absolutely describes my Dad.    I just added some gold bling and I had my layout complete.

Hre is the sketch and also the link to  "LET'S GET SKETCHY"

6 Flags Fun

My granddaughter Mylan went on her first roller coaster ride over Labor Day weekend.
Here Grandma (me), Dad and brother LOVE roller coasters but she hadn't wanted to ride till now.
They went back the next weekend too and now she loves them.
So I wanted to commemorate her first ride with these pictures here Dad took and sent to us.
I love it that he took a selfie on the slow ride too just as they were starting out.   He also took a video that he sent me but as they were getting to the top of the first hill you could here Mylan saying over and over again "put your phone away Dad, please please please"   so he did.   But it was fun video.


I used the sketch #100 at  "THE MEMORY NEST"    I hope you play along with it.   Sometimes its hard to find a sketch where you can use 3 pictures bu this one is the one to use and get those special pictures turned into a layout.

Here is the sketch and the link to "THE MEMORY NEST"

November PL pages started

I used the sketch #89 at  "SKETCHES IN THYME PL STYLE"   for my title page to start the
month of November.    I did use a 4x6 card and then just used the 3x4 size of the sketch for the left side of my card and left the rest empty.

Here is my full PL page that I used  my card on.   I'm entering my Project Life page at
"CAS-UAL  FRIDAYS".   Challenge #186 is Anything But a Card.    So here you go.

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

"CAS-UAL  FRIDAYS CHALLENGE"  

Thanksgiving Greetings

I'm going back and forth this week between making Thanksgiving cards and Christmas cards.
This morning I started off by making this one.   I was inspired by three new challenges that were just announced today.    First I have the sketch challenge at  "FRESHLY MADE SKETCHES"
and then  I used the color prompt challenge at  "COLOR THROWDOWN"   Then last but not least  "CRAFTAHOLICS R US"  theme challenge is Turkey.      These all worked out perfectly to use
together for my Thanksgiving card.

Here are the links and challenges:

"FRESHLY MADE SKETCHES"

"COLOR THROWDOWN"

"CRAFTAHOLICS R US"

CHALLENGE #44 TURKEY