Making Cookies

 I made this for the "CSI Case Number 400"

I was inspired by the multiple colors and the image of the red heart Christmas cookie in the case file.

Christmas 1956

 

This was the Christmas card my parents sent out in 1957 with my brother and me sitting in front of our fireplace in our home.   I have to laugh looking at this as my brother was about 6 weeks shy of being 2 years old and I wonder how many pictures they had to take to try and get him sitting calmly there.    Obviously this must have been the closest he got to it.

I'm entering this in the challenge at  "SCRAP CHALLENGE YOURSELF"   the challenge was to use a Black and White photo and of course to include a picture of  yourself.

I am also entering this at "COLOR STORIES INSPIRATIONS"   CSI Case File #400.

I was inspired by the circle of Christmas embellishments around the clock, my patterned paper is in a circle of embellishments around my center picture.

Beach time

 

The St. Louis family got to travel to Florida for 4 days while Dad attended a work conference, the kids got to hit the beach and have some fun.

I used the Dec. 15th sketch at   "SCRAP OUR STASH"  for this layout.

Happy 1st Birthday

 

I found these pictures in a box of old pictures the other day and realized they were from my first birthday so I had to scrap them.

I used the challenge #629 at   "LASTING MEMORIES"  with B&W photos and monochromatic colors I used mostly shades of pink.

LM #629 - 2022 Favorite Challenges - New Challenges/New Ideas

Hello, hello! Welcome back to Lasting Memories - we are so happy that you have stopped by today!

It is time for our third challenge of the month. For December we are revisiting some of our most popular challenges of 2022 according to Inlinkz. Our third most popular theme of the year was January's - New Challenges/New Ideas. For this week's challenge we have combined two challenges from January.

LM #629 - New Challenges/New Ideas (January 2022) Create a monochromatic layout and use black and white photos. Neutral colors are allowed (black, white, off-white, kraft, and grey).

We Are Loving Amsterdam

 

My son and his girlfriend were in Amsterdam in November, first for a business meeting and then some extra day on their own to enjoy the area.

I'm entering this layout at   "LASTING MEMORIES"   for challenge # 630 = Shapes

LM #630 - 2022 Favorite Challeges - Shapes

Hello, everyone! Welcome back to Lasting Memories - we are so happy that you stopped by today. This will be our last challenge of the month - and year! The design team will be taking the next couple of weeks off to enjoy the holidays. We will be back on January 1st to kick off the new year with fun new challenges for you.

Before we get to this week's challenge, we sadly have to say goodbye to one of our design team members. Deanna is stepping down from the team. She has been a part of the Lasting Memories family for almost five years sharing her beautiful work with us each week. It has been a pleasure working with her and we wish her all the best. Many heartfelt thanks to you, Deanna, for being a part of our team for so long.

We also want to say a big thank you to our December guest designer, Jill! It has been a pleasure working with Jill this month and I always enjoy seeing her beautiful work!

Now, on to this week's challenge.

For December we have been revisiting some of our most popular challenges from this year - according to Inlinkz. Our fourth most popular theme was from April and was our shapes theme. Here is this week's challenge:

LM #630 - Shapes (April 2022) - Create a layout and choose one of the following shapes to feature on it:

Triangles, circles, hearts, or hexagons

(this can be one big shape or your chosen shape used multiple times across your layout - for example - a big circle on your background, or lots of different-sized hearts all over your layout, etc.).

Family Camp Weekend

 

I made this double pages of pictures of when our daughter and family went to the parents weekend at camp where their daughter went this past summer.

I used the double page sketch at  "STICK IT DOWN"   for this layout.    This is a double page sketch that I will be keeping to use again.

Trip to the Zoo

 

I made this layout for the "LASTING MEMORIES"  Wedding Challenge.    Use something old, something new, something borrowed something blue.     The old is all my patterned papers, the new is the puffy hearts and stars I added, something borrowed is the sketch I used, it's an old one I saved from Scrapbook.com and the blue is on my title.

LM #628 - 2022 Favorite Challenges - Wedding Inspiration

 Hello, hello! Happy Sunday to you! I hope that you are having a good weekend. 

It's time for our second challenge of the month. Our theme for December is "Favorite Challenges from 2022" and our second most popular theme for 2022 was - Wedding Inspiration - so this week's challenge is:

LM #628 - Wedding Inspired (May 2022) - Create a layout and use something old, something new, something borrowed (either scraplift someone or use a sketch, etc.), and add something blue.