Take Me Out to the Ballgame

I made this layout for Leslie and Jason and some of the memorbilia she sent me from various dates they have had.    For this I used the sketch at Scrap Our Stash blogpost and along with the sketch the challenge was to used mixed alphas on your title.   I used a lot of things from my stash including the baseball and glove embellies I've collected from swaps and dug thru all my alphas to find what to use.

Family --- RCC#26

I made this layout today using the prompt to use three button for the Red Carpet Studio challenge "Curious Case of Ben Button"    I've always loved this picture of my son and his family that was taken when they were at a meeting/vacation in Marco Island, Florida in May 2010.

Engaged

I made this layout about my daughters engagement.    The full hand picture was taken with the
rain forest where the proposal took place.   The journaling is about that and about Leslie always
wanting to have my Moms wedding rings when she gets married and that is what she got.
I'm entering this layout at www.redcarpetstudiochallenge.blogspot.com  
RSC #24 The Notebook, the challenging was journaling.

BABY

This layout was made for the challenge at  www.itsabouttheboys.blogspot.com
the challenge was to make a layout about babies.    These are old pictures I took of my son
Jason and are actually ones that I also developed myself when I was into that, but soon found out
it was too time consuming with a new baby.

Let it Snow

I used sketch #84 from Sketchabilies.   I was looking through old pictures and found
these 4 from a snow storm while we were at Ft. Sill in Lawton, Ok back in 1971 and
I knew they would work perfect for this sketch.

My Sketch World Challenge

www.mysketchworld.blogspot.com     is posting daily sketches and they are all great.
Here is my take on the sketch from February 1st.

grand divas sketch challenge for Feb 2013

I loved this sketch and was perfect to showcase these pictures of Avery.   Plus I got to really play around with a lot of different colors and types of flowers.  

another card - Cherish you

This card was made for the Scrap Fit use STARS challenge

Card day

I made this Valentines card today using Sketch #67 at cardabilities.blogspot.com

First time I have entered there, but I really liked this sketch..

STELLA

Dad enjoying his Stella and all the family time at Christmas.

Jason's b'day and Sushi for all

Jason had a great 35th b'day and even a great Sushi chef to make some awesome Sushi for everyone
and that was just some of the fantastic food we all gorged on all night long.
A fantastic night, fantastic party, fantastic food and best son ever.   :)

Boys Rule Sketch - Selling cookies

This is the latest sketch in September at Boys Rule blog.    So simple but yet really
gets to showcase a great choice of papers in my mind.   I used Pink Paislee = Prarie Hill collection.
This is a picture from two weeks ago when I stopped by to see the kids and Kai was showing me
the brochure for his cookie sales at school.   And yes I bought 3 tins of cookies from him.
What can I say he is a good salesman.    :)

Boys Rule Aug. 31 sketch

Last week I went with Jason and Susan to English Landing Park and Kai played
forever on the monkey bars until he mastered it.
I used the Boys Rule August 31 sketch for this layout and loved it.

One more drink

I'm getting my scrapping mojo back.   This is my 3rd layout for Mel's 30 in 30 challenge for the month of September.   I shouldn't have any problem getting at least 30 layouts made in September.
I have so many pictures the problem now is just deciding what paper to use as I seem to have way way to much to chose from.
This is Leslie getting one last drink before we leave Cabo for Jason and Susans wedding.
I used the latest Creative Scrappers #224 sketch and it had to have a long long title, so tis worked great.

September 30 in 30 challenge

http://lalacreates.blogspot.com/2012/08/announcing-30-in-30-scrapbooking.html

Check this out.  A great challenge in September to make 30 layouts in 30 days.

No daily requirement, just 30 in 30 and there is a great prize and some prompts during the month to keep you creative juices flowing.

I'll be joining, will you?

Boys Rule Julie Bonner sketch challenge

This is probably the only picture I have of Jason's paternal grandparents together with his Dad for a group family picture.   I'm glad I finally scrapped it.

I love this sketch by Julie Bonner and its for the challenge running till end of July at the Boys Rule blog.

Family Weekend - BG sketch

We spent the weekend in St. Louis at Davids house and Arthurs daughter Barbara's family also flew in.
This was the first time all the Greenberg cousins have been together since the latest 2 arrivals.

So here is a layout made with pictures of all the cousins together.
I used the latest Basic Grey Sketch and all my papers were from the BG - Out of Print collection.
I loved all the colors in it.

Boys Rule sketch challenge

I used the June 8th sketch over at Boys Rule to make this layout of Kai.   I hadn't seen the picture before but Susan sent it to me and I just love it.    I "think" this was taken in April in CA when they
went out for a friends b'day party and it was a white party and everyone wore white.   Kai, as always looked so cute .     I used all Pink Paislee papers from Indigoe Bleu with the exception of the banner and that was left from the cuts outs of a die cut circle I had made from a piece of Bo Bunny  ETC collection.  I used a lot of it yesterday and just saved these pieces knowing they would work on a border sometime.   I like how it stands out from the rest of the coordinating papers.

Jason & Susan wedding

My son and daughter in law had a destination wedding in Cabo Dec 5,  2008 and I've scrapped so many of those pictures already.   But her parents also wanted them to have a church wedding, so their "1st" wedding was in their church on Nov 1st.   There weren't a lot of pictures there as the guy who was taking pictures something happened to his camera, but I did manage to get these pictures from my seat.
So wanted to add these layouts to their album.   "finally"

SUNRISE

In the scrapbooking group I'm in SnC "Scrappin n Chattin" we are having a photo a day challenge for the month of May and the prompt for todays picture was a sunset or sunrise.    So I got up at the ungodly hour of 5:30 am and was out walking in the yard to take this sunrise picture.    I loved it so much I wanted to make a layout of it.   I used the May challenge sketch from www.thesamplerkitclub.com.   It was the perfect sketch for this because I just wanted to highlight the picture and not take away from it with the background paper or embellishments.  So found this piece of solid color paper, put a small mat around the pic in another solid for and then got out my cricut and just used white paper to cut the swirls from the "Lovely Floral" cartridge