Jason Spring 1981

Since I'm thinking Spring and Flowers and Warm Weather,  I found these pictures of Jason at this great-grandmothers house in March 1981.   I remember he was drawn to the flowers on this Dogwood tree and thinking he could hide behind them, so I got these photos of him and McKeever.
I'm entering this layout at "Lasting Memories" for their childhood memories challenge #134.
Nothing better than a memory of my son and our dog at my grandmothers.

Red Carpet Studio - Ribbon Challenge

I used the "use ribbon" challenge at Red Carpet Studios for this layout I made for my daughter celebrating Indpendence Day 2011 in DC

My Train

This was the March sketch at Boys Rule blogspot.   Totally different than anything I've ever made, so kept it very simple.   I noticed this single sheet of paper I had and knew I had some pictures of Kai back at Christmas 2007 and figured I could get them all to work with the sketch.

LOBSTER

I just got this picture last night on FB of Kai, they were at his Uncle Davids' house and getting ready to
have a lobster dinner.   I just wonder what he was thinking when they started to cook these live lobsters.


I did the challenge for March 1st at Scrap Our Stash which was to use at least 50% kraft paper.
I used all kraft paper on this layout and then we had to use at least 3 pieces of metal and I added the 4 black brads inside the title frame.

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.