Mani-Pedi Time

I found these pictures on FB of Mylan taken last year.   They just describe my little diva granddaughter to a tee.    I used the April sketch at www.scrapourstash.blogspot.com       It might be hard to see but I did a triple faux stitching in white,red,white ink.    I pulled out an old old collection for this layout.
My Minds Eye - Tres Jolie.

Kai Ice Skating

I made this layout today from a sketch in my yahoo scrapbooking group and for the "Boys Rule Scrapbook Kits" blog where the challenge is to use 5 patterned papers.    4 of the strips are patterned and the background paper is patterned.    I loved the challenge of combining the different patterns and also the fact that I got to clean out scraps for this from my scrap drawer.    Always good to know that
I save them and finally get to use them.

Side Trip to Gettysburg

Here is another layout from our trip to DC and area.    I made this layout for a combination of 3 challenges.     I started out using the April sketch at     www.granddivasscrappyplace.blogspot.com

Then for the challenge at   www.scrappinhappy.blogspot.com, the recipe was to use hand stitching, use a punch and used mixed alphas.     All of which I did.

Challenge #3 is at     www.devosmoomy.blogspot.com    and the challenge there was to add something that flies.

There were a total of 4 possible challenges and if you used at least 2 of them you are added in for drawing for a bonus prize.   I was really pleased that I managed to do 3 of the 4.

Library of Congress

Still working on layouts from our Road Trip Vacation to DC.   I'll be entering this for my 3rd entry of the travel challenge at "The Paper Girls Challenge blogspot.

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We got to see so many great things while there.   This was the first time I had been inside the Library of Congress and to say it is beautiful is an understatement.

Ford Theatre tour

Another layout from our road trip in March to DC.    We stood in line for over an hour to tour the Ford Theatre,   this was one of the places Dad wanted to see so off we went.    The tower of books was quite impressive, it was a copy of every book ever printed about Lincoln.   It's rare that I save and scrap memorabilia from a trip but my daughter always scraps hers so I'm learning from her and kept all our tickets and brochures on places we went on the trip.     I am also entering this for the travel challenge at
www.thepapergirlschallenge.blogspot.com     It's challenge #30

Road Trip - 1st Stop

The newest challenge just announced today at the Paper Girls Challenge.

www.thepapergirlschallenge.blogspot.com

is for travel layouts.    This is perfect for me because I have all my pictures printed from our
road trip from Missouri to DC less than 2 weeks ago.     This layout is at our first planned stop
on the trip.    The AirForce Museum in Dayton, OH where we had spent our first night out on the road.
We had a great time seeing all the planes, old and new.

Painting

Here is the layout I made this morning for the Lasting Memories - Use Your Stash Challenge for this week.     LM#135

I definitely used my stash,  I got all of the papers I used from the DCWV  "The Stack Collection #5"
probably one of the first collections of paper I bought, but I had enough left for this to all go together.
It felt great to use some of my old papers instead of just hoarding them all.

Decisions Decisions Decisions

Love this picture of my granddaughter Mylan and the expression on her face trying to decide on her
choice of candy in the candy store.   I used the great April sketch at Artful Delight.  ASC#31    I just got out some card stock, Thickers, bakers twine for stitching and leftover scraps of patterned paper and I was ready to go.      I did rotate the sketch to fit my picture.

Like Father Like Son

I have always loved this picture that I found on my son's FB page from 2009,   the quality of the original is not really good, rather blurry, but still knew I wanted to make a layout from it.
I used a wonderful original sketch by my online friend Theresa Neubaum from the yahoo group "Scrappin-n-Chattin" and I am entering it "It's about a Boy" challenge blog.   The April 1st challenge was to use Chevrons.   So here it is.  

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.