Catching Up --

I've been busy with work and while I've managed to continue doing something creative every day, I haven't had a time with daylight to photo, upload, edit and blog.  So here are several layouts/projects for several challenges:

This layout uses a sketch from Scrapbook Generation and a color challenge (LAW 2) from Scrap N Chat

This one took me out of my comfort zone -- minamalist.  This is from a new to me group, Mind the Scrap.  I also used a sketch from Let's Get Sketchy.  I love how this one came out  -- from a cold day, just chilling with my fur baby.

This one I initially crated for a challenge without the photos -- they were on order but hadn't arrived yet.  From NYE.  The cut file is from Paper Issues.

This is from another sketch -- love, love sketches!  Photos of Scott outside City Hall having just turned in his paperwork to run for City Council.  Sketch from Sketch N Scrap

Another one of Scott -- from a trip he made to Vegas to see Piff and Penn & Teller.  He had a great time.  Got to talk to Piff for quite a while about dogs -- Piff was familiar with Best Friends Sanctuary and intriqued by our adopting a dog with three legs.  Another Sketch -- this one from 

Sketch N Scrap  and a Mood Board challenge from ScrappingClearly and the Title Challenge at Paper Issues -- put it in a banner.

So that's what I've been up to the last week or so.  Time to get some cards done :-)

Best Day Ever

A sketch challenge from Stuck? Sketches inspired me with these photos.  Taken by Scott (7ish at the time), these photos:  David was cut off of one, I was really out of center, and the top of the tree,  had me stumped.  But this sketch brought them together nicely.  I like the way the diamonds at the top form a sort of leaf canopy.  And that Ben Baby face makes me smile.   

And by the way, this is Day 4 for my 100 Days Project of creating.  Yay, me!  Only 96 more to go LOL.

Iconic Sights

Another page, another challenge -- Iconic sights from San Fran.  Coit Tower (in the distance -- it was the 90's), the Navy ships in the Harbor and a photo of us (David, Ben in the stroller and I) taken by Scott (age 7 at the time).  This sketch and challenge came from The Scrap Room. 

I used papers from a Craft Smith pad called Paradise Crush along with some really old Diane J Hook paper and Coredinations cardstock.  It's been fun re-visiting this trip/vacation from so many years ago.  And that baby in the stroller is now 21 (and a half)! 

A New Year, New Challenges!  Happy 2018!

 It's only January 3, but I've got two new challenges under my belt already.  I used some old photos -- the first trip to San Francisco we made with the boys.  Ben was still in a stroller.  :-D  We were living in So Cal, but drove up and used the folks farm outside Merced as home-base for our vacation day tripping.  Great times -- and here are two pages, companion pieces, inspired by two challenges from two different sites.

From Scrap and Chat comes Janet's angle/K challenge -- something straight up and down, one angled left, one angled right.  Here's our trip down Lombard St. -- I thought the challenge fit the street well. 

And from a new site for me, Sketch n Scrap , comes Cable Car Shift based on their first sketch for January.  I never knew that at the end of the line, they have to turn the cable car around for it go back up the hill -- and it's all done manually -- the guys come out and push it around on this lazy Susan kind of thing in the track.  Was very fun to watch.  

More old photos -- and a few newer ones

Here's the newest -- our dog, Southpaw enjoying the sun.  (for a challenge at Paper Issues)

The next is an old photo, Christmas car and souvenirs from the Marine Corps Birthday Ball, 1986.  Boy, we were young.  lol

The next is for a challenge at Scrap Our Stash, using a sketch and the word FLOWER (use items on the layout starting with each letter)

My items are:  Flowered paper, Lines of  journaling, lined/striped paper, Ochre color, Word stickers, Ecru Ephemera Embellishments, Red apples

I think this was spring or summer of '92 -- Scott was walking well but was still in diapers or pullups.  Such fun memories.  Miss those days :-)

A few for various challenges

These photos are horrible, but they're from our time in DC/NoVA and I wanted to document the story.  We used to go up to DC all the time on weekends -- something was always going on.  We were up there one weekend for the Kite Festival -- a very blustery, cloudy Kite Festival.  It's always so fun seeing all those kites in the sky.  It's for challenge at Paper Issues (Take 5).

The next one is a photo of a coworker and me.  The journaling talks about how I didn't realize how lucky I was to be working where I was.  But I ended up at another school with a much less wonderful staff and director and learned the lesson.  Fun times in Orange.  This was another challenge at PI

And the last one for today -- more throw back photos (I've been having so much fun with these oldies).  David and the boys at The Farm (my in-law's).  For a dual challenge with a sketch from Rochelle Spears April Rewind and Grand Diva's April Inspiration Challenges.

From the PI Crop

Over my birthday weekend, Paper Issues had an online Crop -- lots of fun challenges.  We're going through stuff in the garage and I pulled out a whole bunch of old photos.  Fun, fun, scrapping military and my babies :-)   Here's what I got accomplished this weekend:

Forgot to include in last post:  From a sketch at PI

                                                   from a sketch at Let's Scrap

I usually don't post photos of kids not my own -- but these are 32 years old, so the "kids" are close to 40 now.  From my preschool-teaching days.

After Bob died, the Merced Board of Supervisors closed a meeting in his memory and recognized their mourning his death.  I'll put this in a page protector so that the cover is over the outside, so it can be raised to read the resolution.  And I need to dig up a photo of the folks from their 50th.

And did I mention these count for Calvin Ball too?  I was on the leaderboard for Week 2!  Woo Hoo!