On Our Way

This is the first prom layout of YDS, Ben and his date, Alexa.  I love these photos.  They look so grown up.

I had the opportunity to be a guest designer this month at Child's Play.  The first week's inspiration is a red flyer wagon!  Since my kids are grown, the limo replaces the wagon :-)  I took the red as my accent color and used the black and white as the main colors.

I also used a weekly sketch from Let's Scrap to help put this all together.

Here it is:

Yo Ho, Yo Ho

Another layout from our Disney trip -- these are from the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.  The photos are horrible, way dark, etc.  But -- I love some of the details -- the lamp over David's head, the arch behind Scott.

I ran across this sketch challenge at Scrappin-Peeps (the new message board a bunch of ClubCK alum have put together).  So I pulled these pics to go, but still wasn't sure -- then remembered there was a distressing technique challenge at 2 Broke Girls.  So I filed my photos and paper edges and inked my title and journaling  card.  The journaling, by the way, is dialogue from the ride.  Not my most favorite layout ever, but I like how it came out.

Trouble

These photos are from 1997 -- Ben just a year.  It was the summer he learned to walk.  He crawled so fast, he couldn't be bothered to slow down and learn to walk.  That train was a favorite.  The photos were all taken at Bob and Lois' "farm" in Le Grand, CA (outside Merced).

Love the blue background for these photos.  Inspiration comes from several places for these pages -- love it when various challenges all come together.  Two challenges on 2 Broke Girls -- a quote (Be the best version of You) and Word (He or She).  At Child's Play the inspiration was the game of Trouble.  Well, when I think of Trouble, I think of my baby Ben.  LOL.  So, I went looking for a sketch and found one at Let's Scrap.

Here are my pages:

Comparing Scars

This photo is from last Thanksgiving -- after dinner, we went back to my Aunt's house.  She and David had a chance to compare scars from similar carpal tunnel surgeries.  It cracked me up to see them.  My aunt's usually much more prim and proper.

I used a sketch from Let's Capture Our Memories  - their second for the month of May.  And I was inspired to scrap this photo of my aunt, who has always been a mother figure to me, but even more so since my own mom passed away, by the challenge over at 2 Broke Girls.  I am loving their challenges!  Both of these sites are fairly new to me and with the closing of the CK forums/Club, I'm sure I'll be relying on them for inspiration more and more.

Here's my layout:

I used my new Plaid mask/stencil (way cheaper than the "scrapbooking" ones) for the pattern behind the photo.  And a "border strip" 6 x 6 page from the Nikki Sivils packet I won forever ago provided my journaling/title strip and flower embellishment.  I added an old "band aid" die cut (have had since Ben was born!)  Love using up my stash!  Although David would probably say I love shopping for more stash even more than using it :-)

Links to where I have photos

Old  CK Gallery 

Flickr Photostream

It's (not) a Small World after all

This layout is for several challenges and is,again, from our trip to Disneyland.  The hidden journaling on the tag that starts out "Waiting" talks about how I get bored and start taking pictures.  And the boys love it.  Not.

The journaling at the bottom explains why that picture of people we don't know on the boat is funny.  They put too many, fairly large, people on the boat and it bottomed out.  They couldn't get it to float.  So they had to bring over a thing for some of the people to get out and then re-position everyone.  I would have been mortified, but they were laughing about it.

So -- challenges that this layout was inspired by:

Sketch from Let's Scrap for this week
The color is for About a Boy's challenge to scrap with white plus one
I chose my title and music notes for 2 Broke Girls inspiration challenge

I think that's all.  A lot of people wouldn't scrap these pics -- but they are a part of our trip and the kinds of things we do to amuse ourselves LOL.

A couple more

I've got a couple more layouts to share -- again for a smattering of challenges.  This first is from our Spring Break trip to Disneyland -- the Haunted Mansion.  I love the architecture and all the details from this attraction.  My title comes from the song the "heads" sing in the graveyard scene "Grim Grinning Ghosts" -- and I'm had it swimming around in my head for days. (When you hear the knell of a requiem bell, Weird glows gleam where spirits dwell, Happy haunts materialize, They begin to harmonize...Grim, grinning ghosts come out to socialize....)

For this one, I used the May Stack-a-holic sketch from DCWV:



I only had one photo and I turned the bulk of the sketch on it's side.  But -- it's where I started :-)
I used some old papers -- the background is one page from the Heirloom Stack, then I did some fussy cutting of another  page for the "banner" at the top and the photo mat.

The next layout is different for me -- pastel!  I do so much with deeper, richer colors; but there were several challenges that all came together in this one:

Still more pictures from Disneyland -- Toon Town this time.  I think I'll still add some journaling strips to the left bottom, but not sure.  This is from a sketch at Let's Scrap:

Challenge 162 for this week is to use pastels and a stamped image (by birds and their motor home on the left page).  Also at Love to Scrap!Challenges you had to choose either pastels or primaries and add your stamped image (always a stamped image).  Since I needed an embellie, I turned to buttons, thanks to Child's Play Challenges.