New Year

I never thought I would do project life pages, but then three things happened in the first two days of 2014 that I wanted to remember, but didn't feel each needed a separate layout. My grandson and his friend were together at midnight at the first New Year's powwow, Michigan State won the Rose Bowl (my oldest daughter is a big fan) and the cat that was last home the end of March (after being gone for nine months that time too) came home for two days. I am entering this in Stuck On U Sketches' challenge of 3 label strips on a project life page.

Sweetness

My niece has four grandsons and finally got a granddaughter. Since I have grandsons I enjoy being able to occasionally use girly goodies. I love this sketch from Artful Delight and at first was going to use twine as the circle and stars as the splatter. Then while "shopping" in my stash I found the star paper and lace. I added sequins as splatter and a silver baby buggy charm for sparkle.

I am also entering this in the Sketches in Thyme design team call.  So excited to see this challenge blog re-opening.

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I used the November sketch from Artful Delight for this layout from my daughter's birthday.  Followed the sketch pretty close but didn't leave enough room for the title below so placed it to the top right.  How can she be 40 when I don't feel that old?

Scrapping about yourself

There's a new challenge blog called Challenge YOUrself.  The challenges will require pictures of you. What a wonderful idea to finally get out from behind the camera. The is a design team call and giveaway going on now, so stop over and check it out.

How Corn - y

The challenge at Boy Meets Girl Scrapbook Challenge is to create a Fall layout using male photos only.  My son posted these pictures to facebook after he took his family to visit a cornfield in October and he decided to model some cornsilk facial hair.

Jingle Dress Dancer

I used sketch #44 from Sketch-N-Scrap for this layout of my beautiful great-niece dancing at a pow-wow last September. The cardstock, patterned paper, flowers, washi tape, sticker letters and thickers are all from my stash. Really trying to use up what I already own.

Haunted

My daughter has always wanted to do a cemetery display for Halloween and when she put in the mulch and hanging plant garden in the front yard it was a perfect place for such a display. This week's challenge at Lasting Memories is to use lots of journaling. Usually I just do a name and a date, but for this layout I did the story of her wanting and getting her Halloween display. We already made a trip to Michael's today and got more tombstones, black roses and a skull, at 80% off, to use for an even bigger display next year.