Improve

My one little word for 2014 is improve. Figured it would be easy since even doing dishes would be an improvement of the kitchen for the day. Imagine my surprise when I realized that if I removed one set of shelves from between the dresser and desk I could not only move the desk out into the room so I could actually sit there, but also have room for the two sets of shelves that were in front of the closet. Definite improvement of my room.

I am entering this at Lasting Memories and at Scrap Warriors Advanced Training.

1st day of school

The challenge at Connie Can Crop is time, while one of the challenges at the yahoo group Scrappin and Chattin is stamping. So I get this bright idea that I will stamp a pocket watch in white on blue paper. Didn't work. So then I tried black. Worked faintly. Finally tried dark green which does show somewhat. Layout is of two of the grandsons on the first day of school.

Flowing

The challenge at Scrapping 4 Fun Challenges is to use a color that starts with the same letter as your first name plus one other color, with black, white and cream allowed as neutrals/background. I picked violet as my "v" color plus silver. Journaling is on the lower left corner of the violet paper, written in silver ink. Used silver doilies as frames and silver thickers for the title.

Take Time to Explore

I used the sketch from Once Upon A Sketch for this layout from our trip to see waterfalls last August.

Bird is the Word

I used the week 1 sketch from Let's Get Sketchy and the Lots of Color challenge from Use Your Stuff for this layout of Zach and his stuffed bird. I don't know the story of why he had it outside in winter, but will ask him and add it to the journaling, Had a terrible time taking pictures today. The red of the paper and the letters is the same as the bird, but kept coming out either washed out or hot pink.

B-day 9

Still working on Zach's album, so I used the week 2 sketch from Let's Get Sketchy for a layout of his 9th birthday. All of the strips of paper were from the scrap basket except the one layer of washi tape.

Snow Much Fun

I used the January 3rd sketch from Stuck On U Sketches for a layout of my son and his sons out on the snow. I am also entering at Red Carpet Studio for the Snow Buddies challenge.