Wings

The song for the challenge at A Song in Your He{ART} is Gift of Wings by Jack Grunsky.

My layout is of my grandson at the Wings Butterfly garden on Mackinac Island. My journaling includes the first verse lyrics starting on the bottom middle and going up and around to the lower right. I used three different butterfly punches and liquid pearls. Title is Thickers.

Sponsor for this challenge is Inky Impressions.

Hope to see your entry.

Gift of Wings lyrics (Jack Grunsky)

Show me days of wonder
New roads to travel on
Help me make discoveries
Teach me a brand new song
Show me where I come from
So much to realize
Show me where I’m going to
And open up my eyes

If you will take me heart
If you will teach me all these things
You’re giving me the gift of wings

Show me all the beauty
Everywhere to see
Open up the gate
Set my imagination free
Teach me to express myself
In many different ways
Build my sense of worthiness
For all of my days

Help me find my colours
Help me bring them to the light
So that I may paint my dreams
Strong and beautiful and bright
Teach the joy of learning
To make the magic last
I’ll take into the future
All the love in my past

Miderman Boof

 Hi everyone. It's time for the next challenge from Sketches in Thyme.  Instead of posting a sketch this time you are invited to use any sketch of your liking.

I used Sketches In Thyme sketch #52 for a layout of my grandson being Spiderman. Boof was his word for hit.

Thanks for looking and hope you play along.

Let's Hear It...

The song for the challenge at A Song in Your He{ART} is Let's Hear It For the Boy. I made this layout of my son's college graduation.

Journaling says "It's not easy to give your all to wife, sons, a full time job and earn a bachelor's degree, but you did. Let's hear it for the man."

Our sponsor for this time's challenge is Eureka Stamps. Your have until May 27th to upload your entry here. Can't wait to see what you make.

I am also entering this layout at Catherine & Cathy Create for the challenge to use stars.

"Let's Hear It For The Boy"

My baby, he don't talk sweet
He ain't got much to say
But he loves me, loves me, loves me
I know that he loves me anyway
And maybe he don't dress fine
But I don't really mind
'Cause every time he pulls me near
I just wanna cheer
Let's hear it for the boy
Oh, let's give the boy a hand
Let's hear it for my baby
You know you gotta understand
Oh, maybe he's no Romeo
But he's my lovin' one-man show
Oh, whoa, let's hear it for the boy
My baby may not be rich
He's watchin' every dime
But he loves me, loves me, loves me
We always have a real good time
And maybe he sings off-key
But that's alright by me, yeah
'Cause what he does, he does so well
Makes me wanna yell
Let's hear it for the boy
Oh, let's give the boy a hand
Let's hear it for my baby
You know you gotta understand
Oh, maybe he's no Romeo
But he's my lovin' one-man show
Oh, whoa, let's hear it for the boy
'Cause every time he pulls me near
I just wanna cheer
Let's hear it for the boy
Oh, let's give the boy a hand
Let's hear it for my baby
You know you gotta understand
Oh, maybe he's no Romeo
But he's my lovin' one-man show
Oh, whoa, let's hear it for the boy
(Let's hear it for the boy)
Let's hear it for my man
(Let's hear it for my babe)
Let's hear it for my man...
(Let's hear it for the boy)
(Let's hear it for my babe)
(Let's hear it for the boy)
Let's hear it for my man, yeah...
(Let's hear it for my babe)
(Let's hear it for the boy)
Pull yourself together
(Let's hear it for my babe)
(Let's hear it for the boy)
Whoa, let's hear it for my boy
(Let's hear it for my babe)
Let's hear it for my man
(Let's hear it for the boy)
(Let's hear it for my babe)
Let's hear it for my man

Great Day

The song for this time's challenge at A Song In Your He{ART} is Great Day to Be Alive by Travis Trill. For my layout I took the lyrics

"And it's a great day to be alive
I know the sun's still shinin when I close my eyes
There's some hard times in the neigborhood
But why can't every day be just this good?"

A cousin and his wife are commercial fishers. Lake Michigan froze over in the past winter that seemed to never end. His wife took this picture on the day they could finally get back out on the water. For them it was truly a great day.

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Great Day to be Alive lyrics (Travis Tritt)

I got rice cooking in the microwave
Got a three day beard I don't plan to shave
And it's a goofy thing but I just gotta say
Hey I'm doing alright
Yeah I think I'll make me some homemade soup

Feelin pretty good and that's the truth
It's neither drink nor drug induced
No I'm just doin alright
And it's a great day to be alive
I know the sun's still shinin when I close my eyes
There's some hard times in the neigborhood
But why can't every day be just this good?
It's been fifteen years since I left home
Said good luck to every seed I'd sown
Give it my best and then I left it alone
Oh...I hope their doin alright
Now I look in the mirror and what do I see?
A lone wolf there starin back at me
Long in the tooth but harmless as can be
Lord I guess he's doin alright

And it's a great day to be alive
I know the sun's still shinin when I close my eyes
There's some hard times in the neigborhood
But why can't every day be just this good?
Sometimes it's lonely
Sometimes it's only me
And the shadows that fill this room
Sometimes I'm fallin
Desperately callin
Howlin at the moon...
Ahwoo!
Ahwoo!
Well I might go get me a new tattoo
Or take my old Harley for a three day cruise
Might even grow me a Fu Man Chu...
Oh Aww!
And it's a great day to be alive
I know the sun's still shinin when I close my eyes
There's some hard times in the neigborhood
But why can't every day be just this good?
And it's a great day to be alive
I know the sun's still shinin when I close my eyes
There's some hard times in the neigborhood
But why can't every day be just this good?

Kissing baby

His cousins couldn't help teasing tribal council candidate Mark when he was caught on camera kissing a cousin's new baby. I used the April 25th sketch from Stuck On U Sketches.

Love Blooms

The challenge at Craft Hoarders Anonymous is to use the sketch with a twist - use one old item and one new item.  My oldest item is the doily - it takes a long time to use an entire package of 20. The newest item is the fence. I bought that die a couple weeks ago and LOVE it.  The papers and flowers are Recollections from Michaels. The washi tape is from the dollar store.

1 Big Bunny

My cousin wanted to make her granddaughter's Easter special, so she used a wading pool as a basket and a hula hoop as the handle and then filled it up with goodies.

I used the sketch from Stuck?! and the photo challenge from Catherine and Cathy Create.