Summer Fun

Here is my page using MME papers I bought this weekend. This was done for Cafe Mojo. This will also be submitted to The Story Matters and {Create}. They all have summer theme. I included the cluster of flowers for Tara's challenge :) And there is a new challenge for the girls like me called Pile It On. Although there are some challenge blogs that don't want you to combine any challenges, this one wants you to!! Now as much as I try to create a separate page for different challanges, I DO love to combine. There are so much to do and so little time!!

Layout Galore

Some completed last weekend, some done during the week. The first 3 were done yesterday.

So Dear

This is a quick post. I am working on another page and I want to browse on-line galleries for NSD creations. Here is a page done for Mother's day theme challenge on Cafe Mojo.

When I Grow Up...

The Story Matters came back and now they host monthly challenges. That will be good. I will have enough time to work on a page. And here is my layout. I used My Sketch World sketch upside down. The most of the materials used here is of Making Memories that I won on their blog :):)

3 Layouts

These photos were all taken last Saturday. We went shopping. The first one was done for Scrapping the Music using 52 Sketches...52 Weeks #49. I bought laces for the first time and used some on this page. The next two were done for The Story Matters and Dreamgirls. I started to participate Julie's 52 Sketches from sketch #4. So I used sketches #1 and #3 to do those 2 pages. I used black magic green cardstock from Coordination. I tore it. I used green side up to mat the photos. I also sanded and put beverage names with the blue stickers. On the last layout, I used the paint to stamp the title. I had never done that before and the first letter 'C' was kind messed up. And I couldn't make that title straight..... oh well.

Special & Thankful

We attended a funeral yesterday. It was 5-hour drive away and we left home 6:30 in the morning and didn't get home until after 10:00 at night. I am not going to write about it here but one thing I wanted to mention is that things like this always make me appreciate everything. I am thankful for the simple fact that I am here typing this post. Anyway I was so tired this morning and couldn't start anything until mid afternoon. These 2 pages are of the photos from a drive we took along Palos Verdes coast. "Special" was done for Use Your Stash button challenge and "Thankful" was done based on Rough Draft #6 and also done for The Story Matters. I used buttons on this one, too.

2 layouts

It didn't take me that much to do the first layout. Once I picked papers, everything else came easily. I used the letter stamps for the first time in a long time. I also used scraps for circle flowers. This is a simple page but I like the outcome. This was done for The Story Matters' current challenge. This one was easy enough for me to participate. The second layout today was inspired by the poem "The Road Not Taken". This was the challenge that Jann came up with for Stash Diet #3. As usual, other than the green cs, the smaller pieces of papers came from the scrap box. Now I'm going to see if I can scrap for one more before tomorrow's deadline.

Home is...

This is a 13-year old photo. Since I scrap old photos, I often think about the past. Time is the strangest thing; it goes fast, it goes slow, it is there, it disappears... We will have 18th anniversary next month. It doesn't seem like it though.... We now live in the 4th house we call home. I did this layout for The Story Matters and Use Your Stash. I sat out the first 2 challenges on The Story Matters and I am glad to participate this time. Use Your Stash has patterned paper challenge this month.