Giving Thanks for friends and birthdays

These photos are from Krista's 13th birthday in 2011.  She has a bunch of freinds over and they had nice weather to play outside.  I fussy cut a flower out of the paper and put it on the page with pop dots to add seme height to the page.  You can see it close-up below.

I also had this pin that I wasn't sure how to adhere to the page.  I stuck it into a piece of ribbon so that I was able to easily attach it to the page.

I used Workout 81: I am so thnakful from ScrapFit.  I am thankful to get this last challenge done before 2012 ends.  I look forward to many more scrapbook challenges in 2013!!

 

13 grandkids

Every Christmas we gather at my parents' house to celebrate.  Depending on the travels of my 2 sisters we may celebrate on Christmas Eve, the Saturday after Christmas or even the Sunday before Christmas.  Part of the tradition is to take a photo of all the grandkids with grandma and grandpa. In 2011 both my sisters were home with their families.  This photo shows all the grandkids with my parents.  I used the December 15th sketch from Stuck Sketches for my LO design. 

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to scrap some of your traditions :-) 

First day of school

Of 2011, that is.

My tradition is to take photos of my son and daughter each year before they leave for school in the morning.  These photos are usually taken outside, either in front of the evergtreeen tree or on the porch.  I take a photo of each child alone and then a photo of the two of them together.  This page will be for my son's scrapbook.  I have included the photo of him alone and one of him with Krista.  I used a piece of paper from a school pack I recently won for the background paper and some coordinating paper that I had from another kit.  I also used the big apple embellishment from the school pack.  I used Workout #82--Sketch by Diana from ScrapFit for my LO design.

My brother is gone, but not forgotten.....

These LOs were taken last august on the birthday of my brother.  The first are of his headstone.  I used the December 1st sketch from Stuck Sketches.

 These photos are of the tree planted in his memory, by his coworkers.  I used skecth #238 from Creative Scrappers for this one.

Last chance to enter challenges

A few more entries for the month of November.

The first is a LO.  It has two photos from Ellis Island.  When we visited NYC last summer (August 2011) everything was peaceful, well the weather was peaceful.  No flooding or hurricaine was there then.  I can only imagine what some of the sights look like now after the disaster they experienced.

The city was very busy.  It was certainly busier than my rural town in northern New York.  Businer that what I am confortable.  These are some of the rare photos which include my husband and I.  I think my son was taking photos at this time.  I created this LO from Skecth #235 from Creative Scrappers.  I loved that I was able to use up some scraps and the burlap banner triangles.  They were all part of a kit that was almost all used up.

The second is this card entry.  It was created for Workout #80 from Scrap Fit:  Fall Color Inspiration.  The colors to use are wood, grass, and burlap.  I had this scrap piece of bulap that I had bought at the Dollar Store a while ago and thought how perfect to use it.  I used the choloclate paper for my wood color and found these embellishments that had green in them with a little splash of color.

Thanks for looking and we'll see what there is to do in December. 

Manatee Park

The Warm-Up #33 from ScrapFit is SMEAR & SMUDGE SOME PAINT.  Well I certainly used some paint! 

• I used my new bottle of Gesso paint.  I had bought it a few days before.  I opened the bottle and poured some paint onto my cardstock.  I then used my paintbrush to move the paint across the paper.  I then had this idea to use some beads in the wet paint on one end of the pushed paint. 
• I let this dry for a few days (and I had to work at my real job).  Then I looked for some photos taken near water.  Well that proved more difficult than I thought.  I found this one from last April when our family went to Fort Myers in Florida.  The photo is mostly of the walkway with the water next to it.  My husband and kids are at the end of the dock.
• I cut some strips of blue paper from my scraps.  I used several of my border punches to put a pretty edge on each of them.
• I layered these strips behind the photo.  I got his idea from friend scrapbookers.
• I added a title/journal box.
• I wanted some other color so I added the two reddish birds to the bottom of the page.
• Voila, my LO was finished. 

Scrapping about Myself

I have begun to have my kids take more photos of just me.  This first photo I had my daughter take last summer (2011) so that I would have a new profile photo for my blogs.  It was a day when I had gone to get my hair trimmed and of course styled by my hairdresser.  I sure didn't look like this many days after that.  I don't know about you, but I can never get my hair to look quite like it does when my hairdresser does it. 

I thought that my kids will want to remember what I looked like when I am old and gray (well maybe never gray........my hairdresser can always take care of that).  I used the November 15th from Stuck Sketches to create this LO. 

This second LO is from my birthday in August 2011.  My kids made me a cake ( as they usually do) ane sang "Happy Birthday to You" to me.  I used Sketch #234 from Creative Srappers for my idea to create this LO.  I didn't include the photo of me in this LO.  I have the cake and my kids carrying the cake