Seeing the World Together

We are fortunate in this lifetime, if we have a great friend, someone that knows us, good and bad...someone who you can always talk to day or night...someone that will meet you for ice cream at 10:30 at night or share a bowl of Taco chips and salsa and not judge!

Olivia, my oldest daughter has many close friends, but none that compare to her close friendship with Madison...they are both so lucky to have this special bond and to have been able to travel so much together! I hope they always cherish the times they've spent together and that they have many more years of creating such wonderful memories with each other!

I loved this sketch as it really gave me a great backdrop for these photos and it's nice for a change to feature one large photo on your scrapbook pages :)

I'm not sure what I would do without my American Crafts Thickers or any of my numerous mini alphabet letters! They make my title far more interesting and when you use your mini-alphas, you can really almost 'journal' through your title...love these!

This week's sketch was brought to Let's Scrap from the one and only Becky Fleck of Pagemaps! Super awesome lady and one of her fantastic sketches as are all of them!

Thanks so much for taking time out of your day to read along and stop by here!

More layouts to share...

Using up more stash...really old papers and brads 

Sketch by PageMaps

bought like a zillion of those journalling bits...still have half a zillion in my stash!

Ok, so this was really creepy gross, but super cool at the same time! This Edible Garden was on the Xcaret park site, where they grow these specialty mushrooms and harvest them for their on site gourmet restaurant! Beautiful to look at though.

sketch by Scrapbooks etc.

So glad to have our 'use up those brads' challenge with my scrappin' sister Sandra at the Ultimate Scrapbooking Retreat weekend...

Super stunning site...the Chapel of Guadalupe was underground! at the very bottom you can enter a cave where they stored their wine for the restaurant next door...loved all the cool cupboards with all the antiques bottle openers and the carved tree on the main wall...I'm assuming it was of Guadalupe herself!

Sketch by Scrapbooks Etc.

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August Challenge at Let's Scrap

Hello! I wanted to share my layout that I used in the August sketch challenge over at Let's Scrap.

I used photos from a school field trip my daughter went on many years ago...four years ago actually!

The class went to Fort Langley to visit the Fort Langley National Historic Site of Canada...a little about this place: Fort Langley is the exact location where, a century and a half ago, a huge fur trade organization called the Hudson's Bay Company established a small post to trade with the First Nations of the West Coast. The enterprise grew, evolved, and influenced history, leading to the creation of the colony of British Columbia!

This sketch challenge is going on for the entire month of August, click on over to the Let's Scrap site to find out what prize is up for grabs...here's the sketch:

I used some patterned script paper from Paper Reverie, that was in my stash, to cut all of these different flowers out using my *new 'Art Philosophy' Cricut cartridge from Close To My Heart...let me just say that I'm lovin' it!

This title block is on CTMH's new journalling spots, you get 12 folded envelope/pouches with a co-ordinating tag inside...on this one I attached the layout title to the envelope and stamped onto the tag so I can add my journalling...the word 'History' was inked in Cocoa onto our *new cork alphabet stickers! lovin' them too!

Here's my take on this Becky Fleck sketch:

I didn't take a close up of the alphabet border stamping but I've used CTMH's new stamp set 'Vintage Type'...might be lovin' this one too!

I decided to use the back of the tag to add yet another photo of this event.

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Memory Makers Sketch and Colour Challenge

Good Morning! I finished this layout off last night but wanted to wait for some bright light to take a picture of it. I loved the sketch from PageMaps and the colours look great together. I had to improvise with the photo size because I already had the photos waiting to be scrapped in 4x6...so instead I cropped them to 3¼ x 4½ which left less white space, but I still like how it all turned out!

Here's the sketch again:

and here's the colour challenge: 

and here's my take on both:

Memory Makers Sketch and Colour Challenge

Happy Monday! I wanted to post a couple different challenges for this week...the first one is from Memory Makers and I like it because I have been a Page Maps fan for years and I LOVE colour! So why not play along with me this week and pull out some of those papers and photos that I know you've got tucked away...

Here's the awesome PageMaps sketch by Becky Fleck:

and here's the colour challenge offered by Memory Makers:

Put them together and this is what I got...oops...nothing yet! still working on it...stay tuned...

Now how about you?