Fly

Is what I called this layout of Maggie. I so loved how pretty she was Easter Sunday in this dress.   I thought the perfect time to send her this message to use during her life. The words of wisdom say: 

“Be a butterfly, Spread your wings
and whatever life brings, be true to you...be You-nique!  Let the Lord guide you, to the beauty inside you, and you'll find the joy that you seek.”  Author unknown.

Thanks so much for looking!

DANCE

 

The journaling reads: You two were cracking me up!!! I had you over to color Easter eggs, and taking photos of you.  I set the camera on continuous shoot as I get great pics doing that. You both started dancing to the sound of the shutter.

This was too cute of a memory to not scrap it for them. They do have fun together most of the time!

Almost Perfect in Every Way

is what I titled this layout.

I used American crafts cs, Crate Paper, and MME, tickets are Imaginesce, and images by Silhouette Studio.  Thanks for looking.

Awesome Job!!!!

Bobby with his certificate for Perfect Attendence for the first semester of Kindergarten.

This was inspired by a sketch by Sketch Support. I used MME’s and my stash. Thanks for looking!

Summer of 1949

Another page for the Book of Me! A photo of my parents holding my sister Teri and I in my grandparents front yard. Teri was born in April of that year.  I was about 18 months old. I used Webster’ s Pages, and Prima papers and flowers. TFL!

Springtime!

The birds are singing, the daffodils and hyacinths are blooming, and the kids are outdoors playing!!!

I used Prima’s Sparkling Spring Collection,

Songbird collection, and flowers.  TFL!

It’s All About the Shoes!!!!

Ahhh yes eight years old and she is already nuts about SHOES!!!!! Maggie saw these shoes at the store before her birthday and really wanted them! So when she opened this present on her birthday she jumped up & down with happiness and excitement!

I used MME, Best Creations, and my stash. Thanks for looking!

Happy Birthday Maggie!!!

Last Sunday we celebrated Maggie’s eighth birthday! Her birthday was actually Saturday, March 3rd. She is growing up toooooo fast!

I used a kit from Super Sketches, and the PP and Stickers were BoBunny. Thanks for looking!

You!

This is about how proud Bobby is of his name and who he is. Whenever you call him by a silly name or a different name he will tell you I am not whatever I am Bobby. I saw this quote by Dr. Suess that reminded me so much of that I had to scrap it! The quote says: “Today you are you,, that is truer then true, There is no one alive, Who is Youer then You”.

I was inspired by a sketch from the class Finding Your Inspiration Station  with Amy Kingsford I am taking at Creative Passion Classes and a pillow with a hexagon design I saw on Pinterest.

Thanks for looking.

Friday Fast Track

at Scrapping the Moments was quite successful last evening! We had a good group posting their creative pages in the gallery. The sketch was from MME blog and was designed by Anne Subbington.  Here is my interpretation:

After the FFT was over I wandered over to Miss Art’s Papercrafting School and watched some of the videos of the new classes.  The one was the The Rule of Threes and the other was the Friday four class-a four minute video class. This week’s was taught by Alyssa and was a cute gift tag. So it was busy productive evening.  Sure hope your Saturday is a good one!  Happy Scrapping!!!

A New Look and

a new Perspective!!!! I have decided there a lot of things I do that have to do with my scrapbooking that I never let anyone know about so I am going to start blogging about more then just the layouts I do. Like What???? Well the classes I take and other scrappy things I do like blogs I find that may inspire you as I feel they inspire me!

So stayed tune for the up & coming new Gramma’s Happy Place!!!

New challenges are up at Scrapping the Moments today!!!!

The first half challenges are being posted as we speak!!! If you need some inspiration to get those photos scrapped or need to make a card for someone hop on over and check out the new challenges or walk thru the gallery-a ton of creativity there. Here's a link-http://www.scrappingthemoments.com/

Here's the layout I did for the Die Cut Challenge which is to do a page or card with fussy cutting-you know-cut a design from patterned paper or a stamped image with a pair of scissors and add it.

I will be changing my blog up in the next few days so stay tuned!!! I may even find a new site as this one is not working very well.

Here's a couple layouts

I have done the past few days. Thanks for all your kind words and interest in my work.

American Heros

This is the story of my two paternal uncles who served in the Korean Conflict. A story that needed to be told for the furture generations.

The journaling reads:

War Heroes
This is the story of two of my paternal uncles who fought in the Korean Conflict. My Uncle Eddy-who my brother is named after-and my Uncle Will were both in Korea in the same place, same time. Eddy (Edwin) was in the Army, and Will (Wilford) was in the Marine Corp. There was a lot of fighting going on where they were at. Eddie was very near the explosion of a hand grenade and both of his legs were blown up and had to be amputated. Unfortunately he did not survive the injury. My Uncle Will buried him in the Korean ground. I have the letter that my Uncle Will wrote to his mother telling of the horror that occurred and killed his brother…her son.
Before being notified of what had occurred my paternal grandmother had a premonition. She saw a white rat dragging his back legs across her bedroom floor.
My Uncle Eddy died before I was born so I never knew him. I did have a chance to know my Uncle Will however. He passed away when I was twelve years old, from a heart attack. My grandmother had a premonition about him also before she found out he had passed away She said she saw him standing next to a car in the neighbor’s driveway waving goodbye to her as he got into a car. He was not in the vicinity of her home when he passed.
He was divorced from his wife Mickey and had two sons-James Michael and Thomas Edwin.
In my opinion both of them deserved purple hearts-one lost his life, one lost and buried his brother.

Happy Birthday!!!!

Becky's Birthday

You're A Hoot!!!

Bobby being silly!!!

New page for Bob's Album

The new challenges went up today over at Scrapping the Moments. Here was the page I did for the Recipe challenge.

Here are a couple I have done the past few days!!!!

The first one is Maggie all dressed up and ready for the Daddy-Daughter Dance!

The next one is of me at age 5. It was my first grade photo taken in 1953. It also includes the class photo. This is also a scraplift of a page done my dear friend Pat.

Thanks for  looking!

Time Spent Together

Maggie and her dad went to annual Daddy-Daughter Dance this past weekend. Thanks for looking!

New Album!

 I have started a new album. I am beginning to scrap photos of Bob's farm-starting when they purchased it in 1964. It is very exciting as I have Bob's Mom's journaling on the back of the photos and I am including them on the pages. Her are two of the beginning pages!

My Valentine!

Here's 10 things I love about my Valentine!

Focus

Bobby loves the Leapad we got him for Christmas. He is so focused on whatever he does whether it is the Leapad, video games, reading or looking at pictures in a magazine.

Sweet

Is the layout of Maggie on her first birthday playing with her Fisher Price  Little People.  I did this for Layout Tag over at Scrapping the Moments. I made the background by using a template and misting with VintagePink Glimmer Mist.  Thank for Looking!

Picture Perfect

is what I called this page. It is Becky when she was in eighth grade.

Thanks for looking!

Family

This is a layout of my mom as a toddler! The photo was taken around 1930-31. Thanks for looking!

Memories of You

This is a page I did of my Grandmother. The photo was taken on Easter Sunday 1974 on her front porch.  It was inspired by a sketch by Sketch Support, and the papers are by My Mind's Eye. I fussy cut all the flowers.

Thanks for looking!

New DT Call for Scrapping The Moments!!!

There is an open call for 2 people to join the DT @ Scrapping the Moments.We are a small, friendly, scrap booking/paper crafting community.  We are  looking for someone to head up the weekly photography challenge.You do not need to be a professional photographer to do this.  We would like someone who is excited about taking photos & know their way around their camera.You would have to come up with a weekly idea of what we should photograph.You can see what we have been doing here http://www.scrappingthemoments.com/index.php?topic=2267.  If you are interested please send some of your photos, ideas you might have for the challenges, a little about yourself,and if you have a blog please send me a link to it, to pat@scrappingthemoments.com.  by February 4,2012.  If you can't post on the members board or gallery please do not apply.  I am only looking for people who can participate & show interest in our community.The 2nd position will be doing an ATC challenge. We have just started doing these & there is a lot of interest in these ATCs by our members. Only apply if you can commit to doing a monthly challenge and to participate on the message board & gallery. If interested please send me some samples of your work,especially ATCs you have done & if you have a blog or gallery send a link to that also.You can send this info to pat@scrappingthemoments.com by February 4,2012.  There is no compensation at this time for our DT members. But there is joy from sharing our talents with others. 

School Days

This is a layout I did for the Book of Me. It is my third grade photo and class photo. The journaling reads:  Third grade with Mrs. Jones

My teacher for third grade was Mrs. Jones. She lived a block away from the grade school I went to. One night in the spring her house caught fire during the night. She, her two sons and her husband all got out safely. But what an opportunity to teach a class of third graders about what to do in case of a fire. She walked us over to her house, and of course only saw the house from the sidewalk. At that time they still had the fire boxes on utility poles, that you would break the glass and the alarm would ring at the fire station and they knew what area you were in. She went over everything we needed to do in case of fire. Yes what an impression she made on us I still remember that walk, and seeing the ashes and the scorched roof. Thanks for the memories Mrs. Jones.

I honestly remember that so well but can not tell you who any of these kids are! LOL!

Thanks for looking!

Fun With Facepainting

My first Recipe Challenge at Scrapping the Moments! Yes the new challenges went up this morning so if you need some inspiration wander over and take a peek at all the creativity! We have a new stamping challenge also!
Here is the page I did for the Recipe Challenge. It was inspired by a page created by Alyssa McGrew, owner of Miss Art's Papercrafting School. If you never been there take a quick peek at what is going on over there-no one plays hookie! LOL

Thanks for looking!

First Birthday

This is a photo from Maggie's first birthday party! Don't you love her Care Bear Birthday hat??? The layout was inspired by a sketch by Susan Stringfellow. Thanks for looking!

You Two Always Give 100%

is how I see these two. In this photo playing a video game but no matter what they are doing-playing or school work they give it their all! TFL!

My Grandmother

This a my maternal grandmother at about age 18. This photo was probably taken around 1926. I did scrap the original photo.  I did not realize that today is the anniversary of the day she left this earth. I continue to miss her.
This is a scraplift of a page done by Lisa Valentine and a kit purchased at Miss Art's. The papers are Prima, flowers are Petaloo, butterfly is Recollections, the key is We R Memories. Thanks for looking!

Mom & Me

These are photos of my Mom & I in 1949 in the front yard of my grandmother's home. I edited the B&W photos in PSE9 and ended up with sepia tone as I felt it softened them a little. I used Webster's Pages patterned paper. TFL

Home Sweet Home

I was inspired by a sketch from Super Sketches and Debbie Sanders and the papers are by BoBunny. Thanks for looking!

My first Artist Trading Card

We have a new challenge at STM doing ATC's. An ATC is 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches-not a lot of room! Here is my first attempt-titled The Chickadee.

Thanks for looking!

New Challenges

Here's the layout I did for the new Double page scraplift challenge over at STM.  This layout is about the musical the second and third graders at Maggie's school did for their holiday play. It's Christmas, Carol is a variation of the well known production of the same name. This was inspired by a sketch by Allison Davis.  I was so proud as Maggie sang a solo called Nobody Cares About Me.

Santa Claus and Popcorn

Jingle bells and reindeer horns, Christmas trees and mistletoe, Jesus loves me this I know! Some of the lyrics to the Merle Haggard recording Santa Claus and Popcorn which my kids sang as children while preparing for Christmas to come. Perfect name of this layout I did of the grands! If you would like to hear the entire song here's a link. TFL

Holly Jolly Christmas

is what I titled this one of the Grands opening their Christmas gifts. I used a kit by Super Sketches and sketch by Allison Davis.  TFL

2012 Calender

This is the front of the calender I made the girls for Christmas. Of course it is packed full of photos of the grands all taken last year. It is a joy to use through the year, as it takes you back to a happy day last year! I hope they enjoy their's as much as I enjoy making them. Thanks for looking!

Christmas Past

This is a layout for the Book of Me that I am documenting. This photo is of my sister Teri & I visiting Santa in 1949. That would make me about 2 years old and Teri was eight months. Thanks for looking!

Nobody Cares About Me

is the title of the song Maggie sang her first solo to at the schools holiday concert. We were surprised to hear she was doing one, but she did a fabulous job with it. Amazing that one little girl seven years old could get up in front of a room full of strangers and do that! She received high praise from the teachers in her school also. We are so proud of her! She never let us hear the song until the night of the concert-"It's a surprise" she said!

Thanks so much for looking!

Holiday tags

Here are four tags I have made-the first three are inspired by Tim Holtz and the final one by Ellen Hutton Feminine Twist on Holiday Tags. I had a lot of fun  making these even though it will take a week to clean up my mess! LOL

Thanks for looking!

100 Lines

Bobby read 100 lines before Thanksgiving-great job for a kindergardner!  A line is a book that would normally equal 15 minutes of reading for a student his age.  We are so proud of him! He doing so well in school! Thanks for looking!

New Challenges are up at Scrapping the Moments

Ahh yes the first half challenges went up this morning! Also our new Challenge The Twelve Days of Christmas  started today also! We also posted the the new Tim Holtz and Ellen Hutton tags starting their series of holiday tags. Ohhhhh so much inspiration!

Here is my two page layout for my challenge. It was inspired by a single page sketch by Ali Davis.

Thanks for looking!