Layout Share! and some news....

This will be quick, lucky for whoever might be reading this today! I have a couple of layouts that haven't been posted here. (For the news you will have to scroll all the way to the end!)

Here is the first one:



Now I don't really let the little ones scavenge through my purse, but since I was supervising Meikina I took advantage of the photo op and let her have her fun. She hadn't been with us too long, was still really young but she absolutely knew what the lip gloss was for! I love the bright colors in this layout and those ladybugs are so sweet! The kit I used is one of Betty Jo's called Ladybug Red. Full credits can be found here: Exploring


This next one was completed just a couple of days ago. I thought I would never get it finished!




I started out with a background to match the pink in Meikina's swimsuit, but finally changed it to see how it would look if I matched the soft blue of the water. That was what I settled on since it helped make her photos stand out so much better. But I still needed to accent with some pinks to balance everything. I prowled through all my digi supplies and found some cute doodled flowers from Weeds and Wildflowers, recolored the centers and there ya have it! The word art and butterfly are also part of that cute (free!) mini kit, it is recolored too. And look at this frame isn't it just adorable?! This was created by my friend Betty Jo, she is so sweet to let me use her stuff. Full credits for the layout are here.

Last of all is one that I did a makeover on. I never was completely satisfied with the old version, but now that old antique-ish frames are so popular, I decided to redo it. If you want to see the original version, go here: Growing Up. I did that one nearly 2 years ago. It's amazing how far digiscrapping has come since then!



Full credits are here

Well this ended up being much longer than I thought it would! Stay tuned for more bragging from this gramma to 6 adorable grandchildren, going on 7!!! Yes, this is my official announcement! Another one is due to be born next spring!

Have a great weekend!

Blessings and hugs,
Cheryl

I really am still alive, LOL!

I just haven't been blogging, had no energy, didn't care. Bad huh? I couldn't scrap, didn't want to edit photos. nothing. ugh. Ok, I had to do something about this, so the other day I downloaded Betty Jo's super cute frames and started a layout. Got stuck. The layout is almost done but what a struggle! So, I prowled around and found a challenge I thought I might be able to manage. I definitely needed something to get me past this inability to do anything creative. The one I decided to try was the weekly Digi-Dare. They have been doing this every week for a year and I have never participated in that one. Not that I do many challenges but sometimes they can be fun. Here is what I had to do: scrap in a style that is not my usual. And use some digi supplies from a designer that I haven't tried before. Easy enough, right?? When I browse the galleries many of the layouts that capture my attention are the ones with lots of "white space". A small photo with lots of nothing around it but background paper. I like those for some reason but they aren't me. I have a hard time leaving all that empty space when I can fill it with something pretty like a picture or some flowers, or even some journaling. I gave that a try and here ya go! My entry for the Digi-dare week # 52...which by the way was in the Gallery Standouts thread at DST yesterday. Now that is a first for me!



Full credits here.

I am pretty well satisfied with this LO, but will most likely add some journaling along the left hand side before printing. Isn't my little granddaughter adorable?!

I need to get some new up to date pics of my grandkids to scrap. I am using lots from the months that I lived with my daughter and her 4 little people. It was just too easy to get snapshots on a regular basis. Now I don't see them as often so I have to make an effort to go pick them up or just show up with my camera with the intention of taking pics. We don't get together as a family anymore because a few months ago my daughter got a job working evenings and every weekend. The opposite of my hours. hate that and I miss her lots.

Ok, I'm going to close for now so I can work on wedding pictures and try to get that other layout finished. I hope that my dry spell is over for awhile. At least I am in the mood to scrap again!

Love you guys lots!

Blessings and hugs,
Cheryl