Family Ties

Lucas got this tie for Gido's Funeral and Jade's Graduation. It only lasts so long though...so it ended up anywhere else after the ceremony. Lucas Rambo...and Faith just being Faith.

Honor

I absolutely love the colors and patterns of this line. This is a tiny original picture of my parent's wedding. I guess that would mean it is 50 years old. I used some old architecture metals on it which worked well.

My Family at My Father's 75th Birthday Party

It's not very often that the six of us get together. This September, my father celebrated his 75th birthday. We had some family and friends here for a party. It was small, but wonderful. My father was surprised and everyone had fun visiting. The one part that I found very special was later in the evening when Ken realized that everyone else had gone into the house except for us original six. We stayed outside for almost an extra hour just visiting. It was a wonderful day.

River Stuff

We got in this wonderful travel paper. But, since I don't travel much, I found a use for it. The colors worked well and were very "Sky" colors back at this time of her life. We had gone for a walk down by the river and collected things. We couldn't go in the river because it was high and the current was dangerous. We just had to stay on our side and explore there.

Sky and Lucas - Growing Up Together

Here I used some Lime Rickey paper from Basic Grey and some old vellum quotes and Basic Grey letter stickers. It looks like I may have some scrapbooking time and supplies to use up this summer. Maybe I can get caught up -- if there is such a thing. With Faith's Grade 12 Grad this week, I'll probably be scrapping that all summer.

Kids

These are both fairly simple pages with some cardstock and new paper. You know how some days you are really creative and other days you are not. Well, with the winter/spring blahs, I seem to be really uncreative. I have been putting quite a few pictures on a page using older pictures. These are two examples. I have been published in the past; but feel that it is almost like another job to research new techniques to do publishable pages. I, however, have so much to do in my life, that scrapbooking is suppose to be my hobby and/or (as I have always said) my therapy. I don't have an endless supply of money, so my pages are on a budget (as I believe is the case for most scrapbookers.) So, take my layouts as they are: from a woman who has four children, two jobs and a single income. Once in awhile I may even surprise both of us and produce a "wow" page. It's nice to do that once in awhile. But, I have decided that I have to be happy with the time I have, the money I have to spend and getting my memories down.

riding

Twenty five pictures on a two page spread -- ya! Not much to say about this other than there are circles and tons of pictures -- but effective to capture the way the day went.

Special Kid

Old and new paper, old die cuts and cool memories. Lucas asked Faith to dance at Rhea's wedding. She loves to dance, she wanted to dance (and as Faith says -- her dumb boyfriend wouldn't dance with her). She got to dance a few times with strangers and her siblings. I think Mikey has learned his lesson because he danced with her recently at their winter formal.

Wii Christmas & Christmas Traditions

I took lots of pictures of the kids playing Wii. They all had their favorite games and played with one another for hours.

There has always been a family tradition to play some cribbage on Christmas Eve. However, because there was only Ken and Brenda and Me and My Kids home for Christmas at Gram and Gramps house, there were only a few for cribbage. Ken attempted a game with Gramps and Spud Man. I think it makes Dad feel good.

I had one day alone over the Christmas Holidays. I chose to sit in front of the television, watch two movies I had been wanting to watch and scrapbook. I only had a few old things at home to use on the pages plus my adhesives and scissors. So, I did what I could. I even had an old lettering template I hadn't used in forever that I used on every page. I didn't want to waste time getting up and going to the computer, so I didn't journal.

Tough Guy

These papers looked so good together that I just had to do the page. I found a picture of my nephew Matt that looked perfect on it. I used some old foam stamps to do the title. I don't think I'm done with this page yet, but it was snowing outside and the store was closed and I had to drive across the city to get Jade so I just said it was done for the day. Any suggestions?

Original - Sister/Brother Having Fun

One of my favorite pictures of the weekend. My kids being my kids. After Lucas and Faith built a wall of chocolates, they posed for me. I used some BZoo paper and then added a few rub-ons that I had laying around. These are some of the times we tend to forget unless they are caught with pictures. Definately my children's personalities all right and not afraid to show it.

Tinkering Around

Some Basic Grey scraps and Yellow Bicycle stickers I had laying around made up this page. I found it difficult to do because it was such bright colors. I need to add some journalling because this was Christmas morning and Lucas and Faith had so much fun making this contraption while everyone's ipod docking stations were playing and I was making bacon, eggs, hashbrowns, coffee and toast.

Walk In the Park

I have been wanting to scrapbook these pictures for years. I loved the totem pole picture. Sky and Lucas walking hand in hand back home was so cute too. I used Wild Asparagus for most of this layout with some scraps of Basic Grey and old rub-ons. I used some rickrack and Heidi Swapp felt butterflies to decorate.

Ponytails

I did the unthinkable again. I pulled out old pictures and scrapbooked some of them. I found the original two pictures first . . . did the page and then found the little one (where Lucas is wearing a dress, has ponytails and painted toenails). I used old paper, old letters, old chipboard and then combined some new stuff with it. I Glimmer Misted the photo anchors and used some newer ribbon. The arrow is from the Basic Grey stickers that I used on my "Girl" page. Boy, do some of these old pictures bring back some forgotten memories. I guess that is why we scrapbook . . . so that we don't forget all of this stuff.

He Didn't Tell Me How To Live . . . & It Takes Balls to Snowboard

Anthony wore this get-up to Montana's in Sherwood Park and danced on the wooden floor with his steel-toed boots which caused quite a few stares. When we got back to their house, I asked him for a few pictures. He offered the pierced nipple shot and I took it. He is quite the kid. He has a heart of gold, is intelligent, knows how to save his money for important things and drives a hybrid. He could show a lot of people how to live their lives in a decent, smart way. I am proud to call him my nephew.

When I saw this picture, I warned Jade that I was going to do this page. She doesn't get the humor in it. She was grabbing to get her other set of mittens but it looks like she's "adjusting her balls". We had discussed that snowboarding was more difficult than skiing so the title stuck when the picture was developed. Simple page to put together . . . but one that had to be done nonetheless. Patterned paper, rub-ons and letter stickers . . . quick but memorable.

Quilt

My mother has been making this quilt for me for four years. She showed it to me the other day and I was so impressed by the amount of work she has put into it. So, I took some pictures and put this layout together. The stitching seemed to take forever so I can see just how much work my mom has put into it. The journalling is under the hinged pictures. The scrapbooked quilt on the bottom corner was done with scraps.

Untitled - Man I Must Have Been Tired

I have had this page unfinished in the backroom for months. I added some buttons today and some diamond glaze yesterday; the leather curly thing last week and the rest of the page was done in the summer. Now, after uploading it, I see that I have forgotten a title. Oh boy! This week's time off will be welcome. My mom looks so happy to have Sky leading her on her horse this past summer. Actually, we all had so much fun. My mother loves horses and Sky loved taking all of us for a ride on Niko. Niki is gone now; so it is so nice to have these photos.

Marshmallow Fight

Again Basic Grey wins the paper challenge. I used some old scraps for the circles, embossed the title with white puffy powder, doodled with black marker and used up some old cardstock stickers. These are the pages that keep the memories alive. Cal found some marshmallows weeks after the war was over. What a hoot!

tobaggan DIEFENBAKER

I did this today at work. We went tobogganing on Saturday Nite and I got the page done right away. FUN FUN FUN!