ALBC Week 4

 This weeks theme is petals.  Anything that has flowers on it will work.  I choose to put this picture of Sarah with one of her dance teachers, Linda Luckstead.  Linda taught the ballet classes and by the time this picture was taken Sarah was done with ballet, but still enjoyed helping Linda with the little kids at the recital.

This second layout is a couple of pictures of Kristen at Grace Summer Camp.  Since I don't spend the time out there, I u

Week 3 ALCB

 The ALCB challenge for the past week was to have die cuts on your pages.  I choose to scrap a memory for Kurt.  One of the families that he has worked with over the years presented him with pictures of their kids with him, a nice note and a gift card to Candlelight.  The Time of Your Life ALSB kit was perfect for these pictures, letter and the used card.  I have shown the picture of the two pages together and then a closeup of each page.

The other pictures I wanted to use were a few of my brother Dan with my youngest daughter Kristen. Dan was in the Air Force for 21 years, this caused him to be absent for most of my girls childhoods.  While he was in the Air Force we maybe only saw him once every couple of years.  These pictures were taken on New Years Day.  This was the first one that Dan was home for and able to come to our house. Kristen was in 2nd grade when these pictures where taken.  Once again the Time of your Life kit was perfect for these memories from the past.

second entry

Looks like I need to have each picture in a separate blog post so here is my second layout.

ALBC Bootcamp Week 1

Wow, I can't believe it has been over a year since I put anything on here.  I need to get more active again.

A year ago I decided to take the plunge and try Club Scraps monthly kits.  I choose to do the lite kit (or junior as it was called then)  Each kit makes 8 layouts a month and sometimes the kit also has a project in it. Quite often they come with a new (to me) marker, pen, etc. I am loving the club scrap materials and find that their card stock and patterned paper is superior to many of the other companies.  I decided to try something new this winter and have signed up for their ALSB bootcamp.  ALSB stands for Assembly Line Scrap Booking.  I really enjoy this method and have made some awesome layouts over the year that are beautiful. I think that this challenge is going to be ideal as for each each entry uploaded Club Scrap will be donating money to Operation Write Home. This is a neat program where you make cards for our soldiers to send home to their families so that they can stay in touch.  In the past, I have had my Clover Kids make cards for this project.  Of course, since there are many veterans in my family it is also a project that I can get behind.  I know how much it meant for my mom to receive a letter or note from my brother when he was stationed overseas.

This weeks assignment was to use something metallic on your pages.  On the top layout, the green photo mat paper is a metallic green type of paper (It actually is the same as the base paper for the layout on the right.)  The layout on the right, besides having the base paper be a metallic green it also has some brads at the top.

These papers come from the Watercolor Blossoms set that was a special Release kit.  The pictures are a few that are left over from the Washington Musical Charlotte's Web when Kristen was in 6th grade.  The colors and flowers were perfect for that summer county fair type of atmosphere.

Kristen's 1st Quilt

3 years ago, my mom purchased this quilt kit for Kristen to work on, partially because Kristen wanted it.  She worked on it a little at a time, but not very much.  Just recently she got out the kit and has worked on it fairly steady for a couple of weeks and has finished it.  Now to take it to the fabric store and find some fabric to back it with.  Kristen is quite proud of finally finishing her project (I think that maybe she was just too young before).  She isn't quite sure what she will use it for, but thinking that it might make a nice doll blanket.