Baby Face...

Here is my take on this weeks sketch from Let's Scrap.

Every 3rd Wednesday the sketch is a card sketch... welllll.. I'm 

not such a card person so I usually turn them into layouts... as I did

this time too!! LOAD #7

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This is the card sketch that I was playing with... 

In Love....

I am soooo behind in my scrapbooking of my lil Grandson Preston!! He is only 

4 months old and I am drowning in pics!! ;0) Here is another layout of some

snapshots that his mom and dad took on their phones... he was just a couple

of weeks old... soooo cute!!

LOAD #5

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This is with this weeks sketch from Nuts About Sketches

Fun and cute sketches there!!

Santa Baby....

Still behind on my scrapbooking and my blog... so here it goes!!
LOAD #4

Santa Baby!! Pics of our little Yummy from his first Christmas.. he wasn't

crazy about the hat but I still got a few cute pics!! ;0) 

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This is from a Let's Scrap sketch. I only used one side of it but it worked

for these pics after I turned it a bit... ;0)

Great sketch!!!

Little Boy Blue

This weeks sketch from Nuts About Sketches

More pics of lil Preston... I have soooo many more to scrapbook!!

Love the blue he is wrapped in, so the title seemed to fit!!

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This is the sketch I played with

Totally In Love...

Ok since last months LOAD was such a 'bust' for me, here we go again!! 

LOAD #1

Totally In Love...

I am loving playing with the pictures that Nikki took of Preston and the kids... love them!!

I have had this paper forever and a day.. so this is what came of it!! ;0) 

SnapShots of a Yummy Boy!!

LOAD #14 and #15

'Snapshots of a Yummy Boy!'

This weeks sketch from Let's Scrap and more precious photos of lil Preston.

He was just 2 months old in these photos... and sooooo adorable with his Grandpa!!

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Here is the great sketch from Let's Scrap

Twisted Farm Food

LOAD #11 & #12

Hash House a Go Go... Twisted Farm Food!!

This is a layout for a friends album... a day trip to Reno

for a gun show and ended with a trip to this yummy restaurant!!

Doing this layout made me hungry.. this a trip to Reno is coming soon!! ;0) 

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This is the sketch I used from Let's Scrap

Fun sketch to play with!!

LOAD #13

This is another layout of my sweet little Grandson and Sweet Mommy!!

The kids take pics all the time on their cell phones and then download them 

to my computer.... This lil guy is just past 3 months old and I am sooooooo

behind on his scrapbooking because we are all taking pics constantly!! ;0)

Mommy Moments!!

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Here is the great sketch from Nuts About Sketches

Preston at 2 months

LOAD # 10

Preston at 2 months... I love this photo of him. He is just so yummy!!!

I used this months sketch from 'The ScrapRoom'....

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This is the sketch I played with

4 new layouts!!!

I'm behind on my LOAD Challenge and posting what I have done for it too!!

One of these days I will feel more caught up.... I have still been doing alot of 

veggin' since the heart attack and I seem to just be getting back into some 

serious scrapbooking... so here are a bunch of LOAD layouts!!!

This is LOAD #3 & #4 .

This is Let's Scraps weekly challenge a couple of weeks ago... 

Grandpa loved buying all these shoes for lil Preston. I never knew 

that a 1 1/2 month old needed 2 pairs of Nike's and 2 pairs of Sketchers!!

Hate to see what he 'needs' when he is a teenager!! ;0) 

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This is the sketch I used

This next layout is from Nuts About Sketches

LOAD #5 & #6

Another layout for Anthony's Gunslinger album... 

this was our Sacramento Law Enforcement Memorial Run in 2011

a great sketch to use lots of photos on.. fun!!

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This is the great sketch I played with for this fun layout!!

LOAD #7 & #8

I made up 2 of these bad boys!!

This was taken from a card sketch at Let's Scrap. I'm not much into card

making so whenever I can I will turn them into a layout instead.... 

Wrapped in Love... I love this pic and I am tickled with how the layout

turned out!!

this is the card sketch

On to LOAD #9

This is for this weeks sketch at Nuts About Sketches

This sketch was perfect for these little snapshots of our 

little yummy guy!! Love this face!!!

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This is the fun sketch I played with...

Well that wraps up this blog entry... now back to watching the 49er's football game

and getting some more scrapbooking done!! Thanks for checking it out!! ;0)

Baby Fresh....

 This is #2 LOAD for me!!! Love playing with pics of my yummy

lil Grandson!!

This is from this weeks sketch at Nuts About Sketches       

These are more pics of lil Preston that Nikki too.. I see these pics and 

I think of a 'Downey' commerical... so the title was Baby Fresh as soon

as I looked at them... soooo flippin sweet!!

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This is the sketch I was playing with.. I will be using this 

sketch again very soon... love it!!! ;0)

                   

Baby makes 3..

This is my #1 layout for the January LOAD at Let's Scrap. If you haven't

joined us there then do!! What a great way to start off the New Year!!

This is for this weeks sketch at Let's Scrap. This is Lil Preston and his 

wonderful parents... what an incredible pic!! A dear friend did these pics

for the kids and I am in love with all of them!! You will be seeing more of them

very very soon!! I love the way this layout turned out... ;0)

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This is the sketch I was working with from Let's Scrap... I

only used one side of it but love it!!!

If you don't play with us at Let's Scrap you should!!! ;0)

2 New DT Layouts

Boy am I having a hard time finding my scrapbooking groove after my 

heart attack... I have done 2 more DT layouts this month and they 

were hard to get done and I'm not really thrilled with either one. 

The pics are great the scrapbooker must be 'on vacation'!! ;0) 

Here is the first one of Vieve.. this is for the Nuts About Sketches

DT... the pics are amazing of Vieve. Such fun to scrapbook her pics

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This is the sketch I worked with 

Here is the newest layout... it will be posted Monday morning on 

Nuts About Sketches..

Preston!!! Gotta love these yummy pics!!

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This is the sketch

Love the sketches at Nuts About Sketches... so much fun to play with their sketches 

and be on their Design Team... Hopefully I will start getting my creative juices flowing 

again really soon.. thanks for checking them out!! ;0) 

Grandparents In Love....

Still recovering here from my heart attack and trying to get back

into my routine... slowly but surely I am getting better. So I think it

is time to get this sketch on my blog. 

This layout is from a sketch on Let's Scrap.. our beautiful

Grandson Preston and all 4 of his Grandparents!! ;0)

Lucky lil guy to be surrounded by all this love...

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These pics were all taken before Preston was 24 hrs old

This is the sketch I worked with...

See a little difference?? I started with the sketch and it didn't work for what I 

wanted with the pics.. so I shifted pages and tweaked it a bit and whaaallla!!

Grandparents in Love was made!! ;0)

Baby Face....

I'm busy trying to get caught up on Preston's baby pics...

he is only 8 weeks old and I am sooooo behind already!! ;0)

I am doing albums up for them and for us so alot of duplicate

layouts will be seen of him... trying to switch some of them up 

a bit but some of them are jsut duplicate layouts.... soooo many

pics to scrapbook!! ;0) 

Here is the latest.. this is for our album..

Baby Face

This is for Nuts About Sketches sketch for this

week... this is the sketch I used. I twisted it about just

a little bit to make it work for the pics that I had ...

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Fun sketch to play with.... !!

Cuddle Time....

This is from this weeks sketch at Let's Scrap!!

Cuddle Time w/ Daddy... The Adorable One cuddling up

with Landen just in time for some 'football'!! This was definitely

'daddy' time.. ;0) Always brings a smile to my face to see these pics..

This is the sketch I played with... or actually I only played with

half of the sketch.. ;0) 

Enjoy Life....

This weeks sketch from Nut's About Sketches

Here is another layout for Vieve's album...

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This is the sketch I used to make the layout....

They post a new sketch every Monday... some single

page and some double pages... check them out!! ;0)

New things happening at Let's Scrap!!!

Some new things going on at Let's Scrap!!

New Administration, new Design Team... 

some new groups going on and some challenges heading

your way soon... if you haven't already you REALLY should

check out Let's Scrap 

Here's some new faces and some new positions for some:

Administrators:

Design Team Members:

Debby de Wilde

Mindi Brown

Jennifer Russell

Cathy van de Bruinhorst (DT Coordinator)

Charlotte van Wyk

Val Thorpe

Jeaunes Viljoen

Kristine Ponte

Eniko DeLisle

Janet Gregory

Heather Corbitt

Tiffany Duvall

Martha Sterbens

Michelle Looi

The new term for the Design Team starts December 1st 

and runs thru March 31st. I look forward to working with this
amazing group of ladies and can't wait to see the creative layouts
that they will create!! ;0)

If you haven't checked out all the groups that we have to play in you should...

BAM (Book About Me)

 Let's Read Group - new

Let's Photograph

Scrap Your Stash

LOAD for January - (LayOut A Day)

Lots of things to do and hopefully more to come... so come and check it out!!

Pure Bliss....

This weeks sketch at Let's Scrap is what I used on this layout..

I love this pic of My Adorable One and me... he is so Adorable!!

This is the sketch I used for this layout... I only used one side of it

because it worked with this pic... :0) 

Ok... So I twisted and turned it a bit... and then I took out

a couple of photos and added the title.. but you can see

how I used this sketch right?? That's what sketches are

all about.. turn them, tweak them and make them 

work for you!! :0) Love sketches!!

Vieve....

Here is another layout for Vieve's album... beautiful black and white pics to 

play with using one side of a sketch from Nut's About Sketches

I only used one side of this sketch... but what a fun

sketch to play with!!

Take your turn with this sketch and load it up 

on the Nut's About Sketches blog!! 

Live Love Laugh

I have used this quote before on layouts of me and My Adorable One..

He brings all these things and so many more to my life everyday!

This is the layout I did for Let's Scrap this week. 

Not my favorite 'layout' but I love the pics... yes we are

goofy but we are totally head over heals in love as well... ;0)

Here is the sketch that I worked with... I only used one side of it 

because it worked so well for my pics... and I flipped it too!! ;0)

If you want to play with this sketch and post it for our weekly

winner at Let's Scrap you can do it until Tuesday midnight... every

Wednesday they come out with a new sketch. You can use the sketches there

anytime and post them in the gallery too... come play with us!!