Brandy

One last layout for Scrap Our Stash Birthday Celebration.  This one is the first challenge, a layout with at least 3 layers.  When Mom and I went to our weekend scrapping retreat a few weeks ago, I took my tablet just so I could see the 3rd and 4th challenges when they posted.  I figured I could at least get that done.  After all, I had a whole weekend.  NOT!  I did get this one done but completely forgot to post it.

Brandy (Mom and Dad's Dog) was very special.  She had character and personality that kept us smiling or laughing all the time.

One Chance to Get It Right

 

Journaling:

Before digital cameras, we usually posed for pictures because the cost of film and developing was expensive and we only took one picture, often at a restaurant during a celebration of some sort.

I love this picture from the mid 80's and it shows what it was like to take one picture with film and hope you get it right.  Scrap Our Stash Birthday Celebration is coming to an end and I created this layout for one last challenge:  #5 - Banners

Thanks again SOS for a fun month of challenges.

 

Underwater Adventure

Needless to say, living on a sailboat in warm waters (Mexico) offered many 'Underwater Adventures', but one place stood out above all the rest.  It wasn't the warm water of Mexico, rather the cold and brilliant colors, and size on life, in the NW.  These pictures were taken at Tod Inlet, on a point between Angler's Anchorage Marina and Tod Inlet (an anchorage for visitors to the Buchart Gardens) on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.  They don't depict the colors too well (due to the depth I was at where colors fade with the sunlight), but the splendor of the dive is still radiant!

  

The Memory Nest has a Sketch of the Month  

and the March sketch was perfect for my underwater pictures.

 

Circle Journal - Beginnings

I just added my pages to a Circle Journal that is all about our personal beginnings.  Who we are, where we were born, what was happening in our life early on, etc.  It was fun and I decided to base my pages on Portland Oregon, where I was born and raised.

There are two base pages with my memories of Portland and Oregon on the left page, and my memories of my childhood inside the little book on the right page.  The center pages graduate with Summer, the turn and see Fall on the left and Winter on the right, then the back is Spring, because Portland has four very different and definite seasons.  (That's a mini birth certificate from JoLee's on the 'Sandy' book.
For the Scrap Our Stash - Stash A Thon, Birthday Challenge #8 - Texture, I used Dimensional Paste to add texture to the snow.  Thanks for another fun challenge SOS.

Christmas is On It's Way!

OK, so I'm planning ahead a little.  I love doing a Christmas card or two every month and the Scor Pal Blog's March Challenge - "More Than One Score" Scor-Pal Challenge #2 - Christmas In March and Use Your Dies is helping me keep it going.  I had fun with my second Pop Up Box Card.

 

The challenge requires at least two scores, and I used my Scor Buddy to score all the fold lines.  The challenge also requires using a die cut and I had big ideas in my head that just would not transfer to the overall design, so I used my die cuts to cut the 2.5" green squares that decorate the inside flaps.  The papers, including the fussy cut words and flowers, are from Recollections Winter Wonderland Collection.

A Father's Love

A Father's Love
 
I'm still having fun with the challenges at SOS Birthday Bash.  This layout is all about using mist or spray of some kind.  I used Ranger Adirondack Color Wash Spray Ink that I still have from when I first started with mixed media (early 2000's). 

 

While I was growing up, our local weekly newspaper featured Business Men and Women.  I nominated Dad and they chose to publish his story for Father's Day.  It was quite an honor.  I used elements from a set of matching paper and embellishments called "A Father's Love".  I cut stars on my Cricut to use as stencils.  It was fun, fast, and a great walk down memory lane.

Layered Frame - So Much Fun!

 A friend had these two wonderful pictures spanning three generations at the same location.  In the top picture, my friend is the little girl and in the bottom picture, she is the Grandmother.  I was able to put some color back into the original picture and had fun using this 3 layer frame to bring it to life.  

If you look closely to the right side of the frame, you can see how the layers work.  I used pop dots to support the elements, but did not peel off the protective paper so the elements can be removed and put flat in a scrapbook.

Scrap Our Stash is having a Birthday Celebration and I am showing this in #3, Anything that Sparkles.  I used Stickles to add a touch of bling to the bunny, clouds, and flower in the upper right corner.

And The Winners Are...

I found this great 8 x 10 picture of the group of women cruisers in Mazatlan, who jokingly challenged the men of the Mazatlan Yacht Club to a race around the islands outside of our harbor.  They accepted and it was a scramble to get a real racing team together.  It didn't hurt that we had a world class 44' racing boat to use "Black Swan".  The MYC team boat was short on sails and they tried using one that was too big for their boat, slowing them down a lot.  We had so much fun we wrote a song to sing during our victory lap and the crowd at the harbor entrance joined us in the Macarena as we returned from the race.  

I scrapped the 8 x 10 a while back, but just added the second page that I will enter into the Scrap Our Stash Birthday Celebration challenge #4 - Presents and Bows.  I have newspaper clippings and the song words yet to add to this fun memory.