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Bryan was determined to set up the outside decorations by himself this year...

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The boys first day of school - 2nd grade, as you can tell I don't scrap in order.  This was an overlay that I bought several years ago at an expo or gasc, I don't recall where, but it worked great for this page.

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My FTS challenge for this week...done while on vacation.  Photos are from my friends wedding...many years ago (I can tell...I was skinny, and Mark had hair).

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Week 13 sketch layout from FTS:

I used: border punch and embossing (the yellow under the straw market), then added 3+flowers, 5 patterned papers and chipboard (the underneath flower at the title), both the title and the journalling are photos...of where the photos were taken in Freeport.  Moving right along on this cruise trip...

Challenge: 

Use 2: Stitching, border punch, embossing. Use 3: Ribbon, 3+ flowers, 5+ pattern paper, chipboard, stickers, glitter

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Another full page sketch swap from pagekitsplus, this one was by Annette, and perfect for the playoff photos from last years (not so winning season).

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The purple brutt squad!  Michael smallest in the group took 1st place in sparring.  We heard all day and continue to hear...he took down the mountain.  We are all very proud of him.  He works hard at karate, loves it and will one day be a black belt.

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Week #5

for FTS

Use 1-Stamping, Stitching, Misting, Chalking. Use 3- homemade flowers, buttons, Twine/Ribbon,stitching, punches/die cuts

Here is my take: 

I used misting for my technique, a die cut that was a QOTM (queen of the month) gift on FTS, baker's twine  (a pif from Mary) and buttons.

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GASC 2011 - Girls night out...HOOTERS...who would have thought.  The food wasn't as bad as I thought, and we laughed so much, I didn't mind it at all.

Challenge was SYAO week 13 on papersecrets.  I used:
3+ flowers
3 patterned papers
chipboard
photo corners
metal hardware (I think, I used metal flowers and a paperclip)

For technique, I distressed the edges of the chipboard journal area and the blue patterned paper with ink.

2011 - Page 3 - flames

Robin and I went on a field trip to a scrapbooking store while we were away and sitting on a shelf was this cool transparency with flames, I knew I had these photos of one of the many Motorcycles Mark has bought and sold.  It was so simple, and I love how it came out.

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Shout Out to Grace for the complete layout from a swap on swaps_that_work

page 150: The wild side

Every October the local firehouse has an openhouse. We have gone every fall since the boys were 2 (actually before our own house fire) It is great to see that Bryan finally fits into the gear that they permit them to try on.
Shout Out to Holley for piffing me these swap pieces

page 80: lil' angel

My Bandit. My first child...and boy was she spoiled silly!

Shout out to Holley for the page kit pif.

page 59 - More construction

Shout out to Holley for the complete page pif.

page 2 - Elephants

More photos from our trip to the zoo...

Shout out to: Jodie for the swap elements from Big Creatures on Awesome swaps

2009 - Page 1 - Penguins are our friends

These are from our trip to the Philadelphia Zoo back in November 2008, The boys were playing with the penguin thru the glass...it was very fun to watch and the boys thought it was hysterical.
Shout Out to: Robin for the swap elements from our zoo definition plus one element swap on Swaps that work.

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More camp photos, taken from the camp photographer. The boys went on a field trip to see the blue claws game.

Shout outs to April for the swap elements.

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layout 164

Same page kit...these are photos I took of the boys in the house. Bottom left photo...Uncle Fester (from the Adams famiily) or what? It seems so long ago they were this small.

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Shout out to: Paula R for the Bazzill Color Kit red and green from Insane Swappers. These were the photo cards that we recieved in 2003...I never know what to do with them, and I can't throw them away.