Four for Four

Four days off work for Thanksgiving & completed four pages.  The first one is done on SEI  paper from one of the monthly kits. No pictures just the great thing I received on my birthday.

Second I also used paper from one of my SEI kits of Marlene & I at Bingo.

And third is of the dinner after the CRA Golf Tournament. Paper used was from CTMH, the golf cart & putting green was cut from my cricut, also the title.

Three pages, two layouts

With the cold weather it makes for great scrap booking days.  The race day is done with CTMH paper and the design I got from their "Make it from your heart" book.

This one of my son & his new truck turned out o.k. but  I am not crazy about the colors.  The layout I got from one my daughter did.

LAZY WEEKEND

Just one to add this weekend.  It is not exactly what I had in mind but I got it finished.  Was really into reading this weekend.  Read a whole book between Friday night & Sunday afternoon.  Waiting on suplies to come in so I can finish up my xmas cards.  Got everything cut out just need to stick them together.

New projects with a new twist

This is what I have finished so far this weekend. The first one I started last weekend and finished up during the week after work.  This two pager I used a lot of bling and flowers which I don't usually get to with all the boy pages.  This one is of a co-workers daughter & her new husband.

My great grandson's First day of school in North Carolina. I feel I got a lot on this page, the back overlay & the wording was cut on my cricut & was the first time my welding of my words worked out perfect (thanks to my daughters lessons at the scrap expo) also used my ctmh stamps & colored them with my alcohol markers  & my banner is from umwow studios which I painted.  Over all I was pleased how it turned out.

I had a scrappin weekend

I can't believe I got so much done this weekend in my scrap room.  The first one of my best friends brother, I started at the expo but only got the right page done so I finished it.
 The second is of my Great grandson opening his gifts on his 7th Birthday.
The third is of a fun afternoon at Pechanga playing Bingo.
The fourthis of my best friend Gayle and her sisters & brother.
After all that I decided to try out my new Spellbinder machine so I made a card. That is it till next weekend.  Oh I forgot to mention I finished the book I was reading & got a phone call from my Grandson Curtis.  That is about all for this weekend.

My Scrapbook Expo Weekend in Ontario, CA

My daughter, Marlene & I spent 3 days at the Ontario Scrap Expo and had so much fun.  I love our yearly get away together.  We shop, scrap, laugh, talk, eat, sleep, learn new techniques, make a bunch of small items and even find time for a 20 minute back massage each night.  Overall it is a great weekend.  Here are pictures of what I got done in the 3 days.

Last posting before Scrap Expo

This one I started last weekend and just now finished it up.  Went back in time to 2001 when my grandkids loved to hang out at grams house to do things they don't normally do at home.  This was Eric being creative in the kitchen.  Almost everything on the page was from my S.E.I kit except I used my cricut to cut the wording.

Back to a scrapping weekend

Two more pages, really it is a two pager but took individual pictures.  Everything was from my August SEI kit. Two of these pictures were downloaded from facebook so they may be a little blurry.  This is my nephew Brian's family.

From my Garden

These are pictures of my two tomato plants that I grew in a pot on my patio. I planted them in April and here it is the 1st of September & I am still getting tomatoes off the vine to eat.  The paper and most of the embellishments were from my S E I kit I received in August, the numbers & lettering were from my stash and the seed packet & tomato I got from my Print Shop.

My one post for this weekend

My Great Grandson's Christopher & Matthew trying to stay cool in a water competition.  This was done with CTMH paper and a few stickers, a few odds & ends from my stash and the border down the left page was cut with my cricut.

Two more doubles

This one is my great grandson's 5th birthday.  The pictures I downloaded from face book. The paper & stickers are from CTMH.  The yellow lettering is thickers & the balloons are velvet and were cut with my cricut.

This one is of the Ward's Family reunion, out of nine siblings seven made it there. The LO is a S E I page kit from my bi-monthly kit.

More pages to add

 My best friend Gayle's grandson Kameron's Birthday held at the lake on Gayle's property. L/O was from a CTMH  "Make It From Your Heart" Volume 1.

A trip to Knotts Berry Farm with Gayle's family:  her sister Judy & her daughter Bridget, sister Stacy, Brother Glen & Gayle & I.  We had a great time and enjoyed a great dinner at the Chicken House before leaving. This L/o was out of my SEI Packet  

This one is more pictures taken at Knotts and the layout is from my new booklet from CTMH "Make It From Your Heart" Volume 2  This layout is more my style but sometimes it good to work on a new style.

Mother's Day pages

This first one was taken at Rick & Robins on Mother's Day.  All the paper & things were taken from my SEI  monthly kit. It has been awhile since I had a picture of just me & both my kids.

This one was also taken the same day of my daughter Marlene & I and her and her son Nick.

Two new pages this weekend

Finally got a couple of pages done.  This first one of my daughter in law Robin sitting on her new tractor she bought and will rent it to Fallbrook Equipment Rentals.  Use up some of my scrap paper which I usually don't think of to use. Not sure the flowers go with a tractor, but why not.

This one of my great grandsons, Matthew & Christopher fixing Mom breakfast. The pictures aren't  the best, but I printed them from facebook.

A 3 Day Weekend was just what I needed.

It is time to get these posted to my blog so I can put them in my 2013 album.  I need to get better at taking the pictures.  They may not be in order, but this first one at the Avocado Fest shows Marlene taking a picture of a poster.  I never took any with her & I in the picture. Oh well at least I did a page of the event.

This one of my Great Grandsons, Christopher & Matthew was fun. Working with lots of colors

Dinner at the Olive Garden for Eric's 26 Birthday. I got this LO from one of my CTMH books. Also the paper is from ctmh.

 Every year I do a couple of pages about my roses and my house.  The LO & paper is from my first SEI kit that I hadn't used yet. 

O.k. I have run out of pictures so I am digging into the past now.  This one was taken in 1999 & everything I used on it was from my stash of items.

One more for this weekend

This LO was taken from one of my CTMH books. The paper pack is called "Dream Pop" and was just released this month.  The tiny birds on it I took off a Christmas card I received last year.

Another two pager

I pictured this turning out a little different. I feel it is missing something, but don't know what else I can add to it, so I guess it is completed.  On to another one first thing tomorrow morning.

Just one two pager this weekend

I found the LO in one of my CTMH books but had to do a lot of changes to get it to look right.  This is at Rick & Robins house celebrating Curtis's, Robin's & Bill's birthday all in the month of March.  I actually did some stamping on this one.  Need to do that more often.

It's about time......

I haven't posted any thing in the last 3 weeks.  Finally got a few pictures developed so I got this two page lay out done yesterday of a birthday party I went to at my friend Gayle's place.  I used everything from my S E I kit.  I love their paper and embellishments.

Easter Weekend

Sort of a lazy weekend, only got one LO finished. Did some house cleaning and spent some time sitting on my patio catching up on some reading.  Easter morning Rick & Robin took the Mom's out for breakfast at the ZCafe in Bonsall, then went back home to finish working on my LO.  This first LO I finished last weekend but never got it posted

This next one is of one of my great grandson Mikey on his 17th birthday.  I copied this from a LO I found on scrapbook.com

One more from last weekend

These two pages were also from our 3 day trip to Mexico. The paper and design was from my February S.E.I. kit.

Weekend Postings

I received my first S.E.I. scrapbooking kit in February and finally got around to using it.  I like how they give you ideas for there page LO's which you can add to them or copy the one they suggest.  This first one was all about Robin's mothers birthday.  Donna turned 73 on her birthday and we had a get together at Rick & Robins home.

This is what we did when Rick, Robin, Eric & I went to Mexico to spend a few days on his boat. The weather wasn't that great but it didn't stop us from getting in a days worth of fishing which was a lot of fun.
These pages were also from my S.E.I. kit.

The last of 2012

Finally I finished my last few pages and the front page of my 2012 album.  Tried to pick a few pictures that were used during the year of friends & family.

This was the only picture I took of Rick & Robins Christmas tree, I should have had them stand next to it.  It was a really easy layout, not much to do on it.

This was my favorite one, I tried to add the rain drops which turned into hail.  I found a similar LO on scrapbook.com & tried to copy it.  I like the way it came together.  Now on to 2013