A Happy Day!

Hi everyone! Welcome to Monday!  I have the day off!  I can't even remember the last time I had a day off all to myself!  WOW!  So I decided to get some scrapping in.  Went looking for inspiration and found it on Facebook from my friend, Lynn!  She posted her design team layout for Scrap Our Stash Challenge Blog.

 Here is the sketch:

and inspiration board:

From the inspiration board, I picked that amazing pink color, the cloud shape, and the word "happy."  From my stash, I found some old ribbon, washi tape, and Webster's pages paper from Christmas.  I also found old paper clip stars and one that said "family!

Here's my layout:

with some different views:

 And the real inspiration for my layout is that we were able to celebrate Katie's 21st birthday with her at Penn State yesterday!  I cannot believe how very fast time flew by in 21 years.  Wasn't she a baby and a little girl just yesterday?

She has grown into a beautiful young woman: (Her friend took this photo of her!)

And here is the photo that I took at Beaver Stadium yesterday.  We were waiting for John to complete his 5K run.

It was such a beautiful day! After the 5K, we took Katie out for lunch and had a delicious meal filled with fun and love. I am very happy that John, Anne, Aunt Karen, and Uncle Tim and I got to spend Katie's 21st birthday with her.

And in closing, I would like to share some photos with you. I am taking a class right now and am learning a lot about editing in Photoshop!  I am really amazed at all of the things that can be done in Photoshop, and I know that I just touched the tip of the iceberg, too!

Here are some of my examples: 

The original photo was taken right down the street from our home at the farm:

My edit with Cinderella's carriage and castle:

I took this picture at Jacobsberg Park during a foggy evening:

One of my Facebook friends said that it looked like the headless horseman should 

come riding over the bridge, so I added him:

I snapped this photo at Arrowhead Lake last summer:

Here is my edit after I added a family of bears:

A pretty boring photo that I took last summer At Monacasy Park in Bethlehem:

Not anymore . . . I made it haunted:

And last but not least, I took this photo at the top of the Empire State Building:

We couldn't go up at night because it was extremely cold, so I made it look like we did:

So, I hope you had fun taking a peek at some of the fun that I have had editing the past 2 weeks!  I am enjoying this class and learning so much!

And if you have a chance, please check out the Scrap Our Stash Challenge Blog this month, too.

Have a great week everyone!  Thank you for stopping by my blog today.  HUGS!