Love!

Hi everyone!  It's the 7th of the month, and with that brings a new challenge at Challenge YOUrself. The main requirement for this challenge site is to use a photo with YOU in the frame.  

This month's theme is about celebrating love:

When I saw this challenge, I knew exactly which photo I wanted to use:

My daughter, Anne, snapped this one quickly when my hubby reached over to give me a kiss during our Christmas card photo shoot at the end of November last year.

I am also entering my page into the Reneabouquets Artists With An Edge February 2021 Mood Board Challenge:

For all of the details about this Reneabouquets challenge, please check out their facebook page here!

 

And I am linking page up to Art Journal Journey Monthly's February challenge:

 

Valerie is hosting this month and her theme is "Heavy Metal!"  I had Prima metal flowers in my stash and used 2 of them in my flower cluster under my photo!  Thank you, Valerie, for the wonderful challenge for February!

Here is the page that I came up with:

I love this photo of the two of us and think it depicts the love John and I still have for each other after almost 31 years of marriage.  Sure, we have our fights, but our love always endures.  I thank God every day for that blind date John and I had back in 1990!   

Enough of the schmaltz, now onto my layout details . . .

I used the Blue Fern Studio "Eclectic Charm" collection.  The chipboard frame is a "Lavender Lilac Heart Frame die cut" and is laser cut chipboard.  Both the Blue Fern Studios paper collection and laser cut chipboard were purchased at the amazing Reneabouets' Etsy store.  I also used cheese cloth, pearls, lace flowers, and Prima metal flowers that I had on hand.

Here are some different views:

I hope you get a chance to play along with Challenge YOUrself, Art Journal Journey Monthly, and Reneabouquets Artists With An Edge Mood Board challenge this month!

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today.  Happy February! HUGS.

Dream Big . . . for Scrap the Boys!

Hi everyone!

Can you believe that it's June already?  The first months of 2020 have flown by.  I think the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine made the months fly by even faster for me.  I hope you are all staying safe and healthy as things slowly start to open up again.  Our county in Pennsylvania is moving to the "yellow" phase on June 5th, which means certain businesses can re-open and our limitations will lighten up a bit.  I am cautiously optimistic!

Today I would like to share a scrapbook page that I made for the new, June challenge at Scrap the Boys:

This month is all about dreaming big:

Cut to You-Created by Gwen,  supplied us with some amazing cut files this month!  

I chose to use this one:

Since John celebrated the 35th anniversary of his graduation from West Point this year, I decided to make my layout about him!  Here are the photos that I used:

And here is my completed page:

With some close ups:

I also would like to mention that the moon dreamcatcher pieces and Blue Fern Studios "Eclectic Charm" paper are from ReneaBouquets.  

I hope you get a chance to check out Scrap the Boys this month.  We'd love to see your pages.

Also, I am honored and so happy to be returning to the Scrap the Boys design team for 6 more months!

Thank you so much Rachel!  I cannot wait to work with this talented group of women!

And thank you for stopping by my blog today.  Happy June!  HUGS!!