Thanksgiving cards for the grands.

Lost my mojo for awhile so I haunted the web and

found a card similar to mine to make 10 cards.

Circles are your friend when they're critters.

Also I did almost use an entire 6x6 Pebbles paper pad.

Now onto Christmas. LOL.

I have way too many Christmas dies not to use.

😬

I did use watercolor paper for the leaves and then used

TH crayons and in looking back I should've

used the oxides to get more vibrant colors.

Hwoever, their kids. ❤️

 

Valentine's Day cards for the grands

These were so much fun and easy to make. 

Seriously.

Picked up the embellishments first along with some hearts

to match with this Doodblebug collection "lots of love' which is the 6x6

paper pad that I wasn't going to purches. My pal, gifted me. 

Love my friends.

The embelleshmnet packed "odds and end"

was used for the really fun and

cute stuff on the front.

And there's a ton of stuff in the packed in there.

Each card just fell together.

Love them.

 

This year's Christmas Cards

I had an opportunity to make some

cards for our Vets this year.

It was a lot of fun, using Ranger Oxides

and Crayons for the stamped images.

I bundled them up in

order to drop them off easily.

And for the grandkids I made them sort of

alike, yet different.

LOL.

Using a Sissix die cut that didn't

have a lot of moving parts which was

lovely.

Some nights I did one, up to 3 maybe

four so it didn't take but a couple

of days doing it that way.

I did all the card cards at once and the same,

but I wanted Santa to be somewhat different.

I  did the Santa's and all the die cut things

one-at-a-time and put them together as

they came off the die cut machine and then

added them to the cards and

finished it inside and out.

it was so much nicer and easier in

keeping all the parts together,

including the dies because the pieces didn't

get scattered and drive me nuts. 

 

Let the declutter begin - RV living

So being a scrapbooker my first thought was

where do my scrapbooks go...

Seriously.

I put a lot of love and creativity in these pages that

I want people and myself to enjoy.

So....I do a lot of grandkidlet pages but until I

started separating the pages....

I didn't realize how many there were.

 Seriously.......

 These are my books remaining. 

Keep in mind that all those empty shelves were

completely filled.

 This is the separation of the grandkidlets.

Whew!!!

But shhhhh!!!

Don't tell the parents!

We are currently planning a trip in our new RV to

do the grandkidlet tour we try and do

every year.

And this year............

Won't they be surprised. 

LOL.

All the photos I scrapped of the grands.

I hope they keep them.

I hope they love them.

I hope they enjoy them.

But...........

 I didn't have the heart nor the fortitude to toss them

so I figured if I give them away -

to the parents

that they might keep them

and love them

and enjoy them.

If not, please don't tell me. 

I don't want to know.

What you don't see is that I have a few heritage 

photos and one framed picture of my

grandfather, whom I adored...

Well my Cousin Al has graciously accepted

to take all the original pictures of the family - like

back to the great greats (in my case) and

he'll be surprised with an album.

It's going to a good home.

I totally feel great about this decision, however, now there's

the decision of where my albums are going to go.

Probably storage as my kidlets are gypsies too.

More heavy decisions like this will be better made after this trip.

Procrastination is a wonderful thing.

LOL

St. Patrick's Day cards

are winging their way to the grands.

I'm changing things up as they are growing up

and I realized I don't need to make them all alike.

Like doh!

I have had this paper forever, and my pay Holli

gave me some sparkly shamrocks and leprechauns 

for some snappy embellishments.

I do need to step up my card making skills - cards

like double pages baffle me.

Anyhoo, we had our Murphy Clan St. Pat's day this

past Sunday and we it was soooo good

meeting up with the Murphy's.

Reminisce

 (are they still around?)

Shine!

It appears to be working out okay with the melding

of ALL the kits and papers I ordered this month.

It's still kind of overwhelming but it

helps to just dive in.

So this page is a mix of old, new, really old and really new.

 I fussy cut those skyscrapers out because this young man

is NY grown and it just seemed fitting.

Kept it simple because it was such a cool photo

of Lou heading off to his first day of Kindergarten.

Instead of white mist that doesn't do well, I used

white enamel paint watered down for the splatters and

around the page.

I used black and white nuvo dots about the page too.

Love them because one can control the size!!

Studio Calico.

Another sweet 4x4 album done!

I picked this baby up for about $2.00 from Hobby Lobby.

Its Paper Studio brand - and I really love doing 4x4's. 

Seriously.

They make terrific gifts - however, I needed more 4x4

page protectors that I found at Michael's.

So I'm spreading the wealth LOL.

 So most of the stuff I used was Studio Calico and Pink Fresh.

 And bits and pieces I had rolling around

There are about 20 inserts in there - however the last 4 

have just filler stuff in them.

Figured they could toss some photos in if they'd like.

 This one is going to Tom's daughter's family and I'll

be prowling around for another 4x4 buy.

 I didn't show all the photos because there were alot.

You're welcome 😗

I picked out my favorite photos of which

the majority of them are on 12x12  pages or other sizes stashed in my albums.

Random photos in one page

Yup. 

I've been getting into pocket pages and I absolutely love doing them.

Not all the time, but this past week and especially the

weekend my mojo done took a hike so

I've been reading and doing other

things because sometimes just stepping back helps.

Of course I stalk the videos too which I love too.

Anyhoo, I had all these photos chosen and printed and

they were getting overwhelming since I couldn't make a decision on anything

so then I had this brilliant

idea to just stick them all in a pocket page.

Shocking, I know, that it took awhile to think that one up. LOL.

But, I found that I had either scrapped them before

some going in other albums OR I really didn't have a story.

Not that I need a story but sometimes the story helps in the page design.

So.

Shazam.

It happened that I got all the grandkids on one page

AND my two kidlets.

How cool is that.

And I really like the randomness of the pocket pages.

I used some Tim Holtz stuff, WRMK PL cards

there is Studio Calico bits, punched hearts, QK and Mambi.