ScrapSketch #177 (and a new Gracie page!)

My choice at Scrapsketch.com this week was Sketch #177. It worked perfectly for these photos
of Gracie in her cute little pink teddy bear snowsuit. That smile has a little hint of mischief in it, don't you think, LOL?

Another Halloween page

This photo goes way back to Halloween 1989. Uncle Sam and a hula dancer might be an unlikely couple, but they sure looked cute!
Based on this Friday's sketch at ScrapSketch.com.

Creative Twist

For the last DT challenge at Creative Twist, we were challenge to investigate our birth year and get some inspiration for a page. Well, way back in 1956, the biggest thing going was Elvis - his debut on TV and a ton of #1 songs. So, I took one of his first big hits and used it as the title on this page: "Ain't Nothin' but a Hound Dog".

Scrapsketch #170

For this week's DT assignment over at Scrapsketch.com, I worked with sketch #170. This sketch worked great with this old photo of my DD when she was about five, and decided she wanted to do a play-dough jack-o-lantern instead of a carved one. She was pretty proud of her little pumpkin!

Yearbook Yourself!

OK, I wasted 30 minutes on YearbookYourself.com and came up with these yearbook photos of myself, from 1950, 1952, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1988 and 1990.
Man, some of those hairstyle must have taken a LOT of hairspray!

our lil' punkin

Here's Gracie in the little Halloween cap that her great-grandma sent her. Isn't she adorable? (OK, I know I'm a little bit biased on this issue!)


Based on the October 1st sketch from Stuck?!Sketches.

Creative Twist Challenge - photo mats

This week's challenge at Creative Twist is to use unique photo mats - something other than the standard rectangles. I ended up using my Cricut to cut these large snowflakes and circles and used them to mat my photos. I only had one picture of my kids playing in the snow (way back in 1986!) so I cropped it to get three separate small photos. The snowflakes and title were cut with the Winter Woodlands cartridge. The snowflakes were also embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder.