Birhtday Boy

 Can't believe this guy is sixteen, especially since I just got this layout of his 15th scraped.

Happy Birthday Eric

The entire layout is made with bits and pieces of birthday kits that I have mixed and matched. 

 Love using up my stash

Hiking Layouts

 Now that Spring is upon us and I need to get back to doing some training hikes for this summer's adventure here are some layouts I made of last year's hikes.  The following layouts were completed at a spring retreat at the beginning of the month.

Troop hikes- Spencer's Butte and Mt. Pishgah

The troop went on two training hikes similar in elevation gain to the ones they would be doing in Switzerland.   

Eagle's Rest

I did this hike twice.  Once as a solo hike in the rain and then again with Danielle when the sun was out.

McDonald Research Forest -Corvalis

Danielle and I were enjoying some outdoor time while Jessica attended an event in Corvallis.

Iron Peak/ Cone Mountian

Beautiful wildflower hike with the City of Eugene.  Not sure I want to do more trips with EP&R

Fall Creek

This entire area burned in the Bedrock fire twelve days after this trip.

Divide Lake

Nothing better than getting a hike in with your adventure buddy

Vivian Lake

8-mile hike with the kids.

Wild Iris Ridge

Super hot, dry, and smokey hike in town.

I still have photos from the big trip to Strawberry Basin to scrap, but for now, enjoy.

April S.I.D.

This was so quick to put together and the sketch was a good pairing for the photos other than a few size adjustments. Also changed the banner location do to the larger photos.  

Mixed and matched CM paper and stickers.  Glad to use open more of my stash

 

Nailed it

To document my husband shooting a nail into his fingers I’m using Rochelle’s April sketch. He is so lucky to have missed all the joints and has the smallest chip to the top of the bone on his ring finger two weeks before leaving for Switzerland.

I haven’t added any journaling yet as I want him to do it.

I used the bottom row from Stacy’s challenge 3 photos, chipboard and tag.

Also added enamel dot and might do some twine too.  I’m at a crop and didn’t bring all my supplies.

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Sketch support

I really love Allison Davis sketches and this one was so fun I created a double page layout with it.  You can download the sketch for free here

To make my layout stretch across two pages I reversed the photo placement on the second page and changed the sizes to work with my subject.

The color palette was inspired by the baby dolls in the top left photo.  I thought it was a great twist on an otherwise masculine layout.  Added some sparkle embroidery floss sprinkled with snowflakes and rhinestones.

Left side is very similar to the sketch except for the double matting of the photos.

Close up of the floss.  Has a bit more shimmer than the photo

Right side- reverse of the left and different sized photos 

The double matting made the photos really thick and not layer nicely so I cut into the photo so the all laid the same.  Hid my imperfections with the holly stickers.  Couple daps of Nuevo drops th pull in a bit more black.

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April SID

 

Welcome to April Stick it Down Sketches

  For my double page layout I used Pinkfresh "office Hours" collection as the elements go well with the event theme.  I changed the orientation of my two larger photos and mounted the square photos to hide the print on that side of the paper.  The alhpa stickers and the & are from photo play "Happy Glamper.  I love it when I can mix and match to use up product.

I'm close to finishing the scout photos for 2022 as these were from OA annual meeting in October. 

The first night of the event is always themed and this year was Law & Arrow (Order).  

Eric dress as Sherlock Holmes.

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