This is just beautiful, gorgeous sketch effect on your photo, beautiful texturing and coloring complements in your background and just a stunning overall design. Your repeating title/journaling in various fonts & sizes/spacing is a brilliant touch. And this is a STaNDiNG O to me!

I was drawn to @beaute 's "Waiting" by its thumbnail that looks like such a dreamy pastels & watercolor multimedia piece - and then swooned when I looked at it up close with her amazing photo treatment, beautiful colors & textures and that O so creative repeating title/journaling. Simply beautiful!

Bugs’ Birthday Sushi. Every year, we still go out for sushi in honor of Bugs (my late hubby's) birthday. We usually go to a movie too - but this year, due to the pandemic, theaters were closed. Zoey and I made the best of it with lots of love & stories of Daddy Bugs.

Meet Buttermilk, my fave scrapping & planning companion and the one constant in my days. There's no typical in my life of 2020 between the pandemic & my chronic health issues. But Buttermilk IS - always butting her head in on whatever I'm doing, particularly my journaling, planning & scrapping.

"Every Pandemic has it's Rainbow" "Zoey & I are the Queens of Making the Best of It no matter what is going on or where we are. During the early months of the pandemic..." Shots from a roadside profusion of wildflowers.

"The Pandemic sent all the tourists home, so for awhile, we had the county to ourselves. So Zoey would play in make-up ideas and I would play with my camera. It was a great way to stay sane and active. These are my favorite moments of 2020."

What a precious photo and an adorable little man! Gorgeous page with lovely blending, textures, and elements.

True North Now is your time. This is the beginning of your journey into the rest of your life - Finding your purpose and joys while tripping up over your own feet and life's obstacles along the way are all part of finding your own True North. Created for the January White Space Challenge...

Your photo treatment & subdued palette are so very cool - but your water shot, framed by the limbs atop the water scene is SUPERB! Those limbs are fab design elements for about 5 different reasons. Fantastic!

Oh Betty Jo! Thank you so very much! I struggled a bit (lot!) with this one, so this is a joyous salve on the skinned knees of my creative heart. :hug:

OMG OMG OMG! I'm dying from cuteness! Your OOB fade to brushwork is just brilliant and all the perfect touches. That's it! I'm dead from this cuteness!

Honestly, Does it get any more adorable than my Dad on his pony, Brownie? How cute is he in his wire rimmed glasses and ear flap hat? What adventures did he dream of when he was riding out on the farm? Did he want to be a cowboy riding the range? Or did he dream of becoming an explorer and...

I love that olive-y background color and the way it plays off your snowy photo. Perfect use of the lace to encompass your snowy scene. I like how you carried the theme onto the page with your tree brush in that big white cloud-like brushwork and the birds carrying the eye. The bit of blue in the...

Ann! This is positively elegant & magical! Love the grey with pinks palette, the way you used the lace bits and stains to create so much movement on the page - and the pink brushwork wrapping her hands is inspired! LOVE this!

Too Much Left Brain!

Dreamy and hopeful and just positively adorable!

These FABulous colors are bleeding right through my screen they're so vibrant and wonderful! LOVE! Great 2 page spread and what an amazing bit of art to document where we are right now in this process.

p.s. This imagery SO reminds me of the Lord of the Rings trilogy --- kind of life after Mordor, which perfectly goes with your 'Build Back Better' theme.

Glow Differently Marie Henderson was never married and she worked her entire career for the U.S.Navy - both were pretty radical paths to take in the time in which she lived. What a strong woman she had to be - I often wish I could have a long conversation with her about her own roads less...

Powerful! Your photo treatment is fantastic, the bodies becoming surreal silhouettes, a bit of true blue irony. The snowy accents mimic the chilling effects of this event while your brushwork gives a feel of our democracy burning down while the world watches. Magnificent and powerful! (Funny...