I love to use my older kits and do as often as I can. Yes, as a CT member I need to do the newest, but when a template is the newest, I like to go to my stash and use an older kit/collection by that designer. I do try to go through my folders and move kits into a "Mot in Store" or "Retired"...

I do a lot of heritage and genealogy scrapping, so I have lots of photoless pages. Anything before about 1850 and there ARE no photos. If you're lucky, your ancesotrs and extended families were well enough off to have portraits painted and photos of those available. If not, I use places and...

This little cat must share a common ancestor with my Sophie – she is a dead ringer for my cat! And I suspect she gets up to the same high jinks, too! For this LO, it was necessary to start with the base and determine which blocks of the template to use. The background for the stairs is paper 20...

I'm no help at all, Ana - I use all of these methods. It just depends. I love to use templates though I seldom use them exactly as they are. Here of late, I have my photos in mind and go looking for what works, but I've been really into art journaling, too. Sigh, no help at all!

Welcome, Claire. The O is such a happy fun place to be. I could use a little of your FL weather just now, but at least the sleet has gone and our power is still on. Hooray. You said you're English? I have deep Lincolnshire roots and lived in England for 5 years. It's a beautiful place to...

Way to go with that Standing O, Claire. This is a faulous LO. Love, love, love all those layered papers!

F - fresh fruit

Well, I woke up to freezing rain, but the temp stayed right at 32 degrees all day so it didn't build up but a half inch or so until the sun started down. We had a break for about 2 hours right before then, but the sleet started just at dusk. If it will hurry up and convert to snow, we will be...

Wow! How cool is that? This was so fun to make!

U - unbridled joy!

Oh my! I had forgotten these - and they're on my wish list! Thanks, @tanteva ! You are a gem, Eva!

@tanteva You are so lucky to see them first hand, too. The Church of England records are wonderful, too, and a huge portion of them are up at Find My Past. I have made some incredible finds and have thousands of documents. It's slow to put them all in my program, but I'm still working full...

Life as a genealogist is indeed amazing. I wept when I finally found my 5X great grandparents in the records. John Winter left his wife with two small children and pregnant. Life was very hard for her until she remarried. I still can't find this pair in the birth records so I'm up against...

What a find. I would be happy dancing, too. I love the split page and beautiful cluster, but love the journaling most of all!

OK, I'm weird - I like the black sheep stories. They are so very interesting and shed so much light on the times. What an amazing story and wonderful page.

Wow! This is a wonderful page, Eva. I was thinking divorce was unusual in this time frame then had to catch myself. It was only unusual if the petitioner was a woman. Men could get one any time they wanted. She must have been quite the character!

Another pure fun LO! Sometimes you just gotta make what makes you smile - so someone else can smile with you!

How fun! Kinda Monty Python-ish! Love it!

Creative indeed. The circle frames invite you look closer. So I did. Love your LO!

Fantastice use of negative space. Makes for a very clean-appearing LO!