I have both a sister and sister-in-law in chemo for breast cancer. My sister is completing the last round next month but has opted for the mastectomy as well as a precaution so that will be coming in the future. She and I are so much alike it's not funny, even though we are not blood sisters...

Done for the July Sweet Doll Challenge found here: https://oscraps.com/community/threads/sweet-doll-july-challenge.37926/ Journaling reads: Abby’s brother and sister went to Tennessee for a week of Bible camp. Abby chose to stay with us for the week. Monday, after Elisabeth took Hannah and...

The Matriarchs by Idgies Heartsong

Remember: Keep Going is a new release by Sweet Doll Designs in the Oscraps store. This collection is so versatile that I wanted to scrap pictures of my grandson and there was enough artsy designs in this collection to make a "guy layout". Braden is off to the university at the end of August...

I used Lilach Oren's Pizza Night Collection, even though we weren't eating pizza. The grandkids were acting silly - showing their food - last week at a restaurant.

Created For Challenge # 07 which was a lot of fun!!

I started with the dark solid paper and placed the patterned paper over it. After erasing part of the patterned paper I changed the blend mode to soft light. I placed strips of paper and ribbon along both sides of the layout, anchored my picture with the photo corners, and added a small cluster...

It's tie for our June 2023 Color Play Collection: https://www.oscraps.com/shop/color-play-digital-scrapbook-deals-june-2023/?sort= Good Memories by et designs is such a beautiful and versatile kit! I used it to scrap this old picture of my five oldest grandchildren.

COLORPLAY

COLOR PLAY

COLOR PLAY

Anna Lift Challenge found here: https://oscraps.com/community/threads/annalift-challenge-06-16-23-06-30-23.37842/ Journaling reads: Mark had worked outside all day. He asked if I was in the mood for a bike ride. Of course! He called to see if his aunt in Reidsville was home for a visit and...

Journaling reads: It’s been very rainy this week so tonight Mark and I played card games: Kings in the Corner and Sequence. 6/22/23

Connection Keeping has a new collection, Beach Magic, in the store.

Sweet Doll Designs has new products and templates in the store! Summer Lovin' is perfect, with the colors of summer for all of your photographs and other projects. I used Sweet Templates Vol03 Template 02, along with papers and elements from this wonderful collection. I even put two of the...

Sarapullka Scraps has a new collection in the Oscraps store; Theorem of Happiness. My grandson just got three special achievement awards in school and one of them was for science. Perfect picture for this collection.

Here's the companion page to my previous layout ...

This was a pretty straightforward page - I started with the template, placed my photos and then clipped papers to frames and paper bits. I then deleted all the embellishments that came with the template and spent some time playing with the goodies from Rachel's kit. Fun times...

Karen Schulz Freedom Fest is new in the Oscraps store.