Graduation - 3 LOs story Journaling I was awarded a full scholarship to National University at my 2nd AA graduation in May 1985... the same week that my husband was transferred to New York. Asked if I could double up on classes per month and it was agreed that after the 1st 2 months, I...

Graduation - 3 LOs story Newspaper article: "These graduates all share something special in common. They are all graduating with someone related to them. If a person were to assume that it was just a coincidence that three people with the same last name of Watson this year, he would be wrong...

Graduation - 3 LOs story Journaling In the spring of 1981 at the age of 42, I decided to start my college education at a local community college. 2 years later in the spring of 1983, I received my Associates of Arts degree in Business with Honors. At that time, I also had completed several...

Journaling: Kay’s Memories of the Enterprise Fire I was in San Diego and I was busy getting ready for Mom’s arrival at 3PM that day. I got a call at 4 PM from one of the chief’s wives to ask how I was doing. She then told me about the fire on the ship... and wondered if I knew where Bill...

Journaling Bill was working nights and had just arrived at the chief’s quarters right before 8 AM and was preparing to hit the rack., when he heard a loud bang. He immediately rushed down to the maintenance shop to see if they knew what was going on. “This is not a Drill” announcement was made...

Journaling Bill made Chief just before transferring to VAW112 in late 1968. The Squadron was stationed aboard the USS Enterprise in early Jan and headed for Hawaii for Carrier Qualifications and then would proceed for a 6 month Pacific Cruise. Unfortunately the Jan 14th Fire occurred. The...

The Battle Won - by Captain K L Lee This month we mourn the deaths of 27 of our shipmates who died as a result of a decrustive fire on January 14th. Their passing has left a void in our squadrons and divisions, and in the lives of us all. We will not forget them or their sacrifice...

To make the background paper, I opened a new 12x12 file and then dragged a smaller rectangle mat onto it. I stretched the mat until it covered the entire background and then clipped it to it. I layered a gray paper over it, then cropped the file back down to 12x12. Journaling reads: I love the...

For the Heritage Challenge

February Challenge #3 - Heritage —At Oscraps https://oscraps.com/community/threads/february-challenge-3-heritage.36960 There are very few photos of me as a baby so I need to get creative if I use them for more than one page. Fooling around with different presentations of the same photo, I...

February Challenge #3 - Heritage —At Oscraps https://oscraps.com/community/threads/february-challenge-3-heritage.36960 There are very few photos of me as a baby so I need to get creative if I use them for more than one page. Fooling around with different presentations of the same photo, I...

Karen Schulz has the most incredible project, My Story. It got me inspired to scan photos that my parents have of my brother and me as we grew up. This is a big undertaking since my mom was never big on photos or photo storage. I am sifting through boxes and albums, trying to date and identify...

This is my husband's family story. All the photos of his family were scanned in and edited for this LO.

I absolutely love the concept behind this new collection. Creating simple pages that tell our own stories. I think that's the part that too many scrappers like to skip and I think doing it is so important, so I love this new collection.

Credits: My Story Collection by Karen Schulz Designs https://www.oscraps.com/shop/digital-scrapbooking-my-story-collection-karen-schulz-designs.html