My first page for the 2023 Travel Project, Dad's first letter home from his travels to Korea, 1951. I started with Project 2023 Travel Layered Template Album pp 2-3, placing the layers on a double page layout. I clipped photos to the masks, placed Solid Papers for the backgrounds, clipped the...

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...

Created with Good Memories by et designs, perfect for my patriotic page. This is also part of the June Color Play. Image is from Pixabay.

It is summer - and really hot - here in the US and July means Independence Day. I am unashamedly a Patriot and a former active duty member of the US Army who took an oath for life, so this day has a much different meaning for me than for some.

The background is paper 3 in multiply mode over paper 1, then paper 3 in Multiply mode is used as an overlay. Word Art from the collection is also blended over the background for the title.

I originally made this for the June template challenge, but my WiFi refused to cooperate, so here it is anyway. I love this sweet photo by one of my favorite Pixabay artists, Jill Wellington. The photo of the capitol is also by a favorite Pixabay artist, David Mark. This wonderful stacked...

Journaling reads: Dad was stationed in California during his time in the Army. That is how we ended up going to California on vacation in 1964. He always talked about liking his time out there. I don’t know where this picture was taken or when. I know he graduated and turned 18 on 10/31/46. But...

This companion page to Celebrating Excellence is done in the same style.

This LO about my military days is really pretty straightforward. In keeping with the military theme, things a re pretty orderly and not too artistic. I feel this is the right way to do this. So I started with my background choice and stacked some other background pieces on that. Added...

When I was in the service, Independence Day was a big deal. I would hope it still is. It always puts me in mind of the cost of that freedom. Journaling reads: “A veteran — whether active duty, retired, or national guard or reserve — is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a...

This was 10 years ago in Vegas.. we just celebrated our 30th 2 weeks ago. .boy time sure flew!

As we in the US celebrate our Independence Day, it was been brought to light that Francis Bellamy (author of the Pledge of Allegiance, who was born in the next town from mine) may not be the original author, that he may have plagiarized it. However, he did promote the oath with one word change...