Little Flocks scrapbook page

This is a two page spread for some more pictures of family. I titled this one "Little Flocks" because the pictures are of each of my children's families. The title letters are cut from Rose Red cardstock. Again, I used paper from the Birds of a Feather (#126899) patterned paper set.

1. Tear 2 pieces of paper from another Birds of a Feather sheet to be about 4" wide each. Ink the torn edge with Marina Mist classic ink.

2. Adhere two pictures to each page with each touching the other.

3.The birds are from the Bird Builder(#117191) punch using Marina Mist and Rose Red cardstock.

4.The journal boxes are cut with Framelits Labels Collection(#125598) from Rose Red and Whisper White cardstock. Write your journaling with a Midnight Muse marker.

5. Place a small Marina Mist button from the designer buttons(#126312) using a glue dot.

6. Place a dahlia from the Adornments In Color Dahlia Assortment(#127556) in one corner of each picture.

7. Adhere a strip of Marina Mist Scallop Dots(#122986) ribbon across the bottom of the left hand page and the top of the right hand page.

Grandchildren Scrapbook page

Well, I've been working on my scrapbook album for all the pictures that we took when the kids were all home for Jonathan's graduation so that's what you're getting right now. I will be going back to cards again soon. I'll have to get some ready to mail for all my July birthdays.

This is a 5 x 7" photo of all the grandkids & the one great. I ordered 2 packs of Birds of a Feather (#126899) patterned paper for this so they would all go together in the same album. I chose this paper because of the colors that I thought would go good with the pictures & because I like the idea of "birds of a feather" being the whole family.

For this I cut out all of their names & the title from Marina Mist cardstock. Since there are 9 of them, I felt like the names handled both the journaling and the embellishments for this page. The date is already printed on the picture. I did leave Jack, the dog, off. Maybe I should go back & put his name too.

Good Morning

Last week was very busy at my house. Jonathan, my grandson, graduated from high school and we had people everywhere! On Thursday night, I had all of my beloved children, grandchildren and my 1 great grandchild all at my house for supper at the same time! That's an accomplishment these days with the military, work schedules, and school. Here we are.

This is the whole family , including spouses.

These are the grandkids & the great.

David & I with out 3 kids.

Cousins having fun. 

My sweetums & I. We all had fun in the back yard that evening. We took a total of 24 pictures so I don't think you want to see all of them. lol

Mandisa is just about my favorite Christian artist these days and this is one of my favorite songs. Remember, God's mercies are new each morning!

Heros All

I'm proud of the military members of my family. My sil is an Army chaplain, currently stationed at Ft. Gordon, GA. This layout has pictures from Dec. 2008 when my son-in-law returned from his tour in Iraq. Now he's already done a second tour there and is back home again. My idea for this lo which I titled "Heros All" is that there are many kinds of heros. Certainly, our military men & women are all heros, no matter where they are serving but those that they have left behind are heros too. For the 15 months that my s-i-l was over there, my dear daughter had to function as a single mom for their 3 children. She is a hero, imo, for the sacrifices that she makes so that her husband can do his job. The kids also are heros because they have to spend that time without their daddy to guide them.
For this page, I used So Saffron cardstock for the background, Always Artichoke for the matting and title and Mellow Moss for the journaling box. I ran the Hero (#116229) Jumbo Wheel in Real Red for the bottom border. The ribbon is Old Olive 1/2" striped grosgrain (#113883) ribbon. I punched the arrows from Always Artichoke cardstock using the My Way (#110709) punch. To finish out the look, I used Star Designer Brads (#112572) on the corners of the journaling box.

Obviously, I'm proud of my family members who serve our great nation. I hope that all Americans will take time to say thank you the next time you see a military person. I'm very glad that for my s-i-ls last deployment my daughter & my grandchildren were only 30 miles away from home. We enjoyed their 2 yrs at Ft. Hood but realize that they have to move on. It does make a grandma sad so!

Hope you are enjoying our blog hop. Come back tomorrow for a baby card with duckies and teddy bears.