One Little Word... Love

The challenge at All About Me is to pick one word for the year. My word is Love! I look at Chris & Nicole and you just feel Love! The are an amazing example of what love means. The have been through thick and thin, up and down and you can just see the friendship and love between them. They have a "balance". The balance I always talk about that is missing in my life. I'm so blessed to have these two wonderful people in my world. I can't wait to go see them this weekend. The design of the layout came from  sketch #65 at Sketchabilities by the amazingly talented Karan Gerber. With this she really challenged me...I had to use 5 photos. That's why I love challenges. They take me out of my comfort zone. Here is the sketch I worked with. 

Thanks so much for stopping by. I love reading your comments and I appreciate your scrappy support! Have a wonderfully happy scrappy day! Lynn

Supplies: Basic Grey Little Black Dress "Modern Vogue", "Charisma","Best Dressed", "Drama mod", Little Black Dress Stickers, Time Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Coffee Shop, Wilton Doilies

Ellen

At All About Me Challenge blog the challenge was to journal about someone who has made a difference in your life, so I chose to do a layout about my best friend Ellen. I used the sketch from Creative Craft World. We don't take many photos together but this one was taken at Nicole's shower. Ellen, who is like a mother to Nicole offered to do her bridal shower. Now is that not the qualifications of a best friend? lol. Seriously though she is my rock. I could take up the whole blog talking about what she means to me. I would like to share my hidden journaling with you.

This is Ellen:

Ellen and I have been friends for 24 years. We have been through the

good times and the bad times together.

She has been my rock.

She is the first person I call and her door is always open. 

She has supported me and my family through it all.

She is not only my best friend, she is more like a sister.

I want to thank you Ellen for all you've done and all you've been through

being my friend.

I love you more than words can express.

Supplies: Basic Grey Little Black Dress, black & white, corset,modern vogue,haute couture. Prima Say it in Crystals, Basic Grey stickers, Flowers from Scrapshotz kit.Wilton Doily.

This is Me!

Last night while the house was quiet and everyone was gone, I thought hmmm the dishes could wait, I headed to my scrap room where I found a challenge on the All About Me Challenge blog. I rarely do layouts about myself, so this was a fun project. I even took out my scoreboard and attempted to make some flowers, yeah me! By midnight I had stickers and glue all over myself...I should have taken a pic of that for the next challenge, lol. Thanks to the ladies at AAMC who challenged me to find "my brand" and do a layout of myself. My journaling tag reads:

This is ME! I'm a Mom, a scrapbooker, baker, gardener, a reader, a sister and a friend. I'm creative and funny, silly and sometimes goofy. I'm passionate and gentle, patient and sensitive, a good listener and sometimes I even offer good advice. I love pigs and puppies, babies and children. I love to dance in a meadow and sing in the car. I love God and all his goodness and most of all I love just being ME!

YEAH! I just found out I won the challenge this morning! I'm so excited. I can't wait to see this kit in the mail. Thank you so much Scrapbooking from the inside out

Supplies: Bo Bunny Mama-Razzi Slides, Dots, Stripes, Panoramic, Word, Prima Flowers, Prima Resist Canvas, All My Memories Ribbon, Misc. Buttons, Tim Holtz Distress Stain Pumice Stone, Peeled Paint, Delta Ink