I was in a mood to work on a layout and took advantage of it and spent Tuesday evening in my scrapbook room. As messy as my scrapbook room is, I embraced the flow of creativity, overlooked the mess, pushed a lot of things aside and went to work! I love when you can combine a few challenges within one layout! There is the Polka Dot and Stripes Challenge at Frosted Designs. The Polka Dot Challenge at The Paper Variety and several sketch challenges over at Sweet Peach Crop Shop.
I love the combination of papers from Lily Bee's Catching Fall collection and Crate Paper's Toy Box collection!
Sweet Peach Crop Shop is celebrating their one year anniversary this month and have 4 sketches this month by Liz Chidester, rather then their usual one. I chose the 3rd Anniversary Sketch:
I kept this layout pretty simple, only using two buttons for embellishments and let the papers be the highlight of the layout along with the adorable picture of my son on his first Christmas. I edited the picture in the Lo-Fi photo editing program to give it an aged look, after I changed it to sepia in Photo Shop.
Here are a few closeups of my layout:
Life is still pretty hectic for me. My daughter is doing well and I am thankful for that. My mother's health has been rapidly deteriorating and my sister and I will be very busy next week taking her to various specialists. It saddens me deeply to see her rapid memory loss and I fear that one day she may not know who her family is. She has not been diagnosed yet, but I already fear the word Alzheimer. I lost a grandfather to this dreaded disease and pray that it does not take my mother. As I sit here and type I hold back the tears and pray to God to guide me and keep me strong.
Hope you all have a great weekend. I'm trying to play catch up on visiting all of you, but only manage to get a few comments done every few days. Bear with me, as I will be by to see your beautiful creations!
Hope you all have a great weekend. I'm trying to play catch up on visiting all of you, but only manage to get a few comments done every few days. Bear with me, as I will be by to see your beautiful creations!