Meet Trinity Jeanne' Finley

This is the first layout I have done of my new granddaughter born Jan. 27 in Kigali, Rwanda, Africa. Isn't she precious!! She weighed 2.2 kg (4.9 lbs). We arrived in Rwanda to meet her on March 2 and spent a sweet 3 weeks loving on her. We also go to spend some wonderful time playing with our 4 1/2 yr. old grandson Will.

So this layout was for a challenge on my yahoo group Friends That Scrap. We had to choose someone from the group and mimic their style. I chose Tara because I have always admired her use of dimensional flowers and ribbon on her layouts. I even had to go buy some flowers and gathered ribbon!! I once asked her how she ever fit those into her scrapbooks! And I'm not really sure I'm going to put this one into my scrapbook...it may go on the wall in a frame!! :-)  Not sure yet. But I love the way it turned out. And I have always admired her work.

I'm contemplating who my next victim will be!!! So stay tuned!

Friends That Scrap Challenges

I'm still working on Christmas photos but these are from this year! These two photos show the children listening as their mom reads the Christmas story to them from The Brick Bible story book. We give them a book that tells the Christmas story every year at Christmas. We look for something that will be fun and hold their interest as well as tell them why we celebrate Christmas. This year's book was a lego book - all characters were constructed from Lego blocks. It was very cute! My layout used the Wk. 18 sketch which I rotated and used border punches. My colors are monochromatic, I used sticker letters, and replaced the flowers with strip banners and journaling strips.

I also just completed the card for our weekly card challenge. These were the requirements and the sketch, then my card and what I used.

Use 2: square card, punches, chipboard
Use 3: monochromatic, black and white, an animal, ribbon or twine, bling, 2+ ink colors, something metal

For my card I used:
square card and border punches
black and white, twine and bling

This is a window card so the images are actually on the inside peeping through the window.

Bucket Bath

This was such a fun layout. Our grandson, who lives in Rwanda, Africa, loves to bathe in a bucket outside on the patio. Granted he is only 4 and things will probably change in the near future, but for the year and a half that they have lived there, that has been Will's 'bath of choice'!! This layout fits the requirements for the following challenges:
     Friends That Scrap Quad challenge - banners, twine or chevrons
     Scrapfit - layered embellishments (the title block has a minimum of 4 layers...cardstock, letters, washi tape, flair button, stick pin with tag, and rubber duckie
     Red Carpet - Anything Goes

The card qualifies for the Quad challenge as well.