and another

Still on the subject of Michael's graduation and still with the same range of paper. I don't seem to have made a dent in the pile yet.

A proud mummy moment.

So, when..

.....I'm on a roll,  I'm on a roll. Here is layout number 2 for the same challenge as below using the same collection as below from the same shop as below and the same subject matter as below. I think you get the idea.

It is, of course, straight and the photos are, of course, straight too. I have added a raised one which has made them look like they are not but they are. 
I have also used a Stamping Up punch on this so that justifies it's purchase!!!! :-) I will sleep more easily now!

Kaisercraft challenge

...is here and looks like this:

Couldn't quite get circles to look right with such an 'angular' photo-is that even a word???? So, I left them out and mine looks like this:

I've used one of Kaisercraft's latest collections  A Touch of Gold' available here.

The good ol' days

Over on Facebook  Julia posted her first layout with a challenge to us all-show and tell. So I got my first scrapbook out and had a look. Oh dear. I am blushing but if it's good enough for us to see the first pages of other people then we have to be prepared to show our own. Whether or not they are prepared for what is about to be shown is another matter. 
I could change my pages and start again but I'm not going to. After all, in twenty years time trends will have changed again and I'm sure I will look back and be slightly embarrassed by today's creations.
So here we go: My very first layout of son no.1 who was just the cutest baby I'd ever seen.

Don't you love how we used to cut our photos into shapes and then matt them? We all did it. He seemed so tiny-he was tiny -in our big bed.


Then of course, we had the double page layout that was a must. How times have changed.

More shaped photos. Cardstock was the main ingredient. Oh and punches galore. just look at the balloon punch used to echo the balloons that the monkey on his wall was holding. I made the monkey and balloons from felt because there were monkeys climbing the wallpaper of Michael's room. Michael never had a dummy as comfort but he did have a brown monkey (a subject of another scrapbook layout) for years. I say 'did have' but actually the monkey still sits in his bedroom 20+ years later. (How many years?)


Finally, we have K&Co paper. Oh how I loved this paper, soft, muted lilac with flowers and butterflies. So feminine, so not right for a boy but when he is with his best friend who is a girl.... I think I got away with using it.

Another degree.

Last week we celebrated Michael's graduation. Here are a few of the photos I took. There are many more that his father took and I'm sure they will be the subject of forthcoming layouts. Meanwhile it has taken me a year to use the frame paper I bought for a class during ATDML's cyber crop 2014. Better late than never.

more old stash

 Again, I saw these papers  and just had to have them. No project in mind but knew I would find something. So, in my quest to use everything up before buying anything else-impossible-I found a picture of me with lips that matched the colour of the tulips and with some inspiration from I know not where now,  another layout was born.

Celebrate

Celebrate what?-I hear you ask. Celebrate using old stash and old photos with old layout sketches or inspiration. Feels soooooooo good. So, first up are the last photos from Steven's graduation last year-just in time because Michael's are not far behind.
One for me and one for him-gotta use them all up.

At the time of getting these papers I absolutely loved them-still do but they are not very boyish. As most of my photos are male orientated they will have to do though as it could well be another year before I get some mojo.