Another Fishing Page

I love Shimelle Laine's scrapbooking classes. I am currently taking Remix, although I haven't been able to play along to much, I finally made a page using a prompt from the class and created a page for my parents Christmas gift album.  I lifted a page from Shimelle using the quadrant idea. It worked up rather quickly!

Michael is a special member of my family.  He is my children's brother from their father and stepmom.  Our family's have always treated each other as one family.  Michael absolutely loves Jacob his older brother by 10 years.  Michael and I have a special relationship...he once told his teacher that Sharmon was his BFF.  His mother then had to explain to his teacher that his father's ex-wife was Michael's best friend.  Sounds Weird, huh?  but boy was I honored! 

So every year my Parents, Aunts and Cousins plan a Klenk Camp Weekend at a different Michigan State Park.  We want our children (The great grandkids) to be able to know each other because we live all throughout the state.  It is amazing how great the kids play together even though they only see each other once a year!  Now the older children are getting to know each other even better due to being friends on facebook.  Michael loves to come to Klenk Camp even though he is not a "Klenk".  I love that all the cousins treat him as one of the kids!  He looks forward to this each year!  Last January when my ex-husband passed away, (michael's father), my Aunts and Cousins drove very long distances in very bad weather to be there for both my children and Micheal.  That is what Family is all about!  

Busy Thursday!

Yesterday was Thursday which is my usual day off.....I did go into work for a couple hours to do some cleaning but after I picked up the kids I got to craft!!!

I made a scrapbook page for the Find Your Mojo Challenge #1.  The challenge was to scraplift the item most recently bookmarked in the gallery.  Of course I couldn't remember what the last thing I bookmarked was....so I had to take a look...and it was a beautiful layout by Liz Qualman using the Simple Stories Snap line.  Well I don't have the Snap LIne but I am currently making a Christmas gift album using Simple Stories Take a HIke line.....so this worked out great I got to do a challenge and make a page for the gift album. Here what i created:

 

 

Thursdays is also the day I put my finishing touches on my Art Journal Challenge (10.26.12) from the previous week and issue a new challenge ( AJ Challenge 11.1.12). Last weeks challenge was to use these four items





1. spray ink

2. the color red

3. Lyrics from a song

4. paper collage technique

Here is what i created.

Thanks for stopping by and have fun making YOUR OWN ART!

 

 

Christmas Projects Started!

I have officially started Christmas Gifts!  I went to Archivers and bought Simple Stories TAKE A HIKE to make some gifts.  Each year my family takes an annual Camping trip to a different state park, and I wanted to make a small album for each of my aunts. I decided to make my parents a 12x12 album for my parents that includes photos from Klenk Camp 2012 and a trip to Higgins Lake 2012,  I am planning on Using the TAKE A HIKE paper for 1/2 and Simple Stories SUMMER FRESH for the second half.  Here is my title page! I used this page by Lisa Swift as inspiration!