My Latest Scrapbook Pages for January

I have really been scrapbooking up a storm this month. I have done 28 pages for various challenges online. I haven't posted all of them online, but I have posted several of them on here, Here are a few more of them I have done these past few weeks. I don't have my cards I've done photographed. Some I have already sent. I will try to remember to photograph some of them next time. I am usually in a hurry to mail them. I have been enjoying doing the challenges on the Podcasts for Scrapgals to find out about the challenges every month. You must subscribe to their podcasts. I LOVEEE their PODCASTS They are so fun and funny and informative. Ive been listening to them while scrapbooking and even going back and listening to older ones they have done and just laughing so hard. THey are great together. I have done 2 challenges for January for them. since the month has gone I figured I could post my pages here that I did for the challenges One of them we posts in the Community OH YEAH IF you join the podcast TODAY. they have a free crop in the features for this Friday night (WHEWHEW GONNA BE SO MUCH FUN!!!) follow my links I have put in this post to join and see the community. Here are my pages.

This page was from a sketch and I really didn't follow the directions (Im sure this doesn't surprise any of you) very well. I didn't do the page like the sketch, I left off the bottom and the journaling and I added stuff. Oh well It is MY interpretation of the sketch.. (said tossing my scarf across my shoulder) HA! oh well It kinda works. I love this picture of Bella and John with their Home knitted stockings that Aunt Anita made for them (I HAVE ONE TOOO!!!!) THese stockings mean so much to us and they stretch to get lots of stuff in them. Stockings are an important part of Christmas and we pay alot of attention to the details of what goes in the stockings. We open the stockings and go through them one thing at the time on Christmas Morning. HEY weve gotten some really cool stuff in the stockings! Next another page for a scrapgals challenge. This one is a life story. They talked about this on their podcast and posted on the site to put up your pages on the topics. This is the one I chose it was most memorable to me.

I hope you can see my journaling. If not I will type it out. It makes the page. They rest are daily challenges from Scrapbooking The day away. I try to keep up with the daily challenges for page of the day challenge. Sometimes I get a couple days behind and have to catch up on the weekend or maybe its just one my mo jo wasnt flowing on. I try hard to do them all though. It has gotten me to scrapbooking more. here are a few of my recent pages from the challenges

This one she had us do torn paper, doodling and a title I think thatwas all. I tore my patterned paper its hard to see my photo is over most of it. And I doodled with dots all the way around the outside of the page and on the the photo mat with dots also.

This challenge if I remember correctly was to use patterned paper and cardstock. Easy for me I use that every time.

This challenge was to follow a sketch. I sorta did (I know youre not surprised) I didnt follow it exactly but I did do the small banner in the top right hand corner its small can you see it? I let the patterned paper flowers serve as my embellishments and i cut my journaling into strips to put under the photo.

This challenge we had to do squares on our page. I kinda did the sketch that I did for Scrapgals again. I changed it up a little with my patterned paper this time and putting a border at the top and bottom and a embellishment in a different place. also a big square behind the photo. that wasnt done in my scrapgals one. I think this one is my favorite. look at John and me we were so young then. This was on one of our dates together before we got married. we were just falling in love and being happy. had the whole world before us. good memories. we are still happy 22 years later and still have the world before us. we have been through alot we took that sickness and in health thing and ran with it. Ya know a lot of my ms friends when they got diagnosed and started going through their time of disability and needing care, their husbands or wives left them. They couldn't handle their spouse needing to be cared for and not being like they used to be. nugh ugh not mine. John stepped up and became my care giver. He takes great care of me and makes sure I have all my meds. makes sure I eat and makes sure I get up in the mornings and im ok to walk. he is amazing and Im so grateful to him for taking care of me. I love him very much and I know he loves me. he has sacrificed so much for me and for Bella. he is a really good man. I love him. Ok well that is my up to today pages I have made. Hopefully you will see something you like or you will get some inspiration or find one of the sites I posted to be a place you like to go. I encourage you to try the scrapgals podcast out. It is so fun and you get additional stuff with it. they give you a link every month that only the podcast subscribers get and it has challenges, a sketch, a run down of what they talked about on the podcast with main topics, downloads of art little pictures to use for your scrapbooking or day planning or whatever. I cant remember what you call that but like you cut it out with a cricut or silhouette or die cut machine. and much more. I am so enjoying it. They are so down to earth and I feel like Im talking to and listening to my good friends having a conversation.