Scrap & Stamp Saturday-- Family Gatherings

It's that time again! Time for a new challenge from Scrap and Sketch. This week's challenge is to scrap a "family gathering". I chose to scrapbook these photos of my family at my grandfather's Father's Day gathering. He's a big UK basketball fan in case you couldn't tell.

This layout will be going in an album that I'm making for my uncle who is overseas working for a government contract in Afghanistan. I know he gets homesick over there, so when he comes home for a Christmas visit, I'm going to give him an album full of family photos to remember us by.

Those cute little "tickets" came from a scrapbooking kit by Sassafrass and Cosmo Cricket. I won this kit by participating in the 52 Sketches, 52 weeks challenge! Yee-Haw! I love free stuff! Thank You Julie!


I used this week's sketch from Scrapsketch. I just sized it down to an 8x8.

Hoot Hoot! An Owl Birthday Card

Hello again! I'm just poppin in to show you a card that I created for a friend's birthday party! She is going to be one year old. So I created this little owl card for her. The little birthday owl is from Lime Light Papercrafts. It is called the Q.T. Hooty Owl Stamp Set. I just think she's so adorable! I tried to keep it pretty simple. The card was also created from the sketch at Scrapsketch this week.

Young Love....& and Funny Story

Here is a LO I did for the Scrapsketch challenge. I have really been in the mood to scrap lately. Expecially since i've discovered the joy of scraping using sketches. I tend to run out of LO ideas on my own, so these online sketches give me a little boost in creativity. I haven't scrapped any really old pictures lately, so when I ran across these, I just had to do it. These two pictures were taken in June 2000. It was 9 years ago. My husband and I were dating then. We were just kids. Wow. Amazing how time flies. There is actually a funny story behind the photo of us sitting on the bench. We were at a "Bennett Family Reunion". My husband's last name was Bennett. But it was a reunion of my family members, not his. haha. My grandmother's maiden name was Bennett. But my name was Tucker at the time. So when I took him to this reunion of mine, he was wearing an old baseball tshirt with "Bennett" on the back of it. We tried to stay seated on this bench so no one would see the name and then ask how he was related to the family. So instead we sat there watching everyone arrive to see if he recognized any of them (b/c he could be related to them). Well wouldn't ya know it...a lady walked by and he's like "oh crap" I know her. He wasn't sure how, but he just knew she was a relative of his (he's not good with names). So to make a long story short, we were sweating it out, worried if we'd have to break up after finding out that we were related, but turns out that we were only linked by this one lady who was only related to me through marriage (no blood kin). haha. We laugh about that story everytime we see this photo. So the small circle caption on the page says: "We were thinking...I hope we're not related...this could get really weird".

9 Years Ago...

This is now...