POKEY PEAS REFUGEES CHALLENGE for August 2017

Great job working on those clusters, @elaynef . grammadee and I were very prolific. I did 17 pages. I was also working on the Layout a Day mini, too. That ended Saturday. Yesterday I made a birthday card. This is my last week holidays. Tuesday afternoon I'm heading to my mom's. While I'm there, I'm also doing some card making with some high school friends. I have to make another birthday card today and pack up my card supplies. My friends haven't made cards before, so I'm taking the lead on this.  I'm going to share a few pages here but I'll try not to overload the thread. Thanks for the lovely comments in Flickr. LisaDV I love those triangles! Great page.

I actually broke out my Spectrum Noir pens for this card. My friend loves Gone With the Wind.
Scarlett by Jacqueline Bruce, on Flickr

This page is for my sister. I'm going to pop it into a shadowbox. I found some of my Mamarazzi by BoBunny and it was perfect. I loved that line.
You & me by Jacqueline Bruce, on Flickr

This was my Saturday LOAD page.
Lake Annette by Jacqueline Bruce, on Flickr

those pages need some more white space for sure!

Thanks for your love in the Gallery, Ladies!

nylene, it is so cool that you work with the dgk's on their fair projects. It is such a great family activity and I am sure they will remember it always. What with the fair and the wedding, you HAVE been busy! No worries if it takes awhile to catch up here. Looking forward to seeing your new page. You must have some great photos from the wedding. So cute about helpful little Alex!

Hoping your trip went well, LisaDV and that they are able to help your dd. Got a call from the heart specialist today and they want to do another procedure on dh next week. It is the second half of what they had planned to do last time: putting a stint into a vessel in his heart. They weren't sure how to do it last time, but I guess they have figured out a way. So it will be back to the city the end of next week.

I am always amazed scrapincin with how you can help so many people solve scrappy and techy problems! I will have to take a look at the cluster inspiration as well. Like @elaynef, I love to look at them, but am still working on getting them to work for me. I think I need to go with smaller pieces. justjac did some really great ones with tiny little elements when she was here.

Hoping that the end of summer is being good to kellyr21 and maribeth. Hope you have had lots of interesting experiences you can scrap in the next few weeks. Did you get your scrap room back again, msliz?

I have been trying to keep up the momentum after getting crafty with justjac last week, and have managed to create something each day since. Tomorrow I will be creating borscht with my sister in law. Gathered the veggies from my garden today. Tomorrow we will be spending all day chopping and stirring. If we have enough beets, I may also make a batch of beet pickles.

@elaynef, great pages. I especially like the one with the waterfall photos. Sorry for your little guy. I've been taking photos today at the clinic and dh and dd are like what the heck are you doing? You have problems. I just say she'll appreciate it when she's famous.

justjac and grammadee, sounds like you two have been prolific with your crafty time. I'm current in the gallery as of today. justjac enjoy your last week of freedom! Dee, happy belated anniversary! My prayers for your dh's surgery.

scrapincin, I hope you're feeling better.

msliz, I'm ready to get back to traditional pages too, but I don't know when that will be. Digital helps keep me sane in the meantime.

Thanks for the prayers and well wishes. Keep them coming. Our first day was today. A very full day and now we are here until Friday Sept 1st. Don will leave this Sunday. I will rent a car on Friday and drive home. Then we have to be back on Sept. 8th.

Okay I gotta sign off.

msliz, of course! I'd be happy to answer anything I can!

Hi everybody! Wow it is so nice to come on here and have friends say such nice things to you. I do love learning the techy stuff, and the scrapping techniques too. I always felt that if I learned something and someone else is having the same problem why not help them out. On another site I used to do tutorials and it just is the way to do things in my opinion.

Also I have found some of the health stuff. I was diagnosed with emphysema and now have oxygen at home to use when I am active. I'm also in pulmonary Rehab and will be retraining muscles to work in my favor and then maybe get rid of the oxygen. When I went yesterday my oxygen saturation dropped to 88 after walking 2 small reps and it was 98 and normal is 95. So that is my long sad tale.

kellyr21 well we may have our quarterback for the season-Kizer who was the QB from Notre Dame.

nylene I am going to be adding the new software to my program and I will be here all weekend if you need some help.

grammadee and justjac I don't know how you get so many pages done as you two do. It seems one of you fuels the other. Dee I am praying for your DH My brother has 2stents in now and is doing well with them.

LisaDV I hope everything is going well for you and DD.

Getting off for now ...have a good evening everyone.

Scrapincin, best wishes for improvement with your breathing. And still thinking about you and dd, lisaadv. Grammadee, I wish we could share some of our Texas weather with you. It's hard to imagine a fall day. We expect to have over 90 until at least October. The hurricane will cooll us off to 88 today, but 90% humidity!
I enjoy hearing everyones news and seeing your projects. Cute kids, nylene and I love those colors and great job on the clusters. I want to try copying them.

I was trying to find a place to put our little weekend trip to the panhandle and ended up with a sort of big project.

I have an 8x11 album that is a bunch of miscellaneous Texas trips but it is full and busting out, so I removed all the big bend national park pages to give them their own book.
Our 1st trip there was in 1970 and we had a Polaroid and only have about 8 photos.

I decided this morning I want to use a 12x12 postbound and redo some of the pages. Some I will use some undo and redo them entirely because I don't like them and had just started scrapping and some I will just put on 12x12 cardstock and make a little border or something.
I'm really looking forward to it.

I'm still obsessing with the August sketch... got some more 4x12s in the mail this morning.

@elaynef, that project sounds like a lot of work, but also I think really enjoyable. You get to walk down memory lane, and since you are planning to simply transfer many of the pages and glue them to the larger ones, you can focus on re formatting just those you want to play with, so not as intimidating as taking on a full on redo. I love how you have used the August 2 page sketch for this page and the others you've done. I think LisaDV is going to NEED that chicken paper!

Not a lot of crafty activity for me today. I finished another bd card using the leftovers from yesterday's card and a couple of extras. Still have a couple more to make. I also put the pages from last week and this into my Summer Album, and made a list of other pages I want to do with the photos that are on my counter and in my phone. Problem is the album is already almost full, and there are still a lot of pages on my list...

Here is one of the pages I made last week when justjac was here. I hadn't posted it before, but when I looked at it this morning, I was thinking about on such a simple page how many different manufacturers' (at least 7) products I used. And I wanted to share with you this cute little helper with raspberry juice all over his face! So before I put it into the album, I snapped a photo and uploaded to the Gallery.

let us help by Gramma Dee, on Flickr

OMG, I just left lots of praise in the gallery! Boy you gals have really been scrapping! Bravo! My week has been quiet but I did get to my art class last night. We used india inks to make these abstract designs. You put a big drop of ink on the paper and then use a straw to blow it over your paper. You keep blowing the wet streams in different directions. It was pretty neat even though after some blowing my head didn't feel like doing more. LOL! So, I got innovation and tried some non blowing experiments. LOL! Next week a new session of classes start and I hope I can go since it the will an hour earlier and we only have one car.

scrapincin- Sending you a hug and hope your new treatment continues to help. Also, maybe the upcoming football season will help you feel better too.

@elaynef- Happy to hear you are not close to that hurricane and hope it cools off there. We are suppose to heat up again out here into the 100's so here we go.

nylene- Your lo of your dgd is soooo fab! How did you do the sunburst look?

@elaynef, your pages are so wonderful. And I had that chicken paper! Daisy D, right?

kellyr21, we love doing the ink blowing. When I taught mixed media at the homeschool coop, they loved it too. I hope you get to continue your classes.

nylene, it's so nice of you to help out for vacations, but I can totally see how that would be tiring. Let us know how the upgrade on silhouette goes. It'll be a couple of weeks before I can even think about it.

grammadee, we're feeling fall already in the air here in MN too. I think we are a little south in Michigan but not much. I wonder what are winter will be with such a cool summer? You and your dh are in my prayers as he prepares for surgery. It's later this week, right?

Thanks to all of you for your thoughts and prayers. DD had been doing really well with even the days where her number is up she has still had lower numbers as well (her pain scale). The allergist said a/c to eliminate allergens and we now can correlate some improvement to her health when we travel. We have just chalked it up to her being excited about being out. Next Wednesday is her colonoscopy and endoscopy which will be her last test until Sept. 8th. We enjoyed a zoo/nature outing on Friday (because we don't get enough nature on 47 acres. Ha. On Saturday we went to mall of America and to the aquarium. Don had to leave yesterday, but the kids and I went to see the Mayowood Mansion which was built by one of the Mayo brothers. We enjoyed the zoo/nature center the best of all. Today we're relaxing, maybe going to the pool. Her diet is limited today and tomorrow starts the colon cleanse. She's not looking forward to it, and DS has already warned that after a week or two he will be making jokes about it. At least he knows enough to not do so during the process😂.

Oh! Loved all the projects and have left love in the gallery!