BFFs share a fab experience

I got this freebie template last month and thought it was so cool. I finally decided to make a page 'similar' to it. The fabulous kit is 'Market Square' (Kimeric Kreations) and I used 'SO June Blog Template' (by Scrapping With Liz, on the Scrap Orchard blog) as a sketch ... I mirrored it and changed the orientation of the photos and added all the blocks in MyMemories Suite.

The pic on the top of my niece Shannon and her BFF Krysta was from April. The pic on the bottom was just taken last Thursday. The two moms were heading out to go shopping together with the babies. I originally thought the photo was taken after their big day (and had teased my niece about how they shopped till they dropped), but no ... this was taken as they were just getting in the car --- the babies fell asleep before they even left the driveway, haha.

A Boy's Story

More pics shared by my niece. I love these photos of my grandnephew Hayden so much. Shannon just finished painting his new bedroom and I had helped her choose the colours (based on the bedding). Three walls are painted blue and one wall is that fabulous green colour. So fun. This is another one of my crazy 'use a lot of various kits' pages.

The main kit I used is 'Stars' (A Work in Progress *retired); journal quote card from 'Boyish Summer Journaling Cards' (DHD Erica Coombs), stitches from 'My Colors Stitches' (A Saxon Creation), 'Spotted Fun Alpha' (Marie Stones), string and tag from the 'Rough and Tumble' NSD Blog Hop by Plain Digital Wrapper (expired now), wordart from 'A Good Read' (Sweet Digi Scraps), blue paper from 'Boyo Grunge Papers' (The Urban Fairy), background paper from 'Drowsy Papers' DHD (Agnes Biro).

I'm not going to look up all the links for this like I usually do. I just don't have the time today :)

Sunset at Port Dalhousie

I made this page last Friday. I didn't use a template ... I just played with the layers until I came up with something I liked. I used a wave SVG shape. The photo is my own. I took it in my hometown almost 8 years ago to the day. I've always wanted to scrap it because the swirly clouds look so cool to me. I honestly love the sparkly glitter splats and all the lovely papers and goodies in the kit.

Our 1975 VW Van

I finally got around to using a kit I bought a couple of weeks ago, 'Hippie Kit' (Etc by Danyale). It's really cute and I love the groovy VW embellie, haha.

My hubby and I moved out to Calgary in 1974. At the time we had a VW Beetle. the following year we traded it in for a brand new VW Van. The micro-van was just bare inside when we got it off the show room floor, but we eventually customized it and turned it into a camper van. It was awesome (well we thought it was), although not very roomy, haha.

The pics (above that I scrapped) were taken on the day we bought the van. We had taken a drive along the Forestry Trunk Road. It's a road that runs south-north, parallel to the Rocky Mountains for 100 km (62 miles) and provides Albertans with remarkable access to their forests without having to hike for hours to get there. We used to love going there and often went camping, hiking and fishing along the Forestry Trunk Road.


Those are just the foothills in the background (not the Rocky Mountains). The Forestry Trunk Road is also known as the Kananaskis Trail. Kananaskis Country is a large, multi-use recreation area with tons of neat things to experience and enjoy. You see a lot of wildlife, and the streams are crystal clear and cold. Sometimes sections of the trail would be closed due to bear activity. In the winter we'd go there to go cross-country skiing.

Puppy De-Stuffing Antics

On Sunday Emily (mLe Card) posted this on her FB fan page, "I would love to hear your bad dog stories!" So I proceeded to tell her about one incident from Dillon's puppyhood. This is what I posted ...

"Our current dog Dillon had a few bad dog moments when he was young, but nothing too serious. When he was about 11 months old he went upstairs to the second story of our house, grabbed a queen sized pillow off of the bed, dragged it downstairs to the main level and into the living room (an awkward thing to do as the pillow was almost as big as him), then proceeded to tear it into shreds. He didn't eat any of it thank God. I was in the kitchen and I never heard a sound .... he did it really quietly, haha. I finally realized he was being TOO quiet and went to see what he was up to. I took photos .... (and tried really hard not to laugh). Bad dog!!" :)

Well, today when I went online Emily gave us all a $2.00 coupon for telling her our bad dog stories. So I rushed over to Scrap Orchard and bought her brand new kit, 'Oh My Dog!' (mLe Card). It's on sale and is just too cute!!!


I told Emily...
"I have enough photos of Dillon and all his antics from when he was a pup to fill a large scrapbook. This is just a small sampling. These photos represent 3 separate occasions. The top two pics are from that pillow story I told you about. The bottom two are 2 different bunnies Dillon de-stuffed. He grew out of the toy destroying eventually, and he actually still has the last bunny we bought him in 2002. He has played with it every single day since then, and still carries it around with him in the evenings, haha."

Please note: I recoloured one of the dogs in the kit to look a bit more like a Springer (the one at the top sitting on the couch). It does not look like that in the kit. It's actually just a light beige colour, without the white markings. Oh, and I shortened the tail, lol.

Tall Ship

I decided to make a page with a larger photo of one of the Tall Ships we saw on Saturday at the War of 1812 Naval Battle Re-enactment in Niagara-on-the-Lake. The papers are from 'My Country Kitchen' (Kimeric Kreations), and I used elements from the 'Boys Will be Boys Addon' (Kimeric Kreations) and 'It's a Wonderful Life' (Kimeric Kreations) and 'It's a Wonderful Life Worn Torn' (Kimeric Kreations, from the IAWL bundle).

War of 1812 Bicentennial

Yesterday we went to watch a fabulous War of 1812 Naval battle re-enactment in Niagara-on-the-Lake. There were 5 tall sailing ships and 22 longboats with 300 naval re-enactors all dressed up in period costumes, lots of canons and muskets firing. We had a perfect vantage point and I got about 120 great pics. It was so cool to watch the tall ships sail across the lake, getting closer and closer, then the soldiers rowed to shore in the longboats and then the mock fighting began. It's always to fun because the American tourists root for the Americans and the Canadians root for the British, haha. We always have a blast and this year was extra special. From where we were standing I was only able to photograph the British troops.

Papers from:
'Boyfriend' (A work in Progress),
'Just Like Dad" (Meagan's Creations),
'Stars & Stripes' mini kit (Trixie Scraps) *July FB exclusive.

Embellishments from:
'The Great British Street Party' (LouCee Creations),
'All American Holiday' (Missy's Bits),
'Stars & Stripes' mini kit (Trixie Scraps) *July FB exclusive,
'Memories of Old' (LouCee Creations),
'Boyfriend' (A work in Progress),
'It's a Wonderful Life' (Kimeric Kreations),
'Boys Will Be Boys Addon' (Kimeric Kreations).

Template:
'Focal Point' (Little Green Frog Designs)