Happy Easter! and a couple of layouts

Hope you had a wonderful Holiday, whichever way you celebrate it.

As you can see from my previous post I got a chance to spend time with family a few weeks ago. I hadn't seen my nephew and great nephew in years.  It was so nice to see them and get to spend time with them. I only wish that my two could have been there too.  Of course when you haven't seen someone in a long time you get as many photos as you can.  Josh was 2 the last time I got photos of him and he'll be 9 in July.  

I won some BoBunny Ad Lib at my LSS Picture This a week prior to getting together with family.  With the colors in the photos it was easy to use Ad Lib for the layouts I did. I only wish it wasn't discontinued.  I will have to see if I can find some online when pay day rolls around.  I like the wording of document everyday, celebrate life, etc.  I think too often we only take photos and scrap special occasions.  When we should also let our future generations know what everyday life was like too.  I enjoy history, so it was easy for me to think that way. I always enjoyed reading the post cards and cards my grandmother saved from family and friends.  I remember she kept them in a wooden box.  I enjoyed getting a little peek into their life.  Well enough of my jibber jabber. Here are a couple of layouts I came up with. I was inspired by PageMaps (March Maps) for the layouts below. I really enjoy that site, Becky Fleck is so very talented. I was so lucky to have a friend loan me her cricut so I was able to cut the title for the Siblings layout below. 

Four Generations of Olson Men Sam, Jayson, Josh and Dad

Me, my brother Sam and my sister Kim

 I am entering the Four Generations layout in the Here Comes the Boys Anything but a Card challenge.  I found the challenge listed on Feline Playful. You can click the graphic to the right to find challenges for scrapbooking, cardmaking and altered art.  I'm trying to find more masculine challenges since as you can see there are quite a few men in my family.  Smiles.

Thanks for stopping by! Sure hope your holiday weekend was wonderful!!!