Shimelle's Weekend Crop: Use a teal, tan, red, mustard and navy color palette

This challenge from Shimelle's Crop Weekend was to use the colors: red, teal, mustard, tan and navy blue.  Well looking at the picture, I forgot to add the navy blue.  I think I was going to add it as a thin strip between the mustard and teal mats.  Unfortunately I can not add it now because the silver letter were "super glued" to the page and I am NOT cutting little pieces to fit in between the letters.  These are just selfies I took of me and Daisy Dawg on New Year's Eve 12/31/15.  It is our three course meal with champagne!  Just the girls enjoying some special treats!!!

Shimelle's Crop Weekend: Choose Your Challenge from the Comments

This layout from Shimelle's Crop Weekend was pick your own challenge from the comments.  Well, I guess I cheated a bit and took a little bit from several challenges: Use wood grain, chevron and 3x4 cards.  I dropped the 3x4 cards because it just wouldn't work.  This layout is about our trips to the Waffle House each Saturday and/or Sunday morning when we spend the night in out of town for a baseball tournament.  Many times we were lucky enough to stay at the same hotel with Leland, even though we are on different teams.  Our favorite place is the Waffle House because it has great food at an inexpensive rate and the best customer service!  Just look at our waitresses smile!!

Shimelle's Weekly Challenge 3/7/16: Scrap 3 photos

Shimelle's Weekly Challenge for the week of 3/7/16 was to scrap 3 photos!  There were two guest bloggers/designers providing their take on the challenge.  I followed May Flaum's take a bit more.  I scrapped some "not so great" photos of Chet's 50th Birthday celebration, which was simply Chet, Walker & me with a few gifts.  He did get a good day of hunting by himself.  Hey I asked if he wanted a party and he said, "No".

Shimelle's Crop Weekend: Challenge: Use an Old Picture

While completing the "Big Picture Challenge", I found this FUN 8 1/2 x 11 photo of the boys back in 2013.  So, I decided to tackle Shimelle's Challenge:  Crop an Old Photo.  This layout was super simple and lots of FUN!!!

Shimelle's Crop Weekend: Challenge; Use Shimelle's First Line

Still going strong with Shimelle's Crop Weekend Challenges!!   I chose to tackle the challenge "Use Shimelle's First Line".  I had a bag full of scrap pieces (which were perfectly cut), 3 full 12x12 sheets and a few ephemera with 2 wood veneers left.  This layout came together so quickly because the pattern papers were cut in a variety of shapes (which I learned from Shimelle).  I did use a few of Shimelle's wooden buttons from her True Stories line.
These are photos from my iPhone of a Saturday adventure with my girlfriend.  Guillermo, the horse was eager to locate his "girlfriend" coming up behind us!  What a fun layout to make!

Shimelle's Crop Weekend: Scrap a BIG Photo Challenge

I have chosen to tackle the "Scrap a BIG Photo Challenge" from Shimelle's Crop Weekend.  I created a layout from June 2013 of my son's first ever travel baseball team, TIDE.  They were a 9 year old kid pitch travel baseball team from the Mississippi Delta.  I used "Hey Boy!" from Basic Grey and cut down the 8 1/2 x 11 photo about 1/4 of an inch to fit in the large box in the middle.  The embellishments are from Hey Boy and Hipster from Basic Grey.
Here is the official team photo finally documented!

Shimelle's Weekly Challenge: Use Globes/Maps

Shimelle is posting a weekly challenge each Monday.  This past week's challenge was to use a globe and/or map as an inspiration.  I used Shimelle's Christmas Line, specifically "Santa's Route", a map of the world paper and her "Joy to the World" globe 3D embellishment on my layout to help signify my mini "trip around the world" (Mississippi to South Texas in 4 days trip), plus our outing to Arturo's!
 Arturo's was originally located in Progresso, Mexico, a border town close to Harlingen, Texas.  It is now located in Weslaco, TX.  This is the 2nd year in a row I have gone to celebrate the Christmas holidays at Arturo's with Tammi, Bill, Hannah & Travis!  These are wonderful memories.