Time for some more layouts!

I've been doing quite a bit of scrapbooking, but not as much as I could be doing. I'm running way behind!

 Gotta Pixel has a Font Fever challenge every month where they provide a font and you decide how to use it. For this layout, the font is called Royal Initialen. Very ornate and pretentious! For some reason it made me think of Great-Grandma Cubitt... Although she was born into a very poor working class family, you'd never have known it once she crossed the pond. There was something quite imperious and regal about her, and you can see it plainly in these photos. The small one was taken in 1917 before Great-Grandpa WJ went off to Europe as a member of the 202nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. The larger of the two was taken in March, 1962 at their golden wedding anniversary celebration.

Twisted Pixels is a template-based challenge. I substituted ribbon for one of the paper strips from the original and for once used only a single kit. That almost never happens. I took the photo on my way home from work early in the morning of July 2, 2011. There were two hot air balloons drifting on the breeze toward the river hanging just over the University of Alberta campus. I only had my cellphone, and had to wait for the light to change so that I could get out of the car... and missed the lead balloon. Oh well. The title of the layout is the French word for hot air balloon, the way I've always thought of them since our days in Montreal ('83-'86) when the girls were so enamoured of them.
 

 Month 3 of the Gotta Pixel Grab Bag colour themes is yellow. Not a colour I tend to use much - don't like it!! I used a template and some more golden-than-yellow papers to scrap the photo of Stanley the green iguana visiting in my flowerbed.

 Sunday Brunch Crunch is another template-based challenge hosted once a month by Colie Sheppard at Gotta Pixel. She melds two different layouts she's chosen from the gallery and creates a template from them, which she gives to participants to build on. The theme for July was to choose a summer activity that one MUST partake of at least once every summer. Well, that's a no-brainer! I made the word art in the upper left corner myself. Who knew?!!

The last of my new Gotta Pixel challenge layouts is Use the Prompt: My favourite summer activity is... It just so happened that Adam had attended his first session of Trailraiders, a program for disabled individuals that gets them out into the parks and onto the trails. It's run out of the Steadward Centre at the U of A and costs $25 for three weeks. Whoa!! Cheap. The volunteers are called Sherpas and they basically haul people around in a one-wheeled rickshaw. Adam had a blast!

The one sunny morning we had  last week, I put Adam's sunglasses on him before he left for the day. They're too big for his face and he looked an awful lot like a housefly! Bug Boy just stuck. I used the photos for the DHD Blueprint challenge.

 Colour swatch challenges are so much fun. Lately I've had photos in my stash that match the colours in the swatches so it makes it easy. Gennifer Bursett even made a free paper kit using the colours from the swatch, making it that much easier!

I've recently discovered a new site that I like a lot. I followed Cilenia Curtis over to Digitals when she moved her store there and now I'm sticking my nose into their challenges too. It's Only Words provides the word art and the scrapper provides the inspiration. Our family so seldom gets together all at once all in the same place. The large photo is from our trip to Sun Peaks for Mom's and Dad's golden anniversary; the one below it was the first Christmas we were all together in 23 years and the smallest one is an 'arty' photo taken by Darci at Sun Peaks. Too funny - and not especially flattering!

 
And last but not least, my July signature tag for Gotta Pixel.

Stay tuned for jewelry photos...