Some recent challenge layouts

I haven't done much scrapping lately. My son broke his hand and I've been playing nursemaid-Mama-comforter for a couple of weeks. He has gone home again now, not that he can manage to do much for himself, but at least he can dress himself and cook toast, etc now. Loooong story, but he's had some deep thinking to do about it all and the consequences of actions, shall we say. I don't grudge a second spent with my son, but I do wish it hadn't happened to him and I do fervently hope nothing else like that happens to him again, for his sake. Scrapping and all the other things that got put on hold are nothing in comparison to having the use of your hands, and being well.

Anyway, these are the pages I have managed to do in amongst it all. This first one was my entry into the DT competition at Red Earth - didn't win, but loved the challenge and had fun creating this page of my sister. The scrap of paper at the bottom right of the photo was handmade by my sister's husband, so it's kind of special.

This one was made for a challenge at Home & Scrapped - a step by step challenge that I put up for the girls last week. I rarely do the challenges before I put them up, I just seem to love to be challenged too, lol. I was challenged this time, too. I had hardly any photos left to scrap (well, actually, I have about a million in old albums and boxes, but who's counting?) but I was lucky, these photos of my little brother and my niece were just right.

The next two were challenges on Challenge Heaven for December/January. I didn't get them up in time because of the whole broken hand drama, but I had already chosen my photos and papers so I did them anyway. I'm not an apricot person, so "White or Black with Apricot" was interesting, until I found this pretty apricot in my stash - it's amazing what's in there... That made it quite easy to put together, and I found I had quite a bit of apricot actually.

This was another colour challenge. I like colour challenges, they're interesting. I have to tell you it's not just my brother in law who can make paper. My husband made the green swirly paper here. He used to experiment with photography and his computer and made some really amazing images. He had some printed out and they happen to have fallen into my hands recently. This particular layout has quite a few bits and pieces given to me by my scrappy friends. Love that I can make layouts that remind me not just of the subject, but my friends around the world.

I am so hoping to get into the scrapping a bit more this week, now that I have some time, and before the next thing happens to stop me. So many good challenges out there in blogland and on forums, I am just drooling with anticipation, lol!

love, Heather "It's about love. You don't have to scrapbook to love but you have to love in order to scrapbook." June