I used some photos of some beautiful girls for my layouts at Kelly Goree’s class at Crop and Create Markham (sponsored by Scrapbooks and Cards Today). You will find layouts below featuring my 3 eldest daughters Nikki, Stephanie and Jacqueline Pennington in the layouts below!! All designs by Kelly, with only minor variations by me:
Yikes – it really is cold where I live this week. We’ve been spoiled so far this winter. And – over at another Freaking scrappy challenge we have a new sketch, and we are challenging you to scrap about winter. Hop on over to see how you can play along with us!!!
Here is my layout, featuring our daughters Nikki, Stephanie and Jacqueline Pennington with their Dad, my husband, Scott Pennington. We have a small hill at the side of our house, and we have all enjoyed tobogganing over the years right at home. That is, until we put in our swimming pool which cut into the tobaggan run, lol. Here is my layout for this challenge:
Anne Pennington
Come on over to Scrapbookers Anonymous where they have their mid-month alphabet challenge on. This month is the letter “f”. I used paper from the Rouge de Garance Free Ride collection for my layout. Come on out and play with us!!!
Anne Pennington
There is a call for more design team members over at another Freaking scrappy challenge … Applicants should send me a link to their blog at anne.pennington@xplornet.com – put Design Team Application AFSC in the subject line of their e-mail – and let me know their previous design team experience. You don’t have to have prior design team experience – I am just nosy … Deadline to apply is January 14, 2012.
What are you waiting for??? Why don’t YOU come apply and have some fun with the rest of the design team, players and I???
Busy and happy New Year!!! It is going to be an awesome year, I am sure.
Over at Scrapbookers Anonymous they are challenging us to mask using paint, glimmer mist, or ink. It is a fun challenge and I love the results I had. You should come and play with us!!! I used my Copic markers to colour in my stamped images. The photo is of my eldest daughter, Nikki Pennington!
Meanwhile, over at another Freaking Scrappy challenge … the challenge is to scrap a Christmas memory from the past – a Christmas from your childhood – incorporate a photo, a momento or something or someone that represents that time for you, maybe use a photo of a gift you received !!!! If you do not celebrate Christmas – scrap a memory of another holiday that is special to you. Here is my layout using Basic Grey Wassail collection of papers and embellishments, and using Sketchy Thursday’s latest sketch as inspiration for my design:
The photo is one of my twin brother Gary and I with our mother on our second Christmas. He was such a great little buddy. I miss him.
… that’s how I often feel when I remember my twin brother, Gary, who died when we were only 35. He lay dying in hospital in Toronto, while I lay in my hospital bed in Belleville very sick the last month of my pregnancy with our son Chris. We lied to each other every day when we called each other to chat – oh yes, we were both doing very fine we would say. Gary died August 9th. When they brought me the news that evening (I knew inside all day that he had died and I was screaming inside that no one in my family came to tell me – don’t tell me there is no deep bond between twins) I went immediately into labour for Chris. A labour in shock and grief with a sick mother and baby is not a good thing, but that is another story.
My journalling reads: “You were my friend my whole life, always with me – you were my buddy since the womb. You had always been with me, my friend I brought with me whenever we moved with Mom and Dad. We were both in hospital miles apart that last month of your life after having had a wonderful weekend camping at Presqu’ile in early July. You were never to come out of that hospital, and I left my hospital with Christopher Gary Ronald Robert in my arms. He was named Gary for you. I didn’t think I’d ever recover that loss, but time helped strengthen me. I had another child to add to my family. I dressed them both in the sweater and hat you made for Chris and snuggled them in the blanket you made. I wish they’d have known you too! Attending our 40th high school reunion this year was so sad without you!! I’ll never forget you, my twin!!! “
Here is my layout using the prompt word “Time” from Bird is the Word and Crate Paper School Spirit Collection Geometry paper, a Cosmo Cricket embellishment (My Best Friend scroll) and Heidi Snapp clock faces. I love to use sunburst design papers, they give so much energy to a layout. Please go to my posting here at my challenge blog another Freaking scrappy challenge … for a tutorial on how to use these papers. I meant to get this done sooner, but as you can imagine it was a hard layout to tackle, sometimes the emotions still run very deep.
design by Anne Pennington
The challenge over at Bird is the Word is the use the word “WONDER” in a layout. Here is a layout of my daughter Jacqueline Pennington on a trip south last Christmas/New Year`s (2010/2011). I used Webster’s pages Seaside Retreat A Seahorse’s Legend paper for the layout.
This layout is also my 108th of this year – I have now tied my total for 2010 layouts created. Looks like I am likely to surpass it before this year is finished!! Tracking what I have done helps me to take the time to get projects done as I am happiest when I create on a regular basis! I also keep track of the dates completed, materials and other relevant info on a tracking sheet so that I can refer to any info if I need to later on. Also helps me to feel like I`ve accomplished something for my family in a year!! Most of them really love the stories I tell about them, us, me and life in general.
design by Anne Pennington
Mémêre was my mother`s mother, my grandmother, an Acadian lady by the name of Hélèna Allain (nee. Richard 1900). She was a wonderful grandmother who made a big fuss whenever we`d visit her during our summer holidays. My father was in the Air Force, so we usually we lived a long ways away from her, which made a trip to visit her a very joyous event for us both. She would bake for days in advance of our arrival – and stash in her kitchen drawer – date squares, other treats and her own special recipe for coconut chocolate macaroons that we lovingly called “Mémère Cookies”. My children love this unique cookie too, and have asked for the recipe. When I give it to them, there is a strict rule that they must always call them “Mémère Cookies” in tribute to her and if they share the recipe they must receive a promise from the receiver to do the same.
I made this layout to honour the memory of my Mémêre and her cookie recipe for the 15th December sketch challenge over at another Freaking scrappy challenge … using Melissa Frances paper and embellishments.
design and layout by Anne Pennington
Scrapbooker’s Anonymous just put their 15th of the month alphabet challenge up this morning – and this month’s mid-month challenge is the letter “e”. You can use a paperline or embellishments that begin with the letter “e”, or a theme of the letter “e”, or whatever you can imagine with the letter “e”. My layout uses Sassafrass Ellie’s Tale paper line. I LOVE SASSAFRASS EVERYTHING!!!
Meanwhile, over at Bird is the Word the word is TRUST. Well, as I say in my titling “Trust you to be WACKY” referring to my daughter Mary Pennington, who, in this picture is at her sister Jacqueline Pennington’s wedding shower in 2006 and is just hamming it up (as could be trusted to happen) for the photo op.
design by Anne Pennington
Oh my gosh, this was a bittersweet layout. I was inspired by Nadia Cannizzo‘s Once Upon a Sketch blog, where she supplied a wonderful sketch for inspiration and asked those who played along this challenge to “write at least 2 sentences on what you look forward to in the next month. December is a festive month so your journalling could be about the Christmas season, the holidays, the presents or if you do not celebrate Christmas what does December bring for you that you look most forward to?” I am not certain that my journalling really follows her challenge, but I found her sketch so inspirational that I just needed to use it to express what I needed to express this season.
My journalling reads:
“The Ghosts of
Christmases Past
This time of year I cannot help but think of Christmases past – Christmases when I was young and spent them with my parents and siblings. My father and my twin brother Gary really loved Christmas time. Dad would make his “Dad’s Christmas Expectations List” complete with catalogue names and page numbers so that we could buy him just the right gadget for under the tree. When Gary began to work he would buy himself a Christmas gift – something he had wanted all year. Mom loved to have us all at home. After Gary and Dad were gone, we would have Mom for our Christmas Eve celebration, take her to my in-law’s home in the morning with us, then take her wherever she wanted to go for the afternoon and Christmas dinner. Chris and Mary were on the road since their first Christmases, and love to travel now on the day. I am so grateful for my own family to spend Christmas with now.”
We all have memories we wish we could relive. I was so happy to honour mine with this layout. And I am so happy to be able to create Christmas memories at this time for my own family to cherish.
Nadia’s creations are inspirational, as is her challenge blog. We are very lucky to have her as guest designer for another Freaking scrappy challenge … – I had no idea at the time I asked her that she had so much else going to challenge her own and other’s creativity. So nice to meet new friends to inspire us !!
Here is my layout based on her sketch:
Anne Pennington
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