connection keeping

New templates from Fiddle-dee-dee, You are a Shining Star Papers and elements from Connection Keeping, Quite Sporting: Baseball and Softball

Layout for May26 iNSD Template Mash-Up Challenge Kit: ck-always-us Template: fdd_iNSD2026_TemplateChallenge_tp1 & nsd2026_soco_freebie

Created for the iNSD Tic-Tac-Toe challenge

Baptism, Blessed, Family, Journey,

Hanging out with my niece & nephew--I love them!

When Cheryl released her first set of templates in memory of her mama, I struggled to find digitized photos of my stepdad. My mama let me borrow her wedding album to scan photos in case I felt the need to scrap them. It's only right that I use them with this template set. Everything was built...

Technically, the two Earth Day pages aren't a double page spread; they're actually back to back. No one is surprised that I needed two pages to tell this story though ;)

Technically, the two Earth Day pages aren't a double page spread; they're actually back to back. No one is surprised that I needed two pages to tell this story though ;)

Layout for Apr26 Connect and Create Chasing Use a colorized black and white photo Kit: treed-storyfoundations-brighterdays treed-storyfoundations-faves ck-soco_daybreak

For April 2026 Connect and Create - Surprise + 4 or more pocket cards

For April 2026 Connect and Create - In the Moment + photostrip

Connect and Create April: Capture + Selective Color (tulips)

for the April Connect and Create challenge - Light-& Mix & Match Textures from Nature

for the April Connect and Create - Sprinkle-&-In-The-Mail

When I chose this kit, I didn't realize that I might still be waiting to finalize this page when the month ends. I decided to just blur the sensitive information and post it now (for April's challenge), since his updated needs level might not actually get updated with the state before next...

for the April Connect and Create challenge: Hunting-&-Divide Your Page Into 4

I love comparison photos from "then" vs "now", and this might be one of my all-time favorites. My stepdaughter was 12 when she served as my Maid of Honor when I married her dad; in February, at age 29, she married her love.

My DD and her now fiancé

My DD and her now fiancé

Ali Edwards picked April 2nd this year for her community Day in the Life so I played along. Made with Connection Keeping Bold April, including the template that came with the kit