July Challenge About This Page:

[~*~Michelle~*~]

Originally Posted by Nala

Last year, when Marcie posted a challenge to do a heritage page, I did one of my dad and his service in WWII. After doing that one, I started one of Grumpy's father and his service in the Korean War. Until this challenge, I never got around to finishing it. Thanks Marcie for the challenge this month, as I was able to have a reason to finally get this layout done.



Unlike my father, who had almost no pictures from his service in WWII, Grumpy's father had quite a few pictures and quite a few documents of his service. The background in this layout is a scan of his certificate of Air Training Command for the USAF.

I used my Circut to cut out a tiny frame in red paper to put around DFIL in the group picture.

The picture on the bottom left of the page is one that took my breath away when I was looking through all the pictures DFIL had of his service. I just thought it was an awesome shot to see not only the men below the plane, but also standing on it's wings.



I added a pharse to my layout that I think speaks volumes that we as American's should always remember. "Freedom is not Free". Many brave men and women have given their lives to protect what we enjoy and I hope we never forget that.

I love, love love this one!

Originally Posted by Marv

O.K., so I was the last or one of the last to post in June challenge, so I'll be first in July challenge. Keep in mind, my mission is to get lots done this summer, so I have quick non complicated pages. By accident I found I could print all 9 fireworks pics in a layout pattern on one of our programs, so I tried it-see the second photo. It's all 9 pics printed on an 8/5 X 11 inch page. The frames were an option I could choose. I wouldn't use it often, but for a quick 4th of July two page layout it worked. Page one has stickers for letters and page two are matted letters cut from my wishblade.

I'm not sure what I did wrong on taking the photo of the first page or if a lot of metallic paper just doesn't photograph well. The quality of the pic is terrible but I'm not going to take the time to try again. Just know in real life, the colors on page one are navy blue and a very pretty metallic gold (like on the second page but even that isn't true to the colors) and look great together and my photos aren't blurry in real life, ha!

Great Job. That's what our sidewalk looked like w/the smoke bombs LOL

Originally Posted by DawnDenise

I found a picture of my sister and I and had it enlarged to a 5x7. This was taken in the summer of 1989 when my sister and I visited my dad in NYC right after my parent's divorced. We were visiting the Statue of Liberty and dad took a picture of the two of us with the skyline behind us. This has always been a favorite picture of the two of us and it means even more now because the Twin Towers are in the background.

Great job!

Originally Posted by Minnie Lor

Ok, here's mine. I've been on a kick lately not to go too crazy with my layouts and even then I'm still slower than molasses.

Love this

Originally Posted by kmurburg

Here's my July Challenge page. It's a fireworks theme because we love to watch fireworks for the 4th! I think I'm finally getting the hang of using my little Kodak to get adequate fireworks pictures. Now I hope I can be as successful when I try to capture the HallowWishes fireworks in October. If only I can get better parade pics too!

I love getting pics of fireworks

Originally Posted by Shell_of_the_South

I've got 2 pages that fit this month's challenge. Both are from our Cedar Point trip last month:


This is Famous Dave's at Cedar Point


These are some pictures of the nightly fireworks show at Cedar Point. I cut the letters from a sheet of paper that was printed with fireworks using the Mickey font.

Great job!

[LilMarcieMouse]

I saw a layout for Fire works were the preson used a contact sheet of the fireworks along with a picture fo a child whatching them. it looked cool. They cut most of the boarder off the contact sheet.

[LilMarcieMouse]

Good Job everyone and this one is closed!!

[chezp]

Now you would say that Marcie, just as I get round to photographing all my hard work over the last couple of months. I did this in early July, but like I say only photographed it all yesterday. These are a couple of pages from Sue and Steve's trip over here in May.

[Shell_of_the_South]

But they're so good - let Cheryl's pages in Marcie! The second page is very unique - I like the way you positioned the letters!

[Mouseketeer]

Cheryl, I really like the London Eye page. I also like the paper on your journal box on the title page.

[LilMarcieMouse]

You know how informal I am ofcourse Cheryl's pages are in. Besides I love them. The Eye is so cool. I love the picture of the other "cart" or what ever you call it. With London in the background. Good job Cheryl.

[DawnDenise]

Great layouts Cheryl!! I the lettering on the London Eye page.

[kmurburg]

Great pages Cheryl! I like the journalling box on the first pages an both layouts are very striking!

[chezp]

Originally Posted by LilMarcieMouse

You know how informal I am ofcourse Cheryl's pages are in. Besides I love them. The Eye is so cool. I love the picture of the other "cart" or what ever you call it. With London in the background. Good job Cheryl.

I think they're usually called capsules. Glad to know I wasn't too late!

[rescuesk]

Can I get special credit for Cheryl's pages because I'm in them?

Seriously, they are great, and wait till you see the rest...

[chezp]

Originally Posted by rescuesk

Can I get special credit for Cheryl's pages because I'm in them?

Seriously, they are great, and wait till you see the rest...

Well of course you get credit for a great starring role!

[LilMarcieMouse]

I would like to give Sue a special thank you for being in the pictures that Cheryl used. You are a star.

[rescuesk]

Originally Posted by LilMarcieMouse

I would like to give Sue a special thank you for being in the pictures that Cheryl used. You are a star.

You guys crack me up!!!