**Nov 14 weekend crop**

Hello!!! This is my 1st ever time to host a crop!! Im so excited!
This past Tues was veterans day, and to honor our families vets i have planned a crop which ties into that and family in general. We love and adore our kids, spouses and parents, but often dont think of those rellies we vaugely knew or heard stories of. Id like to take you down memory lane this week! I told you to hunt down pics of people in uniform, but these DO NOT have to use ONLY military themed stuff unless its asked in the challenge! Feel free to use ANY pics!

**CHALLENGE 1:COLOUR CHALLENGE**
for this challenge you must use military type colours such as grey, green,blue, black etc OR use the patriotic colours of red, white and blue. The photo can be a uniformed person or a general photo!not a photo OF a general.. but any regular pic

here i used uniform colours green and brown

and this one i used red white and blue!


**CHALLENGE 2:SCRAP A UNIFORM!**
Create a layout of someone in uniform....and by unifom, you can use scouts,a halloween costume,military, police, school band..ANY uniform!!

heres my uniform examples!

grandfathers track uniform

Grandmother in nurse unnie

my Grampa, the Dept sheriff

and a cousin being decorated in WW2

See!! ANY type of uniform is cool!!

**CHALLENGE 3-SCRAP A RELLIE!**
scrap a reletive.. any family member!! Past or present!! Lets see YOUR family! this can be a fun layout or even a page to honour a rellie!
heres my example!


**CHALLENGE 4: SCRAP A NAME CHALLENGE**
Some families pass down names through the generations, or maybe you have a first name in the family that has special meaning. Im into genealogy and love adding surnames to my family tree.For this challenge, use ANY 1st name, nickname,pet name or last name AS YOUR TITLE!!
Heres my example


**CHALLENGE 5:SCRAP A KID!**
ANY kid will do!! you as a kid, your spouse, your mom, your kid!!
heres my example, i chose to scrap ME!!!


and last but not least...

**CHALLENGE 6:SOMETHING OLD TO SOMETHING NEW CHALLENGE**
For this challenge, look around for something old and alter it into something newer! I took this old bottle...

and made it into a cute peice of decor or a gift perhaps??


i REALLY hope you enjoy the crop! I tried to make challenges for everyone.You have until Tuesday to upload your work!! Ill be on and off checking your work!!

editied: A RAK will be given!! my son will draw a name of all who do at least 1 challenge, and ill send the winner a RAK!!

WOW Terri!!! Those are some really awesome challenges!! I have ideas for a couple of them, I'll have to dig around and see what photos I have...I just remembered my grandma oftens sends some in ackages of other papers and things, and we have quite a few "uniformed" members of our family, so I might have to see if she sent any of those!

i really hope these are ok.. not too easy, not too hard.... and not too many!! i cant wait to see what you do!!!

Wow...tons of challenges for everyone Terri...right now I am stuck doing a turkey project with my boy...due tomorrow...create this turkey cutout they give you in disguise....mmmmm so not into it, but I guess I will be up all night doing this...UGH!!

gotcha!!! i just helped my 12th grader with a dang NASA report weve been doing and redoing for a month now.. due tommorow! the teacher keeps making more corrections on it and now wants quotes labled and even page numbers of each quote! sorry buddy, but those books went back a long time ago. his report is 16 pages long, so he better not get a bad grade for the missing page numbers. hes in special ed english, so reports are really hard for him. my hubbys gram has surgery at 1 pm tommorow, so prayers appreciated!

Jill, hope you don't have to spend the WHOLE night on that turkey!!

Terri, hope your son's teacher is understanding with the grade! And that everything goes well with the surgery tomorrow!

We had to run to town for a while, now we're sitting down having our supper and then I have some things I need to work on. I haven't found any uniform photos yet, but I think I know where I can look! I do have some for some of the other challenges though, I definitely have a few to choose from of myself when I was little!

What a bunch of fun challenges!! I've gathered some of my heritage photos. Found a couple of my dad in uniform. Got lots of photos of my sons in scout uniforms. I hope to get some of these done.

Jill and Terri, don't you just love the projects they send home from school! I'm so glad my kids are finally out. But my granddaughters will be doing those things soon enough!! Can't wait.

Tyeler is having a sleepover tomorrow night. It's going to be a scrapbooking/craft/birthday party. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. We'll see how it goes with ten 7 and 8 year old girls. I expect to be up really late tomorrow night and up really early Sat morning. After all her friends go home on Sat we have to go up to our other granddaughters birthday/skating party. It's a little over an hour away. I'm pretty sure by Sunday I will be loving my day of rest!! It's going to be a busy weekend but I plan to fit some of these challenges into my schedule.

Wow Terri! These are some great challenges!!

I am going to give it a try, as this will be my first time participating in an online crop and chat!!!! Question - can you come and go all weekend? - I am getting together with my scrapping friends on Sunday 12-5pm for scrapbooking day!!!! I could work on the challenges then!!!! michelle


ETA: - Lovely pictures!! I love that heritage look - very special way to honor someone!!!

well if its ok with Steph and the bosses here, i can say it runs till tues, then everyone will have the weekend plus monday to work, then upload on tues.. if thats ok with the brain trust around here!!! And you can come and go as you like, ill check back to see if anyones done stuff or chatted!! Work at your own leisure!!! If you cant work this weekend, just keep the challenge in mind to use someday!! They really are fun to do!!! I wish i was rich so i could send everyone a RAK!!!!

Have fun with the sleepover and weekend fun Berta!! WIsh i was a kid again to attend!!!!

oh my Berta! You are going to be exhausted by Sunday!! Hope the girls have a great time at the party, sounds like lots of fun!!

Tuesday is fine...just keep in mind that the big Fall Crop starts on Monday, so you might want to try and get them done before then, as you can't combine the challenges frrom both.

No luck finding the photos I was hoping to find...I need to look harder I think! LOL! I did find some old photos of someone that my grandma sent me, but they are just printed on plain old printer paper Need to work on some cards tonight anyways, I will look again for the photos tomorrow!

Wow! Lots of challenges here Terri. How fun. I know of a couple I think I can get done. And lots of great layouts.

How fun!! I just re-read the challenges and now I am going to take a nap and think about what photos I am going to use!!!!! michelle

awesome!!! i cant wait to see what you all make!!!
rams surgery went well and shes in redovery now, then they will make her try to walk. Im going o take my DD to work and stop and see gram. thanks so much for prayers!!

What great challenges!! These could keep you going all week!!

I came home from work a little after 10... I'm not feeling all that well... went to bed when I got home but still having chills.

Someone tell my body that I was sick just three weeks ago!!!!!!!! Grrrrr......

Oh no Shel...I heard that the Flu has started all ready...hope you don't have that and that 2 different are going around. Terri so glad that the surgery went well for Gram. I will be off soon to take DD to dance and the whole circut that we do...hope to get back to the boards tonight and do some scrapping too!!

scrappyshel wrote:What great challenges!! These could keep you going all week!!

I came home from work a little after 10... I'm not feeling all that well... went to bed when I got home but still having chills.

Someone tell my body that I was sick just three weeks ago!!!!!!!! Grrrrr......

yikes! on top of the week you've had!!!

hope you get to feeling better!! (((HUGS)))

Yeah.... no kidding. The only bright spot in my week was my sister bringing me cookies at work!!!!!

hope you feel better Michelle! Lie has been crabby today too, i feel kinda crappy. Its rainy here in MI, dont know about where all of you are, but travel safe if you go out!

Terri - I am glad gram's surgery went well - and Shel - get better fast!!! Hey - does anyone ever call you Shelly? - Everyone called me Shelly until I was in the 2nd grade - then apparently I told everyone "my name is Michelle" - that coming from my mom Anyway, I have completed 2 layouts for the challenge!!!!! Imagine that!!!!! I had a nice little nap - then Julia (my 3 year old) and myself headed up to my scraproom to scrap!!!!! - We are going to eat dinner soon - then I will take photos, download them and post them! - Hope everyone has a good night and I wish someone would of brought me cookies today (shel) - how nice of her!!!! chat with you all later!! michelle

Wow lots of challenges I have to work tomorrow 7-4 so maybe when I get home i can do some. Sounds like fun

Nope... I don't go by anything but Michelle.... don't mind shel... it's just short.... but NOT Shelly.... nope... nope... nope..

I agree!!! The only time anyone ever calls me Shelly is when I see long lost relatives!!!

Question for you girls - I am a newbie here - I was just playing around downloading an old layout to the gallery - and I wasn't sure what "album" to put it in - so I put it in the Nov. - things with wings - I know that's the wrong album, but not sure where to put it - I understand that I can the photo of my layout to my post - am I missing anything else? - Terri gave me some advise earlier - thanks Terri! michelle

sorry!! just testing somemore!

this isn't one of my layouts for the crop