Santa 1964

Last year, one of my Santa Creations was a Golf Santa and I said I'd use him on a layout with a photo of hubby because that was the only way I'd ever have a picture of hubby with Santa.

WRONG!

When I cleaned out my in-laws house for my father-in-law to move home this past summer, I told him my reward would be the closet under the stairs - I would get to go through it and copy the old photos (that I knew were there but had never seen).  He said I could have ANYTHING from the closet that I wanted.

Well, despite my hubby's claims that his photo was never taken because he was the third boy... I found a box of photos of him and this little gem was there

The "greenish" stuff is actually silver embellishments from my stash - but from the photos I took, we had a choice of awful glare or greenish embellies.

Evidently Santa had really thick eyebrows in the sixties - and a grumpy face.  I'm glad he got happier and better groomed before my girls came along - I'd hate to have too many photos with this furrowed (and hairy) brow.

FYI - the lettering is vanilla cardstock stamped with a newsprint background stamp and then the letters were die cut.  SU has/had some paper that looked like this - now I can stop worrying about running out and make my own.  I hit a 40% off sale at a scrapbook store and broke the bank saving my husband money!

5 Heart Challenge

Sorry punch fans - it is another scrappin' day.  I am on a challenge jag. 

This was for Challenge Masters Recipe Challenge - which was to do a layout using 5 different and unique hearts - I have my hearts: punched and embossed, punched and stamped, chipboard, rub-on, stamped, die-cut on pattern paper and just plain punched. 

Hubby doesn't like his photo taken but I occasionally sneak one in - this reminds me of Wilson, the TV neighbor to Tim 'the tool man' Taylor who ALWAYS had his face hidden.  Eventually you all will get to see hubby - but I have lots of this type photo.

Our dog adores my husband - and yes, the dog plays "rebound".  If hubby is outside, TJ is right beside him and his basketball is a favorite toy.

The you&me stamp was one I bought at a clearance store a year or so back and promptly forgot.  Glad I stumbled across it for this layout.

I will try to come up with a new Heart Punch project soon for all you punch fans as your reward for wading through my challenge stuff.

Book of He - Love your Uniform

I don't have to feel guilty about showing you punch addicts my scrapbooking - if I make it the second post of the day....  And I really am trying to get my scrapbook groove going again.  It was my love long before cards and punch art consumed me.

I did this for a challenge on yet another scrapbook challenge group I joined.  The challenge was to scrapbook about your "significant other" and use the word 'love' in the title.  Pretty good challenge for the month of February right?

Well, my hubby isn't that fond of having his photo taken (although he is a terribly handsome fella) so a BOOK OF HE will have to be very creative. 

I really like the way this turned out.

I journaled on a transparency - new for me and attached it with some fabulous clips that SU sells.  You probably can't read what I wrote- so you don't have to strain yourselves to figure out what I could possibly write about my hubby's closet, here it is:

Starched shirt, suit and tie - it has been the 'uniform' for over 30 years and comes off within moments of arriving home.  This is a big loss for me, because you look so FINE with it on.  Yeah, I know you look fine all the time... but I love those days when we have a meeting or award program for the girls and you don't have time to change.  I like to be seen with my own personal GQ guy.