The weather is definitely changing–cool nights but warm, sunny days. For many of my friends the end of summer comes this weekend since school begins on Tuesday for them. A group of us had lunch today and Tracy took this photo of us on our patio. Three of us are now retired, and six head back to school next week. It's hard to get us all together, but when we do, we have a great time. 

I'm glad to have the time to play along with some challenges this week. I love the colors Dawn chose for her Raspberry Suite Challenge.

My Road Trip scrapbook is nearly finished–just five filler pages to do, most of which I'll do digitally. It's a big book with layouts for each major stop we made in our month long trip with photo pages behind the layouts. I really enjoyed "reliving" the trip, and it's without a doubt the fastest I've ever completed such a big project. But nothing else creative happened. . .

While Sarah and Adam were here, Adam helped me redo the blog to a fresher, cleaner look. I'm hoping to switch out photos in the banner fairly regularly. This one is a favorite from the Badlands. We had a great time while they were here and I'll post photos from their visit soon. Here now, however, are three cards. The first is a card for a dear friend who has just moved.

The background is fabric paper by Elsie for KI Memories, I think. It goes so well with the October Afternoon sticker which I layered on an embossed Nestability circle. The border is part of a strip from Making Memories and the twill, button and twine are all Papertrey Ink.

Next is  wedding card for a friend's son who was married in late July.

A simple card with a Fancy Flourish from Papertrey, pearls, and Midori ribbon.

Lastly, a card for the Christmas challenge at Moxie Fab. It was really difficult to photograph this, and I like it IRL a lot better.

Very clean and simple–just my style. Papertrey stamp, gems from Mrs. Grosman, and message from Savvy Stamps.

Hope to be a regular blogger now going forward! Thanks for looking.