Scrapbook Layout & a Freebie

Hi, everyone! I've switched gears from making cards to working on my son's scrapbooks. When I first started paper crafting it all began with scrapping. It wasn't until a few years later that I ventured into the world of cards! I used to be a Stampin' Up demonstrator, and then I switched to Close to My Heart products. Now, though, I am simply a consumer......of both! lol! The papers on this layout are from Close to My Heart (CTMH). It is a paper pack called Passages. I made the star-tabbed mats, and those are your freebies for today. :0)
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These photos are of my son's JROTC Air Rifle Team from this year. The four-man team he was on qualified for the National Championships that were held at Camp Perry, Ohio in February. They shot in the Sporter Class. (I had posted about this previously, I think). I often have a hard time using more than two or three photos on a page - I like to SEE the photos - but for this layout, I did use several, as you can see. Please let me know what you think - I'd love some feedback on if there are two many, or if the "story" of our trip is told well enough?

The journaling was done in PSE, and the rifle cut-out is from the Cricut cartridge Stand and Salute. It's not the same kind of gun the kids shoot, but it gets the point across, I think! Lol! I will post the other two pages of this event in a separate post. :0) 

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I love numbers!

I love numbers! There's never a question as to how to pronounce them! In the english language, we have several phonetics for several letters..............but not numbers! A 9 is a 9, as a 5 is a 5, and so on and so forth.
So, when my son called me to say, "Guess what, mom?! I shot first in the State of Indiana!" (referring to his JROTC Air Rifle 2010 Postal), it made no sense for me to respond, "What??", did it?! lol!!
I am so proud of him. He has truely stepped up as far as his efforts are concerned. This is a child that, four years ago, I was concerned was doomed to a fate of menial minimum wage work. Seriously.............
A child that could not make eye contact, nor speak clearly to the gas station clerk in the checkout line is now winning air rifle titles! He has bumped his grades from a 1.6 gpa in the eighth grade to a 3.2 gpa as a junior. He has evolved from the boy that did whatever the neighbor kid said was "cool" to the young man that earned a Battalion Staff position (a senior position) as a junior in his JROTC program at school.
I am amazed, and extremely proud! :)
Keep up the good work, son!

Digital Scrapping

Deanna, a fellow online scrapper and info-sharer, was kind enough to send me a template that I saw on a post she had done on SVGCuts.com forum. I'm pretty "green" when it comes to all the digital programs, so it was a great way for me to learn a few things (working on new stuff that was free is the BEST way to learn!). Here is my digital version of the layout, using the wonderful template she had sent me. :)
I did end up adding additional photos and a title, to make it a hybrid scrapbook layout, which I will add to this post once I am done taking the photo.
I actually have this as a dbl layout; one page is done as a traditional scrapbook page (no digital work), and this is the second page. I wanted to match the background paper that I used on my traditional page, so I scanned a blank sheet of the paper into my computer, saved it as a .jpg and then pulled it into the template, sized accordingly......and presto! A matched color for the background! :)