Let LOAD216 Begin :)

Good Morning to you :) This is my first layout for LOAD216, it will be a very scrappy month for me :) The prompt for this layout was a Color challenge and the colors came from the Neitherlands flag which is Red/ White/Blue. (Yesterday) When I heard the prompt today and the colors the 1st thing I thought of was the colors of our flag and that made me think of men in my family that have served, that lead me to my cousin :) I just recently printed this picture with the anticipation of scrapping it and this 1st prompt is the perfect time to do so :) Very proud of my cousin and to all the men, women and dogs that serve our country :)

The creative inspiration of this layout came from the current sketch over at Memory Nest:




I knew this would be a great sketch for the layout :)

 My cousin Mike (Mikey as I remember calling him growing up :) He is my favorite Aunt's middle son, a year? or 2 younger than me :) his older brother and I are he same age. You know that saying your first friends are your cousins and that is so true! Tommy, Mike's older brother also served, but today and this layout is dedicated to Mikey :) I found the patriotic paper for this layout fairly quickly and just happen across the branding strip I used for the border that I though fit well with the layout. I cut off 2 of the other words and used it about the layout.

 To me Mikey is a hero as is all the Men, Women and Dogs that serve out country so it was the right title for the layout and these red with white stars chipboard letters were perfect for the title

Now this journal spot came from one of the cut apart sheets from last month's counterfeit kit, Brighter Year Ahead. With it being LOAD month I just carried over what was left of the kit to be finished off this month :) and as for my goals last month, I was just a bit short: I did  Layouts: 9  Cards: 12 (My goal was: 15 layouts and a goal to make 13 cards:) Not to bad though :) This month I don't think I'll have any trouble reaching my goal of 29 layouts :) Thanks for stopping by and seeing what I'm up too in my little corner of the world :)