This is the Good Life

Some quick blog posts to make sure I get these layouts into their challenges that are ending very shortly over at Let's Get Sketchy.
This is from the sketch of week 4 and LOAD1016 Day 24 prompt was to use texture paste?!! what! yes I have some and yes I never tried any, so went to the scraphappy facebook group and asked how long it dried as I knew I didn't have alot of time to waste. I found a fun stencil to use and got my background taken care of with the texture paste and now I'm wondering why I haven't tried it :) This stuff adds some fun texture to your layout:

My grandkids took these pictures. Avery was begging Mom for her camera and I thought what the heck I'll give him mine for awhile and I was blown away buy the pictures I got from him and his sister Astacia. He is into the wooded things around the year and she is into the flowers. Made for a sweet layout with the help of this sketch:

I used my current counterfeit kit: Flower Power and a few pieces of embellishments that were in a box on my craft desk. This is also part of the pile of papers that I gathered for the 100 Patterned Paper Challenge. Thanks for checking this out :)