Happy Campers and a sweet treat!

Hope everyone is enjoying the weekend!  The weather here in Maryland has been beautiful!  Lots of sunshine and a little bit of a breeze!  I have spent the good part of my weekend working outside in my flower beds.  Just can't keep up with those darn weeds!  I have been working on this layout a little bit at a time and just finished it up this morning.  I was looking through some old pictures of my kids and came across these of my son back from 2001 when he was in the scouts.  They had gone on a camping/white water rafting trip.  Gosh they sure do grow up too fast.  I look at these photos and am amazed that he is now 22, turning 23 next month.

 Believe it not not, I am able to enter this in 5 challenges. 

1.  Stuck On You Sketches - Button Challenge

2.  Sketchy Thursday - Sketch Challenge

 3.  The Color Room - Color Palette #6

4.  Butterfly Crafts - May Written Challenge:  red, buttons, brown, banner, ink

5.  Crafty Calendar Challenge - The Great Outdoors

I used Cricut cartridges Straight From The Nest for the banner and Going Places for the compass.
The paper is Bella Blvd. Camped Out, Die Cuts With A View Eco pack, and I don't know who makes the corrugated piece, as I have had it in my stash forever!  I cut out the title on the banner using Quickutz Studio mini alphabet, and campers is Corrugated Kraft Alphas by Jillibean soup, which I inked with some red ink.All of the cute critters I cut from a chipboard border by Colorbok that I had purchased at Michaels a while back.
The cloud is actually made out of wood that I found at Michaels the other day.  I added some machine stitching and some distressing and dark brown ink along the yellow-gold paper.

I also want to take the time to thank Kim over at  Memories In Thyme, and Aaron at Scrappinlilscreativside for passing this blog award to me.

I am to post where I want to be in ten years.  I would like to be right where I am now, hopefully still in good health surrounded by my family and friends.  I can see where is award has definitely made it's rounds in the blog world so instead of passing it on to ten others, I leave it here for anyone that wants to grab it.