Lasting Memories-New scrapbooking Challenge

Hey everyone. There's a new scrapbooking challenge starting up! The challenge is called Lasting Memories and you can get all the details here. The owner is having a DT call right now, so I thought I'd give it a go. I really want/need to get more scrapping done and lately all I've been doing is making cards. So, what better to get me in gear than to be on a DT...gotta get it done then, lol! Anyway, were supposed to post some samples of our work for this, so here are mine.

Sorry these pics are not that great...it was late when I took them, but I didn't want to wait as I would most likely forget(Friday is a busy day for me) and I def didn't want to do that. For me, scrapbooking is all about the pictures! I want to get as many in there as I can, with some embellies, but not an overwhelming amount. So I guess I am a CAS scrapbooker...what do ya know, that's how I make my cards too, lol! I also prefer two-page layouts. I take a lot of pics so it usually takes that much to get in all the photos I want. If I did one photo per page like some people I'd have hundreds of pages in my books! So, those are layouts I've come up with myself here and here are some examples of what I've done following sketches