Old pages, new pages

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I recently participated in Mary Green's Gluebook Swap.  I showed you my pages here; and now I've received the swap:
Each page is so beautiful!
This one was gorgeous on the reverse, too!
I love the colors in this one.
This one also...
had a beautiful back!
I think the imagery on this one if my favorite;
it evokes a time of sacrifice.
Another pretty back!
I love the composition of this one best of all.
And another pretty reverse!
Lovely layers on this one.
To see mine, visit my post here.
If you have a Blogger blog, have you seen the new dynamic pages?  I really love the layout called "Magazine" and am dying to use that for this blog.  But, have you noticed that you can't use gadgets with those layouts?  I can't give up my gadgets (<--all the stuff on my left and right sidebars-->)!  So, for now, the new dynamic pages will have to wait until Blogger's dynamic new pages catch up.

Comments

Linda said…
Hi Laurie
I often look at your blog to see what's new and what you've created. I stopped by tonight to say thank you,I was lucky enough to get one of your pages in my glue book. Surprised to see one of my pages. It was a time of sacrifice and hardship for most families. The picture is my mom, grandma and my 2 uncles. I have the real ration book, the one on the page was my mother's. And I have ration stamps. I would be willing to share if you would like some. I will never use them all and it would be nice to know someone else was enjoying them.
November 3, 2011 at 6:15 PM
Kathy said…
Oh you luck ducky, these are over the top beautiful! What will you do with them? Are you going to put them in a glue book?
November 3, 2011 at 10:26 PM
Shortbread and Ginger said…
Love those pages - so creative!
Liz @ Shortbread & Ginger
November 4, 2011 at 2:39 AM
Marion said…
LOVE your pages! I like the first one best. I haven't tried the new layouts...I wonder why they overlooked our wonderful gadgets? Strange. Happy Crafting! xo
November 4, 2011 at 7:52 AM
Jingle said…
These are wonderful!
November 4, 2011 at 8:37 AM
LuLu Kellogg said…
LOVE LOVE LOVE the last one!

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

LuLu~*xoxo
November 4, 2011 at 9:12 PM
Anonymous said…
Ooooh, both of you ladies did beautiful work! What a wonderful swap.
November 5, 2011 at 4:36 PM
Pretty Things said…
These are all so beautiful!
November 6, 2011 at 3:40 PM
Unknown said…
so, so pretty...Is a glue book where you use a real book and glue images on it? my mom did this as a kid, but it was in a scrapbook...I still have pieces of it.
November 14, 2011 at 4:58 PM
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