Two Page Layout - "Downtown"

Holland, MI is one of our new faves on the coast of Lake Michigan! It has a little something for everybody. My husband joined me while I was there a few years back for educational credits.

 We especially love the beautiful downtown area with the great restaurants, coffee, and local color.

The pretty patterned paper is Creative Memories. The flowers are punched with the StampinUp! five petal flower punch and topped with a brad. The leaves were also cut with the same punch, and then cut apart. Haha...sometimes I'm just lazy like that. The title is Cricut's Art Philosophy.

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Two Page Scrapbook Layout - Nashville, Indiana

This snowy, sub-zero weather makes me wish I had a fireplace. Nothing like curling up to a toasty fire, with your sweetheart. But here we sit in our cute little house with no fireplace. Thankfully, though, the furnace does a great job of keeping us warm, even though we are lacking the romantic ambiance we desire.

For our 28th anniversary, I surprised Mark and rented a log cabin in Nashville, Indiana. Our anniversary is the first week in December. When we left, they were predicting snow, but we figured we'd drive out of it since we were heading south. Little did we know how much snow we were in for.

 If you ever get a chance to rent a log cabin in the snow, go for it! We drove down this long, narrow, snowy lane with the porch light acting as our beacon. Wow! What a great adventure. It was just the two of us in the log cabin perfection!

 The paper is Creative Memories and Jen Wilson. The bold aqua, blue and red snowflakes were cut with Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge. I purchased the title die at an adorable scrapbook shop in town. I backed the log cabin with brown paper to help it show up better on the snowflake paper.

The fireplace was so warm and cozy!!! The next evening, after sweeping it off, we enjoyed the hot tub out in the snow. It took some convincing to get me out there, but man oh man....it was the best.

Come back later this week for a few more layouts from our Nashville, IN winter adventure.

Two Page Scrapbook Layout - "Love My Team"

Where has the time gone!?! September is almost over and fall (my favorite!!!) is definitely in the air. It's time to break out the back to school, homecoming, and football layouts!

Last fall was my son's Junior year in college. We had fun with him at BSU on parent weekend. The bright colors always make a fun scrapbook page.

 This Creative Memories cardstock was a nice back drop for the vibrant pictures.

 Here's a close up of the upper left detail complete with red washi ruler tape and dry embossed banners.

 The game is always entertaining and the weather was perfect!

 Do you use many stick pins on your pages? I sometimes forget I have them, but I like the extra detail this star pin adds to the title.

It's hard to believe that my baby has grown up and is already into his senior year! How and when did this happen?? I know every Momma feels this way...He's such a great kid and we are so very proud of the young man he has become.

Come back Thursday for another college football layout!

Double layout "Lake Michigan Mini Vacation"

Time to share another layout of my son. He's so photogenic and he's very patient with us constantly taking his picture. Our oldest son is married now, and they aren't always able to join us when we head out for a long weekend. So....he's our main target. Every once in awhile we give him the camera so he can shoot some of us.

 The patterned paper and stickers are from Creative Memories. I picked these up at a crop I attended last year (on sale...yay). The mini sun stamps are from StampinUp! I just love all these pictures of my handsome son. We are so blessed with such great kids!! I cut the title with my Cricut, with either the Jubilee or Lyrical Letters cartridge.

 I found a stamp in my collection that I used as rays around the striped circles. The "picture perfect" sticker is Creative Memories.

Here are both pages together. This layout went together fast and easy!

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Great Idea for Titles

(Layout by: Jenny Dammann, Creative Memories)

I found this nifty idea for a creative title on the Creative Memories blog posted by Jenny Dammann. This looks so great and seems simple enough. I will definitely have to try this. What I love is that the letters you use behind could be reused in another layout since only the impression is being used. http://blogs.creativememories.com/ideas/2010/02/heres-a-cool-little-titlemaking-technique-for-ya.html