Two Page Cruise Layout - "Sail Away"

Cruises are wonderful. This layout is from our 25th anniversary trip which was 3 years ago now. I'm ready for another! We had a wonderful relaxing time aboard the Royal Caribbean Jewel of the Seas.

I wanted to remember the exact cabin we were in so I took a picture of the number on the door and used my scalloped punch to make an embellishment out of it. I found the cute little star stick pins in my stash. The banners are both made from washi tape.

 The picture of the luggage lined up in the hallway always makes me a little sad since it represents the last evening on board.

Grid layouts like this work so well when you have a lot of random pictures. These pics are "true digital" size. They're a tiny bit under 6" (4 x 5.3 to be exact) which allows you to fit even more of them on a page.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. =)

Two Cruise layouts - "Putt Putt" and "Bon Voyage"

We celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary almost three years ago now. Such amazing memories!! Every time I look at my scrapbook, I just want to escape with my hubby again.

I am officially finished scrapping all of the cruise pictures, but I still haven't shared them all...so here we go.

"Putt Putt": Have you ever played miniature golf on the top deck of a cruise ship? It was super windy that day, but gorgeous. It was a little tricky since we didn't have our "sea legs" yet.

 The colors really draw me in and they remind me of the beautiful view of sky and ocean we had from every hole on this course. This sketch is one I found online by Amy Alvis. The paper is Bazzill, Coredinations, and Heidi Swapp "No Limits". The cute green circle border at the top was made with a border punch from EK.

 All of the ribbon is from Making Memories.

I love this picture of my husband posing with the statue of the really giant woman! Too cute.

"Bon Voyage": You really can't scrapbook a cruise without using this title at least once. These pictures were taken our first evening on the ship. We knew we were off on a great adventure together. This was our first cruise, so everything was new and exciting from the curly paper on the straw to the live music on deck.

 The paper is Jen Wilson's "Breaking Free" and Moxie "Maiden Voyage". The title was cut with Cricut's Life is a Beach cartridge. I hope I get to use this again some day...soon!

 It's a little bit difficult to see the metal embellishments (Momenta), but they were a nice addition to the page. The journaling tag is from We R Memory Keepers "Great Escape".

 Here's a close up of the journaling.

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a fantastic weekend. I'm scrapping again! Anybody else??

Three Double Scrapbook Layouts - "Extravaganza", "Fun in the Sun", and "Extreme"

Blogging is great fun for me; however, photographing all of my layouts, is not my favorite part. Recently I had a 3" stack of layouts waiting to be photographed. I got through them this weekend, so I now have plenty to post and can hopefully get my layouts into albums.

Our 25th anniversary cruise is my latest FINISHED album! Yay! Our 25th was December, of 2010. Flipping through the album brought back so many great memories of our time away together!! It spurs me on to get the rest of my layouts into their appropriate albums where they are protected and easy to enjoy.

Here are a few more cruise layouts. The first one is titled "Extravaganza" featuring the infamous midnight extravaganza buffet. Great fun and food! (left)

With all of the color in these pics, there weren't a lot of embellishments needed.

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Next is "Fun in the Sun" from our stop at the Tortuga Rum Company where we sampled and purchased some rum cakes. They have a beautiful location right on the beach.

I love the fun Fancy Pants "Beach Babe" paper.

 

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 And last but not least, "Extreme". This is certainly not my favorite layout. I'd much rather be looking at the sand and surf, than these parched and desolate scenes, but I felt the need to scrap it all. =)
I had fun making the layered road sign with my Cricut "Dude" cartridge.

I used Coredinations (black with green) cardstock and sanded it just enough so the green shows through. The flames and title work are also from "Dude". The post office frame is from "Art Philosophy".

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Thanks for stopping by my blog. I will be posting more cruise layouts over the next few weeks. You can type "cruise" into the search box if you'd like to check out the other layouts from our cruise.

2 Double Page Layouts - "Turtle Farm" & "Underwater Views"

What a crazy couple of weeks at work. I'm so excited to take a minute and share a few layouts with you.

I'm still finishing up my album from our 25th anniversary cruise a few years back. This layout features pictures from the Turtle Farm at Grand Cayman. The turtle and title font are cut with Cricut's "Life is a Beach" cartridge.

 The background paper is pretty cool. The aqua stains and faint writing adds to the pretty/grungy look. I did add a strip of solid aqua to break up the pattern, but then decided to add a faint script background stamp to match the grungy look.

 I added the title to the right side and wrapped it around a picture with the turtle diecut. I inked it up with a little more aqua ink to make it look a little watery. The idea was to not add too much contrast to the page, but to allow the title to blend in a bit.

 Here are both sides together. These turtles are so cute. It was fun to actually hold some of the smaller ones.

Here's another layout from our Grand Cayman excursion. Again, the grungy paper...I can't help myself. =) The friendly fish and cute crab are also cut from Life is a Beach cartridge. The layered circles reminded me of bubbles. I added a bit of Stickles to the fish and crab just for fun.

 The antique boat we were in was really interesting, and we were able to see many different types of fish.

Here is the whole layout, side by side. I still have a few more cruise layoutos to do. My album will be bursting out of the binding!! Such great memories! It's hard to not scrap them all!

Double layout - "Rainforest"

Hello and happy Wednesday!

I have an announcement to make. I'm a Grandma to an absolutely precious and beautiful baby girl. She's our first grandchild and we are so excited. She had a bit of a rough start in the NICU because she was 5 weeks early. All is well now and we are so grateful and feel blessed beyond belief. She has captured our hearts. We had two boys, so a girl is a very special treat!!!  Let the spoiling begin!!

As you can imagine, we've been a little preoccupied for the past 3 weeks...so it's definitely time to share another layout with you. This one is from our shore excursion to Costa Rica during our 25th anniversary cruise. I'm slowly working my way through all of the pictures.

The red cardstock made a great backdrop for all of the lush tropical photos. I framed each photo with a very thin white mat to help it stand out. The title is cut with Cricut's "Life is a Beach" cartridge. There is no shadow for it, so I cut a size up and offset the green from the red.

I used a white gel pen for journalling on and around the pictures.  

 Check out the tree frog. I cut out two frogs (Life is a Beach) of the same size. I cut the legs off the second one to use popped up as a layer to give it a 3D look. I drew on the black speckles and covered it all with Glossy Accents to make it shiny and wet looking. I put it on top of a fancy cut  stamped and embossed leaf.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Can't wait to start working on layouts of our sweet grandbaby!! So much fun!!!



Two Double Layouts - "Welcome to Costa Rica" and "Paradise"

Hello! Time has just been flying by for me lately. It's definitely time for another post.

Both of these layouts feature pictures taken in Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, one of the ports on our 25th anniversary cruise a few Decembers ago. Yes, I'm still working on this album. I'm hoping to get it done before our first grandbaby is born. I'm pretty sure I won't want to scrap anything but her once she's here. I will have to force myself to finish some of these projects.

We took a bus from the port to the edge of the rainforest and then boarded a covered wagon ride into the rainforest. Can I just say how thrilled I was that it was covered? It rained all day and we would have been drenched without it.

The leaf border and larger leaves on the right side are cut with Cricut's "Life is a Beach" cartridge. I inked the edges with a brown ink spot. The title is from Circut "Jubilee".

It had been raining a lot there so you can see how the river is really swollen and running fast. The tour bus actually crossed the bridge in the photo (bottom right). I was holding my breath!!

Here are the two sides together. Didn't I look adorable in my bright blue raincoat? No...but I scrapped the photo anyway!

Next are random shots of all the flowers we saw in the rainforest. What an amazing place!! I won't atempt to bore you with all of the flower names, because I don't remember them all. The paper is We R Memories "Great Escape" line. I sometimes struggle with titles, but again the "Life is a Beach" cartridge came through for me. I made the title the centerpiece of the page and popped it up with foam squares and accented it with layered photo corners.

Here's the right side.  

Close up of the title on teal paper with inked edges. 

Hope you enjoyed seeing a little piece of paradise. This was a trip of a lifetime for us. I'm sure we'll cruise again some day.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!! Enjoy the rest of your Sunday.

Two Cartagena layouts - "Ancient Doors" & "San Pedro Claver"

Does everybody have their home decorated for Christmas? If so, I'm impressed. We are just getting started. We have a lot of Christmas decorations, so it's quite a chore...but, it will be so great when the house is shimmering and cozy. I'll have to post a picture when we get it finished.

Today, I have two more layouts of pictures from Cartagena, Columbia to share with you. I believe these are the last layouts for this port on our 25th anniversary cruise.  In fact, these were taken right on the BIG day! It will be 26 years on December 7. We won't be cruising again this year...We'll probably have a nice dinner and stay home and watch a movie. LOL!

On to the layout. Here's the left side. The patterned paper background is My Minds Eye. There were so many beautiful old doors in "old town", I just had to do a layout because the pictures were too great not to scrap. My kids thought it was more than a little ironic that I had the word "ancient" right above my husband. LOL!

They were all so different and amazing in their own way! I used brads to echo the look of the iron work on the doors. 

I used some masking tape with a postage stamp design as an accent, layering in with the journalling.

 Here are the two pages together. I had some travel stickers in my stash. I rarely use stickers anymore, but I liked the way these looked on here. I really need to go through my stickers and do some purging!

Now...on to San Pedo Claver. Here's the left side. This church was also part of our Cartagena city tour. So much history and beauty in the old architecture. I found some great chipboard that looked kind of architectural when layered up with some metallic brads.

The map paper was torn horizontally and rolled back. I also used some Tim Holtz masking tape alogn the edge of the pictures.

Here are both pages side-by-side. 

Thanks for looking today! Have a great week. I still can't belive it's Thursday already. Where oh where has the week gone?

Double layout - "Inside the Walls of Cartagena"

What a blessed Thanksgiving holiday it has been. Two separate Thanksgiving meals with loved ones! I am full to the brim with blessings!


Today has been a relaxed day of cleaning and catching up on all things domestic. It's been nice to have the day to myself as my Hubby and boys went to the UofM vs. Ohio game! They had a blast, and I enjoyed the peace and quiet...just me and the dog. Here's a picture of the newest addition to our family. We got him in August and he's settling in nicely. He's a retired racing greyhound from a track in Alabama. He is pretty laid back, except when he decides to race around and around our backyard. He's my buddy. =)

On to the scrappy side of life! I'm getting excited to try some Christmas ideas that I have, but I'll need to wait until my son heads back to college, so I can borrow his room and put up my craft table. In the mean time, I really enjoy him being home. He's such a good kid and he lights up our home.

I do have a layout to share with you today. I'm still working on our 25th anniversary cruise pictures from last December. Yes, I know, it's almost our 26th anniversary and it would be so great if these pics were all scrapped and in the album. It will happen...

These are some random shots on our city tour of Cartagena, Columbia. It's a beautiful place to visit.
I love the lined blue paper with the decorative borders, with matching journalling card.

I used solid blue on the right and mimicked some of the borders with my own stamps and ink.

Here are both pages together.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today. Happy scrapping!

Double cruise layout - "San Pedro Claver"

We are having such beautiful weather this evening. I have all the doors and windows open. What a nice cool summer breeze!
Today I have one more double cruise layout of our time in Columbia on our 25th wedding anniversary. This layout features the pictures we took at the San Pedro Claver church. Another example of the beautiful old architecture in Cartagena, Columbia. This was one of the last stops on our city tour.

I forgot to write down the supplies used here. I believe the paper is Tim Holtz, along with the masking tape.

The title font is Plantin School book. You can see that I ripped the top layer of paper to give it an old look and curled it up on the right edge.

I used these chipboard accents (from Me & My Big Ideas) because they reminded me of the shapes in the architecture of the church.  

I have a few more Columbia layouts that I need to finish up. This weekend I scrapped and put those aside to work on a new project...I'm re-doing my parent's wedding portraits. My parents are now living in a full time care residence. We've sold their condo and finished going through the remainder of their things weekend before last. We even tackled the pictures. I brought home many photo treasures of my boys, my grandparents before they were married, and my parents wedding album which fell apart in my hands when I started leafing through it....So, I have a new project and I'm pretty excited about it. I'll share some of these layouts later this week.

Thanks for stopping by! Anybody working on a vintage wedding album?? I'd love to hear about it. Just leave a comment. It's always nice to hear from you!