Tropical Bouquets - Two Page Hawaii Scrapbook Layout

Did I mention we had a LOT of rain during our trip to Hawaii. It didn't dampen our spirits too much, though. This layout features pictures from our spouse event. We had a group come in with tropical flowers and teach us how to put together bouquets. We then donated the bouquets to local nursing homes. The ladies seemed to enjoy their time together. And look at these fabulous flowers!

 We had spouses lined up at tables in the open air hallway, as well as in the meeting room. So thankful for our time together! The event was planned during the agent's training time to give the spouses a chance to get to know each other and have something to do while their spouses were busy. I was taking pictures in all of the training break out rooms as well as the spouse event.

 The paper I chose is from a tropical stack that are basically tone-on-tone patterns. This made it easy to start with an uncluttered look and then add my embellishments. This journalling tag has been lurking in my stash waiting for tropical pics!! I like how it looks on here, even though it's from a different manufacturer.

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Team Work - Two Page Hawaii Layout

We always plan a session of team building events for our Agent Trips. This one went off without a hitch and the agents are still talking about how much fun they had! We broke the huge group of people down into smaller groups who worked together as a team to accomplish each of the challenge events, gather points, and compete for the winners' bragging rights. 

The games were played out in the beautiful shady courtyard of the Royal Hawaiian. Thankfully, the rain held off, and  it was a little overcast. Each of the games required all team members to participate in some way and to work together. It was so much fun to watch them surfboard in unison, put together puzzle pieces, throw coconuts, fish for items, and throw water balloons to each other for the final competition.

Insurance agents are fiercely competitive, but these particular agents are also building strong bonds of friendship with their peers and spouses. It's so fun to see them come together and "play". With all of the colorful bandanas designating each team.

I went with colorful paper and stars for embellishments. I used my Cricut to write the journaling and placed it at the bottom under the pics continuing across the two pages.  Matting each photo on white helps them to pop! It turned out to be a very colorful page and I love reliving the fun memories of that day every time I look at it.

Hope you will stop back for my Hawaii layouts. Have a crafty week!

Royal Hawaiian - Two Page Hawaii Scrapbook Page

Summer weather is upon us, and I hope you are enjoying a little more freedom to get out and enjoy the days. Here in northeast Indiana, things are getting somewhat back to "normal". We're living in crazy times, and it really makes me want to get away on a nice vacation! Hawaii maybe? I wish I could go again... right now...but I will have to settle for the memories from last year.

These pictures are from our first morning at the Royal Hawaiian. The Hubs and I got our first chance to check out the grounds in daylight. We enjoyed a nice breakfast together, and then got down to business with pre-program meetings and pulling together the final details for the rest of the group that would be arriving throughout the day.

 I love this super distressed paper with these pictures. It looks like old paint, pulled back showing older wood beneath. The decorative travel tape and ticket stub ephemera added a little bit of detail, along with the palm trees.

 I tried so hard to find the perfect font for the title that would resemble the hotel sign. This is as close as I could get in Design Studio. It took several tries to get it to cut properly since the font was so skinny where the letters were merged and welded together. But, I finally got it!

I hope this layout inspires you to scrapbook, create, or maybe book a trip to somewhere tropical!! Have a great day! I have lots more Hawaii layouts to share.

A Royal Arrival - Two Page Hawaii Layout

I'm ready for some super sunshiny warm weather. How about you? I think it's time to share some of my Hawaii layouts from our amazing trip last year. It was part work trip, part vaca for us and 100% amazing!  Let's start at the beginning with our arrival!!

One of the perks of my job is to help plan our agent incentive trips. What an amazing blessing this has been for us. Especially Hawaii! We were there 10 years ago, so were super excited to go again.

We had quite a delay in our home town airport, so by the time we arrived in Honolulu it was after 10:30 pm Hawaii time. But because our travel partners are so good to me, they still had their car ready to transfer us to the hotel...the Royal Hawaiian (aka Pink Palace). What a beautiful place!! Unfortunately, you can tell how tired we were from the pictures. Tired, but super excited!!

 We received beautiful leis, chocolate covered strawberries, and beverage cups. Aren't those strawberries almost too cute to eat?

 I think this gorgeous patterned paper was perfect for the photos. I matted the photos on black, added a row of pink decorative tape, and cut leaf outlines to tuck in behind some of the pictures. The leaf outline echos the leaves in the patterned paper. Of course, after I was finished with the layout, I decided to add the little pink crown to the title. You can see it better in the top picture. I thought it was appropriate since we felt like King and Queen! I added a little spark with some Wink of Stella.

I hope you come back as I share more of our amazing adventures. We're just getting started. 😎