Grow - Two Page Scrapbook Layout

Are you enjoying your summer? It seems to be flying by a little quickly for me. 

One of my non-crafting hobbies is house plants. I do like to dabble with planting outside flowers. Mainly in pots on the front porch. Nothing like a full garden of flowers. That's too much of a time and attention commitment for me. Unfortunately, this year, we haven't even gotten around to filling our outside planters. It's kind of embarrassing! I just haven't carved out time for it. We hope to get to it once we get back from our upcoming work trip. Hopefully there will still be a decent selection of flowers left at the greenhouses, but I'm not holding my breath.

In years past, we've planted fairy gardens with our grands!! We didn't even get that done yet! I'm hoping it can still happen this season. I don't know if they've missed it, but we have!

 These are pics of our fairy and pirate gardens from 2020. Didn't the kids do a great job?? They look pretty proud of their creations. Every year, I cave in and buy her another fairy. I mean, can you really have too many fairies in one garden? 😍 Some of her fairies have migrated into our house and enjoying my house plants. They seem to be content, for now.

Our grandson used pirate toys and two different colors of pebbles to cover the potting soil. So fun! 

The paper is BoBunny's "Zip A Dee Doodle" and American Crafts "Lucky Charm". I am crushing on green and blue lately. 

I used a tiny bit of my Mom's old yellow measuring tape for a pop of yellow.💗 If you zoom in on it, you will see that is made of fabric and has stitching on it. They don't make it like that any more. I still miss her so much!! She was a master seamstress and sewing was one of her happy places! For more yellow, I added some SU washi tape at the top of a pic and a yellow button on the watering can. 

Hope you are feeling inspired today. Have a scrappy week!

Craft Squad - Two Page Crafting Layout

I've been so blessed to go to many multi-day scrapbook retreats with some of my bestest crafty friends!! We have so much fun together!! We get a lot done, we rest more (some even take naps😕), and we share wonderful meals together. We love making great memories, while we're scrapping our older memories!!

Have you ever scrapbooked with friends for a weekend? Do you have a special location where you go? Our favorite is Riverside Retreats in Marshall, Michigan. They have several houses situated together along the river, but most are booked for years in advance.

I love this beautiful paper! It's a little crazy with all that I have on the page, but I still love it and all of the people in the photos. I think it works! Wish my photo around the table was a little bit lighter so you could see all of their lovely faces. 

I love all the layers of embellishments. As you see, I used some wallets so that I could fit pictures of the deer family on the page too!

 I am heading off to another scrapbook retreat next week! I just can't wait to hang out with my friends and enjoy another creative escape!

Thanks for stopping by!! Hope you get some crafty time this week.