Two Page Scrapbook layout - "Just Hanging Out"

It's that time of year for spring cleaning and window washing. I may need to hire my son to wash ours!

Our company hires college age kids of employees during their summer breaks to help them earn money for their education. It was a great opportunity for both of my boys!! Good money and lots of fun. This is my youngest son rappelling down the building washing windows. He loved it! His Momma was a little freaked out watching him, though.

 The paper from Glitz Design reminded me of water running down the windows and pulled out the color of his shoes and his tee shirt. The arrow embellies signal the motion of swinging down and across the wall of windows. I was kind of proud of myself on this one! <me patting myself on the back>

I added a pop of orange with a few chipboard embellishments and a mustache paperclip...so appropriate for my bearded boy. He's obsessed with his facial hair!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!! Stop back again soon.

Two Page Scrapbook Layout - "You Rock"

My youngest son really enjoyed his time away at college. He was blessed to serve as a Resident Assistant during his Junior year at Ball State University, Muncie, IN.

 He had to report to school a little early, but we took him to Red Robin fist to celebrate this great accomplishment.

 Love this paper and embellishmnts from My Minds Eye "Cut and Paste collection. The title cut is from Cricut's "Jubilee" cartridge.

 He was placed in one of the swankiest dorms!

 My son loves to bike so this bike sticker was the perfect addition to the page.

I wonder if I need to update my blogger! It's not letting me resize my photos for some reason. If you want to see the pictures bigger, you can click on them. Thanks for stopping by my blog today! Hope you have a lovely weekend.

Two page layout - "LUV Her"

The sun is shining here in Fort Wayne and it's marvelous. I have to share something colorful with you to celebrate the sun!! This is actually one of my faves and I'm excited to share it with you. I tried something new with chipboard....Chipboard+Washi Tape+Ink = Fun layout!!

First of all, the beautiful subject of these photos is my grandbaby, Scarlet. She was 3 months old at the time. She'll be one-year-old later this month. What a precious gift from God!

Now back to the chipboard fun! I picked up these chipboard flowers at a garage sale. They were originally white and as you can see the center circle is removeable. I covered the center with Washi tape, inked the outside scalloped edge with hot pink, and Voila!

A couple of the centers were a bit of a tight squeeze to fit back into the scalloped edge. A gentle sanding around the outside edge did the trick.

 This colorful tape is from Smashbox. I lined it up on the page for some additional color. I added a few colored metallic dots, Baker's twine around one of the scallopd edges, and a button, then journalled around the outside of the circle.

Thanks or stopping by my blog today! Have a fabulous weekend! I'm going to do some scrapping. =)

Two new double layouts "Sweet" and "All Our Love"

Earlier this year our son and daughter-in-law brought our first grandbaby into this world!!! We are loving being grandma and grandpa. We are so over the moon for this little girl!!! She has filled our world with PINK, ruffles, lace, flowers, and all things sugar and spice for the first time. Having raised two boys, we are thrilled with this new world of all things girley, girl!!

Needless to say she has also changed my scrapping world with fun new girley embellishments and paper colors, that I've never needed before. =)

 Our sweet baby girl spent 2 weeks in the NICU. She was 5 weeks early and her lungs had some fluid in them and needed a little more time to mature. It was really hard for us all to see her all wired up, but so thankful that her time there was short!!

 Here she is heading home sweet home.

I had a lot of fun with the banner, flowers, pink owl, and embellies!!!

 

What a treat to snuggle up with this sweetheart. She has captured our heart from day one. Such a snuggly bug!!

 I wrapped bakers twine around a chipboard frame and layered it up with a heart and felt flower. The banner is made from folded over punched circles.

 

The strip along the right side is from the paper stack packaging, Cloud 9 Design.  

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!! I'll be sharing more grandbaby layouts really soon!! Looks like I'll never ever run out of cute pictures to scrap!! We are so blessed!!

Scrapbook layouts - "Gondola Ride" and "Rapid Water"

Happy Monday! Hope your weekend was both relaxing and productive.

I have a few more scrapbook layouts to share with you from our New York trip last September. It was such a great trip and so many beautiful pictures = lots of scrapbook layouts! Not sure why I didn't get any pictures of my hubby in the gondola. Guess we were concentrating on the beautiful scenery around us.

The patterned paper is Me & My Big Ideas. The lovely banner here is made with a bunch of lovely scraps I had lurking in my scrap box. The September ticket is Close to My Heart, along with chipboard banner pieces and the two stamped flags. The ribbon is from the Making Memories "Panorama" line. I used the Art Philosophy cartridge to cut the paper to fit the chipboard.

The views were beautiful from all angles. I can almost envision all of the people and skiers that must flood this place every winter.

Next up is a layout of pictures we took down by the Ausable River that ran along the mountains in NY. On the left page I popped up the center of the banner (Basic Grey) with adhesive foam squares to give them each a 3D look. The paper "Adirondack Mountain" was found at a cute little scrapook store downtown Lake Placid. The journalling ticket is from Deja View.

The chipboard letters are Cosmo Cricket. Vellum sentiment on left page is from Studio 112. I added a cute little office tag from Basic Grey on the right, and the rain dots are from Cloud 9 Deisgn.

 Thanks for stopping by my blog today. =) I appreciate you.

Two double layouts - "The Climb" and "Natural Beauty"

Happy Wednesday! Hope you are all enjoying your week.

Today I have two layouts from the Adirondack Mountains in New York to share with you. Whiteface Mountain is in Wilmington, NY near Lake Placid. I was there at a class updating my insurance designation and we were so blessed to be able to do some sight-seeing!!

The first layout is mainly Basic Grey. The papers seemed to have a "royal" flare and worked well to highlight the cool stone castle on top of the mountain.

The diecuts were all cut with the Art Philosophy cartridge. The gemstones on each Fleur di lis helped them pop off the page along with a little bit of Tim Holtz pumice stone ink around the edges. I love my husband sitting in this old chair made of birchwood inside the castle. This place was too cool! The key in the bottom right hand corner is also cut with Art Philosophy. I covered it with Glossy Accents to make it shiny and a little bit 3D. 

Here are the pages side by side.

This next layout highlights some of the great views that we saw on our way up and back down the mountain. I have plenty more layouts to show you from this trip last September. I'm about done with the mountain layouts, and will be starting my pictures from Niagara Falls, next time I get a chance. 

Here's the quaint building that welcomes you to the beautiful scenic drive up the mountain. They told us it would be a bit foggy up there for a little while, but that it would clear, and they were exactly right. The chipboard and letters were purchased and made it a quick layout. I added some Tim Holtz masking tape and a little bit of ribbon.

Here are the two pages side by side. 

Thanks for stoping by my blog today. I need to photograph some cool snow layouts that I did recently, and hope to post those next time. Until then, enjoy your week!!

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?