The Stand - Two Page Ice Cream Scrapbook Layout

 I scream. You scream. We all scream for ice cream!! The perfect summer time treat. This place is a favorite here in town. We try to visit at least once every summer, but again, we've not been over there yet this season. Look at these faces! My favorites!

The Stand has a vintage vibe to it, so I played into that theme with my paper and embellishments. The paper is PhotoPlay's "Birthday Girl Wishes" along with some vertical strips of scraps, lined with Paper Studio red chevron washi. 

The ice cream cone, title and stars are from Cricut's design space.

That cone looks pretty tasty. I even found an embossed paper scrap in my stash to use. What are the odds?

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Summer scrapbook layouts - "Moomers" & "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay"

Here in the midwest, summer doesn't last for long! The warm weather is fleeting. Sometimes it's even too warm to enjoy it much. At least, that is the way I feel about summer. BUT...It's never too hot for ice cream!
Moomers

 Moomers is a great ice cream place just outside of Traverse city. You will also find a few locations up that way that will sell it from their storefront. However, to get the full experience, you really need to go to their rural location and watch the cows eating hay, while you're eating your ridiculously yummy ice cream!

 They've won a lot of awards for their ice cream! But we were there before the secret was out, and before the long lines.  But don't let the lines stop you. They move fast and it's worth the wait!!

Aside from the ice cream, this was a special trip for us since it was the last trip that our son accompanied us on as a single guy! We had a lot of fun together and made special memories together. But we've gained a daughter since that time, so it's all good!! ♥

Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
Here's another layout from our northen Michigan trip a few years ago.

 Part of our purpose for going was for me to take my annual class to update my insurance designation. This year it was in Traverse City. It's great to have my hubby and son come along to spend the evenings together. They also enjoy spending the day riding bikes, or at the waters edge.

 These pics were taken at the pier right downtown after dinner one evening. If you've never been to one of Michigan's great lakes, you need to go! I'm partial to Lake Michigan for so many reasons! It's one of our favorite stomping grounds.

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Two Page Scrapbook Layout - "Sweet Treats"

There's a cute little old fashioned ice cream shop in Upland, IN where we occasionally stop when taking my son to or from Ball State. This time, we shot a few pics and it turned into a pretty cute layout.

 We look a little tired after packing up my son and all of his school belongings after his summer session. It's so much work! I'm so glad that he's now graduated and we're done with the twice a year manual labor of moving him. Plus it's so great to have him home!!

 I love this vintage look striped paper from Crate Paper "The Pier" collection, and Fancy Pants "Summers End". The wood grain circle banner is Studio Calico, and the red ribbon is Paper Studio. Most of the buttons are StampinUp plus a few miscellaneous buttons from my stash. The cute big mouth journaling tag is from Smash! It seemed appropriate for filling our faces with ice cream. I failed to make a note of the cartridge for the bowl of ice cream and the title.

Hope you like the vintage vibe of this little layout. Now I'm hungry for ice cream! Thanks for stopping by today!

Two double layouts - "Friends Always" and "Moomers"

Sometimes, I'm disappointed to find out that pictures of an extra special event didn't turn out like I thought they did. I almost didn't scrap them because I felt like they were too dark and blurry, and I didn't like the way I looked in them...You know how it is. Then I thought about the fact I didn't know when we would see these forever friends again. It's already been two summers since we've seen them. In this case, I decided preserving the memory of our time together was more important than how we looked, or the quality of the photos.

"Friends Always" - I didn't make a note of the brand of paper, but I believe it StampinUp designer series paper with 7 Gypsies washi tape. The scalloped circles were cut with my Cricut machine and cut down to the length of the photo.

 The paper butterflies are also from StampinUp. I inked them with red and blinged them up with clear gemstones that I colored black with a Sharpie marker.

 I used coordinating patterned paper for the title.

 It's a little unusual for me to only use three pictures on a layout, but the extra journaling helped fill some space. I'm so happy I scrapped our friends! She has been one of my best friends since we were four years old! Love you, Nancy!

While we were in Traverse City visiting our friends, we made our favorite stop at Moomer's Ice Cream.

"Moomers" - The woodgrain paper is Close to My heart with herringbone print on the reverse. The ice cream cone and letters are from random scraps.

 Moomers has fabulous ice cream and you can hang around outside and watch the cows in the field. The polka-dot paper was the closest I could come to a cow print. :)

 This is another super simple linear layout. I can almost taste the ice cream now.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. If you live anywhere near Traverse City, stop in and have some ice cream at Moomers for me. Yummy!