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?

Family Weekend at BSU - 2 page scrapbook layout

Hello! It's Thursday, already! I've been so busy at my day job lately there just hasn't been much time for blogging. I've missed it...Thought I'd post one of my favorite recent layouts today. My youngest son, Jacob, is in his first year at Ball State University this year. It's been hard having him away!!! It's only an hour from here to there, but we don't just jump in the car and drive down there on a whim. He is really enjoying his college experience and making us very proud.

In September, we attended family weekend at BSU! We had a lot of fun! We spent the night at a nearby hotel and just spent time together.  This page features pictures from the football game. I love the color scheme!!

 Here's the left side. 

That's our oldest son and daughter-in-law pictured with my husband. She is newly pregnant, so we'll be first time grandparents next May or June!!! Exciting!! It was so great they could join us for the weekend. Our kids are pretty close, so I don't think he would have missed this time to be with his brother for anything.

Here's the right side featuring the college man himself sporting his red hat and scruffy beard! LOL!

I hid some of the journalling here in a flap behind one of the pictures. As you can see, the clips turn allowing the flap to be lifted. I will definitely do this again because it was so stinkin easy.

Here's a closeup of the triple layered title which I popped up.  I love the way the tiny red sticker letters coordinate with the colors and graph paper.

Thanks for stopping by my blog! Have a great crafty week!

"Hello Dolly" #2 scrapbook layout

Hello scrappy friends! Hope you are all enjoying some sunshine wherever you are today.

Today, I'm sharing another layout from the musical Hello Dolly. I previously shared a layout that I made for his album. I had so many great pictures left, that I made a layout for the family album.

The title is from the Winter Woodlands cartridge. It's one of my favorite "fancy" fonts. The top layer is cream and the bottom layer is red. I made a rosette by folding strips of paper accordion style and attaching it to a punched circle. I inked the edges and added some musical notes cut with the Quarter Note cartridge.

The masking tape is Tim Holtz. I added another strip of wallets for the pictures of the waiter routine! These guys were amazing! The journalling spots were simple rectangles. I punched one side with the Fiskar's postage stamp border punch just to give it some detail. The patterned paper strips which are really hard to see are Cloud 9 Design. I added a couple of plain white flowers and inked the edges and added an antique-looking brad

Have a wonderful day! Thanks for stopping by. =)