Double layout - "Rainforest"

Hello and happy Wednesday!

I have an announcement to make. I'm a Grandma to an absolutely precious and beautiful baby girl. She's our first grandchild and we are so excited. She had a bit of a rough start in the NICU because she was 5 weeks early. All is well now and we are so grateful and feel blessed beyond belief. She has captured our hearts. We had two boys, so a girl is a very special treat!!!  Let the spoiling begin!!

As you can imagine, we've been a little preoccupied for the past 3 weeks...so it's definitely time to share another layout with you. This one is from our shore excursion to Costa Rica during our 25th anniversary cruise. I'm slowly working my way through all of the pictures.

The red cardstock made a great backdrop for all of the lush tropical photos. I framed each photo with a very thin white mat to help it stand out. The title is cut with Cricut's "Life is a Beach" cartridge. There is no shadow for it, so I cut a size up and offset the green from the red.

I used a white gel pen for journalling on and around the pictures.  

 Check out the tree frog. I cut out two frogs (Life is a Beach) of the same size. I cut the legs off the second one to use popped up as a layer to give it a 3D look. I drew on the black speckles and covered it all with Glossy Accents to make it shiny and wet looking. I put it on top of a fancy cut  stamped and embossed leaf.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Can't wait to start working on layouts of our sweet grandbaby!! So much fun!!!



Screamin for ice cream after a day at Silver Lake

Hope everybody is having a great day and is looking forward to a fabulous weekend. It's my birthday! I'm having an extra special day! For now, I'm forgetting about the getting older part of birthdays and going straight to the fun part...family time!

I've been away from my blog for a few days while I was in Denver for a conference. It was a great trip, but it went way too fast. I wish I could have seen more of Denver and less of the inside of a classroom, if you know what I mean.

I missed my blogging while I was gone. I'm actually running a little dry on things to post. When, oh when, do I get to scrap again???? Hopefully next weekend!! I can't wait!

For now, I'm going to post a cute layout of vacation photos taken after a day at Silver Lake, Michigan. We found the cutest little place on our way back from the lake. We had ice cream at Bubba's. We had such a nice time chillin' out together.

The pictures were screamin' for blue and red, so here's what I came up with.

There were birds nesting in a birdhouse right near our table. We had a great time watching them and my hubs got some great pictures. I love the little letter stickers that help spell out my sub-title. Have you ever heard the little saying "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream?" We used to chant that all the time when I was young! I used Cricut cartridge "Lyrical Letters" for the large title (SCREAM).
Love the pictures of Mark sucking on a lemon. Wish the photos had turned out a little brighter, though. You can also see the paper "ribbon" that I folded accordion style here.
Thanks for reading my blog!! Have a wonderful weekend.

Double Double- Prom Scrapbook layouts

Yes...I'm posting two prom layouts for you today as a reward for sticking with me through a week (or more) without a new post....lol
This first layout is one that I did for the family album of Jacob's Jr/Sr Keystone banquet (aka Prom). The theme was "Hollywood Premiere".
I used a full page diecut with hearts cut out and filled some of the negative heart spaces with black and white patterned paper. I used a pink and white theme because it seemed to bring out the best in the pictues. Honestly, if there is a girl anywhere in my photo, I kinda jump on the chance to use a little pink.

The second layout is for Jacob's book. I featured him and Anna with a 5x7 and then completely packed in a bunch of wallet size photos. I knew he would want to remember everything about that night, so I put them down without a lot of rhyme or reason. The flowers are made of silky white (petals) and green (stems and leaves) ribbon.I just kept sticking them on the page. lol! I love all of the shots, but to me it's a little too much chaos. Somehow, I knew he would love it. When I showed it to him that night he was so excited. It was his favorite page and because there were so many memories packed into one layout. Again, not my favorite layout. It won't win any awards, but if he loves it, that is what really matters!
Thanks for looking! Have a marvelous Memorial Day weekend.