Berchtesgaden

Scrappy Monday, y'all, it's time for the last of the Alpine Adventure pages.

After we came back down from the Eagle's Nest, we walked around downtown Berchtesgaden for a bit and got ice cream (of course).  Then we called it a day at around 3pm and the hubs and Ryan checked out our hotel pool--how ADORABLE is Ryan in that little bitty robe?!

Today's palette:  So Saffron, Cherry Cobbler, Blushing Bride, Blueberry Bushel, Early Espresso and white.  I don't use much Blushing Bride so that was a surprise, but it worked with the ice cream thingy that Ryan's hugging in one picture.

That's it for me, peeps, have a great day.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Alphabest, Carnival Treats, Fabulous Phrases
Ink:  Early Espresso, Blushing Bride, Pecan Pie, Cherry Cobbler
Paper:  So Saffron, Cherry Cobbler, Blueberry Bushel, Thick Basic White, Dashing Along DSP, Blushing Bride DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies

Eagle's Nest

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Hope you had a good weekend.  Ours was good up until we went on a bike ride yesterday and Ryan took a spill; he skinned one knee pretty good.  So then we spent the rest of the afternoon on the couch and watched a movie together.

Anyway, how about a scrapbook layout for today?

I put together all my Alpine Adventure layouts and then went back and added the titles, embellishments, and journaling.  When I first put together this one, I had intended to do a beer glass for the embellishment to go with the pic of the hubs and Ryan with the beer, but I forgot and ended up doing feathers to go with the Eagle's Nest page title.

Today's palette:  Dapper Denim, Garden Green, Delightful Dijon, Soft Suede, and white.  The patterned paper I used is from the Painted Christmas DSP, I liked the pine branches to go with all the trees in the pictures.

That's it for me today, peeps.  Hope your week is off to a good start!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Alphabest, Fine Feathers
Ink:  Garden Green, Soft Suede, Night of Navy marker
Paper:  Dapper Denim, Garden Green, Delightful Dijon, Thick Basic White, Painted Christmas DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies

Salzbergwerk Salt Mine

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I just did my first workout in over a month so now I feel like we're finally getting back to a "normal" routine.  I'll have to start back kinda slow since it's been so long, but it feels good to get moving in the morning!

Okay, on to today's scrapbook pages.  Today's adventure:  a salt mine.

This is not our first visit to a salt mine; the hubs and I went to one in Krakow in 2014 (and I've scrapped that too, see it here).  This mine was cool because you ride around on a little train (hence my train accent), you slide down two giant wooden slides, and you take a little cruise across an underground salt lake.  I don't think we were allowed to take pictures in the mine itself, which is why we bought the two pics from the salt mine; the other four pics are of the front of the building and then the mountains across the way.

Oh yeah, just like his dad, Ryan had to lick the wall in the salt mine to see if it really did taste like salt.  (It did.)

Today's color palette:  Petal Pink, Grapefruit Grove, Cucumber Crush, Shaded Spruce, Basic Gray, and white.  I don't use Petal Pink as a page base very often since I live with two dudes, but it seemed to work here.

Ryan will be off to school in about a half hour and then I'll be sorting through some things that we want to sell, so I've got a busy day ahead.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Alphabest, All Aboard
Ink:  Shaded Spruce, Basic Gray, Evening Evergreen marker
Paper:  Petal Pink, Grapefruit Grove, Shaded Spruce, Cucumber Crush, Thick Basic White, Painted Seasons DSP
Accessories:  None

Hohenwerfen

Hey, y'all.  This is the first post that I'm actually writing in Colorado--we got here less than a month ago and we're working on getting everything unpacked and organized.  To be honest, I'm having a difficult time with this transition--Ryan already started school and I absolutely loathe the school and its administration.  We bought our house sight unseen and so far we're having to replace the floor in the master shower (which looks like a poorly executed DIY job), and we've had a mouse AND black mold in the garage so that's fun.  I'm already hoping that the hubs' job will have us move again next summer.  I was not expecting to dislike Colorado so much.

Anyway, I have another layout from our Alpine adventure in 2021.  How about a castle:

The top left picture was taken on our hike down the mountain after we toured the ice cave; Hohenwerfen is on a big hill/small mountain and you access it via gondola.  We explored the castle from the basement to the clock tower, saw a falconry exhibition and some sword fights, Ryan had a look down Ye Olde Toilet (gardy-looooo!), and you can see from the picture of the teeny window how THICK the walls of the castle are.

I pulled colors from the pics of the hubs and Ryan on the right page, doesn't the hubs look good in a dress?  So my palette today is Watermelon Wonder (so fun to play with this color again), Mossy Meadow, Kiwi Kiss, Blushing Bride, and white.  I had intended to use some yellow as an accent color but I forgot when I actually put the pages together.

That's it for me today.  I'm going to go hang up some pictures, maybe swinging a hammer will make me feel better?  And I'm going to organize Ryan's bathroom upstairs because we're all going to be using that shower pretty soon.  Later, y'all.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Alphabest, Country Bouquet
Ink:  Mossy Meadow, Watermelon Wonder, Blushing Bride
Paper:  Watermelon Wonder, Kiwi Kiss, Blushing Bride, Thick Basic White, Birthday Bouquet DSP
Accessories:  Country Bouquet punch

Eisriesenwelt Ice Cave

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Continuing with my Alpine Adventure series, I have THREE layouts to share today!

Eisriesenwelt is the world's largest ice cave, tucked away near Werfen in Austria.  We lucked out, they were closed for all of 2020 with the pandemic, and had only reopened for tourists on July 1.  We got tickets for July 3, and it wasn't busy at all.  So you start out taking a steep, windy road up into the mountains, park at the visitor center, and then do a 25-minute hike up to a gondola.  The gondola ride is only 3 minutes, but it's pretty zippy and also nearly straight up.  Then there's *another* 20-minute hike to get to the ice cave, so you gotta WORK to visit here.  But man oh man, the mountain views!

Our tour guide, David, was really great and conducted the tour in both English and German.  He said that it's about 1400 stairs each time he takes a group through, 700 up and 700 down, and when they're running at full capacity he would do several tours in a day, I forget how many.  But every day is leg day if you're a tour guide here, that's for sure!  Our only illumination was carbide lanterns and the magnesium flares that David carried, so taking pictures inside was a challenge.  Usually you're not allowed to take pics in there but since it was a small group we got the go-ahead to do it.

And of course after the ice cave tour, you have to do all the hiking to get back down to your car!  We stopped at a restaurant on the mountainside to eat lunch and we all got dessert because we deserved it after all that physical activity.  Ryan did great with it, he only asked to be carried towards the end of the ice cave tour and did a good job with all the hiking.

So for the first and third layouts, my color palette includes Balmy Blue, Azure Afternoon, Calypso Coral, Mossy Meadow, Granny Apple Green, and Whisper White.

For the Ice Cave layout in the middle, I kept Balmy Blue, Azure Afternoon and white, but used Blueberry Bushel as my accent color.  Plus snowflakes to really sell the ice theme.

Have a great day, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!, first & third layout:
Stamps:  Alphabest, Art Gallery
Ink:  Azure Afternoon, Calypso Coral, Granny Apple Green, Mossy Meadow, Night of Navy marker
Paper:  Balmy Blue, Azure Afternoon, Granny Apple Green, Awash in Beauty DSP
Accessories:  Floral Gallery dies

Supplies, all SU!, second layout:
Stamps:  Alphabest, Snowflake Wishes
Ink:  Azure Afternoon, Blueberry Bushel, Night of Navy marker
Paper:  Balmy Blue, Azure Afternoon, Blueberry Bushel, Thick Basic White, Snowflake Splendor DSP
Accessories:  So Many Snowflakes dies

Golling Waterfall

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I'm back with Alpine Adventure part 2 today, which features a waterfall.

The hubs had some fun playing with the camera settings to get the picture right under the page title, see how soft the water looks?  We did a short hike out to the waterfall, took some pictures, and then headed back out to get pizza for dinner.  And that was the first day of our Alpine Adventure, not counting the 7-hour car trip we started with.

I wanted to draw out the pretty blue-green colors in the waterfall, so I chose Tranquil Tide for the page base, Night of Navy for the photo mats, Mint Macaron and Whisper White for supporting colors.  For the dragonfly image, I inked it up with Mint Macaron and then daubed on some Tranquil Tide to the edges and somehow it ended up being a color in between Tranquil Tide and Mint Macaron.  That dragonfly stamp dates back to like the first year I started stamping, too!

Have a great day, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Alphabest, All I Have Seen
Ink:  Night of Navy, Mint Macaron, Tranquil Tide
Paper:  Tranquil Tide, Night of Navy, Mint Macaron, Thick Basic White, Delightful Daisy DSP
Accessories:  None

Alpine Adventure

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  We're in Colorado now and since I don't have any Colorado scrapbook pages (YET), I thought I'd share some different mountain pics!  The last set of layouts I did in Texas before we packed out was our 2021 trip to the Austrian and German Alps, so here's the first layout:

We started out in Werfen, which is just across the border in Austria and not terribly far away from Salzburg.  The first thing we did was check out the Sound of Music trail, which seems like a misnomer because we didn't see a trail, but it DOES have the meadow where Maria teaches the Von Trapp children how to sing Do Re Me in the movie.  I absolutely LOVE being in the mountains!  I don't necessarily want to climb any ; ) but I just love looking at them, and the Alps are particularly spectacular.

Today's color palette:  Gray Granite for the mountain peaks, Primrose Petals for my capri pants, Granny Apple Green for the meadow, Night of Navy to frame the photos, and Whisper White for title and journaling.  This is the first layout out of...nine, I think?  And I used the same alphabet stamp set for all my pages so they look more like a set.  Actually I worked on all nine layouts concurrently too, which kind of bit me a little bit on some of them but it turned out fine.

That's it for me today, peeps.  I'm gonna go look at the mountains some more : )  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Alphabest, Lighting the Way
Ink:  Gray Granite, Granny Apple Green, Night of Navy
Paper:  Gray Granite, Night of Navy, Thick Basic White, Afternoon Daydream DSP, Friendly Hello DSP
Accessories:  Lighting the Way dies