China: Han Tombs & Great Wall

It's China Sunday!  All the layouts I'm sharing today are ones that I've shared before, but there are six of them in a row so we're just doing a rerun post today.  Hope you enjoy!

This was one of the earlier layouts I did for the China books (original blog post here).  The page base is Elegant Eggplant, and some of the photos are matted with Perfect Plum.  This was the very last thing we did in Xi'an before boarding the plane to Beijing.

And our first activity in Beijing was going to the Great Wall!  I will never say no to an opportunity to look at these pages :)  (original blog post here).

We had SO MANY pictures from the Great Wall and I just didn't want to leave any out if I could help it, ha!

This is one of my favorite layouts ever (original blog post here).  I need to look around online and see if I can find more Handsome Hunter cardstock in both 8.5x11 and 12x12.  It was the perfect Baylor green and I'm almost completely out.

We've been teasing Missy for years about her affinity for lots of stairs but I think the Great Wall will forever hold the record for most stairs in a single day (original blog post here).

And there's the last Great Wall layout (from this day, anyway).  Hope you enjoyed this scrappy flashback.  Have a great Sunday!

China: Jade

Happy Mother's Day to all the mamas out there!  Ryan supervised as his dada made waffles with strawberries and cream for breakfast :)

I'm sharing two more China layouts today.  The first one has been seen 'round these parts before:

I didn't really notice until I was flipping through the finished albums, but I really like doing horizontal strips of patterned paper on my layouts.  And here is what comes next:

I think it's a law in China that the tour guide takes you to places specifically for you to shop and spend all your moneys.  And we did buy that jade pixiu (pronounced pee-shoo) so it worked this time.  See the pictures here.  Anyway, this is not my favorite layout but I tried.  I don't know, it's just not my favorite.

Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away, Stampin' Up! had a color called Mint Melody which was the perfect match for the pixiu.  I only had a little bit of cardstock from an assortment pack I bought way back when, and I never got the matching ink, so I had to be creative with how I used it.  I stamped white swirls on it for the mat and used some to cut out my title.

Since I only had I think two pieces of the Mint Melody cardstock, I never cut a sample for my color swatch book.  But here's the palette anyway:  Peekaboo Peach, Dusty Durango, Brocade Blue, and Mint Melody.

I'm off to go play with the kid...or else get me another waffle, I haven't decided yet.  Have a great Sunday!

Supplies, Shanghai Museum layout:
Stamps:  Rough Type, Gifts from the Orient (floral vase), Asian Art (coin and characters), Ancient Asia (dragon vase), Asian Artistry (flower)
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Basic Black, Marina Mist, Garden Green, Crushed Curry
Paper:  Primrose Petals, Basic Black, Thick Whisper White, Crushed Curry DSP
Accessories:  circle punch, Circles & Ovals Framelits, lettering template 

Supplies, Jade layout:
Stamps:  Gorgeous Grunge, Stars & Swirls
Ink:  Brocade Blue, Whisper White, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Peekaboo Peach, Dusty Durango, Brocade Blue, Mint Melody
Accessories:  1/2" circle punch, lettering template

The Great Wall of China, Part 1

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Hope your weekend was good.  Ours was pretty quiet, other than going to see Captain America:  Civil War on Friday night--that was loud ;)  I love movies where stuff blows up.

Anyway, I bring to you today some scrapbook pages from our trip to China, which will make Missy very happy.

See the original pics here.  I printed out SO MANY pictures that I ended up doing FIVE layouts from our first time on the Great Wall (we went back a couple days later for the marathon, though we only walked the 5K no matter what the other three try to tell you) but I'm only sharing two of them today.

You might have noticed that we're all wearing our Baylor shirts in the pictures, so I wanted to use Baylor's colors for the pages.  Luckily for me, green and gold worked pretty well with our Great Wall photos :)  I've been hoarding Handsome Hunter and now I know why--well, after five layouts I don't have a ton of it left but this was definitely the place to use it.  I have a ton of 12x12 Summer Sun though.  Anyway, that dragon might seem like an odd choice for the focal point photo since it's not of the wall, but it was the very first picture we took when we arrived at the Great Wall and I kinda got used to seeing it first every time I flipped through the pictures so I just had to put it there.

And here's the second layout:  absolutely no finesse involved here, it was all about getting in a bunch of landscape shots and some journaling.  I still wanted the green and gold on there, so the journaling is written in Handsome Hunter ink and I sponged some Summer Sun around the edges of the journaling block.

My color combo for all five Great Wall layouts:  Handsome Hunter, Summer Sun, Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, and Very Vanilla.  I'm not a huge fan of Crumb Cake, even though there's lots of people out there who love it like crazy, so I was a little surprised when I liked it so much for these layouts.  I wish SU! still sold 12x12 cardstock in single-color packs...even if they did the 3-color variety packs to match patterned paper like they do in the 8.5x11 size I'd still take it.  I use some colors a lot more than others and it sucks to have to buy a combo pack to only get two sheets of what color I want when I already have 20 sheets of the other colors :p

Anywha, it's not raining right this minute (minor miracle) so I think I'll go take my doglets for a walk.  Good thing Sadie can't read what I'm typing or she'd be all up and excited and trying to shove me out the door already.  TTFN, peeps!

Supplies, first layout:
Stamps:  Rough Type, Timeless Textures, Symbols of Solicitude
Ink:  Crumb Cake, Handsome Hunter, Chocolate Chip
Paper:  Crumb Cake, Handsome Hunter, Chocolate Chip, Summer Sun, Very Vanilla
Accessories:  Lettering template, circle punches

Supplies, second layout:
Stamps:  Circle Circus, Asian Art
Ink:  Crumb Cake, Handsome Hunter, Summer Sun
Paper:  Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla
Accessories:  Circle punches

Shanghai Museum

Hey kids!  Since Scrappy Monday got pre-empted by the Nacho blog hop, I thought I'd share my scrappy goodness today.  So I did the Gifts from the Orient Friday Flashback pretty recently, and I just had to use the stamp set one more time.  However it wasn't still out on my desk, I'd been a good girl and put up my toys so I had to pull it back out again to make today's scrapbook layout.

China pictures!!! (HI MISSY!!!)  Our very first stop on our very first full day in our very first Chinese city was the Shanghai museum.  And I think I used half of my Oriental stamps on this layout--Gifts from the Orient, Ancient Asia, Asian Art, and Asian Artistry (yeah, those are two different stamp sets).  I think I have most of the Asian stamp sets that SU! has produced, though there are a few I'm missing.

Today's color palette:  Primrose Petals, Crushed Curry, Marina Mist, Whisper White, Garden Green, and Basic Black.  I continue to love Thick Whisper White cardstock.  I think regular Whisper White might be relegated to being inside card liners on really dark cards...

Cheers, y'all!  And wasn't Chinese New Year not too long ago?  Happy Year of the Monkey!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Rough Type, Gifts from the Orient (floral vase), Asian Art (coin and characters), Ancient Asia (dragon vase), Asian Artistry (flower)
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Basic Black, Marina Mist, Garden Green, Crushed Curry
Paper:  Primrose Petals, Basic Black, Thick Whisper White, Crushed Curry DSP
Accessories:  circle punch, Circles & Ovals Framelits, lettering template