Rose Parade Practice

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  We spent most of last week in Vail with friends, skiing (everybody who is not me or Lynn) and enjoying Thanksgiving together.  I managed a full Thanksgiving meal in our hotel suite kitchen : )  It was a lot less effort than I usually do, too, because I got heat and eat options for almost everything (but my homemade pies are much tastier than the frozen ones!).  I did a turkey breast in the crockpot that turned out much better than I expected, I will definitely use that recipe again.  I did use an entire can of chicken broth instead of a half cup, and Ryan and I didn't measure the mustard either, just coated everything he could reach with it.  Then I flipped the turkey breast a couple of times during the cooking process so that we wouldn't end up with one side much juicier than the other--this turned out great!

Okay, enough turkey talk.  How about a scrapbook layout?

These pics are 15 years old, oof.  My high school band was invited to march in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, and I happened to be in Texas that December so I went out to watch them practice with my sister. (I call my brother's wife my sister; their besties are my other brother and sister, and the hubs' sister and her husband are my SIL and BIL.  Keeps everything straight in my head!)  We never got to do anything that cool when I was in high school, but on the other hand I got to be snug in my house watching the parade that year.

Today's sorta-Christmas palette includes Certainly Celery, Real Red, Blueberry Bushel, and white.  My high school colors are orange and black, so not Christmasy at all but you can see the balloons where Adrienne and I had our picture taken on the bottom right.  I found some Christmas DSP with roses on it and I thought that was just perfect for this.

That's it for me today, peeps.  The hubs is coming down with a major cold or something and I am trying very hard not to do the same...but my girl Daphne still wants to go for a walk and it's been a week since I last took her since we were in Vail last week and she was with a dogsitter.  We got our first snow last night too so we have to go out : )  I swept snow off the driveway this morning and I think most, if not all, of this will melt by tomorrow so we'll enjoy it while we can.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Broadsheet Alphabet, Calendar Alphabet & Numbers, Wreath of Roses
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Blueberry Bushel, Poppy Parade; Mossy Meadow & Blueberry Bushel markers; Mossy Meadow, Poppy Parade, Petal Pink, Calypso Coral Stampin' Blends
Paper:  Certainly Celery, Poppy Parade, Thick Whisper White, Christmastime is Here DSP
Accessories:  None

Funky Chocolate Club

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I hope you had a good weekend.  I thoroughly enjoyed watching TMNT on the big screen yesterday morning and then a quiet, relaxing afternoon at the house.  And now it's Monday and I'm ready to get started on some projects for the week!  So let's look at a scrapbook layout...

And it's about one of my favorite things, CHOCOLATE!  During our trip to Switzerland, we took a class and learned all about chocolate and made our own chocolate bars.  Ryan especially liked the part where you put chocolate on your nose to see if it's the right temperature before the next step, but of course his favorite was taste testing everything.  Well, me too ; )

Of course today's color palette is chocolate-inspired too:  Close to Cocoa page base, with Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Taken with Teal, and Whisper White to go with it.  I think we've been to two different chocolate museums but this is the only place we got to make our own chocolate so it wins for chocolate-based tourism.

That's it for me, I've got some things to do today.  As Ryan said when I dropped him off at school today, "See ya on the flip side, Willie!" which is a quote from Bluey.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Calendar Alphabet & Numbers, Eat Chocolate
Ink:  Chocolate Chip
Paper:  Close to Cocoa, Real Red, Taken with Teal, Basic White, Ski Slope DSP
Accessories:  None

Saint Beatus Caves

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  And it's my favorite Monday ever because it is Ryan's first day of school : )  The house is all nice and quiet...or it would be except I started some music so I am enjoying Chicago's If You Leave Me Now while I drink my tea.  Love that song.

Anyway, I just figured out this morning that I've been sharing the Swiss-capade layouts in the wrong order but whatever, they're all from the same trip.  And here is today's layout:

We do tend to like doing underground touristy things.  We had to wait in line a while before we got to go in the caves, which were pretty cool and we took the opportunity to teach Ryan to be a responsible and respectful tourist and keep his grubby little fingers off the rocks because that damages them (which we know because we've been to caves in several different countries now).  Then we had lunch at a restaurant next to the monastery started in St. Beatus' honor, and we had a PHENOMENAL view of Lake Thun--can you believe that picture in the lower right corner?!  It was a quick snap I took with my cellphone!  I think I need to print that one out giant size and frame it...if only I had more open wall space, ha!

Today's color palette:  Island Indigo, Starry Sky, Sweet Sorbet, Garden Green, and white.  Normally I wouldn't think to pair those two blues together, but I was pulling colors from the photos and I think they work together pretty well here.  I haven't worked on scrapbook pages in a long time since I've been busy with having Ryan home for the summer and working on other projects, but I'm starting to get the itch to get back to scrappin'.  Should be easier to make that happen now that he's back in school.

For right now, I think I'll brew a second cuppa tea and go write out some cards to go out in the mail, then get to work on something crafty.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Taffy Alphabet, Calendar Alphabet & Numbers, Blossoms in Bloom
Ink:  Island Indigo, Starry Sky, Sweet Sorbet, Garden Green
Paper:  Island Indigo, Starry Sky, Garden Green, Basic White, Blooms & Bliss DSP
Accessories:  none

Trummelbach Falls

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Wish me luck getting Ryan out the door on time today, he is being super slow this morning.  So aggravating, I swear he's going slower on purpose because he knows how much I hate being late and he has STEAM camp today.  Arrrrgh.

Anyway, I have another Switzerland layout to share today:

Trummelbach Falls is a series of waterfalls inside the mountain near where we stayed in Lauterbrunnen.  It's all glacier water and it was amazing to me that as we walked along the trail, we turned a corner to where the water was and the air temperature dropped significantly because the water was so cold.  It moves FAST too so we kept a firm grip on Ryan to make sure he didn't do anything crazy.

Today's color palette started with inspiration from Ryan's fox sweater and if they had that in adult sizes I would totally buy it, just sayin'.  Colors are Baked Brown Sugar, Tangerine Tango, Blueberry Bushel, Coastal Cabana, and Very Vanilla.

Gotta get out the door.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Calendar Alphabet & Numbers, Taffy Alphabet
Ink:  Baked Brown Sugar, Coastal Cabana, Blueberry Bushel marker
Paper:  Baked Brown Sugar, Blueberry Bushel, Tangerine Tango, Coastal Cabana, Very Vanilla, Retro Fresh DSP
Accessories:  1 1/4" and 1 1/2" circle punches

Lunch in Luxembourg

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Yesterday's scone experiment turned out GREAT so I'm going to be writing that down for my personal cookbook.  And yesterday the hubs did touch-ups on the living room accent wall that I painted on Saturday and I got all my books organized and put back on the shelves--I am REALLY loving how the dark blue looks on that one wall with the lighter blue we had already painted.  Now we need to get to work on the entryway, up the stairs, and the loft and hallway upstairs.  Slowly but surely this house is turning colors!

Anyway, we're here for scrapbook pages today and I have a sweet little layout to share:

Okay, so it was Very Cool to live in a place where you could decide on a random weekend to drive to a different country for lunch and still be home in time for dinner.  It was a two-hour drive from our house in Germany to the capital of Luxembourg.  We had lunch at a place called the Chocolate House, where Ryan tried his first croissant, and we bought a bunch of chocolate truffles which melted on the way back to the car.  It turned out much warmer that day than we had anticipated!

Today's color palette:  Blushing Bride, Calypso Coral, Coastal Cabana, Crushed Curry, Sahara Sand, Soft Suede, and white.  Blushing Bride was never one of my favorite colors so I'm always surprised when I use it on a layout and I actually like it.

That's it for now, peeps.  I've got to get Ryan to school, do the grocery shopping, take Daph for a walk, do some laundry...all the things!  Have a great day, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Alphabet Antiques Upper, Calendar Alphabet & Numbers, Tulip Fields, Petal Parade
Ink:  Calypso Coral, Sahara Sand, Blushing Bride, Soft Suede marker
Paper:  Blushing Bride, Calypso Coral, Crushed Curry, Thick Basic White, Best Year Ever DSP
Accessories:  None

Wilkommen in Deutschland

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Hope you have a good day off for Labor Day.  Today's scrapbook layout is from our arrival in Germany at the end of August 2020:

This is a mishmash of pictures from the first couple of weeks that we were in Germany, when we were staying in a hotel suite and looking for a house.  Also we were locked in there for two weeks because of all the Covid restrictions, people from the hubs' work had to buy groceries for us and bring them to us, it was a crazy time.  So all those pics are in the hotel room.

Today's color palette:  Crushed Curry, Tangelo Twist, Azure Afternoon, Pecan Pie, and white.  I really liked Tangelo Twist as an orange and I think I'm almost out of cardstock in that color, at least in the 12x12.  Not sure how much 8.5x11 I might have.  Azure Afternoon and Pecan Pie ended up being great matches for Ryan's bear jammies!

That's it for me today, peeps.  I'm going to do my workout and then most likely do dishes because that never stops.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Taffy Alphabet, Calendar Alphabet & Numbers, Sweets & Treats, All Boxed Up, bear from Whipper Snapper
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Tangelo Twist, Azure Afternoon, Pecan Pie, Stampin' Blends in Pecan Pie, Ivory, Smoky Slate, Mossy Meadow, Pool Party, Pumpkin Pie
Paper:  Crushed Curry, Azure Afternoon, Pecan Pie, Thick Basic White, Tangelo Twist DSP
Accessories:  None

Having a Grand Time in Texas

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  This is our last Monday in Texas, so I thought I'd share a Texas layout from right before we moved to Germany in 2020.

This one goes right next to my Fort Worth Zoo layout, so I kept the Crumb Cake page base and changed up the supporting colors.  And I went punny for my title because this is mostly pictures of Ryan with his grandparents.

Today's color palette:  Crumb Cake, Mango Melody, Shaded Spruce, and Gorgeous Grape, with some Whisper White but I didn't put that in the palette for some reason.  I got to sneak in a bit of purple because I was wearing a purple shirt in one photo : )

Have a great day, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Calendar Alphabet & Numbers, Schoolbook Serif Alphabet, Takeout Treats
Ink:  Gorgeous Grape, Shaded Spruce, Mango Melody
Paper:  Crumb Cake, Shaded Spruce, Gorgeous Grape, Thick Basic White, Dandy Designs DSP
Accessories:  Takeout dies

Tennessee, Part 4: Ober Gatlinburg

Scrappy Monday again already, y'all!  We're still in the Tennessee layouts but this one is a little less green than the last one : )

This whole area is super touristy but we had fun there anyway.  We walked along the main drag and did some shopping in Gatlinburg (which is where I found this book and I love reading it to Ryan as often as he'll let me), and then went on up to Ober Gatlinburg to go on rides and spend too much money on food.  It ain't Disneyland, but it was still fun for all of us.

Today's color palette:  Watermelon Wonder, Granny Apple Green, Pretty Peacock, Cherry Cobbler, and white.  Let me tell you, I had a lot of fun using Watermelon Wonder on this layout : )  It was an In Color years ago and it makes me happy to bring retired colors out to play again on my scrapbook pages.  I thought it lent an air of playfulness to this layout.

Cheers, y'all!  I think I might need to go buy myself a watermelon, even if Ryan won't help me eat it.  Picky weirdo.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Calendar Alphabet & Numbers, Pure & Simple Alphabet Upper, Eclectic Expressions
Ink:  Watermelon Wonder, Pretty Peacock, Granny Apple Green
Paper:  Watermelon Wonder, Pretty Peacock, Cherry Cobbler, Thick Basic White, Forever Greenery DSP
Accessories:  Circle punches

Tennessee, Part 2: Meet the Neighbors

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  And I'm ready for it with the second of my Tennessee layouts.  (Sidebar:  I am writing this post on the hubs' laptop, and its little proofreading thingummy is pickier than the one on the Mac.  It keeps giving me random blue lines under certain words and dude will ya just CHILL 'cause I know how to speak AND write in English and you're annoying.)

Anyway.  Here there be BEARS!

We stayed in a cabin outside of Gatlinburg (this is the second time we've done that in this area and I would not say no to going back a third time) and there are signs everywhere about bears.  As in Do Not Feed The.  So we saw two juvenile bears and a mama bear hanging out near our cabin, begging for food we did not give them, and a full-grown bear checking out the trash cans near the cabin that we had stayed in on our first trip to this area.  And as much time as we spent in the national park, we didn't see a single bear there!

I chose "Meet the Neighbors" for my page title but maybe it should have been "Meet the NeighBEARS".  So I wrote that in my journaling.

Oops, I left out a color in my palette picture; the page base is Creamy Caramel which goes really well with Cinnamon Cider (photo mats), and then I also used Pretty Peacock, Pear Pizzazz, and white.

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Calendar Alphabet & Numbers, Pure & Simple Alphabet Upper, Simply Fabulous
Ink:  Pear Pizzazz, Pretty Peacock, Cinnamon Cider
Paper:  Creamy Caramel, Cinnamon Cider, Pear Pizzazz, Pretty Peacock, Thick Basic White, Forever Greenery DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies

Tennessee, Part 1: Great Smoky Mountains

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  At the end of this week we'll be leaving Europe and heading back to the States, so today I thought I'd start a series of scrapbook pages from a trip we took to the Gatlinburg area of Tennessee in July of 2020 with the hubs' sister and her fam.  So here's the first layout:

So the long-retired Marina Mist turned out to be the perfect page base for these pics of the Great Smoky Mountains!  A lot of times when I do a series of layouts from a particular trip or event, I'll use the same alphabet stamps and/or the same pack of patterned papers to make the layouts feel like they go together, and this set is no different:  all of them feature the same alphabets as well as the Forever Greenery DSP.  Green is my favorite color, I imagine I could incorporate a shade of green into just about any scrapbook layout if I tried hard enough.

Today's palette:  Marina Mist, Garden Green, Pretty Peacock, and white.  Just as a coincidence, I think I used Pretty Peacock on all the Tennessee layouts and I made them just before SU! announced that Pretty Peacock was returning to the color lineup.  Yay me!

Have a great week, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Calendar Alphabet & Numbers, Pure & Simple Alphabet Upper, Pines
Ink:  Garden Green, Pretty Peacock
Paper:  Marina Mist, Garden Green, Pretty Peacock, Thick Basic White, Forever Greenery DSP
Accessories:  None

British Invasion

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Ugh, this cold just will NOT leave me alone!  When I pick Ryan up this afternoon, we have to go to the store for more Kleenex.  Here's hoping I'll finally kick it to the curb this week.

In the meantime, here's another layout I finished recently:

Okay, so the Invasion started with us meeting up with everyone else (aka The Invaders) in Paris, then we went back to the hubs and my house for a few days (laundry break) before heading to London.  So here I am working on this layout and I very nearly missed the opportunity to title it British Invasion.  For real, I started stamping Invasion Intermission before my brain finally kicked in and started working!  So I'm happy with how this turned out.  I chose Regal Rose (that nice medium pink) because my SIL helpfully wore that pink shirt (and my other sister and I were wearing paler pink in the other pictures), and So Saffron because of my mom's yellow floral shirt.  Good excuse to use the long-retired Georgia Peach DSP!

My color palette comes straight from the DSP, and I thought it coordinated well with the photos:  Regal Rose, So Saffron, Certainly Celery, and a bit of Whisper White.  Nice and springy, though the pictures were taken in July.  Told you I've been doing a lot of pinks and reds lately...actually the layout on my desk right now is a Poppy Parade base.  Better get some laundry started so I can work in my craft room today...if my head will oblige me by not spinning too much.  Urgh.  Stay healthy, friends!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Calendar Alphabet & Numbers, Polka Dots & Petals
Ink:  Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Soft Suede
Paper:  Regal Rose, Certainly Celery, So Saffron, Thick Basic White, Georgia Peach DSP
Accessories:  1" and 1 1/4" circle punches

August 2019

Scrappy Monday, y'all.  The hubs and kid are back to their regularly scheduled activities today and it's my last day of Covid quarantine, which I plan to spend resting (have I done anything else for the last five days?  Nope!).  I no longer feel like I was hit by a train, but I'm still tired.  My nap game has been strong the last several days.

Anyway, enough about that.  Today is August 1 and that means Ryan is starting school THIS MONTH!  I don't think he's excited about it, but that's because the poor kid doesn't deal well with change.  He had to go to a different classroom today at daycare and flipped his little lid, poor dude.  But for today's Scrappy Monday layout, let's take a look back to when Ryan was just two:

That's my cutie pie.  This is another one of my monthly catch-all layouts, random snapshots gathered together on one layout.  This time I put numbers on the pictures and then wrote about each one on the journaling.  I like these types of layouts because otherwise I wouldn't have recorded things like how Ryan liked to ride the elevator at the Y but he'd lay down on the floor to feel the vibrations as the elevator moved, or how he thought his Lightning McQueen light-up shoes made him run faster.

Today's color palette:  Pool Party, Calypso Coral, Real Red, So Saffron, Basic Gray, and Whisper White.  It was taken directly from the I Am Me DSP that I used as accents, I thought it worked really well with the pictures.

Aaaand now I think it's time to take a nap on the couch.  Maybe later I'll head up to my craft room, if I can be vertical for longer than an hour at a time...Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Pun Intended, My Paper Pumpkin, Calendar Alphabet & Numbers
Ink:  Real Red, Calypso Coral, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Pool Party, Basic Gray, So Saffron, Real Red, Calypso Coral, Whisper White, I Am Me DSP
Accessories:  Hippo & Friends dies, 1/2" circle punch

Just Ducky

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I've got a springy layout for today.

These pics are from April of 2019 I believe.  Our next door neighbors in North Carolina had hatched some duck eggs and then the ducks just stuck around after they were grown up (there was a long, skinny pond stretching the length of our block behind our houses, so I imagine that was a nice place to live for some semi-tame ducks) so we used to have fun feeding them occasionally.  Ryan fed them frozen corn often enough that they'd come waddling in our direction anytime he came out of the house :) 

For the layout, I was quite pleased to find a stripey pattern that pretty closely matched the shirt Ryan was wearing in the pictures.  Score one for my ridiculously enormous collection of patterned paper!

Today's color palette:  So Saffron, Rose Red, Bashful Blue, Brilliant Blue, Certainly Celery, and Whisper White.

Have a great week, ducklings!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Layered Letters Alphabet, Calendar Alphabet & Numbers, Beyond the Basics
Ink:  Brilliant Blue, Certainly Celery, So Saffron, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  So Saffron, Brilliant Blue, Certainly Celery, Thick Whisper White, Cutie Pie DSP
Accessories:  None

Leaf Peeping, Part 1

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  We had a nice weekend here with some really beautiful weather yesterday, so we went out for a family bike ride which unfortunately ended with a crash for Ryan.  No major injuries but it did make us go back home and feed Ryan popsicles because he hit his mouth pretty good.  Glad he was wearing a helmet!

Anyway, today I have a couple of layouts to share that I just LOVE.  We've got the pretty fall colors happening here in Germany right now and they're also happening all over this layout.

This was from our trip up to New England in 2016, when I was pregnant with Ryan.  These pics are from a state park in Massachusetts and we took so many pictures that I loved that I had to do several layouts.

I love the long-retired Orchard Harvest DSP which is good because I bought several packs of it when it went on the clearance rack.  I stuck to the color palette from the DSP for all my layouts (this is just part 1, more coming next Monday) and just changed around which of the patterns I used.  I used Wonderfall for the leaf accents, which is a fabulous leaf stamp set.  There's a coordinating die for it, but this was back in the day before there were the wafer-thin dies for everything that you can see exactly where it's cutting; the die is a big solid block which means it's impossible to cut out stamped images accurately, and it's a PAIN to stamp on already-cut images so I fussy-cut all the leaves on my pages.  Worth it!

There's the Orchard Harvest palette:  Cajun Craze, Lucky Limeade, More Mustard, Raspberry Ripple, Island Indigo, Early Espresso, and Very Vanilla.  I miss Island Indigo.

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Calendar Alphabet, Wonderfall
Ink:  Cajun Craze, Lucky Limeade, More Mustard, Raspberry Ripple, Island Indigo, Early Espresso
Paper:  Cajun Craze, Lucky Limeade, More Mustard, Raspberry Ripple, Island Indigo, Orchard Harvest DSP
Accessories:  None

Ryan's First Haircut

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  We had a pretty low-key weekend, which was fine, and yesterday the hubs and Ryan got their hair cut.  So today I thought I'd share a layout from Ryan's very first haircut when he was a wee babe!

My friend Tiana cut his hair for us :)  This kid had *multiple* haircuts before his first birthday.  I use a lot of blue on Ryan's layouts, and this time around I used several patterns from the Fresh Prints (...of Bel Air, I will never not say that) DSP stack because I love it.  It's only 4.5x6.5" so I have to be creative when it comes to using it for scrapbook pages.

Today's color palette:  Real Red, Pacific Point, Coastal Cabana, and Whisper White.  Huh.  Usually I put the color of the page base first, but for some reason I did it backwards here.  Oh well.

Hope your week is off to a great start!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Taffy Alphabet, Calendar Alphabet & Numbers
Ink:  Pacific Point, Real Red
Paper:  Pacific Point, Real Red, Coastal Cabana, Thick Whisper White, Fresh Prints DSP, Best Year Ever DSP
Accessories:  None

Meeting Mimi & Grandpa

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  We had a super low-key weekend...well, they've tightened back down on the restrictions again so it's not like we can do much, but also Ryan had the sniffles so he was content to hang out on the couch, playing on the iPad and watching movies (Indiana Jones FTW!).  Ryan says he doesn't feel bad, but he's definitely not as energetic as usual.  Quiet weekend is just fine :)

So!  On to today's layout from when Ryan was super tiny and adorable.

He's still adorable, but he's not super tiny anymore ;)  You see that baby blanket on the couch behind my mom?  My childhood friend Melissa made that for Ryan, and it dictated the colors for several scrapbook layouts from Ryan's first year.

Today's color palette:  Coastal Cabana, Blueberry Bushel, Lemon Lime Twist, and Granny Apple Green.  Every once in a while I make a layout that doesn't use any white cardstock :)

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Brushwork Alphabet, Calendar Alphabet & Numbers, Moon Baby
Ink:  Coastal Cabana, Blueberry Bushel, Lemon Lime Twist, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Coastal Cabana, Blueberry Bushel, Lemon Lime Twist, Granny Apple Green
Accessories:  None

Disney Cruise: Boatload of Fun

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Let's see how this week goes.  I'm interviewing two new babysitters this week (or they're interviewing me, not sure which) and hoping to get Ryan back in daycare two days a week since the first lady didn't work out.

Anywha, we're still trucking with the Disney cruise layouts, so here's the next one:

Ryan had just turned two when we went on this cruise (and he turns FOUR in two weeks) and he didn't really watch movies yet, so his "who the heck are YOU" looks at Anna and Elsa were pretty dang funny.  I chose Taken With Teal as one of my colors because of Elsa's dress, and of course that was featured in only like two packs of patterned paper before they retired it (and I LOVE that color) so this patterned paper is from a stack called Holiday Lounge, and it's all fun sorta retro mid-century modern patterns.

Here's our most-of-the-rainbow color palette:  Riding Hood Red, Taken with Teal, Summer Sun, Cucumber Crush, Night of Navy, and Whisper White.  It's interesting to me how my color palettes have shifted since I started scrapping pictures of Ryan, I guess that's because they always make little boy clothes in bright primary colors.  It's fun.

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Calendar Alphabet & Numbers, Taffy Alphabet
Ink:  Riding Hood Red, Night of Navy
Paper:  Riding Hood Red textured, Summer Sun, Cucumber Crush, Night of Navy, Thick Whisper White, Holiday Lounge DSP
Accessories:  Mickey punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, Layering Circles dies

Disney Cruise: Butterfly Garden (Key West)

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  My birthday was yesterday and we celebrated starting with waffles for breakfast (with strawberries and lots of whipped cream, of course) and then had pizza, cake and ice cream for dinner. I love me some carbs but I'm kinda looking forward to getting back to healthier eating now ;)

So!  I have another Disney cruise layout to share today, and it's bright and fun and I love it.

I chose Tangelo Twist for my page base color because of Ryan's super bright orange shirt, and the purples for the patterned paper and photo mats because of the flowers.  I love purple but for some reason I don't seem to use it a lot on scrapbook pages, so I'm always happy when I do manage to sneak some in there.  I love going to places like this butterfly garden--so easy to get some really eye-catching pictures!  They also had a pair of very noisy flamingos living there but I liked all my butterfly pictures better than the flamingo ones, so there ya go.

Today's color palette:  Tangelo Twist, Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape, Lucky Limeade, and Whisper White.  I don't know that I would have put these colors together on a card or anything like that, but I do love how they work together on this layout!

Hope your week is off to a good start.  Tomorrow is Ryan's first day at daycare, he'll be doing a good chunk of time every Tuesday and Thursday until whenever I can start my job, and then he'll be full time.  I'm hoping to get some good stamping/scrapping done this week!  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Taffy Alphabet, Calendar Alphabet & Numbers, Positive Thoughts
Ink:  Gorgeous Grape, Lucky Limeade, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Tangelo Twist, Gorgeous Grape, Highland Heather, Lucky Limeade, Whisper White, Botanical Butterfly DSP
Accessories:  None

Tennessee, Part 5: Tennessee Thanksgiving

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  We're up to part 5 of the Tennessee pages, and we're still not done (uh, we took a lot of pictures that week).  But I couldn't leave out our magnificent Thanksgiving feast!

I used Taken with Teal for the page base; I love a deep blue page base when I make fall pages because it makes the warm fall colors really pop.  (Plus I just really like Taken with Teal.)  I still used For All Things for a stamped accent, but just to be different I used the wheat sheaf instead of the big leaf.  That year, Thanksgiving fell on Bennet's birthday, so we had birthday cake in addition to the traditional Turkey Day desserts.

Today's super fun color palette:  Taken with Teal, Lucky Limeade, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, Early Espresso, and Very Vanilla.

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Notable Alphabet, Calendar Alphabet & Numbers, For All Things
Ink:  Early Espresso, Lucky Limeade, Crushed Curry
Paper:  Taken with Teal, Lucky Limeade, Crushed Curry, Thick Very Vanilla, Color Me Autumn DSP
Accessories:  Hexagon punch

Tennessee, Part 4: Ripley's Aquarium

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Time for more Tennessee layouts, I've got two for today.

I still used the Color Me Autumn DSP for these two layouts, happily the Mossy Meadow pattern looked enough like bubbles to work for aquarium pages.  And I still used orange, but I went for the much softer Peach Parfait.

As you can see, I'm back to squeezing in as many pictures as I can manage :) 

Today's color palette:  Peach Parfait, Mossy Meadow (the only color that overlaps with the rest of the Tennessee layouts), Bermuda Bay, Gorgeous Grape, Basic Gray, and Whisper White.  Hey, I got to use a purple on my scrapbook pages!  Also, I wish Seaside Notions had a set of dies because I cut those out all. the. time.

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, first layout:
Stamps:  Notable Alphabet, Calendar Alphabet & Numbers, Seaside Notions
Ink:  Versamark, Bermuda Bay, Gorgeous Grape, Mossy Meadow, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Peach Parfait, Bermuda Bay, Gorgeous Grape, Thick Whisper White, Color Me Autumn DSP
Accessories:  Layering Circles dies, clear EP

Supplies, second layout:
Stamps:  Seaside Notions
Ink:  Versamark, Peach Parfait, Bermuda Bay, Gorgeous Grape, Mossy Meadow, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Peach Parfait, Bermuda Bay, Gorgeous Grape, Thick Whisper White, Color Me Autumn DSP
Accessories:  clear EP