Technik Museum Sinsheim

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  We had a pretty relaxing weekend and didn't really do much, and sadly my French toast casserole experiment yesterday didn't turn out all that great (way too eggy).  But I'll look for other recipes and see if I can find one we do like.

Since Father's Day is this weekend (and oops, I haven't made cards for it yet), I thought I'd share a manly man layout today:

This museum was an hour or an hour and a half from where we lived in Germany, and even I, not a car nut at all, enjoyed it.  Ryan got bored because 4-year-olds don't like to just look at things, no matter how cool the things are.  They had quite a collection of cool cars and also several planes that you could tour, including a Concorde.  One plane perched on top of the museum has a three-story slide in it so you can slide down from the plane to the first floor of the museum, so that's pretty cool and definitely fun for little dudes.

Today's color palette is in the Man Rainbow, though that light blue might be pushing it ; )  The Man Rainbow is gray, black, navy blue, and khaki and admit now that the wardrobes for the guys you know are 90% those colors.  The colors I used are Boho Blue, Smoky Slate, Night of Navy, Basic Gray, and white.

That's it for now.  The hubs is working some later shifts this week which means he's here to walk Daphne with me, so that's what we're going to do as soon as I finish my cuppa.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Back to Basics Alphabet, Metro Type Alphabet, Geared Up Garage
Ink:  Boho Blue, Smoky Slate, Night of Navy, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Boho Blue, Night of Navy, Basic Gray, Thick Basic White, Take to the Sky DSP
Accessories:  Garage Gears dies

Sweet Home Alabama

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  This is it, everything really kicks in to high gear today:  the packers arrive.  It's going to be a crazy week of having the house packed up and all that chaos that goes along with moving (especially moving overseas, from Germany back to the States).  So anyway, I thought I'd share a layout from a different move, when we arrived in Alabama after three and a half years in England.

Okay that pic of the hubs playing with the undergarments to my wedding dress makes me giggle, and really there could be no other title for these pictures than Sweet Home Alabama.  And I miss my sweet little Vader.  In the lower left corner, I included one of the address labels that I used for the 10 months that we lived there; I always get address labels every time we move and I have an entire stack of labels from all our previous addresses.  When we stop being nomadic, maybe I'll make a layout of nothing but the different address labels and pics of each house...I hope I *took* pics of all the houses!  Hmm.

Today's color palette:  Azure Afternoon, Crumb Cake, Poppy Parade, and Blueberry Bushel.  I'm going to need A LOT of Azure Afternoon 12x12 cardstock, I love it!  Missy was asking me what my favorite new SU! color is, and Azure Afternoon was the first to pop in my head.  Though I have really enjoyed playing with all the new core colors (and I've kind of ignored the new In Colors because they are comparatively dull and boring).

Anyway, time for me to supervise the pack-out of my craft room.  Send chocolate.  No, wait, don't--I mailed two large boxes of chocolate to Texas last week so that it wouldn't spend months in a shipping crate and leave me with a sad chocolate puddle on the other side.  Who has TWENTY-SEVEN POUNDS of chocolate in their house as a matter of course?  Me, apparently.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Sweet Shoppe Alphabet Upper & Lower, Metro Type, Be the Star, Paris in the Spring
Ink:  Azure Afternoon, Blueberry Bushel
Paper:  Azure Afternoon, Poppy Parade, Blueberry Bushel, Crumb Cake, Thick Basic White
Accessories:  Stars dies

Christmas Day 2014

Scrappy Monday y'all!  Today's layout is the companion to the one I shared last Monday.

I used the same pack of patterned paper, and the same colors, but put them in different places.  I did thick bands of patterned paper on this one to make it stylistically similar to the Christmas Eve layout.

And I cut out more retro reindeer for page accents :)  Same treatment for the title as last time, too.

Real Red, Mossy Meadow, Soft Sky, Delightful Dijon, Whisper White, and Very Vanilla make up the color palette.  I used three different patterns from the Home for Christmas DSP on this, four if you count the reindeer.  This layout came together pretty fast, I like that.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Metro Type Alphabet, Joyful Christmas
Ink:  Real Red, Mossy Meadow, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Mossy Meadow, Delightful Dijon, Very Vanilla, Home for Christmas DSP
Accessories:  None

Christmas Eve 2014

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Now that it's December, we can really start to get things all Christmasy here on the blog.  I like Thanksgiving to have its own time before the Christmas juggernaut overruns us all.

Today's pages are from 2014.  Seems like I still have multiple years' worth of Christmas layouts still to do.

I think I did three layouts with this same sketch, but since I don't scrapbook chronologically, no one will know but me!

This patterned paper was just SO fun...I cut out a couple of reindeer accents from another pattern in the pack.  I created the title by using a marker to ink up "Christmas" from a longer sentiment, and the "Eve" part is done using the Metro Alphabet.  I just lucked out that those two elements ended up being about the same length.

Today's Christmas color palette includes Real Red, Mossy Meadow, Soft Sky, Delightful Dijon, Whisper White, and Very Vanilla.  As a general rule, I'm against the use of Whisper White and Very Vanilla together, but it works in the patterned paper so I just went with it.

Hope your December is off to a great start!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Metro Type Alphabet, Joyful Christmas
Ink:  Real Red, Mossy Meadow, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Real Red, Delightful Dijon, Mossy Meadow, Whisper White, Home for Christmas DSP, Color Me Autumn DSP
Accessories: none

Krakow, Poland

Hey, kids, how's it going today?  I had a busy day yesterday and NO time at all to spend in my craft room, so today is a bonus scrapbook day.  Check it out:

Not the best picture of the layout, but it was raining the day I took it and that makes it more difficult to get good lighting.  Anywha, you can see the original pictures here.  Krakow was the first place I'd ever had pizza with pineapple and black olives on it; the combination sounds so weird but trust me, if you like those ingredients, it's a dang good pizza.  My weirdo hubs doesn't think pineapple belongs on a pizza and he hates black olives, so I had to eat the whole pizza myself :)

I got the Metro Alphabet stamp set (top word) just before it retired and this is its maiden voyage.  I found that the little flowers from the Sale-a-Bration set Botanicals for You match the small flowers in the Botanical Gardens patterned paper I used, happy day.  I got that paper specifically for this layout but I'll enjoy using the other patterns too...it seems like a lot of my photos involve the color Cajun Craze because a lot of times roofs or bricks are kinda that color, so I like having paper that incorporates it.

And there's today's color combo, taken straight from the patterned paper:  Mossy Meadow, Hello Honey, Cajun Craze, Mint Macaron (I wasn't too sure about how Mint Macaron would fit in with the other colors, but I'm okay with it), Basic Black, and Whisper White.

Well, I've got doglets to walk and groceries to buy, so that's it for me today.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Metro Alphabet, Empire Alphabet, Botanicals for You
Ink:  Mossy Meadow, Hello Honey, Cajun Craze, Mint Macaron, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Mossy Meadow, Cajun Craze, Basic Black, Whisper White, Botanical Gardens DSP
Accessories:  None