Cliffs of the Neuse

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  This week will be my last chance to do anything in my craft room as the packers get here NEXT MONDAY to start packing up all our stuff.  And really I should *probably* be getting stuff ready for that to happen, so I don't know how much stamping I'll get to do.  Guess we'll see how well I can manage my time this week.

Anyway!  I do have some scrapbook pages to share today, take a look:

Awww, Ryan was so little : )  These pics were taken in May of 2020 at the Cliffs of the Neuse State Park in North Carolina.  I figured we should probably go there once before we moved out of NC, so we did.  Just did a little hike, looked at the river, and took a couple of silly pictures.

Today's very fun color palette was inspired by my outfit because I like colors : )  Pixie Pink (though Polished Pink would have worked just fine too), Shaded Spruce, Parakeet Party, Starry Sky, Tempting Turquoise, and white.  Umm, I don't know if Starry Sky is my favorite blue, or if it's Azure Afternoon...guess it's a tie.

Okay, Imma go be productive.  Wish me luck!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Notable Alphabet, Broadsheet Accents, Hello Ladybug
Ink:  Pixie Pink, Starry Sky, Parakeet Party, Shaded Spruce, Tempting Turquoise
Paper:  Pixie Pink, Starry Sky, Parakeet Party, Thick Basic White, Flowers & More DSP, Pink Flamingo DSP
Accessories:  Ladybug Builder Punch

Mimi & Grandpa Visit

Scrappy Monday y'all and happy birthday to my dad : )  Had to choose a layout to share today that has him on it, take a look:

Okay, mostly it's pictures of Ryan but that's okay.  This was from when my parents came to visit in summer of 2018 when Ryan was about 16 months old.  And now he's five and I told him yesterday that he has grown far too much and I Do Not Approve.  He laughed at me.

Today's summery color palette:  Green Galore, Night of Navy, Real Red, and Whisper White.

Hope you have a good week, y'all!  We'll be over here trying not to melt in the heat, it's supposed to get somewhere near 90 the next couple of days and here's us with no AC.  Wish us luck!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Notable Alphabet, Be the Star
Ink:  Real Red, Night of Navy
Paper:  Green Galore, Real Red, Night of Navy, Thick Whisper White, Birthday Bash DSP
Accessories:  Labels Collection Framelits

Nana & Papa

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I'm happy to report that on Friday, I actually DID some scrapping!  Managed to start and finish a layout on the same day, even.  Wish I could have worked on the next one but the hubs ended up having to go into work this weekend so I had to entertain the spawn instead.

So for today's layout I'm going way back to when the spawn was a wee little squirt and just one month old.

This was his first meeting with his paternal grandparents, and he also got to meet his honorary Aunt Missy and Uncle Bennet.  Bennet refused to hold Ryan until Ryan was screaming about something, because Bennet said then there was no way he could make it any worse :D

Today's color palette:  Pool Party, Soft Suede, So Saffron, Shaded Spruce, and Whisper White.  And one stamped bear because I have to have a bear for Missy and Bennet...and Ryan was wearing a Baylor onesie in those pictures.

Have a great Monday, peeps.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Notable Alphabet, Thankful Forest Friends
Ink:  Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Shaded Spruce marker
Paper:  Pool Party, Shaded Spruce, Thick Whisper White, Color Me Autumn & Flock Together DSPs
Accessories:  None

We Heart Sadie

Mornin' folks, and scrappy Monday!  We spent last week in Switzerland (but I was able to make cards before we went so I had posts here, hee) but today it's back to our regular programming.  On our train back from Switzerland (well, one of them, I think we rode on at least four), there was a very well-behaved dog sitting not too far from us and I wanted to pet her SO MUCH.  So today I'm sharing a layout of our beloved Sadie girl.

Back when she was a teeny pupster!  When we first got her at 16 weeks old, she had a line of fur going down her spine that was a slightly different color than the rest of her and it was CURLY.  So cute.  When she grew up, that fur was still a different color (her sides had a bit more brown while her skunk stripe was black), but she lost the curl.  Man, I miss our girl.

I went with a classic pink and green color palette here:  Mint Macaron, Regal Rose, Tranquil Tide, and Basic Black.  The only stamping is the title; that heart was a sticker accent in the Loves Me Simply Scrappin' kit.  So yeah I've had that for a while.

Anyway, better get with the morning routine.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Notable Alphabet
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Mint Macaron, Tranquil Tide, Loves Me SSK
Accessories:  Sticker from the SSK

Leaf Walk, Part 1

Mornin', y'all!  Before we left North Carolina, I set up a lot of blog posts to cover for a while until we got settled in Germany.  I just realized that I ran out of Scrappy Monday scheduled posts this week, and of course we finished Ryan's baby book too :)  Well, we're here, and pretty settled in (you can see pics of our new house and some travels around Germany on my other blog) but I haven't gotten to spend a lot of time in my new craft room yet.  My hubs kindly took Ryan out for a while on Sunday so I got a few hours that day, and I've been working on new scrapbook pages rather than cards.  I need to take pictures of the layouts I've done so far, but for today I thought I'd share a seasonally appropriate layout from fall in Virginia.

It looks black, but I promise the page base is deep, dark Early Espresso (brown).  I thought it made the colors in my leaf pictures pop.  Where I grew up in Texas, "fall" consists of all the leaves spontaneously turning dull brown and then falling off the trees overnight.  We don't get the fun colors, so I enjoyed fall in Virginia.  Fall in Germany has been pretty glorious too!  We're past peak colors now, but it's still pretty out there (when it's not raining buckets). 

Anyway, back to today's layout, I used retired favorite Lighthearted Leaves for my page accents.  I didn't particularly like the die for the one on the right page (the die set was originally designed for Vintage Leaves, but fit the stamps from this set as well) so I ended up fussy-cutting it a bit.  And just for funsies, I used three different colors for the photo mats.  I inked the leaves with Versamark, then colored ink, and stamped, then embossed with clear EP.  That let me watercolor the leaves without the ink running.

And here are my colors:  Early Espresso, Granny Apple Green, Cajun Craze (deep orange, it looks red in this picture), Delightful Dijon, Soft Suede, and Very Vanilla.

Well, it's cloudy right now but not raining, so I'm going to take Ryan out to a playground for a bit.  I'm getting a lot of reading done while he's on the playground, but I don't know how long I'll be able to do this...I'm not going to sit outside slowly turning into a popsicle when it gets really cold!  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Notable Alphabet, Lighthearted Leaves
Ink:  Early Espresso, Granny Apple Green, Cajun Craze, Delightful Dijon, Versamark
Paper:  Early Espresso, Soft Suede, Granny Apple Green, Cajun Craze, Delightful Dijon, Very Vanilla, Painted Autumn DSP
Accessories:  Layering Circles dies, Stitched Shapes dies, Leaflets dies, clear EP

Tennessee, Part 6: Gatlinburg

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I'm back with the last of the Tennessee pages (at least until I scrap the pictures from this past July), and today it's another double feature with a trip into town.

I love that Color Me Autumn DSP so it was fun to use so many of its patterns on the Tennessee pages.  These last two layouts are heavy on the green and gold for all us Baylor peeps :)

We took a gondola ride up to Ober Gatlinburg, which is a little touristy area up on top of the mountain where they have a bunch of rides and stuff.  Spoiler alert:  when we returned to Gatlinburg this July, Ryan was tall enough to ride the alpine roller coaster (bottom left), and I bought a picture because it was his very first roller coaster ride.  He laughed maniacally the whole time and kept yelling "Let's go faster!"  Speed demon, that kid.

So here is today's Baylor-y color palette:  Pear Pizzazz, Soft Suede, Shaded Spruce, Crushed Curry, Early Espresso, and Very Vanilla.  I had tried to work in some Cajun Craze but it just didn't seem to fit on these two layouts, so I stuck with these colors.

I really enjoyed putting together all these Tennessee layouts (all EIGHT of them), and I'm looking forward to scrapping the pictures from our July trip with the hubs' sister and her family.  Ryan and the hubs saw one bear during this trip, but on the July trip I think we saw at least one bear every day, they were everywhere.  And we got pictures!  From a safe distance.  We kept social distancing in mind even when hanging out with bears.

Sic 'em Bears! :D

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Notable Alphabet, For All Things
Ink:  Shaded Spruce, Crushed Curry, Soft Suede, Early Espresso marker
Paper:  Pear Pizzazz, Shaded Spruce, Soft Suede, Thick Very Vanilla, Color Me Autumn 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

Tennessee, Part 3: Let's Go Exploring

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Let's keep trucking right along with the Tennessee layouts, shall we?

I don't think I've used Cajun Craze as a page base very often, but I'm really loving it on here.  And since I had fewer pictures that I wanted to use on this particular layout, I left a good amount of empty space to show off that deep orange :)  Also it felt like I cut out a zillion leaves in the course of doing the Tennessee layouts (and there were a lot of layouts).  This is another one with fewer photographs, so I got to use another sketch that I really like and have never been able to use before.

I think this is pretty much the same colors as part 2, but rearranged:  Cajun Craze, Mossy Meadow, Soft Suede, Crushed Curry, Early Espresso, and Very Vanilla.

Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Notable Alphabet, Calendar Alphabet & Numbers, For All Things
Ink:  Mossy Meadow, Crushed Curry, Early Espresso marker
Paper:  Cajun Craze, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Thick Very Vanilla, Color Me Autumn DSP
Accessories:  None

Tennessee, Part 2: Relaxing at the Cabin

Scrappy Monday, folks!  I'm back with some more fun fall pages from Tennessee.

I showed Missy pictures of all the Tennessee layouts when I finished them a few months ago and she laughed about my comment in the journaling about how this is the very first Missy vacation where we spent a lot of time just relaxing.  She tends to plan for go-go-go on vacations (see:  China), but this was our first one where we had to take our boys into account, and I think that's what made the difference.

Once again, I used the Color Me Autumn DSP and it dictated most of the colors.  It coordinates with the first layout but it's not a carbon copy.  So today's color palette is Crushed Curry, Mossy Meadow, Cajun Craze, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, and Very Vanilla.

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Notable Alphabet, Calendar Alphabet & Numbers, For All Things
Ink:  Old Olive, Soft Suede, Cajun Craze, Early Espresso Marker
Paper:  Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, Mossy Meadow, Thick Very Vanilla, Color Me Autumn DSP
Accessories:  None

Tennessee, Part 1: Mountain Getaway

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  As I type this, I am dreaming of cooler temperatures and fall foliage, so today I'm starting a series of scrapbook layouts from our Thanksgiving 2018 trip to Tennessee with Missy and Bennet.

So here is layout #1!  I decided to use the Color Me Autumn DSP on all the Tennessee layouts, with the Notable Alphabet for page titles and For All Things for accents (with an exception that you'll see later).  But just because I used the same pack of patterned paper doesn't mean I used the same colors on every layout, but I do admit there's a lot of green and yellow going on.  As if we could escape it with four Baylor Bears in one little cabin.  We rented a cabin just outside of Gatlinburg for the week of Thanksgiving.

Today's color palette:  Garden Green, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, Blackberry Bliss, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, and Very Vanilla.  Garden Green is NOT one of the colors in the Color Me Autumn DSP, but ti seemed to play well with it anyway and there are two different greens in the patterned paper I used (Mossy Meadow and Old Olive).

Have a great day, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Notable Alphabet, For All Things
Ink:  Blackberry Bliss, Old Olive, Soft Suede, Early Espresso marker
Paper:  Garden Green, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, Thick Very Vanilla, Color Me Autumn DSP
Accessories:  None

Sadie & Vader 2013

Mornin' y'all.  I'm dragging a bit this morning because Ryan got us up twice last night crying that there were bugs in his room.  The first time he just had a bad dream, but the second time there really was a bug on the wall (ick).  Of course Ryan is all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed today :p

The hubs and I took Ryan for a walk last night with his newly repaired Power Wheels truck and we met a doggo while we were out.  I miss our furbabies so much.  I'm sad that we're not going to be able to get any other dogs until after we're done in Germany.  In the meantime, I do still have a few layouts' worth of pictures to do for our much-loved Sadie and Vader, but I did do a lot before they both died.

Pretty simple layout.  I try to keep our pictures organized chronologically on the computer, but for any given year I usually have a folder of just random pictures of the dogs, so that's what these were.  I wrote the dates for each one.  The one on top left was after we brushed Sadie and there was hair everywhere.  The hubs vacuumed recently and commented that there wasn't any dog hair in the vacuum when he finished; he said, "It used to drive me crazy how we'd have tufts of dog hair flying around all the time, but now I miss it."  Yeah, me too.  Top right is both my kiddos under my craft table where they liked to hang out.  Or right behind my chair, like Sadie in the second photo down.  They always kept me company.

Since the main color in the photos was the carpet, I chose a color combination based on that (the advantage of having black dogs:  black goes with everything.  Except navy blue.)  I ended up with Primrose Petals (a bit underused in my house, I should break it out more often), Crushed Curry, Lost Lagoon (pretty much the carpet color), Basic Black and Whisper White.

We did a lot of work this weekend to get ready for the upcoming move, and since we sold the computer desk yesterday it really looks different in here.  Plus there's boxes all over the dining room.  The movers come two weeks from today and we still have a fair amount of stuff to do, but we're working on it.  Haven't had much time to stamp though.  Gotta get to work!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Notable Alphabet, paw print from PSX
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Primrose Petals, Lost Lagoon, Basic Black, Whisper White, Festive Birthday DSP
Accessories:  Starburst Framelits, Circles Framelits, Large Letters Framelits

Hawaii Botanical Garden

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Today I have another Hawaii layout to share.  It's brightening up a dreary Monday morning here.

This layout goes right after The North Shore; after we left the sea turtles, we found a botanical garden and decided to stop.  See the original pictures here.  When the Tropical Oasis DSP was released, I knew I'd have to use it for my Hawaii pages!

Today's color palette is the  nice and warm Daffodil Delight, Mango Melody, Real Red, and Old Olive.

Have a good week, peeps.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Timeless Tropical, Notable Alphabet, Sweet Shoppe Alphabet Lower
Ink:  Mango Melody, Memento Tuxedo Black, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Daffodil Delight, Mango Melody, Tropical Oasis DSP
Accessories:  None

Santa's Elves

Wow, I can't believe it's December already!  And that means it's time to bust out the Christmas scrapbook pages :D  I have quite a few draft posts all ready to go.

I put headbands on Sadie and Vader and hubs says this is why dogs bite people.  Ah, I miss my little Vader man so much.  I miss Sadie right now too, but that's because she's been in a kennel since last Tuesday when we left for a Thanksgiving trip to Alabama, and I'll be picking her up today (we got home on Saturday night, but this kennel doesn't do pickups/dropoffs on Sundays so we had to wait).  Anywha, I used last year's supercute Signs of Santa stamp set and the coordinating Santa's Workshop DSP for this.  Poppy Parade is the page base but you can only see it along the top border and around the journaling.

Today's color palette includes the aforementioned Poppy Parade along with Garden Green, Pool Party, Pistachio Pudding that I forgot to put in the palette, and Whisper White.  The photo mats are alternating Pool Party and Pistachio Pudding.

Hope your December is off to a great start!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Notable Alphabet, Signs of Santa
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Poppy Parade, Garden Green, Basic Black marker,  Crushed Curry marker Stampin' Blends in Poppy Parade, Pool Party, Petal Pink
Paper:  Poppy Parade, Garden Green, Pistachio Pudding, Pool Party, Thick Whisper White, Santa's Workshop DSP
Accessories:  Santa's Signpost Framelits

Fall Leaves

Scrappy Monday, folks!  Okay wow, I need to take some pictures of more layouts I've completed.  I have *lots* of layouts to share, but I'm holding off on showing Ryan's baby book for a while yet (trying to get it finished) and I have a lot of winter and Christmas pages.

Well, we got our first taste of cooler weather this weekend--like, I was ready to throw a party because the high temperature was under 80.  Bring on the fall weather!  I even made pumpkin apple muffins for breakfast yesterday.  So with that in mind, how about a nice autumnal layout...

That's our little Sadie girl playing in a big ol' pile of leaves the first time we lived in North Carolina, I think these pics were from 2006.  She's now 13 years old, has lots of gray hair, and spends most of her time sleeping and I still love her to itty bitty hairy pieces.

Today's color palette is straight from the Autumn Traditions DSP, which may have been the *only* DSP to feature Elegant Eggplant (other than the ones where it was every color in the family).  So it's Soft Suede, Ruby Red, More Mustard, Elegant Eggplant, Always Artichoke, and Whisper White.  All of those colors are now retired except for Soft Suede and Whisper White.

I'm hoping the weather stays cool for a while.  We went out for a walk last night and I didn't feel like I was melting into a puddle the whole time!  The mosquitoes were still out, but I guess you can't have everything.  Cheers!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Notable Alphabet, Falling Leaves
Ink:  Soft Suede, Elegant Eggplant, More Mustard, Always Artichoke, Ruby Red, Early Espresso Marker
Paper:  Soft Suede textured, Elegant Eggplant, More Mustard, Ruby Red, Whisper White, Autumn Traditions DSP
Accessories:  lettering template

Tea Time

We're just going with the tea theme this week.  I didn't make a card yesterday (but I did finish a scrapbook layout that I LOVE) so how about another tea-related layout?

These are pics of some of the teapots and teacups I bought while I lived in England.  (I have pictures of even more stuff I bought right before we moved back to the States!). There's one thing I'm particularly proud of on this layout--if you click to embiggen, look at the darker pink stripes between the patterns.  Those are from a third piece of patterned paper; I cut out the stripes and carefully glued them down to make borders between the two larger busy patterns.  Quite pleased with how that turned out.

I used the Notable Alphabet for my title and then stamped a few teacup embellishments just in case the theme wasn't obvious enough.

Today's color palette includes Flirty Flamingo (always surprised when I can use this color successfully, I don't dislike it but I have trouble using it in ways that I like), Peekaboo Peach, Cucumber Crush (one of my favorite greens ever), Watermelon Wonder, Early Espresso (it's not black, I promise) and Whisper White.

Now I've got a cuppa English Breakfast steeping, so I'm going to get something to eat and enjoy my cup of tea.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Notable Alphabet, Morning Cup
Ink:  Watermelon Wonder, Flirty Flamingo, Early Espresso
Paper:  Flirty Flamingo, Cucumber Crush, Fruit Stand DSP
Accessories:  Layers Collection Framelits

Orchid Festival 2010, Part 1

Happy Wednesday, y'all!  Actually it's SCRAPPY Wednesday :)  I have over 50 draft blog posts, almost all of them with scrapbook pages waiting to be shared, so I may post layouts more often than just once a week.  I love card making but scrapbooking is really my jam, ya know?

When we lived in Okinawa (when it comes to islands, I never know if I should say we lived IN the island, or ON the island, thoughts?), they had festivals for pretty much everything.  We went to the cherry blossom festival for two years, I went to the orchid festival twice, but we skipped the azalea festival and the lily festival (I'm okay with missing the lily festival though, I'm allergic to them).  Somehow I never blogged the pictures from the second orchid festival, which I went to with Missy, but you can see the first year's pictures here, here, and here.

 I pulled out the long-retired Notable Alphabet for my title, and the Barely Banana mat on the left has some subtle butterflies stamped on it courtesy of Butterfly of Happiness (also long retired).  The butterflies are a little *too* subtle, but done is better than perfect I think...especially since I'm so far behind on my scrapbook pages.  Anyway, I often go in streaks with certain colors where I want to use them on everything, and it's fine even on scrapbook pages because I don't work chronologically.  YOU probably don't see it since I don't share my layouts in the order I made them, but I've recently been on a kick with Poppy Parade (which is coming back!  Oh happy day!) and Barely Banana (more than once I've used them together).  Anyway, I love color and I'm very excited about all the new colors that are coming with the SU! color refresh.  In my perfect (very colorful) little world, Stampin' Up! colors would *never* retire, we'd just keep getting more :D

Enough about colors, let's talk about scrapbook sketches.  I subscribed to Creating Keepsakes magazine for YEARS and I collected literally hundreds of sketches in my own sketch binder.  This was back in the day when Becky Higgins was the It Girl for scrapbooking (and well before Project Life, which is not my thang).  I still use BH sketches all the time and I have this book, which I peruse frequently.

I like that it's organized by number of photos, and there's a sample layout for each sketch.  If you go back and look at my scrapbook pages, you'll see that most of the time I crop my photos as little as possible.  Unless they're really old pictures before I kinda learned what I was doing when it comes to taking good pictures.  Well, I had printed out I think 35 pictures from this festival, and by golly I wanted to use all of them, so I had to crop.  Now I have three layouts done and I didn't even pass out when I cut up the pictures.

Here's the sketch that I used for this layout.  Most of the time I don't use this many pictures on a single layout (12 here), so this was fun for me and I thought you'd like to see how I got from a big stack of photos to finished pages.  I'll share the other two layouts sometime soon.

 

And now we're back to colors for a minute with today's color palette: Pink Pirouette (retiring), Sweet Sugarplum (retiring), Rich Razzleberry, Barely Banana (long retired), and Wild Wasabi (retiring).  I love the soft pink as a background for all the flower photos, I just thought it worked so well here.  If you're curious, you can see my scrapbook pages for the 2009 orchid festival here and here.

If you actually made it this far, and read the whole thing, I salute you!  Thanks for "listening" to me yammer.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Notable Alphabet, Butterfly of Happiness
Ink;  Pink Pirouette, Barely Banana, Sweet Sugarplum, Rich Razzleberry marker
Paper:  Pink Pirouette, Barely Banana, Rich Razzleberry, Wild Wasabi
Accessories:  None

Scrappy Showcase, Part 1

ETA:  this was supposed to show up on Saturday morning but it looks like it's already published.  So happy early new year?

Last day of the year, y'all!  And thus begins my 2016 scrappy showcase.  Since I usually only post one scrapbook layout per week, sometimes it takes quite a while between when I make one and when I post it so I didn't necessarily make all of these this year.  BUT I did complete 142 pages, so hooray for me!  My goal was 100, so I passed it by a bit :)  Anyway, let's get going!

First up is this layout from the last castle we visited in Wales; I love the dark orange colors contrasted with the green and blues.

Next is my scrappy ode to Disney's greatest villain, all pics taken at Disneyland Paris.  Again I love the colors with the photos plus it's Maleficent, can't go wrong there.

Next up is this snowy layout from England; I got the color combination of Island Indigo, Baja Breeze, and Rich Razzleberry from the old Color Coach.  I never would have put those three colors together on my own but I love the combination so much that I've used it several times on baby books too.

And the final layout for today is this New Years layout, appropriate no?  No Rock Band parties for us this year though, we'll be staying in tonight.

More scrappy goodness coming up in the next few days.  Hope you have a wonderful New Year's Eve and stay safe, y'all!

Snowed In

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I know it's March and here I am sharing a scrapbook layout all about snow, but we actually got a couple inches of snow just last Friday.  Of course it all melted on the same day but I guess I have snow on the brain, so check this out:

This is from the first time we got a heavy snow in England; pictures here.

Hey look, I did a close-up so if you want to read the journaling you don't have to squint :)  I decided to go big and bold for the snowflakes on this layout...it turns out I've got like 20 sheets of that snowflake print which isn't a bad thing because I love it.  I looked through all my snowflake stamps and liked Festive Flurry the best with the snowflakes on the paper, and then for one more snowflake element I cut out a snowflake shape with my Framelits and then put a cropped picture of my little Sadie Belle inside it.

My color palette for today:  Island Indigo, Baja Breeze, Rich Razzleberry, and Whisper White.  Once again I must thank my Color Coach and lament its retirement; I would have never put Island Indigo and Baja Breeze together on my own, but when you add some Rich Razzleberry it's one of my favorite color combinations for snowy layouts.  I've even used it in a couple of baby books.

That's it for me today, kids.  I'm off to the gym.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Festive Flurry, Notable Alphabet
Ink:  Island Indigo, Baja Breeze, Rich Razzleberry
Paper:  Island Indigo, Baja Breeze, Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White, Ski Slope DSP
Accessories:  Festive Flurry & Circles Framelits

Albert Docks

Scrappy Monday once again!  Today's scrapbook layout goes along with last week's Liverpool one:  Liverpool's Albert Docks.

See the original pics here.  If you go to Liverpool, you will definitely be spending time in Albert Docks, and that's where our hotel was:  I could see the entrance to the Beatles Story Exhibition from our hotel window.  Oh, and that pic on the bottom of the right page?  It's the Fab Four rendered in Jelly Bellies.  Which begs the question how many "defective" Jelly Bellies were eaten in the course of the creation of that piece.

My colors are similar to last week's:

Only I used Taken with Teal for my page base rather than Tempting Turquoise. I still used a houndstooth pattern though, love that.

Well, I've got my cuppa English Breakfast tea and a couple of muffins, so I'm all set to get my day started.  Hope you have a great one too.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, mostly SU!
Stamps:  Notable Alphabet
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Taken with Teal, Riding Hood Red, Urban Oasis DSP
Accessories:  Beatles stickers