Maine: Last Page

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  And today I have the very LAST page from my Maine album (that I still need to put together).  Check it out!

These three pictures are ones I loved but didn't fit with any of the other layouts, so they're on the last page.  The pic on the left is the artwork that was in the bedroom the hubs and I shared at the Air BnB, isn't that the weirdest thing ever???  And I love that pic of Ryan in his footie jams with Peking right next to him.  I miss the footie jam days sometimes, they were so cute.

Today's color palette:  Cajun Craze, Bumblebee (and years later I'm still wondering why this color is a single word name when Bumbling Bee is RIGHT THERE, or Busy Bumblebee!), Mossy Meadow, Cinnamon Cider, and white.

I keep saying I'm going to do my wedding album...well, I pulled out all the pictures, but the boxes are just sitting on the floor in my craft room.  I started to look through them last Friday but one of the first ones I pulled out was of my friends Beth and Neelu, both of whom are now gone because of cancer; they were both bridesmaids in my wedding.  So making this might be a little difficult but I really do want to get it done.  Wish me luck getting started this week!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Pines
Ink:  Mossy Meadow, Early Espresso Marker
Paper:  Cajun Craze, Bumblebee, Cinnamon Cider, Thick Basic White, Beauty of the Earth DSP
Accessories:  None

Bear With Me

Hey y'all, happy Friday!  And it is a happy Friday, I got up and did a nice relaxation yoga routine this morning and here in a bit I'll be going to the Y to do a yoga class there too.  Time to get my stretch on : )  And this afternoon, Ryan and I will have our monthly ice cream date because as of today, we've conquered five months of the hubs' deployment.  Almost halfway there...

Anyway, apparently this is my week for rustic bear cards because I made another one.  Here it is:

It's a bit of a liberal take on this Try Stampin' on Tuesday sketch:

The trees (which are both one big stamp) are standing in for the two vertical strips, and the bear is the third panel.  I did have to add some ground for him to walk on because he looked weird just hovering there.  And I'm playing along in the new Retro Rubber challenge:

I went down the right side with trees, embossing (the bear is heat embossed with black EP, so he stands out a bit from the rest of the card), and your choice, and I chose BEAR.  'Cause I love bears.  The stamp set Pines (trees and bear) is at least two years old; I bought it used off of eBay when I was making my Maine scrapbook pages.  Wildlife Wonder (the ground) is coming up on two years old as well, but the sentiment stamp from Feathered Friends is brand new.  Had to get it when it showed up in the online exclusives because it's got a bunch of ducks and those are Ryan's favorite.

Okay I've gotta get moving if I want to make my yoga class on time.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Pines, Wildlife Wonder, Feathered Flight
Ink:  Shaded Spruce, Crumb Cake, Versamark
Paper:  Crumb Cake
Accessories:  Black EP, Dimensionals, linen thread

Bar Harbor, Maine

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  And if you're in the US, I hope you're enjoying the extra day off.  Ryan and I invited my brother and his family to come over this afternoon, so we're going to take the kiddos swimming at the neighborhood pool and have dinner here at the house.  Ryan always loves hanging out with his cousins!

Once September first hits every year, I am READY for fall!  I always make a pumpkin coffee cake the first weekend in September and I look forward to cooling temperatures and all things fall.  Sweaters.  Tea.  Pumpkin everything.  With that in mind, I'm starting a new Scrappy Monday series today, it's all about our October 2019 trip to Bar Harbor, Maine, with our friends Bennet and Missy.  Over the course of a week, we took well over a thousand pictures and I printed off hundreds of them and in the end, I had enough pages to make this a whole separate scrapbook album.  Let's dive into some fall colors, shall we?

So here's the title page for the album; I used the Make a Difference alphabet throughout the book.  I bought myself a sweatshirt with a moose on it while we were there, so when it came time to scrapbook the pictures, I scoured eBay to find a couple of retired sets with moose images.  And then you know what I did?  I FORGOT TO USE THEM ON THE SCRAPBOOK PAGES!!!!  Okay yes, there's a moose (and a bear) on this page, but it is the very last Maine page I made!  D'oh!  Sometimes I just have to laugh at myself.  Anyway, the three pictures I used on this page (sorry for the glare) were extras from elsewhere in the album.  We had so MANY pictures that I loved!

Today's color palette is the epitome of autumn:  Cajun Craze, Bumblebee, Merry Merlot (I didn't use this color a lot, but now that it's gone I'm sad, I think it had a lot of potential and it just wasn't featured in enough DSP to really take off), Early Espresso, and white.

Have a great day, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Make a Difference, Pines
Ink:  Cajun Craze, Early Espresso
Paper:  Cajun Craze, Bumblebee, Merry Merlot, Thick Basic White, Beauty of the Earth DSP
Accessories:  None

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