The good news is, I actually should have another card to post tomorrow or Tuesday!

This is a page I made of Jack and Benny just this weekend! Ahhh, they’re sooo cute! The paper is retired CTMH, plus Desert Sand cardstock. All the accessories are non-CTMH stuff.

This was actually a banner craft weekend for me. I made a lightbox of sorts to make my card pictures turn out soo much nicer. No more glare or weird shadows! Plus I made a fleece tie blanket – it’s almost football season and I found some Seahawk fleece at Wal-Mart that I loved!

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And it’s true, shopping really does wear you out! After we all spent way more money at the Pearl Factor than we had intended, we walked over to the Tree House Cafe and had some fruit smoothies! They were yummy!

This layout is just a really simple layout. I decided to keep it for the most part simple with this book.

When I was in Hawai’i my goal was to find something scrapbook related that you could only get in Hawai’i! Well – it was harder than I thought it would be. Wherever I saw scrapbooking stuff, most of it was stuff you could get back on the Mainland! BUT, I did find these buttons that were made out of coconuts! They are so pretty – I took a close up picture of them!

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Anyway, this page is of the first/second day that I was on the Island. I spent the first night there by myself as Melissa and Terri weren’t coming in until late the next day! I pretty much just hung out, found the Wal-Mart, found a Scrapbook Store (!!!) and headed the 1 block down to the Beach and got some great shots! My favorite part of this layout is the line of pictures on down the right side of the page! I really love how it turned out!

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To be honest, I haven’t done any new crafting in that time. It’s disgraceful, I know. Part of my problem is my craft space is a PIG STY. I’m slowly working on gaining control in this room, but it’s clearly a huge undertaking.

I have an all-day crop I’m going to on Saturday with a bunch of my scrapping girls; Donna, Nicole, Darla, Amanda, Jill, Deb, Sandy, Sonia, and Mom! It’s going to be so much fun! We’re going to be spending the day at one of my favorite scrapbooking stores – Treasury of Memories! I had pictures printed last weekend for 2 mini-albums I’m going to be doing. I know what papers I’m going to use for one, and I just have to pack everything up and I’ll be good to go!!

This is a scrapbook page that I did at the June Retreat I went to. I had a ton of pictures from the sunset on the beach. I just kept clicking so it was in all stages. I didn’t really know of a good way to scrap this – and came up with this. This was a pre-printed CTMH base page, but I changed it up. The basic design is the same though.

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Supplies: CTMH Chocolate Base Page, Bazzill Cardstock, CTMH Grosgrain white ribbon, CTMH Circle Window Charms

Mostly I’m posting this because this is my first attempt at playing in Photoshop Elements. I scanned this image, and then merged them in PE. It’s not anywhere near perfect, but for my first time, it’s not bad at all.

I actually do like the way this page turned out though. If you flip the picture that’s on hinges, there is another picture, plus some hidden journaling. And I cut a slit in the page to act as a pocket for my brochures to the Animal Kingdom. This page is created on a CTMH Base Page (cranberry). I did my entire Disney Album from the Base Pages – so quick and easy. I put an 18 page scrapbook together in 1 1/2 days – and I actually like how all the pages turned out as well. It was the first scrapbook I actually COMPLETED for myself.

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Anyway, I’m going to try and concentrate on scrapbooking for a bit. I have a ton to do – I still have the last 12 days or so of my Europe trip from 2000 to go. As I was flipping through my done pages, I found this page – it’s one of my favorite pages from this book so far.

In Barcelona we went to a park where an artist had done a TON of mosaic. I replicated that on my page by created a mosaic with silver embossing powder and scraps of paper. I love how it turns out.

I used the CTMH Vintage travel Papers (LOVE this paper), Pewter eyelets, and chocolate grosgrain ribbon.

Enjoy!

The papers are from More to Adore, and I used misc embellishments!

Enjoy!

1 – Canvas
2 – The major use of the color Orange
3 – Rub Ons

I’ve never done a piece of canvas before. I started by picking my picture. This particular picture was taken over 4 years ago – but it’s long been a favorite of mine – it’s me (in the middle), my best friend Melissa, and our friend LeRoy. It’s a great picture of all of us and shows what a great time we were having that particular weekend.

I painted the canvas with MM acrylic paint (orange) mixed with Pearl glaze. Then the green flourishes are actually one huge rub on.

I added the circles as mats for the photo. The word friends is made with my Cricut – cut from vinyl! I’ve had vinyl for my Cricut for a couple of months, but haven’t found a reason to use it – until now.

I’m really pleased with how this turned out and will definitely be working with canvas again soon.

Back in May 2000 I went to Europe with my parents and a friend. I’ve spent the last 4 Retreats I’ve been to scrapbooking this trip. I’m on Day 5 of a 17 day trip, and have a total of 21 pages down. Sheesh! I’m going to have a HUGE book!

This was Day 2 or 3. We were leaving on a cruise from Barcelona. The day before we walked all over Barcelona, and ended up at the Beach. We were so excited to get to the Beach, but were quickly disappointed. The beach was just filled with trash everywhere (litter), and it was a nude beach as well! Let’s just say there should definitely be rules about who should be allowed to go nude and who shouldn’t be (think little old women AND men!!!!).

Anyway, at the Retreat they had a Block Bucket (I think that’s what they called it – correct me if I’m wrong you guys)! It was a great idea really. Inside a bucket were dozens of different challenges if you couldn’t decide what you wanted to do on a page. I pulled one out for this page and the Challenge was to mat a photo on a photo. I’m not sure that this is exactly what they meant by that, but this is how I went about it!

Recipe:

Papers: CTMH – Metropolitan Level 1 Kit (retired), Vintage Travel Papers, Vintage Travel Stickease
Accessories: CTMH – Brads, Photo Hangers, Ribbon, Hemp