LIVE LAUGH LOVE

Hello Blogland!  It's been a while since I've posted.  I hope everyone is doing well.  My family and I are doing well.  My middle child crushed her heel Memorial Day weekend and had surgery in June so I was a little pre-occupied with her and her two little ones for a couple of months.  She's able to put some pressure on her foot now with her crutches and we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. 

I am at one of my favorite places this weekend.....Waynesville, NC.  I am swarming with my friends and a new found friend Carolyn aka MamaC!  I've been stalking her for a while and finally convinced her to come and spend the weekend.  She has taught us so much stuff this morning that I couldn't wait to try my hand at the rossettes that she showed us using Tim Holtz dies.  They are absolutely awesome!  I will have to find the dies and order them for myself.

My layout below is a layout that I had pinned a few days ago and when I pulled it up to scraplift it I realized it was from one of my favorite places...."Out On A Limb".  If you haven't visited the site, you must go there.  They have some fabulous layout kits and fabulous prices too.

I used a Martha Stewart paper pad I had gotten on sale at Walmart for $4 along with some CTMH cardstock.  My sentiment is from Home Accents cut at 7.32 inches and the branches are from Zoobaloo cut at 5.50 inches.

Cruisin

This is one of the layouts I purchased from Monique Griffith when she had her close out sale. I love her designs and hope she will be back to designing again soon.

Her layouts are very detailed and usually have a lot of cuts but they are so worth the time and effort in the end.

I love the paper used in this layout. It was a lot of fun to put together.

CROP TIL YOU DROP

I spent another wonderful weekend at our swarm in Western North Carolina.  Not everyone was here this weekend, but I found this layout on Out On a Limb Scrapbooking and used it as my inspiration to scrap some photos from last year. 

We are so fortunate to have a sponsor that provides us her vacation home at a reasonable price so that we can get together and share our hobby with one another! 

I am fortunate to have met these wonderful ladies through this avenue and I consider all of them close friends.  We have lost a couple of folks in the group becuase they have moved away but we have made new friends in the past year that will last a lifetime.

Thank you Brenda for finding us this wonderful home to share and Laura we miss you and thank you for starting this swarm a couple of years ago that brought us all together.

I used Dotty For You paper from CTMH and made the Title and Shadow using SCAL2.  The flowers and flourishes are from Art Philosophy and the paper buttons are from a Martha Stewart Punch.

One of a Kind



I am at a scrapbook retreat in North Carilina this weekend and I came extremely un-prepared.  I found this layout online and scrpalifted it (as usual for me).  I used paper from K & Co called Citronella and some solid glitter papers I had from DCWV called The Mango Frost. 

This layout is of my oldest Granddaughter, Claudia.  She has grown into a beautiful young woman and I am so proud of the you lady she has become.  She is truly one of a kind!

I LOVE U TONS

This layout was a lot of fun.  I used a lot of scrap papers that I had in my bag and found a layout that I liked at Out on a Limb Scrapbook.

The lighting of these photos is not the best.....sorry.  I used part of the title "I Heart U" and the elephants from Birthday Bash.  And I used Sure Cuts A Lot to cut out "TONS".  I also cut the flourishes from Art Philosophy.

I am crazy about the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge.  This is the most versitile Cricut cartridge I have.  It has everything on it.  The $99 price tag seems excessive, but this cartridge is worth every penny.

LIFE'S A BEACH LAYOUT

I made this beach layout using CTMH Footloose paper. I found the inspiration for my layout online and changed it just a little bit. The only problem is that I was unable to cut out my title for the layout because my gypsy (just updated) was not compatible with either of the 2 expressions at this retreat I am at this weekend so I will have to wait until I get home to cut out my title. It will say Life's a Beach on it.

UPDATE:  I was able to find a title for my layout and used Sure Cuts A Lot to modify the design to fit my layout.  The title had a sun on the left side of it and I didn't need a sun so after I put all the other layers on I cut off what I didn't need.  It's a little bit catty wampus, but I'm happy with the overall outcome.

I used Doodlecharms, for the Sun.  Create A Critter for the Palm Trees and Clouds and I used Life's a Beach for the pail and Sandcastle. .

I really love this paper.  I will definitely be ordering more of it.

The photo at the bottom of the post is the layout I used for inspiration.

CTMH Layout

I went to a scrapbook retreat recently and took my CTMH goodies. I used the Florentein pack along with a Scrapbook Generations layout to make the pages below.

We recently went to San Antonio, TX to visit my husbands brother, sister and nephew. We had an absolutely wonderful time. We stayed with my husbands nephew and his wife and it was like being at a spa.

We all went to dinner one night and had a waiter take photos for us which I have used in the layout below.

I used only CTMH papers and embellishments. I love the charm and the medals that came with the florentine paper. I also used Art Philosophy and a stamp to embellish the layout. I'm not a great stamper but I was pleased with the result of my first try. I'm very pleased with how it turned out and hope you are too.