Dragon's Tail coaster

The second page I accomplished this weekend.

I've decided to do the entire cruise album in blues, greens & browns. I went through many of my supplies and pulled stuff into a bin and hid everything else. I'm thinking it will speed up the process for me as I won't have as many decisions to make as to what supplies/colors to use. It should also give the album a uniform look. We'll see if it works..........

This layout is based on sketch #93 at Creative Scrappers. My DH and kids rode on a coaster at the cruise's private beach. Unfortunately, it was impossible to get any good photos.

I'm back......finally a new page done!!

You know how sometimes life throws you a little more than you can handle at once??? Well, something had to give for me, and unfortunately it was my crafting time. I haven't been in my scraproom for over 5 months!!! I have SO been missing it!

This weekend I was able to make some time for scrapping and it felt SO good. Here's my first page, based on Sketch #54 at the Scrappiest.

In addition to all of the usual, everyday stuff to keep us busy, our family went on an AMAZING cruise to Caribbean/Central America in January. I have decided to push aside all of the other photos that need scrapping and concentrate on getting the trip documented. These are couple of misc. photos from our stop in Costa Rica:

Fun @ the farm

Some old photos of DS at my parents farm. Two weeks later a tornado hit the farm destroying everything except their home. That's the reason for the trees in the layout - there aren't any there anymore. I used a challenge from al a carte to come up with this one. They asked you to choose 3 items from the following menu ( I chose #1, 2 & 4):
Menu:
1. Use an ampersand, dollar sign, or other symbol in your title.
2. Use three shades of green.
3. Use a silver, gold, or brass embellishment.
4. Use a tree.
5. Use stamping as your background.
6. Use book print or an actual page from a book.

Nurture your Mind

Oldest DS's first day of school a couple of weeks ago. He's in gr. 7 and it's scary how time has flown! I did this page for this week's challenge at Scrapping Out Loud where they asked you to use a quote for your title, and in addition to your quote to use only one part of speech in your journaling. Your journaling needs to be all nouns, all adjectives, all verbs, all interjections, all adverbs, all prepositions, or all pronouns. Now that is a challenge!

While looking through my journalling spots, I saw this and thought it would be great for a back to school page and lo and behold, I've had this Colorbok page kit for awhile and it matched perfectly. Too bad the colors look even more muted in this post than in real life.

I also used this week's sketch at Creative Scrappers, I just replaced the circle with a star and flipped the title & the journalling around.

S-T-R-E-T-C-H

DD during gymnastics class. It didn't take us long to realize this wasn't the sport for her. She loved the social aspect of it, but she's not a gymnast!! I used a sketch from Let's Scrap for this one and a bunch of really old supplies.

Free stamps again

Ally is doing it again this month - offering a free set of myStampBox clear stamps - check out her blog, Your Memories, for all the details here.

Hollywood Studios

A double pager of various photos from Hollywood Studios. I used a sketch from Let's Scrap and the current combo from Color Combos Galore. I got 13 photos on here and a ton of journalling!

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