adventure in the great outdoors

i think this is the final layout for san francisco---woo hoo! This is us hiking in the redwood forest. The trees were HUGE! The biggest I've ever seen in my life. The paper is My Minds Eye that I picked up at Scrapfest. The bottom vine was made using a stencil, tacky glue, and brown glitter and green turf grass. The top is an assortment of ribbons, vines, leaves, etc... yes, i will journal---soon.

Oh so lucky to be loved by you

And oh so lucky to be finished with my San Francisco/Napa scrapbook. WOOO-HOOO! It only took me two years. Anyways, this layout is of Paul and I in Sausalito. This was the beginning of our trip. We had just landed and gotten our rental car (a mustang convertible) and was driving out to the valley. Just after crossing the Golden Gate Bridge we came into the little town of Sausilito. It looked so charming we just had to stop and check it out. We ended up having lunch at a place right on the bay overlooking the water. Wouldn't it be nice to live there?

LHS Dance Team Banquet

My middle daughter, Alyssa, lives and breathes dance! Therefore, most of the layouts I do of her usually involve dance in some way, shape, or form. Sometimes it gets difficult to come up with yet ANOTHER dance layout. LOL

LHS Dance Camp 09

LHS dance team dance camp was held back in June at UL. This is when the teams find out if they qualify to compete at Nationals. These are pix I took of their home team performance. The layout was pretty quick and easy. The design at the top was made using the Tattered Angels glimmer screens with the Black Gold glimmer mist. Then I just arranged my pictures, placed a black lace ribbon and 2 clusters of 'stuff' (bling, flowers, chipboard) Oh, and they qualified to go to Nationals. Yaahhh!

Wine Tasting

Hey everybody,

hope all is having a great summer. I can't believe how fast it flew by and that the kids are already in school again. Sorry I haven't posted much this summer, but this is usually a chaotic time for me. We just got back from our "back to nature" vacation that my husband decided we would go on-----13 days, 3 national parks, 4,045 miles total round trip. It will be a loooong time before I sleep in a tent in 37 degree weather while listening to the wolves howl again. And I'm not even going to get in to the whole community shower/bathroom thing. One good thing is I took lots of pictures (around 500) so I have lots to srapbook. The countryside was really breathtaking. Buuut....I made a deal with myself that I wouldn't start on this until I finished up my other 3 vacations (Disney, San Francisco, New York). I have been trying to finish these for about 2 years now. I'm excited though 'cause I'm almost finished! Yaaay! I've also been helping my sister-in-law this summer with her daughter's graduation album. But, she's a teacher and being that school just started, I think that party's over. LOL.

Anyways, this is a layout of me and my husband in Napa Valley. We spent the day going to the different wineries and doing the tastings. I used the K & Company Que Sera Sera paper, tags, letters, note cards, frames, die-cuts and embellishments. I loved that line---so colorful and fun. I loved how they had all the "stuff" to go with the paper. After placing the pictures I put several clusters of "stuff" and that was it.

D6 layouts

Connie's Designer Eye 6 was her best yet---in my opinion. Hat's off to you!!!! I absolutely loved this class and have already done 6 of the layouts. I love seeing the differences in everybody's layouts just by changing the papers and pictures and and the addition of personal flare. Here is my 6 layouts that I did from the class.

Wicked

This is a layout I did centered around the broadway musical WICKED that my girls and I went to while in New York. It's a simple layout but I loved doing it. The left side is a freehand drawing that I did using the actual brochure (on the right) that we received at the musical as my guide. I had to draw each section on the 4 different pieces of paper and then layer them on top of each other. The lips and eyes are painted on. I only used one picture----me and my girls outside the gershwin theater---and I used the actual tickets, that way I didn't have to journal.