U R my world

I saw a layout by Stephanie Howell that I really liked on the Studio Calico website.  I decided to use her layout as inspiration.  I like her use of a large photo as well as the cut out flowers and tag for the title.  So I took those same elements and made my page. 

Looks like there was a shadow I didn't notice when I took the picture this afternoon.  I thought I had good sun timing....oh, well.

I had to re-tack my ruffle ribbon at the bottom.  Found that at Hobby Lobby and used the entire strip from the package to go across the page because it matched my daughter's dress so well!  I took just the lace portion and added that as well as a strip of the ribbon package to put some pink under those little hearts in the tag. 

That butterfly paper had me at hello....I think I have one little scrap left of it!  City of Lights kit is getting lots of lovin' right now!!!

Plus, I finished my Disney Cruise album!!!!  Yay!

Oh, happy, scrappy day!

The man in brown arrived this morning when I was getting the dishes done!  Always a great reason to take a break!!!

Here are a few of the goodies I snagged this month at Studio Calico - I was lucky enough to get a few of their misting masks.  Love those things!  Unfortunately, I was not able to grab the add-on kit Lomography that I wanted, so instead I pouted and didn't buy anything the rest of the time!  It's probably a reminder from God that I didn't really need more stuff!!!  Oh, well!

I did get a page done last night.  It wasn't anything too spectacular.  I loved this picture of our daughter from our cruise trip.  In case you're wondering....if you ever go on a Disney cruise, they will give your child an arm band to catch them if they try to escape....if you want to take pictures with professional photographers on board.....put it on their ankle or somewhere a little more inconspicuous.   Thankfully we were able to hide that sucker in this picture, some of our other pictures are almost gorgeous.....she just looks like a recently released convict coming out of prison.....all dressed up like a princess!!!  ;)  LOL

Anyway, to make this darling page, I used my County Fair and Kissing Booth kits from Studio Calico.  I picked up these Basic Grey stickers and used one for the title.  I decided it needed a  little panache, so I made a border using rhinestones.  Since I used them there, I decided they might make a great little blingy border for my banner at the top, too. 

And if you don't mind me saying it, I think that girl of mine is pretty darn amazing.   Sure, she may color on her chore charts with crayons and think she's going to marry her baby brother, but she's a pretty good girl.  (Not that I'm partial, or anything!)  I just hope she stays that way!

Smile

Squee!!!!! I am almost finished with our pictures from our Disney Dream cruise! I have two more big pics I want to scrap and then I'm finished....then it's time to catch up on my Project Life unfinished projects!!!! Yep, that's right.....I've fallen way behind on everything in life. Not sure if it's because I usually only have one available hand to do anything....nursing a growing boy leaves me only about 1/4 of my day to do anything.....OR just the fact that pretty much nothing gets done around here!!! Ah, the life of a newborn in the house....

So here is a quickie post to show you my only precious page that I've finished all week!

I wanted to finish my album (there are about 3 open spots) with a few family pics we got from the professional photographers. In our family, we would rather not waste money on souvenirs that eventually get thrown away, we would rather spend all of that money on photos, so on the Disney cruise you can purchase a CD of all of the photos you take for your entire trip. Now, just so you know, it is a hefty price at first glance. What we have found out, though, is that the cost of this CD is pretty much the going rate for a CD only from professional photographers, so I am okay with this. We ended up with close to 100 photos on our CD!

The gorgeous papers, stickers, and washi tape for this page are all from my Studio Calico kits from last month. I ended up getting City of Lights as well as two add-ons - Louvre and Montmarte. Unfortunately, I was not so lucky this month. My add-on that I wanted sold out in about a minute or less both times I tried to purchase it! Oh, well....

I love how the teal washi tape is see through! I'm looking forward to taking a Washi Workshop online next month. I have fallen in love with this stuff, but I'm not always brave enough to use it. Here I ended up clipping the edges or hiding them under my other pieces in the layout to keep the look nice and clean rather than having those torn tape edges on this crisp, clean edges of my layout.

By the way, in case you didn't take the class, this layout came from the final sketch in Kelly Purkey's Sketchbook 4 class.

Happy to Love You

I had a few 4X6 pics of just the two of us from our cruise.  Pictures of just the two of us are pretty rare - especially now that we have kiddos!  I was about 4 months preggo here, so I didn't really think a single one of my pictures looked good (I especially can't handle pics of myself now, one month after the baby!).  Anyway, my hubby hated this picture of us in our complimentary pirate bandanas.  So, it's a little cheesy and posed...it's not the end of the world!  Needless to say, when I showed him the scrapbook page...he grimaced and proceeded to remind me how much he hates this picture.  So....therefore.....he hates the page!  Ugh....oh well, if I went by that reasoning, I would never put a single picture of myself in our scrapbooks, because I pretty much hate every picture of me....they're just reminders of how much I need to stick to my Weight Watchers plan!

Enough rambling, though......I used the latest Studio Calico kit, City of Lights (and the add-ons!).  I adored this grey woodgrain paper - it is a hot style right now - and I love the other side at the top with the doilies on it.  I decided to add some doilies as an accent at the bottom to go with that. 

I saw this saying I could go pretty much anywhere with you and be happy. on Pinterest and printed it out on my computer.  I punched it out with a 2  1/2" circle and sponged with Regal Rose and Basic Grey. 

For the title tag I used a sticker from the MME sticker sheet and the tag from the kit.  I stuck some regal rose cardstock behind it and spritzed the corners with Blushing Bride smooch spritz.  I just added a few letter stickers to finish it off. 

The Story

I saw this sketch on the Sketchbook 4 class and thought to myself there was no way I would make a layout with the sketch.  Then I printed out the sheets and got to looking at my pictures and had an idea.  I got to thinking about how silly Captain Hook was on our Disney cruise - he took a book right out of my husband's hands and threw it on the floor.  Shortly after, Peter Pan came through to save the day and chase Hook away.  It was really delightful - and I didn't even get to see it!

I decided to use the Daydream Believer kit and some pinwheels out of the scraps to make this page - quick, easy and super cute!!!!

Oh, so lovely

I found another sketch in the Sketchbook 4 class that I liked.  I liked the 3 column look of this sketch and it just so happened to work perfectly for this page with three different princesses with 3 different colored dresses. 

The green/yellow/pink color scheme worked really nicely with the Daydream Believer SC kit and the Dear Lizzy neapolitan items I had in my stash.  I love that ruffled tissue paper page that I used for the middle strip.  I thought adding a doily was a nice delicate touch for this page, also.  It just so happened to be folded over, so I sliced it right down the fold and covered those edges with some Washi tape to make sure the lines didn't show up too much.

I accented with a few flowers from the Dear Lizzy stickers and from Michaels.  The journaling piece is from october Afternoon.  I added a few buttons and a new paper clip with a felt bow from Studio Calico - they're just so adorable!

Tight Squeeze

After going to Disney World this past summer, I thought the inherent desire to see every character and get a hug from them would be out of my daughter's system......not so.  Even just a short 4 months later on the Disney cruise, we had to stop and see every single character to say hello and get autographs.  The only bonus was that we didn't have to repeat all of the autographs...just the princesses!  Well....I guess most of the lines were shorter than Disney World, so you didn't have to wait 1-2 hours in the hot sun to see each character! 

Needless to say, Mickey and Minnie came out in different outfits here and there and Halleigh was thrilled when she got to see Minnie all dressed up like a princess! 

For this page I wanted to show the whimsical nature of the characters, so I chose to brighten up the background with lots of pastel colors from the Dear Lizzy line.  I spritzed the Pink Paislee border with Dewey Mr. Huey and added some chevron Washi and black rhinestones to the paper with the word smile on it. 

Beneath the jar of hearts is actually a yellow polka dotted envelope that I shortened to make it line up with the other papers.  I hid the journaling inside of this envelope and used a scrap of paper to make the pull tag.

The title is a sticker from the Dear Lizzy line that says A tight squeeze from me to you.  Fitting for a hug from Minnie!  ;)