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Leaving California Adventure

I got my computer to talk to the hard drive, so blog posts are now scheduled! 

So today we're back to some Disney. This is a digital page of the end of our first day at California Adventure and just some fun things we enjoyed seeing and listening to. I happen to love how this page turned out. The blank film square will hold a QR code of the swing band, because my band kid loved it.

Supplies: MDS- long retired

I hope you're having a good weekend! 

Last Day of 5th Grade!

This is a busy month at my house, and we're not even to the end-of-year crazy. But combine that with my computer not talking to the hard drive where the photos are, and that means not a lot of blogging...

It was really hot (86*, when a week before it was snowing and in the teens...!) and now it's cooled off to a rainy, gray spring day, with maybe just a little snow mixed in.
So today I have a bright page for you! This page finished off the Brights Candy Dots- those tiny accessories sprinkled all over this page. And I thought a bunch of hexagons with different prints from this pack of DP was a fun, summery idea too. What do you think? 

Supplies:
Stamps: Just Perfect Alphabet
Ink: Granny Apple Green
Paper: Basic White, Dandy Designs (SAB 2023)
Accessories: Brights Candy Dots (the end!), Hexagon Punch
Journaling Font: Janda Cheerful Script

30!

Happy Monday to you! I hope you had a lovely Easter weekend! Ours was good. Except winter abruptly ended and summer arrived and now its hot! 

Today's card uses retired and retiring products, lol, but worked great for someone special having a birthday soon! I liked the color combo from Inspire.Create.Challenges and I put it with the Freshly Made Sketch, and juuust missed getting it in before the deadline. You can't tell here, but I used a Blending Brush to add some swirls of Bermuda Bay ink under the die cut "30".

Supplies:
Stamps: Number of Years (retired)
Ink: Bermuda Bay, Polished Pink (both retiring)
Paper: Bermuda Bay (retiring), Basic White card stocks, Dandy Designs DP (retired Sale-A-Bration 2023)
Accessories: Blending Brush, Glitter Enamel Dots (retired), Large Numbers Framelits (retired), big shot

And hopefully this one arrives on time! I keep running behind! 

Wax Museum

Tonight I'm posting pretty late for me, but I have a fun one! I put this layout together this evening for my daughter. The photos are several years old and most of the supplies are too! 

I love vintage collage styles and I don't usually feel like I can do it well. I saw a challenge to use seven layers on a project and this is a good way to do it! So each page here has a little cluster with seven layers of stuff! 

Supplies: 

Stamps: Straight Up Alphabet & Numbers (long retired)

Ink: Crumb Cake, Rich Razzleberry (retiring)

Paper: Very Vanilla, Timeworn Collection Heirloom (2005?)

Accessories: Linen Thread, Blending Brush, Natural Ribbon (retired), Artisan Embellishment Kit (doily, purple velvet ribbon, pearls) (long retired), really old tag punch out sheets retired so long I don't even know what it was, 

Journaling Font: Century Schoolbook

So here are some closeups of those fun little clusters:

I hope you're making fun things too! 

We Create Blog Hop: April Showers...

...bring May flowers! 
And so I am focusing on some bright flowers today! Because I cannot get over the fact that it is April and this year is just zooming past at the speed of light! (doesn't help that there are three inches of snow on the grass, that wasn't there Tuesday, and it keeps being less than 30* in the mornings) But, a new month means a new blog hop, so here we are! 

I took inspiration from SUO Challenges and made the small square Crumb Cake card shown, but in bright pink! And this one has already been mailed out- and it was late too! Rats! 

Supplies: 

Stamps: Happiness Abounds

Ink: Melon Mambo

Paper: Flirty Flamingo & Basic White card stocks

Accessories: Opal Rounds, Bakers Twine, Dimensionals

The twine is a little wonky, but the recipient won't mind. 

Also, you need to know that this stamp set and the Opal Rounds are retiring! The Opals will be 50% off starting April 4, but things tend to sell out quickly, so if you love these, you'll want to place an order very soon! 

Now hop along over to Cheryl using the button below. 

Then hop on through to see what everyone has made to inspire you today! 

And make something pretty yourself, and mail it out to someone! They'll love it and so will you! 

Jungle Cruise!

Good morning! Another Disneyland layout for you today! 

This was a fun layout to make! I really liked the group picture so I made it bigger. And its on our wall, actually! Then some pics of the ride itself. This DP is actually orange, and came with MDS originally. And the elephant actually faces the other direction but I flipped him to get him on my page! MDS was a lot of fun when I knew what I was doing, ha! 

Supplies:
MDS: Wild Wasabi, Tempting Turquoise, recolored Hoppy Memories DP, elephant comes from Storytime Suite

Journaling Font: Chiller

Current Scrapping!

The Retired Products list was released yesterday, for both the main Annual Catalog and for the Jan-April Mini Catalog. You can view them by clicking the titles, or let me know if you'd rather have the links emailed to you.  

While many demonstrators quickly sell off their retired inventory to make room for new, I typically keep what I've purchased and I often use it for my scrapbooking! I've had so much fun working on our Disneyland Trip and finding so. many. perfect stamps or DP to use! But today, I used current products for this page! Crazy talk....! 
...although...this stamp set along the side is about to retire. So if you love it, hurry and order it!! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Nothing's Better Than, ABC-123 Sketch Alphabet (retired)
Ink: Poppy Parade, Memento Black, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Tahitian Tide, Daffodil Delight, Flirty Flamingo, Parakeet Party, Balmy Blue
Paper: Basic White
Accessories: Crystal Effects (retired)

This page is of my daughter's first job, at a very small soda and cookie shop, which are a huge deal around here. Seriously, there are six different shops within ten minutes of my house! They serve things like flavored sodas, hot chocolate, a variety of cookies and other treats like nachos, churros, cinnamon rolls and ice cream. This page shows her first day and last day, and then when we visited once in the middle. 

What are you making today?

Warm Rays!

I don't know about you, but we are having a long, stubborn winter. I honestly don't mind it- the sun comes out almost daily for at least a minute, there's patches of blue sky, and we're not having to shovel, but a lot of people in my life are past done. So this greeting is a perfect match for today's card! 

I used the sketch from the Paper Players, and this fabulous Desert Details bundle for this card. This stamp set, die, paper and sequins come from the January-April Mini and I am a fan! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Desert Details

Ink: Cajun Craze

Paper: Pale Papaya, Basic White & Soft Succulent card stock, Delicate Desert DP

Accessories: Desert Details dies, Gold Faceted sequins, big shot

*Pale Papaya and Soft Succulent are on their way out! Odds are very good the DP is too because DP rarely carries over! Don't miss out on these items!! 

Lantern

I liked this set when I saw it in the mini, but my mom loved it. And that means I get to play with it! 

I've seen lots of ideas with this bundle and I really loved the lantern looking old and maybe rusty. And I also loved the lantern surrounded by dark foliage. I kept it simple for this card, using the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches (too late to link, but credit is due) and some pretty DP. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Lighting The Way
Ink: Crushed Curry, Evening Evergreen
Paper: Evening Evergreen, Cajun Craze & Very Vanilla card stocks, Pretty Prints DP
Accessories: Lighting the Way dies, Red & Green Adhesive Backed Pearls, big shot

Another Dance!

Happy Monday and another week to do good in!

I've got another digital layout for my daughter today. I love dances because my kids always have me take the pictures, haha! Then I get good pictures, and I get to see their friends in a different light. And then I love scrapping the dance pictures! This time I used MDS so I could fit a ton of pics on there. Because I take a TON. of pics.... 

This is a really simple layout, just photos, DP and journaling, but I think it turned out pretty so there you go! 

Supplies: MDS

Cold Treats!

Today I have a traditional page from our Disney trip. This was another stamp set of my mom's that was a perfect match for a popsicle on a stick, ice cream bites and two slushies! ha! I made the page but I turned my older daughter loose with coloring the treats in however she liked and this is what we got.

I really tried to include everyone's thoughts in the journaling and I asked my kids' opinions on colors for each "thing". 

Stamps: Sunny Fun, Alphabet Appeal Lower
Ink: Memento Black, Poppy Parade
Paper: Basic White, So Saffron
Accessories: Watercolor Pencils
Journaling Font: Birch Std