Greetings from Hell.......Grand Cayman!

On our cruise on the Glory, we visited Hell on Grand Cayman. You'll notice I was not influenced by the setting.....I'm the angel! Oddly enough, Hell is a post office there and refers to the area of volcanic rock. Artists have placed demon statuary throughout it as well. Fun pictures to scrap!

Live, Laugh, Love

I love the set of pictures my husband and I took of us while at the Waterfront Park in Charleston, SC on our anniversary last May.  I've tried to scrap them before and ended up throwing the page away.   (The only layout I've ever given up on......)   When looking at them again, I realized they fit the "Live, Laugh, Love" title really well, and so printed in black and white, they became this layout.

At Practical Scrappers this week, the theme is embossing.  And I used this layout as an opportunity to do some of that.  The blue flowers are from Walk in My Garden, embossed with Swiss Dots, and rhinestone added.  The purple metallic flower is from Storybook. 

 The pink flower is white and pink flocked circles made with an MS scalloped circle punch.  The orange flower is from Walk in My Garden with pop dots, embossing with stripes and swirls, prima flower, rhinestone, and white doodling added. 

The grey strip of paper behind is punched with MS eyelet border punch.  "Live" is from Opposites Attract, "laugh" is Paisley, and "Love" is New Arrival.  Accent pieces are a little heart punch from the Dollar Tree.   I think that is the most cartridges/punches I've ever used in one project! 

One for the Team

Kati's first home game....and first win!   Used a great sketch from Glitz Designs, posted at Practical Scrappers.  Paper is from the Paper Studio....DCWV cut cardstock.  Little Kati is made from Everyday Paper Dolls, cut at 4". The little basketball is Karen Foster.   The title is Opposites Attract and felt Thickers.  Little starbursts are an MS punch cut out of silver metallic foil...enhanced with black buttons.   Writing is computer generated...cut...and inked. 

Prince Charming...........NOT!

There is an adorable little frog sitting on a bench at the waterfront in Charleston, SC.  I loved this picture of Kati with him!  Paper is DCWV....lettering is Opposites Attract and Alphalicious.  Stars are George.

The frog is hand pieced.  I found a clip art image I used for the body....cut out of mulberry paper.  The head and eyes are George ovals.   The crown is Alphalicious. 

We Are Family

While scrappin' vacation photos, I noticed that lots of them had a theme....of well, it looked like we mostly like each other (Imagine that....when 18 people go on vacation together!) I started by making the collage of 2 x 2 photos on an 8x8 piece of cardstock....added some 2 x 2 decorative squares for interest and framed it all with knotted ended ribbon which I wove over the pictures. Added some silver buttons as I was trying to put silver to make the layout cohesivie. Everything else on here is just cut by hand......fron 1 piece of doublesided cardstock! Added ribbon, buttons, and silver elements. Title is Opposites Attract and chipboard 9from Target).

You Are My {Son}shine

I found this rather old picture of my son, Craig (he's now 19). I cut out the face and framed it with the SYI sunflower. I added some George Triangle 2 between the layers for some added zip....inked and pop dotted the whole thing. Used the leaves from the tree on SYI, cut on cardstock and metallic. Flower stem is cut from Animal Crackers - glittery polka dot paper is from there too. Background paper is American Crafts Game Day. Used Opposites Attract for the lettering...little doodling and glitter. Accent pieces are Thickers and buttons.