orange vs. BLUE

Again with the wonky colors, I just dont get it! I even played with Photoshop on these! Oh well, I think we all know what shade these colors are supposed to be :o) This house bleeds orange and blue! Last year, we were fortunate enough to be able to arrange a bit of a reunion of old friends from UF and coordinated it with the Orange & Blue spring game. We had a blast and got to meet all the new additions (current & future) to our families!

This side of the layout is a scraplift of one I saw on Kelly Noel's blog. Of course, hers was sooo much cuter! I was having a hard time with all the journaling strips and fru-fru stuff. I did play with my Cricut & Gypsy with the title and title block. So, I was happy with that.

Of couse, I like to include the tickets from the event... that pretty much covers the date & place for my journaling. I just added a few little notes on the sticker plaques.

PP: Misc picked up along my travels ;o)

CS: CTMH Autumn Terracotta, Moonstruck, White Daisy

Cricut: Accent Essentials (antique frame), Don Juan (BLUE), Lyrical Letters (orange)

Quickutz: Nesting Circles

Other: Rick Rack, Ribbon, Felt Flowers, Heidi Swapp Bling in the center of a couple flowers, Scenic Route sticker frames

Queen Bee

I managed to get two whole layouts done at yesterday's crop! This is one of them, but I totally cheated and copied my friend's layout... darn near exactly! :o) Thanks Jodi! Funny part is, it still took me the same amount of time to scraplift! Jodi did this layout last year at our girls retreat and I wonder if I subconsciously encouraged Miss H to be a Bee for Halloween this year so that I could copy the layout! LOL!

I picked up this paper in the Target dollar bins, thanks to my friend Jenn for showing it to me. It was one of the only Halloween type papers I could find that used yellow instead of orange to coordinate with the yellow/black bee theme. The little bumblebees I made on the Gypsy with layers of yellow, black, and vellum generic egg shapes. I used the flourish and bling to mimic the flight pattern. I also have to share that the day of Halloween, Miss H decided that a Queen Bee needed a crown to go with the costume. So, I used one of her old princess crowns, painted black where the "stones" were and used pipe-cleaners and yellow puff balls to make her a Bee Crown/Antennae. She loved it!

PP: Target Scrapbooking Supplies

CS: CTMH Honey & Black

Quickutz: Moxie Classic, Flourish

Embellies: RickRack (from the sewing stash), Bling

White UniBall Gel pen for journaling and detailing

Cricut: Doodlecharms (egg outline)

Visiting Snooty

I did this layout while I was at a crop with my mom and it was my first real attempt at welding letters with my Gypsy! The font I chose was not ideal, but I was short on time and cardstock, so I used it anyways. I used some Stampin Up! raw chipboard letters, painted them with brown MM paint, then overlapped "SNOOTY" with my welded "visiting". I think it turned out pretty good for my first attempt!

I think what really makes this layout so adorable is the little Quickutz die-cut manatee, this was my friend Debra's idea. I am still not sure I got him put together as nice as she had him, but he's still cute. I sanded the edges to make it pop a little more and gave him a little bling eye using the tiniest of my CTMH Sparkles, that was Granny's idea ;o)

As with most of my layouts, the 4x6 photos are mounted on folded 6.25" x 8.5" cardstock and have 3 photos in the footprint of a single photo. Many people have asked how why I take soooo many photos and how I pick which photos to scrap and this is my answer... I just scrap three times the photos. And thanks to Close To My Heart's Flip Flaps, all three of the photos are protected!

Patterned Paper: We R Memory Keepers "NonSense" Stack

Cardstock: CTMH Junipter, Hollyhock, Keylime

Bling: CTMH Bitty Sparkles

Ribbon: American Crafts

Chipboard: SU!

Paint: Making Memories

Digital Cutter: Cricut Expression, Gypsy, Opposites Attract Cartridge

Cotton fields and Pinwheel PopUp Flowers

This layout was a scraplift of my dear friend Tara's, and she scrap-lifted it from the Feb 2008 PageMaps... thanks for the inspiration girl! I really like this close-up because you can see how I popped the flower with some foam tape, then used a brad to adhere through the background so that it pulls the center of the flower down and the petals lift up, espically on the layered ones! Cool, huh?
I love these pictures, the cotton fields were so beautiful and unexpected. We were driving through Alabama on our way to a conference and stumbled upon a handful of these fields... I finally decided to stop and check them out... stunning! I had never seen this in person and we all really enjoyed getting out to stretch our legs.


Patterned Paper: Three Bugs in a Rug "Happy Bird-Day"
Quickutz: Stardust Grand, Pinwheel Flowers (various sizes)
Cardstock, Brads, Bigger Brads, and Buttons: CTMH Juniper and Vineyard Berry
Floss and Ribbon: from my stash

Here is Tara's layout that I scraplifted, thanks for letting me post :O)


CS and Inking: CTMH Autumn Terracotta and Orchid Bouquet (retired)
Quickutz: Moxie Classic, Uptown Girl Classic, 2x2 layered Pumpkin
Heidi Swapp Orange Bling Rectangles
American Crafts Ribbon
PP: Unknown