Botanical Gardens

 

In May 2017, Mike and I went to the Cleveland Botanical Gardens to view the flowers and trees in bloom. What a pretty day too! We purchased a yearly membership... hoping to come back to see other flowers and plants in bloom too.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Supplies Used:

My Memories Suite

Background - Blog Train May 2016 (LouiseL)

Embellishments - Walk in the Park II (leaf border - SU)

Font - Adorable (purple)

Trillium Lake

 

Continuing with our 2016 photobook with places that we've seen and things that we've done in 2016.... here is our trip to Trillium Lake.  The lake is located about 7 miles south of Mt Hood, so the views of the lake with the mountain in the background are stunning! We hiked the lake loop trail, which goes around the lake, and it's about 2 miles long. Such beauty in nature.

Supplies Used:

Background - Campfire Stories (MagsGfx) - denim green

Embellishments - Winter Blue (Dillie) - flower; Walk In The Park II (SU) - leaf border

Punch - Square (brown)

Font - Rockwell Extra Bold (white); At Mahogany Script (white)

Trillium Lake Calendar Page

Resuming my pages for my 2017 Calendar with our trip to Trillium Lake in the Mt Hood National Forest in Oregon. Such a breathtaking backdrop! We hiked around the lake that day...gorgeous day for a hike!

I didn't have any trillium flowers in my digital stash...which would have been so much more appropriate than these flowers that I placed on my page. But, I love the look and coordination with the big picture that they provide. As you can see... I added a second text box for 'Lake' with white underneath the brown, so that it would stand out more (it tended to just blend in with the background).

Thanks for taking a peek!

Supplies Used:

My Memories Suite digital software

Background - Campfire Stories (MagsGfx)

Embellishments - Winter Blue (Dillie) - Flowers and Leaves; Walk In The Park (Stampin' Up!) - Leaf Border (recolored white)

Punch - Square (filled w/brown)

Font - Rockwell Extra Bold (white); At Mahogany Script (brown and white)

Silver Falls

 

Continuing work on our 2015 photobook with our road trip with my brother to Silver Falls State Park where we hiked to see 4 of the 10 waterfalls in the park.  We do plan on going back to hike the rest of the trails to view the other waterfalls soon.

I had created a calendar page of one of these falls, and wanted to follow with that color scheme with these two pages.  I also wanted to include the map that shows where we hiked to see each of the falls. It's kinda neat to have a reference point to see how far we needed to hike to see each waterfall and where they are in relation to the others.  The photos around the center map are placed where we saw each waterfall too.

Thanks for dropping by!

Supplies Used:

Background - Gumball Green

Embellishments - Walk in the Park II (leaf border recolored gray; leaf); Feast of Thanks (leaf); Dahlias (Whisper White); Grosgrain Ribbon (Basic Gray)

Punch - Square (filled w/Basic Gray DSP); Eyelet Border (filled w/light gray)

Font - Lover's Quarrel and Bliss (White)

Seneca Park Zoo

Well.... guess what?  I was wrong... I haven't finished our 2014 photo book yet! I found a few trips that Mike went on without me last year.  So, I will be working on those to get this photo book finished!

In April 2014, Mike went to Rochester, NY for work.  He must have been there for 2 weeks, since he was able to go to the zoo there during the day.  I totally missed out, as there were raccoons at this zoo! How cool is that! (For anyone who doesn't know... I love raccoons!!!!)

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:

Background - Night of Navy Textured Cardstock

Embellishments - Walk in the Park II (leaf recolored outline Night of Navy); Dahlias (Night of Navy); Sunshine and Sprinkles (sun); Knots and Ties Trim (Daffodil Delight)

Stamp Brush Set - Solid Stripes (Whisper White)

Punch - Square (filled w/Daffodil Delight)

Font - Elephant (Whisper White) and Cuckoo (Daffodil Delight)

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

South Falls -MDS107

I decided to play with the sketch this week on MDS Monday.  You may view the challenge on their blog here: http://mdsmonday.blogspot.com/2015/03/mdsm-107-journaling-with-freeform.html  Cindy has a great sketch - and - such a cool technique to create shaped journaling.

I, too, used the Freeform Tool to create a box. As I am not well versed with this "tool" it took some trial and error to first get a box, and then to have my text go the 'right' way on the box. (The first time I created a box -- the words, when attached, went counter clockwise and inside the box. The second time I created a box -- the words, when attached went clockwise and were outside the box). <--- Interesting - Huh! You learn something new (at least I did) everyday!
Thanks Cindy for the challenge!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Background - Old Olive
Embellishments - Basic Pearls; Basic Gray Grosgrain Ribbon; Feast of Thanks (leaf); Walk in the Park II (leaf border - recolored Sahara Sand); Dahlias
Punch - Square (filled w/Basic Gray DSP and Basic Gray); Eyelet Border (Sahara Sand)
Freeform Tool (created a line box for the journaling to follow path)
Font - Lover's Quarrel and Boho (Whisper White)

Our Happy - MDSM102

Working with a sketch challenge from the MDS Monday Blog (MDSM102).  You can find the challenge here:

http://mdsmonday.blogspot.com/2015/02/mdsm-102-focus-on-everyday-life.html

It was such a simple sketch, and it allowed for me to showcase all the lovely photos that were taken by Shari Correll of us.  We had Mike's side of the family get together for a family photo... and she took individual family photos too. These were part of them.

Thanks MDS Monday!

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:

Background - Basic Black Textured Cardstock

Stamp Brush Sets - Our Happy (love and camera - Lucky Limeade; square with flag, words 'this is our happy' and heart - Basic Black); Day in the Life (December flag - Basic Black)

Punch - Square (filled w/Walk in the Park II #10)

Font - Browallia (Lucky Limeade)

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Leaves - DGPROG15Feb

I decided to play with the Splitcoaststampers (website) Digi-Scrap Challenge for February with our photo shoot from December 2014. The amazing photographer was Shari Correll.  It was tough to choose between all the lovely photos she took. Thanks Shari!

Here is the final page for the Digi-Scrap Challenge (each week, for 4 weeks tasks are added until - at last - you have a completed page).

Thanks for looking!

Supplies Used:
Background - Basic Black Textured Cardstock
Punches - Leaves 2 (filled w/Walk in the Park II #10)
Embellishments - Basic Black Timeless Taffeta Ruffled Ribbon; Basic Pearls
Stamp Brush Set - Love Story (words - Lucky Limeade)
Fonts - Brannboll and Amaze (Lucky Limeade); Brittanic (Certainly Celery)

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Roaring Camp

 

Continuing with our 2014 photobook and with our trip to northern California with Mike's parents, we took a steam railroad tour with the big redwood trees on Bear Mountain.  It was beautiful... and we sat in an open car! Cool!

Thanks for looking!

Supplies Used:

Background - Chocolate Chip

Embellishments - Walk in the Park II (leaves - recolored Always Artichoke); Happy Hello (baker's Twine - recolored Chocolate Chip)

Stamp Brush Sets - Woodgrain (Crumb Cake); Our Happy (square words - Always Artichoke; flag - Crumb Cake)

Punches - Square (filled w/Chocolate Chip - behind square word boxes; Crumb Cake and Always Artichoke)

Font - Boulder (Chocolate Chip) 

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Maymont Gardens

 

Working on another double-page spread for our 2013 Scrapbook.  I'm still working on May 2013, but I'm excited that I'm only 1 year behind being up-to-date!

These two-pages are from our day at Maymont Gardens in Richmond, VA.  Beautiful place..... Richmond has a lot of things to do.  I know we didn't see all of it when we went on this trip.  We will need to plan to come back.

Thanks for taking a look!

Supplies used:

My Digital Studio, Stampin' Up! products

Background - Wild Wasabi

Stamp Brush Sets - Decorative Overlays (flourish - Lucky Limeade); Walk in the Park II (flowers - Island Indigo)

Embellishments - Walk in the Park II (leaf border); Basic Pearls

Punch - Square (Whisper White)

Font - Majestic (Whisper White and Island Indigo) and Bliss (Whisper White)

Lady of Lourdes

 

Continuing on with our 2012 photobook.... when we were in Cleveland in July 2012, we drove to the National Shrine there.  We lit a few candles, said a few prayers and touched the Holy Water provided from the spring.  It was interesting to see they had a huge walking 'Rosary' and stairs leading to "The Way of the Cross"(Stations of the Cross) outside.  It was a very peaceful place.

I chose to keep my colors Sahara Sand and Pretty in Pink with a touch of Primrose Petals.  I've recolored Designer Series Paper and embellishments to go along with my color scheme.

I loosely used a sketch I found on the SweetShoppe website for my first page:

Thanks for taking a peek!

Supplies Used: My Digital Studio software - Stampin' Up!

Background - Whisper White

Punch - Square (filled w/ Pretty in Pink; Well Worn DSP #4 recolored Sahara Sand; Sahara Sand DSP dots; Textured Cardstock Pretty in Pink); Flag (filled w/ Sahara Sand, Pretty in Pink and Whisper White); Dotted Scallop (filled w/Pretty in Pink)

Stamp Brush Sets - Spring Break II (flourish - Primrose Petals); Modern Medley (flower overlay - Sahara Sand)

Embellishments - Taffeta Ribbon (Marina Mist recolored Sahara Sand); Walk in the Park II (green leaf recolored Sahara Sand and Basic Gray); Spring to Life (flowers recolored Primrose Petals); Enjoying Everything (flower recolored Sahara Sand)

Font - Pageant (Primrose Petals and Basic Gray)

Title Page

Working on my 2011 scrapbook, and wanted to create a title page.  I incorporated the Scrap Map Challenge (Scrap Map 4) from the My Digital Studio.net site.

Supplies used:

Background paper - Textured Cardstock (Lucky Limeade)

Punch - Square (filled w/Walk in the Park II DSP #8, #9, #14), Photo Corner (Textured Cardstock - Lucky Limeade)

Stamp Brush Set - Torn Edges (Island Indigo)

Font - Milk and Cereal (Island Indigo and Whisper White) 

Trek

 

Continuing my scrapping of our 2010 photobook with our trip to the Northwest Trek in July.  Yeah! I see the light at the end of this photobook..... now that I've finished the month of July (because I forgot to scrap these photos), all I have is the month of December!!!! Then, I'm off to scrap 2011! Ha!  I will get there eventually.... I just have to keep plugging away.

I used a Creating Keepsakes Sketch from May 2012 for the first page, and created my own second page.  Here's the sketch I used:

Thanks for looking!

Background Paper - Textured Cardstock (Island Indigo)

Embellishments - Walk in the Park II (leaf, leaf border), Designer Rosettes (Crumb Cake recolored Pool Party), Ruffled Ribbon (Lucky Limeade), Sycamore Street (ribbon - Pool Party), Scallop Dots Ribbon (Melon Mambo)

Stamp Brush Set - Twitterpated (Pool Party at 40% opacity)

Punch - Flag (filled w/Walk in the Park II DSP #2,4,7,10 and 11)

Font - Lucinda Handwriting (Pool Party and Melon Mambo)

Cougar Mt Zoo

I had fun with these pages.  I wanted to use the hexagon punch for my photos, but then I just had to create a nice border with the punches too (I added a square punch on top to cover the spaces in between). =)

Thanks for stopping by!

Background Paper - Stacks a Million DSP #9

Embellishments - Walk in the Park II (leaf), Grosgrain Ribbon (Basic Gray), Zigzag Stitch (Whisper White)

Stamp Brush Sets - Solid Stripes (Whisper White at 40% opacity)

Punches - Hexagon (filled w/photos and Daffodil Delight), Square (filled w/Daffodil Delight), Piece of Cake - Burst (filled w/Daffodil Delight), Circle (filled w/Whisper White)

Font - Beach (Basic Gray)

Paradise Inn

Whoo hoo! Two more pages complete in my 2010 photobook! Working still on our trip to Mt Rainier with my little brother.

Thanks for looking!

I tried to make the background resemble snow with the Natural Compositions Overlay.

Supplies used: My Digital Studio, unless otherwise noted

Background: Whisper White
Stamp Brush Set - Natural Composition Overlays #9 (Sahara Sand at 47% opacity)
Embellishments - Walk in the Park II (leaves and leaf border)
Punch - Square (filled w/ Woodland Walk #4)
Font - Cerebral (Whisper White and Island Indigo)

Mt Rainier

Hmmm... for some reason I forgot to scrapbook July 2010! Yikes! So I'm going back to completing that before I move on to December 2010.

My brother (Dan) and his then girlfriend (Sam) came to vacation with us in the Pacific Northwest.  We've been on several vacations together, and let's just say.... I love my little brother.  Dan is 14 years younger than I am.... so I helped to raise him when he was little.  Anyway, we decided that we would drive to Mt Rainier and hike around the trails there.  Little did we know that there was still mounds of snow on the trails.  It was July!  We did have fun even though we couldn't hike the trails.

Here are two pages, so far, of our trip.

I tried to make the background (on my pages) to resemble snow.  I used the Natural Composition Overlays, colored them Sahara Sand and dropped the opacity to 47%.

Supplies used:  My Digital Studio software, unless otherwise noted

Background - Whisper White

Stamp Brush Set - Natural Composition Overlays #9 (Sahara Sand at 47% opacity)

Embellishments - Walk in the Park II (leaves and leaf border), Baker's Twine (Baja Breeze recolored Island Indigo)

Punch - Square (filled w/ Woodland Walk DSP #4)

Font - Cerebral (Island Indigo)

Early Christmas

Mike and I celebrated Christmas early this year, and I wanted to capture it on a scrapbook page.

I used the 8x8 Sweet Pea Page Template, and just swapped out colors and embellishments to suit my needs.

I incorporated the My Digital Studio Challenge into my page - "Color Combo 2".  The colors used are: Old Olive, More Mustard, Cherry Cobbler, Pool Party and Soft Suede.

Supplies:
Background Paper - Large Dots DSP (Old Olive)
Stamp Brush Sets - Just Perfect Alphabet (Old Olive), For All You Do (flower - Cherry Cobbler, Pool Party, Old Olive, More Mustard)
Embellishments - Dahlias (Cherry Cobbler, Pool Party, Soft Suede), Brads (More Mustard, Cherry Cobbler), Round Buttons (More Mustard, Old Olive), Timeless Taffeta Ribbon (Soft Suede)
Punch - Scallop Square (filled w/Textured - Cherry Cobbler), Square (More Mustard, Soft Suede), Scallop Circle (filled w/Cherry Cobbler, Pool Party, Soft Suede, Old Olive), Circle (filled w/ Sycamore Street DSP #5; Soft Suede DSP - dotted stripe, small polka dots, brocade, villa; Cherry Cobbler DSP - stripes; Sweet Shop DSP #2; Walk in the Park II DSP #4; Christmas Cheer DSP #1; Sunny Day DSP -Old Olive small polka dots), Square (Whisper White)
Font - Broach (More Mustard), New Times Roman (More Mustard), Adorable (Cherry Cobbler), Sherwood (Cherry Cobbler)

Say I Love You -DGSC074

I finally got caught up with all my cards, so I decided to play with MDS (My Digital Studio software).  I used the Digi-Scrap Challenge (DGSC074) for this layout -- Monochromatic.

You may view the challenge here: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/digital-scrapbooking-f253/dgsc074-monochromatic-7-31-12-a-t558490.html

This is a photo of Mike and I, taken in May 2012 while vacationing in Florida.

Thanks for looking!

Paper - Basic Gray (Textured)

Stamp Brush Sets - Decorative Overlays (Going Gray), So Typefelt (Going Gray), Day in the Life (Going Gray)

Embellishments - Taffeta Trimmings (Basic Gray), Twitterpated Buttons (Basic Gray), Simple Snapshots flower (Basic Gray), Walk in the Park leaf (Re-colored - Going Gray)

Mom and Dad - DGSC71

Working on a few past challenges on splitcoaststampers (DGSC71).  This one challenged us to use only one photo, a large stamp background and smaller stamps as embellishments. 

You may view the challenge and all the projects created with it here:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/digital-scrapbooking-f253/dgsc071-%96-using-stamp-brushes-7-10-12-a-t557388.html

As I usually scrapbook more than one photo on a page....this was a tough challenge for me. I really like the end result though. I used a recent photo of my parents as they celebrated my Dad's 70th Birthday. The subway art is all stamps. I used My Digital Studio software.

Thanks for looking!

Papers - Textured Night of Navy, Textured Basic Gray

Photo Mat - Night of Navy

Stamp Brush Sets - Bunch of Backgrounds, Fabulous Phrases, Walk in the Park, Baroque Motifs, Greatest Moments, Night and Day, Once Upon a Time, Simple Friendship (all Basic Gray)

Love - DGSC069

 



A new Digi-Challenge has been posted on Splitcoaststampers, and I just had to try it out!  The Challenge is "Stretch your Sketch" (DGSC069).  With this challenge, take any card sketch and use it to create a scrapbook page. I used a sketch I saw on the Stampin Connection website (SCCSC9)
You may view the Digi-Challenge here:
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/digital-scrapbooking-f253/dgsc069-stretch-your-sketch-06-26-12-a-t556499.html
Thanks for looking!

Paper - Pink Flamingo #5, Textured Cardstock (Tempting Turquoise, Calypso Coral)
Photo mat - Real Red
Embellishments - Basic Pearls
Punches - Labels Collection (filled w/Tempting Turquoise), Square (filled w/Calypso Coral and Pink Flamingo #5), Circle (filled w/Whisper White
Stamp Brush Set - Walk in the Park II (Tempting Turquoise), Autumn Elements (Summer Sun), For All You Do (Tempting Turquoise and Summer Sun), Petal Pizzazz (Real Red)