Summer Adventures!

Hey hey hey, friends!

I'm super pumped for July because there is so much scrappy goodness going on! It's my month to host the challenges over at Lasting Memories, and I cannot wait to see the awesome pages everyone creates!

I chose the theme of Summer Adventures, because we all know I love me some adventures!

Today's prompt is to create a page about an Outdoor Adventure. Obviously, I created a camping page, since this is one of our favorite activities. I'll share my page along with companion, coordinating pockets pages.

Boy do I love me some Echo Park outdoorsy collections!? I also super love this fun photo I took of my boys on my birthday camping trip weekend. I super love taking pics of moss and mushrooms. I captured this shot right after we found a fun geocache on a rainy hike!

I just had to use these amazing sequins that I felt really went along well with both the Echo Park collections - Happy Camper and The Wild Life.

It was a bit of a stuggle to be happy campers on this trip because we were so pumped for our first camping trip of 2017, and then it was super chilly and rainy, but we made the best of it!

The opposite page is a 12x12 pocket spread of the same trip, with a 6x8 pocket page in between.

The struggle of my life is photographing pocket pages, AIR? But I do super love how quickly they can come together to document your life!

Here's the backside of these pockets:

The rain let up enough for a fire one evening, so that was nice! My son doesn't think it's a true camping trip without some s'mores!

Rain won't stop our hikes (or naps for some!). It was an all around good, adventurous birthday weekend!

Check out Instagram for tagged manufacturers.

Please play along with my challenges this month at Lasting Memories!! I cannot wait to see what these prompts inspire!

Thanks for looking!

The Wild is Calling - a Lasting Memories Challege

Hey hey hey everyone!

Today I'm bringing you my second creation for the Lasting Memories design team and their September directional challenge. Today's prompt is the direction of IN. My photo was taken while I was IN a kayak on a recent camping trip at Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee.

I have been saving this delicious wood grain textured white cardstock that I found at the Studio Calico warehouse sale for just the right page. I thought a beautiful tree photo would be perfect, combined with the Echo Park Happy Camper Collection!

I also created a corresponding 6x8 pocket page with other photos from that weekend. They tell the story of how my husband and I were kayaking, and he had just jokingly called me Pocahontas. So, naturally, I was singing Paint with all the Colors of the Wind, and two bald eagles flew over our heads! It was super cool. Bald Eagles next at Reelfoot Lake, and they take some in when injured.

The yellow photo is a screen shot I took from the Crate Paper Instagram feed. Those trees growing out of the lake are amazing.

Supplies:
Patterned paper and stickers - Happy Camper by Echo Park
Cardstock, wood grain & alphas - Studio calico
Flair - Scrapbook Circle

Thanks for looking & go play along with the challenges over at Lasting Memories!

Go on a Journey - a Scrapbook Circle Sketch

Today I'm bringing you a campking/kayaking layout I created with a sketch from Scrapbook Circle.

Here is the original sketch:

This layout was also created with the lovely prompts from Picture This, use a male in your life & tell a story about him through your layout, and Paper Issue's issue of the Unbeleafable Outdoors! These are my boys & we LOVE to be outdoors. This is from a camping trip.

I really love the Echo Park Happy Camper collection, and I have been saving it for this camping trip we took! This was my boy's first time in the kayak. So fun!

I got this little saying from Crate Paper's Instagram feed a while ago. I just screen shot it and printed it with my other photos.

I layered the title veneer under the transparent letters for a little dimension. Man, kayaking around Reelfoot Lake was so super fun - it's an amazing park. These cypress trees grow up out of the middle of the water and the roots are super cool and creepy. I told my husband I felt like Ariel in the "Kiss the Girl" scene in some of the waterways! haha!

Supplies:
Patterned Paper and camping stickers - Echo Park Happy Camper
Cardstock and geotag brads - The Paper Studio
Cork Stickers - Crate Paper
Vellum, tranparent alpha and wood veneer - Studio Calico

Thanks for looking!!

One of my wonders - the Eiffel Tower

On our trip to Paris, the beautiful city treated us right with the most gorgeous weather each day. We stayed for 4 days and I think we visited the Eiffel Tower every day! It was definitely at the top of my own, personal world wonders.

So I've used my Counterfeit Kit, Les Voyageurs, for a new layout of my favorte, Parisian site.

I knew since I've started the album that I wanted to do one of the trendy, geometric paper filled pieces with the Eiffel Tower. Then I made the clouds geometric also to mirror the fluffy white clouds in the photo.

I loved how the wonder word bubble also mirrored the clouds!

I added the flowers to carry the pink and add more dimension.

Supplies:

Gray Cardstock - Craft Smith by Michael's
Patterned papers - Chickadee, Echo Park, DCWV
Paper words - Crate Paper, Wonder
Flower Gems - American Crafts
Rain dot hearts - Cloud 9
Pearl sticker - Joann's

Thanks for looking!