12 x 12 Double Layout

I had these two pictures from a long-ago camping trip with my nieces where we "swam" (or maybe more waded) in the Gallatin River.  I loved how the pictures went so well together, so I tried my hand at a 12 x 12 double!  These will go side by side into my scrapbook for ultimate girl cuteness factor.  :)  Amazingly, finishing these also was the end of my full papers from this kit, so I'm already on scraps and can make some summery cards!  That's a miracle!

Inspire

I have been wanting to try out some of Gabrielle Polacco's texture paste for a while now on my new masks, so here was my chance!  I tried it out on a layout after this one and it worked much better.  The first time, I didn't quite have it thick enough, so here's take two with a lot more talcum powder in it.  Maybe I had to make the high altitude recipe??  I have no idea.  But it was really cool how it turned out.  Plus I finally got this picture of me and my mom from my graduation done.  Yay!

Color Throwdown #250

I wanted to make sure I participated in this week's Color Throwdown challenge!  I knew I had the perfect papers and loved the combination!  Here is the original challenge:

And here's my take on it.  I was inspired by the collage-style cards in this month's Papercrafts magazine too.

Swim Chick

Well, for not being originally very inspired by these papers, I sure have been on a roll with them...in fact enough of a roll that I already have NO full-size papers left, just scraps!  (That's because I have more LO's that are already done that I will post another day!)  This one is another picture of the sun-bathing niece.  I love it!  I caught her just as she was coming up out of the water.  All of the materials on this page came from Simple Stories (oh plus a little bit of Stickles.)  :)

I'm also entering this page in the Challenge Me Happy final challenge ever, which is crazy because I JUST found their challenge site.  Like three days ago.  :(  Hopefully I'll be able to look in the archives for some good inspiration!

Keep Calm and Soak Up the Sun

I just got my latest kit from My Creative Scrapbook, and I could not believe all the stuff in it!  Lots and lots of embellies from Simple Stories and a fun beachy theme.  Unfortunately, I live in a completely land-locked state that is well known for it's skiing, hiking, and fly fishing...but not so much the beach.  HOWEVER, we do have a few local man-made beaches around some little lakes that are nice on a hot day as you can see from my niece sunbathing.  This whole kit does make me want to plan a trip to the beach despite my white  Norwegian roots and even whiter legs.  Ha!

The Last of the Kit!

Yep, that's right, I finally used up an entire kit with the exception of a few stickers which I can now throw in with all my card-making extras!  Perfect!  

This is a picture of my nieces from a few years ago at the fair after watching the pig races.  I know, right?  But it actually was fun to watch... :)

Here are all the projects I made with this kit!  It was my favorite one ever!  It included papers from American Crafts' Dear Lizzy collection and also a mask and some wooden embellishments.   Oh.  Just realized I have those left too.  Well, I was close anyway!!

Live...and remember this...

Just sharing a little layout today using up some more of my favorite kit!  I LOVE self portraits like this; I have so many I should just do a whole page about them.  This one was taken a while back of me and a friend.