Back in the land of Scrapbooking!

Woohoo! I am now back in the scrapbooking saddle again! Hehehee! My daughter, Samantha's wedding was beautiful and kept us busy beyond busy for three months! Now its time to update retreat schedules, finish contracts, catch up with my blogs and organize/scrapbook the over 3000 pictures from the past two weeks! LOL!

My mom, Liz and I snuck away this past weekend to do a little cropping with some friends!

Marianne


Liz & Cheri


Melissa


Deeann, Mary, Jolene and Me!
We took a lunch break at Mattitos in Frisco Square... yum!


I finished a whopping 6 pages this past weekend!! LOL! Here are two of them:



Of course I used the cricut for most of the layout above. The "Mmmmm..." and the jumbled "Delicious" and arrows are all from the 'Graphically Speaking' cartridge. I used the 'Stamped' and 'Doodletype' cartridges for the title.






I used my new most favorite punch... its from Martha Stewart... on the red trim. Love it love it love it!

Creative Cottage - Day TWO & THREE

New friends (Ellen & Charlotte) & old ones (Mom, Marianne & Myriam)...

I was so tired after getting home from the cottage last night. The first night we stayed until 11pm and scrapbooked, but last night we all left promptly at 10pm. The hours for the Creative Cottage is 9am til 10pm for the weekdays if you aren't an overnight guest. We stayed late on Monday because it was raining cats & dogs and we waited for the rain to lessen before leaving. It's a great place to crop and spend time with old (and new!) friends. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday for only $35... what a bargain!



Yesterday I played around with the cricut alot. Getting to know the new Graphically Speaking cartridge some more (which is now my FAVORITE!). I finished a layout with another 12x12 photo on it. It's titled "TOP TEN FAVORITE MEMORIES"...



I was pleased with my final result. But I have to say though... the SKULL STYLE page that I did for Matt on Monday is still by far my favorite.
What do you think?

Today is the last day at the cottage and I don't even get to spend the whole day there! Samantha and I leave this evening for Fort Benning, Georgia with Nalani to go see Cris (Sam's boyfriend) graduate from Army Basic Training. It's gonna be a long drive. And Sara is flying in today and I will be picking her up from the airport right after I leave the cottage. It's gonna be a busy day!

Summer Gone By...

Wow... I have been so neglectful of my blog! It has been two whole months since I posted anything... how did that happen?! The summer has just flown by and now school is starting in two weeks!

Good news is... I have gotten alot of scrapbooking done over the past couple of months. I won't post all of them, but here are a few of my favorite layouts that I have recently done.