Lasting Memories Challenge #47

This weeks challenge over at Lasting Memories is all about distressing.  Who doesn't love this fun technique...especially with all the great vintage inspiration out there!

This is a page I did a couple years ago of a trip to the original Starbucks location in Pike Place Market, Seattle.  My favourite thing about this page is that I actually used scraps.  I cut up a coffee cup and got some coffee bean labels.  That in combination with the Starbucks gift bag I tore up for the background gives my page a distressed out fashioned look.

Make sure to check out Lasting Memories to play along!

More from Mexico!

Here are a couple more layouts from my honeymoon.  It was so much fun making this Mexico album!  I am almost sad it is done but you will see some more posts still.

Rio Secreto

Mexico's secret underground River's.  My husband and I were fortunate enough to get a private tour and I was so happy when even he wants to by the pictures after. I was worried about scrapping these because the coloring and lighting varies so much but I am really happy with how it turned out.

Valladolid

This was a quick little stop in a small Mexican town on our way back from Chichen Itza.  I was a nice relaxing end to a busy and fun filled day.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great day!

Lasting Memories Challenge #43 - Happy Father's Day!

Here is this weeks photo inspiration Challenge from Lasting Memories!

I love the vintage feel of this photo and jumped on the opportunity to use some vintage embellishments.

Check out the Lasting Memories blog from more inspiration from the rest of the DT and to play along with us.

Lasting Memories Challenge #41

This weeks challenge at Lasting Memories has two parts.  The first is to use this page sketch.  The second is to use bling.  I think my layout accomplished both!

...And there is no better time to rock the bling than at a Limo Night with your girlfriends.

Check out the Lasting Memories blog for more inspiration and to play along.

Seattle Underground Tour

These photos are from an underground tour in Seattle.  I was excited to use some vintage embellishments.  I cut up a printed brown paper bag and used it.  I love the effect.

Cute Card

I got this cute card idea at a friends shower and had to recreate it.  Perfect for any shower or stagette.

It's so easy to make.  Just fold a piece of paper in half and trace circles for the boobs and butt shape.  Than  use some old scraps to form the underwear and line it with some ribbon or lace.  My card was too small to do this but you could also add some button details.

Lasting Memories Challenge #40

This weeks challenge at Lasting Memories is all about PAPER PIECING!  Here is my DT contribution.  I found this paper piecing pattern in a really old copy of Scrapbook Etc and thought it was perfect for this page. 

Check out the Lasting Memories blog for more inspiration and to play along.

Another One for Challenge #39

Here is another entry for Lasting Memories Challenge #39.  This week its all about flowers!  This layout is also meant to go with my DT entry for this challenge found here.

I love these family photos taken in Vancouver.  They are of me, my cousin, my brother, and my two aunts.

Lasting Memories Challenge #39

This weeks challenge at Lasting Memories is all about FLOWERS!  Make sure to pop by and see all the fun DT inspiration and play along with us.

Here is my contribution.  This is a photo of me with my brother, cousin, and two aunts on our last summer trip before my cousin and I got married.  They met us in Vancouver for a relaxing family weekend.

Some More From MEXICO!

I actually finally finished my honeymoon album at a scrapbook retreat last month but I haven't revealed them all so far.  Here are a couple.  Hopefully they will be inspiring for everyone who has topical vacation pictures sitting around waiting to be scrapped.

Sunset at Night

This is a collection of picture from around our resort at night.  For all my resort pictures I grouped them by theme instead of by date to save space and reduce the number of random layouts I had to do.

 Chichen Itza

This is the second layout I did for our trip to Chichen Itza.  The first can be found here.  I love the simplicity of this layout.  Sometimes less really is more.

Lasting Memories Challenge #38

This weeks challenge over at Lasting Memories is this great sketch with a circle theme.

The page is of a lunch at White Spot the day before my wedding.  My cousin and I grew up with their milk shakes and pirate pack kids meals.  Since both of our husbands to be are from non-Canadian families they missed out on the childhood fun. 

Check out the Lasting Memories blog for more inspiration and to play along with this weeks challenge.

Scrapbook Challenges and

Again I combined two challenges into one layout.  They colour and embellishment inspiration came from the Scrapbook Challenges crop prompt photo shown below.  I combined it with sketch #119 from The Scrappiest.

 

A couple of work friends and I often have "Finer Things Club" meeting (all you fans of The Office should appreciate this).  This is one they had to give me a gift before my wedding.  They are so sweet!

Another One for Lasting Memories

This is my second submission for this weeks Lasting Memories challenge.  I already completed my DT layout so this is just my normal entry.  I actually initially did this for my DT entry before I came up with my other little stroke of creativity found here.

Check out the Lasting Memories Challenge #37 post to play along with us.

Cherry & Vanilla

I was exciting to play along with The Scrappiest blog when I saw this sketch.  It just looked like so much fun.

These photos are of my husband and his best friend.  They both happened to grow moustaches at the same time and were feeling like such rebels they wanted to do a bad ass photo shoot.  Unfortunately even the addition of beer and cigars couldn't save this.  It didn't turn out very bad ass at all. The title on the page is cherry and vanilla because those are the flavours of cigars they bought...I thought it was the epitome of not bad ass.

I had so much fun with this page and I'm happy with how it turned out.  Check out The Scrappiest post for Sketch 118!

Featured at Scrapbook Challenges

I got featured of at Scrapbook Challenges for my Fondue layout.  It's funny because I struggled with scrapbooking this photo for so long.  I'm glad the layout turned out so well and it feels great to be recognized.

Check out the Featured Photos page at Scrapbook Challenges.

Gift Opening

I did this layout to show the gift opening after our wedding.  I was amazed by how generous everyone was and it was such a fun this to look forward to after the wedding.

I divided this page into two sections because we did a gift opening with each of our different families.  The left side is my family and the right side is his...or I guess both sides are both of our families.

Lasting Memories Challenge #37

This weeks challenge at Lasting Memories is a photo inspiration for mother's day.  Unfortunately I don't have any new pictures of my mom to scrap for this one but I did use the colour scheme from this photo.

I love the colours in this photo because they are so feminine so I made girly layout of me and my cousin last spring.  I used this Scrapbook Challenges sketch I found on their last blog hop.

Check out the Lasting Memories blog for other layout submissions and to play along.

Another One Inspired by Scrapbook Challenges

All the inspiration on the Scrapbook Challenges blog hop was overwhelming.  There were so many beautiful layouts and sketches I want to use so I have another layout based on one of their own sketches.

This layout is from a trip to Seattle with my cousin when we went to this dirty little 24 hr bar.  So bad it was good.

Also watch out for the Lasting Memories Mother's Day Challenge tomorrow.

Two Challenges in One

I was so excited when I found this page sketch during the Scrapbook Challenges blog hop.  I thought it was great inspiration for a photo I have been trying to scrap for about two years!  Every time I try I find I don't have any inspiration for it...now its finally done.

I used in combination with the From Screen 2 Scrap challenge for Love Actually.

Here is my page!  I love the simplicity and the fun details on the side.  It's great to finally have this layout done.  I am working hard to play catch up so I don't have a million half down albums sitting around...this is one more page down.

Watch out for my Lasting Memories Mothers Day Challenge post on Sunday!

My First Lasting Memories Challenge

The topic for this Lasting Memories challenge is "It's All About You".

When is life ever more "all about you" than when you're getting married...NEVER!  This is a page of all the dresses I tried on before I found the one.  There were a lot of No's, a couple Maybe's, but only one YES!

Check out the Lasting Memories blog for lots more layouts from the rest of the design team and to join in the fun yourself...there are prizes for this one so it definitely worth playing along.

Spring has Sprung...

...and to celebrate I am posting this spring layout from last year.  Me and some girlfriends went to Penticton to float down their channel.  It was a great girls day and a nice way to recover from my friends stagette the night before.  I love spring in BC!

Watch the Lasting Memories blog on Thursday for my for post as a DT member.