Margaritaville Beach Hotel Layout

We had an amazing time at the Margaritaville Beach Hotel at Pensacola Beach, so I did a layout on the hotel itself.  The colors I chose go well with the sunset, the water, and even my shirt.  :) 

 

I used papers from CTMH's "Dream Pop" special kit and CTMH's "Footloose" paper pack.

 

Left page:

 

If you click on this picture of the left page, you can see it better.  The letters in "Margaritaville Beach Hotel" are from CTMH's "Keyboard" stamp set--a new favorite.  I stamped them with Lagoon ink to match the water-like paper from the "Footloose" papers.

 

 

The "Paradise" stamp is also in Lagoon ink and is from the "Footloose" WOTG stamp set.  Both pictures of Tom and me and Jess and Neal were taken from the balcony of our rooms.  The upper left picture is of our room.  What a view!  The bottom middle pic is Neal looking out the balcony window.  The bottom right picture is Jess looking out the hotel lobby window.  Everywhere you went, the view was spectacular!  Besides the papers, I added colorful paper flowers and a little bling.  Very quick and easy, but I love the colorful, summery, tropical feel of the layout.  It makes me want to go back!

More scrapbooking layouts coming soon!

We've been traveling again!  This time we drove to Pensacola Beach, Florida.  I love this classic sign and can't wait to scrapbook it.

We stayed at the Margaritaville Beach Hotel, where my toenails matched my surroundings.  CTMH's new Seaside B&T papers are going to coordinate great with these vacation pages.

Here's a few more pics:

Jess and Neal went with us and had a great time too.

 

Sunsets are always beautiful at the coast.

 

Does it look relaxing?  It was!

 

We also spent some time in the Gulf Island National Park near Biloxi, Mississippi:

Neal and Jess are on a boat ramp on some bayou waters in the park.

 

 And this shot is an alligator pond, complete with alligator floating in the middle. 

 

I hope to get my unpacking done and start scrapping these memories soon!

Junk Album - Part 3

This is Part 3 of my Gulf Coast Vacation Junk Album.  For the blog entry of the first part of my junk album, click HERE.  To view Part 2, click HERE.

Scrapbooking time at the beach is always fun and easy.  The next several pages of my junk album are from our time spent in Pensacola Beach, Florida.  I used CTMH's Footloose papers and coordinating embellishments and cs for the most part.  Since we stayed at the AWESOME Margaritaville Hotel, I punched holes in a postcard I bought at the hotel gift shop and added it to the album.

I added a picture from the hotel on the back.  The right-hand side background is stationery I took from the desk in our hotel room.  I attached it to cs to make it more sturdy, and I stamped on the flip flops.  Do very many hotels provide stationery anymore?

The left side of this page is actually the front and back of our two free beer coupons that we received in our room.  What?!--didn't we use them?  I was more into margaritas and hurricanes, and Tom is more of a Bud man.  Plus, there were free margaritas in the hotel lobby the first day and free beer the second, so we didn't really even need the coupons.  Our room keys were on lanyards (very handy for the beach and a great keepsake), so I punched holes in the plastic protector, then slipped one of our keys in it.  The right side shows our room.

More pictures of the hotel and beach.  Of course I kept the "Do Not Disturb" sign and added it my album.

CTMH's Posterboard Alphabet continues to be one of my favorites.  This time I stamped the letters right on some photos of the gulf.  I kept the horizon line in about the same place and lined it up when I attached the letters to the page.

I used the envelope that coordinated with the hotel stationery I used earlier to make the small pocket page that says "Life's a Beach."

Here's the back of the envelope (actually originally the envelope front because you can see the return address) and the insert.  Part of the insert is from a hotel notepad. 

...And the other side of the tag.  The right-hand page is the "letter" from Jimmy Buffett from our hotel room.

Next are yet more beach pictures and a hotel brochure stuck between them.

Some pages from the Landshark Landing bar, along with some journaling and doodling.

And lastly, some pages from a restaurant in Pensacola Beach not owned by Jimmy Buffett.  It still had a pirate/beach theme though.

Next pages:  Orange Beach, Alabama