Bourbon Street Layout

Another layout from our January vacation.  I hope I get this trip scrapbooked before the year is over.  This Bourbon Street layout is very simple.  The background paper and polka dot B&T is from CTMH's You Rock paper pack, and the resk of the paper is Indian Corn Blue and Colonial White CS.

  I stamped "Bourbon Street" with Pansy Purple Ink then added white highlights with a colored pencil.

The Fleur De Lis, a New Orleans symbol, is from CTMH's "Legendary Moments" stamp set and also stamped in Pansy Purple, and the clock face is from "Make It Count." The clock "hands" or drink glasses are from "Life is a Party" and are covered in Stickles. (The clock is a reference to Jimmy Buffett's song, "It's Five O'clock Somewhere"--meaning it's always time for a drink on Bourbon Street.)

 

  The line of drinks are SU stamps colored with markers then Stickles. A few purple and lavendar brads, and that's it--Bourbon Street is wild enough on its own.

Employee Spirit Month

March is National Employee Spirit Month!!!  Working in a government office fraught with budget cuts, layoffs, and some generally odd people, I'm interpreting "spirit" to mean alcohol.  So in honor of Employee [Alcohol] Month, I made an It's 5'clock Somewhere card:

Colors are Citrus Leaf and Buttercup.  Stamp sets used are Flower Pot ("It's"), Paradise (row of drinks), Extreme Happiness (row of hibiscus), Hang Ten (palm trees), Star Power (ink splotches), Around the Block ("where"), Life is a Party (drink clock hands), Bunny Love ("Some"), Comments (paper grid), Make it Count (clock), Notice the Details (binder clip, paper edging & "important to remember") and Sm. Friendship Alpha. ("5").

Veranda collage birthday card

I used CTMH Veranda papers and TEN stamp sets on this birthday card.  The colors are Cocoa, Tulip, Creme Brulee, and Garden Green.  The stampsets (all CTMH) used are:  Make It Count ("You only live once...," clock face, tone-on-tone numbers), Butterfly Kiss (tone-on-tone butterfly), Neighborhood (car), Star Power (wings), Life is a Party (drink glass clock hand), Welcome Home (flower pot clock hand), Treasures ("Make a wish" and tone-on-tone flowers), Code It (barely visible bar code), So Sweet (bird), and Springtime (umbrella).  The card pattern is Diamond Duo from the Originals cardmaking book.

Vintage Vacation Scrapbook Page

I made this page to resemble a classic scrapbook from the early 1900s.  The background paper is from the CTMH Notebook B&T paper pack, and the paper across the bottom and in the right-hand corner are from Vintage Travel.  I printed the two photos in sepia to look more authentic.  The two postcards near the bottom of the page are actual early 1900s postcards.  The CTMH stamp sets used are:  Stocking Style ("Orange Beach, New Orleans"), Save the Date ("2010 Vacation"), Express Postage ("Enjoy the Journey"), Moments in Time (small January calendar), Make It Count (clock), Star Power (wings), and Vintage Post Card (postcard).