What Happens in Vegas...gets scrapbooked

(several posts today--make sure you scroll down)

Our trip to Las Vegas was pretty tame...a few fruity drinks, a little gambling, and our husbands posing by a busty figurehead at Margaritaville.  I used CTMH's new "Cruisin" papers for this what-happens-in-Vegas-stays-in-Vegas layout.

"What happens in" was punched with CTMH's "Vintage Type" stamps and punched out with 1/2" punch, and "Vegas" was stamped with the "Delightful" alphabet set.  "Celebrate Good Times" is fromt he CTMH "Good Times" set.  The drinks are all from SU.  The old lady playing the slots is from Art Impressions.

"Party On" is another stamp from the "Good Times" set, and "A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words" is from CTMH's "Take a Picture" set.  The row of bling on both pages is from Recollections.

Orange Beach Layout

Another layout from my February vacation.  This is Orange Beach, Alabama.  We've been there before, and I have dozens of pictures of it in another scrapbook, so I just wanted to highlight my favorite photos from this trip.  I used paper from CTMH's Fanfare paper pack for the background with white cs for matting the pics and a stripe of outdoor denim cs for the stripe on the right page.

I love this picture, and it's obviously the highlight of the layout.  The worn look of the Fanfare B&T paper looks beachy to me.  I sewed (by hand) around the pic and added various buttons in blues and whites.  It's all very simple, except the sewing is tedious.  I got the layout idea from the book Playing with Paper by Angelia Wigginton.

I drug out the CTMH white daisy ink for the title.  It's pigment based, so it's a little messy to use, but it always looks great.  I think it adds to the weathered, beachy look of the layout.  I used CTMH's Delightful Alphabet stamp set.  The outdoor denim cs strip is water distressed on its vertical edges.

Jackson Square Layout

I used the Felicity papers and lots of embellishments for this layout of Jackson Square in the French Quarter.

The title was stamped with the CTMH "Delightful Alphabet" stamp set.

Olivia "Congrats" card

The striped background paper is from the CTMH Olivia paper pack.  The pretty autumn scene silhouetted at the bottom is from a new CTMH stamp set, "Captured Moments."  The leaves are stamped from the Olivia Workshop on the Go stamp set, "Timeless."  Finally, the letters are stamped in my current favorite alphabet, "Delightful Alphabet."  Everything is distressted with Cocoa ink.

Circus Baby Card

Another card with CTMH Animal Cookies B&T papers.  I learned to make the bottom ruffle from a video by the talented Tresa Black.  The giraffe is from the CTMH birthday set "Nursery Bash," but I cut off the party hat.  The letters are from the CTMH stamp set "Designer Alphabet."