Happy 2015

Happy 2015!!!

I hope you had a wonderful (and safe) New Year's Eve. MT and I went got all dressed up and went for a fancy dinner at a not so fancy place. We love it and it's now become our tradition.

Also this year, I just couldn't get my act together for Christmas cards. So I went with New Year's postcards from Minted. I loved how they turned out!

I hope today is relaxing for you. It's suppose to rain all day so we'll be inside. MT watching TV and me cleaning up the ye old scrap space.

cheers & besos,

Waterloo

I was in a citrus mood.

Can you tell?

Yet another layout about me and the boy.

This pic is from New Years.

I made clay moustaches so we were giving each other moustacheo-ed NYE kisses.

And it all started in London.

Of course :)

I couldn't resist purchasing the whole Paddington line of papers from 7 Gypsies. And what's nice is that they're double sided (one white on black, the other black on white).

I went with the white on black because I think it makes the colors pop.

See, I had this idea to spray it down with Mister Huey. I wanted to jazz up the black and white, and subdue the high contrast. So I went to town with my new shades.

I used Bluegrass, Pickle, Hot Dog and Lemonade (don't you just love those names?!) and spread diamond glaze over the letters in London to highlight it.

The rest was easy peasy.

Just a few paper scraps and a handmade pinwheel, which features a chipboard star misted with Bluegrass.

It's a very simple layout.

With graphic appeal!

xxbesos

New Years Pages

This one is for you T$!! Hehehehe!!

This is my best friend Tara. I love her and miss her to death! (She lives in Austin.)

That is a signature Tara move. It can mean 1 of 2 things. She's either really happy, or really mad. It needed to be documented :)

I used Shimelle's 4x6 Photo Love class as the basis for the page and streamed red, white and black butterflies across the page. It turned out to be one of Matt's favorite layouts. He says, because it's simple.

I like it too :)

This is a scraplift from the Studio Calico gallery, from the lovely simplytam.

The pink + metallics makes for a chic girly page. In my opinion at least.

You have to take the "pretty" picture before a big night out.

But honestly, the candid ones are my favorites.

xxbesos

Blog Hop

"Hip. Hip Hop. Hiphopononymous?!" Yep, that's right folks. It's time for another Scrapbook Challenges blog hop! Even though I'm retiring this term, the ladies were generous enough to let me play along in one last hop as a part of the design team.

Oh, and if just come to visit my blog and would like to hop along, it's best to start at Pamela's blog and go from there.

If you're new to blog, I'd just like to say, hi, hello and welcome!

A little about me?

I am a 26 year old Texan.

I live in Houston.

I work for the British government.

I have a boyfriend.

I want a cat!!

I read, scrapbook, paint and travel with any spare time I have.

That's me in a nutshell :)

So on to the fun bit! The scrappy part, the shiny new sketch! I used bits and pieces of my Studio Calico kit for this layout, which is my new favorite color scheme gray/yellow/teal. Hehe, can you tell I've been using it a lot ;)

These are my besties, Kim and Tara. I love these girls and we've been through so much together. It was nice to get back to my roots, to hang out with them like old times this past New Years Eve!

So back to the hop, wanna hear about the prizes? Huh? Huh! Huh?!

The team lined up so amazing prizes this go around! For the chance to win a goodies from Webster's Pages, Echo Park, Helmar or Unity Stamp Co, head over to Pamela's blog for details.

Tag! Brynn is it! Head on over to her blog to finish up this round hopping!

xxbesos