Peterhof Gardens

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  It's a bit overcast today so maybe I'll be able to take pictures of my scrapbook layouts today...I have a giant stack that I have finished but not photographed to share here yet, and I don't want to do it when it's full sun because then harsh shadows and glare on the pictures.  Which there's still a bit of glare on the ones I'm sharing today but all I can do is the best I can do...

These layouts are from our visit to Peterhof near St. Petersburg when we visited on a Baltic cruise in 2014.  Peter the Great was happy living in a simple wood cabin, but his ministers insisted he had to have a residence to impress foreign dignitaries, so Peterhof was built and surrounded with extensive gardens.  Our tour didn't take us inside any of the buildings, just through the gardens.

That watch out for pickpockets sign in the lower right just always makes me laugh for some reason.

Today's color palette:  Evening Evergreen, Pale Papaya, Gumball Green, and Dapper Denim.  I made these pages over a year ago and honestly I don't know how I landed on this color palette with these pictures.  I guess it works?

Anyway, that's it for me today.  Ryan has his taekwondo belt test this afternoon and then we're going to dinner at Texas Roadhouse after.  But in the meantime I have to start contacting utilities companies in Colorado to set things up for when we move.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Letterpress Alphabet, Rough Edges Alphabet, Friends Never Fade
Ink:  Gumball Green, Evening Evergreen, Pale Papaya
Paper:  Evening Evergreen, Gumball Green, Dapper Denim, Thick Basic White, Lovely in Linen DSP
Accessories:  None

Tallinn

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Can't hardly believe it but this is Ryan's next-to-last Monday in first grade--his last day of school is next Thursday.  We are going to be busy for the next two weeks, then he has karate camp for the last week of May...and as soon as June hits, we are in full-blown get-ready-to-move mode.  It's coming up fast.

Anyway, today's scrapbook layout is from our 2014 Baltic cruise, when we visited Tallinn, Estonia.

Estonia's most recent claim to fame is that they invented Skype, which we were told several times.  We did a free walking tour of the city and our tour guide Heli was AMAZING!  She told us lots of interesting facts about the country and the capital city itself, and gave us restaurant recommendations at the end of the tour.  We ended up having these giant pancakes at a place she recommended and they were delicious.

My color palette was mostly inspired by the two signs on the right-hand page, and for some reason I find that "decent bowl of elk soup" amusing.  Anyway, the color palette for today is Soft Succulent, Cajun Craze, So Saffron, and white.

I have a set of pictures out on my craft table right now that are giving me fits for a color combination, so hopefully brilliant inspiration will strike today so I can work on that.  And I have four other layouts that I need to do journaling on.  That's it for me today, peeps.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Letterpress Alphabet
Ink:  Basic Gray
Paper:  Soft Succulent, Cajun Craze, Thick Basic White, Fine Art Floral DSP, Delicate Desert DSP
Accessories:  None

Metro & Miscellany / Neva River Cruise

Scrappy Monday, y'all.  It is super overcast here in Texas today and the clouds look pretty much the same as in these pictures from St. Petersburg in 2014.

We did a Baltic Sea cruise a couple of months before we moved from the UK back to the States, and we had two days in St. Petersburg.  We joined a tour group to try to see as much as possible since I imagine this is the only time we'll ever visit anywhere in Russia...part of the tour included riding on the St. Petersburg metro system and taking a cruise on the Neva River.  The metro stations are really fancy (check out the mosaic in the top photo on the left page), and we had very quick stops at a few places, so this page is just an amalgam of those stops.  All the pics on the right are from the river cruise, which was very cold and windy--it was drizzling the whole time we were on the boat.

My moody, rainy color palette today:  Pretty Peacock, Mint Macaron, Lost Lagoon, and Whisper White.

That's it for me today, y'all.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Letterpress Alphabet, Rough Edges Alphabet
Ink:  Pretty Peacock, Lost Lagoon, Night of Navy marker
Paper:  Pretty Peacock, Lost Lagoon, Night of Navy, Thick Basic White, Perfectly Artistic DSP
Accessories:  None

Church of the Spilled Blood

Scrappy Monday, folks!  And since it's Memorial Day, I thought I'd share a scrapbook layout about a different kind of memorial.

This was one of the churches we visited in St. Petersburg during our 2014 Baltic cruise; after Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881, the Romanov family had the church built on the site of the assassination.  The interior is covered with amazing and beautiful mosaics.

Today's color palette:  Crushed Curry, Cherry Cobbler, Tranquil Tide, Midnight Muse, and Whisper White.  This is when I discovered that all my Midnight Muse markers are dried out.  I haven't invested in the new SU! markers yet, but that is in the plans.

Have a great day, folks.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Letterpress Alphabet, Rough Edges Alphabet, Positive Thoughts
Ink:  Tranquil Tide, Midnight Muse, Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy marker
Paper:  Crushed Curry textured, Tranquil Tide, Thick Basic White, Dashing Along DSP
Accessories:  None

The Hermitage

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I am (very) slowly starting to prep my craft room for our upcoming move...yesterday I pulled all my needle minders off the filing cabinet and packed them up, and went through all the Paper Pumpkin kits and consolidated things to take with me.  I think I'll send those kits in our unaccompanied baggage so I have something I can do for paper crafting when we get to Texas; most of our stuff will probably take close to two months to arrive.

Anyway, today I have a recent layout to share with you:

You can see the original pictures here and here.  This is from when we spent two days exploring St. Petersburg as part of our Baltic cruise in 2014;  the Hermitage is one of those mega museums where you could spend a month of Sundays there and still not see everything, and we were only there for about two hours.  Still, after a while your brain reaches capacity and says no matter what your eyes look at, it won't remember anything because brain too full.

Today's color palette:  Poppy Parade, Just Jade, Pretty Peacock (I really started using this a lot when we found out it was coming back in the new catalog), Crushed Curry, and white.  So why a red color for the page base?  I laid out all my pictures from this place and several had a lot of red in them, so I picked the red cardstock that matched it the most closely.  Then I went through all the pictures and ended up not using any of the red ones *rolls eyes* but the Poppy Parade page base does contrast nicely with the photos.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Letterpress Alphabet, Rough Edges Alphabet, Artistic Etchings
Ink:  Just Jade, Crushed Curry, Pretty Peacock
Paper:  Poppy Parade, Pretty Peacock, Just Jade, Thick Basic White, Sweet Symmetry DSP, Poppy Parade DSP
Accessories:  None

Warwick Castle

Scrappy Monday!  Hope y'all had a good weekend.  We had a relaxing weekend at home, which was lovely.  And for today I have a scrapbook layout that I made fairly recently.

See the original pics here.  I know I used the TINIEST strips of that patterned paper on here, but they were already-cut scraps and I wanted to keep this layout super simple.  I think what took the longest on this one was deciding on the color palette, but here's what I ended up with:

Summer Starfruit, Primrose Petals, Baja Breeze, Basic Gray, and Very Vanilla.  At first I wanted to do greens because of how much green is in the pictures, but then *everything* would look green.  I think I picked Summer Starfruit for the page base just because I hadn't used it for a page base before, and then looked through my old Color Coaches (I have three different editions) and In Color combinations until I found one I liked. *shrug*  Warwick wasn't my favorite castle, and this isn't my favorite layout, but that's okay--done is better than perfect, I think.

I did a lot of scrapping last week and I'm looking forward to getting a bit more done this week.  I tend to ponder my next few scrapbook layouts while I'm driving or trying to get to sleep at night, I just need the time to get all my ideas down on paper.  : )  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Letterpress Alphabet, Rough Type, Hello Lovely
Ink:  Baja Breeze, Summer Starfruit, Basic Gray
Paper:  Summer Starfruit, Primrose Petals, Thick Very Vanilla, Patio Party DSP
Accessories:  None

Flying with Holie

Scrappy Monday and happy Valentine's Day.  Today is also the hubs' birthday!  He does *not* like being a Valentine's baby and would probably rather ignore his birthday altogether but we love him and want to celebrate him.  I don't have a traditional red hearts and roses layout to share today, but I do have one showcasing one of the hubs' favorite activities:  flying!

He had the opportunity a few years ago to meet up with a friend (Holie is his nickname) and go flying in some vintage planes.  Every once in a while, especially if it's some event that I wasn't involved with at all, I have the hubs do journaling on scrapbook layouts.

Today's fall-ish color scheme includes Garden Green, Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Early Espresso, and Very Vanilla.  Well, the pictures were taken in November, after all.

Hope you have a great Valentine's Day!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Vintage Leaves, Rough Type, Letterpress Alphabet
Ink:  Garden Green, Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Early Espresso
Paper:  Garden Green, Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Thick Very Vanilla, Painted Autumn DSP
Accessories:  Leaflets dies, Layering Ovals dies

Knaresborough

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I read somewhere once that you should fill your New Year's Day with the things that you want your whole year to be filled with, so I spent time with my family, had a cup of tea, bought a book, had another cup of tea, read a book, worked on a scrapbook layout, and did some cross stitching. : )  I am definitely going to try to get more scrapping done in 2022.  In the meantime, here's one of the few layouts I made in 2021.

Photos are from our first trip to Scotland; Knaresborough was our last stop in England before we drove into Scotland.  The boat picture in the bottom right corner inspired me to add some Poppy Parade accents to my blue and green layout.  Also Baroque Motifs was such a fabulous stamp set, it was fun to play with it again for this layout.

Today's color palette and sorry the photos are both bluish today, it can be very hard to get good photos of my stuff when it's super cloudy.  Anyway, color palette:  Garden Green, Wild Wasabi, Misty Moonlight, Poppy Parade, Basic Gray, and Whisper White.  And with that, it's time for me to get my workout on and get ready for work today.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Letterpress Alphabet, Baroque Motifs
Ink:  Wild Wasabi, Garden Green, Poppy Parade, Misty Moonlight, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Garden Green, Wild Wasabi, Misty Moonlight, Thick Basic White, Trimming the Town DSP
Accessories:  None

Run Baby Run

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  How is your week starting off?

I have been a wee bit obsessed with a project to go through all my retired stamps, so on my two days off last week I didn't even TOUCH the five layouts that are completely done except for journaling, and I've got a small stack o' layouts that I need to take pictures of.  My only day off this week is Thursday so we'll see what I get done that day...I will be spending time in my craft room one way or another!

Today's layout is from April of 2018.

We went to a friend's promotion ceremony and this was not too long after Ryan started walking (which was about 0.0005 seconds before he started running).  I got some really great pictures of Ryan and the hubs together so I had to make a whole separate layout for them :)  Aren't my guys handsome?!

Today's color palette:  Daffodil Delight, Call Me Clover, Calypso Coral, Blueberry Bushel, and Night of Navy.  I love that shade of green :)

Have a great week, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Letterpress Alphabet
Ink:  Night of Navy
Paper:  Daffodil Delight, Blueberry Bushel, Calypso Coral, Thick Whisper White, Animal Expedition DSP
Accessories:  Stitched Stars dies, Well Written dies

Ely Cathedral

Scrappy Monday on a Tuesday, y'all!  So I said I had just taken pictures of a bunch of recent layouts and here I am finally posting two that I did a long time ago.  Oh well!

These pictures are from Ely Cathedral, which was about a half hour drive from where we lived in England.  I sponged some Mint Macaron ink on the DSP to tone down the white, and I did it with Blushing Bride on the second layout which you'll see in a minute.

I'd finished stamping the entire page and then I got a SMUDGE on it.  Oh well.

Not sure I like the DSP as much on this one as the first layout, but done is better than perfect, right?

Today's color combination is Bordering Blue, Night of Navy, Mint Macaron, and Blushing Bride.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Letterpress Alphabet, Brushwork Alphabet, Angelic, Strength & Hope
Ink:  Night of Navy, Mint Macaron, Blushing Bride
Paper:  Bordering Blue, Mint Macaron, Blushing Bride, Floral Boutique DSP
Accessories:  None

Russian Selfies

Scrappy Monday everyone!  It's a gray day here, pretty chilly and we're expecting rain this afternoon, so I chose a gray layout to share today but it's one that makes me giggle.

See my original blog post here, I pretty much copied what I wrote on that for my journaling here.

Today's color palette includes Basic Gray, Daffodil Delight, Cucumber Crush, Night of Navy, and Whisper White.  I think I subconsciously put green and yellow on at least half of my scrapbook layouts now...I blame Missy! ;)

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Letterpress Alphabet, Rough Edges Alphabet, Mosaic Madness
Ink:  Cucumber Crush, Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Basic Gray, Cucumber Crush, Night of Navy, Thick Whisper White, Quatrefancy DSP
Accessories:  Mosaic punch

Yusupov Palace

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Hope your week is off to a good start.  I'm starting the week with a layout from the St. Petersburg part of our 2014 Baltic cruise:

See the original pics here.  Yusupov Palace is now perhaps most famous as being the site of the murder of Rasputin.  The conspirators poisoned him and he didn't die, then shot him and he still managed to run out of the house before being shot in the courtyard, and then they bundled him up in a rug and disposed of the body in the Neva River.  See the mannequins in the two far left pictures?  They're reenacting the crime!  (The poisoning part, not the bloodier shooting part.)

I did a two-toned title again, using sponge daubers to ink up the letters in Delightful Dijon and Early Espresso and only on a scrapbook page would dijon and espresso go together because as foods that would be ick.  Anyway, I wish I'd managed to grab another pack or two of the Moroccan DSP when it went on clearance, I love that paper so I'm trying not to hoard it by using it on some scrapbook pages.

Today's color palette:  Not Quite Navy, Delightful Dijon, So Saffron, Early Espresso, and Very Vanilla.  And some fantastic patterned paper.

Well, I'm off to start my week right with a trip to the gym.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Letterpress Alphabet, Rough Edges Alphabet, Moroccan Nights
Ink:  Not Quite Navy, Delightful Dijon, Early Espresso
Paper:  Not Quite Navy, Delightful Dijon, So Saffron, Very Vanilla, Moroccan DSP
Accessories:  Hexagon punch

York

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I was just looking through all my draft blog posts, a lot of which are China layouts so we'll get to them, and I've got some that have been waiting almost a year and.a half to see the light of day!  So here's a layout I made early last year.

As you might expect from the page title, these pictures were taken in York ;) Somehow I don't think I ever put them up on my other blog though.  But anyway, we visited a train museum and Yorkminster, one of those huge Gothic churches with a pretty rose window.

My title itself is really, really simple so I jazzed it up a bit with some stripey paper.  I also used that to mat the journaling block too, which is fun.

Today's color palette comes mostly from the very old Prestwick DSP:  Brocade Blue, Basic Gray, Smoky Slate, Garden Green, and Night of Navy.

Well, I've got to feed Cheerios to a very demanding little creature.  Peace out, kids!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Letterpress Alphabet
Ink:  Garden Green, Night of Navy
Paper:  Brocade Blue, Garden Green, Night of Navy, Smoky Slate, Prestwick DSP
Accessories:  None

St. Isaac's Cathedral

Sooooo I was planning to make a card yesterday to post today, but instead I knuckled down and worked on that honeymoon album a bit.  Once I do some journaling and a wee bit of stamping, I'll have three more layouts completed for it which means only FIVE more left!  Woo.

So anyway, how's about some more scrapbook pages today!

Wow, that picture is crooked.  Tilt your head to the right ;)  Pictures are from another cathedral in St. Petersburg that we visited when we went on our Baltic cruise in 2014 (wow, three years ago already!).  See them close up here.  My favorite thing in this cathedral was the malachite columns, which you can see behind me in the picture on the bottom of the right page, so I decided to highlight them a bit by making my page base Emerald Envy.  And then that led me to the Moroccan DSP, which is retiring along with the Moroccan Nights stamp set.  Get that stamp set ASAP, I love it!  I'm sure it will make several more appearances in my scrapbook pages.

My title today is brought to us by the long-retired Letterpress and Rough Edges alphabets.  There's no apostrophe in the Letterpress Alphabet set, so I stamped the dot from the exclamation point (also used for the period), and then drew in the tail to make the apostrophe.

Some stamped accents to match the patterned paper.

I took the color palette directly from the Moroccan DSP:  Emerald Envy, Dapper Denim, Delightful Dijon, Early Espresso (I know it looks black, but it's not), and Very Vanilla.

Sounds like the kiddo wants his next bottle, so I'd better scarf down the rest of my breakfast so I can take care of him.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Letterpress Alphabet, Rough Edges Alphabet, Moroccan Nights
Ink:  Dapper Denim, Early Espresso
Paper:  Emerald Envy, Dapper Denim, Delightful Dijon, Very Vanilla, Moroccan DSP
Accessories:  square punches, postage stamp punch

Favorite Eats

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Okay, so every day that I post is a scrappy day on the blog lately.  Haven't made a card in weeks but man, am I scrappin' up a storm.  So today I'm sharing one of the ten (TEN!) layouts I made last week!

The photos are from our last few weeks on Okinawa, when we hit up all our favorite restaurants one last time before leaving the island (see them all here).  I'm digging the bright colors I used on this layout, and especially those bold bright patterns from the Sweet Taffy DSP pack (retired, because I have a huge paper hoard!).

Yet another mixed-font title, but this one was super easy because the "favorite" was already a stamp by itself from the set Wonderful Favorites, so this title was really quick to stamp.

Today's color palette:  Coastal Cabana, Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, Island Indigo, and Whisper White.  LOVE. IT.

I think we're starting to get a routine established with Ryan, which is lovely.  We stopped swaddling this weekend because he flipped himself from his back onto his front, so now he's just sleeping in jammies.  We think he might wake himself up more often because he can move his arms freely, but he seems to be pretty good about putting himself back to sleep so I may be getting more sleep here soon too!  I still wake up a lot even if he's not making noise.

Anyway, I'm off.  I have yet more scrapping to do...I think I'm going to work on my honeymoon album!  I so want to finish that just so I can call one project completely donesies.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Wonderful Favorites, Letterpress Alphabet
Ink:  Coastal Cabana, Island Indigo
Paper:  Coastal Cabana, Island Indigo, Melon Mambo, Whisper White, Sweet Taffy DSP
Accessories:  None

Madrid

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  We're now two days past Sodapop's due date, so who knows when we're going to get this show on the road.  In the meantime, I keep scrappin'.

Here's the last layout from our Spain trip with Missy and Bennet...I can't figure out why the pictures show up so dark on the blog post.  They look brighter before I upload them, I just don't get it.  Anyway, same color combo as the Segovia pages I posted on Friday, and the Shenanigans layout from last week; for some reason I just loved that triangular print with the Ancient Egyptian temple pictures.  (Why is there an Egyptian temple in the middle of a Madrid park?  Because when the Aswan Dam was built, the Nile flooded part of the delta where several ancient temples were located; archaeologists from around the world helped to get the temples moved from the site to save them and then Egypt gifted a few of the temples to other countries who helped with the preservation effort.  Also why there's an Egyptian temple in New York City.)

There's my title.  Spain makes me think of yellow and sun images so that's what I used...and look the sky is gray for most of my pictures.

Same colors as last time, y'all.  Sometimes I like to do multiple layouts in the same color combo so they look more like they all go together...although a lot of times I try to only do one layout for each event because I have a LOT of stuff to scrap.  But Spain got four layouts in the end :)

I'm off to get cleaned up and go to the grocery store.  I was there last Friday and got asked by a random woman if I was scared to be out and walking around town that close to my due date...uh no, obviously not since I was in line at the grocery store at the time ;)  Pretty sure I'm not going to give birth in Wegmans, ha.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Letterpress Alphabet, In the Sky
Ink:  Crushed Curry, Calypso Coral, Soft Suede marker
Paper:  Crushed Curry textured, Midnight Muse, Whisper White, Best Year Ever DSP
Accessories:  None

Charming Sunrise

GUESS WHAT, Y'ALL.  Today is the 1,000th post here at Snapdragon Stamps!  One THOUSAND!  And I think that just about every single one of those posts has at least one card or scrapbook page, so that's a lot of ink and paper and stamps.  Dude!

I don't have any special celebration planned for today (oops) but I do have a new scrapbook layout for you.

Pics are from our trip to Ohio's Amish country last year; see them all here.  Our last morning in Ohio, we got up a little early and drove around taking pictures as the sun came up.  This is the last chronological layout for the Ohio trip but it's the one I made first (stay tuned for the other two coming up on our next Scrappy Mondays).

I got the Brushwork Alphabet stamp set when it first debuted this summer, but this is its maiden voyage.  You know I love me some mixed font titles.

Today's color palette:  Bashful Blue, Peekaboo Peach, Cherry Cobbler, Soft Suede, and Whisper White.

Okay, I'm off to do all the things today...walk dogs, grocery shopping, go to gym, you know the drill.  And also play with the new camera we got this weekend! :D  (Maybe that's my 1,000-post prize?  No, this is hubs' and my Christmas gift for ourselves!  Squee!)

Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Brushwork Alphabet, Letterpress Alphabet, Gently Falling
Ink:  Bashful Blue, Peekaboo Peach, Cherry Cobbler, Soft Suede
Paper:  Bashful Blue, Peekaboo Peach, Cherry Cobbler, Fruit Stand DSP
Accessories:  Stamp-a-Ma-Jig

Our House (England)

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  How was your weekend?  We went to see Star Trek Beyond yesterday (I wanna go see it again already!) and other than that it was pretty quiet.  This afternoon we take Little Man in to get his leg brace, looking forward to that.

So on to this week's scrapbook layout!

Since hubs and I move around a lot, I try to take pictures of each house we live in--about six months ago I was scrapping some photos from North Carolina and I kept looking in the backgrounds of the pictures and thinking oh hey, we had a Harry Potter calendar! or I forgot we used to have that picture hanging in the dining room.  Hubs and I will have our 13th anniversary this October, and in that time we've lived in seven different houses.  So this is our England house, which was my favorite of all.  Oh, see the little Big Ben sticker next to the stairs on the right-hand page?  That was one of my address labels--I always try to include one of those on the scrapbook pages too.

I think I go in cycles with alphabet stamps for my scrapbook pages, and lately it's been all about the Letterpress Alphabet.  I have another layout sitting on my craft table right now, and the title on that one is done with Letterpress too.

Today's color palette:  Island Indigo, River Rock, Primrose Petals, Early Espresso, and Whisper White.  I chose Island Indigo because we painted a wall that color in the living room after we moved in this house; the Primrose was kinda taken from the curtains that were hanging up in the room that became my England craft room, and River Rock seemed to go with those two colors together.

I'm excited to get back to work in my craft room today.  It's so nice having a clean table that's dog hair-free!  And since I cleaned the table, I also finished updating my personal stamp catalog and rearranged my stamps, putting all the newly retired ones in with the older ones and making sure all my alphabets and current stamps are up front.  I have two five-foot-tall cabinets for stamps and I'm thinking I need to upgrade to some 6-foot-tall bookshelves because I'm double-stacked.  Guess I know what I should ask Santa for this Christmas!

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Spencerian Alphabet, Letterpress Alphabet, Circle Circus
Ink:  Island Indigo, Early Espresso
Paper:  Island Indigo, River Rock, Primrose Petals, Thick Whisper White
Accessories:  Oval & scalloped oval punches

Castle Rising Castle

Scrappy Monday, y'all.  I hope that YOUR air conditioner is working, 'cause ours has been out since last Thursday!  It was, no kidding, 84 degrees in the house yesterday.  But we're getting a brand new one installed tomorrow and I'm gonna crank that baby down to like FIFTY and dress like an Eskimo.  Or maybe not.  I'd settle for being reasonably comfortable.  Thank goodness the hubs got a fan for us, even if it is really loud.

Anyway, enough whining, let's get to the scrapbook layout today.

I made this last week while I had the Moroccan DSP out for my hummingbird card :)  I love the patterns in that DSP pack, and now that I've cut into into it twice you'll probably be seeing it a lot more often.  Anyway, this is I think the second castle we ever went to see in England...see my original blog post here.

The "Rising" part is stamped with the old SU! alphabet Letterpress, and the smaller letters are non-SU.  That's the only stamping on the layout; just a bit of pretty patterned paper and a bunch of photos and it's done.

Today's color combo:  Delightful Dijon, Cajun Craze, Early Espresso, and Very Vanilla, straight from the Moroccan DSP and surprisingly perfect with my castle pics.

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Letterpress Alphabet, smaller alphabet from Unity
Ink:  Cajun Craze, Early Espresso
Paper:  Delightful Dijon,Cajun Craze, Very Vanilla, Moroccan DSP
Accessories:  Layering Circles & Deco Labels Framelits