New snorkeling photos!!

I wanted to share a couple of new layouts that I did using Gina's Fishy Tales Mini kit. I had so much fun with the water theme on this kit and matching our snorkeling pictures with it. We have been so happy with our little underwater camera and we take it everywhere down here. Its a great thing to have to capture little snapshots.

Credits for Snorkeling with Banana Fish:
Based on a template by Chris Greiser
FISHY TALES kit by Gina Arzaga at NDISB
Photos by Angela
Font: DymoFontInvers (special thanks to AtomicCupcake.com for Frosted Glass Action used in making title)

Credits for Sosua Snorkel:
Based on a Template by Patti Hutchinson
FISHY TALES MINI KIT by Gina Arzaga
Special thanks to AtomicCupcake.com for use of her actions in creating stiches, Scribbled outline & Stencil title
Fonts: Earwig Factory, Action is & Castellar
Photos by Matt & Angela

Sandy Hook Lighthouse

I wanted to share my latest layout from our trip to New York for Thanksgiving. This layout is of some pictures Matt took of the Sandy Hook lighthouse on the Jersey coast. We could see the lighthouse from Annie's balcony so we wanted to get closer to investigate. It was closed so we didn't get to do a tour, but we enjoyed the beautiful tour around the hook with Annie.

I used Gina's Early Autumn papers for this layout and I made a set of embellishments that you can pick up for free (see post below).




















Credits for Sandy Hook:
Papers from Gina Arzaga's EARLY AUTUMN kit
Coordinating Elements by Me
Font: Accent Dot Writer
Photos by Matt

New Freebie Element Pack

Hop over to the Cre8vGirlz CT Blog for a new freebie today!!

Beach Time

The weather here today was beautiful although our quiet little beach is gone... We are starting to see the influx of tourists (yeah, like we don't fit into that category) for the holidays. The beach is busy and there are lots of new kite-boarding students so its "heads up" on the beach for crashing kites!!

We had a bit of wind so Matt took advantage of it to sail his 14 meter kite first and then he came back in to take his 10 meter out. He demoed a couple of boards today as well (why do I think these are going to be expensive demos????).

I wanted to share a new layout that I did today using another of Gina's kits called Springy Sprinkles!! It is such a cute kit and I love all of the wonderful flowered papers!!




Credits for Beach Time:
Template by Andrea Gold
Papers and elements by Gina Arzaga's SPRINGY SPRINKLES Kit at NDISB



Photos by Matt & Angela
Font: Duality

Thanksgiving 2007

I wanted to share a new layout that I did using one of Gina's fabulous kits!!

These are some pictures that I took during Thanksgiving. Annie did such a wonderful job of decorating, we didn't want to mess it all up (however the smell of the food soon made us change our minds). We did manage to snap a few pictures before the feast began.





Credits for Thanksgiving 2007:
Zoom Template by Tracy Drane
Early Autumn paper pack by Gina Arzaga


DoodleyArt: Watercolored Elements - Autumn I by Gina Arzaga


Fonts: Earwig Factory & Giddyup Std
Photos by Matt & Angela

Summer Lily

And the last one for tonight... I just finished my November Challenge for Gina's CT based on a Name Game Challenge that we played (Click HERE to see my results).

Our challenge was to pick one of our names and make a scrap page out of it. I decided to scrap my Spy Name/Bond Girl Name of SUMMER LILY. Well, I'm not very good at scrapping pictures of myself so I decided to use one that showed I was READY FOR THE ACTION!!!

My wonderful husband snapped this shot of me while I was trying on my snorkel mask to make sure it fit OK for a snorkeling trip (I promise that I do not wear this thing around the house all the time!!!). At first I thought it was great blackmail material so I decided to beat him to it and show it off!!



Created for the Name Game Challenge at the Cre8v Girls CT Blog

Credits for Summer Lily:
SPRINGY SRINKLES kit by Gina Arzaga

Template by Katy Larson & Sonya Johnston (Kissed Studio)
Font: Vivaldi & Orator Std
Photo by Matt

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Well, it might be a bit early, but since we are headed out to New York tomorrow morning to spend the holidays with Matt's family, I wanted to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving!!!

I just had to use Gina's adorable doodles again, I love them!!! I'm so jealous, I can't even begin to draw a straight line, let alone be this wonderfully creative.

Based on a Nov 14th card sketch by Lucy Chesna [http://mysketchworld.blogspot.com]

Autumn Bliss paper kit by Gina Arzaga [http://www.ndisb.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1439&zenid=1df2822b3f86ee9ae961dc5ecdf4b14e]

Doodled flowers & tag by Gina Arzaga [http://www.ndisb.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1437&zenid=1df2822b3f86ee9ae961dc5ecdf4b14e]

Font: Pristina

Cuddly Campers

I am finally getting to go through some pictures from past trips that we have taken and able to create scrapbook pages!!

I recently received an invitation to join Gina Arzaga's {cre8tvlyyrs} Creative team and I was so excited to work with her wonderful creations. Check out her blog here and her store here.




Matt took these pictures of us while we were on a camping trip in June of 2006 in Rocky Mountain National Park in Estes Park, Colorado. He loves night photography and had a great time playing with the fire.

Credits for Cuddly Campers:
Based on a Nov 12th sketch by Lucy Chesna [http://mysketchworld.blogspot.com]

Autumn Bliss paper kit by Gina Arzaga [http://www.ndisb.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1439&zenid=1df2822b3f86ee9ae961dc5ecdf4b14e]

Doodled flowers & tag by Gina Arzaga [http://www.ndisb.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1437&zenid=1df2822b3f86ee9ae961dc5ecdf4b14e]


Quote for Lisa Joy's DSO Quote challenage [http://digital-scrapbooking.org/boards/viewtopic.php?t=1984]