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My daughter got Lucky the puppy as a surprise birthday present last May. These photos were taken shortly after she came home. She has grown SO much and SO fast. I was excited to get the 2 Red Bananas Value of Joy stamp set designed by Jami Bova because it has a lab puppy in the set.

I got these cool papers at a crop a few weekends ago and have been wanting to use them. It's My Mind's Eye Laundry Line Collection. They all have some shimmer in the papers. Very Cool! So to keep with the shimmery paper, I colored my chipboard letters in December Sky Blingz paint. Blingz is awesome on chipboard! I also used Brilance Pearlescent Sky Blue around my inked up tag to add some more shimmer. A cool new trick I learned from Jeanette that I've used twice already is to cut the suede leaf ribbon and use it under flowers.

Paper(s): My Mind's Eye Laundry Line Collection

Ink(s): ColorBox Olive Pastel and Creamy Brown, Brillance Pearlescent Sky Blue, VersaMagic with black embossing powder

Other: Value of Joy Stamp Set, Making Memories label holder, Making Memories rubons, Prima flowers and Say it with Crystals, chipboard letters with Blingz, May Art suede ribbon, Sakura gel pens, shipping tag, fabric scrap

Port of New Orleans Layout

This turned out to be a Blingz-y (if that's a word) layout! All the patterned papers are from the Bo-Bunny Beachy Keen collection. The cardstocks are Bazzill. I used a bunch of the Spiced Cider Blingz on this layout. I used it around the edges of the layout and on the chipboard flowers. It soaks in the chipboard nicely and dries pretty quick. On top of the big Blingz-y flower, I layered some Prima flowers and on top of the smaller Blingz-y flower, I added an eyelet from Imaginisce and some brown wrinkled May Art ribbon. The Hip Hip Hooray stamp is from Studio G and was stamped on the brown cardstock using VersaMagic Cloud White ink.

Paper(s): Bo-Bunny Press Beachy Keen Collection, blue & green Bazzill cardstock

Ink(s): VersaMagic Cloud White & ColorBox dark brown chalk ink

Other: Magistical Memories Mod Leaf Open Flowers (chipboard), Prima flowers, May Art Ribbon, Making Memories pebble clips, American Traditional alpha stickers, Kaiser rubons

The cruise album is a work in progress so I'll be showing more layout in between the 2 Red Bananas featured products. Thanks for stopping by!

On the Deck Layout

This was taken on the deck of the ship after the Captain's supper. The love definition was developed onto the photo using Scrapbookpictures.com. The cool swirly chipboard is from Technique Tuesday. I've been saving it for one of the cruise layouts. I painted it with some Tim Holtz crackle paint and embellished it with clear dew drops. After it dried, I inked the edges with ColorBox dark brown chalk ink. The brown background paper is from Paper Loft and the patterned paper is from BasicGrey.

Paper(s): Paper Loft & BasicGrey

Ink(s): ColorBox dark brown chalk in'

Other: Technique Tuesday chipboard, clear dewdrops, Tim Holtz crackle paint

Small Beginnings Layout

This photo was taken when Mackenzie met her cousin, Thatcher, for the first time. He spent several weeks in the hospital after he was born so she was not able to visit him there. She was very excited to meet her new little cousin.

For the layout, I used 2 sheets of the double-sided Country Library by October Afternoon. I love double-sided coordinating papers! The photo was matted in cream cardstock and inked around the edges with Brillance Graphite Black ink. The green scalloped cardstock was a scrap that I inked and used the February journal stamp to allow for the quote and date. I used the Sakura stardust pen around the heart, on the journal lines and around the chipboard letters. The Prima flowers have a BasicGrey glazed brad in the center and are accented with the cool new suede leaf ribbon.

Paper(s): October Afternoon Country Library, Cream cardstock, scalloped green cardstock

Ink(s): Brillance Graphite Black

Other: 2 Red Bananas February Journal Spot stamp, Prima flowers, May Art Ribbon, American Crafts chipboard letters

Beautiful Sunset Layout

This picture was taken off the balcony of the ship one evening. The 6X6 photo was developed with the polka dot border and the word Beautiful on it by scrapbookpictures.com. I matted the photo in white and inked around the edges in ColorBox charcoal ink. Then put it on the Office Lingo paper and then on Olive Branch by BasicGrey. The title sunset is Making Memories chipboard letters which are accented with some Prima flowers and Doodlebug jewels. The bling to the left of the picture is a Say it With Crystals by Prima.

Paper(s): BasicGrey Olive Branch, Pink Paislee Outside the Box, white cardstock

Ink(s): ColorBox charcoal chalk ink

Other: Making Memories chipboard letters, Prima flowers and Say it with Crystals, Doodlebug jewels

Let the Fun Begin Layout

My husband and I celebrated 10 years last summer so we took a cruise to Mexico to celebrate! At a recent crop, I stared working on the pictures from that vacation. Since we were so busy posting all the new stamps from 2 Red Bananas last week, I didn't get any layouts that I done at the crop posted. So I'll be posting those layouts for a few days.






This layout is "Let the Fun Begin". Joe Bob took this picture out the window of the port before we left. This layout was pretty easy and came together quickly. The travel definition was printed on the picture. I had it developed at Scrapbookpictures.com. They can do your photos in different sizes AND add cool borders and definitions onto your photos. The photo in this layout is a 6X6. The ticket that has the date on it is a Tim Holtz ticket. I got that as a Christmas goodie from a scrap friend. The bling is from a "say it with crystals" set from Prima. The sticker letters and the polka dot border were both done with a white pen.

Paper(s): BasicGrey Mantle, K&Co. ship labels, other unknown
Ink(s): ColorBox creamy brown around the edges of the papers
Other: Prima flowers and bling, BasicGrey sticker letters, Tim Holtz ticket

Final Sneak Peek featuring February Journaling Spots

WOW! What a busy and fun week. Today is the final sneak peek day of featuring the new 2 Red Bananas stamp sets. Tomorrow all new exclusive sets will all be available to purchase here. I hope you've made your list! Be sure to check out the papers, inks, bling and more on the site as well.

OK for our last Sneak Peek, we are featuring the February Journaling Spot set. This set includes a heart journaling block and the word February. For my birthday card, I heat embossed the heart in white. The stamp has journal lines inside the stamp but I carefully inked the heart only with VersaMagic so that I could emboss it. Then I stamped the word February included in the February Journaling Spot set in Tsukineko Pearlescent Sky Blue. I used a variety of other stamps for all the other pieces to make "Happy 1st" and used the same ink. The cool, mesh ribbon is from May Arts. The flowers are from Prima and the jewels are from Me & My Big Ideas.

Paper(s): White cardstock base, black cardstock, doodlebug (I think) patterned paper

Ink(s): VersaMagic and embossing powder, Tsukineko Pearlescent Sky Blue

Other: May Art ribbon, Prima flowers, Me & My Big Ideas jewels

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