Hello 2022

WOW. It's been a minute. I even had to update my age over there on the description 😳

So how does one begin blogging again? Do you just update a few things, decide what's still relevant, and start writing? I think that's what I'm going to do! 

So what's been happening since 2019? Well covid. Duh. Working as a health care provider during a pandemic has been... interesting to say the least. I'll skip those 2 years and just focus on the right now! 

We continued being Passholders and kept going to Dollywood, Disney, and Universal.

I became a planner babe.

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We finally found our perfect camper and traded in our old one.

I become a plant lady.

We discovered (and fell in love with!) Buc-ee's! They're currently building the world's largest less than 2 hours from us, at the Smoky Mountains exit. #cantwait

I continued collecting vintage Pyrex.

I kept scrapbooking but mostly switched to Disney layouts. In fact, I joined a Disney design team. I've been part of Disney Creative Co for 2022 and it's amazing! I've received a ton of fun products from Scraps and Ink Crafts.

There's probably a lot more updates that I can't think of currently, but I'll get to them eventually. I'll be updating the blog with lots of posts with projects I've worked on this year. Hope you'll stick around for more!

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Artful Epcot

I made this Disney page for our February trip. It will go in my 2019 weekly album, not my ongoing Disney album.

Paper Issues had a challenge in February called "You Color My World" where we were challenged to use as many colors as possible. found this gorgeous Shimelle Glitter Girl paper and knew it would be perfect for the challenge.

I used some Amy Tangerine ephemera and stickers for a few embellishments.

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Magical Purple Wall

I absolutely love all the fun Disney walls at Walt Disney World and I make Joe take pics of me in from of them. He's a good #instagramhusband. My favorite wall is probably the purple wall in Magic Kingdom, and I especially love the new galactic section as it fades to white.

I thought this paper from Echo Park's #Selfie collection was perfect for this layout.

I used a few ephemera pieces from Shimelle to make my journaling spot.

Then I added a few more pieces down in the bottom corner. What's your favorite Disney wall?

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Rose Gold Everything!

In case you didn't know, rose gold is my favorite. Disney has caught on and has all sorts of things rose gold. They've moved on to millennial pink, but I'm still into the rose gold.

Y'all! I made this rose gold Mickey head! I kept some leftover punches from this layout. I just applied VersaMark to the punch, then applied rose gold embossing powder (OMG RIGHT?!) and heated it up.

I've had these white Thickers that you can paint and I wondered if I could heat emboss them... well it turns out you can! But the powder does come off (even after you set it with heat) so don't handle them too much. I had to touch up one of the letters.

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3 Amigos

I'm on a Disney scrapbooking kick, so I have a couple more layouts to share. Today's is a funny picture of my husband, dad, and brother wearing those giant sombreros in Epcot's Mexico pavilion. We went as a family in April 2016. My parents and brother hadn't been in about 25 years (!)

Isn't this paper just PERFECT?! It's from Michael's brand Recollection and the collection is called Mexican Fiesta. This sheet had the banners on top and then the bottom of the paper had a brighter pink ombre. I covered up the bottom with part of some fringed paper (same collection).

This is the first (and probably only) time I've used paper flowers on a layout. They're generally not my style but in this case, I thought they matched perfectly!

I even busted out my Silhouette Cameo and cut that title!

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Boo to You!

We went to Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party last month and took this photo as soon as we walked into the park.

This Mickey cut file is from a group I'm in over at Disney Scrappers, and the page sketch can be found here.

 I used Thickers on vellum for the title (Boo to You is the name of the parade at this event)

Then I used lots of stickers, chipboard pieces, enamel dots, and 3 brads for embellishment.

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Some People are Worth Melting for

I love this selfie Joe took with Olaf and knew I wanted to title it "Some people are worth melting for"! I made this layout for another Paper Issues challenge (actually a Scraplift Sunday). I substituted the hearts on the original layout for these colorful snowflakes made from this paper by Shimelle.

I used 2 kinds of alphas for the title.

I didn't add anything else to the layout since these snowflakes bring so much color to the page. I just layered a couple of papers under the photo.

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Cheers!

I spent some time working on some Paper Issues challenges recently and made this layout about violet lemonade at Epcot's Flower & Garden festival. SO GOOD!! I missed it last year but am glad I tried it this year.

I submitted this layout for the monochromatic (plus black and white) challenge. I love how it turned out! I chose yellow because of the yellow flower in the background of the photo, and then realized it made the color of the lemonade pop even more!

It was fun to look through my stash and find yellow papers and embellishments.

And I finally used some black Thickers I've been hoarding!

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Artful Epcot

We were able to attend the Festival of the Arts at Epcot this February and it was nice! I think it's the second year of the festival, but we missed it last year. One activity we participated in was painting the weekly mural at the entrance to the World Showcase in Epcot.

I love these cute pom pom frames from the Crate Paper "Good Vibes" collection.

I was happy to be able to use these Thickers - I'm at a critical low on this font!

These embellishments (and the background paper) are from My Mind's Eye "Jubilee" collection.

This journaling spot is from Heidi Swapp's Favorite Things Project Life kit.

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Project Life App 2018: Weeks 5-8

Still up to date (woo hoo!) with Project Life for 2018. I'm doing a weekly page with inserts and random 12x12s as I want to make them.

Week 5: I'm going to include a monthly reading list at the end of each month and plan to use this "Currently Reading" journaling card each time.

We took advantage of some time off work to go to our second home (haha). As I've mentioned before, I will also create 12x12s for my Disney album. Last year I started doing quick recaps of these trips in my Project Life and it's still working for me.

Disney: 

Universal:

Week 6:

Week 7:

Week 8:

How are you documenting 2018?

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Project Life 2017: Weeks 41-46

Today I've got a few more pages of Project Life 2017 to share with you. I'm so close to being done with 2017! Have I mentioned how much I love this method of memory keeping?

We took a vacation this week and went to Universal Orlando so we could attend Halloween Horror Nights. I have been a scaredy cat about going to this event for years, but I'm actually glad we went now. We had a blast and I would totally go again.

This page will be cut in half and put into a 6"x12" insert with the Universal stuff on the front, and Disney stuff on the back.

Disney recap:


Week 43 has some private journaling that I'm not sharing here on the inter webs. But it's still a pretty page :)

We went camping in Pigeon Forge and saw Dolly Parton at Dollywood!!! WHAT?! This page will be cut in half to make a 6" x 12" insert.

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That's a Lovely Story

I've been hoarding this piece of tea cup paper for a LONG TIME (it's from American Crafts Soho Garden collection) and it finally paid off!

I used die cuts from the Soho Garden collection and also from Shimelle's Little by Little collection on this layout, along with enamel dots.

I'm so glad I had this paper!

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