Greece Scrapbook Complete!!

Sooooo happy to finally be able to say that my Greece and Turkey scrapbook is DONE!! I actually finished it last week. Now it has all been printed, I made a photo for the window on the cover of the album, and even attached a pocket at the back of the scrapbook to keep my souvenirs in.

Some photos of the completed album:

My last few layouts:

This one was a redo:

Here's how it used to look.

Aaaaaand.... happy dance, it's all done!!! DONE!!!

VIEW THE ENTIRE ALBUM ON FLICKR HERE.

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New Greece & Turkey Pages

The past couple days I've been getting my scrapping groove back! My friend Chrissy and I both have albums we want to finish so we are really focusing on that. I realized I had about 10 layouts left to do to completely finish my Greece & Turkey album. Since that trip was 3 years ago it is really time to get it done!! I can't wait to have it all finished... then I can start on our Alaska trip that was already over a year ago.... lol.

Anyway, here are all of my new pages!
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Poppy Field Photos

At the end of our day of geocaching in Estes Park, we pulled off to the side of the road where we spotted a beautiful little cluster of orange poppies. Always ones to look for a photo opportunity, we just couldn't pass it up! Simply by getting on the other side of them, we were able to enjoy a view of the mountains behind them, with the setting sun filtering through them and creating a glow.

I really wanted a good picture of me to document where I'm at right now in the weight loss process... and of course, being way into facebook and everything else online, I'm always on the lookout for a new profile pic! He took a lot of me - and I took a few of him too. :) We had such a fun time. It's amazing the experiences you can have if you are just keeping a lookout for them. The smallest thing like a little cluster of poppies off the side of the road can be a great photo opportunity and a really nice memory, too.

For once I've already done the scrapbook page of these photos, too! I got together with a new friend last weekend and managed to get two pages done (other one coming soon to the blog) :) So here is the scrapbook page I created of these photos....

My Newest Layouts

FINALLY I am posting all of the scrapbook layouts I got done when I was on the digiscrap retreat. I haven't scrapped since, just for the record :( But hopefully during my recovery from my upcoming surgery, I will get some scrapping done!

Here we go! Click on a layout if you want to be taken to the Flickr page to view credits and details.

WHEW!

The Digital Scrapbooking Retreat

I had SUCH a nice time on my scrapping retreat in Utah a couple weeks ago! The hotel was beautiful and it was a great place to stay... here are a few photos of this awesome place - Newpark Hotel in Park City, Utah.

The conference itself was pretty cool too. The rooms were nice sized and set up well for the presentations, the chairs were comfy, and it was a nice environment. At my experience level, I don't feel like I learned a whole bunch of new stuff, but that's okay - I had fun being around others who enjoy this hobby. I do hope they offer some more advanced things at some point, and if they do I will definitely go back! It was a great time.

Me enjoying myself :)

Some great gals I met (Julie & Paula):

I also got LOTS of scrapping done while I was there, and I have lots of new pages to share... coming soon!! :)

You can view my entire photo album of the retreat here on Flickr. :)

New Layouts & Fabulous Templates!

It's been a while since I've done any scrapping... the hip and back pain I've been dealing with make it hard to sit at my computer for long. I'm happy to report the chiropractic treatments are really beginning to help... and I was able to scrap this week! I also had a little extra motivation because my lovely friend Yin was about to be coming out with a plethora of new templates, and since I am on her CT I got to play with them ahead of time and make some fun new layouts!!

The first one I did is from when we made pumpkin pie from scratch this past November.

This uses Yin's template #191 which has just been released!

And here is Yin's layout of this template:

My next layout is for part of my Greece & Turkey album. This page is sort of a collection of people and fun photos that don't really fit into the rest of the book very well. I just collected them all onto one fun page of memories :)

This uses Yin's template #193 which is available here.

Here's Yin's beautiful layout of this template:

And finally, my favorite of this bunch. This template is amazing! This layout is from our visit to Arches National Park in Utah, this past October.

Brought to you by Yin's template #194, on sale and available here.

Now for Yin's gorgeous layout:

Aren't these amazing? Yin put out ELEVEN new templates this week! She has hit #200 and to celebrate she is having a fantastic sale!! I have always stocked up at these sales in the past, they are really so generous. Hope you get to take the opportunity to get some new goodies!

You can check out her new blog entry with all the new layouts HERE ... or go directly to the store to enjoy the sale HERE!

In addition, she is giving away 3 fabulous freebie templates!! So that's another great reason to go check out her blog post :)

Yes I'm on Yin's creative team, but I just want to be clear that I feel like I've been her biggest fan ever since I started scrapping. I only started working with her recently and before that I've purchased almost every single template she's made. I absolutely love them and my reason for promoting her so much here is NOT because she has asked (she never asks!) but because I love her products so much, truly enjoy them, and like to let people know about them so that they can get that same enjoyment! :) I really wanted to post about the sale because it's such a great opportunity :)

Sale goes until April 18th!