Wanderful WOTG - Part II

As promised, here is the additional layout from the Wanderful Workshop on the Go. I love how easy it is to put these pages together! These pictures are from the super fun girls' weekend in June when my daughter, a friend, and I flew to Maine for a friend's wedding. It's great to capture the details soon after the event before the details are forgotten.

When I make the pages from a Workshop on the Go, I'm always inspired by the creative embellishments. The step-by-step instructions included with the kit make it so easy, and I often apply the techniques to future layouts. The metal chevron embellishment wasn't used in the instructions, but I used it to cover an ink "oops" when I accidentally got some ink from the edge of my block on the page. It happens, so I look at it as an opportunity to creatively fix the mistake.

The large stamped image was fun to make. I stamped it twice: once in Black and once in Crystal Blue. On the Crystal Blue image, I cut the upper and lower half of the globe and paper pieced it onto the Black image. It gives it some dimension, and it was a lot easier than trying to carefully color the stamp in two different inks. Try this technique on your next card or layout! 

Why I Do What I Do . . .

This beautiful video tells the story of why I do what I do - and keep doing it. Memory keeping is precious and worth the investment. 

Wanderful Workshop on the Go

I had the great opportunity to travel to New England in June for a friend's wedding. It was an amazing girls' weekend with another friend, my daughter, and me. We packed a whole lot of fun into the four days we stayed in Maine: a day trip to Boston, a day trip to the Yankee Candle Village in MA, a visit to a charming lighthouse, and lots and lots of "lobstah" rolls and "chowdah."

I took a million pictures (give or take), so I decided to go through my stash of scrapbooking supplies to make some pages to showcase the pictures. I landed on the Wanderful Workshop on the Go. I love the travel-themed papers, and the WOTG makes it so easy to make gorgeous pages. All the thinking and planning is done for me, and all the materials (except for ink) are included in the kit. There are some amazing kits coming in the new Annual Inspirations, so be on the lookout for more! 

Here is the first layout from the workshop. In addition to the main layout, there is also a second layout featured, too. I'm working on that one now and will post in a few days. I used the Cricut Artbooking cartridge on this layout, but there is also an option to make the layout without Cricut. CTMH Cricut cartridge sets now come with cardstock rather than dimensional elements plus three coordinating stamp sets.

A Fresh Start

So, I blinked, and two years passed, just like that. I knew it had been quite a while since I did any blogging, but two years?? We've had a few life changes in that time. It was just about two years ago that I interviewed for a new position with my company and was selected to move from Illinois to Arizona for the new role. I moved first, then my husband and oldest son moved a couple of months later. Less than a year later, my mother moved from Illinois to our home in Arizona, and our youngest son moved out here to finish his last two years of college. During all the moving and adjustments, scrapbooking and stamping went by the wayside for a while. Did I mention we moved twice in two years? Once to a rental house, and a year later to a newly built home. 

After ten months in our new house, I am slowly but surely getting unpacked and settled. It has been a challenge because I don't have a dedicated scrapbook room in this house. I've become very creative with my storage solutions since my scrap area is in the master bedroom! As I'm unpacking the very last of the scrapbooking boxes (no mean feat, I assure you!), I am becoming more and more motivated to get crafty again. The last box I opened contained about 60 stamp sets and a few Cricut cartridges that I've been missing. That was a very sweet surprise! I'm even thinking of becoming a CTMH consultant again. I'll keep you posted on that front. 

I'm excited about getting started again. Thanks for hanging in there - expect to see more of me!