Special Guest Designer, Allison

Greetings all!

Today we have a special guest designer, Allison! Allison is a lovely young lady and we began working together on 2 wedding albums that she made for dear family friends. She did such a great job and got really excited over a new Scrapbook kit she received for Hanukkah. We decided to make some of the layouts included in the instructions the other day. Here they are:

I am looking forward to trying this with some Close to my Heart papers and the Cricut Art Philosophy and Artbooking Collections. Thanks to Allison for allowing me to share your newest creations. Until next time.....

Guest Designer Day: Lynne of Her Craftiness

Greetings to you all! I am so happy to have Miss Lynne as my Guest Designer. She is one of the MOST talented woman I know. So without any delay, heeeerrrrreeeee'ssssss Lynne..

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WOWSERS~~~ I’m such a fortunate gal today as not only am I a Guest Designer for Jearise of Lorby’s World, BUT also a Guest Designer forSusan of Susan’s Corner, BUT IF IT COULDN’T GET ANY BETTER, I am the very first, yes my lovelies, the very FIRST to sample cut an original paper piecing file by our most beautiful and creative Jearise!!!! Now, how does that beat all??

Here is Jearise’s Little Miss Spider which I made into a card with a homemade wobble




Card was cut 4.25 x 5.5 inches and used a lime green
Background is DCWV Ghosts and Goblins
Spider was cut at 5-inches
Scraps were used for cutting her
Orange bow for her web she is dangling from
Lacy Labels for the sentiment “boo” to be placed
Inked, chalked which I do have the pretty fingers to prove that
Google eyes to google at you while she is a wobbling!!!!!

Isn't she adorable??? Now, I hope you enjoy her as much as I have. Please stop and give Jearise some bloggie love and tell her how talented she is when making paper piecing files!!!!

God Bless and thank you for stopping by
Much love, hugs, and creative pixie dust,
Lynne

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Thanks Lynne for being my guest designer. Please stop by her blog to wish her a wonderful day...

Guest Designer Day - Hurray :)

Good morning all and welcome to Guest Designer Day at Susana's Scrappin' Corner. I am privileged to be able to share two projects in this post by our own Laura of LauraLee's Dream. I am always in awe at the wonderful creations that all my guest designers do. So without any delay, heeeerrrreeee'''''sss Laura :)


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Today I am guest designing for both of these talented ladies... Susana needed a fill in and I was already working on this layout of my Mom and my youngest daughter so I knew it would fit right in...

Lynne's asked me to work with red, blue, white and pink and a Mother's day theme..or a Memorial Day theme.. but since i live in Canada I thought Mother's Day...

For Lynne, I made 3 little note cards (one more is on the go but I ran out of that pretty blue paper) and a holder which I have decided which one to make as I made the shapes all different.. I thought this would be a great little gift for a Mom or anyone else for that matter....

And for Susana's spot I did a layout of a pic of my Mom and my youngest daughter at her Christening. This was 19 years ago so as you can see I am working doing my layouts all over the place. I found this pic and had just the right paper for it... All elements on this layout are from Tara's May Kit (there are a few left so check them out!!!) Up The Street has the kits and you just have to see how pretty they are.... Tara's kits come in two sides but both sides go together very nicely.

This layout was partially destroyed by my dog but lucky for her (and the cat that knocked it down) she only chewed the bottom right hand corner of the photo and the flowers and brad that were 

there. I was very upset and she manages to wreck 4 other layouts.. 3 of which I totally had to redo.

I really love this pic of my Mom and Emily...

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Thanks to Laura for being my guest designer today and I certainly hope you will hop over and show her some bloggie love at LauraLee's Dream. Until next time....

Guest Designer Day - Lori from Scrappin' My Stress Away

Greetings and Salutations my fine crafting friends! Today we have the uber talented Miss Lori from ScrappinMyStressAway. I am so happy to be surrounded by such amazingly creative folks. I am very happy to present you with Lori's project. So without delay, heeeerrreeee's Lori:

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Hi!!  Lori here from ScrappinMyStressAway and I am excited to share my Mom Tile this week at Susana's Scrappin' Corner!

I modified a tile project that I made as a Christmas gift last year.  I LOVE being able to save my projects on my Gypsy and  tweak them for a new project!!!

I used Gypsy Wandering, Hannah Montana, Hello Kitty Font, Home Accent, Mother's Day 2010, Nate's ABCs and Quarter Note for the words and placed them Subway Style on my mat and arranged them around the word Mom.

I cut out the vinyl on my E2 using my Vinyl setting.  If you are using a Cricut or Expression, use setting 3-3-3 for a kiss cut.

I use Clear Contact paper as my transfer paper.  The trick is to de-stick the contact paper on your jeans several times.

I put the vinyl on a 12x12 tile that I bought at Lowes.  I love making tiles!!  You can purchase an easel to display the tile.  I made this for my Mother-in-Law for Mother's Day!

Thanks Susan for having me over to play today!!!

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Thanks Lori for being guest designer today. Please make sure you hop over and show her some bloggie love.


Until next time...

Guest Designer Day featuring Miss Kari of PurpleFuntastick Creations

Greetings my fellow crafting peeps! I am plum tuckered out but had to share this wonderful guest designer with you. Miss Kari has a fantastic (and fun) blog and she made the most perfectly colored card . Without further adieu.... heeeeerrrreeesssss Kari
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Hello Friends and Welcome to my blog! :) 

Today I am a guest designer for Susan at Susana's Corner...I am having trouble loading my pics so I used an old one that I had and posting that for the guest spot today...hopefully I will be able to get a good pic and can load again soon...thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out Susan's blog and giving us both some love! :)

This is an old card made last year in May...I used my lavendar cardstock, printed paper from my stash and my white card stock for the stamping and the flower part I used a stamp on  purple felt...all of the flower is from a stamp set of CMTH and the sentiment is HA and the butterfly I can't remember...hehe...but that is it...easy peasy...maybe soon I can load my mom's birthday card and Mother's day card I did. 

Till next time be blessed and hugs! :)

In His Love,

Be Inspired,

Kari
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Thanks to Miss Kari for being my guest designer. Please stop by her blog and show her some love. Until next time....

Guest Designer Day: Miss Lynne, Her Craftiness

Good morning all!


Today I am blessed to have one of my dearest friends as Guest Designer. She is such an inspiration to me and all her projects are just incredible. Today we have Her Craftiness herself, Miss Lynne. And here is what she has for us today.....


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How lucky can one gal be with being Guest Designer for two very good friends today – Susan at http://susanascorner.blogspot.com/ and Tina (Crafty and Green) at http://craftyandgreen.blogspot.com/ Susan’s theme is Spring and Tina’s theme is Child’s Play… what better way but to create one project that would satisfy both!

Check out my lay-out. I know, I’ve been making lay-outs lately. I know I’m shocked!!!! SURPRISE!!!

Recipe:

Sesame Street Seasons Cricut Cartridge with Zoe holding the Spring sign cut at 4.5 inches and Elmo flying a kite cut at 5-inches

Hope you are loving my lay-out as much as I am ….. can’t wait to put pictures in the cute polka dot paper!!! Doesn't this just scream fun, kids, and SPRING!!!!! Be sure to stop and give some love to Susan and Crafty and Green!

God Bless and thank you for stopping by

Hugs, Love, and Pixie Dust

Lynne

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Thank you Lynne for sharing this adorable layout. Sesame Street brings such happy memories for me. I hope that you all stop by her blog to show her some love.

Guest Designer Day Part 2

Greetings all. Having worked over 100 hours the past two weeks (and counting as the work week ends Sunday) I have had little time to be creative. That is why I am so glad to have not one but two Guest Designers this week. On Wednesday I was to post Amanda's layout and on Thursday I was to post Laura's layout. They are both too amazing to miss so today we will have Amanda and tomorrow will be Laura. Your creative juices will definitely be flowing. It did for me and I have the urge to scrapbook again :) So with no further delay, heeeee'reeeesss Laura

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I am guest designer today for Susan. Thanks Susan!!!! I made this layout but didn't get the picture I wanted from Easter to put on it... Kinda bummed as I really could see the pics I wanted on here but they just didn't happen on Easter.
The papers are all from my stash. I made the heart from with my cricut and Elegant Edges.. the leaves are from Tara's new spellbinders rolled flowers die and the flowers and the wooden rabbits are from the dollar store...

I think I want to add a couple of scalloped circles also but wanted the pics first...the good thing is the unfinished  version shows off the pretty pink paper...its sooo shiny....
thanks for looking...

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Thanks Laura for this adorable layout!!! I never thought to use Elegant Edges to make photo mats. Please hop over to Laura's blog and see the amazing things she has created. Until next time....

Guest Designer Day Part 1

Greetings all. Having worked over 100 hours the past two weeks (and counting as the work week ends Sunday) I have had little time to be creative. That is why I am so glad to have not one but two Guest Designers this week.  On Wednesday I was to post Amanda's layout and on Thursday I was to post Laura's layout. They are both too amazing to miss so today we will have Amanda and tomorrow will be Laura. Your creative juices will definitely be flowing. It did for me and I have the urge to scrapbook again :) So with no further delay, heeeeerrreee's Amanda...


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Hi everyone!! I am Amanda, this is a layout of my daughter and the Miss Nelly range was just perfect to use, also bazzill cardstock. I used Kaisercraft paint, and October Afternoon chipboard accents. 

I would also like to introduce my group on Facebook, we have nearly 500 girls in there that LOVE to chat about scrapbooking and also love to share their work. PLease come on over and join up, each lady in the group is gorgeous and willing to give some advice if you need some help with anything....If you would like to join up here is the link OR just PM me:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/177037922319347/

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Thanks Amanda for being guest designer this week. I love Amanda's group and post there as well. Hope to see you there. Until next time...

Guest Designer Day: Kari of Purplefuntastick Creations

Good morning to my wonderful cyberspace friends. Today I have a dear friend as my guest designer; Kari. We are kindred spirits as we both love purple and butterflies. So without any delay, heeeerrrreeee'ssssss Kari :)


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Today I am a guest designer for my wonderful friend Susan at Susana's Corner! Today I did an Easter card in celebration of my Risen Lord!! :) I hope you enjoy it...recipe down below.

Here is my card...

I used a light purple cardstock...used my Inkadinkado stamp for the Sentiment and the cross which I colored with my water color pencils and used pop up dots on the back of it to stand it out a bit on the beautiful lace ribbon I got from Oooh La La Vintage (which is on my sidebar you can go to visit and their shop! ) as well as the beautiful flower with lace doily and purple leaf that has a vintage take on it...then I used two butterflies that were given to me from someone from a hop and I can't remember who...grrr But the person was so sweet!! :)  and it is with two diff shades of purple...so pretty I wish you could see them in person it is just beautiful and how neat they were made.  Voila! pretty simple...I had to re-do it several times for it wasn't what my vision was but I still like how it turned out...Happy Easter to all of you and I pray that you know the Lord Jesus in your life.

Thanks Susan for having me as your guest designer today and it was wonderful to be back again! :)

Have a blessed day friends and don't forget the love! :)

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Thank to Kari for being my guest designer and please hop over to her blog to show her some love.

I pray that everyone has a good weekend. Until next time....

Guest Designer Day: Colleen of CBC Scrapbooking

I am a bit delayed today sharing my Guest Designer as we had a death in the family the end of last week. I am so blessed to have Colleen back as guest designer and I so want to be her when I grow up!!!! I wish I had been able to take St. Pat's Day pics (we had the wake that day) as I would have offered to buy this layout too! Heeeerrrreeeee's Colleen....
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Hello all my crafty friends!!
Today, I am revisiting my friend Susan's blog as her GDT! Hop on over take a peek.....Susana's Scrappin' Corner!
Thanks so much Susan for having me back!! :)


The theme was St Patrick's Day...... and I am a good ol' Irish girl, so I can never have too many St Patty's Day LO's!!


Today I have a 2 page LO to share that I made and will more than likely be using in one of my albums. I have used files from Treasure Box Designs to make the cute little piecings! :)

Hope you like!
I would love for you to hop on over and visit me on facebook at CBC Scrapbooking !
Have a scrap happy day all!!
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From one Irish gal to another, thanks Colleen for being guest designer today. Please make sure you show Colleen some love. I can't wait to see what she has made for Easter! Until next time....

Guest Designer: Janet of Lady LuvBug

Hi there everyone out in bloggie land :) I am so excited to share Janet with you today! I have the most creative friends and am blessed to have them as guest designers. So without any delay, here's Janet.....
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Hello everyone, Thanks you Susan for letting me be a part of your Guest Designer group.My card today is for my Aunt's "90th" birthday March 20th . I so wish I could be there to celebrate with her but circumstances are what they are. My Aunt is 1/2 Irish so the green She grew up with her Irish Grandmother after her mother passed away when she was about 5 and I always love to hear her talk with her Irish accent. 

The card is a 5.5 inches square gatefold. I designed and manipulated the patterned pieces with my Gypsy so they would fit the front panels as well as the circular pieces using the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge. Embossed the circular pieces with Swiss dots for the while and Musical Flourish for the green. The numbers were cut from Ashlyn's Alphabet 5 times and stacked and glued together for some dimension. Inked everything with some MS green ink. Added some green crinkle ribbon, a floral embellishment, some pearl accents and a stamped BD greeting. Thanks for taking a look at my project! 


Big Blog Hugs, 
Janet 
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Thank you so much Janet for being guest designer today. Your project is amazing. Please stop by her blog and show her some love. Until next time...

Guest Designer: Michelle Ferris

Holy smokes!!! Today I am blessed to have Michelle as our guest designer today. She is such a wonderful papercrafting artist that I am excited to share her post with you. So without any delay, here's Michelle

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Thank you Susan for having me as your guest designer today! It is an honor to do this.

I have been making cards for just 3 years now. I have learned so much and have sooooooo much more to learn! LOL. This card is a double pocket card that is super easy to make. If you want instructions I would be most happy to give them!

 

I don't know the name of the plaid paper, but I purchased it in Holly Lobby a year ago. The dark green is a textured paper , the skin colored and black are from scraps. The Leprechaun's head , hat, shoes and Cloverleaf are cut from Paper Dolls Dress Up at 4" St. Patricks Day is cut from Designer Calender at 2.5". Tag is from Plantin Schoolbook cut at 4.5" and so is the end cap used inside as a decoration.

I don't have the info on the Happy stamp either.

I used black glitter glue on the hat band and shoe buckles and heat embossed gold on the hat buckle and Happy St. Patricks Day. I used the Irock and stuck on some green bling! I hand cut his hands on each side of the Cloverleaf. Face is from Peachy Keen stamps. Ribbon is from 3 Girl Jam and the color is Mistletoe.

This Little character has shinned up the Clover to give you a saucy wink! He just knows on Mar. 17 we all WISH we were Irish! 

MICHELLE FERRIS
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Thank you so much Michelle for being guest designer today. I know I definitely want to learn how to make this! I hope you get a blog soon so you can inspire more people :) Until next time...

Greetings all and thank you for stopping by. This week I get to be guest designer for Crafty Card Gallery. I met Jenn on Facebook and am in love with her Ipod touch app. If you have not seen it yet, please check it out. I decided to branch out for this design team assignment. 

I so wish I had a cartridge that had an elegant black cat but necessity is the mother of invention. I took the cat from Mini Monsters cartridge and hid it's features with my Gypsy. Once I cut it I decided that she needed bling and some googly eyes. I am in St. Patrick's Day Mode so I decided she wanted an Irish derby hat. She is sitting in some grass waiting for her dinner. I know I am so looking forward to my corned beef and cabbage. I think I am going to make Irish soda bread this year as well. I hope that you will stop by during the week and see what else I will have to share. Until next time...

Love to Create Design Team Post 4

Howdy all and welcome to my design team project for the Love to Create Design Team. The AMAZING Sponsor this week is http://robynsfetish.com/shop/

The theme of the challenge was Stitching: Faux or Real. Well I decided to do both (and poked myself with the needle). Here is my card:

I used my Creative Memories Flowers & Swirls doodling template to do the swirls with my gold metallic pen. I used the same pen to color the gold and this lucky little fellow's clothes. I colored this digi stamp with my Stampin' Up markers. The doily was something I received in a swap. I had so much fun with this card. I hope you like it too! 

Well, I hope that you will stop by the Love to Create Challenge Blog to see what my fellow design team members have made. Why not enter yourself?

Until next time...

Guest Designer: Craft and Green

Today I have the honor of being guest designer for my friend Tina aka Crafty and Green. Today I decided to try a different type of project using this sketch:



I decided to make a Creative Memories Photo Panel with my Storybook Creator Software. Photo Panels also make wonderful gifts for any special occasion. You can easily choose from either of our two beautiful alternatives, a Photo Panel or a Metal Photo Panel. After you’ve created your Photo Panel and are ready to check out, it’s as simple as clicking a button and choosing which type of photo panel you want it printed on. (Note: with the Metal Photo Panels, any white color in your design will appear metallic.)

Use your favorite photos, drag and drop templates or Page Prints as an easy way to dress up any room in your home! Let your photo panel speak for itself year-round by creating it online here in our Digital Center, or customizing it when you use our StoryBook Creator Plus Software.

Need help, watch this step by step video.

So here is what I made and will have made into a photo panel as a gift:

I am so happy to be able to share this with you all. Should you have any questions, please contact me directly. 

Guest Designer Day: Sweet Sasha (aka Lynne's granddaughter)

Greetings and Salutations!

Today we have a very special guest designer. Miss Lynne has been under the weather and her granddaughter, Sasha, stepped in to share her talent with us. She is one very talented young lady and I hope to craft via FB video chat with her and Grammy Lynne one of these days. Without further adieu, heeeeeerrreeeeee'ssssss Sasha

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Today, Grammy Lynne is Guest Designer for her dear friend Susan Bermudez but she is kinda busy and she overdid it today with shopping and laundry – geesh, you would think she would learn!!!

When Grammie and Paps pick me up after school, Grammie gets a snack for Paps and me and then we CRAFT!!!!! I’m very good at using the Cricut and love to make cards!!!

This is a Hello Kitty card we made for my Aunt Jean. This is from Grammy’s Hello Kitty Greetings Cricut cartridge. Grammy says we use scraps first for the little pieces but we used Recollections Black for the card. I like glitter and gems and we put a gemstone in the center of the flower. I still have to decorate my card and write “I love you Aunt Jean” but we will do that later!!! Grammy says there are several rules we need to obey when using her Cricut:
1. We don’t eat using the Cricut
2. We don’t touch the Cricut when it is cutting
3. And most important – the Cricut is not a toy!!!

The other project we did was using ek tools that makes dimensional flowers. Mommy bought this for Grammy and I to make pretty flowers. We had a lot of fun with this but you have to be very careful and it is hard to get it to cut – but look how pretty the flowers are. I got to ink them as that is my favorite job but Grammy keeps the hand sanitizer handy cause I get as much ink on me as I do on the paper……

Hope you enjoyed our projects and thank you Miss Susan for letting me take Grammy’s place….

Hugs and Love
Sasha

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Thank you Miss Lynne for allowing Miss Sasha to come and spend sometime with us. I hope we craft together soon. Until next time...

Purplies Design Team: An Inspirational Flower

Happy President's Day everyone. As you can see I have been a busy beaver lately; 3 projects in one day. Of course this one I had a little glitch. The challenge was to make a flower. Well I made a flower and it looked very lonely. So I mounted it on a card. Well, I was just supposed to make the flower and not put anything on it. So I have two things to share. One is my flower I made for the challenge:

I used my Mother's Day bouquet cartridge to make this rose. I am fascinated by roses (or any flowers) that have the colored edges. I wonder if they put them in food colored water?? 


I love roses but the flower that had the most impact for me was a Hawaiian hibiscus. I went to Hawaii for the first time when I was 19 and left my heart there. I would live there if I could. Here is the flower mounted on a card. This will be a birthday card for my best friend.

Two flowers made with the same cut but different. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will stop by Purplefuntastick Creations to see what the other Purplies have done. Until next time...

Faith Verse Guest Designer

Greetings all. Peace be with you. Today I have the privilege to be guest designer for PurpleFuntastick Creations. The verse that I picked has spoken to me in the past two months. It is:


"You, Lord, are my lamp; the Lord turns my darkness into light." ~Samuel 2:29~


I have to be honest, I could not decide which version of my page that I liked better. I put it to a vote and got various opinions; thus I am posting both versions. Here the are:

The reason this verse is so near to me is that for two months it feels like I am looking through a pinhole to see the little bit of light on the other side. Our family has experienced so much drama lately and it has been quite a lot to take. We have since had one deliverance and we keep praying for another. So, even in the darkness, the Lord has been my light. That is why I felt that the second layout was so appropriate. 


I pray that your day is blessed beyond measure. Should you feel that you are in a dark place, know that the Lord is there for you even if no one else is. You all are in my prayers. Until next time...

Guest Designer Day: Lori of Scrappin My Stress Away

Today we have Lori of ScrappinMyStressAway. She is a woman after my own heart as I LOVE anything Disney. I am so excited to share her project. So without any delay, heeerrrreeee'sssss Lori...

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Hi!  Lori here from ScrappinMyStressAway and I am  the Guest Designer today at Susan's Blog.  This month the theme is My Heart Belongs to _______.  Well, I am slowly making progress on my Disney Vacation layouts and figured why not share my love of Mickey with you!!!

I open my Gypsy Mat to 12x24 to lay out my 2 page design.  I start with Mickey Font and sized the letters to 1.46 inches.  I put a heart on my mat from Plantin Schoolbook sized to 3 inches.  I placed a mickey head from Mickey Font sized at 1.21 inches.  I gouped them together (not welded, just grouped) so the Mickey Head would cut out of the heart.

I made a banner with Peace (from Feeling Groovy sized 1.24) Love (heart from Plantin Schoolbook sized to 1.24) and Mickey Head (sized to 1.24).  I welded them together and then copied a second banner.  The width of the banners is 11.50 each.

I copied the banners and heart onto Layer 2 and cut them out of red card stock.

I copied the heart (minus the Mickey head) and the letters onto Layer 3 and cut them out of black card stock.

I adhered the title to my paper - yellow cardstock with a 3 inch red cardstock & Mickey paper pocket at the bottom of the paper.  I pop-dotted the red heart on top of the black heart.

I put the border on the top of the pages.  I made some photo mats and a 4x6 journaling tag.

I used some scrap paper, twine and the red Mickey from the heart to dress up the journaling tag.

The photos are tucked into the pocket.

I added a little twine and ribbon and some photos of Tanner before we boarded our Disney cruise.

I like my Disney pages simple because the photos tend to be bright and busy.  I really love this layout!  Thanks Susan for having me over today!!

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www.scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com


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Thanks Lori for being my guest designer today. I love your layout and thanks for sharing your Vacation with us. Please stop by Lori's blog and show her some love...