POO POO and Retirement

A couple days ago I posted  one of the layouts I did, called "Disney Magic." I told you that the orange paper on the layout was made from elephant dung!! 

Well, last night was my hubbies last night at work.  He is now retired.  One of his gifts was a notebox and note papers made by the Elephant Poo Poo Paper Company.  Yep, you guessed it.  Made by a different company but made of the same stuff.  I was laughing so hard.
 Seems to be a lot of Poo Poo going around this last week.  I wonder if that is a sign of things to come????????????

http://www.eclecticgallery.net/poo_poo_paper.htm

http://www.poopoopaper.com/

Just in case there is anyone out there who needs some of this, I have included a link.  I am snagging these note cards for my scrappy stuff!!!

Disney Again

This layout is simple but uses several carts!!

 

First I used the Martha Stewart's Joy punch for the side of the photo mat. I seem to collect punches like I do Cricut carts.  If I do not have enough I go  my friend, Megan's house to use hers.

I cut the circle, the scalloped edge and the leaf using Accent Essentials

 The word Joy was cut using Stone Script and welded together with Cricut Design Studio

 The word total was cut using one of my favorite carts, Plantian Schoolbook.

 

 

 Photos of my oldest Grand Daughter and her friend were taken at Pixie Hollow in Disneyland on her 16th Birthday.

 The girls really were excited to see this attraction for the first time even with the long wait in line!!

Love to do journaling in stripes!!!

Looking Back With Love

Today I was looking at the layouts I have created over the years.  Since it is Valentines Day I thought what a great way to spend a few moments. ( or with my amount of scrapbooks an hour)  This layout was created 2 years ago and is very simple but I still love it as it says so much to me and tells the story of a Great Love.

This is my Mother who died 3 years ago with her only great grandson. I had all girls so my Grandson is the only boy in the family. My Mother had only 2 children me and my brother. My brother died when he was in college in a diving accident. This is my fav photo of her and Drew, my Grandson.
 I have had it for a long time and he has one in his room now.  It was what he wanted from her house when he came after she died. He was 9 when she died and the fact that he went to this picture and ask for it touched me so much.   This is for his book. I just wanted him to know and remember how special he was to her. She really loved us all but Drew completed her life again.

Since my Mother's death, I now have 2 Grandsons.  My oldest Daughter remarried after all these years and I got a Grandson and a Grand Daughter.  It is good to be a Grand Mother.

Have a Wonderful Valentines Day everyone.

A Valetines Card Or ?????

Found this paper in a bargin bin at Beverly's.  Twenty cents.  I loved the clouds and knew it would make a cute card.  I love clouds and popping them up.

Running though my mind was the thought that pinks clouds would cheer you up.  Forget the silver linning in every cloud, give me a pink linning.  This paper is call Candy clouds from Recollections. Candy and Pink what more does one need to brighten their day!!!!

Now you so could use this for a Vday card too with the sentiment of  " Stopping by to ask you to be my Valentine"

The punch is Martha Stewart and the ribbon was a 99 cent bargin spool.

I have enough paper left to make a couple more!!!

Valentine Mailbox

I have so many of these mail boxes. Not decorated, of course.   I sent these to my  four oldest grandkids.  Now I have to figure out what to do with the rest of these.  Maybe Easter gifts for the younger 2.  Hey, candy is candy!!!!!

Thanks to Christina and her Creations with Christina blog for the instructions and design for this.

I love the ribbon that I used to cover the edges of the base.  The hearts are glittered and so pretty.  Went back and got the rest she had when our LSS closed. 

Now to make a Valentine card for hubby since he is working on Vday we are celebrating on the 13th. 

Have a Great Valentines Day!

Chip or Dale

I love this paper!  It  has a metalic shine to it and is from Reminisce.  So easy and fast to work with.  The title asks the old question of who is who in the chipmunk world.

I used Design Studio and Mickey and Friends for the bottom boarder on this.  I have had DS for a long time and have done very little with it.  I have decided this is the year I will learn!!!!!!!  Thank goodness my friend Megan knows it well and does it so fast.  She is only a phone call away!! Just getting the layers to fit took me 2 hours and lots of questions to the Night Owls on our thread.  I shaded the acorn tops with a Zig marker from my friend Pam.
For the title I went back to one of my first carts, Printing 101 and then did some pen work on them.
Now for the answer to who is who.  This is Dale.  How do I know?  It is all in the way his teeth are spaced!!

Disney Magic

I love when Disney Photographers but the little extras in the pictures.  Like Tinkerbell in my youngest Grand Daughters Hand.  I still have tons of Disney pics left to do!!! 

 This paper had lot of fun colors on it that I decided to pull some of them out with the circles along the bottom.  The glitter title is from Cricut Hello Kitty Font cart and the shape on the top left and lower right is cut from Storybook.  I needed a place for the small photo to rest so I came up with the lower right block. 

Now the odd part about this page is that the peach textured paper is made in Africa and was sold at the Scrapbook Expo a few years back.  It is made from elephant dung.  Yep, that is what I said.  I thought the guys was crazy but it is great looking (and it does not smell)  I promise. He also said it was helping the African people by providing work for them.   I am not to sure about that but I will go with it.   It is hard to get any tape to stick to it so I had to use glue.

I need to work on some other theme besides Disney!!!  My pictures have been restored to my new laptop from the old one.  Thank you Office Depot and Devon!  So now I need to work on ordering a bunch of them.