I’ve been busy scrapping today!

I downloaded Cindi Ritter’s “Spirit of Joy” kit over at Divine Digital. At first I thought this was just another religious themed kit but upon a closer look I realized that it wasn’t. It contains a striking combination of flowers, butterflies and flourishes coupled with ten beautiful papers. There are two paper clip/ribbon combinations and a binder clip cluster along with a purple rose, tag and word art cluster. Other than what inspired the designer to create the kit there is nothing remotely religious about it. She has even designed a FREEBIE add-on  and the link can be found below!

I ended up with this first layout which I used as part of the
Use It! Challenge over at Hummiesworld. 

Then created this second one focused on Christina and her Preschool Teacher at Christina’s high school graduation. Robin is a good friend of our family and we told her years ago that she had better plan on attending all of Christina’s graduations. High school is done and we are now off to college.

I’ve decided that I like this kit so much that I’m probably going to do a couple layouts using my photos from Hawaii trip.

So for those of you who are looking for the freebie here you are!!

FREEBIE DOWNLOAD LINK to CINDI’s BLOG!!

Waikiki Sunsets and a Free Bamboo Alpha

 

Credits

Kit -The Places We’ll Go by Royanna Fritschmann

Alpha – KR Bamboo by Kat’s Fun Fonts 

Decided to start scrapping some of my photos from my “work retreat” in Waikiki this past week. We sat and watched the sunset on the beach right outside our hotel twice and played in the surf afterwards. The first evening down there a young student approached us with leis that they were taking donations for to help offset volleyball tournament costs. We were suckers and forked over $10 each even though we could have walked down the beach to Dukes and bought them for $5 each. But it was for a “good cause” we figured even if it was just spending money for the students.

I downloaded the Bamboo shaped font at FontSpace.com  Click HERE for the download link.

Wow he cleans up nicely!!

For a couple of years now Mike has admired the “Charlie Sheen look” on Two and a Half Men. When I went to Palm Springs last year for a work meeting he asked me to find him one of those bowling shirts. Well I about croaked when I found one he liked and it was $180 (Nat Nast) and he immediately informed me that I was not to buy it. So I’ve went online a couple of times and bid on a couple of nice silk bowling shirts for him but refused to pay more than $30 for one sight unseen. So when the boss took us to Hawaii for a staff retreat (instead of Arizona in October) I decided that I was going to really look for one of those shirts again. I found several at Moonbow Tropics (store in the hotel lobby) but they were all Nat Nast’s and started at $145. I really didn’t find any that he would like at the Aloha Stadium Swap Meet on Saturday morning. Then I hit paydirt at Macy’s at the Pearl Ridge Shopping Center on Saturday afternoon. I was able to get him a 100% Vintage Silk Bowling Shirt in their “Island Style” section for only $30 on sale and after my Macy’s Card Discount. I had four different ones in my hand but knew that this was “the one” that he would love the best. Then on Tuesday we decided to take a trip around the island and stopped at the Premium Outlet Mall in Waikele. At the Tommy Bahama Store I scored a pair of $100 Tommy Bahama’s casual leather sneaker/loafers from their “Relax” line for 75% off. He came out looking pretty sharp. Although he still thinks he needs to wear socks like Charlie does in the show.

I’ve been out of touch for the past week…

…but the Punkin Patch Quickpage is still available below. I was excited to find out this morning that Digital Freebies has posted a link to my quickpage. I’ve been in Hawaii the past week and been decompressing royally. Since I got here last week I have only checked email three times which is totally abnormal for me I generally check it three times in one day. I knew that there was a reason to quickly check my email this morning. Today we head home and my plan is to create a couple of more quickpages on my 6 hour flight home with a kit called Suddenly Sunset that Kim has designed. Thanks for visiting and come back soon I’ll have more quickpages to offer.