What I Taught Today

I had so much fun with the ladies in my Creative Stamping class this morning at Craft Fancy! We used two sets from Lawn Fawn and the fun Confetti line of papers from American Crafts for these 5 cards.

We made a few birthday cards and some fun cards using the Admit One set from Lawn Fawn that I just adore!

The balloons in this set are so cute! Next month the ladies requested some thank you cards so I am off to design some!

Monkey Socks at Sea!

Before we left on vacation my Aunt requested a pair of socks. She sent the yarn (Lorna's Laces Simply Sock in the Sublime colorway) and I picked out the Monkey Sock pattern from Cookie A. It is one that I have wanted to make for a while now and it was so fun to knit.

I loved knitting this pattern so much that I am currently making a pair for myself!

Our little balcony somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was the perfect place for a photo shoot!

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Vacation Mini Book: Part 2

So yesterday I shared the first few pages of my Crossing the Atlantic mini book and just like I promised I am back today to share some more!

I loved collecting things from restaurants and other places we stopped along the way.

I added in a part of the map I used the day we were in Sevilla, Spain. I cut out the portion of town that we walked around I have the rest that I might use on some layouts later on.

So this is as much of the album as I have finished right now. As soon as the rest is done I will share more!

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Vacation Mini Book: Part 1

Wow has it really been since the middle of May since I posted last?! I have no good excuse other than just not feeling like blogging. It was nice to take a little break, but now I am back and ready to start sharing some more things with all of you lovely readers!

Today I wanted to share the first part of the mini book I made while on the trip in April.

I bought a notebook that had this great graph paper inside and used that as the base of the album. I added in some papers that I cut into smaller pieces before leaving on the trip and a few stamps and a navy blue stamp pad along with some pens and a glue stick. I stuck everything in a big zip lock bag and added postcards and other things I picked up on the trip to the bag to keep everything together.

I used my Fuji Instax Mini camera for the photos and had a blast taking it around and I loved how easy it was to fill up the album as we went with the photos and items I picked up.

Each place we stopped I bought some postcards. I love that they are a quick and easy way to get a great picture of the places we visited. It would be fun to do a travel album by just using postcards if you didn't have an instant camera.

I also used a lot of my washi tape in the album to add some fun accents to the pages.

I will be back to share more of the album tomorrow!

Supplies: Notebook from Whitelines; Paper Pink Paislee Daily Junque collection: Stamps: Studio Calico and Lawn Fawn; Ink: Jenni Bowlin

Vacation Photos: 7 Days at Sea

I mentioned in yesterdays post that part of our cruise was spent with 7 straight days at sea. At first I was a little bit worried about this. Not because I thought I would be bored, the ship is huge and has tons of stuff to do. I was worried about being out in the middle of no where, with no land around for that long.

We really lucked out with the weather, no real rain but a little bit of wind. The waters were fairly smooth and it was a relaxing way to spend a week. I took the same four photos from our balcony each day to document this time on the ocean.

While on the ship we got to take a cupcake decorating class and a few arts and crafts classes. I read the last two books of the Hunger Games series which I loved! I finished knitting a pair of socks for my aunt. We played cards and scrabble and spent a little bit of time by the pool when it wasn't too cold and windy. We also saw a lot of shows on the ship including the ice skating show.

(cupcake cheeseburger and fries)

The cool part of doing this was the route we sailed from the Bahamas to the Canary Islands. It was part of the route that Christopher Columbus took when he sailed to the Americas. On this map the red line shows his journey and the pencil line shows the route we took.

This is something that I would love to do again some time. It was nice to have time to relax before getting to the crazy touring that we did through Spain. Up next, lots more photos from our trip and I will show off the travel mini album that I brought along on the trip!

Vacation Photos: Bahamas Edition

Last month my entire family set sail (literally) on a 14 day cruise across the Atlantic Ocean. We started off in Miami, Florida and ended in Barcelona, Spain. The trip was amazing, I am so glad that we could all do this together!

Now for what you want to see, the pictures!

We left Miami and started our journey on the ship. It was such a beautiful and warm day as you can tell by how crowded South Beach was.

On deck it looked something like this:

We had a great first night on the ship and looked forward to spending our first day in Nassau. To start out the day my aunt and I had breakfast on our little balcony before meeting up with the rest of the family.

We decided that we want to live in this house!

We took a taxi over to the Atlantis Hotel to walk around and have lunch. It is a beautiful resort!

I would love to spend a week here at the pool! We also walked around to some of the shops and also got to see them filming some type of reality show that looked like a combo of the real world and the real housewives...it was interesting!

We headed back to the ship for some time at the pool before leaving Nassau. We took one last shot of the Atlantis before we left!

It was a great first day of our vacation, fun and relaxing! Up tomorrow I will tell you how we spent 7 straight days at sea!

Creative Stamping Class Next Week!

Next Monday I have another fun class taking place at Craft Fancy called Creative Stamping with Melissa. It's no secret that I am in love with Lawn Fawn stamps and I had so much fun putting these cards together for the class.

 I think this last card might be my favorite but these critters are so cute it's hard to pick just one! There are still a few spots left in the class so if you are in the area I would love to have you join in!