Rosemary's Cafe

Scrappy Monday, peeps!  I hope you had a good Halloween.  The hubs and I carved pumpkins, and then we decided to go to the movies and out to dinner instead of handing out candy.  We were just watching the previews in the theater when the fire alarm went off and we all had to troop outside for about 15 minutes while the fire department checked things out.  While we were waiting, the hubs and I saw a little kid dressed up as a fireman; his momma was taking advantage of the unexpected prop and taking his photo with the fire truck :)  We also saw Darth Vader, R2-D2 (it was an R2-D2 dress, I liked it), Captain America, and Iron Man.  We should wear costumes more than once a year.

Anyway, on to the scrappy Monday pages!  I finished up this layout last week and I'm very happy to share it today.  Behold pictures from China!

We went to this cafe the first night we were in Guilin, and liked it so much that we went back again the next night.  And can I just say God bless Missy for wearing that awesome green shirt!  I'm loving my Glorious Green page base.

As with all my China pages, I'm using a lettering template and the Rough Type alphabet stamps.  This is the first time I've ever used the round outline though.

This week's color palette:  Glorious Green, Bashful Blue, More Mustard, Riding Hood Red (all retired), Basic Black, and Whisper White.

I've already got some more pictures pulled for the next scrapbook layout, so I'm going to go work on that.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, mostly SU!
Stamps:  Rough Type Alphabet, Chere Amie
Ink:  Glorious Green, Basic Black
Paper:  Glorious Green, More Mustard, Riding Hood Red, Whisper White, Frosty Day DSP, More Mustard DSP
Accessories:  Circle punches, corner rounder punch, non-SU lettering template

Ionian Sunset

Scrappy Monday, peeps!  I'm typing this one-handed since I've got a blueberry muffin in my left hand.  Can't leave that unguarded, Vader likes blueberry muffins almost as much as I do ;)

Today's scrapbook layout takes us back to Greece; this one goes right after last week's Olympia layout.  You can see the original pics here if you so desire.  I kept this layout super super simple to let the pictures be the star of the show.

My big deal lately seems to be mixing fonts on stamped titles; I did yet another scrapbook layout over the weekend using this same trick but with different alphabet stamps (I have...several alphabets, but I need more because I always need more, right?).  I showed this layout to the hubs and he's like "Ionian?  What's Ionian?" so I told him that we were in the Ionian Sea when we took these pictures.  And that sea was named after Io, who was hit on by Zeus and then he turned her into a cow to keep Hera from finding out, but Hera's not stupid, so she sent a gadfly to sting Io.  Personally, I think I would have sent the gadfly to sting the philandering husband, not the poor princess who wasn't allowed to say no to the king of the gods.

Greek scrapbook layout with a side of Greek mythology for your Monday morning.  You're welcome.

Every single color I used on this layout (except the Basic Gray marker) is now retired.  The Apricot Appeal and Certainly Celery were pulled over from the Olympia layout since these two go right next to each other, but I wanted a much softer color scheme for the sunset pics.

Lemme just pat myself on the back and say that I'm pretty happy with how this layout turned out.  And now it's time to take the doglets out for a walk; hopefully it's not too terribly muddy though it probably will be since it rained All. Day. Long. yesterday.  But Sadie hasn't been for a walk since last Wednesday and she's going stir-crazy, so here's hoping there's no more limping.

Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Chere Amie, Spencerian Alphabet, Empire Alphabet
Ink:  Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, Whisper White, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Apricot Appeal, Afternoon Tea & Summer Picnic DSP
Accessories:  1 1/8" circle punch, white EP