Showing posts with label St Martin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St Martin. Show all posts

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Beautiful Ocean - St Martin

St Martin!


I did a major scrap lift this week!  Juliana Michaels at 17 Turtles has a great pie chart cut file last month.  I downloaded the free file and then fell in love with the sketch she had - as well as her layout.  I loved her layout so much, I scrap lifted it!  #julianamichaels #17turtles


This layout worked well with the May single page layout challenge at Stick it Down.



I also was able to use this layout for the challenge at Another Freaky Scrappy Challenge. The May challenge was to create a layout about one of my favorite places.  I picked the Ocean!  I love the ocean and wish I could go more often.

Lasting Memories has a challenge to make a layout with only one photo.  This is usually very hard for me.  I have SO MANY pictures to scrapbook!  However, I did it this time!  I made up for it with the second half of my double layout!


Another Lasting Memories challenge for May is to make a layout with exactly 4 photos.  

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

St Maarten - Great Bay Beach

On our cruise, we also visited St Maarten.  The plan was to go to the famous airport beach - Maho beach. This is the beach where airplanes land and take off right over the beach.  However that morning, everyone was tired so we decided to sleep in a little and make it an easier day.  Great Bay Beach is right by the cruise port - just a water taxi ride away.  That was our new destination.

The water was amazing!  So many pretty blues - deep blues:)  The beach was great and we had a good time hanging out there.  We also did some shopping at the near by stores.

If you ever go to St Maarten and land near Philipsburg, you HAVE to try the coconut smoothie kiosk. It is on the left as you are walking along the port.  I think just past the water taxis.  If you like coconut, that smoothie is to die for!  I mean REALLY!  It was incredible!  I want to go back just for that!



I used a color challenge from Scrap Much?


They had this beautiful color board and the challenge says use at least 4 of the colors.  I used the pink, yellow, jade and blue.  Fun colors!

The sketch layout came from a recipe card at The Scrap Room

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Sunny Shores in St Martin

The last stop of our 7 Day Southern Caribbean cruise was St Martin (well, it was actually Sint Maarten). We originally planned to go to the Airport Beach - Maho Beach.  This is where the airplanes take off and land VERY close to the beach.  We wanted to experience that, but everyone was tired and it was an ordeal trying to get there, so we opted for the nearby Great Bay Beach.  That beach is just a water taxi away from the cruise port.

This ended up being a great option.  The water was just beautiful.  I could have ridden the water taxi back and forth many times and been completely happy.  Did I mention how beautiful the water was?  We were able to check out the beach in the morning, go back to the ship for lunch, and then head back out to explore the beach and shopping some more.

Lasting Memories has a great theme challenge going this month - Travel.  This fits perfectly with my vacation book I am working on. The theme for this layout is Sunny Shores


I totally scrap lifted the layout from Renee, a DT member from Lasting Memories. Thanks for the great idea Renee.