New Layout and Frame

***Loved this picture of my daughters so much that I made it into a frame as well as a scrapbook page! Now that they are getting older, the get together times are fewer and farther apart SO when we do get together and I get a good picture of them both....it is something to scrap about....LOL

Fall in Florida

To get the Fall feeling in Florida....you have to decorate your house. The weather outside won't change and the feeling like summer is still there and the leaves don't fall. I miss the change of seasons that I use to have growing up in New York. Here is my Fall Layout...it's the best I can do living in "Fall-Less" Florida.

Notice that I used the Autumn Leaves clear stamps again....I am addicted to these now and am trying to use them on almost every new layout I do. Love the "You Are Here" and "Arrow" stamps!!! I found the compass in my stash.....don't even remember where I got it or how long ago. See....this is why us scrappers have to constantly shop for stuff that we "may" use in the future.....because when the layout is right.....we will have the stuff we need....LOL.

The background paper is Basic Grey-Hang 10 and the month stickers are Epoxy stickers by Creative Imaginations. The clips on top right are Clipease. The rest of the paper and the Fall letters paper was done with scraps from my scrap folder......I try to go in there more often lately. I also try to use my Coluzzle more often...I used it here for the Fall letters. Some things I have that are old are becoming new to me again.

Clear Stamps Layout

I have a bunch of wood stamps and use them periodically but never really loved stamping. At the Memories Expo, I got a couple of sets of the Autumn Leaves Clear Stamps and just used them for the first time. They are TOTALLY AWESOME!!! I now need to have MORE!!!
How cool to be able to see where you are putting the stamp. If you mess up and all the ink doesn't stamp...you can line it back up and stamp over it. They also clean up extremely quick and easy with just a wash cloth and water. These clear stamps are now my new favorite scrapbooking tool. My buddy in the picture, Jeanne, tried to tell me about these clear stamps sooner but I guess I was too much of a "wood-stamp snob" to listen to her. LOL.

Memories Expo

Just returned from the Memories Expo in Orlando. I meet my bestest buddy there every year and we shop until we drop. Each year we seem to zone in on one type of product or another and this year's theme seemed to be clear stamps and other stamps for us. Look at the ones I have here from Autumn Leaves and Technique Tuesday. I also got a round stamp by 7gypsies that says This Belongs To ------So Give It Back...and stamps like a seal with the words Mine all around the outside of the circle......it is absolutely adorable!!! I also got some Basic Grey Christmas paper and some My Minds Eye paper, title diecuts and tranparencies. And last but not least...........I got a bunch more of the Fancy Pants Rub Ons....DON'T YOU JUST LOVE THEM!!!!!!!!! I can't wait to use it all.

Halloween Layout

Here is a Halloween Layout.....still working on my daughter's candy that is in the house. Isn't Halloween great?????

Lately - I just love using one large 8x11 or 5x7 on a 12x12 LO. It gives it such clean lines and focus. On this one...the picture is 5x7 but even though I added a few small ones also, it doesn't take the focus away from the larger picture. Granted all layouts cannot focus on one picture or we would be so far behind on our scrapping...oh boy!!! BUT....when it is possible to use one large photo, it looks so nice.