Retired Product Rescue!

My goal this year is to use up some of my older retired papers, so the theme of Retirement at H2H challenges this week was just the prompt I needed!

I scrapbooked some photos from my nephew's birthday, using the retired Wanderful Paper Packet- travel themed paper but I have found this blue polka dot so versatile for masculine pages!



I also used retired washi tape and a retired ProPlayer complements sticker along the bottom of the page. The sticker doubles as a title, as my boys and their cousins had lots of fun playing the sumo game and using the inflatable play areas.



Do you have retired products, a retirement coming up or any other project that would fit this theme? Link up with us here!

Warm versus Cool

I am a Southern Hemisphere girl, so the weather is feeling particularly chilly right now! Every morning I wake up in need of a piping hot coffee to see me through the school run, and at the end of the week I love to wind down with a movie and a glass of wine whilst rugged up in a blanket.

These two items were first on my mind when I saw this week's Color Challenge of Warm versus Cool for Heart to Heart challenges. I already had a plan to scrap these two drinks together, which are also warm versus cool, so the layout came together quite quickly.



Coffee- I will drink it any way, I am not fussy as long as it is piping hot! I loved this little speech bubble from the now retired Hopscotch Complements, and the pop of yellow in the background from a fundamentals paper pack as well as the red photo mat complements the cooler blues and greens.



This title breaks up the two photos, and I then have my chilled wine- once again I drink all types of wine so I am easily pleased! The globe was stamped and fussy cut, and I added a pocket page card to show I like to have a drink every day of the week- not necessarily alcoholic of course but it is so nice to sit down for five minutes with a drink and a magazine. The little housewife strip had been lying in my stash for a while so I had to add her in as the page has a desperate housewife vibe going on!

Here is the full layout. I love the patterned paper green strip with the wet look splatter and drink ring, and all the little embellishments that don't seem to go together but I feel they work well on this page.



This was such a fun layout to make and I really enjoyed it, as I was documenting a part of everyday life rather than a special event or milestone. I would encourage you all to try a layout based on your day to day routines and little pleasures, as these are the layouts that can get your creative mojo back and you can do what ever you like with them!

If you have a warm versus cool idea in mind for a card, layout or other papercraft project, be sure to share it with us at Heart 2 Heart challenges!

CTMH supplies used:
Cardstock: Crystal Blue, White Daisy
Embellishments: Hopscotch Complements, Wanderful Complements
Ink: Black, Glacier
Paper: Paper Fundamentals Whimsy Assortment
Stamp set: Here We Go

Artbooking In April- What a Wonderful World

Today I am sharing another mini album for my Artbooking In April series- using the Cricut Artbooking cartridge to create paper perfection!

This album was inspired by the Heart 2 Heart challenge this week- What A Wonderful World. Travel certainly makes me look at all the different things my beautiful country of New Zealand has to offer, and at the beginning of this year we went on a family road trip to Cromwell at the bottom of the South Island.

I created this album using the Artbooking 8x8 Travel Mini Album as well as the 6x8 Summer Mini Album as I had a few pages! I cut the pages themselves in Whisper, Glacier and Canary cardstock, and used accents in Pacifica, Honey, Outdoor Denim and papers from Seaside, Tommy and Wanderful.

Here is the title page- off we go on our adventure! I love this overlay cut from the cartridge- it gives the page a definite wow factor!

I mixed a combination of 8x8 pages, half pages and 6x8 pages throughout the book. Here is the back of the overlay page as well as the back of one of the half pages with a family photo on it, and a 68 page with some photos of the boys playing during our lunch stop.



Cromwell is famous for fruit, so we had to get a photo of us with the giant fruit! I also got some great shots of my son playing in the mall, where I have photos of myself as a young girl. The Oh Snap and photo frame were cut from the Cricut, as well as the apple.



Another fun overlay and a notebook style page were great backgrounds for photos of our cherry picking, and the retired Jubilee button with a cherry on it was perfect!



Some more half pages are scattered throughout the book, as well as some small journalling boxes that I stamped.



The Cricut Artbooking mini albums even have some great envelope style pages, perfect for memorabilia. On this page I had some photos of us on the lake (our first time fishing and everyone loved it!) so I placed the fishing licences in the pocket. I also added a fish embellishment from the Seaside WOTG and some epoxy bubbles.



I was a bit of a big kid on this holiday, and loved the flying fox at the Dinosaur Park. My husband was more interested in the car museum!



One of the main reasons we went on this holiday was to celebrate my grandparent's wedding anniversary and their birthdays, so I also have some family photos throughout the book.



The last page is another fun overlay page, featuring some stickers from the Wanderful Complements and a little note about how much we loved Cromwell.



 This was such a fun mini album to do, and I really loved how easily it came together using the Artbooking cartridge.

Be sure to check out my other Artbooking in April posts, and if you have anything related to this wonderful world link it up with us at H2H!