Wild, Free, & Petrified!

This week, my Imaginisce teammates and I are celebrating the new release of the Outdoor Adventure collection. I've got two fun projects to share, so thanks for dropping in to check them out!

I have been wanting to scrap a fun little trip we took with my son to The Petrified Forrest, one of those strangely fascinating roadside attractions that you always drive by but rarely venture into. So, when I saw the Outdoor Adventure collection, I was really excited! 

The woodgrain patterned paper was about as perfect as things could get. I tore the paper into a background element and the colors from the collection are some of my favorites. 

The sticker alpha page made creating my title so easy and quick and I was glad to have the chance to scrap one of our family's best memories.

I am always on the lookout for masculine collections because in my little family, it's all about boys with my son and husband outnumbering me! I wanted to create a really fun birthday card for a boy, and when I saw the darling ATVs and motorbikes, I knew they would make for a great interactive card. 

I used the Outdoor Adventure ATV Die Cut as my moving element and stamped my sentiment in such a way as it would be revealed when it was moved across the card. The "Wild & Free" Chipboard was the perfect accent to my very "boy" card.

BEAN NOTES

Petrified Forest Layout

(patterned paper, die-cuts, alpha stickers from Outdoor Adventure collection) Imaginisce; Cardstock: (white) Stampin' Up!; Specialty Paper: (vellum) PTI; Dies: (photo frame) Taylored Expressions

Wild & Free Birthday Card

(patterned paper, die-cut, chipboard sticker from Outdoor Adventure Collection) Imaginisce; Cardstock: (midnight muse) Stampin' Up!; Tools: (grass border punch) Martha Stewart Crafts; Dies: Movers & Shapers) PTI; Accents: (eyelets) WRMK

I hope you had fun with my projects today! Please visit the Imaginisce blog for more Outdoor Adventure inspiration and to find out how you can win the entire collection!

Swimmin' Like a Whale...

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Over the summer, we had a wonderful chance to travel with my husband for his work and stayed at a beautiful hotel with a pool. We took the opportunity to introduce our little guy to swimming for the first time and I made this layout to commemorate the event. Daddy used to be a competitive swimmer, so I left the lesson to him and the rugrat had a great time.

I wanted the page to bring to mind the tiles in a swimming pool and lucked out with these papers from October Afternoon. I also broke out a neglected Cricut cartridge (I think almost all of mine are, unfortunately!) to create the title, inspired by the challenge going on over at Fantabulous Cricut. There were SO many photos to choose from, so I designed a layout that would allow me to use a lot of them without sacrificing the wonderful pic of my two boys having a splashing good time together. Real lessons with a teacher have just begun, and I hope he'll be swimming like a fish by this summer!

BEAN NOTES

• Patterned Paper: Detours: Walk in the Park, Detours: Picnic Basket, and Night Light: Katie (October Afternoon)
• Cardstock: Baja Breeze and Bleu Bayou (Stampin' Up!)
• Accents: Buttons (generic)
• Fibers: Twine (generic)
• Die-cuts: Alphalicious Cricut Cartridge (ProvoCraft)