I will be traveling soon. I will be traveling to The Mall of America in Minnesota on Thursday. I have loaded up on my favorite books- even though it is only about a 3 hour flight, it's my guilty pleasure to get to read during the flight. I love to read inspirational books. It can be anything from church, fitness, relationship, design books, and sometimes total chick flick books. Anyway, I am really looking forward to Scrapfest.
So today, I thought I would share a travel layout designed by Stacey Michaud.
The Seaport at Mystic
Instructions to Recreate:
Start with Side B of the Luggage Tags as your base.
Cut a 9 1/4 X 9 3/4 rectangle from Side B of the Collage paper for your left side.
Cut an 11 X 9 3/4 rectangle from Side B of the Collage paper for your right side.
I used black as the mat for my photos to make them pop! Cut a rectangle a little bigger than 9 1/2 by 8 from Side B of the Words paper for the left side.
Cut a 10 3/4 X 8 rectangle from Side B of the Words paper for the right side.
Adhere the Collage paper to the base, lining up your edges. Tuck a red border under the black mat to add more color. I used the Geometric paper cut to be the length of the black mat and about 1/2 inch wide.
I staggered my photos to add some movement to the layout. The larger photos are sized at 4 X 2 3/4 and the small ones are 3 X 2 inches.
I added in strips of patterned paper to add some punch! The words scattered around the layout are from the die-cuts page.
To make my journaling block, I cut a rectangle from the 6 X 6 Maps paper that was sized 3 1/2 X 6 1/2. I placed a brad at the top with the new baker's twine trim underneath.
I used the "Where", "Sights" and "Highlights" tabs from the die-cut sheet to highlight my journaling.
The circles were carried around the layout as the repeating element.
Yesterday, I think I must have LOST my mind. I worked out TWICE- 2 hours yesterday. I did my boot camp- in the am for an hour and last night I went to a kickboxing class for an hour. It helped me deal with a little bit of stress with so much going on in my business (deadlines) and getting ready to travel again. I've finally found that taking care of myself actually makes me MORE productive, happy and easy going. I don't think this is something I could do very often though.
That reminds me- CKU Reunion is NEXT month. I hope you will join us!!!! I am so excited to teach at this reunion. I am so many friends and fond memories of my past CKU days. I love the fun and enthusiam that ALWAYS is at the CKU events.
I seriously am so happy that CKU is doing events again!!!
Off to the gym...again- love it!
