"Whatcha" doing this summer?

Natalie's Place Design has the most amazing kit coming your way soon.  Summer is a great time to vacation, relax, and sleep in!  The colors, elements and alpha's are super bright for building that perfect layout. 

Stay tuned your not going to want to miss this kit!  Wishing all of you a magical evening!

Cool Wash Freebie

The other day while attempting to scrapbook our newest trip from June 2011 I decided to use a great template from Mousescrappers.com Template Challenge #70 Hosted by Californiateri.  The kids were so hot this past trip with the weather being almost 100 degrees daily that a ice cold Coke Icee was the perfect treat.  We were at EPCOT so we headed to the Cool Wash.  Oddly enough I always thought it was just a place to get sprayed with water on hot summer days but you can also get a delicous treat!!  Here is my layout..

Click HERE for layout credits.

Jessica (Kramer.zoo) on Mousescrappers made the suggestion to provide my wordart as a freebie.  Well I thought I would do a little extra and provide some of the elements as well that I made for the layout.  So here you go my first little freebie kit inspired by my Cool Wash layout.



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 I went a little crazy on the wordart title but I wanted to give everyone some freedom when doing their layouts.  I hope you enjoy my little Cool Wash freebie and I'd love to hear your feeback. 

Wishing you a magical evening!

Rather Be Campin Released

Natalie's Place Designs has a wonderful kit from released today called Rather Be Campin.  It's full of wonderful outdoor elements and papers.  Perfect for the summer camping trip, outdoor adventure or fishing trip. Natalie and her family love to camp and camping is what enabled them to visit Disney World combining two favorites into one wonderful vacation. 

Just a few weeks ago while on the beach of Bay Lake roasting marshmallows with the kids I thought I have got to scrapbook this page!  I didn't know what kit to use but then to my surprise Natalie provide the answer for me... Rather Be Campin.  I love how this layout turned out.

They has so much fun roasting and eating marshmallows. A few nights later I took John Wesley down again to the beach to roast marshmallows and took this wonderful photo of him at sunset.  I love the colors in this kit.  There is also a wonderful starry sky paper I'm dying to use but I didn't take any pictures of us watch TRON for the nightly movie on the beach. I'll remember to take pictures next time!!

Well it won't be right without a freebie so I thought I would share a wordart and frame freebie.  Be sure to check out the rest of the creative team for their wonderful freebies as well.

MJ-AJ Designs

Lisa Campbell Designs

Sand and 2 Pearls Designs

Here is my freebie.  If you like it I would love to hear from you.  Remember to stop by Natalie's Place Designs and snag her Rather Be Campin release.

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Wishing all of you a magical day and wonderful 4th of July weekend!



At the Barbershop...Released

One of the most special things you can do when you got to Disney World is to have your child receive their first haircut at Magic Kingdom.  We unforunately didn't start going to Disney World until that had already happened for my children.  We did however take my son during one trip to get his haircut!  Just check out this great new kit from Natalie's Place Designs... At The Barbershop.

I had so much fun using it to scrap my photos from our Spring Break 2009 haircut experience.  The colors are perfect for a boy or girl which makes it super cute for capturing that special moment.

We were also lucky enough to bump into The Dapper Dans in the candy shop on rainy day and they noticed the Birthday buttons on John Wesley and Adrianna.  They sang birthday songs to both of them. The kids were so excited and they really made them feel special.

The creative team came up with so many wonderful ideas for this kit so be sure to stop by each of their blogs for inspiration and freebies!

MJ-AJ Designs

Lisa Campbell Designs

Sand and 2 Pearls Designs

Well it just won't be right unless I provided a little freebie add-on myself.  I hope you like my bows and wordart!

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 Don't forget to stop by Natalie's Place Designs and grab her new At The Barbershop kit.  You won't be disappointed.  Wishing everyone a magical day!

Disney World Vacation Highlights - Bay Lake Tower

I have to say after being at Disney World for 10 days it's hard to be back into the swing of things.  We really enjoyed our time as it's always nice to get away as a family.  I thought over the next few days I would try and highlight a few of our days or events.  One of the best and important decisions we every made was joining the Disney Vacation Club in 2008.  We absolutely love the location of Bay Lake Tower and it truly feels like our home away from home.  Since joining we have had so many wonderful family memories and I know for the rest of my life I will have the amazing opportunity as our family changes to continue sharing the magic even into retirement!  So let's take a look at some highlights from the resort. 

A Disney must do is taking a photo at the entrance of Bay Lake Tower.

The convince of a 10 minute walk to Magic Kingdom or a 5 minute walk to the monorail is amazing!  Half of Disney World is accessible at our fingertips almost!  What an amazing view from the room too!!

One of the best features at Bay Lake Tower is the fact no matter where your room is located at the resort the pool is just out your back door!  Love it!

We spent a lot of time at the pool this trip.  It was a great way to cool off during the day and the kids love the pool!  They have lots of fun activities throughout the day as well.  I think the balloon burst was a favorite for both of them. The slide is amazing as you can see above with Adrianna just hitting the water.  If you lay down and arch your back you will fly down the slide...trust me I know. :)

My little swim goggle princess!

Here's John Wesley just taking a swim break to get refill on his drink at the Cove Bar.

The kids both really enjoyed roasting marshmallows in the evening.  They thought it was the best thing since slice bread!

Adrianna even attempted a double decker!

I love this photo of John Wesley as the sun was setting at the Marina!

This one of Adrianna is so tranquil and beautiful.  I hope you enjoyed a little sneak peek at our resort and events at Bay Lake Tower.  Stay tuned I'll post some more photos tomorrow as another highlight of our trip!

Wishing all of you a magical evening.

Sneak Peek...

We are back from Disney World and attempting to get caught up with the normal routine of life. :)  I wanted to show you a wonderful sneak peek at a terrific kit coming your way from Natalie's Place Designs.  It's perfect for all those special haircuts we get at Disney World...hint! hint!

Wishing all of you a magical day!

Turning Japanese released

I've been trying for 3 days now to upload my freebie to 4shared while using Bay Lake Tower at Walt Disney World wi-fi! It kept locking up but FINALLY it's uploaded.  Woohoo.  Came into the room for a break and time to go swimming to cool off at the pool  I don't remember it being this hot in Florida in June!  I took a little Disney break the other morning and to create a quick little freebie to go along with Natalie's Place Designs release of "Turning Japanese."  It's an amazing kit and I plan to take lots of pictures over the next few days in the China and Japan Pavalions at EPCOT.  Matter of fact yesterday my son had to eat lunch at the Lotus Blossom in China.  He LOVES the orange chicken!! 

Here is my little freebie I whipped up.  I hope you enjoy it.  We are off to cool down at the pool and then extra magic hours most likely at Magic Kingdom this evening!

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Don't forget to check out Natalie's Place Designs - Turning Japanese and the other great freebies from the creative team.

MJ-AJ Designs

Lisa Campbell Designs

Sandy and 2 Pearls Designs