12 x 12 Scrapbook Layouts - Washington D.C.

Hi Everyone! I hope you are all having a great weekend so far. Feeling under the weather today :( so posting this entry a little later than I usually do on Sundays.

I want to share 3 layouts that I worked on yesterday using my Studio Calico September kit. Actually 2 of them are using the September "Central High" kit and the other one is using the August "Summer of '69" kit.

My husband and I took a trip out to Philadelphia and Washington D.C. last year during his spring break and yes, I am still trying to finish that scrapbook :)

For those of you who know me well, I actually lived in Philadelphia for 4 years while in medical school. I attended Temple University School of Medicine, which I LOVED! Great school and had great friends those 4 years. I was introduced to and fell in love with Cuban and Indian cuisine during that time :)  Thank you Yanelis and Minisha for this!

I went back to show my husband my Philly as well as take him to Washington D.C. as he had never been there. He is a HUGE history buff and one of his big heroes is Abraham Lincoln.
He really enjoyed the trip to D.C. which made me happy!

It feels so great to scrapbook again! I do love making cards so kind of broke away from scrapbooking for a while. Don't worry, I will still be making cards too :)


Well onto my layouts......Here is the first one.

I enjoyed using the patterned papers from the kit and I also used a couple of patterned papers from one of the add-on kits.

We did a Trolley night tour on our first night in D.C., which was fun. So I had 2 good pictures of the Lincoln Memorial at nighttime and then of course we visited again the following day.

I was a little disappointed though as the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial was under renovation so my husband did not get to see that. I used to like watching the ducks around the pool.
He read somewhere that it is now completed, so will need to make another trip out there sometime.



Here is layout #2:

I found some stickers from Jolee's which included a soldier's uniform and rifle that I had bought last year at Michael's specifically for this page. I didn't see the stickers until after I finished the page but I think I made them fit well.

I took several pictures of the war memorials and it was hard deciding on which ones to put on my scrapbook layout.
I decided to mostly use the pictures depicting the Vietnam Memorial including the Memorial Wall. I also included the US Marine Corp Memorial from World War II (Iwo Jima) as it is a very famous Memorial showing Marines raising the US flag. This Memorial is actually located close to the Arlington National Cemetery across the Potomac River.



Here is layout #3:

I had actually already made a layout with these pictures using patterned paper from Tim Holtz but just never really liked how it turned out. I really like his distress inks but not a big fan of his patterned paper - maybe its just me?
Anyway, I used the August Studio Calico kit for this one. I was getting a little tired of the September kit papers :)
A fellow crafter I follow on You Tube mentioned in one of her videos that she gets bored of the monthly kits after using it for 3 or 4 projects. Now I know what she means :)

I did reuse the pictures and my journaling card that I had already done.

I had to highlight the Supreme Court as my husband was very excited to go inside. He is a lawyer now and a big fan of constitutional law although he works in health care law.



I hope you all enjoyed my projects this week as I had a really great time doing some crafting yesterday. I just love sitting in my craft room and coming up with ideas.

I also LOVE shopping for supplies and I do most of my shopping online now. I just find that Michael's and Hobby Lobby do not carry most of the paper companies/lines that I like. There is an Archiver's in Houston but kind of a drive for me. So much easier to buy online and then get a nice big brown box delivered to your front door :)

Speaking of shopping.... I just received 4 new packages in the mail! Two of them were from Two Peas in a Bucket, one from Urbanpapercraft.com and the last one was from Scrapbook.com. I had ordered the new Cropper Hopper plastic envelopes from Scrapbook.com to hold my Studio Calico kits.
I had made a large purchase from Two Peas only to find that they had received the new October Afternoon "Witch Hazel" collection the following day! Of course, I had to make another purchase :)
My Urbanpapercraft purchase was also large as she had just received the new Studio Calico lines including Yearbook and Classic Calico Vol. 3.  Jen, who owns the online store has great inventory and great prices!
I am also waiting on 2 more packages to come soon :)

My husband has a hard time understanding why I spend so much money on my hobby. I promised him that I was going to stop for a while for now except for my monthly Studio Calico kit subscription and my monthly Ali Edwards clear stamp subscription. I hope I can keep my word :)

I wanted to take pictures of my scrapbook haul like I have done in the past but get too excited and forget to take pics. I realize this after I have put everything away!

I plan to do a little more crafting this evening as well as plan our CPA ladies craft day as requested by Dr. Ramos-Patel.
It is great working with fellow physicians that like to craft!

I am also attending a digital photography class at our local community college which I started last week. I am very excited and hope to become a better photographer. I really want to be able to use my Canon camera well and have great pics to scrapbook! Will keep you updated and maybe post some of my artistic pics.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you all have a great week!




Ana