Congrats! Card and Project Life Layout

Hi Everyone! Just getting back into the swing of things. We returned from our Carnival cruise to Cozumel last Monday and finished a short week of work.

The cruise was GREAT! I had never been on a cruise before so our little 4 day cruise from Galveston to Cozumel was perfect. The cruise was to celebrate Cypress Physicians Association 10 year anniversary. Dr. Hu (my boss) has been talking about it since I joined 3 years ago. Most of our office staff (doctors, phone room staff, and medical assistants) went and it was great hanging out with them outside of work. We even had a team building exercise on the last day.
My husband finally had the chance to see a nice looking beach with turquoise waters instead of the usual murky Gulf waters in Galveston.
We had a great time in Cozumel and joined an excursion to some Mayan ruins and Tequila tasting. I can't wait until our next vacation!

Anyway, I was not able to blog last weekend as I was out at sea. I have 2 projects that I have worked on this weekend.

The first one is a layout I completed using my Studio Calico kit from July called Elmwood Park. I am showcasing 2 pictures of my sister and I enjoying pizza :)
During my last trip home to the RGV, we spent the afternoon with my grandmother on her Birthday. She loves Pizza Hut pizza so we ended up taking her a Supreme pizza as requested.
Polly and I were being silly with my new camera and ended up taking this pics. They turned out great so had to showcase them! My mom thinks that Pizza Hut should pay me for the pics since it looks like we are really enjoying the pizza :)


Here is my layout:

I think our faces say it all! I wanted to use several patterned papers in this layout to really showcase all the patterns in the July kit. I took inspiration from a layout highlighted on Studio Calico's website with using the triangle shapes.
Here is the link...http://studiocalico.typepad.com/.a/6a0133f3181fde970b017744b54825970d-pi.
I only wished I had a sewing machine to sew along the triangles like the inspiration layout. It is on my wish list for Christmas!
Journaling is actually on the kraft tag that is nicely tucked into the small pocket bag that came with the kit.


Now onto my card for the week. I wanted to continue to use the same papers as I used in my layout only because I really want to get the most use out of my Studio Calico kit. Plus I had lots of scraps left over.
I decided to make a Congratulations card for my medical assistant who will be graduating from University of Phoenix later this month.
The Studio Calico kit came with some patterned papers from the October Afternoon's 9 to 5 collection which works well with the theme of my card.

Here is my card:

My card base is a standard A2 size (4 1/4 x 5 1/2) and made with Papertrey Ink Kraft cardstock. I again wanted to use several patterned papers on the card which are from the kit.

I used Kimber McCray's card sketch for inspiration from last week's Two Peas card sketch challenge. The sketch is last week's so will not be able to actually enter it into the challenge as it is now expired.

Here is her sketch:

I just received my Studio Calico kit with 2 add-ons this week so will be using that for a project.


Here is a picture of this month's kit "Central High":

I also bought 2 add-ons (Style Guide and Capital Avenue):

I could not resist purchasing the add-ons as they contained several new pieces from Amy Tangerine's new collection called "Ready Set Go". Although I do plan on getting the whole collection - just waiting for it to be in stock at one of my favorite online stores :)


Thanks for stopping by again and will have a new project for next week.

Have a great week everyone!



Ana