Kaitlin Sheaffer

Olympic Opening Ceremonies

 

Today is a BIG day in our house - the 2012 Summer Olympics begin! We love watching the Olympics, and we have a fun tradition for the Opening Ceremonies - for dinner that evening, we always eat "Food of the Hosting Country" while we watch the coverage. Italy and China were easy, but when the 2010 Games (Vancouver) arrived, I struggled because they eat basically the same things we in America eat. We finally decided to simplify (and cheat a bit) by doing Canadian Bacon pizza. A few months before the Olympics started, I happened to sit next to a Canadian couple during a flight and I quizzed them about "traditional Canadian foods". They humored me and finally remembered a great pastry Canadians enjoy: Beaver Tails (flat cinnamon and sugar pastries). I happened to come across something quite similar to what they described in our local market, which thrilled me! I documented our little party in my layout today. 

I used an assortment of Ormolu goodies from several different lines, and they coordinated beautifully (as usual). The menu is written on a tag, and I used a Bungalow flapper at the top before tucking it behind the top photo on the layout. The GO! Dots & Spots globe was perfect for the layout so I incorporated it as part of the title. 

My twelve year-old has been eagerly anticipating these Summer Games because they are in London! And London = Fish & Chips in his mind. So, we are going to be feasting on Fish & Chips, Bass Beer (root beer for the kids), Eton Mess (meringue / strawberries / whipped cream dessert), and tea and biscuits tonight. Just for the heads up (so you can plan ahead): the 2014 Winter Games will be in Sochi (Armenian Cuisine), and the 2016 Summer games will be in Rio (Carnivale, anyone?)! 

Today is also a bittersweet one for me, as this is my final post on the Ormolu blog. I have been on the Creative Team for more than a year now, and I will miss it immensely! Ormolu is an amazing company and Kaitlin is a joy to work with. I have also enjoyed getting to know my fellow team members - they are all incredible women. I am looking forward to seeing what the future holds for Oromolu - I'm sure it will be fabulous!

 

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Crab Hunting

Hi everyone! I'm back with another vacation/everyday layout. I tend to not make my vacation layouts too themey so this leans more towards and every day type of layout. Each morning while we were in Kauai my son would go out to the beach as soon as he woke up to look for crabs to catch. Every. Single. Morning. So a layout had to be made!

I've been using 8.5"x11" paper recently and definitely liking the change. It has a bit of a different size and feel than the larger 12"x12".  That Fact or Fiction flapper has been one of my favorites for a while and I've just been waiting for the perfect layout to use it! I also loved the Bungalow Little Labels as a sort of second title. 

I encourage you to try scrapping on 8.5"x11" if you haven't before. It's a fun change! And don't be afraid to use up some of your Ormolu - they are SO fun to layer!

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Rawhide Energy Plant

Happy Monday to you! Just a quick little layout to share today...

As usual, I just grabbed my blog post for this field trip and made it into a layout for our homeschool album. I'm so pleased with how well all the Ormolu goodies (even from different lines) coordinate! I think my favorite part of this layout, though, is the dots turned into squares. I saw a friend do this at a crop recently using circles punched from patterned paper and realized that the many Ormolu dots would work perfectly:

I just picked some fun dots, punched a square to fit in the center (this took a wee bit of trial and error but not long at all), scored along the square to fold in those edges, and added them to my page. Yay!

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Real Deal

Hi everyone! I am so excited to be posting on the Ormolu blog. I LOVE everything Ormolu because each and every one works so well with the layering that I do so often. They are the easiest most perfect accents to add in here and there and go with pretty much any style I'm going with at the moment.

We just got back from Kauai (I'm still in post vacation depression mode) so as you can imagine I have TONS of photos just waiting to scrap. I think it's pretty funny that the first two I grabbed were of our favorite dessert on the island - Jo Jo's Shave Ice. 

I'm craving one right now. My favorite has coconut shave ice over macadamia nut ice cream with coconut cream and shredded coconut. SO good! I think my favorite new Ormolu products for this page were the Tag Sale Fabric Cuts. I love the added texture they give the page without being too much.

Do you love to layer as much as I do? I just can't help myself!

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