I bought some brown envelopes from Staples and used one on the inside of the title page. I used some glimmer mists on it. I really liked the idea of the envelopes and I bought the glimmer mists ages ago to do some art journaling but never got around to it. So I misted the envelope and it still didn't look good until I took some of the front off and added the blue cardstock which I had stamped with the word stamp from Stampin' Up. I used Tim Holtz distress ink, walnut stain, all around all the paper on the page. I also used a rusty/red piece of card stock to cover the inside of the cover page before I put anything on it. The leaves are something I've had in my stash forever and decided I just wanted to use them up. The"Smooth Sailing" was cut with the Cricut from the Life's a Beach cartridge and it was cut at 3 1/2 inches. I 'm not sure what the background of the ship was cut at or even the cartridge but there are lots of cuts that are similar in shape, in the Cricut cartridges. If I had to make a guess I would say it was cut at 4 inches. I wanted the pocket at the front to be deep so that I could put brochures from the cruise ship inside it. I could also put pictures on the inside of the pocket.
Page 3 is just a half circle so I just cut out "Hawaii" with the Cricut and put that on some green background paper and that was done. It was in the Life's a Beach cartridge and cut at 3 1/2 inches. I used Life's a Beach quite a bit for this project. If you have a Cricut and wondering what cartridges you might use a lot, I found that the new ones from Close to my Heart are excellent and they were well used for this project. Artbooking was used for most of my picture frames in the book. I love that cartridge. I don't sell Close to My Heart so have no vested interested in telling you this. They are just awesome cartridges and come with stamps to match. You can't beat these for art journals or smash books.
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