Sunshine at the zoo

Hello and a happy Friday to you! I have a very fun memory to share with you! Visiting the local children’s zoo is a frequent trip for me and my kids. In 2011 it was only my oldest daughter (who is 5 now) and I. The summer of 2011, we went to the zoo almost every week! She loves all the animals but especially the penguins. I just love all the happy faces I can capture while we’re there. This particular trip, we went with friends and it was one of our first trips of the summer so every exhibit was a new treat. It also happened to be wild Wednesday so we had a hands on experience with a few animals. This might be only time I encouraged my 1 year old to touch a rat!

The Bloom Take 10 kit is a perfect compliment to my zoo pages! I used a couple cards from my stash. One as the cute background to the ‘sunshine’ wood veneer. And I made one card using the flower stamp from the Glam Bag with red gelato and yellow ink. One of my journaling cards even got a little extra embellishment when I realized I made a boo boo. A little washi and you can’t even tell.

Whatever memories your spring has been filled with, I hope there were a few bright spots that you can capture. The Bloom kit makes me smile every time I pull it out. I love the bright colors! The stamp set says ‘you can’t have a rainbow without a little rain’. It’s true but this kit can brighten even a rainy day!

This is page 2 of my Sunshine at the Zoo layout! We had a fun day and plenty of great pictures to make another page with my Take 10 Bloom cards. I love these close ups of my daughter. She made all these great faces when she was learning to say cheese!

I had one blank spot once I got all my cards laid out. So I used the chevron stencil from the March glam bag to create a nice watercolor card with my gelatos. The wood veneer camera is also from a past Take 10 kit and I'd hadn't found a home for it. 

I was so excited to see how easily this page came together with the May Take 10 kit and a couple things from past kits! It sure makes pocket scrapbooking fun and easy when I have good supplies that work together!