Life is Good if you're a Panda

In December, my husband and I went on a romantic getaway to San Diego. I've always wanted to go there and it turned out to be the last big city in America that I hadn't been to - so, we braved the worst storm and cold they've had in years and had a blast.

Of course, we had to hit the San Diego Zoo, which is like hiking through a mountain range to get to the exhibits!  I've never seen a zoo like this - the terrain was something!  The pandas alone were worth the hike, as you'll see!

Anyway, onto the layout:

I used a few different cartridges on this layout - Pagoda for the Panda and flower, Graphically Speaking for the "life is good" and Songbird for the layered journaling tag.

The panda from the Pagoda cartridge was cut at 2" and his eyes made using a Signo white pen (love these!).  I love the baby panda in the center photo sleeping on his back in his hammock - so darn cute!

The Songbird cartridge is fantastic for it's set of eight or so shapes that are perfect for journaling boxes, card fronts, frames, etc.  This frame1 (shift version) is cut at 4" for the white and 4-1/4" for the green background.  I printed the text on a sheet of paper first, then carefully laid my journaling block over it and printed again.  It only took 3 tries....ha ha!  One time I smeared the ink...grrr!

This "Life is Good" is from the Graphically Speaking cartridge and cut at 2-1/2".  No shadows are on this cartridge unfortunately but the starkness of the white works here.  The flower was cut from the Pagoda cartridge at 2".

Paper is by American Crafts and Core'dinations.

Be sure and check out Obsessed with Scrapbooking (where I have my top Cricut cartridge awards for 2010) and Courtney Lane Designs, where Melanie has some gorgeous cards up using the new cartridges from December's Hello Thursday.

 Have a great day!

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