Down By The Bay

Way back many years ago in 1995, I was working at a bank and won a trip to San Francisco including tickets to Phantom of the Opera.  You have to understand that my husband is not in to cultural things like that.  He enjoyed the trip and the sightseeing but was determined not to love the Phantom.  So, we went, and he liked it.

The next year, I won the trip again.  He refused to go see Phantom again.  So, since his dad taught drama at the Jr High for many years and has appeared in quite a few plays himself along with TV commercials and a few TV shows, we decided to offer our Phantom tickets to my husbands parents.  They bought airplane tickets and went on the same trip as us but they used our Phantom tickets and then we all spent the rest of our vacation together.  There is so much to see and do in San Francisco and I loved going both times.  So, now I finally have these ancient photos scrapbooked and I’m so excited!  We hope you love this kit made for all those pictures Down By The Bay!

Now that I’ve rambled for 1/2 an hour, here is a preview of the kit that is linked to the store and on sale for $2.50 this week.  There are elements, and fact tags included for things such as Alcatraz, Lombard Street, Fisherman’s Wharf, Chinatown, Ghirardelli Square, Pier 39, the Cable Cars, and Fisherman’s Wharf.

Here is a closer look at just the papers

We also have a cardstock pack that you can get for just $1 when you purchase at the same time as the kit.  Use coupon SNPbayCS to get the deal.  It includes 7 cardstocks.

Be prepared for lots of pictures because I made a book and so did Sheri from our CT.  I’m going to show you the actual San Francisco photos first, then what everyone else did with this versatile kit.

Sheri’s layouts

Don’t all these fun layouts make you want to take a trip to San Francisco?!
My layouts

Yes, I was very pregnant the first time we went, 8 months in fact.

When I was making this kit, I made these elements and papers for Phantom of the Opera because I thought it was always playing there at the Curran theater.  When I researched for my fact tag, I found out that Phantom no longer plays there, but lots of other off Broadway shows take place there now.  So, because of that and because of possible copyright problems if I made money off the Phantom stuff, I decided to put the Phantom portion as an add on for free here on my blog.  Make sure you come back on Friday to get it. In the meantime, here are my Phantom layouts

Michele’s San Francisco layouts

Now because our kits are so versatile, here are the non San Francisco layouts from our CT

Amy’s layouts – I think she used our Block It template pack for the first one and our Big Picture template pack for the 2nd one.

Becky’s layouts

Brooke’s layouts

Dana B’s layout

Dana J’s layouts, this first one is pictures her daughter took, so cute!  She apparently likes her feet.

Emily’s layouts

Heidi’s layout

My non-San Francisco layouts

See you all on Friday with some awesome freebies!

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