LOAD213 - Day 4 - Seasonal Family Bucket Lists

The prompt for Lain Ehmann's Layout a Day (LOAD213 - Scrap Happier) challenge for Day 4 was to scrap about a goal.  I've been wanting to scrap about our family's seasonal bucket lists for a while now, so I thought this topic fit the prompt well enough.

 

 Journaling reads:

At the beginning of every season, we gather around a fire and make a list of things we'd like to do that Spring, Summer, Winter, or Fall. We might not actually DO everything on the list, but dreaming and laughing together is a cherished memory.

Some observations about the process and products:

1. Another Picasa collage.
2.  I took a screen shot of our summer bucket list that we had created on my iPad, and printed it out.  I think it made a great addition to the page.
3. Journaling cards from Becky Higgins Project Life Clementine Core Kit.
4.  I love the license plate letter stickers.  I've had them for a while now and finally found the right layout to use them on.

MacRay Harbor Accordion Album

Our fourth of July holiday weekend (and my week of vacation following that), was kicked off by a trip to my cousin Deb and her husband John's boat on Lake St. Clair on Friday, Jul3 3rd.

They keep their boat at MacRay Harbor, which is a very nice, fun place to hang out...when you're not out on the water in their gorgeous boat. The boys went swimming in the pool and we had dinner at the Marina (all you can eat BBQ which was delish!!)

I made two versions of this accordion album, one to give to Deb & John as a thank you gift, and one to keep. The only difference between the two albums is the color of the background cardstock (ours is yellow, theirs is blue) and a slight variation in where some of the embellies are placed (all from a CTMH Stick Ease set).

It was GREAT doing two of the same albums at once. Something I will definitely do again in the future.

Front:

Pages 2 & 3:Pages 4 &5: Back:Pages 7 & 8: Pages 9 &10: Overview (I love how this accordion album can stand up on its own for display):

Kev's Father's Day Mini Album Card

Lest ye think I've spent my entire summer neglecting my papercrafting love, I made this mini-album/card for Kevin for Father's day back in June. It was actually a project that I made at my SU! Stamp Camp, that I turned into a Father's day album. The colors don't show up very well in the photos, so let me just say that I turned all the pictures to sepia. And the album papers/cardstock/ink colors are purple and a mossy green.

This is an aerial view of the mini album. It was quite involved with all of those flippy flaps, but pretty cool.

Front:

Inside:

Jordyn's Note to Kev:

My Note to Kev:

Symmetrical Inner View:

Liam's Note to Kev:

Owen's Note to Kev:

The very inner inside of the album / card:

Challenge 16b - love

I created this layout as part of ScRap SiStaZ Challenge 16b a couple of weeks ago, but am just now getting around to posting it. Not sure what took me so long, other than I don't truly LOVE the layout. But, I've got Mother's Day 2009 recorded and I'm moving on.

love:

Some observations about the process and the products used:

1. Fonts in journaling strips are: black text - A Red Bucket, green text - Cry Kitty, both downloaded for free from this site.
2. Picture taken on Mother's Day at my mom's house.
3. I used the Cricut for the title and figured out why it wasn't previously cutting all the way through. There is a dial called "pressure" that Owen had fiddle with and turned the pressure way down. It only took me 6 different attempts to finally figure it out! I knew my blade hadn't dulled, yet.
4. The bling scrolls purchased at the Mega Meet are a pain in the ARSE to apply to your page. Be forewarned. Glad I didn't buy too many of those. FRUSTRATING! Yes, they're crooked and they're going to stay crooked.
5. I always have a hard time picking a font color to match my paper. That's because the colors that look like they match on my computer screen print out differently on paper. So, I created this "abc" file and printed it out. It is basically a replication of the color chart options on my computer. Now I can compare my paper to the colors of the text on this print out. Which is what I did here. The color that matched my paper the best would have NEVER been my choice based on what that color looks like on my computer screen. I think I'm going to use my abc color chart often.

Inspiration Layout:

Challenge 9b - Birds of a Feather

I thoroughly enjoyed putting this layout together for ScRap SiStaZ Challenge 9b.

Slowly but surely catching up on those challenges!!


Challenge 9b - Birds of a Feather (single):


Some observations about the process and the products used:

1. Patterned papers are from SU! And, in case I haven't mentioned it before, I LOVE LOVE LOVE that SU! papers are MADE IN THE USA! (Because SO many scrapbook products are not.)
2. The argyle ribbon beneath the photo is from CTMH. Taiwan material. Finished in China. (Which is where MOST scrapbook products are made, so I'm over it.)
3. The journaling on the photo would have been much easier and faster to do if I would have used Picasa (or something) and printed the picture with the text already on it. But I took the long, old fashioned route and used rub-ons.
4. I had so much fun paper piecing the bird together. I didn't even use a template. I just tried to mimic the bird in the inspiration layout as much as I could. I think it turned out pretty cute.
5. Kevin is 50% Irish. He is also 50% Polish.
6. I am 100% American mutt.

Inspiration Layout:

Challenge 6a - celebrate 2008 with the Hillary's

And ScRap SiStaZ Challenge 6a.

celebrate 2008 with the Hillary's:

Same layout, but with the journaling card removed that explains all the pictures:

Some observations about the process and the products used:

1. Photo collage made using Picasa. I think I'm starting to figure it out a little better, and I think it's funny how all of my kids birthdays aligned perfectly in the right column.
2. I finally used the CRICUT again!! Brown brackets and 2008 were made using the Cuttin' Up cartridge.
3. I had a bit of a Stickles incident. I'm not sure I know how to use it properly. But the incident did give the background paper a bit of sparkle, although that didn't show up in the photo.
4. The longest part of this process was picking which photos to use for each month. But once that was determined, the layout came together really quickly. Love that!

Challenge 6a Inspiration Layout:

Challenge 6b - Crazy Crew

It was nice to get back to the challenges today, now that my dad's and Kevin's albums are done (more on those later). It was even nicer to scrap with fellow Sista Traci! Who came over today to scrap with me while I worked on ScRap SiStaZ Challenge 6 .

SO MUCH FUN!

Crazy Crew:
Some observations about the process and the products used:

1. The patterned paper scraps are left over from an album I made for Jordyn when she started middle school.
2. The pictures were taken at an after Christmas Christmas party in January with Kevin's mom's side of the family, but the journaling has nothing to do with the "event" where the photos were taken, but about what was going on with our family at that moment. I'm so glad I'm no longer hung up on event-based scrapbooking. This is much more fun.
3. Ribbons are all from CTMH.
4. Cute scallop punch on the yellow paper was borrowed from Traci who had it in her stash when she came over. Thanks Trace!
   

Challenge 6b Inspiration Layout: