2 Wheels

I created this layout on Monday night in about 45 minutes. Maybe less.


I used a SU! scrapbook kit, and I know that I've mentioned before how much I LOVE kits, but it bears repeating. I LOVE kits.


Speedy layouts is one reason. Fun embellies is another. Owen loves the pointing finger "dicker" and Liam likes the arrow sticker that says "That Rocks!"

I will definitely be scrapping more in the near future. 8/6 is quickly approaching and I need to finish Liam's birthday book!! Who knows, I might even bust out a challenge or two.


2 Wheels:

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):

Father's Day Album for my Dad

Also, back in June, I made this Father's Day mini album for my dad. It was a SU! Stamp Camp project from last fall. I have since made other versions of this super simple album for other occasions, but this one is the original. All I had to do was add the pictures, journaling, and embellies.

Front of Album:

First Page (I thought this quote was PERFECT for this picture and for my parents' relationship):

Shawn's Picture and Note to my Dad: Jeremy's Picture and Note to my Dad: My Picture and Note to my Dad (the photo I took here is SUPER blurry, so if you can't tell, that's my dad - with a mustache! - in his firefighter uniform, in front of a firetruck, with me, age 3, wearing his fire helmet.): Last Page:

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:

WOW! It's been nearly TWO months since I posted anything here!! That's not to say I haven't been scrapping/papercrafting, though. Although, really, in the last month, I haven't scrapped very much.

In June, though, I made all of these birthday cards using scraps from this project and this project, (both of which used the same patterned paper kit).

What was brilliant about this was, instead of cleaning up my scraps and trying to store them for future use (only to never use them again), I actually used up ALL of my scraps from those two projects to make these cards, and because the papers all coordinated, the cards came together in about 45 minutes. Sweet!

I'll definitely do this again. Especially since I have already USED all of the cards that I made here and am in need of some more. These also could have been bundled and tied with a ribbon and given as a gift.

Oh, the possibilities!

Challenge 14b - Coin Angels

Kicking Booty on the ScRap SiStaZ challenges the last couple of days. Here is Challenge 14b.

Coin Angels:

Some observations on the process and the products used:

1. This was a SIMPLE layout.
2. I spent probably 2 hours total, including clean up, taking the photo, & blogging about it (whilst checking Facebook & emails from time to time).
3. Behind the photo is a journaling card which pretty much has this as the text, with a couple of modifications. Gotta get back to blogging about more than just birds here pretty soon.
4. I finally got to use some of my arrows from the Mega Meet!
5. The title that I stamped originally looked like it said COINANGELS, because I didn't leave any space between the two words. It didn't bother me until I took the picture and started to post it. Then I thought, "I can NOT live with it like that!" So I used a scrap piece of yellow cardstock (taken from behind the patterned paper before I adhered it - I'm a frugal scrapper like that). Anyway, I restamped the word COIN further over to the left. Well THEN there was TOO much space between the two words. So, I grabbed a penny to fill the space and adhered it with a ZOTS uber sticky glue dot. I LOVE the result of this mistake!! Although I didn't love the process of having to correct the mistake!!
   

Inspiration Layout:

Challenge 15b - in your ELEMENT

I'm a scrapping fool today. Catching up on some challenges on this gorgeous rainy day. ScRap SiStaz Challenge 15b - Feelings.

in your ELEMENT:

Some observations about the process and the products used

1. Please tell me that I am not the only who drops F bombs whilst scrapping.


2. This layout induced multiple F bombs to be dropped in my scrap room at various decibal levels.


3. I've decided that, I like Simple Scrapbooking, and this layout was not simple. Which is strange considering that it only has one photo. Hmm.


4. Kevin saw this layout and said, "You didn't even show what I caught? Well, it was a big one." Jackal.


5. I used SEVERAL mega meet weekend products on this layout - flexible ruler (for the first time!), scallop punch, chipboard swirls, and the Heidi Swapp date stamp.


6. You might have noticed that I used the same SU! patterned papers as I did in this layout earlier today. Since these will be going in different books, I thought it was wise to keep going with the same papers rather than stash them in my scrap container, never to be used again.


7. Is there more rain in the forecast?

EDITED:
I had to fix some things on this layout. I added who this is a picture of and where he is in the last line of my journaling, I added the "27" in the date stamp, I added a little scallop punch on the picture which says "It was a BIG bass!" and I inked the blue swirls so they weren't so shocking. Here is the updated version:Inspiration Layout: