4x4 Baby album Update

UPDATE - added 2 more pix below.....

I had a great time putting this little album together. 

It's all about the grandson.

I printed them in 4x4 size and that was really

neat to work with. 

I also printed 2x2's and of course created my

very own PL cards.

Naturally some of the 2x2s look like 4x4s 

because why not

they're adorable either way.

Got rid of a lot of ephemera.

Yay!

Love making my own embellies. 

I actually do not have many store bought ones

 because honestly, I buy them and then

are clueless on what to do with them because 

a. they're either not my style

b. I don't have anything to go with anything.

c. unless they're flowers............

I decided to have fun and downloaded 

Roadrunner because it cracked me up.

I didn't do a lot of journaling 

because it's not mine to journal really,

so I'm going to tuck tags

behind pictures here and there

and hopefully mama and favorite eldest son

will take care of that.

They take really great pictures and keep me quite updated.

I adore that viewmaster reel.

Remember those???

Cutting edge back in the day.

Sissix die.

Is he too stinkin' cute or what.

Used a lot of TH words and phrases.

and dated some of the photos.

I may need to pick up another 4x4 size

because this was fun to do.

Actually it's my second one as I did 4x4 wedding

album for favorite youngest son 

here

I do adore that little bear as you can see throughout.

and ta-da happy ending!!!

It's really hard to know when to stop.

Update!!!

I didn't stop LOL.

Got 2 more photos that had to be included.

Especially since mama wasn't in too many of them.

Like that's a surprise LOL.

He is just tooooo stinkin' cute.

 

Travelogue Album - Vol 3

Hard to believe that I have 3 of these 6x8 albums

for ONE trip.

6x8 from Hobby Lobby and I love personalizing them

with paints and rubons.

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And stencils oh my.

I bought a variety of page protectors and its

been fun fitting pictures and journaling in them.

And 6x8 size was fun. 

I

I ordered a lot of them because they were on sale

at scrapbooking.com for

the next go round.

I do pack it with a lot of ephemera - so

we have an idea of the campgrounds we stayed at

whether we liked them or they

didn't work out as planned.

Also from the parks - who can resist a patch

or sticker.

Of course an album wouldn't be complete

with do dads hanging around.

I also have enjoyed making my very own 

project life cards.

Or using the ephemera for a journaling card.

Pockets for tags are fun and that one is when we

had to get our rig worked on.

It appeared the brakes needed to be replaced.

Also ordered some panarama

page protectors.

I

It allows for extra pictures to tell a story

I also created journaling cards using the state flag

of the state we were in. 

Thankfully a lot of states keep their flags simple.

And they are scattered throughout.

The problem is matching the pictures on the panaromas

to the front and back.

Also, a new one for me, I tried not to gunk up the

photos with a lot of stuff because

I actually got some really great pictures. 

LOL.

Especially the aspen trees and autumn

which was the entire premise

for this adventure. 

And another page protector that I have

a love/hate relationship with

because I don't trust the 2x8 strips to stay put.

Still a lot of fun.

Finally got to use my cactus dies.

Woohoo!

We slid into Mexico so my DH can get his teeth taken

care of and what an adventure that was.

We have to go back so more fun on the Mexican horizon.

Parks are a lot of fun to drop into

especially with friends.

Here are the state flags of the states we just blew

through on overnights. 

Journaling on the back.

And a surprise visit to my dad's to see my

brother for the first time in way too long.

And then Back in Florida - just in time

for Thanksgiving with the family.

That b&w picture of the two of us looks 

kinda creepy there.

LOL.

And Christmas cards of the grandkids is the perfect way to end

the album.

I had a blast using alot of dies, stamps, inks, stencils

and paints.

I'm in the process of lining up our next album.

❤️

 

Travelogue Album Vol 2 in the books

It picks up when we settle in Oregon for about 6 weeks.

I picked up extra 6x8 page protectors and 

hardly ever use them.

I save a lot of ephemera too and I love to

drop into different churches - so I save 

their bulletins if I can so if

we're in the area again I can pop on in.

I also save the packets from the campgrounds we stay

because it has a map of the grounds and

we can figure out if we want to go back or not.

Made a project life card 

I love it.

And another PL card that I made.

I also decided that my journaling didn't

have to explain a lot of things

especially the self explanatory ones.

OOOO and I bought these 2x2 page protectors oh a whim

and hated them and loved them.

Its fun putting random pix out there OR ones you have

a bunch of but don't need to be big.

Another couple of homemade PL cards.

I do love the 3/4 sized page protectors

and tend to use them a lot.

In fact, I'm running out and I need a HL soon.

Anyway - instead of adding another sized page 

protector and leaving gaps

I cut a 4x6 into 2 3x4 size matching

the middle.

I really like doing that.

Oh and THEN I found these 4x4 pages with 2x2 on them.

I'm kinda having a love hate relationship too

only because what to put there LOL.

Used a tag

 and another homemade PL card.

And then there's the 4x6 - 2 to a page.

And then there's the fold over 3x4 page protectors.

I KNOW!!!

You can really tell a story like that if

you have a lot of pix for it.

Another homemade PL card.

Isn't it fun - had to try and match the backside up

that lays over the front side the wrong way 🤣

And the 2 3x4 and 4x6

always a fav too.

I also embellish the pamphlets because why not.

And some don't need it .

Keeping receipts.

And journaling on the backside.

And the END.

Did some journaling about the battle on the dock

between a blue heron and a bunch of river otters.

It was too funny to watch.