New Album in the works

 

This album is from Hobby Lobby and 6x8 comes with a

variety of inserts.

I decided not to do matchy matchy from the 

outside to the inside.  

Used a combo of stamps and stencils.

 

It's not required is it???

 

It's kind of fun, yet I feel sort of boxed in with the different

project life pages because I feel it's like

a one trick pony

 

plus  I have limited supplies.

FUNNY THING - I had to whittle down and kept what I

thought would be used for everything

and it fits "my style" (snort)

 

However, when I go to scrap it feels like nothing works.

Seriously.

 What else is fun is that the towns, even the little ones

have their own stickers which of course

I totally needed, however, they ain't cheap.

LOL.

 

So I try to work with what I have and in fact,

I have started doodling - we'll call -

because I.am.not.a.good.draw-er.

 

However, that minion is mine. 

It appears I'm a really good copy-cat 

LOL.

So above it appears I did all my journaling

on the page before and it's sorta/kinda a 2 page

spread.

 

Did a bit of Tim magic and made my own PL cards.

WouldYouBelieveI'mRunningOut

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Having a tough time with mojo.

 

I feel because of space I need to make albums smaller

but I am so used to working in any size

and somehow I can't convince my bad self to  just break out.

4x4 Baby Album -

In no particular order.

It was actually kind of fun until

those 2x2 PL page protectors and throughout

the album.

In the middle of nowhere with no stores I used what i had.

Sweet and Sassy DCWV - very old and

some cardstock and dies and punches and stamps.

 

 

It was fun.

I tried to adhere stuff down that could be lifted up,

removed if need be so 1x1 photos or journaling could be done. 

 

Or one can just leave them blank. 

 

Used up a lot of stuff which I love because

now I can buy more.

 

There were way more 2x2 pages than 4x4

which I found weird.

 

I hope momma loves it.

 

I kept the outside of the album simple.

Getting too carried away makes it tough to store

without it getting messed up.

Besides it's gold - does it need anymore ???

 

Update pages in my PL album

 

For some reason I didn't photo these on the same page.

My bad. 

Fun with the handdrawn stuff.

 

Having lunch with our friends, I do love that

the pages have different sizes and shapes.

However, I seriously need to do more portrait

photos - I'm actually improving on that.

 

Used some TH and punches and dies for for this.

Not to mention inks.

I do love my homemade PL card.

 

The copper museum had sooooo much stuff 

so I settled on adding Americana 

on my pages.

I did paint those thickers (and not very well)

with some studio calico gold paint. 

I redid them like 5 times. LOL.

 

Loving the pamphlets and now using 

stickers from the nation parks.

The walnut canyon sticker should've been

hooked with the one next to it, BUT

it was too big so I whacked it and made another

homemade PL journal card.

 

 Whoops out of order, and it is a pain

in the butt to reorder in this browser but it

has a bigger photos to pick from when uploading.

 I'm loving this album documenting our travels and

I was kinda doing them in order, but

it kinda stifled my creativity so now I'm scrapping

what "moves" me.

And I'm also feelin' it with the pocket pages.

Sigh.

I'll get over my badself soon.

😂

Scrappy pages continues with more from Saguaro NP

 

There is an east and west side to the park on different sides

of town which allows for different

plants and species.

Also some exciting roads getting too and fro in the park.

 

Above and below was when we hung out and had

lunch at Jerome which is a totally cool

place to go. Also taking back roads and hanging on

Route 66 - so many things from yesteryear.

 

We also took the long - short cut to the Grand

Canyon. As we've been there 3 or 4 times - first time

for me on our honeymoon 💗

and it never fails to be it's beautiful self.

Not too much journaling on the canyon 

but I did get chatty 

about the drive over.

I also found I liked the pamphlets going that

direction, however, I'm afraid there may be some

inconsistencies. LOL.

 

Scrappy pages in my 6x8 album

 

Actually, all the parks have pamphlets of some sort

and it tells so much more than I would

wanna chat about in the journaling

which as you can see not.real.chatty.

 

 

 Then there's OMGEE put stuff on the photos.

I like to think I was over that a long 

time ago, but alas, I don't really mean it LOL,

 

So just to keep things steady on in my mind

for these photos I didn't add too

much embellies.

I did flip the pamphlet only because I punched

the holes on the wrong end but

found I love it because it sort of encompasses the 2 pages.

 

I do have to say, that the 3x4 page pockets

also present a challenge.

The majority - and I mean majority of my photos

are landscape.

Had to do some tricky photoshop although

I do admit that cactus are perfect for portrait.

I'm getting better.

 

 

Scrapping in my new 6x8 album w/page protectors

I'm really excited to start this album. 

It works perfect in my space and gives me a break from

Travelers notebooks.

I love them - but I want something more to

protect my photos.

They have several different protectors

which is a challenge for me.

Sure, I could get just 6x8 but where's the fun in that.

So you may be aware of this first page as in the challenge

my friend Brooke and I were challenging

each other with sketches and embellishments.

We did four and are on the blog.

This is a 2 pager in which the 2nd page is behind

this one. 

Don't ask....

because they're glued together.

😐

 

 

So I love collecting ephemera and the National Parks

are quite generous with it.

If you're a senior- buy the National Park pass

we get into each and every one free.

Just sayin....

 

I also buy NP ephemera - they are totally getting with it

now and have a bunch of really cool stickers and patches and

they have a date stamp (for the passports). 

Love how it's turning out.

You can see the entire album cover here

You can see Brooke & I's challenges here, here, here & here

The 4th Scrapbook Challenge with my pal Brooke

 

It was a fun challenge, again. I find all challenges fun, more or less LOL.

Buttons, tags, stamps, ribbon and doilie and the sketch below.

She totally nailed it.

I think this one is a favorite.  

Love the photo of her son and hubby. 

My "doilie" was a cool thing I had from pink paislee.

Brooke sent Today at 9:29 AM

I love Thickers. The loves part of my title are foam thickers.

Brooke sent Today at 9:29 AM

My tag is the arrow patterned paper....cut it up and used it to layer

 

 

 

 My challenge from Brooke gave me a 2 spread - which I only did one

and thought what the heck - lets do a 2 page.

See that photo with my big mouth open - only a long lost

cousin I haven't seen in 40 years took it.

Love that nothing changed since we were kidlets.

 My challenge from Brooke was the sketch below and 

patterned paper only, 6 buttons, 6 eyelets, ACK!!! 3 stamps different mediums

WHICH IS TOTALLY OVERLOOKED THAT - SO FAIL!

and handmade flowers.

Also FAIL on eyelets - I had NOT A ONE - so I used whatever

brads I had remaining - which wasn't many.

I think I had 7 and they were all different - so I used them anyway

and they totally worked.

I was so worried about brad and eyelets forgot about stamps.

Sigh.

 

You will also see this page in my new 6x8 album that you can

read about here !! It turned out so pretty I think.

Can't go wrong with oxides and stamps.