More entries in my Travelers Notebook

Had so much fun with this.

We were camped in a friend's backyard and

this little groundhog was our neighbor.

Every now and then he'd scamper across the yard

into the woods.

I couldn't resist.

Oh and if you know about the Shadow - you're really old.

My pal Holli stamped and mailed that fun critter. 

LOL

 Had that birthday sentiment for a long time and

kept forgetting to use it.

Well.

Stash Bust.

Loved that we could get together and celebrate

my brother in laws birthday.

 Of course I had to document our trip to Hershey and

chocolate covered bacon.

Yum.

There were 4 slices 4 different ways and each

had an abundant of chocolatey goodness.

And for the TH phrase up there - I actually finally

bought a Tsquare ruler and guess who

STILL had trouble making straight lines. 😐

And some of the leaves are changing.

It's going real slow

and I wanted to get our home in on the

leaf peeping action.

I have had that acorn flair button forEVER.

Finally.

There's a mix of a lot of stuff that of course

I don't have the packaging too.

So you'll have to guess. LOL.

I'm also doing pretty good with the no dimension rule.

More or less.

😉

Started a new Travelers Notebook

It's an old Studio Calico and happens to be

perfect because it has fall stuff in it.

And here I am in NJ in the Fall.

Twas meant to be.

Also, I got to use the Tim Holtz SNARKY word

phrases - I love them - you really need

a sense of humor.

 So my challenge is to do this TN withOUT dimension.

 That challenge lasted to page 2. 

LOL.

The banner that hysterically cute monster is holding

has some of that craft dimension stuff (can't think of the name)

behind it so it's not as thick as regular pop dots.

 I have been enjoying doing simple pages

and NOT OVERthinking things.

Snort.

 And okay - page for has a tad dimension but

it's not my fault.

Blaming it on my pal Holli who sent goodies

in a card - all those cute monsters, that girl and a pink

flamingo clip that I forgot to add to the photo.

It's been fun passing things back and forth via snail mail.

It took awhile to get to me so it was a fun surprise.

 I have WAITED a LONG TIME to use

that slice of pizza - also Studio Calico - very old PL card

that I fussy cut out.

Broke out the die cut machine and made a lot of stuff that made it in

these pages, along with stamps and fussy cutting.

It's been fun.

Since space is an issue - when I break out the BigShot

I cut a lot of stuff ahead of time, except alphas,

that I needed because I tossed

out a bunch of thickers I had because

I thought they were too big 😐

so the BigShot came out again as

 the alphas are QK Holiday mini's which

are a fun font.

This is going to be a fun notebook. 

I think I'm getting the hang of it.

TN - Completed already!

Shocked me too.

For some reason - I thought LAYERS as oppossed to DIMENSION

would make a difference.

 LOL!

And it did in the fun, but not so much how fat 

the book became.

But I love how it turned out.

I found these pages in the book really, really fun to do.

 Mostly because I let myself not worry about

design, embellishments (whether they matched or not)

or if it was cohesive.

 It was a blast and I'm gonna do it again

as soon as I create my next journal.

 I do love the rings - because it appears I canNOT resist

dimension or layers. LOL.

I really would love the use the premade books

but alas, I can't contain myself to keeping it flat.

 Using up so much stash has been fun as well.

Some of these cards I had literally from forever.

I'm okay with using old stuff.

 Because in a 100 years from now no-one will know its

not the latest and greatest.

 This is a mix of a lot of different mfg's.

The mix works well I'm thinking.

 Those envelops - I am totally gonna miss them when they're gone.

 The paper for this is from a 6x6 basic grey pad.

Tea garden.

So this is how fat that bad boy is and would believe

there are only 5 WHITE PAGES in the book?

LOL.

It's all the other layers of patterned paper that make it pudgy.

I'm okay with that.

However, I'm gonna have a lot of books LOL.

Sigh.