Find joy in the ordinary page - Traveler's Album

 Created this page for my traveler's album.

It's a photo of a flower at the Vistor's center in Dawson Creek. 

TH die, sissix die, stickles, bo bunny 6x8. 

Those adorable butterflies are from Little Birdie and there's really awesome flowers too. 

Assorted stamps, w/TH vintage distress ink.

Just add a bit of sparkle and shine

I made this card awhile while playing

with a new (to me) TH Die that as you can see

was a mighty fine price.

I also have to admit this layered dies completely

baffle me.

Jigsaw puzzles are not my thing.

However, 

I did love it.

But then, boredom set in.

and wa-la

Sticles and Nuvo to the rescue.

The background is a Sissix die.

 

Another flower page

I love how this turned out. 

I did a few things on the background, 

Small back dots.

Bigger white dots.

I was also going to fussy cut the flower like I did

on this page, however, I really

like the background in the picture sooo....

It must be kept.

Had that little gnome painted already and

it had purple in it.

A simple sentiment completed it 

AND

How about that bee.

 

With brave wings she flies....

Made this page last night. 

The tree branch is from Oliver (the owl TH die cut) 

An old sissix die bird cage and bird and the flower is from a picture I took -

printed it twice and fussy cut it out and popped up the layers. There

were printed 2 different sizes a 4x6 and 3x4 which  

makes the layers look cooler.

No clue about the pretty dots - 

but they came from Treasured Memories S/B shop. 

And the background are oxides smooshed about.

Love how it turned out.

 

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.

 

Using up washi tape

I have a lot of washi tape (like who doesn't) 

and I really don't use it a lot. 

I see others that use it and it looooks sooo good.

Mine not so much.

So I have a lot of washi and blank notebook.

Well we can't have a blank, boring looking book cover

so...........................

I just slapped washi everywhere 

willy nilly.

Some had no adhesive so modge podge to the rescue.

And then.....I decided that maybe some gesso

is required to tone it down.

And then I thought maybe stamps

would work in another willy nilly kind of way.

Too much???

I kind of like it.

And why not.

 

Easter cards for the grands

It appears that over the years I have used up most

of my Easter stuff for cards.

Since I have limited space I try real hard to 

use what I have differently.

Below is actually a stamp set for a birthday card

yet there's a bunny in the basket.

So for the older kidlets - I used some QK dies,

fussy cut the stamps

and made backgrounds from distressed inks.

And the inside - A cover up was necessary since I

somehow got ink all over the green part.

So white dots from those little black daubers

and the bunny ears from TH.

I had leftover clouds sooo.....

Then the little guy needed a card his age and

fortunately for me I had leftover Easter

papers from last year.

Had some fussy cutting going on.

Violet designs (papers)

And I made the inside sort of the same w/o the background

fiasco - Love those painted dots.

Some more fussy cutting and some bunny ears.

Who doesn't love bunny ears.

 

Wild & Free Chipboard Album - completed

I wanted to create an album that was would use

up the chipboard I had stashed as well as

the enormous amount of scraps I have laying around.

No rhyme or reason I just tossed

whacked up scraps

and other assorted leftovers I have on hand.

I totally got carried away and had fun.

I really need to go easy on the pop dots though.

🤣

I found photos of my boys when they were younger

so why not add them.

Also added are photos I printed and were the

wrong size for what I wanted originally.

I used a lot of "precut" die cuts

that didn't work on other projects I

originally whacked them for.

I also included papers that I made

using leftovers on white cardstock.

I had fun using embossing folders.

I also decided that titles could be optional

and use phrase stickers or stamps.

And envelopes.

Love tucking them in.

Did a couple of black & whites.

So the kidlet with the blue stars 

is the

younger version of the man on the page below.

All grown up.

I didn't do alot of journaling either 

because I journaled somewhere else.

I discovered in doing this album

I don't have nested square die cuts.

I need to do something about that.

I finally used that Smokey Bear sticker.

It's been around awhile.

I can't believe I left a blank page.

🤣

I love the different sizes and I did

move things around if I needed to.

I had a blast using a bunch of die cuts

I forgot I had.

I busted some stash but not enough.

It's quite bulky and clumsy.

❤️

I love how it turned out.