Pages in my 6x6 album

 Love how these pages turned out and 6x6 is a fun size.

Cedar memories are a capture of items I

had been keeping in my cedar chest (which has seen better days).

So I found a high school club jersery, did embroidry 

in those days, my candy striper outfit and cap

HS notebook and newspaper,

my confirmation dress and favorite first born outfit.

This is a 2 page spread and it feels

weird the title is on the second page but I'm not changing it

because I really like there.

I printed my photos 1.9x1.9 and that

works perfectly in getting 6 pictures on 4x6.

I really love doing this because while these photos are

precious, I have a small album to work with

and those photos would take up the entire book,

practically (I'd need more page protectors) if 

I did them singularly.

So...while they are important I like that there combined

because this is basically how they were 

found. 

The papers are DCWV playful pets 6x6 and

while I have no pets - the B side papers rock.

A Wedding Card & Mini Album

Our nephew recently married so of course I made

a card for them.

Using die cuts and punches, I love how

it turned out. 

I used sort of "autumn" colors since it is November after all.

On the inside of course I had to use my new

Tim Holtz 3D heart die cut and I love how it turned out.

The sentiments are also from a TH phrase booklet.

So THEN, at my LSS I saw this DCWV 6x6 pad that ALSO had 

embellishments to go with.

So, our nephew and new niece LOVE the beach, shore, ocean

and this was perfect.

I absolutely fell in love the papers.

They were just perfect along with them embellishments

and lots of stuff to fussy cut in the paper pad.

I made a tag to tuck in the envelope

which I love and hopefully there'll be journaling on it.

I used our invitation in the album as well and it was so

pretty it needed no embellishment.

I only put a couple of photos in, because there aren't

many out there that are really good

and I didn't take many either.

I know. My bad.

Is that paper not gorgeous and perfect.

And those embellies.

YUM.

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Of course I wanted to give some guidance as to what to do.

Tucking stuff in, journaling, etc. and of course,

I couldn't do that on a plain white piece of paper so...

I made this tag that I just loved and really didn't want

to give it away LOL.

I absolutely loved making the card and the album.

 

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 ???

 

Scrapping on the road

Finally, thanks to my pal Holli - who happened to be

sharing her day of scrapping with me via text message, 

made me break out the table for my "nest."

We then cyber scrapped for awhile getting quite alot done.

It's a small place, with limited supplies and one can wonder

how I always lose and/or misplace things.

Drives me wild - because I DON'T MOVE from there

with anything in my hands.

So I've started tossing "like" things in baggies.

Well we all know how "like" stays together. LOL.

Anyway, no changes on the first couple of pages.

 Again thanks to my pal Holli she found this sentiment

pack called "you are the world to me" by DCWV.

Had adorable cut aparts and transparencies that I have added.

 Some of the papers I added (and this was all from my "scrap" box)

were not double sided, therefore, using the every stamp I own technique

spruced it up some.

I didn't bring mists this time and I really miss them

but its a small space and quite dangerous spritzing them about.

Talk about a potential mess.

 I also rearranged a few pages to fit photos better.

I'm so glad I found this pineapple in a MME pack

that was an impulse buy.

And the pineapples so had to be documented.

If you follow the my blog you may know I grow pineapples

and they always ripen when we are away.

Well not this time.

Three ripened and I tossed them in the RV and

we carried them around for several states before cutting them up.

Normally pineapples do not ripen more once cut.

Well these did.

And by the time we cut and ate them we had a sugar ant

infestation that actually continues to this day.

Not quite as many - but they are still making their presence known.

I can understand these were the sweetest, best ever.

Also I carried put the tops in water to root

them, and gave them away because the poor things

were getting bounced around and out of their water so

my pals Gail and Jill are proud owners

of pineapple tops.

One in Maine and the other New Hampshire.

I'm sure those pineapples will thrive.