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. 

 

Homemade Mini chipboard album - enamel paints

My hubby had one of those collage frames that his kids made for him long time ago and in one of the moves it broke. So...I took the photos out and made a little mini album. I used a seascape because they love hanging out at the sure. This is a chipboard album and I used enamal paints to make each page unique.

 It was a lot of fun to do.

At the end are the papers I made from the leftover paints.

I made these papers. 

Some are watercolor papers and regular

printer paper.

I did front and back - that way I have choices. 

LOL.

It's neat to have my own patterned paper.

 

Completed my Memories in the Making Traveler's Notebook

And because of the way the photos uploaded 

we are starting at the end 

of the album which is cool because

you hadn't seen these 2 pages 

yet.

Love favorite youngest grandson's laugh -

that book must be really

funny.

I did stencils, inks and stamps on

the backgrounds for most of the pages.

I had a lot of fun using my die cuts

and fussy cutting stamps.

I still have a love/hate relationship with Tim

Holtz's label dies - I can't

seem to get the ink right which is

obviously annoying as I watched his

tutorial many times.

😐

Whatever photos I had that didn't "fit" in any of

the other albums I had going on

and especially not my travelogue album 

because I was keeping that "pure" more or less.

And besides I could be way more creative in the

album than my travelogue I feel.

I really need to get over that - but I'm trying

to keep the travelogue 

like a travelogue 🤣

Looking at the circle photo I am trying

to make a concious effort to do different shaped photos.

Because why not.

Envelopes for journaling tags. and extra pix.

Double page spreads were fun.

I can't tell you HOW LONG I've had these arrows and roadsigns

and couldn't USE them for one reason or another.

Whew!

Early in the start of the album I had decided

to not use pop dots.

And what a dumb thought that was LOL.

So I cheated at first with buttons

and premade embellishments that were

3D, soooo... open season

for POP dots.

These pages were fun.

Another 2 page spread.

I use them a lot toward the end because 

I was soooo close.

I did use a lot of the same dies over and over

and I'm really okay with that.

It's why I bouht them.

Had to put an S on Friends there.

I have seen a ton of skeletons all over the country

in very creepy places.

Oh and I wrote a haiku on vellum.

I LOVE that big font that was an impulse buy 

because I scrapbook in small size albums

because of space

and I had a hmmm...moment

(it was just a moment)

before I decided it was a really good buy.

I love the font.

Getting to love the flower dies -

some are tricky to put together and

become annoying.

A fun blast from the past to the present page.

I have journaling tucked back there

but never would've thought I'd grow my hair back

out again.

It's so much easier on the road when one

can't get regular hair cuts.

I also love creating "scenes" that hopefully

tells the story and

besides its fun to use my stash on

a regular basis.

These pages were fun.

I need to remember to do more multi pix pages.

Who doesn't love a good splattered page.

And this is the beginning.

it really was fun to do and I found a lot

of dies and stamps I forgot

I had. 

This is the front cover of the album and

it looks the same on the back.

 

Love how it turned out and I'm debating

on doing another one. 

In the meantime you can check out another

album I'm putting together using

scraps from my scrapbin.

Check it out here.