Travelogue Album - Vol 3

Hard to believe that I have 3 of these 6x8 albums

for ONE trip.

6x8 from Hobby Lobby and I love personalizing them

with paints and rubons.

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And stencils oh my.

I bought a variety of page protectors and its

been fun fitting pictures and journaling in them.

And 6x8 size was fun. 

I

I ordered a lot of them because they were on sale

at scrapbooking.com for

the next go round.

I do pack it with a lot of ephemera - so

we have an idea of the campgrounds we stayed at

whether we liked them or they

didn't work out as planned.

Also from the parks - who can resist a patch

or sticker.

Of course an album wouldn't be complete

with do dads hanging around.

I also have enjoyed making my very own 

project life cards.

Or using the ephemera for a journaling card.

Pockets for tags are fun and that one is when we

had to get our rig worked on.

It appeared the brakes needed to be replaced.

Also ordered some panarama

page protectors.

I

It allows for extra pictures to tell a story

I also created journaling cards using the state flag

of the state we were in. 

Thankfully a lot of states keep their flags simple.

And they are scattered throughout.

The problem is matching the pictures on the panaromas

to the front and back.

Also, a new one for me, I tried not to gunk up the

photos with a lot of stuff because

I actually got some really great pictures. 

LOL.

Especially the aspen trees and autumn

which was the entire premise

for this adventure. 

And another page protector that I have

a love/hate relationship with

because I don't trust the 2x8 strips to stay put.

Still a lot of fun.

Finally got to use my cactus dies.

Woohoo!

We slid into Mexico so my DH can get his teeth taken

care of and what an adventure that was.

We have to go back so more fun on the Mexican horizon.

Parks are a lot of fun to drop into

especially with friends.

Here are the state flags of the states we just blew

through on overnights. 

Journaling on the back.

And a surprise visit to my dad's to see my

brother for the first time in way too long.

And then Back in Florida - just in time

for Thanksgiving with the family.

That b&w picture of the two of us looks 

kinda creepy there.

LOL.

And Christmas cards of the grandkids is the perfect way to end

the album.

I had a blast using alot of dies, stamps, inks, stencils

and paints.

I'm in the process of lining up our next album.

❤️

 

Mixed Media - Playing around

 

I started this page out with the purple going on using the

packaging technique. And I let it set awhile

because I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with it 

especially when I saw that it "looked" like a horse.

It was totally an unplanned, swirl like you mean it accident.

Of course getting caught up in all things Tim Holtz

I stumbled upon Dina Whakey and she has the coolest

artistic stuff going on and some of it involves

scribbles. 

I decided to give it a try.

My horse has two mouths.

Used some TH stamps, ephemera/

Mixed Media - "no beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart"

Love how this turned out.

You may remember I did this page ahead of time 

in a "just because I could" frame of mind.

Using inks and watercolors with stencils I had

trying to make a "scene."

The sun that I drew and the clouds I made were from

thread. 

And it looked stupid.

So I pulled them all off the page which then required

some covering up.

The sun I tried to fix it with just wasn't quite right

but I had this doily thingy for cake decorating more or less

The clouds were stamped on cardstock and I

had the creative moment in swishing white paint across the clouds.

Love the photo of Annie and Owen but the background

had a lot going on AND I screwed up the 

photo after it was printed and no covering that up.

SO...I fussy cut it out.

I'm liking that look.

Having them framed on top of a bird looked fun.

I had to cover up the original TH sentiment because it didn't

go with the photo.

I also decided a title wasn't required.

Stamped clusters

I love making clusters - some work out

some don't.

These worked out and came out very fun.

I started with two stencils - Tim Holtz and Jenni Bowlin

circles - using black and gold ink.

Then using my favorite creative cafe stamps, roller

stamp from Studio Calico and hero arts and then, well stamped.

 I also misted with some Tim Holtz

and because I didn't have white mist - I used

white enamel paint to add to the fun.

 Because I only had one fussy cut cat, I used

a stamp to bring the cat around the page from Technique Tuesday.

And yes, the tags continue.

 Miss Amelia being fashion forward and

looking mighty lovely.

Dotted some stars and enamel dots around.

Love how it turned out.

DIY - Washi Tape In case you missed it on OTR

Last month I kicked the tires on making your own enamel dots.

I loved doing that and decided that maybe I'd

test drive making your own washi tape.

Again - there are a bunch of tutorials out there and I thought I'd narrow it down.

You'll need parchment paper and I used a 1 inch roll of masking tape.

I did  pick out some paints and stamps and then decided to change things up a bit.

 Lay out strips on your parchment paper - which allows you to remove

the finished product without losing the sticky.

 I used a craft smart mustard yellow enamel paint and slapped it on the tape end-to-end.

 The next I wanted to try a Ranger dauber - green - but all it says on the label is earthtones.

 I also tried an ink pad - that has chalk in it.

  It does take the chalk ink a bit longer to dry.

 And depending how much color you want you have to dab a few extra times.

 Since there was a lot going on I decided that StazOn ink would be best.

 I'm not the greatest stamper in the world - but I really liked the outcome on each.

 I liked the swirly texture from the dauber and used another chalk ink-Studio G 

to stamp the adorable "prima looking" flower stamp from Studio G.

 So far so good.

 Went back to StazOn because I wasn't sure of chalk ink on chalk in.

And the stamp is from Creative Cafe. A total blast from the past.

 And wa-la used the heat gun to get them dry and left them under the lamp for good measure.

As you can see the "washi" tape lifts right up.

 I used pincher clothes pins to wrap the "washi" around.

You are good to go as long as the front and back don't meet. 

So wrap the first little bit around one of the pins.

 From there you can wrap around both pins and it won't hurt the "washi"

doing that. It pulls off rather nicely and rips off easy.

There you have it - 3 varieties of "washi" of which I used one for a page.

Guess?

 The green worked out so perfect on this page.

Blending in nicely with the watercolors and embellishments.

 Used it in 3 places and love how it turned out.

 Can't see much of the flower but it works.

The finished product.

I'm not concerned about the tape per se, as I kept it from the photo.

Also I really don't get overly concerned anymore about items not acid and lingen free.

I found a scrapbook my mom made back in high school with

all the things they tell you NOT to use - and after 60 years it was practically

pristine. It was kept in a cedar lined chest for some time but,

I have been a rebel for about 12 years and never had issues with using

shall we say, non sanctioned scrapbook supplies.

Paper Studio, Kaiser Craft and Bo bunny papers.

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