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.

 

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.