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.

Hanging from a plane

Favorite eldest son is an adreneline junkie.

Here he is hanging from a perfectly good plane

and I'm not seeing a chute.

In the meantime,

I couldn't find any paper I liked for a base so

I made my own using oxides and distress inks along

with the sun stencil, and some stamps.

That plane is perfect.

Anyway, I was going to put a regular photo there

but nah! I just couldn't it needed 

fussy cutting and some pop dots.

It was a fun page to do.

 

6x6 chipboard Album covers

I love how this turned out and it was going to be

outside covers, however,

after gessoing the chipboard (I really want

to find heavier chipboard but no luck so far) I

used the oxides. I actually handpainted the background

and then stamped the rest.

I love it.

I love oxides.

However, because they are water based, I have not

found a product such as modge podge and a 

matte gel smudge everything up

that whole beautiful scene would be blended.

I need to have some protection because my s/b desk

is in the "kitchen" and there's issues

because where the album will sit.

So....

the outside became the inside and I created a new outside

using the distress inks. I also handpainted that

background too and then used a bunch of

of stencils and stamps.

I'm trying to decide if it needs a "title" or saying 

on the front.

Whatcha think?

Oh I'm making 6x6 album because I want to

put non travelogue photos in a special album and

I found that albums don't store well when

they're not in page protectors and I had some 6x6 on hand,

so............😊

 

Playing around with stamps, oxides and crayons

When I'm in a creative mood and have no photos

to scrap and journaling to write

I like to keep the juices flowing by messing around.

I get a bunch of stamps and pull out whatever mediium 

that rocks my mojo and let'r rip.

So the leaves are a cling stamp and I used oxides.

I used a multitude of crayons and then rubbed vintage photo

distress ink over them. 

It covers a lot of sins and make things stand out.

I also traced the leaves with a graphite pencil and did a

scribble thing I saw on line only it looked way better when 

they did it. 

I'll probably fussy cut these leaves.

This flower stamp annoys me because no matter how

I stamp it just doesn't all come out.

I use a rubber mat, a brayer, and glass. 

Anyway, it looks really cool when using the oxides

by doing the tap and scrape method as

nothing is perfect.

Crayons on the stamped flowers.

I decided to not rub distress ink over these 

and I do love that method, but I can always add it.

My friend Holli is the proud owner of these stamps

and we get together and crop and swap so I

always stamp a few to take home with me, actually

I do several stamps mostly because the first

few don't come out right, but I have a stash because

if it really looks fun and cool why

not use them often.

These were done with the crayons.

As you can tell I love the crayons. 

They'll be used for journaling cards, embellishments, etc and the

bonus is they're premade. It'd be fun to build a page

around them. Just sayin...

I wish I could tell you the colors but I pull out all that I own

and after I use one I toss it on the pile and then...

well...no names of the crayons.

All was done on watercolor paper.

 

Homemade project life cards

 I love making my own project life cards.

They are so much fun when Tim Holtz and his oxides and distress inks 

are at your fingertips.

I added the coffee cup which I drew was added.  I

fussy cut that adorable house from one 

of those embellishments from the Pink Fresh paper pad

which I have to admit that all the cards came from there.

Finally used some really really old Studio Calico washi tape

and that stamp on the circle where I attempted a

concentina fold with tissue paper.

The butterflies are a Michael's stamp - like in the $1 bin

and that card was made with shimmer powders.

Love them.

Also just between you me that circle with the conentina fold

is covering up and hole that said Good times.

I thought if I cut it out I'd like that "look" and

because the card I used it on had journaling and those

itty bitty grey dots covered the writing 

AND

therefore a repurpose of that premade acrylic card that

I whacked up because it seemed like a good idea at the time.

The struggle was real.

3x4 size