Playing With Paper!!

One more day!!!!

Oh my goodness I am so excited!!  This time tomorrow I will be heading to the Dolce for my scrapbooking weekend.  Today I will pack all my stuff - I bring a lot of stuff because you never know what you might need!!!  Really I always bring too much but there's space for it so it's o.k.

Below is another layout I worked on this past weekend:
These are more pictures from Boston - the Old North Church.  I took a ton of pictures while we were there.  For my layout I decided to do a flip page because I had so many pictures.  The paper is from All My Memories...I have had it FOREVER and it felt really good to use it.  I think the paper works nicely with the photos.  Do you?

Street views...

 The layout below I created with some of the pictures I took from the street in Las Vegas.  There is just so much to see - it's crazy!  I used patterned paper from October Afternoon.  My sister had bought ne the cool flower embellishments on Esty and I had the same paper - very cool.  I was inspired by another www.pagemaps.comlayout to create mine.   My favorite picture is the Las Vegas Blvd sign - I am so glad I thought to take it!!

 

TGIF!

I don't know why but this week seemed to go on FOREVER!  I am so glad it is the weekend.  We don't have any big plans (thankfully) - a bit of shopping with my girls for spring shoes and clothes with some baseball practice for the boys.  The newest Harry Potter film is out on DVD today so I am going to buy that and we are having a movie night tomorrow night!  And (with any luck) I will get some scrappin' done.  I need to make some cards for Rich's cousin too. 

Here is my final Cape Cod 2010 layout:

 
My Cape Cod pictures would not be complete without a sunset layout.  I have had the patterned paper forever-its from Jinkitz and I used Thickers to create the title.  A very simple layout but I think the paper colors compliments the photos - what do you think?

Wishing you a creative and fun weekend!

In a groove!

I love it when I get in a scrapbooking groove - so productive!  I like to scrapbook chronologically.  I have tried to just scrapbook whatever I felt like and I was a mess.  I like to be organized and follow a specific path.  When I scrap, I always make sure my children's school albums are up-to-date (they are always looking at them).  Next I work on our family album.  Now this album is a work in progress and I never expect it to be up-to-date but I always have that as my goal in my head.  I am up to this past August which is really good for me and I have been a very busy scrapper lately.   Let me share what I have been working on lately:

 
These are photos from vacation last summer.  My boys, my husband and Pop Pop Swing - just hanging out on the beach.  I used cardstock from Bazzill and patterned paper from Echo Park (love the little sail boats).  I am almost done scrapping last summer on the Cape - thankfully - I love the Cape but sometimes I just feel like enough already with Cape pictures!  Do you ever feel that way about a subject?

FUN!

 
For the above layout, I used a sketch I found in Jen Peel's sketch book - Scrapbookers' Shortcuts.  I used this sketch for a layout I created for the book on page 15.  I think it is fun to go back and use a sketch again - each time it turns out different but similar.  I used patterned paper from Basic Grey and cardstock from Bazzill.  The photos are from last summer - my dads last day on the Cape with us.  I love the way the layout turned out - so bright and cheerful!!

I hope the sun come out today and we get a bright & cheerful day!

Oh what to do on a rainy Sunday?

What have I been up to?  Well, I have a confession to make - I am an addict.  I am addicted to organization in binders.  I love putting sketches and ideas and anything else I can get my hands on into a binder.  So that is how I have been spending my afternoon and I will post what I am up to when I finish.  But, I will share with you another layout from last weekend:

 
These pictures are from last summer on Cape Cod.  My boys were goofing off in the garden of the house-they love to ham it up for the camera.  The patterned paper is from Basic Grey and the cardstock is Bazzill.  I always love it when I get a load of pictures on one layout and this beauty has a total of 9 - awesome!

Less than 2 weeks to go!!

I am so excited!  In less than 2 weeks I am going scrapbooking for the weekend at the Dolce in Basking Ridge.  I am going to try and sneak away Thursday evening but if that doesn't work I will be leaving bright & early Friday morning and I won't be back until Sunday evening.  This crop is so awesome!!  The people are fun, the food is great and the hotel is awesome!!  One of the swaps I am participating in is a birthday card swap - this is what I came up with:

 
I used DSP Celebrations from Stampin' Up!; cardstock from SU! and the Create a Cupcake punch (also from SU!).  I love the colors - bright and happy.  I think it's pretty cute - I hope the other swappers like it too!

Happy New Year!

This is what New Year's looked like in my house:

 
We celebrated with our neighbors.  My son Richard loved all the gear he got so he continued to wear it all New Year's Day!!  Hope you have a happy and healthy year!

My year started off just right...I spent the day scrapbooking in my office.  Yes, it was the perfect day!  And my husband even made dinner!   Here's one of the pages I came up with (still working on our Florida trip):
 
I used patterned paper from October Afternoon;  cardstock by Bazzill and my Cricut to create the title and chair (Life's A Beach).  I took these pictures when we were hanging out a my brother-in-laws pool - it was one of the most relaxing afternoons we'd had in a while & everyone shows it.  I hope you get to scrapbook today - I gonna hit my office again.  Yah!!

A layout to share - thanks to the snow.

I was so productive during our blizzard!  I not only cleaned my office but I got a bunch of scrapbooking done.  This is one of my layouts:

 
The pictures are from our family trip to Florida last year to visit my husbands brother.  The kids had never been on a plane so they were super excited.  The patterned paper is from a kit I bought recently - it is by Cosmo Cricket.  I love it and it has airplane paper so it was perfect!  On the one page, I used a Maya Road chipboard airplane to add a little dimension the my page.  This was a really happy day and I think this layout shares some of that happiness.

Only one year behind!!

When I started scrapbooking 10 years ago, I was overwhelmed with the amount of photos I had to scrap.  I had just had my second child, was loaded down with pictures and couldn't imagine ever getting caught up.  I finally realized that it wasn't a race and I needed to just enjoy the process.  So, I came up with a strategy for my scrapbooking.  I decided I wanted each of my kids to have an album for their first year of life, then they would each have an album for their time in school and finally I would create one album for our family.  Each baby album is completed - Patrick actually has 2 albums (not bad considering he is the youngest of 4).  Their school albums are (for the most part) up to date - I include a brief page about their summer so that needs to be added.  Our family album is only 1 year behind!!!  I am up to August 2009 - I am so thrilled!  At one point I was 9 years behind.  I have been very busy although I don't know when I find the time.  So, let me share a few of my most recent pages:

These photos are from our vacation to Cape Cod last summer.  The cardstock is all Bazzill (my favorite cardstock in the world);  the patterned paper is from K & Company (I bought a big box of patterned paper at Michaels with a coupon - great deal!).  I used my cricut to cut out the sand castle and the letters for the title.  Simple layout - typical me.

For the layout above I used patterned paper from the same box and the cardstock is Bazzill as well.  I love patterned paper and I love to use it instead of a lot of embellishments on my pages.   I love these layouts - they are very happy and fun to me.