Tearing and distressing

Another layout from the same camping trip. For this I tore the paper and used distressing ink on all of the edges including around the center of the letter "O". I have just a few more pictures from this time frame and I'm going to work on journaling so that when this is passed on to children or grandchildren they will be able to read about this time in our lives. Isn't that what scrapbooking is all about, to remember times in your life and share those with future generations?

I'm on a roll....

Another layout finished last night. This was brown cardstock and then I trimmed a 12X12 sheet of leaf pattern paper down so that the card stock was framing it. I printed the logo from the campground on vellum and I used my blue marker to add lines in the letters. I punched out the leaves from photo scraps and brown cardstock.

When you become a scrapbooker, I have to say that it changes a lot of the ways that you look at your life. Every movement that your child makes could eventually become a layout and so every photo that you take becomes a possible scrapbook page as well. For me it means that I have a camera constantly at the ready to capture that moment just in case I might want to turn it into a layout someday. Crazy? Maybe....but it sure is fun to drive the family out of their minds as I follow them around with the camera.

Flowers

Another layout done, I'm on a roll lately...I really am enjoying the scrapbooking and the trip down memory lane...more old pictures of me and Jim when we first started going out together. These were taken in my apartment, where I lived with my roommate Susan at the time. Jim would eventually move in with us...hahaha..."Three's Company".

The good old days

I started working on some of my old pictures from when Jim and I first met and started going out together. That winter there was a big snowstorm and these pictures just had to be saved and scrapped.

Here is a fun way to cut up a picture. I took a picture of Alex in the ocean and trimmed it into different circles and then added them back into the original photo. I used some of the cut pieces and added them to the top. I also added another oval cropped photo of the same area to the side and then I embellished with some 'splash' stickers. I create the wave borders with a wave cutting tool from Creative Memories which I finally ordered yesterday so I'm looking forward to getting that.

A cute snowman border

Just wanted to share a couple more things I did
yesterday at my crop. This was a border class
that she taught us and I just love the way it
turned out.

These little snowmen are made from white
square punches that are rounded at the
bottom with a corner rounder.

The hats are black square punches that are
cut into strips and glued to the top of the head.
Draw on the little eyes and noses and add some
cute stickers to decorate, add a little marker to
connect them and they are done!

Great afternoon of cropping

I went to a holiday open house at my CM consultant's house today and I had a wonderful time chatting, cropping and snacking. She did a border's class with us which I loved doing and I started working on my Hawaii pictures.

One of the photo techniques I was happy to use today was something I saw in a book a while ago on using photos in different ways. In this picture of Jim the background was blurry so I cut him out of the picture and added him to another beach photo of the same area we were at that day. I then matted it on a sandy colored background paper and I like the way it turned out.