Mark Twain

DID YOU KNOW?

Mark Twain was a scrapbooking enthusiast who dedicated his Sundays to his hobby. He also held patents for his self-pasting scrapbooks that could be dampened with water. Twain created 57 different types of self-pasting scrapbooks.

Source: EK Success Scrapbooking Fact Sheet

Mid-month Page Update

January -31 days
February -28 days
March - 31 days
April -30 days
May -31 days
June -30 days
July -31 days
August -31 days
Sept. -30 days
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= 273 days.

Uhmmm... I have only 238 pages posted... I'm thinking I better get a move one!!! I have been ahead every month until we got to August and my energy dragged, we were really busy and I had no extra money for photo printing. Let's see what I can do about this page # lacking business...

Pages 237 & 238

Lunch date with Nana.


I used something called an "Over All" as the decor on these pages. Purchased quite a few years ago, it is the title, sayings, die cuts, etc... all printed on one heavy piece of 6 x 12 glossy carstock. Then, you have to cut it apart in whatever way suits you best. I chose to cut around it all and make it look less like a straight edged, boring strip. Using up some of that old stash of mine!! Love it! Inked the edges of the pages with black also.
The Lady Bug title worked, as Emma had on a Lovebug outfit. :)

Pages 235 & 236

I just LOVE the picture of her with her leg in the air and her diaper showing!!
The left picture is raised with pop dots. The title is a rub on.



My first time scrapbooking an 8 x 10 picture. I struggled with the choice of background paper, as I didn't want it competing with the picture itself. Then, it took forever trying to pull it all together so that the other papers and embellies didn't compete with the rainbow. With Steph's help, I finally got it done. Placed the text over the photo to hide the car in the picture!!

Bought the gem flowers at Target's 1 spot.

Pages 233 & 234

Sundays in November 2008:



Used ribbon, felt flowers, black brads, red rhinestones. Haven't added the journaling box in this picture, but I printed it out in dark red ink. The second page with Emma in the red print dress, I can't decide if it needs something else or not... Maybe a flower buy the left pic or something... ???

Pages 231 & 232

These are from 2004 also. My Bridesmaid's Luncheon.


The fall papers are from a Fall paper pack. The leaves are glossy die cuts. The bit of sparkle are rhinestone dots and rhinestone type leaves.

Pages 229 & 230

These are from Hurricane Jeanne in 2004.

We had Hurricane Francis a month before this, and I did quite a few pages about that storm, so I chose to condense it down and only do a 2 page spread. This meant that in order to use my fave pics I had to "block" the page and fill it in with pictures. Doesn't really leave any space to be creative but it shows my pictures which is THE purpose of this craft.

Check out Martin at work the 2nd day after the storm!! Working so hard, right???


I had one photo too many for this set of pages, so I typed my journaling in a 4x 6 size to match the picture and matted black paper in between, leaving about 3/4 of an inch above in order to punch the hole and add ribbon/fibers. I will just slip down bhind the page and if the person looking wants to read it, they pull it out. You can add a paper pocket to the back of the page to hold the journal/photo, which keeps it from ever falling down to far into the page protector, but it also makes it more difficult for the looker to get it back into the page/pocket without damaging any of it.

Pages 227 & 228

I love these pics. My santa hat and the panties from her Christmas Day outfit. They say "Santa Baby" on the butt/bum.

I used chipboard letter for the title. Painted them and then added a fine glitter around the edges. Used the Cricut for part of the title, as well. Added some ribbon, a few rhinestones for bling bling and tah dah! all done.

Pages 225 & 226

The photo on the lower left is a flip album, that actually houses 5 pictures, not just the one you can see. That is what the loops of fiber are for, to lift each page.


Found the dimensional New Year's stuff at Target last year. Bought a set for me and my sister.

I haven't used a paper punch in years either and today was the day. My right hand page needed some swirls to fill in empty space and to coordinate with the facing page a bit better. My Cricut carts didn't have one, so I pulled out the dusty case of punches and TAH! DAH! I had a swirl! Just what I needed! So, once again, trying to use more of my scrapbook stash was accomplished! Gotta love it!

Pages 223 & 224

I haven't used my circle cutter in years!!! Literally! My husband was wondering what in the world was I doing, when I got it out! Anyway, the circles on the background papers led me to add other larger circles, as well as to find a photo that could be cut out in a circle.

I placed my sticker title (Happy New Year's) on a triple layered half-circle. I just wish I had placed it first on the peach color rather than the blue. You can't see the silver writing very well on the blue.

I even figured out how to print my text in a circle!!! Am I cool or what?? Hee Hee! I did ink the edges of the circles. I like how it turned out and ow quickly it came together!

Pages 221 & 222

Steph, these are the ones I was trying to tell you about.

I cut out pcs of flowers that were left on the scraps and used them around the page, as needed.

Staying Current? Or Not????

Are we staying on top of this scrapbooking quest???

January 31 days
February 28 days
March 31 days
April 30 days
May 31 days
June 30 days
July 31 days
August 11 days (so far)
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= 223 days as of August 11th and I have 220 pages posted. UMMMMM.... I have 2 more done, but not posted. But,t hat still makes me a page behind!! Guess I better get my self bizzy bizzy this week, huh??

Pages 219 & 220

Emma's grandpa's each made her a pc. of furniture. Toybox and bookcase. I forgot to print the pic. of Gramps out in the garage actually making the toybox. It will go where that white pc of paper is.

I have had this fuzzy teddy bear sticker since I was a teen!! Finally have the chance to use it.

Pages 217 & 218

Pages 215 & 216

These 2 were my faves of the day. (August Crop- 12 pages done)

It doesn't show too well, but I cut the snowflakes out of silver heavy paper with the Cricut and added adhesive gems to kick it up.

Pages 213 & 214

Another page done in that "blocking" style. This was Christmas dinner/lunch. I made the Fudge Truffle Cheesecake. :)

Pages 211 & 212

These pages are done in a "blocking" format. Where you fill up the page with blocks of photo &/or papers, keeping everything lined up nice & neat. It's a good way to do it if you have a lot of pics for a 2 page spread. I'll probably type my journaling on a large tag, tie some ribbons/fibers to it and slip it behind the page in the album with the fibers sticking out of the top to bring attention to it.

Pages 209 & 210

These 2 pages have no "text" as of yet, as our printer is out of black ink.

This one is of the Golden Fruitcake Bars that I made for Martin. He is English and loves his fruitcake at Christmas. I hate it. I found this variation on it and decided to try it to surprise him. They were really good and will most likely become a new tradition!

Pages 207 & 208

Pages 205 & 206

The pic. doesn't show it too well, but the title is "the WONDER of Christmas".

Prizes Arrive!!!

If you recall, I was recently a part of an adhesive product survey. I got to try out 2 different adhesives for a week each and then gave them my opinion in a short survey. At the end, I filled out a 3rd survey and now....

The goodies have arrived!! Six different adhesives from Tombow, plus a Glue Pen, a white Gel Pen, a set of pens/markers and a Visa Gift Card. (I just knew that those adhesive products in the survey had been from Tombow!!!)
Of course, Mom & I had JUST been out to Michael's today to purchase adhesive, as I was about out of it!! Our monthly crop is this weekend and all of my stickys will be handy!!

Pages 203 & 204

I had to search and try and try again trying to find a color palette that complimented the photos and the occasion! It was December, the tree was up, but it was not "Christmas", we were wearing alot of reds and blues... Finally found these blues, with a winter theme and that worked pretty good.

Again, got to use up some more old stickers that have been hanging around my craft room waaayyy too long!

These are from a visit out to Steph's during December. The quote fit the page/people/etc...

Pages 201 & 202

Used up some more stickers that I have had for waaay too long! Didn't photograph it, but the journaling block lifts up and has another pic. under it.

Inked the edges of the white paper w/ a dark green ink.

WOW! Can you believe it??? Over 200 pages now!

Check It Out

Earlier in the week I updated this blog and added 5 or 6 pages. When I was finished, I did the ol' "view blog" and then had to check out the map and see who & where people were at who were looking at it. I had all of these just while I was posting!!

Can you believe the countries listed??? Occasionally I get a comment from one of them too. Kind of neat, but a little bit freaky too.

Pages 199 & 200

YEAH! I have reached the 200 mark!! WOWZERS!!!

Page 198

I normally make the facing pages match or at least co-ordinate, but this time it just was not working out. I tried many different color combinations and nothing was just right for both sets of photos. So, today it will just have to be different.

Page 197

Found this page idea on Smilebox, I think. Copying it for a scrapbook page is called 'scraplifting', and is considered a compliment by most of us.

Page 196

Gonna try using a side opening this time. We'll see how that works out with the page protector...

My papers coordinate for this page and the facing one, but the photos are 2 different topics.

Page 195

This is a single page, but the facing page is done on similar papers in order for it to look more cohesive. They do have different embellishments tho. These are a puffy type bear stickers. Not sure where or when I got them ,but they are perfect for this type page. The large stuffed bear on her left was mine (from her Daddy) from one of our dating Valentine's. I have had it in her crib from the beginning. She snuggles with it occasionally, also uses it to boost herself up a bit higher when she thinks she'd like to climb out...

Pages 193 & 194

Haven't used diagonal cut or torn paper in ages. Thought I'd try it out again.