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.