Another Scrapbook page

I *think* I'm almost done Natasha's 2nd Year Album. I finished up these two pages yesterday.

These pictures are from our Camping trip last summer at Dinosaur National Park. I have to admit that it was one of the hottest weekends ever! People at the campground were getting into their cars and driving around the grounds with their air conditioning on to cool off. There was not one bit of a breeze what-so-ever! Luckily once the sun set it cooled off and was not so bad the next day. :0)









I cased this layout from Heather's cmas page that she did. I made a few changes, using a horizontal pic on the 2nd page, only one pc of patterned paper and diff. embellishments and papers. :0) The stamp set I used is called "Happy Camper" and the Jumbo Wheel "Nature Hike" I love doing this page and it got me excited to go camping again this summer!

Hip Hip Hooray, It's a Gymboree Day!

When N was wee I took her to Gymboree. The first session we went to she was very young and I did not feel she got much out of it, so I waited until she was walking/running around and signed up for another one, which she got much more out of. :0)


There's a lot of buttons on this bc a) I thought they were fun with the Gymboree theme and plus I've had these buttons for ages so wanted to use some of them up.

Still Scrap'n away

Another page done for Natasha's scrapbook. I kept this one simple and clean. The husband gets all complainy when I show him a page that has too much embellishment. He prefers clean and simple and I tend to agree with him most times.

This is the last page in her album (but certainly not the last one I need to do to finish off the year!) with only 5 more months to do for the year.

I have double page layout done up, pics printed etc, I just need to glue down the photos/paper and add some embellishment. Hopefully I'll have that one to share later this week. Everyone in the house is sick this week, well not my husband, Mr. Immune to everything so I do not have much time to craft. Natasha is not feeling well and is super needy today. And being sick myself, I'm finding it a bit hard to be patient with her.

Back to Scrapooking

I finally was able to get back to scrapbooking now that all my christmas cards are done and mailed out. I'm waaayyy behind on Natasha's 2 yr Album! With a bit of an inspiration push from Heather, I finished a dbl page layout over the past couple of days of Natasha's photos from Canada Day.

I used Summer Picnic DSP (such a sweet summery paper!), Real Red and my Circut to make the title. I think I used Printing Press and the function to make it tall. I did not add a lot of embellishments, instead keeping is simple by just doing a scalloped border and adding some buttons. :0)

Boho Baby

It all started with the hat. When the Boho Baby fall collection came out at GAP I fell in love with the Hat and this coat. I managed to resist the coat though since Natasha owns more then I do, but I did get the hat. Then, while I was in France I stepped into a GAP store and found the coat, it was on the sale rack and marked down to 15 Euro. Since I also was able to use my employee discount in France, and it was on sale I could no longer resist. :p

A couple of days ago I was exploring new blogs and The Scrappy Chick had used this layout from a sketch to scrapbook halloween pictures. As soon as I saw the paper used and the stamp set I knew it would go perfect with [strikethrough]my[/strikethrough] her favourite coat. I'm really pleased at nicely the pages turned out and I just love these captures I took of Natasha on that cold wintery day a couple of weeks ago.


Recipe:
Paper - Kraft, Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango, Kiwi Kiss, Hawaiian Papaya DSP
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango, Kiwi Kiss
Stamps: Season of Friendship.

Tyrell Museum - March 2008

If I was a smart person, I would simply buy the Stampin' UP Simply Scrap'n kits and do pages/albums for Miss Madelyn's scrapbook in that matter. Instead I'm nutso and spend days and weeks sometimes searching online for inspiration for each page, picking out the DSP and then finally designing it and finishing it off. To add to my punishment I make double page layouts out versus just doing single pages. Just call my crazy. :p

This page is from waaaayyy back in March. We woke up one Saturday morning and decided it would be fun to spend the day at the Tyrell Museum in Drumheller. I had not yet visited since moving to Calgary in 1998 and Owen had not went since he was a kid, probably around 13 or 14 years old.

Natasha had just started walking a few weeks before (I think) so she had a cute wobble but was determined nto to be in her stroller and to walk through the Museum. heh It was quite fun actually to see all the dinosaur bones and we plan to go back again when Tash is a little older so she can better enjoy it all. You can not see it well in this photo but she looks so confused in the centre photo. She had a look on her face like "Mom why in earth did you stand me by this big huge bone??" She seemed so tiny next to it!


For this page it's a hodgepodge of SU product and other product. I used Old Olive for the main page, Dinosaur Collage by Karen Foster Designs for the DSP, More Mustard for the title and photo and then some random grey paper I picked up the same time I bought the Karen Foster paper.

Happy Halloween! Buzzz Buzzz buzzzz...

So I'm what? 9 days later? heh I also won't mention that the only other pages completed in her 2nd Year Scrapbook are January, February and April. So I skipped quite a few months to make this double page layout. But you gotta do whatever inspires you eh?

I got the idea for page 2 of this double layout from this SCS poster. I also did the same as her, I made my own 'road' and I hand drew that tree. When it came time to make a fence and I realized I did not have enough SU Basic Black left and that the logistics of it were a bit more complicated then I wanted to get into, I decided to omit having a fence. hehe I have the "Frightful Fence" Jumbo wheel but it needed to gradually get smaller and I was just not up to the task of messing around with it. I think both pages turned out really well!


I used non SU DSP for the background. I did not have any ghostly greetings on hand so this is some stuff I picked up at the local Scrapbook store at 35% off the day after Halloween! I also got the lettering at the same 35% off, so one really can't beat that. :0) The only thing I might add to the page is a 4th Trick or Treater. Those three guys look a bit lonely eh? :0)

Recipe:
Paper: DSP of some maker I can't remember hah!, SU Basic Black, SU Elegant Eggplant, Whisper White.
Stamps: Booglie Eyes
Accessories: SU Markers (Colouring), Scallop Punch, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, 1/8" hole punch, Dimensionals.